bluGill

There are nearly 9000 hours in a year. Performance after only 2000 isn't a useful metric. I know there are people who can give better numbers

Glad I bought and EV for trips too far for my bike. My local power is 100% renewable wind (I'm sure there is some hand waving in there for when the wind isn't blowing). Most people could easially do the same - they won't, but they could.

I was taught basic programming in school - by people who clearly had no clue. (it was clear to 11 year old me, and in hindsight I was far to kind in my evaluation of their knowledge) I was also taught on the then very modern apply IIgs - I wouldn't be surprised if you have never heard of that, but all you need to know is nothing I was taught is relevant anyway - if you were taught on windows 7 a lot of what you learned has changed anyway.

Point is we need to teach people to teach themselves because things change.

Unfortunately downvote is the standard response to 'i disagree to this insightful comment'. They really should just track total votes as a 'this is how important others feel your coment is'. There is value in downvote for 'not bad enough for a reasonable mod to delete but still bad'. (.ml is not a reasonable mod - they delete anything)

At what point do I change from a concerned parent protecting my kids to an over protective hellicopter parent?

My wife often does my laundry - but she has better things to do with her time.

the school devices are locked down. However your experience shows why the locks are not good. Too many useful searches could be bad. They are not going to assign a team of humans to review every search result. Either they whitelist things so restricted that you can't research anything or they blacklist so little things not on the list spread faster than they can block. (Both is a real possibility)

I don't care about your device. The school devices are lockee down - but it isn't feasable to lock everything down and still have a useful device for the things they need to do.

I want my share of those resources to go to my retirement account. A shorter work week would be better. Or maybe a machine to do my laundry so I can do other things with my limited time on earth.

Not by enough. We will advance, but the speed of light is still a hard limit that we won't get close to.

we are not able to detect a civialization as advanced as us but orbiting our nearest star (which probably can't have life as we know it) if they aimed all their antennas at once at us and we happened to turn all our antennas to them at the right speed.

there is no reason to think we can make a spaceship that will make it to the nearest star. Even if we could make a generation ship survive, if the star doesn't have perfect conditions for life we won't be able to redirect to enough stars to hope to find one (assume one exists and we ignore the ethical problems of invading like that - both we should not ignore but this is too long already)

mars is just slighly more life friendly than the worst parts of antartica. We could maybe get something there self supporting, but it will be with massive investments. Everything else is far far worse. (We will probably get someone to mars and back in a few years, but it won't be a place to raise a family)

anything worth doing in space involves robots. If you want to 'inspire man' or make life better on earth there are better ways.

Almost everything is a webpage these days. Or a youtube video

They are enabled - the kids have found bypasses. Turning on the hotspot and then using their school device for instance