CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@dan ooh, I want one!

@lea what are the others?

Honestly, e-bikes have been the technology that has improved my life the most in the last five years. I live in a hilly place, and with my first e-bike a few years ago, I suddenly became able to commute by bike. Then, with the cargo bike last year, I suddenly became able to take my eight-year-old places by bike.

She sometimes actually hugs me while we're out on the bike. Best damn thing in the world, and it couldn't happen in a car.

I forgot to mention this when it happened, but we recently hit 500 miles on the used cargo e-bike we got last summer! During the school year, we really only use it for short trips with our kid a couple times a week, but every one of those trips is one we didn't have to take in a car. I love that sitting in traffic with my kid in the back seat is now a rare occurrence.

@krismicinski @cross @shriramk @jfdm @csgordon @jeremysiek Kris, I feel like any time I say anything to you on here, you say, "I agree with you." Are you actually an LLM?

@cross @krismicinski @shriramk @jfdm @csgordon @jeremysiek It seems like folks sooner or later notice that this whole "the agent only trades in text" thing is Not Great and proceed to reinvent programming languages on top of it. So, you know, when that happens, we PL educators are here to try to help them not accidentally implement dynamic scope or whatever.

@csgordon @jeremysiek @krismicinski Yeah, I tried to do this in my PL course with ~150 students, and it was a massive logistical headache and left me and all the course staff exhausted. I would love to do it, but it's not feasible with the enrollments we have.

@jn @Foxboron That's exactly the sense that I read it in, and it took me a minute to realize that's not what they meant

@bagder @shaman007 I would add to that point by saying that in technical writing, it's usually better to use adjectives to add information, rather than just adding emphasis. For me, the only information that "very" adds to a phrase like "WizWoz is very fast" is "Wow, it sure sounds like they really want me to believe that WizWoz is fast."

I'm going to be more skeptical than if the "very" hadn't been there! If WizWoz really were fast, they wouldn't need to throw in adjectives to persuade me.