The common theme is that if you have authenticated identities, a system using auditing and consequences for the identity better handles edge cases; and investing most heavily in auditing from the outset means that you truly understand the system before you implement lockout controls

For offensive post filtering, add a basic banlist, sure, but you’ll get better compliance with soft filters — a pop up “are you really sure this isn’t going to get you banned?”, downgrading visibility of questionable posts, etc. (I’m not saying trust & safety is easy, just identifying order of work)

In a community space you can put supplies behind an access controlled cabinet + vending system vs security camera, cash box and semi-regular inventory tracking. The latter is simpler and handles all the edge cases of supplies taken for personal use vs organizational use and is a better cultural fit.

Thank you for the excuse to amp one of my favorite physics YouTubers: https://youtu.be/aY985qzn7oI

Just moved to Wooster MA, miss Austin but love being near family. Once done unpacking I'm on the hook to help a nephew connect ChatGPT to https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html as a text adventure engine, and skill up so my niece can copilot the CNC embroidery machine(!) at Technocopia maker space

What's involved with that equipment wise?

But of course at age 11 anything is impressive. Even moreso that they want to hang around with Dad doing it, great work.

In 8th grade (two years behind the kid) I tried writing from scratch a solver for Mastermind game, a discouraging failure; year on I typed in code from Scientific American to draw fractals (ran overnight on an 8086), started adding/messing with it; quickly most of the code and all the pride was mine

Not a perfect crossover but for getting college age folks => expert engineers the most important things are 1. give a very small code base that does an interesting thing and have them change it to be more interesting to them; and 2. do everything possible to focus them on function and not technology

Curious what motivated that -- your suggestion or theirs? Why not just markdown or set up a carrd or hosted Wordpress and get communicating? In my education program I asked about the "learn Latin so you can speak French" canard and they slapped the taste out my mouth.