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Parents with bilingual children, how did you do it?
  • I have a two year old. I speak German, partner speaks French, we speak English to each other (but not the kid), and we live in Sweden, so the kid’s learning Swedish at the daycare.

    So it’s 4 languages (3 that we teach plus English) and the one parent one language approach.

    Kid was a bit slow to start speaking, but now he understands a lot in all 3 languages, learns new words in all 3 all the time, and even picks up a bit of English occasionally. He’s started to distinguish the languages too, depending on who he talks to, but it’s definitely usually still a mix of all languages. When he speaks Swedish to me, I either just reply in German, or I might repeat what he said but in German first. And when he asks for his favorite lullaby in French, I just tell him in can’t do that one. We also have books in the different languages, but we might just use them in either language and describe what’s happening instead of reading it out.

    And I’m told this mixing improves over time, I’m not worried at all. So I would say this approach works really well for us.

    If you mix the languages between both parents, I think (but that’s just my gut feeling), the kid will have an easier time distinguishing the languages later on if you associate some activities with a specific language. Could be a place where you always use one language. Or some books, etc.
    But, I doubt that’s a must. Kids are astonishingly good at learning languages (I’m so jealous).

  • CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information
  • these hallucinations are an "inherent feature" of  AI large language models (LLM), which is what drives AI Overviews, and this feature "is still an unsolved problem”.

    Then what made you think it’s a good idea to include that in your product now?!

  • Larian Studios' CEO says, "we did have to do a bit of crunch" making Baldur's Gate 3
  • I agree.

    Crunch is a project management failure. This is my professional opinion as a tech lead at a mid sized gaming company.

    When I saw all the praise the game received at release, the level of detail etc. My first thought was, so what was the cost on individuals?
    Don’t get me wrong, this is an amazing game. But I worry that a lot of overtime went into this.
    And other projects will be measured against that. This might set another very bad example.

  • Hey good news guys!
  • I often incorporate features into my software that ensure it shuts down automatically on certain actions, or when you’ve used it for too long. So you can go out and see some nature. It’s totally not crashes.

  • TIL: You can easily check eggs for being bad or fresh
  • My egg packages here in Sweden have that information printed on them.

    But the version where the egg floats they don’t say to toss it out, but rather crack it open, look, smell. Might still be good.

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