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I'm not sure if you realize this, but there are a lot of housing options in between suburban sprawl and high-rise apartment buldings. Like townhomes, rowhouses, duplexes, low-rise …

12 Fs across 34 students is not statistically significant. Comparing the spring 2022 vs spring 2026 rates only works if the composition of the groups is similar (e.g. same % of stu…

Additionally, if someone is taking an intro class in the Spring, that's probably because they already failed it in the previous semester. While that doesn't guarantee that they'll …

The main reason lithium batteries are used in cars and electronics is because they offer some of the best energy storage per kilogram. That's really important for something meant t…

> _However_, for the use cases that most developers or agents are looking for What use cases are those? How did you determine that these are the use cases most developers/agents ar…

> Sure, if you have a complete test suite for a library or CLI tool And this is a huge "if". Having 100% test coverage does not mean you've accounted for every possible edge or cor…

I don't know how much people outside of MN know about what's going on, but it's fucking dire here. However bad you think it is, it's worse.

> Yeah, sure, and with LLMs you can do this, and you can do that. But if we're talking about languages and their features, relying on IDE features feels slightly off-topic. Refacor…

In your Typescript example, the solution would be to use your IDE to refactor hosts to hostnames, a process that takes like 2 seconds. You might have problems if the change exists …

I don't find that dynamic typing reduces the number of places I need to update stuff. It just changes when the error occurs. If I change the shape of some data (such as renaming ob…

IIRC Musk wanted to get an LBO, but wasn't able to find anyone willing to loan the money. Keep in mind that a LBO is actually a good deal for the bank, because if the purchased com…

Are there any examples where a company was purchased via a leveraged buyout and the company went on to be more profitable afterwards? Because the only examples I know of resulted i…

If you want a deep dive into chess cheating, including a lot of wild stories, Sarah Z put out an entertaining Youtube video [1] a couple of months ago that explores the concept. It…

Nothing Hamas has done justifies what Israel is doing to Palestinian civilians, because collective punishment is a war crime. "But they did it first" is not a valid excuse, especia…

Las Vegas Boulevard is like 8 lanes wide. Get rid of two car lanes and now you have plenty of room for a rail line.

The fact that there isn't a rail line from the airport to the strip is wild. It would simplify travel for tourists dramatically, and get a lot of hotel shuttles and taxis off the s…

You're right, and I realize my post implied that multiplayer was a complete non-starter on Linux, which isn't true. Kernel-level anticheat is mostly found in big, mainstream releas…

The main hurdle for Linux gaming right now is kernel-level anticheat. Kernel-level anticheat is increasingly common in multiplayer games, and it does not play well with Linux. This…

But also that's been part of Wikipedia's website for years now, no special browser support necessary. And because it's tailored specifically to Wikipedia, it works great! Page prev…

But at that point wouldn't it be easier to just search the web yourself? Obviously that has its pitfalls too, but I don't see how adding an LLM middleman adds any benefit.

I've got to ask, do you play much chess? Because this post reads like you don't understand much about chess. The issue with "solving" chess isn't that there isn't an objectively be…

Any consumer facing AI project has to contend with the fact that GenAI is predominantly associated with "slop." If you're not actively using an AI tool, most of your experience wit…

But that's just more cherry-picking. You can always find some past success to push whatever point you're trying to make. But just because shopping carts were a huge hit doesn't mea…

> People using the Nokia 3210 were very much not anticipating when their phones would get good, they were already a killer app. That they improved was icing on the cake. It always …

The thing that any "voting against their best interests" critique misses is that most people are willing to vote "against their best interest" if they feel like it's the morally co…