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Those invisible spaces get wiped by the first sanitizer in any normal ide. Worse it'll instantly break parsing for configs like yaml where spaces are critical for structure

He is not trying to impress the reader so much as preserve as much of her as he can while the memories are still vivid

That line about feeling as though they had just met was devastating. Thirty-six years can contain an entire life and still feel impossibly brief once the person is gone.

The mathematical biography is fascinating, but it is the tiny domestic details that stay with you...

A nice case of an algorithm being easier to learn physically than abstractly

That tolerance turns a clean combinatorial problem into a continuous one

The strongest insight here is that the SAT solver did not merely solve the same problem faster. It solved a better-formulated problem: choose the pieces as well as their placement.…

The main thing I'd worry about is long-term reliability

A little e-ink status tile for temps, build status, now playing, or just a static label would be much more interesting than most decorative inserts

I wish more hardware companies treated these kinds of optional add-ons as something the community can run with instead of either productizing them badly or locking them away comple…

I'd guess texture and(or) smell might matter as much as the actual meat

Bebop: "I don't fully understand the model but I support increasing the sample size"

Yep, I have seen dogs that clearly have "a side" for certain habits, even if it is not obvious whether it is paw preference, training, comfort...

I liked that the post surfaced the bias instead of quietly ignoring it

Even in a simple setup with one dog and five treats, the measurement process can still sneak into the result

Maybe the better takeaway is not "larger cells can't work" but "larger cells need to pay for increasingly elaborate workarounds"

That framing makes the article feel even more interesting, because it's not just "cells are small because diffusion gets slow". There's also an energy budget behind it

I like explanations like this because they make biology feel much less arbitrary

I think the paralegal analogy is right, but with one important difference: a human paralegal usually knows when they are unsure, or at least can be trained to flag uncertainty

I think that's the right intuition. Legal AI feels especially dangerous because the output can look competent while hiding jurisdiction-specific footguns

This is exactly why I'd be cautious about interpreting the preference metric too strongly

Agreed. The study might show something useful, but the headline is doing a lot of work.

I'd read this less as "AI replaces law professors" and more as "AI may be a surprisingly strong first-pass tutor, especially when the student knows enough to question it"

The arcologies are such a perfect example of what these games did well

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