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What is the principle you’re using here?

I think the parent comment is saying “why did the agent produce this big, and why wants it caught”, which is a separate problem from what granular commits solve, of finding the bug…

Hilarious. When working on a virtual reality VOIP product, someone added a test mode that played back your own speech with a delay. It was like part of your brain shut off, was a s…

Do they need software? Presumably the volunteer firefighters 30 years ago didn’t have this and did fine. Plenty of volunteer organizations are built on Airtable or some spreadsheet…

IMO corporate income tax is the first that should be removed, with a corresponding shift to income taxes. Those can be as progressive as you want, have much lower compliance costs,…

I’d agree with this, unless the kwargs is typed with the new-ish PEP-692: https://peps.python.org/pep-0692/

Can you quantify what you think that choice looks like? Say you seized the entirety of Elon Musk’s assets: that could pay for a year and a half of the Dept of Transportation. Say y…

With o3-mini-high (just the last paragraph): civilization Mycenaean the of practices religious and economic, administrative the into insights invaluable provides and B Linear as kn…

Say they, hypothetically, the police just looked at every drivers license photo of people living in a 1 mile radius. And they find the suspect, and go to a judge saying a combinati…

The big risk that we need regulation for is not that insurance charges too much, but too little. There will always be the temptation to charge less than the other guy, get lots of …

Using language-native packaging doesn't imply that you have to use binaries from wherever. In the pytorch example you can still build it as a regular part of the distribution, usin…

This is conflating static linking with how the distribution handles updates. If a language is always statically linking dependencies (like Go or Rust), the distribution will have t…

It’s not like this is unique to rust; you see similar issues with node and python. Distributions have many jobs, but one was solving the lack of package management in C. Now that e…

The doctor / hospital that refuses to treat when insurance declines is also involved in the “omission of expected care”. Would they also be guilty of premeditated murder?

Murder is by definition an unlawful homicide. This isn’t just pedantry; it’s the most parsimonious explanation for why someone would support the death penalty and object to somethi…

This is a great illustration of why taking about deaths is not really informative, and they should be talking about life-years lost.

The cost of shipping contributes to the cost of every product we export and import. Treating this as a purely zero-sum transfer between longshoreman and shippers is ignoring all th…

Is modularity an unalloyed good? Modularity comes with tradeoffs that mean you end up with, well, a bunch of discrete modules rather than something that works cohesively. That's wh…

nit: HHVM was a completely new implementation of a runtime for a PHP-like language, it wasn't a fork of Zend.

You might be able to do this transparently with a [MetaPathFinder]( https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importlib.a... ), the only trickyness would be replacing the lo…

That stat alone doesn't tell us if the disparity is due to different rates if criminal behavior, or different treatment by the system. A useful check is to look at murder victimiza…

Yes, a large fraction of ER visits aren't emergencies. Typically they triage new patients, take the actually critical ones immediately and everyone else waits. I'm not sure wait ti…

There may be a bug or change since I left, but I built the app library and authorization logic, and it was explicitly designed to work offline. Of course, using it day-to-day and i…

I'm not sure who this is directed at. A more interesting question is, does Substack expand the number of people who can support themselves by writing vs a world without it? I perso…

That's 10x more oil per capital in Norway.