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North Korea is geopolitically useful as a buffer state between the United States' sphere of influence in South Korea, and China. China has defended it pretty determinedly, historic…

This article makes Odin sound extremely well-known. I've never heard of it before, and I feel like I keep up with programming topics pretty diligently. Admittedly I don't work at t…

I read recently that corporate taxes used to be a lot higher on large conglomerated companies, which used to deter monopolization somewhat. Under this automatic-stake idea, it'd be…

If it is, would that bad? Seems like a person who might really have strong personal investment in the situation. Using the oil companies' profits to try to shrink them, seems good.…

If it's actively building the next generation of itself, I'd say that counts. It's more like a parent raising their kid well than it is like a parent modifying their own mind, but …

a heightmap is three-dimensional, where the third dimension is usually represented with color or contour lines.

Does this strike anyone as bad api design to anyone else? I don't know what their definition of "much" is and it may not be the same as mine. behind the scenes they must have a rea…

It's hard to know who was right. All of these things can be true: it made it back ok; it had a high chance of making it back ok; it should've had a much higher chance of making it …

A less cynical explanation: It's heavily trained to ask follow-up questions at the end of a response, to drive more conversation and more engagement. That's useful both for making …

It's true that track maintenance is costly but it's mostly costly because there's a whole lot of track to maintain; many hundreds of miles of it, often in hard to reach areas. This…

The funding model where, if I understand correctly, the construction contractor gets paid less (maybe none?) up front but gets 0.75ca per passenger-kilometer traveled on the system…

Not sure what you mean. apt-get, yum, and even things like snap act like app stores for free apps, no?

When you're new it can be hard to tell what to ignore; it makes it tempting to pick a simpler framework that you can entirely grasp. Also any published examples, chatgpt etc won't …

Ideally: there's a train close enough to walk, or a bus or tram that's nearby that runs frequently, is clean, and doesn't get stuck in traffic because there's not much car traffic.…

Scott Alexander has issued many studies in his time and is surely aware of this phenomenon. He was very cautious even in this study to calibrate for this sort of noise; see the sec…

Heh, both figuratively and literally quixotic. He's on a quixotic quest, but he's literally fighting against windmills.

The airline websites that I've used are remarkably bad with their UI/UX. Far from any grandma being able to use it, definitely. I can rarely get through the process without some in…

The loaded cars can go coast to coast, but trains are broken up and reorganized often in yards, especially in places like Chicago. this is efficient because two cars from LA headed…

Thinking Machines was chosen over the Cray because they had more visual appeal. Sheryl Handler the CEO had (has) a real flair for and it showed; they were neat looking machines

Why would they need a bigger tunnel? Monorails are usually built to a smaller loading gauge than conventional rail.

This is well written, readable, and seems logically consistent. However it fairly directly conflicts with the account of Jan Ruff O'Herne: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Ruff-…

This is not the case for LLMs running on GPUs (which is most of them); GPUs are non-deterministic for this use-case due to the floating point math involved. there is no way to get …

I mean, the subway is still a train. it's just two transfers instead of one?

I love this story. anyone know why it's titled Lena, and not something like MMAcevedo? I can't see any reference to Lena anywhere in the story.