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git worktrees are the canonical solution

What is a ‘wicked’ problem?

> For 99% of users, we gladly accept these more "invasive" anti-cheats because it means less cheating in the games we enjoy. The modal user likely doesn’t even know anti-cheat exis…

> Most of us were able to earn money to buy a pizza or some additional snack betting on teams, or trading keys. Unless I'm missing something, this is zero sum -- so it follows that…

Sure theoretically. Outcomes are dramatically better if someone else is around

I once did a course with a paramedic on basic aid. We were discussing choking, which is a condition that really needs a 2nd party to intervene. Someone asked what to do if you live…

Thanks, this is a fascinating note. You’re right that really it’s collaborative production that’s the heart, and there’s no real benefit to LLMs. It does feel like some classical e…

I always thought there was decent promise in gwerns (gpt-3 era) proposal of a meta-llm CYOA: https://gwern.net/cyoa Wonder if anyone ever took a crack at this

Because the numbers are less than 1 sqrt pulls them towards 1 (the edge)

There’s a now quite dated comment from Merlin Mann: "Joining a Facebook group about productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.” It’s fuzzy - but my recollection was Mann wa…

Given this is 4 years old; did any sites take on the feedback?

> Home runs, walks, and strikeouts now dominate baseball, with 35% of plate appearances ending without involving seven defensive players. This has reduced balls in play by 20% sinc…

I feel like you want some higher moments on these. At least the standard deviation would be useful on top of the expectation.

The share value is price x shares, so there’s an effective dollar numeraire. It’s easy to imagine a well performing stock that neverless loses due to a currency shock. Indeed this …

This is heterodox opinion to modern financial theory. You’re welcome to hold it, I’m not interested in trying to convince you otherwise — I think it undermines the larger point I’m…

For all practical purposes you can - and the world broadly does - consider e.g. TBills to be risk free (or take your favourite interbank lending rate etc etc).

There is no risk free investment that will return you 12%. In a year where you are down 30% are you still contributing 5% on initial capital? If not, you are just constructing an i…

I don't think the switches connecting to any real exchanges support this

There's no competition that's running on copper -- even competitors without latency sensitivity with still be running over fibre because that's just the baseline infrastructure in …

Right the energy is exponentially, but I’d claim that fatalities are saturating.

> Also worth considering is that, even if higher limits reduce the rate of accidents, accidents at higher speeds are almost universally more severe. Obviously this is true, and esp…

technically it's the EU working hours directive that's binding (or being opted out of) in the UK

> when they're the largest video game distribution platform on PC And just adding on to this, they also a have a stable of some of the most successful (and presumably lucrative) ga…

You also can use the fact that for any distribution, the median is never further than 1SD away from the mean.