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yes, and isn't it funny that foo=[baz, bar,] returns a nice list of two items, but if you edit this down and miss the comma, foo=bar, is not a scalar. returning a tuple. So the tra…

> only to discover a few days later that the code was failing because different people had different indentation settings in their IDEs, both regarding tabs versus spaces and the n…

From the article > We removed over 80% of Claude Code’s system prompt for models like Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5 with no measurable loss on our coding evaluations. And no rep…

which is why I cried inside to myself when my manager posted Boris's "Steps of AI Adoption", which reduces "adoption" to how many agents you run at once, on a logarithmic scale (0,…

If I were a city government, I would just start charging Flock rent.

In the US, something like 98% of eligible men enlisted in WWI. There was no draft. So yes, VERY high probability of service.

Air conditioning only works for things inside of buildings. Not so good for the plants and animals our lives depend on. And it raises the heat outside of buildings. Not so good for…

So let's assume you are right. Does that justify the price? Spacex price/sales: 100x-130x RTX Corporation's (formerly Raytheon Technologies) Price-to-Sales (P/S) ratio currently ho…

Yes, as you say the market is a local (both in space and time) and greedy optimizer. Long-term payoffs that increase the value of all participants in society, such as education, he…

let's reverse the question. Where are markets expected to be optimal? > definition of 'perfect competition' perfect competition, in which there are large numbers of identical suppl…

well, one comes with a pretty strong safety cage, so there is that difference.

> The moment I start talking to someone, automagically the NC is paused as well as any audio you were listening to. When I'm listening to music, the music helps form my sense of ti…

That's why I use M-x spook to generate all of my variable names

and my mind went to the current US administration. Sigh. You made the better choice.

maybe seeing if the case law it cited was real or imagined? Just one idea, IANAL

EU law gives every citizen a right to a bank account. I wonder if EU law could give every citizen a right to a google or Apple account, including a forced recovery option if the ac…

> This psychosis you keep referring to will only end up punishing the ones who subscribe to it wouldn't it? Since it's out of touch with reality. It might if the subscribers realiz…

could you please tell me how it generates that certainty score?

carry a family of 4 where? if you rely on that other location exisiting, you are not self-reliant. tow a trailer where? see above. Pick up a load of dirt or lumber-- how did those …

> Being a self-made billionaire means they created a billion dollars of value. two of the people on the list did it via online gambling. Which is by definition a zero-sum game. No …

two ways to take it: equity as written. Ownership. Thus fairness means all have a share in responsibility for success and rewards for that success. Yeah, I agree. Note that I inclu…

Hey, I hear you, but the age cutoff could also be on holding office. As someone just hitting the 60 yr old mark, and looking at my parents who are still pretty sharp in their late …

> I don't think LLMs are that chaotic, you can replace words in an input at get a similar answer, and they are very good at dealing with typos. Compare "You are a helpful assistant…

Evidence? Isn't the state the expression of the people's will? That's the theory of democracy, isn't it? Also, any evidence or reason to believe that an extraction-based capitalist…

would be great to have a 'learner' mode where I could take back a move after the computer jumps 5 of my pieces :) I'd also appreciate if illegal moves highlighed in a slightly less…