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Unemployment makes it more likely for the fed to lower interest rates, which makes the stock market more attractive, so, yes. (Unemployment also generally causes lower inflation in…

Good point! I skimmed over that part, you’re right.

First one depends on the bowling ball. Most alleys have balls ranging from 7lb to 16lb, all the same volume, and the crossover point where they’d sink is 11.6lb. If it was a floati…

15% improvements are usually called “fixing a mistake in the code” or “getting to that task in the backlog for optimizing that code we had to ship on a deadline”. They’re more like…

> I don’t really like AI but let’s stop kidding ourselves If I had to create a tagline to describe my opinions about AI in a single sentence, that’d be it. It’s possible to both ha…

> the state of the art lower bounds on time complexity of algorithms for solving 3SAT is O(n) Wow, that’s pretty stark. “What’s the minimum time it would take to solve this problem…

Indeed, the internet is absolutely gonna be with us forever, but I’d hate to be the guy who bought Cisco stock in August of 2000. (It took 25 years to recover.) Although at its pea…

Indeed, won’t someone please think of the poor AI company CEO’s, we should be ashamed of ourselves for criticizing their perfectly acceptable destruction of our creative works. Tha…

They got sued for violating copyright in general, not for “not destroying books” in particular. Destroying the books was a legal trick they used to continue scanning them without b…

Copying it. Because they clearly believe that they’re allowed to do so. For physical books, they believe they’re not allowed to, hence the destruction. It’s abhorrent, I agree… may…

I think it’s pretty clear in GP’s first sentence that they believe artists should get compensation during the first 10 years. I personally would change it to something more like 20…

Reminds me of when Apple finally moved the iPhone to USB-C… they defended lightning for the longest time, but then when when they finally did the switch, all I could think was “the…

IMO it depends on the language… to me, map/collect/etc are useful in languages that have the concept of immutable data, because you can initialize an array with a single call chain…

Except you don't need a multiplexer for that. Essentially all modern terminals have tabs. Many have split-screen. Even windows ships with a half-decent terminal with tabs and multi…

Tmux only makes sense if you’re connecting remotely in some form or another. Otherwise, it’s just terminal windows/tabs with extra steps. Even if your terminal integrates with tmux…

Committing untested code doesn’t matter at all. Merging untested code absolutely does. What you commit locally doesn’t need to correspond at all to what is even shown to others , l…

To you and the sibling commenter: D’oh. I should have reviewed the docs better, you’re totally right. Now I feel dumb. Wish I would’ve learned this a long time ago. (Or maybe I did…

My biggest problem with `add -p` is correcting any patches I added or rejected by accident. Often times I skip through dozens of things I don’t want to add, then realized that last…

Related: I wish there were a portable way for xargs to treat newlines as delimeters but not other spaces. Since 99.9% of the time that's what you want. (GNU's has this with -d/--de…

If Russia's national objective is to have access to the sea, and doing so means they have to take access from another nation, then no, I don't see how the things are different, exc…

> I love the example you gave because it is demonstrative of one of the most important distinctions between your moral language and the language of geopolitics. If a Muslim attacks…

Please look up "victim blaming" and understand how it applies in this context. If Islamic terrorists say "if you depict Muhammad, we will attack you", and someone depicts Muhammad …

So let me see if I understand your argument here. Ukraine wanted to join NATO because it sees Russia as a threat (I dunno, maybe because Russia had just invaded Crimea and "annexed…

Framing Russia’s unprovoked invasion of their neighbor as “politics” actually makes me less trusting of Kagi than before I read your link. It’s really not a good look. Maybe englis…

I’m against corn production for ethanol too: that AI datacenters aren’t as bad as one of the worst ideas our country has ever had, isn’t much praise. You know what instantly outs s…