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This whole article is just (barely) rephrasing a few popular twitter threads from the past week.

Unfortunate thumbnail on that embedded video

what is the Decimation thing?

Los Angeles just needs buses that come through frequently enough to obviate the need to check the schedule. Also dynamic bus routing, which would reduce the total number of buses r…

I think the alternative should be "this is not blue". I was served what I would call a "teal" or "turquoise" but the alternative button shows "this is green", which it was not.

it's not a bad trade!

This is one of those things that seems like a nerd snipe but would be more easily accomplished through brute forcing it. Just get 76 people to manually type out one page each, you'…

Why wouldn't a qualified developer just run the code? Takes two seconds instead of ... whatever you're going for here.

Dumb question but what stops browsers from rendering TeX directly (aside from the work to implement it)? I assume it's more than just the rendering

This was the original goal of the Cornell box ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_box , i.e. carefully measure the radiosity of a simple, real-world scene and then see how clos…

The only thing that ever made this click for me was that the columns can be interpreted as the values for the new, post-transform basis vectors

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

Not quite the same but check out A Canticle for Leibowitz

I like programming. It's fun, and sometimes it even requires creativity. There are plenty of times when it's not that fun, and doesn't require any creativity (because whatever it i…

on, off, and the other thing

Assistants can be taught

Predatory AI-generated site feeding off parents' anti-screen anxiety, no thanks. We need Klutz to come back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klutz_Press

These time-to-complete estimates seem reallyyyyyy aggressive to me. I dunno maybe I'm just the slowest programmer in the world.

Why is it important to force reindustrialization?

Isn't this just a form of next token prediction? i.e. you'll keep your options open for a potential rhyme if you select words that have many associated rhyming pairs, and you'll fu…

Should everyone wear the same size shoes?

marcan addresses this argument in an adjacent thread: > Out of tree doesn't work. People, both in the kernel and out of the kernel, want things in tree. https://lore.kernel.org/lkm…

"arrowlike entities"

Sounds terrible!

If I have two Queens in play am I untargetable? (each Queen protects the other?) EDIT: ah, was confused by the cheat sheet on cuttle.cards ( https://www.cuttle.cards/img/cuttle_rul…