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Seth Roberts was arguing this ~20 years ago and would have loved the advent of LLMs...

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Do other countries' state healthcare system costs count towards their labor share of income? If not, it seems sensible not to account for them that way in the US, or you're creatin…

It's a class thing more than a geography thing. Culturally working-class urban Americans are chatty in almost every American city, save the most recently-urbanized ones (like PHX -…

I thought Uber & Lyft prevented this sort of thing? I'm not sure I understand how/why this exists now -- or given that it does, why it wasn’t a thing years ago -- but I just used i…

Underrated comment in this thread, which is full of asserts of universal abstractions and patterns which are not universal. (And of course this insight applies to all kinds of writ…

What are the chances some non-trivial proportion of the millions of cars on the road will not have their LIDAR designed, built, installed or calibrated correctly? I suspect this is…

Underrated observation. The low-hanging fruit is all in the office/home-to-takeoff and touchdown-to-office/home blocks on each end, not the time in the air. The commute, checkin, s…

I'm not sure this is true. In Atlanta, on a very busy two-lane city-street commute into work, I follow traffic laws scrupulously, and have excellent driving skills, but I take ever…

Both slurm, and even more so HTCondor, power most of the major computationally-expensive physics projects worldwide (all the LHC experiments, LIGO, IceCube, etc.)

From https://lastexam.ai/ : "The dataset consists of 2,500 challenging questions across over a hundred subjects. We publicly release these questions, while maintaining a private te…

Privacy through uniformity, operational security by routine, herd immunity for privacy, traffic normalization, "anonymity set expansion", "nothing to hide" paradox, etc. I.e., if y…

I see this all the time when asking Claude or ChapGPT to produce a single-page two-column PDF summarizing the conclusions of our chat. Literally 99% of the time I get a multi-page …

I've been having a good time chatting with Deep Research LLMs about this. The bottom line, for me, is that the risks of hot plastic -- to me as an adult, in, say, micromorts -- are…

I did exactly this last Friday as an experiment and Claude Sonnet 4.5 recommended that I go long in an inverse ETF lol. When I told it that was terrible advice, it apologized and s…

The post's dataviz in fact allows you vary the # of horizontal cuts and compare the results. Take a look.

HTCondor is always an option. Lacks shiny tinfoil, but works like a tank.

Are there still a lot of hybrids without CVTs?

At ~100s, it's already at about the minimum for Hubble; often it's 1-2 orders of magnitude longer.

I suspect, at ~4.5AU distance, even though 3I/ATLAS is moving at a relative speed of ~60 kms, its angular velocity across the sky is manageable for Hubble's current one-gyro pointi…

You may be right, but we have no idea what the scores would have been had Reading Rainbow not been on (i.e., maybe it held off a decline), so this isn't really meaningful one way o…

I don't disagree, but I still think it's funny that, not six pages in, they compromise the central conceit...

Fascinating: the author cheats! E.g., "butch-ers" appears*, as if hyphenation makes it not a two-syllable word! * https://archive.org/details/aesopsfablesinwo00aeso/page/12/m...