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Here’s my understanding as a native Texan with examples (don’t take this too seriously): Y’all -> group of people (howdy yall) All y’all -> everyone (all yall need to listen up!) A…

What if instead the manager was saying: “hey team I need you to all buy as many lotto tickets as possible!” I feel like that’s a better analogy. Some charlatans are buying fake tic…

It sounds to me like the safe assumption with software is that no matter how solid your stack is, there are vulnerabilities, potentially catastrophic. A question to folks more expe…

I’d like to point out that TF2 was part of the Orange Box bundle that included Half Life, Portal, and TF2. Those single player games were never given away for free, so as a purchas…

Barbarians at the Gate is the classic LBO book. It gives a nice mix of story and financial mechanics.

It’s also one of the thinnest floats IPO’ing. They’re only selling less than 5% of the company. That introduces a lot of sensitivity in the valuation, not to mention there exists a…

Thank you for sharing! What are your thoughts on intentionally degrading service over the course of an hour instead of a hard cutoff? Like implementing an increasingly restrictive …

Hey - plugged this into chatGPT 5.2 and it seems to think this theory needs more work. “As written, this looks closer to sophisticated curve-fitting (numerology with constraints) t…

I think we’re in agreement, but I’m afraid I don’t have the philosophical language to precisely pin my mental model into words (what a meta conundrum lol). I’ll try my best here, b…

I think a succinct way to describe my thoughts on linear algebra/language is that language has high dimensionality (ie many different basis vectors that may not necessarily be orth…

I tried the new battlefield game and it’s bizarre how some of my friends play it. There’s this expansive battle pass (pay $20/quarter for access, on top of $70 base game) where you…

It has to do with how ATC needs to be able to communicate with all planes in the air, even ones built 100 years ago. They have to use radio so everyone can hear everyone else. Ther…

I understand the sentiment about a skilled user not needing this, but I think having a little buddy that I can use to offload some menial tasks would be helpful for me to iterate t…

I bet the folks who implemented the system do have checks and balances. The article said they placed 2 million successful orders which realistically can’t happen without some form …

He mentions s&dbox, his new engine/gmod spiritual successor. They maintain an interesting devblog over at https://sbox.game/news if you are interested in how the sausage is made.

Figured I’d ask the HN crowd- what’s the best way around these geofence blocks? Have you had success with a system that can work smoothly on mobile/desktop without any of the disas…

The black hole has two conceptual parts - the event horizon and the singularity. The event horizon is a one-way imaginary shell where once you pass it, you will end up at the singu…

It’s kinda like why they make compsci majors take a history class - the actual knowledge may not be particularly useful unto itself, but learning that information/skill tickles a p…

If you are a monopoly producer (which seems fair in this context) you would set the price of the rocks where your marginal revenue equals your marginal demand. Loosely, you’d do a …

How does one ensure that every seed can be completed without glitches? The website says this is the case, so I wonder how they do it because it seems nontrivial to generate valid s…

This is a brilliant company idea! So happy it exists.

I’m about to graduate from a top business school with my MBA and it’s been wild seeing AI evolve over the last 2 years. GPT3 was pretty ass - yet some students would look you dead …

“Now comes the clever part.” God bless our soldiers who see that regex is turing complete and choose to implement fun programs. Yall are truly a different breed :)

Well, the US dollar is an instrument to serve the interests of the US people. Many Americans were harmed by the collapse, so the government is going to try to claw back what it can…

Likely no - by simply watching the content you are signaling to the algorithm that it should promote the video to others. I’m sure he prefers you would engage with his revenue sche…