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> Wyzer supports standard if/else, while, and for loops. Note that loops don't need parentheses around the condition. But why !? You know what'd be cool? If we started supporting c…

> Models are excellent at code Models are infinitely willing to code. The code they produce makes me want to pour one out for Knuth.

Housing values skyrocketed due to low interest rates. The prices are sticky and won't correct just because mortgage rates have gone up. That means no one can move. What we need is …

Gasoline has 10x the energy (MJ/Kg) than TNT, but it's not a "bomb". Being a "bomb" is about energy release rate . A battery is still controlled by its chemistry.

Which book that was rare was destroyed? I'm interested to know a few titles.

Anathem is the best Stephenson book; The Algebraist is the best Iain Banks. There's enough of us to fill a good sized van!

Sorry I was so terse! Let's ignore guard band, for now. Our rasterization surface is a rectangle. We don't need to "geometrically clip" a triangle to the rectangle's surface. Inste…

You only need to clip triangles is you're worried about attribute interpolation for very large triangles. There's two ways to handle this: (1) discard (fast but not a great user ex…

I want to be able to take a conversation and ask for subconversations as red pen annotations "on the side". The linear nature of the context tends to frustrate this.

I'm no intelligence researcher or philosopher; but, I think LLMs make us confront the (IMO, now clear) distinction between cleverness (intuition), reasoning (rational argument), an…

It's around hour 20 of trying to breath that I start to really think the Goldfish has an edge on me.

Races are virtually uncompetitive; it means politicians only need to pander to the 40% bloc of the 10–20% of voters that show up in the primary. Once elected, the chance of losing …

This is why gerrymandering should be unconstitutional, and why corporations should have their rights explicitly curtailed: they're not citizens or the people.

I have strong expectations, in fact; I need the state to respect that.

I've been able to age restrict websites with my childrens' devices for years? Privately, on the device. The website side is pure moatism.

I know your threw an "etc" in there; but, all fingers point to my home state: Texas. We need two legislative changes at the federal level: (1) uncap the house from 435 to at least …

I've had a lot of success just LZ4ing a bitmap.

I'm responding to a random comment: I was in molecular biology, but >20 years ago. Your article immediately presents as someone who's acquired reading expertise in a biological/med…

Its a set cover problem, and is NP-hard. 4100 of something probably runs nicely in your laptop in a reasonable amount of time.

I go down to Abby Jane in Dripping Springs to get my freshly made sourdough, thankyouverymuch.

A ten hour wait doesn't really strike me as a pancake? You should have a "it's 730am, there's four screaming girls, only two of which are related to me, the dogs are begging for sc…

REI threw a dickover on top of my checkout page just before I could pay. Dismissing the dickover cleared the checkout page.

The leverage doesn't end unless the AI-owning capital class Terminates the rest of the population.

Maybe Morse is just "out", right now, in the geek population? I shall send out the signal for us to unite: ... ___ ... ___ ... Hm. Morse makes adding an ellipsis remarkably challen…

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