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Couldn't replicate this. I comment on HN with my real name. I put in my most recent "long" comments. https://kagi.com/assistant/dba310d2-b7fa-4d30-8223-53dadc2a8...…

It was profitable in a mercantilist world in which one must establish an empire ruled by force in order to obtain free trade. The British Empire had the largest free trade zone and made the most money…

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Speaking as a C++ developer on GPUs, it's mostly the first. There's so many problems that no other language has due to the backwards compatibility guarantees Bjarne made to get companies usi…

He's right, though. C++ exists because it was compatible with C code. Not having to rewrite into Java was a major advantage and justifies most of the terrible design decisions made as a result.

Humans haven't interacted with computers by typing in "5 columns right, 3 columns down" since before I was born. They use a mouse and keyboard. Meanwhile AI agents are expected to guess…

Sprinting/jump performances are invalidated for world record purposes if there's over 2.0 m/s of wind assistance. There is no rule for marathons.

People are not fungible but the role frequently is. You could be an AI infra genius, but if you're in a cookie-cutter consultancy role, that's the salary you're getting.

> the price that employers are paying new employees is literally the market rate, seeing as it's the rate in the literal market. I want to drill this into anyone that throws the word "bel…

I'm making an LLM agent that can play DS games. The biggest blocker is clicking on the right spot to move things around in space rather than reasoning abilities. Arc AGI seems to test that as wel…

If your team is 5 people then sure, it's fine. From my experience in a massive shared repo with unclear ownership...

Why would I go with Lute over something like Python if I was starting a new project?

There's two purposes to review. One is to enforce ownership, and the other is to provide mentorship. Even if you don't have ownership, mentoring is still useful. I get asked for review by te…

My parents indoctrinated me as a child to constantly hit save because they grew up with that. It was a part of our cultural expectations for "basic life skills to teach children".

> Or is there major grading on a curve, or a big benefit for being the top person in your classroom of 15? Yes. UofT even has "down curves" where your mark is lowered to ensure the correc…

We've opened a new med school after a decade of planning. 1.5% acceptance rate.

> No matter how many have good grades, you can always pick the top n by grades. Which, if you're talking about "grades" as in GPA, is plausible. I live in Ontario and we're ther…

I'm spending more than my salary on AI, about $16k last month. Employees at most companies are bottlenecked on things other than code, like manual testing or waiting to compile. Companies like Me…

I believe it happens more often in Canada. Here's a case where the RTO ultimatum was ruled constructive dismissal, because the manager made a verbal agreement to amend the terms of employment. …

Managers usually have the authority to bind the company to an employment contract. Even if they don't, the rule of "apparent authority" often means the employee can still sue. In the US…

It is a show about depression, which is why people love it. The "weird mysticism" is just the reification (pun intended) of the urge to self-harm. i.e. Literally turning into a puddle of emo…

It's a show about 14 year olds with emotional angst and the show reminds you the robots are a depression masking metaphor every other episode. Yes, it's a show for pre-teens and teenagers.

It's not immersive/interactive compared to the real thing. Ironically, AI is solving this better than VR did. Many people are in relationships with AI girlfriends. Not many are in relationsh…

I thought this was true for a while, but it seems to be a side effect of Betamax being more expensive in general . The counterexamples that convinced me were Grok and Steam VR aren't taking sign…

> Surely you'd just make the tape/cassette larger? Originally, Betamax increased physical tape length, but cutting tape speed (like how vinyls can play at different RPMs) was a more eco…

Betamax had better picture quality but only had 1 hour of capacity. VHS had 2 hours. Consumers preferred not having to switch tapes to higher picture quality. Convenience is a technical advantage. T…

The DCT of wavelengths that create the non-spectral colour. No clue how you'd film in this format but the CGI and video games would be epic.