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Countries subsidize rural living because it enforces their control over the frontier. The United States is difficult to invade because of the oceans surrounding it and the many people with guns in the…

Roblox didn't have server functions until 2014 and they weren't mandatory until 2018. Anything the client did automatically replicated to every other client. That meant I could attach Cheat …

It is a pitch perfect interpretation and I assumed that's what OP was going for. Manna (2010) read very similarly.

Your polishing work made a difference! The prose is like every other work of science fiction I've read. It's written like this is a dystopia but billing $180/45 minutes in rural low cos…

> It's a managers role to coordinate junior engineers. Due to AI this is now my job. My company is hiring less juniors, but the ones we do hire are given more scope and coordination responsibi…

A lot of senior engineering problems aren't gated by experience but by being trusted to coordinate large numbers of juniors. Now that as a junior, I can spin up a team of AIs and delegate, I ca…

If it was about extraterrestrial life, there would be a massive insider trade and Polymarket would've climbed. It's been static for the past day. https://polymarket.com/event…

You can increase LLM inference throughput by using smaller batch sizes but that scales non-linearly in practice. It probably isn't worth it unless your model provider makes it really easy.

It's your God-given right as an American to get millisecond level price discovery. Trading delays sounds like Communist bureaucracy.

> Agent parallelism just doesn't seem necessary and makes everything harder. Not an expert though, tell me where I'm wrong. I use parallel agents for speed or when my single agent process…

Is Rust faster to compile than C++?

Blame lossy compression to save bandwidth. There's no way to legally stream in Blu-ray quality.

C++ almost never removes features because of the ABI compatibility guarantees. Programs compiled with older versions of the standard can be linked against newer versions. This is allegedly because in …

It's impossible to get a job nowadays so new grads will do anything to stick out. You don't really understand the desperation we're going through right now. OP wants to be visited by …

> ideally you would see how many people would be waiting at the station if there were this or that route through the network? Simutrans has this. > for every city (and industry?) there should be…

Do you see the broader point I'm making, which is that non-zero interest rates means delivering value isn't enough anymore?

I went to a Math/CS magnet program for high school with selective admissions. It wasn't racially diverse and 90% Asian, but most of them were born into working class families. Virtually ever…

> I'm reduced to play commercial offerings like Transport Fever 2. Literally play Simutrans. Same window UI from the 90s.

I like Simutrans more because the cargo and passengers have destinations in mind. TTD and OpenTTD do not which incentivizes mechanisms to dump everyone at the edge of the map. Aside from that they…

If the company is spending $100k to employ you, you need to deliver $103.8k/year of value.

In a zero interest rate environment, literally any return on investment justifies spending. If interest rates are 3.8%, the company needs at least a 3.8% return every year on your yearly compensation …

> When we sent our kids to public school, And there's the problem. Public schools do not want groups of children to go faster than other children because it is inequitable. By simply teaching …

> The reason that paper voting is so good in this regard is that everybody can fully understand the entire process. It is so very, very simple. And if you need proof, you can go see the counting fo…

> In what world does a healthy growing business react to this by laying off couriers "in a pivot to automotive transportation". Millions of horses got shipped to the glue factory. And man…

Yes, it's sarcasm. I'm contrasting how Britain made their legal process gradual enough to match reality with the USA's demand that legal processes create reality. For reference, fully e…

The purpose of an assembly is to reflect the actual distribution of power in society, not what we'd like it to be. If interest groups do not feel represented by the system, they will destroy it.…

Because that requires compromise and Americans are raging absolutists that need immediate results. In 1791, abolitionists tried to end slavery in the British Empire but couldn't get it passed by …