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I confirm this diagnosis. The UIs are always clunky, disorganized, and kinda ugly. But they work well enough. I guess UIs are opinionated enough that we probably all customize them anyway. Maybe the agents know this so don't bother putting too much effort in? (Deep thought of the day: acquired)

That list is beautifully concise. I don't follow the news too closely since it is infuriating, but there were only 2 or 3 which I didn't know the rough outline.

Airemin, obviously.

Yes, this is the term my youngins use too!

This is the most insightful comment on this subject I've read yet. I hadn't put those pieces together.

I also learned this term pretty recently, loved it. Another fav tech term is automagically :-)

Albertata!

I thought mine was when claude found a very subtle but important bug in some open source LBM code I was using. It ground at it for hours and didn't give up until it found it. (Back when claude was cheap!). I recently had a my ACTUAL moment at a conference where the presenter was pitching his book about "One shotting scientific code". He has cooked up 60+ prompts that get you functioning simulations and put them into a book [0]. It floored me to realize I could have just ask claude to write me a whole new LBM solver instead of finding that bug! That raised the bar for me a lot.

[0] https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/97810037340...

I had this exact problem and came to the same conclusion. But for the exam, give them code and ask what it does, or give broken code and ask where the error is. Waaay less marking. I only asked for 3 small functions written by hand and that was still 90% of the effort to mark. But the marks felt valid in the end, so the process seemed to work.

This is probably not a helpful comment because it's basically a daydreamers fantasy, but here goes...

Doesn't all the surveillance concern go away if we just remove license plates from cars? Our plates identify us nearly perfectly.

Funny, I think that looks gorgeous!

"Capitalism tries to deliver the worst possible version for the highest possible price" This is brilliant. So much information packed into one sentence.

We should start with a sustainable colony _on_ earth as a proof of concept. :-)

I think the question is "why do sites put up cookie banners when the only option is Accept?" Gdpr requires an option to opt out, so who are they try to appease here? I sometimes think they do it because people have come expect them.

This looks really promising, thank you! I have been using chemicals for things like this but it is not good at multiple conditions so your approach will teally help me. Btw, there is no link to the repo on the docs psge, st least on my phone. I want to star your repo.

So true. I once saw a gardener removing weeds from a moss patch with tweezers. Very meticulous.

You'd get my vote! These boulevard signs are totally out of control. They are technically against bylaws in my town, but nobody enforces it. Two anecdotes about how insane these are:

1. I saw one last week advertising a halloween party, so it's been in the ground for over 6 months. It is on a sidewalk near the university and is passed by about 1000 people per day, and in 6+ months not ONE SINGLE PERSON said "Oh, I should talk this down".

2. I once saw a city employee get off their riding lawn mower to move one of these signs out of their way, cut the grass, then get off the mower again to put the sign back!

And echoing the GPs comment, what really gets me about these is that we all have our lives diminished so that one person or company can earn a little extra...maybe. Or in other words, 1000's of people are subjected to this and perhaps 1 person might bite?

I'll close with my favorite interpretation of advertising: Advertisers essentially steal your sense of self-satisfaction so they can sell it back to you.

Easy solution: just don't change your name! Our boys have my last name and our girls (if we'd had any) would have had my wife's last name. We didn't have girls so I don't have data on how that would've worked but seems line a no-brainer to me.

It's cute that everyone seems to think this about their own jobs.

Yes, about half is skimmed off the top by the university, called 'overhead'. This is used to fund everything, from research-essential things like paying for heat and maintaining buildings, to less obvious but still research-essential things like IP lawyers to deal with contracts and campus security. However, SOME of the overhead will end up supporting things that are 'contentious' like DEI enforcement or whatever.

This is a very important comment. And to flip the perspective, name recognition in our given fields is not just a vanity metric for getting more funding. It is earned by publishing quality work. I can trust people I know who do things correctly.

Im reading Sapiens at the moment and one statement really got my attention: human society is a marvel, but individually we are embarrassingly similar to Chimps. This mental model really helps put put so much behavior into context, like resource hogging and the hoarding instinct, despite obvious surplus of everything everywhere at all times.

At least he showed up! That is what we call an A for effort.

If this person is so good with statistics, maybe than can compute the number of hours of other people's time they wasted so they could save themselves a few hours of research into best schools.

Context: My time has been so oversubscribed by external nonsense lately that seeing how disrespectful a person can be with other's time in such a blatant way makes me border on angry...but I don't have the time for that since I spent my spare few moments writing this post...sigh.

I sometimes wonder if the problem is at least partly because people don't think someone should get paid to have fun. Musicians, artists, writers, etc are basically asking to be paid to pursue their hobbies full time, and 9-5 office workers are like "good one, lol".

I was confused by the article title...the word "some" didn't make sense. Then I finally got the joke. So apparently, I am so used to article titles being fully confident that I subconsciously felt this one was off.

Quarto! The lead dev of quarto dog fooded it to write his own book on data science in R.

Maybe the point is that taking advice from ANY single person is a bad idea since thay are making conclusions from a sample size of 1, while a "scientist" is telling you things that are statistically more likely to help you?

So this! Office is literally the only thing keeping me on windows at this point. And its not as simple as "just use X". There is a lot friction keeping me from switching, a main one being that all my colleagues and collaborators use ut.

I recently read an HN post where a LOT of people reported having the same rather specific dream that I have had many times (about being enrolled in a class they forgot about only to remember on the day of the final exam). It literally rocked my world to see evidence of how similar all of our 'wetware' is. And now I'm reading you describing a scenario I have experienced so many times, right down to 4pm breakfast and distracting stories of family drama. I am now pretty much convinced we live in a simulation and we're all subclasses of each other.