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What a fucking website this is! Farewell, cruel dang!

Nobody ever bikesheds me or makes me break flow to attend a Fun Team Event in Factorio :)

I guess there would be a silicate famine in the seas, that seems to be the limiting factor for diatom presence overall among plankton

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatom#/media/File:Diatoms_Egg...

I encourage you to explore, as a thought experiment, what profit opportunities can arise from the intersection of mass medicalisation and body positivity.

What solution do you propose? No more UCLA?

I believe this is an example of ludonarrative dissonance. The camera is simply at a fixed offset from the train model.

Try this talk about sqlite!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKLA81tBis

Did you RTFA?

"This jaundiced real-estate porn is meant to satirize the housing crunch in cities like Hong Kong and Shanghai, and the commenters are all in on the joke"

I come from a cultural background such that I clued in on this when I first encountered the videos. Is the joke overplayed now? Definitely - but it's not braindead, it's equal parts over-the-top satire and wish fulfilment (if ONLY you could knock out your building's walls and extend your coffin apartment, Kowloon Walled City-style)

what does the

     # insert your code to print out some C code

mean?

The author's workflow sounds like writing ideas onto a block of post-its and then having them slosh around like they're boats lashed up at harbour. He wasn't actually gaining any new information - nothing that really surprised him - he was just offloading the inherent fluidity of half-formed ideas to a device which reified them.

Imagine an LLM-based application which never tells you anything you haven't already told it, but simply takes the statements you give it and, every 8 to 12 seconds, changes around the wording of each one. Like you're in a dream and keep looking away from the page and the text is dancing before you. Would institutions be less uncomfortable with its use? (not wholly comfortable - you're still replacing natural expressivity with random pulls from a computerised phrase-thesaurus)

Close! If Hollywood starts doing it, it will become copyrightable. (But somehow only if you can retain 5+ lawyers.)

People in meatspace are not (in James C. Scott's sense) legible to HN's user base, and never will be.

What was he selling?

You call some numbers in an ACHS a concrete achievement? I was thinking more like a dam or a school or something...

> Add in the challenge of remote learning

Why? Are K-12 keeping on with remote classes now in the USA?

> not to mention smartphone access prevalently available

Also why? Has there been a change in policy about bag and equipment checks?

What privileges the square root over any other fractional power?

Petrarch climbed a mountain for fun in 1336.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascent_of_Mont_Ventoux

Has anyone used `git describe` in anger?

Very!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roy_Engloys

And it went right into the little shelf in many Canadians' heads of "Canadian companies destroyed by the USA". Mauldite en soit trestoute la lignye.

Sunk-tax fallacy.

Sure! sqrt(-1) is actually (-1/12), as proved by Ramanujan summation.

Would you then call it a buzzword, or is there some gentler excluded-middle interpretation of that word's application to the project?

IME you get the same amount of back and forth but I get to write "as the comment says" a few times

Tiger gotta hunt, bird gotta fly, LLM gotta answer "why, why, why?"

Tiger gotta sleep, bird gotta land, LLM gotta produce a token from the context at hand

I think it just throws me off due to cultural differences. Most homes and offices in my country have electric lighting, which means we can end up living and working outside of daylight hours, especially on Fridays. I have on numerous occasions asked people how their day was, and they tell me about things that happened while the sun was not up.

...How recent? Bellman coined curse of dimensionality in 1957.

Does unreal expose an interface like GDCLASS for new types?

What prevents engineering firms from acting like law firms?