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Re:Chain of Thought for Humans on Thursday October 22, 2026 @06:49AM (#50193642)
> Conscious verbal thinking is a detriment to thinking

?

TFA literally links to a study contradicting this core claim.

Re:Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:47PM (#50175861)
Functions in Haskell have no side effects because nobody runs them.
Here is a related, somewhat biased but way more entertaining video on how utility pricing works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fDGcZ8qpPM

Very exciting!
Re:Results from the Jane Street hardware puzzle on Sunday October 04, 2026 @10:37PM (#49960123)
> Yes, it's a profitable business for HFT

Wait till you see what the exchanges make.

Re:California is chasing wealth that has feet on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:32PM (#49837656)
Rents are already as high as renters can bear. If a tax is introduced, you'd expect landlord competition to drive down the landlord margins, not increase rents.
In what world is a square not a rectangle?

I don't understand how your wife interrogated the AI to be told a square is not a rectangle.

And how can two tutors disagree on this?

There's an "open only" button?
Re:Fable 5.1 World Modeling on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:17PM (#49544806)
oh, it's "play war pact".

I read it as "play, warp, act"

Re:Playa Phone on Monday August 31, 2026 @08:33PM (#49516524)
> sarcastic burner humor.

Give me a break...

It's not wild to imagine Canada wants to protect a domestic food producing industry.

Same how all countries, including the US, heavily subsidize and protect their agricultural sector.

I'd call this strategic, not political (although ofc it involves lobbying, again, like in every other country including the US)

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @09:08PM (#49458127)
Btw, this is analogous to the argument for positive discrimination:

Preferentially treat one group of people (non-white/women/Americans) even if in the short term the revealed preference of businesses is to hire a different group of people (white/men/immigrants), such that, in the long term, the first group of people can develop the necessary skills to compete with the second group.

Short term pain for long term gain.

This must be a troll.

Even if your story is true, you can't believe that's generally good advice.

You handle this by paginating inside a transaction
Re:Our position on open-weights models on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @05:58PM (#49090471)
The US routinely goes to war to secure cheap oil, so I didn't think that's a good example
A much larger percentage of bond traders are institutional, compared to equities, where retail is very active in some names.

So I wouldn't really give too many points to "the general public" for this one.

Re:The Tower Keeps Rising on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @03:44PM (#48912056)
> two orders of magnitude more productive

Shipping 100x more features per day?

Re:GPT-5.6 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @06:44PM (#48853411)
omp.sh is unreadable. I've tried understanding what exactly this is and it's just a wall of edgy sounding slop.
Re:A global workspace in language models on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:50AM (#48816439)
Dozens of GBs of compressed text is an unfathomable amount of information from a human POV.
Re:Should DayQuil Be Legal? on Monday July 06, 2026 @02:30PM (#48808582)
Btw, the cosmetics industry functions similarly, but worse. Although I suppose the health dangers are lower (the monetary ones are not).

For anti aging stuff, the workhorse ingredient is retinol (with a few formulation variations).

However, it is very difficult to buy _just_ retinol - most beauty brands bundle up retinol with a bunch of other ingredients. This has a couple of issues:

1. You won't know your retinol dosage. These creams almost never tell you the retinol proportion and concentration.

2. You're overpaying by _a lot_. The luxury name brand cream will cost maybe 10x more than the similarly sized $9 bottle of retinol from the ordinary, but it will only contain some fraction of retinol.

Tbf this has been slowly changing and I see even La Roche Posay sells retinol bottles for $50. Insane markup, but smaller than what was the case 5 years ago.

This is all compounded with the fact that it's very difficult to tell if your anti aging cream is actually working from your own experience:

- its effect is slow acting

- it's difficult to compare the result with the counterfactual, unless e.g. you only use it on half your face

Re:The 100k Whys of AI on Sunday June 21, 2026 @08:01PM (#48623898)
> the biblical whitewashed tomb.

What does this mean?

Re:The Magic Roundabout of Seattle Area on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @08:54PM (#48564388)
I'm all for hating bad infrastructure, but this roundabout seems pretty straightforward? Maybe it's different when you're actually driving on it, but from a topdown view it's clear it's a central roundabout with some extra sidelanes to avoid the roundabout if you're immediately turning right.
Re:Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible on Monday June 15, 2026 @09:00PM (#48549227)
"fair" involves a value judgement and requires a moral system. "even" is pure mathematics.

> I think it's fair to say that some jobs do actually deserve to be compensated more highly?

Agreeing with that is easy. Agreeing with which jobs should be compensated more highly is hard. Because everyone has different morality systems.

> To me it seems that the problem is how much wealth is concentrating in such few hands

I know people who strongly believe Bezos and other billionaires are being <fairly> compensated for the value they've brought to their customers via their businesses.

Re:Three of our worst VC stories on Saturday June 06, 2026 @01:42AM (#48421771)
He's a very MAGA guy, though.
> Everyone picking the S&P 500 over its competitors chooses that.

I'm fairly confident most people deciding to allocate to s&p trackers have no idea about rules-based vs committee-based governance. They just pick the default. And that default can quickly change if the S&P starts making weird/unpopular decisions in a highly publicized situation.

> a man convicted of fraud

Most practitioners in the field see that as a very strong signal of future fraud.

That's "growth hacking" for you
Re:Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @08:21PM (#48129502)
You can rotate any solution by 90 degrees, which would toggle the square colour of your bishop, so it doesn't ultimately matter.

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