ARandumGuy

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by ARandumGuy 21d ago
Seconding this. I've been subscribed to Nebula for a couple years, as I watch a lot of video essayists on Youtube and like half of them are on Nebula. In addition to ad-free viewing, you also get: * No in-video sponsor segments * Exclu
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by ARandumGuy 1mo ago
I'm not sure if you realize this, but there are a lot of housing options in between suburban sprawl and high-rise apartment buldings. Like townhomes, rowhouses, duplexes, low-rise apartments, or even single family homes built more clos
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by ARandumGuy 3mo ago
12 Fs across 34 students is not statistically significant. Comparing the spring 2022 vs spring 2026 rates only works if the composition of the groups is similar (e.g. same % of students that previously failed the course), which seems dubiou
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by ARandumGuy 3mo ago
Additionally, if someone is taking an intro class in the Spring, that's probably because they already failed it in the previous semester. While that doesn't guarantee that they'll fail again, it does make it more likely.
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by ARandumGuy 6mo ago
The main reason lithium batteries are used in cars and electronics is because they offer some of the best energy storage per kilogram. That's really important for something meant to be portable, but it's completely irrelevant for
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by ARandumGuy 6mo ago
> _However_, for the use cases that most developers or agents are looking for What use cases are those? How did you determine that these are the use cases most developers/agents are looking for? For me, git has a ton of features tha
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by ARandumGuy 6mo ago
> Sure, if you have a complete test suite for a library or CLI tool And this is a huge "if". Having 100% test coverage does not mean you've accounted for every possible edge or corner case. Additionally, there's no gu
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by ARandumGuy 8mo ago
I don't know how much people outside of MN know about what's going on, but it's fucking dire here. However bad you think it is, it's worse.
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by ARandumGuy 9mo ago
> Yeah, sure, and with LLMs you can do this, and you can do that. But if we're talking about languages and their features, relying on IDE features feels slightly off-topic. Refacoring tools (such as renaming properties) have been su
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by ARandumGuy 9mo ago
In your Typescript example, the solution would be to use your IDE to refactor hosts to hostnames, a process that takes like 2 seconds. You might have problems if the change exists at a service boundry, but in that case I'd just put the
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by ARandumGuy 9mo ago
I don't find that dynamic typing reduces the number of places I need to update stuff. It just changes when the error occurs. If I change the shape of some data (such as renaming object properties), I'll need to update all the code
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
IIRC Musk wanted to get an LBO, but wasn't able to find anyone willing to loan the money. Keep in mind that a LBO is actually a good deal for the bank, because if the purchased company goes bankrupt, the bank can recoup their investmen
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
Are there any examples where a company was purchased via a leveraged buyout and the company went on to be more profitable afterwards? Because the only examples I know of resulted in the purchased company going bankrupt fairly quickly.
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
If you want a deep dive into chess cheating, including a lot of wild stories, Sarah Z put out an entertaining Youtube video [1] a couple of months ago that explores the concept. It's a long video, but well worth the watch. [1]: https:
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
Nothing Hamas has done justifies what Israel is doing to Palestinian civilians, because collective punishment is a war crime. "But they did it first" is not a valid excuse, especially when trying to excuse mass starvation and bomb
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
Las Vegas Boulevard is like 8 lanes wide. Get rid of two car lanes and now you have plenty of room for a rail line.
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
The fact that there isn't a rail line from the airport to the strip is wild. It would simplify travel for tourists dramatically, and get a lot of hotel shuttles and taxis off the street. There's a reason why even cities with bad p
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
You're right, and I realize my post implied that multiplayer was a complete non-starter on Linux, which isn't true. Kernel-level anticheat is mostly found in big, mainstream releases (especially competitive shooters). Of course, t
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
The main hurdle for Linux gaming right now is kernel-level anticheat. Kernel-level anticheat is increasingly common in multiplayer games, and it does not play well with Linux. This makes it difficult to play new multiplayer games on Linux.
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
But also that's been part of Wikipedia's website for years now, no special browser support necessary. And because it's tailored specifically to Wikipedia, it works great! Page preview seems nice in theory, but I'm unconv
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
But at that point wouldn't it be easier to just search the web yourself? Obviously that has its pitfalls too, but I don't see how adding an LLM middleman adds any benefit.
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
I've got to ask, do you play much chess? Because this post reads like you don't understand much about chess. The issue with "solving" chess isn't that there isn't an objectively best move in every position. The
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
Any consumer facing AI project has to contend with the fact that GenAI is predominantly associated with "slop." If you're not actively using an AI tool, most of your experience with GenAI is seeing social media or Youtube flo
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
But that's just more cherry-picking. You can always find some past success to push whatever point you're trying to make. But just because shopping carts were a huge hit doesn't mean that whatever you're trying to push wi
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
> People using the Nokia 3210 were very much not anticipating when their phones would get good, they were already a killer app. That they improved was icing on the cake. It always bugs me whenever I hear someone defend some new tech (blo
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
The thing that any "voting against their best interests" critique misses is that most people are willing to vote "against their best interest" if they feel like it's the morally correct thing to do. Like, I'm a
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
That's because the regenerative braking is applied on the brake pedal, not by lifting up the accelerator. My '14 Prius has a dashboard option to show how much of the regenerative breaking capacity is being used, and it's very
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
This is something that's always baffled me about Teslas. I have a Prius, and regenerative breaking being tied to the break pedal is easy and intuitive. It also means I can easily lift my foot of the gas pedal to coast. IDK it just seem
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
The initial beta design had so many obvious issues that it's wild that it made it as far as it did. Hell, the readability of many UI elements was obviously terrible in the initial reveal, where you'd expect everything to be shown
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by ARandumGuy 1y ago
Any cost/benefit analysis of whether to use AI has to factor in the fact that AI companies aren't even close to making a profit, and are primarily funded by investment money. At some point, either the cost to operate these AI mode

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