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by czinck 2mo ago
Prescribed burns are a good tool, but they're not a silver bullet. Because of the decades without fires, there's so much debris that fires burn incredibly hot, so you either need people to go in and thin the debris (this is actual
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by czinck 3mo ago
The study was published in May 2025, and then revised in March 2026. It's based on data through December 2024, so virtually useless for saying anything about today. Given that, I actually think the conclusions of the article are backwa
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by czinck 4mo ago
Note: the title of the paper is "Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools", which is 10 characters too long.
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Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: Productivity Effects Across AI Tool Generations(nber.org)
3 points by czinck 4mo ago|1 comments
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by czinck 5mo ago
I asked Claude Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3 Thinking, and Gemini 3 Fast "Tell me about the Siberian marmoset" exactly and all 4 said it doesn't exist, with Gemini Thinking suggesting that I'm thinking of the Siberian m
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by czinck 6mo ago
Yes, winters are getting worse and worse, but this year was really bad, way worse than any predictions. I was in Park City in February and there was so little snow it looked like summer, and that was before the streak of warm and dry weathe
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by czinck 1y ago
In addition to the current supply constraint keeping prices high, mortgages being fixed rate means higher interest rates don't really drive prices down (although lower interest rates do drive prices up). If you have a mortgage for $600
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by czinck 2y ago
For what it's worth, that's already a thing in NYC. NYC shares the ticket revenue for illegally idling vehicles with the reporter, and so some people have made 6 figures in one year reporting idling vehicles[1]. There was a push t
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by czinck 2y ago
There's an interstate that runs entirely within one county, in Maryland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_97
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by czinck 2y ago
Most of the inflation from the last 4 years is attributable to Russia invading Ukraine. You can't have the largest natural gas exporter and second largest oil exporter invade one of the largest grain exporters without causing basically
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by czinck 2y ago
To put a name on this, it's the Baumol effect, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect . Essentially, as productivity increases in most industries (from automation), it drives up labor costs in the industries
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by czinck 2y ago
This is a cry for help, not some myopic bureaucrat thinking they're clever. Most of the USFS budget goes to forest fires (both fighting them and prevention), up from 16% 30 years ago, and they're now saying just fighting the fires
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by czinck 2y ago
Yeah, I think this leads to some of the misconceptions about Brutalism. People think of the violent and aggressive connotations of the word, when it really just means "raw" like unpainted, or more accurately as opposed to the scul
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by czinck 3y ago
Because of that, all ski resorts on US public land aren't actually "exclusive". A lift ticket just buys you access to the lifts, you can hike up during the winter or summer, with restrictions during the winter mainly around e
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by czinck 3y ago
Yes, an undercover cop (or anyone) putting a gun to your head is not entrapment, it's duress.
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by czinck 3y ago
On top of what everyone else said about how they make money, lots of climbers at this level live outrageously frugally and so can easily save up. Marc-Andre Leclerc lived in a stairwell[0], and their dinners are rice and beans or "what
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by czinck 3y ago
Microsoft has $80 B in cash and cash equivalents, Alphabet has $30 B in cash and cash equivalents, Apple has $30 B. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MSFT/balance-sheet/ https://finance.yahoo.com&#x2
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by czinck 3y ago
As zwieback said, a lot of the dams just aren't that useful, for a bunch of reasons but biggest is that they're just too small. On top of that, at least for the Washington dams I'm more familiar with, the power generation doe
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by czinck 3y ago
How are you defining crossover? Not body-on-frame or more like the "lifted sedan/hatchback" like the Subaru Crosstrek or Mazda CX-30? If looking for body-on-frame, your options are really just Rivian (R1T or S1T) or F150 Ligh
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by czinck 3y ago
True, and I didn't mean to imply it was. I was just thinking of things Americans say because of the British that the British no longer do, wasn't thinking America-exclusive things.
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by czinck 3y ago
Rhoticity is the big one I know. Parts of Britain started dropping the R before 1776, but it became more widespread after that. The US port cities (most notably Boston, but it was also a class difference) had enough contact with Britain tha
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by czinck 3y ago
Reddit's problems aren't because of their technology, it's product decisions. Yeah, sure, maybe all their devs suck, but it was managements decision to create the abomination of their new layout to be more instagram-like. Dev
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by czinck 3y ago
No, it's very obvious. There is some audiophile tendencies at the very expensive end of the espresso home setups, but there's a pretty noticeable difference between a good shot and the same shot ground ever so slightly finer. Beca
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by czinck 3y ago
>But at this level, where glacier starts, its already the dreaded temperature they want to avoid, so glaciers should be melting from the bottom with this logic. Yes, that's generally what happens to glaciers even ignoring climate ch
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by czinck 4y ago
The conclusion of the article seems wrong, or at least the stated facts don't support the conclusion. >the caffeine won’t bind forever, and the adenosine that it blocks doesn’t go away. So eventually the caffeine breaks down, lets g
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by czinck 4y ago
Dollar slices aren't just a slice of pizza for a dollar, they're a different business model focusing on just sheer volume. Joe's has at least 3 employees (cashier, guy taking your order and reheating the slice, and guy making
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by czinck 4y ago
> the only operator on its own tracks Amtrak only owns ~630 miles of tracks out of the 21,000 it uses, and basically all of that 630 is in the North East. This is definitely Amtrak's best area, although that's partially because
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by czinck 4y ago
There's a lag in the index, but in August (most recent data available) housing prices were down 0.7% month over month, and 0.6% the month before https://www.fhfa.gov/AboutUs/Reports/Pages/US-House-Price-I
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by czinck 4y ago
Not true jeans, and you'll pay for the durability, but Outlier comes up occasionally amongst bike commuters. I wore my strong dungarees (now replaced with bomb dungarees but different fit and material) to bike to dinner dates many time
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by czinck 4y ago
It's called "Supreme" because it can hear trials about anything, as opposed to things like traffic court. Definitely confusing, but it's also significantly older than the US Constitution, so I can't fault whoever na

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