TimorousBestie

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by TimorousBestie 2mo ago
I do believe the “we have to strip voting rights from the poor in order to save the poor” framing expressed in this thread is new, however.
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by TimorousBestie 2mo ago
> Why is it pointless to inform and remind others about what Israel did in the region? It’s the act of comment warring that is pointless. [X/Y] partisans are not intellectually curious about statements coming from a [Y/X] parti
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
Both.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
Yep, can confirm. I was aggressively recruited for education as a math undergrad. There was no way that was going to happen, too many people view male teachers as inherently predatory.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
To your point about high humidity exacerbating heat, I think it’s relevant to consider wet bulb globe temperatures (WBGT) instead of air temperature. It’s more objective than heat index or the ad hoc “feels like” metrics. Above 30-35C WBGT,
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
The document says more about the kind of advisor Moh was than the kind of mathematician Zhang is.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
If you’re interested, I found https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09814v1 to beat Strassen for medium-sized and larger covariance matrices. YMMV of course. Takes a little adjustment for XX^H but it’s not so bad.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
In addition, he was riffing on Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon, a hub-and-spoke style prison design with a single guard at the hub observing the prisoners in each spoke. 1984 imagines a telecom-enabled nationwide panopticon, which made for good
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
I would like to see him try, yes.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
> Should they cook our food too? Unironically, also GP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559004 > > The bad food is a plus. The most orderly civilizations generally have the blandest food. Almost all societie
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
Seems pretty straightforward to implement a rule saying siblings go to the same district by default. I’m sure there are a bunch of edge cases, but the assignment process doesn’t have to be totally random.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
> I'm personally in favor of abolishing public school districts, precisely so that the location of a house is no longer a major deciding factor in where any children in that household attend school. Setting aside the inevitable tran
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
> Nathan J. Robinson actually said the quiet part out loud a couple years ago, when he wrote in Current Affairs (a relatively high-profile American leftist periodical) a long defense of suburban NIMBYism. If we’re thinking about the same
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
It didn’t change my opinion, which matches OP’s.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
And if you flag/downvote AI content (or any other class of content) too consistently, you’ll find your flags and downvotes quickly become ineffective. So the guidelines are in some sense a red herring.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
It is an excellent comic. It’s a pity bowel disrupters aren’t real, they would certainly keep scrum from running over time.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
As you remind us all once or twice a day. The two things aren’t mutually exclusive, of course.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
> This approach is the perfect "the richer get richer" inequality engine that would run things even faster than our current system (which works pretty well already). That’s the idea. Lawyers accustomed to the patronage of wealt
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
I believe economic growth is important to improve the lives of citizens who struggle to obtain the means of subsistence, but beyond that I don’t really see the point. Growth becomes actively harmful when it exacerbates wealth inequality. Us
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
Axler’s _Linear Algebra Done Right_ should get you at least part of the way there, content-wise, depending on what other math background you have. As for reading math papers in general, it’s mostly a process of stepping through it increment
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
I don’t get paid to do my job and then also the submitter’s job.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
> If you're getting code without tests to review in a PR, that should be an instant reject without even looking at the code. Management didn’t like that the last time I was assigned a AI-gen PR and I like my job otherwise.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
> You are doing it wrong. I didn’t write any of it. I occasionally get assigned PRs written (or not, in this case) by other devs. > Claude can generate tests and verify the code better than humans now. It certainly didn’t do that in t
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
> Claude and Codex are now generating all my code for me now, and I see them spitting out SVD code frequently -- often for very special cases. I find this so annoying. I had to PR some Claude-generated gaussian elimination routine last m
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
> And yes progress is good progress. Many weapons designers thought they were making war “more humane” by creating weapons that killed faster and more decisively. Haber, on chemical warfare: “The gas weapons are not at all more cruel tha
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
> The lord of the rings on Amazon isn’t otherwise great. That really underscores how bad the author’s “drama requires moral ambiguity” argument is. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power did everything it could to inject moral ambigui
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
I have very little sympathy for “You couldn’t write X today” arguments. Here, X is The Wire. There is a spiritual successor to The Wire: 2022’s miniseries We Own This City. Same complicated representation of Baltimore. Same complicated repr
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
Your description of the DSA is completely unrecognizable from my experience at local DSA meetings. Nobody in my area cares much about Israel (outside of the handful of months between Biden dropping out and Harris losing, I can’t recall it c
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
It’s not only Republicans getting contributions from Big Egg.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
> I thought it was very interesting, but maybe also incredibly naive politically ? it's like he's re-discovering alienation under capitalism. To be fair, a number of professional politicians and political scientists don’t under

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