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by twoodfin 7mo ago
“Fake but accurate.” ProPublica has an agenda, and they slant their reporting to push it. You can like their agenda and support this effort, but it’s not journalism.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Frontier models have gotten much better at ObjectScript (the InterSystems evolution of MUMPS/M). Palindrome: https://chatgpt.com/s/t_69bc8d8c116c8191a339a33f0fbcc935 This is a noticeable improvement from a year ag
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
How are income taxes a serious burden on “people who likely need it the most”? Those who truly need it the most are typically well into the plus column on government transfer payments: On net, the government is paying them far more than the
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
The IRS has no idea of (for example) your primary residence or whether you’ve been attending a degree program. It’s a lot like the old saw about Microsoft Excel: No one uses more than 20% of the features, but everyone uses a different 20%.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
You don’t have to be wealthy: Homes get a step up basis on inheritance like any other capital asset, and home equity loans are quite popular. Less common but not obscure financial options include borrowing against your 401(k) or other equit
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
We used to pay for things - including the news. The clear issue is that the working class have (since 1970s but especially since the financial crisis) tolerated having their inflation adjusted incomes degraded so there is no longer the mon
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The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild(youtube.com)
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Ignoring optimization opportunities until you see the profile only works when you actually profile! Profiling never achieved its place in most developers’ core loop the way that compiling, linting, or unit testing did. How many real CI&#x2F
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
How are those Chinese EV makers doing financially, anyway? https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/11/china-elec...
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
It’s really good for clinicians and their paychecks, too.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Indeed. The US has something around 4X the number of MRI scanners per capita compared to Canada. That’s an insane figure for what has become a baseline diagnostic tool.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Why is that inherently bad? Should I be able to buy fire insurance on pre-existing embers?
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Say what you will about Joss Whedon, but his use of a colorful character palette & quirky, punchy style of dialog have gone from niche to mainstream in the 30+ years since Buffy . Mostly thanks to Whedon’s and his imitators’ escalating
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
The only value—and it’s significant—that a fixed-tools protocol like MCP can provide is to serve as the capability base for an embedded agent security model. The agent can only perform the operations it has been expressly given tools to per
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
We are also still manufacturing more in constant-$ value than we ever have, we just use a lot fewer person-hours/$ to do it. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USMANRGSP
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
That’s 122,000 out of a labor force size of 170 million!! Yes, month to month you have large absolute error bars vs. the monthly delta, but being an imperfect monthly barometer of labor force momentum is only the headline use of the establi
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Indeed, I was agreeing that the XML ecosystem as currently constituted has all the problems necovek pointed out. But the W3C might have made some different choices in what to prioritize—notably, identifying a common “XML: The Good Parts” pr
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Much of XML’s complexity derives from either the desire to be round-trip compatible with any number of existing character and data encodings or the desire to be largely forward-compatible with SGML. A parser that only had to support a speci
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Usually companies that have a fantastic, growing business model don’t sell to PE. I also don’t like it when a money-losing business stops giving me below-market pricing.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Why did the phone provider sell to a private equity firm?
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Dammit. “Helping with prose” sounds like “getting a better grade from my English teacher”. The quality of your prose is important because it increases the effective bandwidth between your thoughts and the reader. Either the coherent thoug
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
I’d guess some of that is accounting for taxes on profit they’ll now have to pay that otherwise would have been deductible if spent on salaries for R&D?
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Let’s not kid ourselves: Every day, multiple “I just asked the LLM to clean up my notes” posts are voted up to the front page here, often with highly engaged, appreciative comment sections. LLM’s for all their faults are well-trained to pro
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Hmm? x86 has supported much larger “huge” page sizes for ages.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Sure, my work got a few of the Niagaras too and they were tremendous build machines for Solaris software. But if you’re judging an ISA by performance scalability, you generally want to look at single-threaded performance.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
In single-threaded performance? That’s not how I remember it: Sun was pushing parallel throughput over everything else, with designs like the T-Series & Rock.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
I am a big fan of both films, and have over many years come to the firm conclusion that, while 2010: The Year We Make Contact could never live up to its best-films-of-all-time predecessor, it’s both a terrific film on its own merits and c
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
If the platform, power train, manufacturing is commoditized, shouldn’t that in theory be great news for existing brands with consumer trust and design competence?
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
I think you’re discounting the embedding model, which opens up many interesting use cases for WASM.

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