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Yossarrian22··on Claims of disability are highest at elite universities
Are there an allotted number of Jainists?
Yossarrian22··on Something Big Is Coming (Annotated by Ed Zitron) [pdf]
Link?
Yossarrian22··on Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?
Thanks Lord Kelvin
Yossarrian22··on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
I see an ad for a product I bought and it makes me worried I got scammed. The usual offender is Peak Design.
Yossarrian22··on The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75
How are you expecting this to be used for crowd control without the risk of a person falling down without being able to arrest their fall?
Yossarrian22··on Why poor countries stopped catching up
Why would anyone waste their time dialoguing with anyone who can't label their x and y axes and provide their data sources in csv form>
Yossarrian22··on My five stages of AI grief
Is there any non-pro-AI position that couldn’t be construed as being part of a stage of grief?
Yossarrian22··on Two kinds of AI users are emerging
For a 4 GHz CPU that’s 4 failures a second..
Yossarrian22··on [dead]
A faraday cage is different than your hand attenuating your phone signal
Yossarrian22··on The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)
Good old thermodynamic beta
Yossarrian22··on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
Vine was around then
Yossarrian22··on Banning Things for Other People Is Easy
Is there a statistic for anything that proves causation? I’m trying to think how you would do that as a number and not a logical argument
Yossarrian22··on LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
He’s not saying there is a hard wall he’s saying there’s a point where we’ll need new techniques or technologies not just refine the current one. Less of a hard barrier like the speed of light than an innovative one like creating artificial ammonia to make industrial amounts of fertilizer to support increasing crop amounts
Yossarrian22··on Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20
No, Graydon Hoare took one look at the config code, went “fuck this” and decided to create a new language instead.
Yossarrian22··on Millennium Challenge: A corrupted military exercise and its legacy (2015)
The Miracle of the House of Brandenburg is the closest example I can think of
Yossarrian22··on Parental controls aren't for parents
Until the school assigns online homework, homework that takes 3 hours a night
Yossarrian22··on Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams
I predict by the very next semester students still be weaponizing Reasonable Accommodation requests against any further attempts at this
Yossarrian22··on The sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes
Uber for squatter kickers
Yossarrian22··on UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating
Time to employ Van Eck phreaking, Morse code, and a chess aiding device
Yossarrian22··on UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating
As someone who did well in Calculus and had engaging instructors I’m not sure I’d call any of the textbooks well written. That being said I doubt AI’s ability to be enlightening to any student tackling PDEs or vector calculus
Yossarrian22··on Qntm's Power Tower Toy
Wait! The ending is improved in the new version!?
Yossarrian22··on Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together
Nobody is dogfooding the non-AI versions of autocomplete anymore is my best guess
Yossarrian22··on Could lockfiles just be SBOMs?
How does that work for high complexity dependencies like compression or cryptography? If HL7 wouldn’t catch xzutils is it really adding anything?
Yossarrian22··on Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title
I’ll always think of my fellow excel wizards as sheet heads thanks to this video
Yossarrian22··on We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars
I need to try Ignore All Previous Instructions on the next nepohire I meet
Yossarrian22··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
Major “prediction market” scandal

Someone is busted falsifying a race horse’s pedigree to hide use of a cloned sire.

Entropy increases

Putin dies, significant palace intrigue follows, but the war in Ukraine continues on unfortunately.

Yossarrian22··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
Before they changed their ToS to allow selling my data I had spent the last 2 decades with telemetry disabled and adblocker installed
Yossarrian22··on “Are you the one?” is free money
I think you could do some form of Bayesian analysis with the prior being how likely each contestant thought that their available partners were "The One" for each other. Then the truth booth would be used to update your priors.
Yossarrian22··on “Are you the one?” is free money
That's because the real game is occurring both before and after the show in modern reality tv competitions. The goal is to be entertaining and get social media followers and potential invites to further reality tv shows.
Yossarrian22··on South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity
The word “some” is doing some heavy lifting there
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