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achates··on Simply Parse in C
A good reason to always build with warnings as errors.
achates··on Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
They've studied it extensively already. Twin adoption studies have conclusively proven that intelligence is mostly genetic with environment playing a small role.
achates··on Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
Does putting marginal students in advanced classes actually help them?
achates··on S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’
It would also be more efficient if everyone lived in boarding houses and huddled together for warmth in the winter instead of using a heater. Fortunately we were born into a wealthy society with technology that lets us produce all the energy we need so we can optimize for things like comfort, convenience and quality of life instead of focusing purely on efficiency.
achates··on C++23: The Next C++ Standard
I'd prefer MultiplyVecs(v1, v2) + MultiplyVecs(v3, v4) myself. Makes it easy to jump to the function definition and see exactly what's going on.
achates··on Charter schools, social norming and zero-sum games (2010)
Politicians have been claiming they're going to fix public schools for my entire adult life and haven't made an inch of progress in that time. We need to abandon the delusion that there's one weird trick (that doctors hate) to fix public schools and instead move to a different system.
achates··on Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis with Traffic Cones
Yeah I don't get this either. I can't believe a $10 angle grinder from harbor freight wouldn't do the job.
achates··on WI governor gets creative with veto, increases school funding for 400 years
If you click the title of the post it takes you to an article where you can read the context instead of having to speculate.

>Wisconsin governors have expansive partial veto power, and Evers got creative with his use of it in this budget. He crafted the four-century school aid extension by striking a hyphen and a "20" from a reference to the 2024-25 school year. The increase of $325 per student is the highest single-year increase in revenue limits in state history.

achates··on C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)
Wouldn't you have to define a new struct type for every function return type?
achates··on H-1B fraud consultancies grow, with application abuse openly discussed online
Or even just straight up auction them off to the highest bidder and the government keeps the money. Then you don't have to keep track of their salary or hours once they're here.
achates··on Workers with less experience gain the most from generative AI
The study in the article was on call center workers so I wouldn't necessarily expect it to scale to more complex tasks.
achates··on Drugmakers are abandoning cheap generics
I illegally smuggled medication that I needed in from Canada when I didn't have health insurance in college. I had a prescription but couldn't afford US prices.
achates··on Has Xbox lost the console wars?
>The team consisted of an engineering manager, an engineer, a designer, an APM, and me.

I feel for that lone engineer with 4 people breathing down the back of his neck.

achates··on Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
I cancelled Prime and got Walmart+. They have all the same cheap crap Amazon does plus grocery delivery.
achates··on 53% of parents say climate change affects their decision to have more kids
Political opinions are moderately heritable in general, not sure about CC specifically.
achates··on Swiss approve net-zero climate law
I don't know about Switzerland but a lot of dams in the US are highly seasonal and also restrict output for flood control or irrigation purposes.
achates··on Gitless: A simple VCS built on top of Git
The command line is really unintuitive. Like using 'checkout -b' to create a branch but 'branch -D' to delete one.
achates··on ESP32-C3 Wireless Adventure: A Comprehensive Guide to IoT [pdf]
They do have example Matter projects for the ESP32-C3/S3. I assume it's over WiFi and not thread.

https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip/tree/master/...

achates··on Tipping in the United States has gotten out of control
I've never seen a study but Planet Money interviewed some waiters back in the day and they all said the trick to making a lot in tips is turning over tables as fast as possible.
achates··on Tipping in the United States has gotten out of control
I agree but I just want to know the price up front. If they have to sell the sandwich for $12 then put $12 on the sign, don't put $9 and then try to pressure me into a $3 tip.
achates··on Is liberalism digging its own demographic grave? (2022)
Hardly unique, Israel and Ireland both had high birth rates at the same time as the USSR while being richer. Plus the USSR had the Muslim republics inflating their numbers, those are still the highest birth rate regions of Russia today.
achates··on I'm afraid I can't do that: Prompt refusal in generative language models
How convenient that it's morally ok to make jokes about groups I don't like but not about groups I do like. It's fortunate that this principle cleaves those two groups so precisely.
achates··on Pixar reportedly conducts rare layoffs
It sounds nice to keep failing executives around indefinitely while you try to train or mentor them, but in practice the company can't keep losing $100 million a movie and remain in business. Being nice to bad directors means laying off a lot of other people in the long run.
achates··on How to quit cars
Fines only hurt working people. The homeless just ignore them.
achates··on Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton Discusses Stock Updates, Industry Prioritization
Phones fill this niche in the third world.
achates··on Students are increasingly refusing to go to school
I think the evidence that school is extremely important is weak at best. For example, students who don't learn any math until 5th grade caught up to their peers by 6th grade: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/freedom-learn/2010...

There have been other studies where students who had to miss large amounts of school due to a natural disaster caught up within a few years and there was no measurable difference in adulthood.

achates··on Students are increasingly refusing to go to school
She should have at least had the decency to give it a Latin name.
achates··on Heart attack deaths drop over past two decades
I would bet that it's more related to older mothers and higher obesity rates.
achates··on Singh proposes corporate tax hike tied to CEO-worker pay gap
I think that's purely a practical question that should be decided by the owners of the company since it's their money at stake.
achates··on Microsoft Freezes Salaries for 2023
Wages are a function of the supply and demand for labor. If the business loses money the employees don't have to chip in money to make up the loss, but on the flip side they don't share in profits.
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