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It's wild to get a glimpse into the bubbles some people live in

The abrupt shift to LLM slop halfway through is jarring and disgusting to read.

Just don't. Your older posts are perfectly fine and much preferable to the most recent two.

The AI prose is painful.

And? John is not a shortened name.

I've been on public WiFi that blocked UDP (except for DNS to their local server). No sites require HTTP3 to function so it's not disruptive to a normal user.

> without needing so much as a simple majority confirmation vote in the House or Senate

This is intentional. Pardons are part of the checks and balances against the legislative branch.

It did introduce ambiguity though. Without the comma it is 100% clear that sentence lists 3 people.

If they are not on PEDs, yes.

Apple pages are _completely_ unusable because of this. If I go to product page I am unable to navigate it to extract information about the product. I give up and leave.

https://www.apple.com/macbook-neo/

Try to skim this page to get a sense of how much information is on the page. You can't. 90% of the scroll time is stuck in useless animations.

Every time you scroll down you have to wait for the page to render. We've somehow recreated the dialup experience with single page apps.

Your brain is trained on how scrolling works on 95% of pages. Breaking that patterns causes tons of cognitive overhead. You now have to do a double-take every scroll action when you just want to absorb the contents of the page.

Not really. The equilibrium of removing daylight savings will result in schedules somewhere between DST and Standard Time. This just gets you there faster.

The trade off of having 30-minute time zone offsets probably isn't worth it, but this solution isn't immediately "stupid."

Seriously. This page terrible with multiple annoying rendering delays, and I'm supposed to care about helping their RSS feeds load faster?

Are you seriously comparing a random hacker to a lifelong academic for their odds of becoming a crypto shill?

Do you think the submitter intended this as an ad? His post history doesn't seem suspicious.

Or do you think article's author wrote this an an ad? He's a reputable academic who seems impressed with an AI tool he used and is honestly sharing his thoughts.

For reference he published the 80 page inflation mini-book 2 weeks ago asking for feedback: https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/inflation

There are times when an em dash can be used in place of a semicolon, but I don't think that's the usual LLM usage. Instead it's replacing a replacing a comma, colon, or period.

Unless you're talking about restructuring your sentences to allow for a semicolon; that's fine.

For example that semicolon could have been an em dash, but I don't think it's the type that LLMs over favor.

It's hard to take complaints about UI consistency seriously when the cursor is changed for no reason at all (with a barely-different hover state, too).

And a GDP 2/3 the size. And way less than that by disposable income.

Even users from "rich" EU countries are worth ~30% of a US user to most companies.

But that's undefined behavior, so the compiler is free to ignore that possibility.

For context this article was written when 95%+ of websites used HTTP 1.1 (and <50% used HTTPS).

You must never drive on a curvy roads then. Every car I driven waits until the approaching car is fully around the corner, blinding them for a full second before dimming, instead recognizing the headlights around the corner and dimming earlier.

That's running 5 miles a day. Everyday. That takes months of training for an already fit young person to build up to.

90 minutes of extra walking is a lot of time to offset a snack that could be eaten in 1 minute.

The in-memory solution creates a 2nd copy of the data so 50GB doesn't fit in memory anymore. The kernel is forced to drop and then reload part of the cached file.

I actually can't tell. The majority of these are literally examples of bad regulations. They have mass appeal without care for 2nd order effects.

The top of the page is a banner rallying against a regulation that would fit right in on the page.

And the fact that the site is a laggy mess just makes it a bit surreal.

Despite the title, the article doesn't talk about "iffy internet" at all. It's all about "slightly slow" internet which is a complete non-issue except for large downloads (e.g. modern games).

Congested and/or weak wifi and cell service are what "iffy" is about. Will a page _eventually_ load if I wait long enough? Or are there 10 sequential requests, 100KBs each, that all have succeed just to show me 2 sentences of text?

The dummy "loading" grey boxes it shows are still this size. Such a great "user experience."

"Is the parcel in the geographical bounds of the city name entered?"

The "city name" on an address isn't really a "city". SFO's address is "San Francisco, CA", but is not within SF city limits.

Queens NY addresses have "cities" that are just neighborhoods.

Applying any kind of logic to addresses will just be a minefield.

In some ways, yes. "Changing clocks" is the easiest it's ever been. We should be looking into changing them more often, not less. Two levels of daylight savings might be better than 1.

But on the other hand I think having the same sunrise time every day is actually pretty bad from a coordination perspective. Instead of everybody having a fraction of their year have an unfavorable sunrise, you will lock people into having either a light or dark commute.

Everybody will want to start their jobs at the same time making congestion worse. "Support jobs" (e.g. opening the store before "regular" business hours) will be permanently in the dark for their commute.

You can download your Tinder and Hinge swipe/like stats, so it's likely accurate.

The sad part is that this what "success" looks like. The funnel looks way worse for most guys.

Nope. The 1st Amendment (as currently interpreted at least) doesn't protect non-citizens against deportation. See Harisiades v. Shaughnessy

Nothing on that page supports what your claim.

In reality even permanent residents could be deported for what would be 1st Amendment protected activity for citizens.

In Harisiades v. Shaughnessy the deportation of legal residents for membership in the Communist party was upheld as Constitutional. This hasn't been overturned or narrowed and remains good law today.

Whether current immigration law allows for this I don't know, but this isn't a 1st Amendment issue based on current precedent.