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skyblock500on 1940 Air Terminal Museum Begins Liquidation

Everyone needs a hobby.

skyblock500on Why Japanese companies do so many different things

The 40,000$ of a bespoke coffee table comes from the uniqueness of the manufacturing process. No piece of wood is the same, and the way it is prepared from start to finish differs based on numerous factors.

The price of a computer chip has been lowered so significantly because of the standard process that is used across millions of chips with materials that are 99.999999999% pure.

skyblock500on How did Asterix and Obelix learn to speak fluent Hindi? (2019)

Interesting to see the work that has to go into truly localizing a comic like Asterix and Obelix. There is notes on how the comic strip format does aid in translation, because slapstick humour is rather global. But having to translate expressions that only make sense to a native French speaker is just hard work.

Incredible work from Dipa Chaudhuri and Puneet Gupta!

skyblock500on 1940 Air Terminal Museum Begins Liquidation

I believe that if we all collectively lowball them, they will drop the price to be lower than $20k.

It is unfortunate to see any museum close. I hope their assessment from the Texas Historical Commission succeeds!

skyblock500on 60 Percent of Grades at Harvard Were A's. Enough Is Enough

This sounds like a logically correct assumption.

Does Harvard not take this into account and adjust their courses to actually be of a rigor that challenges students?

skyblock500on 60 Percent of Grades at Harvard Were A's. Enough Is Enough

> "we gave full A’s to over 4,000 students, or more than 49 percent of the people we taught [...] they hadn’t all crossed the threshold of “extraordinary distinction” that the student handbook says a full A is supposed to represent" (Furman and Laibson).

Perhaps we should look into why they received A without actually actually crossing the required threshold, rather than imposing arbitrary percentage limits. From the other side, if they do all demonstrate "extraordinary distinction", why should 29% of them suffer and not receive an A? I don't think the problem here is the number of students receiving A's, but instead what an A actually means.

skyblock500on I’ve joined Anthropic

It feels like every single tweet he makes is a hit

skyblock500on Did we just time-traveled?

Now that you mention it, that makes much more sense than hand rolling date handling.

skyblock500on Did we just time-traveled?

I'm surprised that GitHub actually handles this correctly. Such as saying "tomorrow" and "in 2 days".

skyblock500on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan

No such things as a "Junk" PSP, as this article clearly shows!

skyblock500on O(x)Caml in Space

With the recent direction Mojo has taken, that dark horse sounds more like a pipedream to me

skyblock500on O(x)Caml in Space

If it ain't broke why fix it?