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New comment by Chris2048 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

Chris2048 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:41:29 +0000

Oh, so the slope doesn't need to be plausible?

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Chris2048 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:59:53 +0000

A LoC based valuation probably assume humans writing code and therefor work-hour costs, I'd bet it no longer applies to generated LoCs.

New comment by Chris2048 in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

Chris2048 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:13:16 +0000

But even in this example, the 2ms vs 0.2 is irrelevant - its whatever the timings are for TB-size objects.

So went not compare that case directly? We'd also want to see the performance of the assumed overheads i.e. how it scales.

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Chris2048 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:58:31 +0000

> The goal should be to not affect people's level of dark adaptation.

Wouldn't that be red light? But night scenes illuminated in red light have the side effect of looking nightmarish..

New comment by Chris2048 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

Chris2048 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:47:24 +0000

Presumably you include anyone who worked at any FANG, or Chic-Fila, or Elon-attached corp etc etc?

New comment by Chris2048 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

Chris2048 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:45:34 +0000

I'm not sure what this moralising adds to this conversation, I was talking about hiring practises.

New comment by Chris2048 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

Chris2048 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:37:57 +0000

ok, what's buying milk at a corner shop a slippery slope to?

New comment by Chris2048 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

Chris2048 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:36:57 +0000

That simply describes entropy. I don't know what the example of someone putting a wager on an event represents.

New comment by Chris2048 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

Chris2048 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:01:55 +0000

How does someone with a mere $10 stake have the opportunity to contribute to the cause of a $10mil disaster?

Realistically, they'd have to be far more connected to the event, and as such, far more exposed to some kind of risk.

New comment by Chris2048 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

Chris2048 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:51:08 +0000

> made it clear that anyone who has worked on these products should not be hired

As in, even a dev, HR, etc person having worked for an online gambling company? I feel this may be a slippery slope..

New comment by Chris2048 in "So where are all the AI apps?"

Chris2048 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:45:20 +0000

Wdym by "it does something interesting with Claude code I can't do programmatically"?

New comment by Chris2048 in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

Chris2048 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:39:31 +0000

What would you prefer to use?

New comment by Chris2048 in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

Chris2048 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:23:03 +0000

> The whole point of being an ethical vegan/vegetarian is to not consume animals

You can agree with this sentiment (ideology?) and not be vegan, if you aren't willing to give up meat. giving up meat is what defines this demographic.

Relative to a population of people willing to give up meat, would you assume there is no difference in "liking how plants taste" versus the general population? I'd assume it correlates directly with "willingness to give up meat".

> Health conscious folks would definitely choose these over hamburgers.

Maybe, but in context its a false dichotomy, why wouldn't they pick better substitutes e.g. non-average meat?

New comment by Chris2048 in "Grace Hopper's Revenge"

Chris2048 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:07:31 +0000

> We built objects with identity and state because that’s how we experience reality

I mean, we called them objects, but coupling related state (and functions) together seem an objectively (object-ively) way to group data, it's literally just dict-based organisation.

New comment by Chris2048 in "Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition"

Chris2048 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:29:37 +0000

Even if the id was correct, why would they leave her in jail for 5 months before the first interview and/or court appearance?

New comment by Chris2048 in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

Chris2048 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:06:23 +0000

That's your contention, not mine. Your whole argument was bad.

New comment by Chris2048 in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

Chris2048 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:54:30 +0000

No you haven't but whatever. I have better things to do that argue with pedants.

New comment by Chris2048 in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

Chris2048 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:47:54 +0000

For who and what? Not for the authors of this paper. Not every paper of some technical minutia needs a socio/economic analysis.

New comment by Chris2048 in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

Chris2048 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:34:40 +0000

But that isn't relevant to the point being made. Say "I mention they are black to pander to black supremists" if you wish.

New comment by Chris2048 in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

Chris2048 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:50:24 +0000

Because it's not in scope.