I'm like median on Metro, ~60 hours over years (though perhaps just the one hour, 60x, &c). Never too late to learn some strategy, I guess. Never played Motorways.

Crazy to think we'd pay for software, ask for source to run a Fortify scan & whatnot, and get told to kick rocks. "Proprietary ... trade secrets ... &c&c". Just mark it green

> Fira Code uses uniform length for +, =, and -. - and _ share similar length. The /\ characters join together and render smaller compared to the other fonts.

This "joining" is a ligatures thing, I'm almost certain, at least for `<>`. I can't for the life of me get anything on macOS to render `/\` as joined, though. Stumped. I've no preference either way, it's just weird to see a familiar font rendered so strangely. Maybe it's a Windows font rendering thing ?

A very fair comparison, though I'd argue legibility isn't always worthwhile; the MICR (?) fonts on checks are quite legible (perhaps machine-legible) but too weird to use.

also, TIL IntelliJ bundles Fira Code for quite some time now

FWIW I'm only really familiar with the American usual.

I wonder about this part. I think it's probably still true for the "main" station, like full 1080i for 9-1, but the "extra" stations like -2, -3 ... -6 are usually noticeably compressed.

From my limited understanding, all the extras are sharing the same bandwidth, and more channels = more ads, so it's more like 1080i + 5x 480i. Some channels will look 1080i on both -1 and -2, then maybe 720i on -3.

I don't live near an ATSC 3.0 station, but it would be cool to get 4K/2160p. Soon ... (naturally, I'm curious)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_3.0

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ATSC_3.0_television_st...

Maybe Pemulis gave Hal an obviously wrong derivative, and when uncorrected, drove Pemulis to abruptly end the tutoring. Maybe Pemulis said it right but Hal heard it wrong. Or...

Maybe it's "just" another sign they're in an alternate universe where even the math is different. That's pretty much how I feel about it

I think folks are averse to "world time" (for reasons, largely inertial), so maybe the baby step is try 1 timezone per country (like China's done for .. 75 years ?).

I'd even argue Local Time has only ~4 useful times: dawn, daytime, dusk, & nighttime. Where I grew up, the parks closed at dusk every day. Nobody complained

If I take a walk at 7:05:35 PM every day, it seems very precise but doesn't indicate whether I need sunglasses or a flashlight. It's meaningless precision, like 0.6235 slices of pizza. If I'm coordinating a walk with you, I might as well use UTC: it still won't tell light from dark, but at least nobody'll be waiting for an hour due to DST. It'd make more sense to schedule our walk at `1 hour before dusk`, or "just" settle for UTC, IMO.

I'd like to know how many tokens you can get out of the larger models especially (using Ollama + Open WebUI on Docker Desktop, or LM Studio whatever). I'm probably not upgrading GPU this year, but I'd appreciate an anecdotal benchmark.

  - gemma3:12b
  - phi4:latest (14b)
  - qwen2.5:14b [I get ~3 t/s on all these small models, acceptably slow]

  - qwen2.5:32b [this is about my machine's limit; verrry slow, ~1 t/s]
  - qwen2.5:72b [beyond my machine's limit, but maybe not yours]

I bet a lot of people picture the default set on Chess dot com. I find it very hard to adjust to new sets, for whatever reason.

As far as real pieces, I picture plastic pieces & vinyl board. Either what I'd call the "triple-weighted set" [3] (my favorite), the plastic "Dreuke set" [4], or the "basic USCF set" [5].

I had no idea there were so many variations, especially in the last 100 years. Most I've never seen before. I still dislike the real abstract/bauhaus style but there's a lot of artistry in the sets.

[1] on lichess, it's called "companion"

[2] on lichess, it's called "leipzig"

[3] https://www.chessset.com/collections/weighted-chess-pieces-h...

[4] Player's Choice, like https://www.wholesalechess.com/reproduction-of-the-drueke-pl...

[5] https://www.uscfsales.com/single-weighted-regulation-plastic...

Q: what's your ideal way to write Unicode characters clearly? In the W3C/XML spec they'll have stuff like [#x200C-#x200D] but I have no idea what those are, without like a dictionary on hand. Points for specificity, but it doesn't scream "readable".

Your point about standards-not-publicly-available is unfortunately similar to, well, laws. In some areas, "the laws" themselves are not public (!) though perhaps it's a digression better to not get into

pedantically, s/unabiguously/unambiguously/g

My guess is collectors that'll buy at almost any price. Some knives from the '80s that used to cost $25 are simply eye-watering today (well past 10x).

Yours has a much smoother aesthetic, though I could go for either

[1] https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=44.2705&lon=-7...

Uh, is this true ?

I feel like there's been plenty of asking as to why Oregon schools are as bad as they are. Going back 10 years. Hell, maybe 30+ years. It's not a secret. I've never felt we-can't-talk-about-it, as the author claims.

I'm glad Mississippi is making progress, but a lot of the article reads like a straw man (or, weirdly, a reading comprehension test)

Exactly. I asked my Gemma how long of a quote it could give me of a given book, if I were the author & gave express permission, and I was a bit surprised it readily admitted it could

> Without Permission (Current Limit): Single sentence.

> With Broad Permission (Full Reproduction Allowed): I could theoretically quote the entire book.

Eye-opening (for me, at least).

The players do not seem to mind. At all. Basically a non-issue for 99%.

I'm not terribly surprised so many here find kernel anti-cheat "unacceptable" or "ridiculous" or whatever, but there's just no there there. Microsoft has kernel access: are they selling my stuff, too ? I don't pay for Firefox: are they auctioning off my passwords? I guess it's fun to speculate; I can make unfalsifiable claims all day

> you're not always going to have a calculator in your pocket was the old fib, now it's s/calculator/llama/

So much of education when I was growing up was pointless box-checking, I'm a little satisfied that, finally, LLMs might swing the pendulum back towards valuable work. If any assignment an LLM could handle is limited to 10%, and 90% of the final grade is determined by oral exams, that seems positive.

Is "2x4" equal to 4 + 4, or 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 ? There's only one correct answer! "You ... pick up that can" wow such learning

If LLMs love to produce 3-bullet-point-bold-font copypasta, it's probably because it's the exact varietal of crap that garnered so many upvotes on Quora. Why would I be asked to write a 500-word essay when 50 words would suffice? Maybe let's move beyond regurgitation & rote drudgery

So if I rate Feature Film I II & III as 30 50 70, and you rate them 70 80 90, we would basically "agree". It's a neat system that I wish other rating systems would use.

[1] https://www.criticker.com/