I guess technically it’s the Anglicized French transliteration of the Algonquian name that stuck. Why that happened has more to do with the French-Indian war.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River#History

The whole thing is called the Mississippi river because it was the first to be discovered and named, and the French name stuck (I forgot what the Spanish called it but that name didn’t stick)

I am however going to fire off a half assed prompt when the marginal cost is zero, even if I don’t use it (which is par for the course, I probably throw out two thirds of anything the AI writes anyway be it code or prose).

But my Claude Max subscription? If I have any of my limit left the day of my reset, I’ll go and fire off research workflows with a bunch of parallel agents to explore whatever dumb ideas I had the past week. And there’s a 50:50 chance I’ll forget about it and never read the output.

I believe you, but like I said, you’re complaining about price discrimination not shrinkflation. Either due to regional cultural differences or because your grocery store has so little competition they can charge a lot more, or you’re going to an expensive store out of habit or convenience (which is why my local grocery store can charge $5.99).

$7 sounds like what I’d pay at my neighborhood liquor store, not Walmart or Costco.

Viral stories generally don’t come with any maths at all.

The problem isn’t that people on HN have a bias, I feel it’s pretty balanced. The problem is that when there are any sides, they spend the top 100 comments rehashing the same arguments, often over a political bugbear or web design faux pas.

That pattern became a lot more obvious when there are five new front page AI posts a day.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42205856

The perennial question is, have you gotten any actual work done or are you now just configuring Codex Desktop?

> Then the seams became my job.

Has Codex started overusing “seam” too? I thought that was a Claude-ism.

Really the AI generated title image should have given it away. Shame on me I guess.

The peptidyl transferase center that helps form the main catalytic binding site [2] on ribosomes is so conserved that it’s immediate ancestors could predate protein synthesis altogether (it’s made of RNA instead of amino acids). Some like the Hilstone H4 protein mutate so slowly that there’s a two amino acid difference out of 102 across complex multicellular organisms, so it’s thought to be critical for gene expression. Then there are ultraconserved non-coding elements which haven’t changed all even though they seem to be unexpressed introns.

There’s lots more like that, many of them used to align sequences so we can actually compare genetics across species.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conserved_sequence

[2] This is what uses the 3’UTR to know when to terminate the protein sequence.

The cool kids (nerds) later just used Pidgin or whatever, but I remember that era as being the first intense competition over the internet. Probably says more about my age than anything else.

I worked on multiple projects modifying Chromium and V8 a decade ago, and the GP matches my experience exactly. Absolute mountains of dev time just tracking the latest release and what we wanted to do wasn’t limited to one module or subsystem.

Now living permanently with a spouse it has settled on a higher frequency than I remember before moving out on my own. Weird stuff.

You should absolutely keep stretching to help with your injury, and there is decades of “sport science” to back that up.

[1] https://www.cochrane.org/evidence/CD004577_stretching-preven... - there’s another one about joint deformities which is far more interesting, but less relevant to this discussion

Everyone involved still pays their taxes, but the special purpose vehicle used to organize the production is essentially a passthrough entity.

People still eat junglefowl (ancestor of chickens) and wild boar (pig), but in the developed world domesticated animals are usually both cheaper and tastier.

California/New York prices are easily $0.75/cigg so it’s not that much more expensive.