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New comment by tines in "The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention"

tines — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:00:10 +0000

Pretty interesting, but what’s the reason of being for Fil-C?

New comment by tines in "We don't know why Malawi is poor"

tines — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:35:54 +0000

It does:

> Geography. Jeffrey Sachs and others have long argued that geography is destiny: landlocked, tropical, distant-from-markets countries face structural penalties through transport costs, disease burden, and weak agricultural conditions. Malawi has all three. Sure, but the empirical literature pegs the landlocked penalty at about 1% of annual growth. This is meaningful over decades, not enough to close a gap this large in per-capita income. Rwanda is more landlocked than Malawi and has grown faster. Uzbekistan is double-landlocked and has roughly tripled per-capita income since 2000.

Did you even ctrl+f?

New comment by tines in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

tines — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:57:54 +0000

The issue for me is that I seem to really "page out" parts of my life that aren't relevant to the situation I'm in. If I were to sincerely answer the "how are you" question, I would have to pause for ten or twenty seconds to think about how I am, which obviously doesn't fit the interaction. Any tips on how to avoid this? I'm a chronic over-preparer and I've tried to equip myself with answers to every conceivable question and that's just exhausting, so I've wanted to avoid that.

New comment by tines in "To my students"

tines — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:32:13 +0000

This line again.

New comment by tines in "Another Day Has Come"

tines — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:28:02 +0000

That’s a pretty non sequitur. Nobody said he wasn’t concerned with ROI. He’s said that not every decision is based on ROI.

New comment by tines in "AI chatbots could be making you stupider"

tines — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:21:05 +0000

The internet has objectively made life worse, and the people who say it hasn't haven't experienced the alternatives. Many people will never know true joy because of the internet.

New comment by tines in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

tines — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:30:33 +0000

The above posts forgot the word "legitimate" before "monopoly": a state is defined as the entity that has the legitimate monopoly on violence within a defined geographic area. A state can cease to have the legitimate monopoly before they cease to have the monopoly.

New comment by tines in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

tines — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:42:45 +0000

Yeah, that doesn't mean it's not a bad thing.

New comment by tines in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

tines — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:07:42 +0000

TIL!

New comment by tines in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

tines — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:49:28 +0000

Two "insure" typos?

New comment by tines in "Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)"

tines — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:54:14 +0000

We should make it easier for them to suck less. It's like providing free needles. Druggies gonna drug, might as well help them drug safely :)

New comment by tines in "Do your own writing"

tines — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:05:18 +0000

You're being steered without being aware of it.

New comment by tines in "In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far?"

tines — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:03:37 +0000

Sure, applications are necessary, but why will humans do that?

New comment by tines in "In math, rigor is vital, but are digitized proofs taking it too far?"

tines — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:53:39 +0000

But in this future, why will “the most compelling motivations, the clearest explanations, and the most useful maps between intuitions, theorems, and applications” be necessary? Catering to hobbyists?

New comment by tines in "72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes"

tines — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:52:22 +0000

Why do wars tend to devalue the dollar?

New comment by tines in "Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI"

tines — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:49:49 +0000

This comment is spam. When Tao says something we should take it seriously.

New comment by tines in "Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)"

tines — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:46:51 +0000

He didn't say that he had no hills to die on, just that rounded window corners isn't one of them.

New comment by tines in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

tines — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:43:16 +0000

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

New comment by tines in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

tines — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:04:36 +0000

Now you're getting it! The modern way of life which prioritizes convenience and production destroys human connection. Making sauce is pointless; let's go one step further and make every other thing you might do equally pointless. Welcome to the hellscape! It's surprisingly comfortable.

New comment by tines in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

tines — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:46:06 +0000

I care if I'm using my brain or not. I don't care that nobody else cares.