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New comment by user____name in "A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data"

user____name — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:26:57 +0000

A common misunderstanding, this. Economists in theory don’t focus on starting with the right set of assumptions, like any gentleman they instead focus on starting with the right set of conclusions. They then, in theory, argue passive-aggressively over why their model is The Right One using increasingly obtuse game theoretic models, usually with a drawing of two lines intersecting. The rest of the world? We simply shrug and ignore them.

Much like the the people ignored the idiot savants tucked away in medieval monasteries. At some point they become useful, like when the king needs to know what the nature of God is, who It approves and why it’s him and not the other guy.

Now that we've traded our warrior nobility for economic nobility, the neurodivergent and mildly touched ones are tucked away in academia instead. Pleasantly seperated from their subject of study. To figure out the nature of "The Market", and why it is, in theory, as Rational and Self Organizing as a medieval Thomist Universe.

And we are like the medieval peasantry who cannot understand an iota of what they're scribbling in their intimidating books. But we can see they're still fighting over It, just like they fought over resolving the philosophic contradictions of the faith.

It makes one wonder: what shape and mission will They have next? Will it be in explaining the actions of some sentient supercomputer, which both feeds and spanks us? Or which irradiated plants will take us beyond the Seventh Sphere, in theory? More at eight.

New comment by user____name in "Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity"

user____name — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:47:17 +0000

It’s ActiveX all over again.

New comment by user____name in "I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)"

user____name — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:34:01 +0000

I found writing techniques employed by fiction writers to be surpisingly relevant for nonfiction.

New comment by user____name in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

user____name — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:10:24 +0000

The US under trillionare leadership, certainly.

New comment by user____name in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

user____name — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:08:08 +0000

Is it propaganda though? Japan is more aligned with ‘the west’ not only in geopolitics but in the system of governance that was imposed upon it by via USA occuptation. Whereas China has a very different political system that is generally poorly understood and distrusted. Regardless, I don’t know where you’re from, but I see plenty of idolizing of China and how it manages to solve big problems at speeds unseen outside of mobilization in other parts of the globe. China-studies are a big thing at the moment. The positive view of Japan probably flows from its postwar boom years and popculture exports. China is at the moment being viewed with suspicion over its military buildup near Taiwan and creeping authoritarianism under Xi. This could all change again in the future depending on the actions China will take.

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

user____name — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:02:59 +0000

I start asking (annoying) legal and technical questions if they start with that first name basis crap, usually enough to make them back off.

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

user____name — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:51:59 +0000

The author is a fascinating figure. Changed his last name from Carnagey to Carnagie for PR benefits and was a lifelong people pleaser. Keep that last thing in mind while you read.

New comment by user____name in "'Staggering' number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk"

user____name — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:07:36 +0000

Perhaps it’s naive but I really think that teaching critical thinking patterns to young teens can help. Just telling “don’t believe everything you read” can cut both ways.

New comment by user____name in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

user____name — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:48:06 +0000

Should just pay in pure cocaine, cut out the crypto middlemen.

New comment by user____name in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

user____name — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:51:30 +0000

Someone should make a framework like this but with static typing and manual memory management. If you want a modable game you really need to have it in a managed language, and I spent enough time fighting with garbage collectors that it's just a non-starter. A shame because Love is really nice to use.

New comment by user____name in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

user____name — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:13:24 +0000

Sure, but how much of that had to do with the design and implementation of Windows? You know, the OS that runs half of the modern economy. Microsoft is just milking it without a coherent vision.

New comment by user____name in "A second Starlink satellite exploded in orbit"

user____name — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:19:48 +0000

And "surrounded by too much hot air."

New comment by user____name in "You Do Not, in Fact, Have to Hand It to Them"

user____name — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:25:05 +0000

Big tech Arpanet and CERN are full of it!

New comment by user____name in "You Do Not, in Fact, Have to Hand It to Them"

user____name — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:22:38 +0000

This article is so out of touch. The AI boom is great because it makes the line go up. I mean imagine these frivolities like affordable shelter and forty hour work weeks being some kind of birthright. You don't want to work anymore and we say fine and then we give you a digital pacifier but you're still whining, like these stocks are going to prop themselves.

New comment by user____name in "I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]"

user____name — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:59:16 +0000

This is really cool. Kaze Emanuar[0] seems to be able to hit 60hz consistently with his Mario 64 rework, I wonder if such perf is achievable for these wide open landscapes. Iirc Shadow of the Collosus rendered distant geometry into the skybox, which always struck me as a neat trick.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/@KazeN64

New comment by user____name in "AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion"

user____name — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:01:49 +0000

IANAD but reads like a textbook case of latent schizophrenia, especially with the frequent cannabis use[0].

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7442038/

New comment by user____name in "Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis"

user____name — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:38:42 +0000

The correct name would've been Fichte.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Fichte

New comment by user____name in "Windows native app development is a mess"

user____name — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:27:44 +0000

I feel like I'm the only person in the world who would rather write ugly win32 jank for the rest of my days than ever having to touch an "elegant" or "well structured" Cocoa codebase. In win32 if you want a button you call a function and pass a hande, in the Apple world you first subclass 7 interfaces in some unreadable Smalltalk-wannabe syntax and pray you don't need to access the documentation. And of course they constantly change things because breaking backwards compatibility is Apple's kink.

New comment by user____name in "Ant Mill"

user____name — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:11:27 +0000

There's a finance analogy in there somewhere.

New comment by user____name in "Chuck Norris has died"

user____name — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:17:00 +0000

WTR was still on air 15 years ago? I'm getting old.