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Well written. I have a similar background and I agree with most of your observations and conclusions. Not the part about prestigious universities catering to 'rich kids", though, at least not any STEM departments.

Above? I don't know anything about these particular auctions, but how could any auction arrive at a price above market value?

non-paywall link?

So don't feel bad, is my point :)

> Why does “as if the waters had but newly retired” mean there’s a lot of water (and thus mud)?

It doesn't. It means there's a lot of mud. It might help if you had the rest of the paragraph in front of you. It sets the scene for us with a bunch of sentence fragments -- bullet points, we would say. Here's the beginning of each of them:

    Michaelmas term lately over...
    Implacable November weather. 
    As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired... 
    Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle...
    Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. 
    Horses, scarcely better

... and so on.

And yes, modern audiences aren't attuned to biblical references.

Good stuff. Are star count and forks etc. the criteria for inclusion of repos? Lots of repos result in "Repository not found".

You:

- can read Old English

- find Beowulf, in Old English, dull

... how did this happen? Isn't reading Beowulf a primary motivation, if not the primary motivation, for the hard work of learning Old English?

From the parent comment: "Heck invite the regulars to the 2nd drink with that extra money that is coming in now if you want, or give them a discount." That could even be revenue neutral, if she wants it to be. Why not try that?

The chat in what tool? Not Cursor nor Windsurf, it sounds like?

No, you should always wait until the last possible moment to refill the leaky bucket, because the less water in the bucket, the slower it leaks, due to reduced pressure.

Candidate for hardest collective fall for an April Fool's Day joke in Hacker News history?

This is so sad.

(... in the style of his The Little Schemer et al. books)

Matthias Felleisen, architect (I think) of the current curriculum, explains to a hypothetical skeptical university administrator the virtues of it: https://felleisen.org/matthias/Thoughts/py.html

It's perfectly safe to eat rare pork in the United States. Trichinellosis hasn't been an issue in commercial pork for some time. Wild pigs and backyard pigs should be assumed to be infected.

Oh wow! Sorry about that. Empty aisles, i.e. a true shortage, only happens due to an artificially low price -- do you know what is holding the price down in this case? Perhaps price gouging laws? Or (misguided) big chain stores' policies against big price increases?

I recommend little mom-and-pop stores. Typically they feel free to quietly charge a market-clearing price.

There is no rice shortage in Japan currently, at least not in the sense of the word 'shortage' in economics. Prices are not held artificially low (they are influenced by the state in a market-friendly way through restrictions in supply), and so we see that rice is as available as ever, just at a higher price than last year.

Strong points, but insults and emotion aren't how we do it on HN.

Normally an announcement like this would be based on a program of drilling. But yes there would be a lot of interpolation and I think some extrapolation.

Interesting. Sounds like the HN rules need a new clause, "No accusing other commenters of writing comments using LLMs".

Providers often just ban all crypto mining. I think it might be because of pressure from authorities fighting money laundering.

Wow! I’d love to hear it.

Could one of these help? https://www.google.com/search?q=locked+home+safe+that+can+be...

This works great for any Scheme, I think: https://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/

It would seem like that's getting the types too late to be useful, but in practice most code goes into production in stages, so you could start getting this probabilistic typing data from code that has rolled out in a limited way, for example features that are hidden to most users.

Correct, that's why you use the large dataset available to you -- tons of runtime data from production.

I used to work with medical terminology codes, specifically ICD9 and ICD10. I see this as something I would have liked to have back then. Thanks for making it.

Have you looked at Outseta? https://www.outseta.com/billing and https://www.outseta.com/demo . I haven't used it but it looks great. I'd love to hear what you think.

  - Cement is extremely perishable. 
  - Contruction projects need cement at very precise times.
  - When that precise time will occur is hard to predict -- construction projects have a lot of delays. 
  - In a city there are a lot of construction projects at any given time.

So using software to coordinate cement mixing and delivery has a lot of potential to reduce waste -- or that is, it did back in the dot-com boom when CEMEX started working on that. If you heard about that back then, you were hearing about something with a lot of promise! From what I remember it worked out really well.