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yes, and isn't it funny that

foo=[baz, bar,]

returns a nice list of two items, but if you edit this down and miss the comma,

foo=bar,

is not a scalar.

returning a tuple.

So the trailing comma thing is a thing.

> only to discover a few days later that the code was failing because different people had different indentation settings in their IDEs, both regarding tabs versus spaces and the number of spaces.

yeah, why Guido got away with the "we don't need deliminators, white space is just fine" for so long has always baffled me.

Because somehow a special character that marks the start and end of a block is hard for people to understand??

From the article

> We removed over 80% of Claude Code’s system prompt for models like Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5 with no measurable loss on our coding evaluations.

And no report of how it impacted earlier models. Was it just BS all along?

80% of the prompt was wasted tokens.

which is why I cried inside to myself when my manager posted Boris's "Steps of AI Adoption", which reduces "adoption" to how many agents you run at once, on a logarithmic scale (0, 1, 10, 100, 1000 agents at once).

Because # of agents is the only metric that matters.

If I were a city government, I would just start charging Flock rent.

In the US, something like 98% of eligible men enlisted in WWI. There was no draft.

So yes, VERY high probability of service.

Air conditioning only works for things inside of buildings. Not so good for the plants and animals our lives depend on.

And it raises the heat outside of buildings. Not so good for people who have to be outside, think first responders etc.

"just turn on the AC and keep burning the world down" isn't really the answer.

So let's assume you are right.

Does that justify the price?

Spacex price/sales: 100x-130x

RTX Corporation's (formerly Raytheon Technologies) Price-to-Sales (P/S) ratio currently hovers around 2.74 to 2.76. Boeing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio sits at 1.86, Lockheed Martin's (LMT) trailing twelve-month (TTM) price-to-sales (P/S) ratio sits at 1.64. Northrop Grumman's current Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) price-to-sales (P/S) ratio sits at approximately 1.76 to 1.89

So based on the peer comps you provided, SpaceX is overvalued by 50-100x. Your $185 shares are worth about $2.

Fine if you want to take that bet. Not fine if you force (via indexing) the majority of US pension savings to take that bet.

Yes, as you say the market is a local (both in space and time) and greedy optimizer.

Long-term payoffs that increase the value of all participants in society, such as education, healthcare, infrastructure (roads including public transportation, water, electricity, ...), are demonstrably better served by government than by business.

let's reverse the question. Where are markets expected to be optimal?

> definition of 'perfect competition' perfect competition, in which there are large numbers of identical suppliers and demanders of the same product, buyer and sellers can find one another at no cost, and no barriers prevent new suppliers from entering the market.

And that perfect competition provides the price signals that allow the market to be more competitive.

The less that holds true, the less efficient the market is going to be.

What is the price signal on education?

What is the price signal on public infrastructure?

What is the price signal on rule of law and the ability to enforce contracts?

well, one comes with a pretty strong safety cage, so there is that difference.

> The moment I start talking to someone, automagically the NC is paused as well as any audio you were listening to.

When I'm listening to music, the music helps form my sense of time. It is deeply jarring to have the music pause for a few minutes and then start as though in 'music-land' no time had passed.

I'd be happier if the music volume went to zero but the song/track kept progressing.

That's why I use M-x spook to generate all of my variable names

and my mind went to the current US administration. Sigh. You made the better choice.

maybe seeing if the case law it cited was real or imagined? Just one idea, IANAL

EU law gives every citizen a right to a bank account.

I wonder if EU law could give every citizen a right to a google or Apple account, including a forced recovery option if the account is 'deactivated'?

If at some point such an account becomes essential to function in society, access to such an account becomes a legal mandate.

> This psychosis you keep referring to will only end up punishing the ones who subscribe to it wouldn't it? Since it's out of touch with reality.

It might if the subscribers realize/admit that things are failing because they were wrong from the beginning. But that doesn't seem to be how things work.

could you please tell me how it generates that certainty score?

carry a family of 4 where? if you rely on that other location exisiting, you are not self-reliant.

tow a trailer where? see above.

Pick up a load of dirt or lumber-- how did those materials get to the pick-up point?

And the road you are driving on, where did it come from?

> Being a self-made billionaire means they created a billion dollars of value.

two of the people on the list did it via online gambling. Which is by definition a zero-sum game. No value was created.

two ways to take it:

equity as written. Ownership. Thus fairness means all have a share in responsibility for success and rewards for that success. Yeah, I agree. Note that I include responsibility as the core part of ownership. I think our society could have more of that.

equality (assumes you made a typo). Do you mean equality of opportunity or equality of outcome? These require different things to remedy.

Hey, I hear you, but the age cutoff could also be on holding office.

As someone just hitting the 60 yr old mark, and looking at my parents who are still pretty sharp in their late 80s, -- so definitely talking about myself and my capacity here,

No-one over 70 has any business in a high ranking government office. The mental flexibility isn't there.

Which means no one over 66 should be allowed to run office (yes, I know this puts senators in office until 72, and kicks out representatives at 68, but it also gives a single number which is easier to understand).

It's also a question of accountability. A 40 year old politician will expect/have to live with their choices for another 40 years.

> I don't think LLMs are that chaotic, you can replace words in an input at get a similar answer, and they are very good at dealing with typos.

Compare "You are a helpful assistant. Your task is to <100 lines of task description> <example problem>"

with

"you are a helpless assistant. Your task is to <100 lines of task description> <example problem>"

I've changed 3 or 4 CHARACTERS ("ful" to "less") out of a (by construction) 1000+ character prompt.

and the outputs are not at all similar.

Just realized I've never tried the "you are a helpless ass" prompt. Again a very minor change in wording, just dropping a few letters. The helpless assistant at least output text apologizing for being so bad at the task.

Evidence? Isn't the state the expression of the people's will? That's the theory of democracy, isn't it?

Also, any evidence or reason to believe that an extraction-based capitalist model is more aligned with customer interests (where the customer is the thing value is extracted from, and where corporate leadership salaries are directly tied to how much they can grift from the customers) than a government where the incentive is to get the maximum number of happy fliers to vote for you?

would be great to have a 'learner' mode where I could take back a move after the computer jumps 5 of my pieces :)

I'd also appreciate if illegal moves highlighed in a slightly less intense color, so we could see they were illegal. At the moment, when I'm hovering over the board, I don't know if a move is legal or not until I click-- and then it is too late!

Really? Because if one accepts that computer languages are languages, then it seems that we could identify one or two that are highly specialized in logical conditions etc. Prolog springs to mind.

Wait-- I think you are confusing "teachers" with "police officers".

actually it is in Oregon. ] https://gcaptain.com/trumps-greenland-hospital-ship-arrives-...

> The problem is our governments are doing absolutely nothing about it

Huh. I thought they were actively accelerating the process. Hoping you are right and I am wrong.

Sounds more like Bloody Stupid Jonssons Razor than Occams razor. The dumbest possible explanation is probably right.