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wockaon Oxford All Souls College General Examination (2025) [pdf]

ἡμεῖς πάντες οὐδὲν ἀλλ' ἢ κόνις ἐν ἀνέμῳ. Oh, I don’t speak Greek.

wockaon Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

The Federal Aviation Administration said it had lifted the temporary closure of airspace over El Paso that it had imposed last night. “All flights will resume as normal,” the F.A.A. said on social media.

wockaon Generate Color Palettes from Text

I tried to generate a color palette using the phrase "your mom," but that failed with no error message.

wockaon We created the first open source implementation of Meta's TestGen–LLM

I get redirected to an oops 404 page when I try to create an account using Github.

wockaon The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression

> It's insane to me that my hometown of 1M people in Brazil has more tall apartment buildings than Philadelphia, with incredibly better amenities.

Would you mind sharing what the amenities are that you are referring to--both the in-building and neighborhood amenities? In the US I've seen gyms, swimming pools, shared hosting spaces, and some child-friendly spaces, to name a few.

wockaon Math has changed the shape of gerrymandering

Do you want roads in the country?

wockaon Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)

Not the original commenter, but thanks.

In my case the "Request access" button was blocked by uBlock Origin.

wockaon Baba Is Y'all

It looks like there is a MySQL error breaking the game. View the source for the page and you'll see "PHP/MYSQL Error : ". There's also a "PHP/MySQL Error : whoops" message if you try to visit the sign up page.

wockaon Universities Are Leveraging H-1B Visas to Fuel Startup Hubs

It's not as big as Broadcom, but what about Akamai out of MIT?

wockaon Half of the US government's financial assets are student loans

>Personal responsibility plays in a ton here

Except everyone is constantly told they need to go to college by authority figures as they go through the education system. There's also responsibility that falls on employers demanding college degrees for jobs that in no way need them, e.g., secretary.

wockaon Yale researchers conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals

Thanks for clarifying.

wockaon Yale researchers conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals

> A lot of liberals are now arguing for a more aggressive foreign policy...

Would you please provide your evidence for this? Or do you mean a lot of Democrats are arguing for a more aggressive foreign policy?

wockaon A church in Alabama could soon get its own police force

Harvard is in a safe neighborhood and near safe neighborhoods.

wockaon Welcome, ACLU

>Where has YCombinator been as our own impoverished African-Americans are getting slaughtered in the streets of Chicago?

Please stop with the hyperbole about Chicago. Yes, it has a problem, but it's beaten by St. Louis, Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, Cleveland, Newark, and Memphis for per 100k murder rate in 2016. Also, while the national per 100k murder rate has been trending upward lately, it is still lower than approximately 1965 to approximately 2007. [0]

0. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/u-s-cities-experienced-...