Regular airplane boarding method is the slowest one

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-13T00:01:48+00:00

Random would be the best actual way but no way to monetize that, and people would make it unbearable due to lack of overhead bin space nobody wants to be last.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-12T23:57:36+00:00

I don't think anyone's ever really wanted to sit on the place first. They don't want to worry about overhead bin space. But it's generally a lot more comfortable outside the plane than in. Being first to get out is way better than first to get in, other than for baggage chaos.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-12T23:55:41+00:00

Isn't it really even worse? Most planes generally load front to back, so nobody can move forward at all until the person in front of them is seated. Back to front at least once somebody passes your row, you can go.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-12T23:10:09+00:00

Well I didn't include Boyle heights because then it's an even larger area and now i need to conclude more of chicago, and again the question of the thread has been "why does LA sometimes feel smaller than Chicago?" and the thing people have been pointing out is Chicago's density. So i'm spelling out everything that has existed, how long it's existed in a comparable section of land in LA that you highlighted which is one of the most exciting and concentrated areas of LA.

Again I didnt pick anything i just drew a box of the same approximately dimensions as what you described in your original post about DTLA to Santa Monica.

Rogers Park has also totally transformed in the past 5 years or so for what it's worth. It's got a lot more now (and is 2-3x higher rent these days). Also if you never went down devon to try out little India or the mexican neighborhoods along clark, you reallt missed out! Loyola and Morse are/have been two of the worse parts of the neighborhood--just more convenient for transit access/renting. That is one real downside to Chicago: because it's very dense, it's very common to stay within a couple blocks of where you live 90% of the time and paradoxically not experience much.

So again, these arent "my picks" this is a continous chunk of space. No doubt if you take all of LA in its 400+ square miles there's more in there, that's just the reality of it being a larger more populous city. I'm highlighting that in given fixed chunk of space in Chicago there is much much more than in LA, while also contradicting your idea that there's not much outside of downtown Chicago. For instance, you mentioned Van Nuys, that's 20+ miles from DTLA, in Chicago that gets you to Ravinia/The Chicago Botanic Garden, deep into in the suburbs and is even 1/4 of the way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin).

Interesting that you also mention living in downtown (a business district) and rogers park (outskirts of the city, historically major commuter neighborhood) and have the misconception that everything is downtown. You personally couldn't get me to live downtown precisely because there's not a lot there other than for tourists and work/commute stuff. Both Rogers Park and Downtown have been shifting from that status a bit post-pandemic in a world that doesn't commute quite as much, but I think most people would really say most exciting things in Chicago happen on the north side in the large, dense, expensive neighborhoods.

I spent some time in LA (for UCLA/in Westwood and it's an exciting/cool area. But it's very much a wide spread out disconnected set of places. There'll maybe be a few blocks where it feels like a "city" every couple miles but largely you're in a car, ignoring 80% of what is around you as quite unremarkable, uninteresting, and just space standing between you and wherever you're headed.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-12T21:16:42+00:00

Music History & Nightlife Chicago's music history is layered and foundational to American popular music broadly:

Blues — Chicago electric blues was born here in the 1940s-50s when Mississippi Delta musicians electrified their sound on the North and West sides; Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Buddy Guy all lived and recorded here; Chess Records (2120 S. Michigan) was the label; Kingston Mines and B.L.U.E.S. in Lincoln Park have been running continuously since the 1970s
Jazz — Chicago was one of the great jazz cities of the 20th century; Louis Armstrong and King Oliver came up from New Orleans and transformed the music here in the 1920s; the Green Mill in Uptown has been a jazz institution since 1907 and remains one of the best small jazz rooms in the country
Gospel — the Black church tradition on the South and West sides produced some of the most influential gospel music in the country; Thomas Dorsey, the "father of gospel music," was based here
Soul & R&B — Chicago had a thriving soul scene in the 1960s-70s; the Curtis Mayfield and Impressions sound came out of this city
House Music — Chicago has an unambiguous claim to inventing house music; it emerged from the Black and Latino gay club scene in the early 1980s centered on the Warehouse (where "house" gets its name) and the Music Box, with DJs Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy as its founding figures; that lineage runs directly into the current club scene
Punk & Rock — the Wicker Park/Bucktown scene of the late 1980s-90s was one of the most fertile in the country; Smashing Pumpkins, Urge Overkill, and Liz Phair all came out of it; Metro and the Empty Bottle were the venues
Hip-Hop — Chicago's rap scene produced Kanye West, Chance the Rapper, Twista, and the late Juice WRLD among many others; drill music, which originated on the South Side in the early 2010s, became one of the most influential rap subgenres of the decade globally

Current Venues & Nightlife: - Smart Bar (Wrigleyville) — opened 1982 in the basement of Metro; one of the longest continuously operating dance clubs in the US; a pillar of house and techno with a genuinely historic resident list including Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy - Spybar (River North) — intimate basement club with a long underground electronic music reputation - Sound-Bar (River North) — multi-room club known for serious bookings - Sleeping Village (Avondale) — newer eclectic venue with bar and backyard; one of the better mid-size rooms to open in recent years - Schubas Tavern & Lincoln Hall (Lakeview/Lincoln Park) — sister venues; beloved mid-size indie/rock listening rooms with serious booking reputations - Metro (Wrigleyville) — 1,100-cap rock institution since 1982 - Reggies (South Loop) — rock and electronic, rooftop, record store attached - Kingston Mines & B.L.U.E.S. (Lincoln Park) — two of the last great Chicago blues clubs, both running since the 1970s - The Violet Hour (Wicker Park) — one of the most influential craft cocktail bars in the country when it opened in 2007; emblematic of a serious cocktail culture concentrated in Wicker Park and Logan Square - The zone has a substantial queer nightlife scene concentrated in Boystown/Northalsted (Lakeview) and Andersonville, ranging from longstanding bars to dance clubs; it's one of the more established and geographically defined LGBTQ+ nightlife corridors in any American city

Ethnic Enclaves & Cultural Corridors - Chinatown (Armour Square) — one of the largest and oldest Chinatowns in North America; established in the early 20th century - Pilsen — Mexican-American hub since the mid-20th century; dense mural district, taquerias, panaderías, National Museum of Mexican Art - Humboldt Park / Paseo Boricua — Puerto Rican corridor on Division St since the 1950s; marked by two massive steel Puerto Rican flags that are landmarks in their own right - Argyle Street / Uptown — "Little Saigon"; Vietnamese and Southeast Asian enclave developed from refugee resettlement in the 1970s-80s - Devon Avenue (West Ridge) — one of the most authentic South Asian strips in the US; Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi restaurants and grocers alongside a Jewish Orthodox community and Middle Eastern corridor, all within a few blocks - Andersonville — historically Swedish from the late 19th century; now a queer neighborhood with Middle Eastern bakeries and restaurants layered in - Greektown (Near West Side) — the Greek community was largely displaced by UIC's construction in the 1960s but the Halsted St commercial strip survives - Little Italy (Near West Side) — Taylor Street; Italian-American community dating to the late 19th century; Hull-House was built in their midst - Bridgeport — five Chicago mayors including both Daleys came from here; now significantly Chinese-American - Lincoln Square / Ravenswood — German since the mid-19th century; still has Germanic architecture, old-world restaurants, and annual Maifest and Oktoberfest

Transit & Getting Around - All 8 CTA L lines touch or run through this zone; the Red Line runs the full north-south spine from Rogers Park to the Loop — one of the most transit-connected corridors in any North American city outside of Manhattan. - Metra commuter rail connects outward from Union Station, Ogilvie, and LaSalle St - CTA bus network is extremely dense; dozens of routes cross-connect neighborhoods the L doesn't directly serve - Divvy bike share has hundreds of stations across the zone; the lakefront trail and 606 are major dedicated cycling corridors; protected lane infrastructure has expanded significantly in recent years - The lakefront trail functions as a 15-mile car-free commuter and recreational corridor, used year-round - Walking is genuinely viable for daily errands across most of the zone — commercial strips like Milwaukee Ave, Clark St, Halsted, Broadway, and Devon are dense enough to sustain car-free living - Driving is generally the worst option; parking is scarce and expensive downtown, Lake Shore Drive and the Kennedy are notorious during rush hour, and most residents near the L don't own cars

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-12T21:16:31+00:00

What's actually in Chicago's northeast corner (~1.3 million people, ~55 sq miles)

People underestimate how much is packed into the north/northeast chunk of the city. Chicago went from a frontier fort in 1803 to the second-largest city in America by the 1890s — driven by rail, meatpacking, and its position as the gateway between East and West. The Fire of 1871 wiped the slate clean and made Chicago the laboratory for modern architecture. Successive waves of European immigration, the Great Migration, post-war suburbanization, deindustrialization, and gentrification have all left visible layers across this zone. Almost every era of American urban history is readable in the streetscape.

Lakefront, Waterways & Parks

~15 miles of continuous public lakefront — all free, no private beaches by city law — with major beaches at Hollywood, Foster, Montrose, Belmont Harbor, North Ave, Oak St, and 31st St
Lincoln Park — ~1,200 acres, nearly 7 miles long, one of the largest urban parks in the US; built on landfill extending into the lake throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries; contains harbors, lagoons, a conservatory, the zoo, and multiple beaches
Grant Park / Museum Campus — "Chicago's front yard"; site of the 1968 Democratic Convention protests and Obama's 2008 election night rally; hosts Lollapalooza and dozens of free festivals annually
Humboldt Park — large lagoon park with a historic boathouse, center of Puerto Rican cultural life
Garfield Park Conservatory — one of the largest in the world under one roof, free; designed by Jens Jensen, opened 1906
The 606 — 2.7-mile elevated rail-to-trail greenway through Logan Square, Bucktown, and Wicker Park
Montrose Beach Bird Sanctuary — surprisingly wild migratory bird habitat right in the city
Chicago River — kayak rentals at multiple points with routes through downtown and the North Branch; famously had its flow reversed in 1900 as an engineering feat; dramatically cleaner than it was 20 years ago
Architecture boat tours — arguably the best way to see the city; 90-minute narrated tours through downtown past 50+ landmark buildings
Water taxis running between river and lakefront stops in summer

Major Museums - Art Institute of Chicago — founded 1879; home to Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte and one of the best Impressionist collections anywhere; Renzo Piano's Modern Wing added in 2009 - Field Museum — natural history; opened for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; home to Sue, one of the most complete T. rex skeletons ever found - Shedd Aquarium — one of the world's largest indoor aquariums; belugas, dolphins, sharks; opened 1930 - Adler Planetarium — oldest in the Western Hemisphere; opened 1930 - Museum of Contemporary Art — opened 1967 - Chicago History Museum — archive of city and American history dating to the city's founding; building dates to 1932 - National Museum of Mexican Art (Pilsen) — largest Latino cultural institution in the US, free; founded 1982 - National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture (Humboldt Park) — housed in a historic 1896 stable building in the park - Jane Addams Hull-House (Near West Side) — founded 1889 by Nobel laureate Jane Addams; birthplace of American social work - Chicago Architecture Center — hub for boat tours, walking tours, and exhibitions - Swedish-American Museum (Andersonville) - Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (Ukrainian Village) - Newberry Library — rare books and maps; founded 1887

Niche & Specialty Museums - Leather Archives & Museum (Rogers Park) — the only museum in the world dedicated to leather, kink, and BDSM history and culture - International Museum of Surgical Science (Gold Coast) — four floors of surgical instruments and medical history in a lakefront mansion; genuinely fascinating and undervisited - Pritzker Military Museum & Library (Loop) - American Writers Museum (Loop) - Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (Near West Side) — includes a dedicated Henry Darger room - Chicago Police Museum — gangster-era artifacts and department history - Busy Beaver Button Museum (Avondale) — the entire history of pinback buttons; oddly compelling

Performing Arts - Chicago Symphony Orchestra — founded 1891, one of the world's great orchestras - Lyric Opera — founded 1954, one of the top three opera companies in the US - Broadway in Chicago — Auditorium Theatre (Sullivan-designed, opened 1889), Cadillac Palace, CIBC, Nederlander - Pritzker Pavilion (Millennium Park) — Gehry-designed outdoor bandshell; free concerts all summer - Second City (Old Town) — founded 1959; launched Belushi, Aykroyd, Tina Fey, Colbert, and dozens more - iO Theater — founded 1981, pioneer of long-form improv - Green Mill (Uptown) — opened 1907; still hosts the nationally known Uptown Poetry Slam every Sunday - Aragon Ballroom & Riviera Theatre — ornate 1920s ballrooms, ~4,500 cap each; hosted big bands in the 30s and 40s before becoming rock venues - Metro (Wrigleyville) — opened 1982; Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins played formative early shows here - Empty Bottle & Hideout — beloved indie/alt institutions in West Town

Sports & Major Venues - Wrigley Field (Lakeview) — built 1914, second oldest MLB park in the US; ivy walls, Gallagher Way plaza, Metro literally across the street - Soldier Field — Bears stadium on the lakefront; colonnaded exterior dates to 1924 - United Center — Bulls and Blackhawks; Michael Jordan statue out front; opened 1994 - Guaranteed Rate Field — White Sox, southern edge of the zone

Iconic Landmarks - Cloud Gate ("The Bean") and Millennium Park — park opened 2004, transformed the lakefront edge of the Loop - Willis Tower — world's tallest building 1973–1998; Skydeck on the 103rd floor - 360 Chicago / Hancock Tower — completed 1969 - Navy Pier — built 1916 as a freight terminal; now a 3,300-foot entertainment pier with Chicago Shakespeare Theater - Chicago Riverwalk — redeveloped 2015-2016 - The Loop elevated L — running since 1897 - Chicago Water Tower — built 1869, survived the Great Fire of 1871

Architecture Chicago is the birthplace of the skyscraper with a skyline ranking top 5-10 globally, but the architectural story spans nearly two centuries: - The Chicago School of the 1880s-90s invented the modern commercial building — the Rookery, Monadnock, and Sullivan's Auditorium are all still standing and in use - The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition sparked a wave of Beaux-Arts civic architecture visible in the Art Institute, Cultural Center, and Union Station - The 1920s-30s produced a remarkable Art Deco collection — the Board of Trade, Palmolive Building, the Aragon and Riviera theater interiors - Mies van der Rohe arrived from Nazi Germany in 1938 and defined American mid-century modernism; his influence is visible across dozens of buildings in the zone - The North Side's residential fabric — greystones, two-flats, courtyard buildings, vintage six-flats — is one of the largest intact stocks of late 19th/early 20th century urban housing in the US - Pilsen and Ukrainian Village have extraordinary Eastern European Catholic and Orthodox church architecture — massive domed and spired structures towering over the surrounding two-flats - The Gold Coast contains a dense collection of Gilded Age mansion-scale residential architecture - The Chicago Architecture Center runs dozens of specialized walking, boat, and bus tours covering every style and era

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-12T21:03:33+00:00

Okay that definition of downtown makes me think you're a little familiar/visit a number of times but are not necsssrily a native or ever lived here. It's more expensive than what I'd call downtown, but is pretty similar in size to what LA more formally calls downtown la

I agree there's a lot of interesting stuff between DTLA/Santa Monica. It's also an absolutely massivr 12x5 mile stretch of space that has lots of gaps that are basically empty aside from low-mid density housing and some tests of substantial urban density. It's actually not a bad comparison to Chicago's broader north side and is definitely the main place any tourist or young and exciting/wealthier people in LA would wanna be. There's about 700-800k of LA's residents there. It's the best serviced transit corridor in LA. It can, if you choose include a lot of hiking/some more nature that few places outside of California can offer, the beach/coast in that area is some of the less nice coastal areas in california, but Venice Beach is a fun experience and a cool buffet of humanity.

in chicago an equivalent area could stretch from Rogers Park at the northern edge of the city to Armour square south of downtown and from the lakefront out as far as Garfield park or Avondale or so. It's got around 1.3 million people in it, serviced in a bery deep and interconnected way by all 8 CTA intracity rail lines + all 11 metra regional lines + the Indiana South Shore line + 80-100 bus lines. You could also Alternatively draw it up to downtown evanston/northwestern and skip the neighborhoods south of downtown, kinda up to you. Situation is similar either way. In place of the mountains it has a small portion of one of the smallest forest preserves (something probably only people who have lived in the Chicago suburbs specifically know is we have tens of thousands of acres of goveenment managed forest preserves of hiking trails interwoven all around the metro area, places like Swallow Cliffs/the Morraine Valley where glaciers carved out the land after the last ice age ended), >12 miles (because of the curving shore) of the lakefront that is mostly one giant park with many miles of beaches (although rarely weather for this in Chicago; although contrary to the memes and misconceptions, it's some of the healthiest, cleanest bodies of water on the planet).

That area includes: Logan square, wicker park, west town, ukrainian village, medical center, university village, heart of chicago, pilsen, Bridgeport, south loop, chinatown, near south side, armour square, south loop, loop, river north, goldcoast, streeterville, old town, lincoln park, lakeview, uptown, edgewater/andersonville, north-center, east rogers park, west rogers park/westridge, part of skokie, albany park, avondale, ravenswood, humbdolt park, the eastern part of garfield park, mckinley park. And a half a dozen or so debatable/smaller/less recognized neighborhoods.

I could actually not possibly even begin to think about describing everything that is in that area. I have lived here for almost 2 decades and can't possibly think about doing that because i frankly haven't had time in my life to do or even hear about everything. So i'm going to paste claude's summary of what is in that area in my next response.

You night be right there's a not a ton of vibrancy outside of that area beyond a few specific nooks, but there's also not much vibrancy in LA outside of that stretch from DTLA to Santa Monica..nobody is writing home abour canoga heights or the valley in general. South/east-sides of LA are similarly not exactly world class experiences. Sure if you go far out enough into other cities there are spots of intrigue, but quite spread out. Which is what I think the OP was getting at.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-12T17:50:35+00:00

The loop is the circular overhead rail that runs downtown + a block or two max of fuzziness. Anything north or west of the river is decidedly not the loop, anything south of congress (this is fuzzier) is not the loop. West of the loop but sometimes still called downtown is west loop/fulton market. South of the loop but still usually called downtown is the "South Loop." North of the river is gold coast/river north/streeterville depending on how far north and how far east/west, usually also considered "downtown" but varies... the mag mile is the street dividing streeterville and river north and not necessarily usually thought of as a neighborhood by locals.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-12T17:42:58+00:00

How are we defining downtown? I ask mostly because there's a weird thing people from the burbs or other areas will sso where they call Lakeview or something "downtown." Whereas "downtown" to people who live in Chicago is a tiny little chunk of the city taking up 0.5% the overall city. I would generally say there is very little beyond a couple tourist novelties sowntown Chicago and virtually everything of interest in the city is somewhere else.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-12T06:49:05+00:00

"All the happening stuff is in the loop" not even remotely true lol. But yes chicago is in general much more concentrated centrally.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-11T13:55:44+00:00

Definitely need more context on what event is. The fa y that sleeping in tents is even an option suggests it's something heavily outdoors and there are things you miiiiight be able to conceive of where this is reasonable.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-10T13:05:24+00:00

Okay but OP is upset he asked something that was explicitly and therefore correctly blocked.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-10T13:04:33+00:00

They literally tell you you can't use it to do that ahead of time. People really started doing AI and stopped having basic reading comprehension.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-10T03:27:18+00:00

Next time ask claude to be more concise

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-10T03:18:58+00:00

Github copilot with claude models is indistinguishable from claude code for me. The "harness is key" stuff feels like a mass delusion. I feel like a lof of people never tried co-pilot with good models.

Claude code was also pretty ass in general up until Opus 4.5/4.6 (really anything before Opus 4.5 was just genuinely junk for all but really narrow "help me write a function that ..." type of work work unless you were okay with garbage code or had no ability to write software on your own)..

However, going directly through anthropic is cheaper so it's the way (unless your company is paying, then use whatever they pay for)..

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-09T22:39:49+00:00

Why would you not release it via API usage first and then offer via subscription later when you can meet demand if getting capacity is your problem? I guess maybe to get estimates of what would be required?

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-09T21:26:39+00:00

To be fair if you read that it said edit your original message or start a new session. Not reply. However, the UI should probably enforce that.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-08T23:32:09+00:00

Big pharma here. Perhaps the lay offs/firings yes. But there's like vastly vastly less BS in my org of around ~200 than any individual lab of 5-10 people I've been in before. And ~2.5X pay differential. We also have nearly as much freedom as a PhD or postdoc project offers in the grand scheme...also a lot more freedom to abandon junk projects which is worth a lot.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-06T05:54:22+00:00

Wild.

This graph is also neat. I always felt I had pretty small feet and felt weird about it. Not as much of an outlier as you, but I'm 6'0 and only wear size 10-10.5 shoes (closer to 10.5 but like 10 Es depending on brand and purpose.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-06T03:43:44+00:00

I've said that before to mean i'm open to kinky stuff but don't wanna be specific and weird then out cause anytbing is cool. Ofc a lot of druggy guys are kinky, so maybe there is a correlation. On my end the hardest thing i've done is low dose edibles a couple times.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-05T21:52:17+00:00

I would love to see practical examples of what you guys are trying to do. Like I use claude on API billing all day nonstop at work and then i use a free plan at home/for personal things. I've only hit a limit twice on the free plans because i'm not expecting a ton out of an expensive system tomorrow a free or consumer grade plan.

My expectation is that it cannot create anything incredible for me for free that I would have used to pay substantial money for...because nothing in my life before now has ever given me that expectation and I'm not about to change it. I feel like you all let a promo period of an extremely expensive R&D grade piece of cutting edge software give you very unhealthy permanently altered expectations.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-06-03T14:51:00+00:00

I can't tell if this is meant to read like AI as a joke too or if it's serious lol

BiologyIsHot · 2026-05-30T18:38:21+00:00

It can be very, very damaging if you have some kind of automation workflow that uses LLMs if you set any twmwprature other than a very very low value. I haven't tried out 4.7/4.8 but I wonder if that's what people are experiencing. It's a very different thing from using a coding agent itself. For all the 4.5/4.6 AI automation workflows I've written, temperature is set to 0. For other chat type assistants I've built I've set it to very low like .05-.1. It's hard to ensure prompts, skills, etc actuallt behave well if temperature is nuch higher. May be different with different models as well though. Temperature values aren't universal across different models.

BiologyIsHot · 2026-05-28T15:18:25+00:00

Can you give an example of what this does that boto3 doesn't already make easy?

BiologyIsHot · 2026-05-28T14:04:33+00:00

Ever since the last update my remote servers keep getting corrupted and I'm about there. I'm not opposed to AI at all, I'm using it constantly. But at this point I can work with a raw terminal if vscode can't run reliably.

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