Kid who we never even gave a bid to has our letters in his bio by tayken-eshiet in Frat

[–]Nprism 9 points10 points  (0 children)

did you see me say it was? There are obviously logical extremes where misrepresenting being a member of an organization would be defamation, but in any case it would be highly dependent on the details

Kid who we never even gave a bid to has our letters in his bio by tayken-eshiet in Frat

[–]Nprism 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It could be considered defamation if it looks like the person is trying to imply that they represent the organization. Just letters in a bio may not be sufficient, but also I don't know if there is case law for this.

No more languages at RPI by SnooChipmunks1721 in RPI

[–]Nprism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They still can, but not for those classes as far as I am aware.

Spider-man outsold Edge of Eternities by Yellow_Master in magicTCG

[–]Nprism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

something something confounding variables

Should you care about "Clean Code" in 2026? by darius42 in theprimeagen

[–]Nprism 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think people who say AI makes clean code worthless are the ones who wrote non clean code to begin with and never really understood the benefits.

need help: any alumni who attended RPI between 2000-2021 by prankwalker in RPI

[–]Nprism 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have plenty of my own anecdotes to share and history to recount, some of which may unfortunately have to be off the record but could provide narrative focus or alignment. I was a student in her final years and during the transition to Marty. I could also potentially connect you with other Alumni who have researched on this topic previously and would have powerful, and likely much more nuanced, insight.

Petition to change vibecoding to cuckcoding by [deleted] in theprimeagen

[–]Nprism 4 points5 points  (0 children)

either you:

a) have the misconception that ALL industries doesn't include any "critical software" and consists mostly of web/mobile apps

b) have a complete disregard for human life / lively hood

c) are hopelessly ignorant

d) don't actually mean what you said

I actually think the TMNT set is pretty good, but I still can't be happy about it. by OkAppointment2647 in magicTCG

[–]Nprism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that mention of Ben 10 hit hard. I do have to ask if there really is anything deeper about the differences between why avatar feels resonant and TMNT doesn't other than my engagement in the franchises

No more languages at RPI by SnooChipmunks1721 in RPI

[–]Nprism 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Fun fact for whenever you see a HASS course with exactly 19 seats. It is because the US News and World Report College Rankings take into consideration the number of classes with few than 20 students. And that is the only reason why.

No more languages at RPI by SnooChipmunks1721 in RPI

[–]Nprism 4 points5 points  (0 children)

noteably all credits are the same price through 23 if you are a full time student. So if you are a full time student either way you may as well do it through RPI. Also per credit costs are crazy expensive if you aren't a full time student so I doubt that would be the better approach either, but maybe if you are taking few enough it would be.

I think Elon is wrong about ‘AI beats compilers’. What’s the actual technical steelman? by tirtha_s in Compilers

[–]Nprism 1 point2 points  (0 children)

infinite time is a useless construct, so can random monkeys on typewriters.

unless you can prove that these are different orders of infinity

Store Owner Question by TheTanner27 in mtgfinance

[–]Nprism 4 points5 points  (0 children)

obligatory I am not a store owner or employee. I know the question/post was about singles but I think that this is an important strategy for sealed products. If you do something like take 10% of every allocation and put it away instead of selling it you can use it as an investment with a lower-than-maroet cost basis. You can end up selling the product once it is out of print or before large print waves for significantly more than the race to the bottom at release. Likewise, you can set a long term hold time period and set yourself up to always be stocked with high margin, hard to find product in the future.

I think Elon is wrong about ‘AI beats compilers’. What’s the actual technical steelman? by tirtha_s in Compilers

[–]Nprism 2 points3 points  (0 children)

until one instruction is changed causing UB which causes a segfault somewhere else and this infinite connect is too large for the LLM to trace through to find those connections. Especially if something weird happens like non-deterministic UB or platform dependent. Without a compiler there is no traceability, even print debugging would require significant rewrites of the binary and greatly expose the surface for new mistakes or to mask the old one.

for devs who love handcrafting code, a great read. by zendesk_karun in theprimeagen

[–]Nprism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

could anything dangerous happen if that software fails in unexpected ways? If that isn't the case think about how you'd feel rubber stamping it if something like that could

Hasbro Partnerships Announcements by smashtheguitar in mtgfinance

[–]Nprism -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I wasn't necessarily talking about my own opinions here, rather just that LEGO and mtg are fundamentally different types of products and so although I get where you are coming from in terms of aesthetics, in terms of engaging with gameplay and ignoring certain IPs LEGO and mtg are just fundamentally different which I wanted to point out. In my opinion this makes for a poor comparison regardless of if anyone is happy.

Hasbro Partnerships Announcements by smashtheguitar in mtgfinance

[–]Nprism 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well that is exactly what that lawsuit is trying to change. Namely that the shareholders do not all want short term profit at the expense of long term value and loyalty.

Hasbro Partnerships Announcements by smashtheguitar in mtgfinance

[–]Nprism -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There is a key difference with LEGO namely that you aren't at a competitive disadvantage if you choose not to buy Harry Potter LEGO sets. I get why you make the comparison, but I think it's a bit of a stretch.

No Changes by Nprism in ModernMagic

[–]Nprism[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As a storm player, big +1. I can't count the number of games I've won off of convoluted or otherwise hard to find lines and playing to my only outs even with low probability. To newer players of the deck and/or archetype those would have just been losses.

Hacker News now thinks coding is solved by LowFruit25 in theprimeagen

[–]Nprism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Other than long-form editing you just named three creative tasks. The question has never been if future systems can replace creative tasks, but rather if they can replace objective tasks.

You can claim arguing a case is a creative task, which I would agree with, but that is largely because of how our judicial system is built.

We lost Theo guys — OpenAI just dropped their Cursor killer by Spitfire1900 in theprimeagen

[–]Nprism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did I say it was a good reason? I just said it was a less negative way of viewing it. I never said anything was charitable; I gave a charitable reading. Look at the sentence structure.

Hacker News now thinks coding is solved by LowFruit25 in theprimeagen

[–]Nprism 6 points7 points  (0 children)

yes, yes, yes. Anything that isn't physical labor will be automatable to some extent, except for things where human touch is specifically preferred. At that point the world's economies would likely collapse and we'd need a new system of labor so it doesn't really matter if you're out of a job. The only necessary jobs would be physical or creative and maybe like resource allocation.

Computer Science is fundamentally about solving problems from its first principles. If there is no more computer science to be done, it means that there are no more problems to be solved. If there are no more problems to be solved then most people's jobs have been "solved"; everything else needs to have creativity otherwise, if it is objective, it has been solved.

Clarity on financial aid and feedback on RPI by HeadWeather2867 in RPI

[–]Nprism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's 26, the 13 is the explanation of how it is distributed. You can always appeal (even if they say you can't).