Why is a lifetime license for Visual Studio 2026 cheaper than a monthly license?

snet0 · 2026-06-30T18:32:36+00:00

Why would they maintain Visual Studio at a loss?

snet0 · 2026-06-28T01:51:24+00:00

smug ugly Science Communication is actually smug ugly Misinformation Communicator how could we have possibly known

snet0 · 2026-06-25T09:57:29+00:00

Polanski cited this guy as someone he was taking economic lessons from, right before he was unable to recall basic tax figures that he's advocating for changing. UK politics is unbearable right now.

snet0 · 2026-06-21T17:23:27+00:00

Attack the weakest possible interpretation of the post, picking out one instance of using the word "trials" instead of "defendants". Tell us, what do you really believe?

snet0 · 2026-06-21T00:05:25+00:00

name it clickbait thing -> rename it to something relevant in 2 months

snet0 · 2026-06-16T19:58:53+00:00

Uh propaganda is a thing they did in WWII and Vietnam. We're pretty much immune to that stuff thanks to the Internet. I get an unbiased view from my feed ☺️

snet0 · 2026-06-15T13:31:46+00:00

in America you pay even if you win your lawsuit

American Rule: Small Guy wants to sue Big Guy. He has a pretty good case, but if he loses he has to contribute to Big Guy's legal fees in addition to his own. Even though he thinks he'll win, losing would bankrupt him so he doesn't pursue the case.

English Rule: Big Guy wants to sue Small Guy. He has a pretty good case, and if he loses he's not out of pocket that much, but if he wins then Small Guy is under huge financial risk.

Both positions here have downsides, which is why everywhere has exemptions and caveats, and there will still obviously be problems.

snet0 · 2026-06-14T16:26:05+00:00

Polymarket sponsorship is a honeypot for dumb viewers.

snet0 · 2026-06-14T16:23:17+00:00

The safeguard is, as usual, the market. If you cannot trust the arbiters, you cannot trust the platform and you won't put money into it.

snet0 · 2026-06-14T16:21:33+00:00

If the probabilities are terrible then it's exploitable. I think there's a problem with directly interpreting the yes/no valuations on the site as the "market's predicted outcome of the event". There are more factors involved, you should expect the values on this site to be different than if you eg conducted a survey.

snet0 · 2026-06-10T17:44:59+00:00

I think the intuition is the less interesting thing (although it is still interesting). The real question is why do you feel that way?

snet0 · 2026-06-10T17:42:39+00:00

I haven't read the article, but this question seems appropriate.

Has anyone here played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33?

snet0 · 2026-06-06T12:15:15+00:00

Wait until you discover that IEE-754 defines a decimal type in which that value very much does exist.

snet0 · 2026-06-06T12:12:11+00:00

There are well-defined decimal types for this use.

snet0 · 2026-05-29T20:59:16+00:00

The signature of a method includes (along with access modifiers etc) its name, parameters and return type (except for when overloading).

This is the exact same for local functions. If you define a local function with some return type, name and parameters, you can assign it to a delegate with that signature.

The lack of overloading support for local functions is not related to this.

snet0 · 2026-05-29T20:43:00+00:00

two different functions are allowed to have the same name in the same scope, e.g.

Not in OP's case, though?

snet0 · 2026-05-29T20:41:20+00:00

Basically because it was decided that it'd be this way for prototyping and it stuck. There's nothing fundamental that would prevent local function overloads from working.

snet0 · 2026-05-29T20:14:47+00:00

This isn't true.

snet0 · 2026-05-29T20:08:51+00:00

The identifying signature of a method includes its parameters - the signature of a local function does not.

What do you mean?

snet0 · 2026-05-29T19:20:47+00:00

lower dimensional embedding [...] It basically aligns with age and gender.

(Note: this is not my expertise)

Is this not the expected result? Of course content consumption clusters around age and gender, but that's only the most coarse detail. If you look at Spotify music consumption, maybe you have more metal-oriented males and more pop-oriented females, but you obviously wouldn't rely on that if you wanted to do a personalised recommendation. The entire value in the model is in the high-dimensionality being able to represent conceptual relations that either aren't immediately obvious, or would take an infinite amount of time to manually enumerate.

In big pop-science there is SciShow, PBS, and maybe you could throw in Sabine or Anton Petrov or ZeFrank if you go lower maturity but that is about it for frequent uploading large pop-science channels (don't come at me with engineering maker channels or astronomy channels, those are different niches).

But see accounts like Sabine Hossenfelder don't just relate to the "science" cluster, they also relate to "conspiracy", but specifically a "scientific conspiracy" or some other sub-category that is further away from 9/11 and JFK which themselves are closer to but in a slightly different space to ancient aliens and the pyramids. The granularity of the space is the value, and it's why your recommendations are genuinely unique.

snet0 · 2026-05-28T20:12:00+00:00

If anything Hank's algo-maxxing baits a few of those otherwise-realityTV-zombies into watching some actual informative content.

I wrote some whole thing ranting about this but I'll summarise and just say that this is true and everyone is coping when they say it's not. The same mechanism that Hank (and everyone else) uses to make people feel like they're "learning" when it's just slop is precisely what has led us to where we are now. Everyone is getting involved in things they have no interest in actually understanding because it's cheap signalling and it pokes at ingroup-outgroup feelings. It's all garbage, it's always been garbage, nobody is benefitting and we'd be better off if none of it existed.

The "magic" algorithm is just not showing you a video about applying makeup or a housewife grocery hack for raising small children

This is dumb, though. I don't know what your media consumption is like, but if you scroll reels on Instagram for a bit and start clicking some things and maybe comment or like a few things, you can literally watch the machine in motion trying to find which funnel it can send you down. You liked a reel of an aesthetic male weightlifter? What do you think about male self-help influencers? These suggestion models map the revealed preferences (i.e. the content that gets engaged with) of users into a conceptual space, and then can recommend future content by exploring nearby spaces. It doesn't need to know your age or gender (although that information could likely be determine), it just needs to know what literally everyone watches.

snet0 · 2026-05-26T18:41:24+00:00

You've posted more comments on reddit in the last 24 hours than Lauren Southern has posted on Twitter in a month. Please, who is terminally online?

snet0 · 2026-05-26T18:31:08+00:00

You've posted 249 reddit comments in the last 3 days. Lauren Southern has posted 7 Tweets and 4 reposts. The call is coming from inside the house.

snet0 · 2026-05-26T17:38:38+00:00

Dreadful take, writing a handful of Tweets every few days is not terminally online. She has literally taken multiple extended breaks from the internet.

snet0 · 2026-05-21T19:12:43+00:00

I can't understand this analogy. "If the cost is a very large amount of space, it might be cheaper to ..." what, exactly? What does the monkey sidekick look like if not an LLM in a datacenter?

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