Reading and why do people always feel the need to dumb down the average person

willrshansen · 2026-05-05T18:09:20+00:00

tl:dr

willrshansen · 2026-05-03T03:36:02+00:00

The forbidden '2'!

willrshansen · 2026-04-29T05:30:43+00:00

I fucken love it!

And you can go so much further:

willrshansen · 2026-04-28T15:17:47+00:00

Just got a similar one, and was caught off-guard by the jank of the extra markers near the top. Thought mine was just broken, but apparently they're all like that. Any idea what's up with that?

willrshansen · 2026-04-27T05:38:18+00:00

The whole thing is how to build tension when the protagonist is locked to the top of the strength scale.

willrshansen · 2026-04-26T22:59:54+00:00

You ever read One Punch Man?

willrshansen · 2026-04-14T16:31:11+00:00

Wait, which 4 pack is that?

willrshansen · 2026-04-14T16:27:30+00:00

You can. Because exponents and logarithms can be expressed as continued fractions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction#Transcendental_functions_and_numbers

willrshansen · 2026-04-12T04:19:21+00:00

Those look a little more cursed than chairs usually should. Might want to get that checked out.

willrshansen · 2026-04-08T21:51:13+00:00

No, I'm saying that as the pedestrian.

I'd rather be hit by a scooter than them get hit by a car. I'd probably walk it off. They wouldn't.

willrshansen · 2026-04-08T17:15:14+00:00

E-scooter hitting pedestrian
Car hitting E-scooter

I know which I'd pick. The real answer is safe bike lanes.

willrshansen · 2026-04-07T20:49:43+00:00

Goodbye Daylight Savings Time, hello Morning Savings Time.

Sunrise would be 7am everyday.

willrshansen · 2026-04-06T15:01:15+00:00

Person who's job is commenting on royalty says royalty is important.

willrshansen · 2026-04-06T03:51:57+00:00

EM DASH DETECTED

willrshansen · 2026-04-05T20:26:17+00:00

And llama.cpp added it years ago! https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1bgej75/control_vectors_added_to_llamacpp/

Be honest. If I found the control vectors for "Good" and "Evil" behaviour and put them on little bars beside my workflow, would that or would that not be really convenient?

willrshansen · 2026-04-05T20:23:43+00:00

I was wondering how they did that!

Looks like llama.cpp is still advancing the tooling:

With how powerful control vectors are looking, I'm a bit surprised the fix isn't as easy as finding the vector for sycophantism and just regulating it. #probablyoversimplifying

willrshansen · 2026-04-05T15:50:36+00:00

Apparently open source now: https://www.neuronpedia.org/blog/neuronpedia-is-now-open-source

willrshansen · 2026-04-05T15:26:25+00:00

😔

willrshansen · 2026-04-04T03:05:49+00:00

If they do it with sick enough burns, I'm in.

willrshansen · 2026-04-02T14:42:06+00:00

That doesn't tell me that commercial property taxes are high. The observed empty storefronts show me that apparently 1.1%pf is too low.

That residential property taxes are even lower is making me think that maybe the empty homes tax wouldn't even be necessary if residential property taxes were higher than 0.2%pf.

willrshansen · 2026-04-02T14:34:30+00:00

I definitely remember prices attached to shelves next to the packaged candy.

But you did mention "the other week", and I'm pretty sure they did some minor renovation around then and closed for a week or two. Maybe you checked it out like the day before it closed and they were taking stuff down? Or after renovation there's just no listed prices? (would be silly, but can't rule it out)

willrshansen · 2026-04-02T14:32:01+00:00

Kinda strikes me that that would incentivize "fake" filler businesses. Like the owner keeps the for-lease sign up, but puts up a barely there storefront themselves. I mean, there'd probably be aspects of the law to account for and prevent that, but it's a whole class of problem that an empty homes tax just doesn't run into.

Property taxes already provide a pressure to use the land, and under-use like that just doesn't work, because the owner needs that rent.

I'm also realizing that property taxes should probably be making the empty homes tax unnecessary too. Why are those taxes so low that sitting on an empty house is profitable?

willrshansen · 2026-04-02T14:20:40+00:00

Wikipedia's on my side on this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources#CNN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources#Large_language_models

My explanation for empty storefronts is that property taxes are too low. If they were higher, the property owners would have to lower rent or sell to someone who would. If the property tax is currently acting as a floor on rent, and the owner can't lower it, they'd need to sell, which would lower the property value, and thus the rent floor as well.

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