RCV is also extra-bad in e.g. 3-way elections since the centrist is almost always squeezed out if everyone votes honestly, leading to much higher regret for the side that didn't strategically vote for the centrist
07.06.2025 03:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The problem is the voters don't have to overthink it, strategists within the campaign pass along the optimal strategy to allied news outlets who then publish strategic rank orders for their readers to copy
07.06.2025 03:36 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
you're into walkable mixed use urbanism because of some dutch youtuber
i'm into it because
26.01.2025 10:16 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
During COVID, the rock climbing gym closed, so built this free-standing climbing pillar in our backyard
25.01.2025 19:01 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The classic look is part of the appeal to me! Very nostalgic for my uncle's lakehouse study that had them.
25.01.2025 19:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I just got a $50 on Amazon that looked good
LED bulb, works great
25.01.2025 16:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
can't recommend enough getting a banker's lamp for your office
increased my IQ by 5 pts
the vibe of working late completely changes
erudite, scholarly, sophisticated
25.01.2025 08:20 β π 28 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0
Weβre in a country where Trump won the popular vote
Anyone to the left of those people is, by definition, left of center
23.01.2025 22:47 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Leftists do more than point it out, they call for her to be primary'd by a leftist who will then go on to lose
23.01.2025 20:17 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
All the leftists in WA attacking Marie Gluesenkamp Perez need to hear this message
Left of center dem representative in a district Trump won by 7 points and they want to destroy her
23.01.2025 19:52 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
At a cafe and two ~60 year-olds are telling each other about their physics "research"
Both clearly cranks whose "research" is flux capacitor quantum dimension type stuff
Men will literally invent fake physics before telling their bros they just wanna hang and chat
23.01.2025 19:50 β π 27 π 1 π¬ 2 π 1
if i ask GPT to list the countries on the Danube river
sometimes it includes Moldova, sometimes not
decided to get to the bottom of it
probably training data with and without it included due to this weird history
22.01.2025 18:33 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
You can get up to speed surprisingly fast with YouTube
I built our dining table as my very first project ever
19.01.2025 00:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Built this record cabinet
Sapele mahogany + white maple accents
19.01.2025 00:48 β π 47 π 0 π¬ 6 π 2
You don't understand, this is peak beach use
17.01.2025 08:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
When I worked at AWS I actually got to test the prototype for them a year or so before release β just some android phone running a proof of concept app with the camera β had no idea what they were for till they showed up in stores
14.01.2025 19:48 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I know letting Amazon have my palm scan so I can pay with my hand at Whole Foods is probably The Mark of the Beast
But itβs just soooo convenient
Hope Bezos doesnβt wind up being the antichrist or I am cooked
14.01.2025 19:48 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
worked on a codebase once where the author had abbreviated all instances of the word "parameter" to "parm"
made me want italian food every time i touched that repo
10.01.2025 01:13 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
honestly weβre so blessed that god made 2^10 so close to 10^3
allows estimating thousand = 2^10, million = 2^20, billion = 2^30, etc
08.01.2025 21:09 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
when i was in china in 2010 i heard lots of songs that sounded like
_ _ bao
_ _ zhao
_ _ dao
_ _ lao
_ _ yao
like every line had the same number of syllables & ended in the same vowel sound β too easy
07.01.2025 22:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
There are some languages that are *too* easy to rhyme in and it affects their music
Spanish and Chinese come to mind
It's too easy to write songs with trivial/elementary rhymes, don't have to work for it
07.01.2025 22:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
the elites don't want you to know this, but you can trivially pop out the crappy plastic wheels of your office chair and replace them with insanely smooth-rolling skate wheels
honestly probably the best < $20 home office upgrade there is
06.01.2025 07:26 β π 16 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
One of my favorite geography trick questions:
You're traveling in the Panama Canal from the Caribbean to the Pacific
What direction are you traveling?
People say West, but it's actually East
Panama is more squiggly than people think
05.01.2025 04:34 β π 17 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
An interesting trend is that hardware is still improving exponentially, but the population of earth isnβt growing much
So services that scale with the number of humans will become increasingly trivial
In 2045, run all of Facebook on a single server, tinyurl on a raspberry pi
04.01.2025 09:55 β π 17 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0
New Post β A general algorithm for writing complex software
grantslatton.com/how-to-softw...
01.01.2025 23:44 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
wish i was born earlier so i could get some trivial greedy algorithm named after me
31.12.2024 22:32 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
As a 90s kid with a stutter I was just glad to have some representation in cinema
30.12.2024 05:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This little criminal tried to chase the mailman, only to be captured by grandma
27.12.2024 01:00 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Me: So what's your specialty
Astronomy prof: I study galactic collisions
Me: Sounds exciting
Prof: Not really since they take about a billion years
26.12.2024 05:16 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
when you teach a kid the rules of chess, they'll start by making legal but basically random moves
junior engineers are like this if they ever read a book about "design patterns" too early
they'll just apply them randomly β singleton here, factory builder there, etc
26.12.2024 05:15 β π 20 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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