okay how’s this: on amazon, the top ranked (according to average review) socks are 6 for $15. Or, ranked third, you can get a pair of Darn Tough for $25. web search suggests cotton socks last about six months. seems low to me, let’s call it a year. those socks cost you $2.50 for a year’s wear.

just feels like this, every single day and then their “app” is just a website-in-a-box

hm

My most keenly felt P&P opinion is that Darcy should have saved the money spent buying Wickham off and put it towards hiring certain unsavory sorts to quietly drop Wickham into the river.

This take on Mr Bennet and Lydia is so good and captures precisely why, as much as Lydia is INFURIATING to read from Lizzy's pov, I can't help but want to redeem her. Her zero fucks given attitude towards propriety is, like Mr. Bennet's, appealing even as it is obvs rooted in profound selfishness

The WHOLE. Conversation he is feeling out where she wants to live without tipping his hand and Lizzy keeps saying Suggestive Things because she has no idea, none

I love the Trungles P&P thread, he sees so many clever things I missed but SIR: this is not an inconsequential conversation about nothing!! Darcy is feeling out whether she'd live at Pemberley or if he's gonna have to buy Netherfield off Bingley!!

Marx’s bourgeoisie are “middle class” only in the sense that they are under the aristocrats. They are, definitionally, the capitalist class, as a very brief trip to wikipedia demonstrates:

i mean, they were described as such by the people who opposed them. Here is how the John Birch Society described the Civil Rights movement: politicalresearch.org/2014/01/21/j...

flames, flames on the side of my face

all of us, apparently

put a bird on it

My intuition here is that conversation is most intellectually rewarding when near to the boundary of agreement, because that is where there is the most to discover.† Posited: intellectual reward is only one of many things conversation is for. Posited: no one wants to be challenged constantly.

just to be completely clear here: this story about “what the ivy league can’t do” is about a cosplay ranch prep school which sends grads near-exclusively to Ivy league schools.

This can be seen by playing with the visualizer under "Methodological Details." GPT5.4, for example, is highly successful under 1 min, has a band of lower reliability between 3-10 min, then a band of high reliability before collapsing at the high end. This is poorly captured by a single number.

It is narrow in that the tasks which it is completing are, as again the FAQ repeatedly emphasizes, limited to software engineering, machine learning, and cybersecurity.

It's poorly proxied in that, as the FAQ repeatedly emphasizes, what a "8 hour task" is for the purposes of this metric and what a developer typically accomplishes in a day are quite different things. Namely: the tasks lack a project context and a social context.

hey if you’re going to steal a three year old tweet, make it a groaner

well, huh.

this study shows that rural residents emits *4%* more co2. (suburban 8% more.) It’s not exactly night and day. Conversely, study authors note that urbanization tends to correlate with higher emission lifestyles in low income countries aka where urbanization is happening. They conclude:

lot of takes to be had here, but most essentially this argument requires the assumption that all trends continue forever. When if you look at the graph, perfectly clear the rate of decrease is trailing off.