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ChadNauseam commented on Game Theory Patterns at Work   daeus.blog/2026/01/18/gam... · Posted by u/kurinikku
gogo61 · 2 days ago
What font did you use? It is such a beautiful and different than others.
ChadNauseam · 2 days ago
It seems to be "Albura" which I found here: https://fontesk.com/albura-typeface/
ChadNauseam commented on Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser   github.com/TrevorS/voxtra... · Posted by u/Curiositry
JLO64 · 2 days ago
Just tried out Handy. This is much better and lightweight UI than the previous solutions I've tried out! I know it wasn't you intention, but thank you for the recommendation!

That said, I now agree with your original statement and really want Voxtral support...

ChadNauseam · 2 days ago
Handy is awesome! and easy to fork. I highly recommend building it from source and submitting PRs if there are any features you want. The author is highly responsive and open to vibe-coded PRs as long as you do a good job. (Obviously you should read the code and stand by it before you submit a PR, but I just mean he doesn't flatly reject all AI code like some other projects do.) I submitted a PR recently to add an onboarding flow to Macs that just got merged, so now I'm hooked
ChadNauseam commented on MIT Living Wage Calculator   livingwage.mit.edu/... · Posted by u/bear_with_me
jrajav · 2 days ago
> This is more like “optimal wage to live alone in my own apartment with a car.” Which of course, people would like to have but certainly isn’t required to be comfortable.

This is a debatable goalpost. It seems more reasonable to me to assume that meeting basic shelter needs includes having a private room to oneself. The only reason to argue otherwise is to try to drive down the wage further, and is that at all necessary? Renting a private room was possible on nearly any wage 50 years ago, and the only reason it seems out of reach for many now is because purchasing power has been slowly stagnating for decades, while housing costs have soared in recent times. Yet this whole time, GDP continues to rise. It seems that our society can easily support much higher minimum wages (and this would likely have only a positive effect of stimulating the economy), but simply chooses not to.

ChadNauseam · 2 days ago
> It seems more reasonable to me to assume that meeting basic shelter needs includes having a private room to oneself

Why would that be reasonable? College students and young adults usually have roommates. I don't feel it's inhumane.

> The only reason to argue otherwise is to try to drive down the wage further

Another reason to argue otherwise is because you care about the truth. Even if you and I agree on the ends, if you use the means of exaggerating or stretching the truth to get there, you are never on my side. Saying that you need to not have roommates to live is an exaggeration.

> Renting a private room was possible on nearly any wage 50 years ago

You will never find any data to support that because it isn't true. 50 years ago, flophouses were common. You would share a bedroom room with others, with shared kitchen and bathroom between multiple bedrooms. In college, I lived in a housing-coop network where we slept two to a room. 50 years ago, they slept 4 or 6 to a room in my exact house.

> and the only reason it seems out of reach for many now is because purchasing power has been slowly stagnating for decades, while housing costs have soared in recent times

This is true. But there is a very natural reason why. Look at nearly any US city, and see how many more jobs there are in that city than there were 50 years ago. Then look at how many more homes there are in that city than there were 50 years ago. You will see that the number of new jobs far exceeds the number of new homes. The result is that wealthier people bid up the housing, while poor people are forced to live outside the city and commute. So why have no new houses been built? It can't be helped by the fact that building new homes is illegal. (e.g. buildings with 3 or more apartments are illegal in 70% of san francisco.)

Please direct your anger in the right direction! It's not generally the case that billionaires own thousands of homes, hoarding them while the poor live on the street. It's more often the case that the population has increased while the number of homes in places people want to live has stayed the same. The *only* solution is to increase the number of homes in places people want to live. Raising the minimum wage, taxing the rich, fighting corporations, adding rent control laws, none of that will help solve the root of the problem, the growth rate of homes in cities is far slower than the rate of people wanting to live there!

ChadNauseam commented on The Waymo World Model   waymo.com/blog/2026/02/th... · Posted by u/xnx
anigbrowl · 5 days ago
Except that's not what the original posters said, rather 'operators making major decisions.' Don't strawman here, it wastes everyone's time.
ChadNauseam · 5 days ago
I didn't mean to insult the original poster. But I have seen people who think that waymos are being driven remotely by filipinos
ChadNauseam commented on The Waymo World Model   waymo.com/blog/2026/02/th... · Posted by u/xnx
FL33TW00D · 5 days ago
Completely false: https://x.com/i/status/2019213765506670738

Listen to the statement.

The operators help when the Waymo is in a "difficult situation".

Car drives itself 99% of the time, long tail of issues not yet fixed have a human intervene.

Everyone is making out like it's an RC car, completely false.

ChadNauseam · 5 days ago
Whenever something like this comes out, it's a good moment to find people with no critical thinking skills who can safely be ignored. Driving a waymo like an RC car from the philippines? you can barely talk over zoom with someone in the philippines without bitrate and lag issues.
ChadNauseam commented on English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings   yaledailynews.com/article... · Posted by u/cmsefton
randcraw · 10 days ago
At the very least, every school, subject, and teacher should be obliged to conduct experiments during the school year -- A/B/C trials in which various forms of note taking are explored: handwritten, computer-typed, and neither.

Then see how it affects the kids' learning speed and retention of the various subjects. Then they need to compare notes with the other teachers to learn what they did differently and what did or didn't work for them.

Ideally they'd also assess how this worked for different types of students, those with good vs bad reading skills, with good vs bad grades, esp those who are underperforming their potential.

ChadNauseam · 10 days ago
The idea that we would A/B test handwritten vs typed to see what would improve retention is focusing on the wrong thing. It's like A/B testing mayo or no mayo on your big mac to see which version is a healthier meal. No part of the school system is optimized for retention. It's common for students to take a biology class in 9th grade and then never study biology again for the rest of their lives. Everyone knows they won't remember any biology by the time they graduate, and no one cares.

We know what increases retention, it's active recall and (spaced) repetition. These are basic principles of cognitive science have been empirically proven many times. Please try to implement that before demanding that teachers do A/B tests over what font to write the homework assignments in.

ChadNauseam commented on English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings   yaledailynews.com/article... · Posted by u/cmsefton
azinman2 · 10 days ago
Computers have not advanced education — the data shows the opposite. I think we should just go back to physical books (which can be used!), and pen and paper for notes and assignments.
ChadNauseam · 10 days ago
I disagree. I've been using Math Academy for learning math. It's far superior to any way that I've learned in class.
ChadNauseam commented on Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]   dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/... · Posted by u/zem
amelius · 10 days ago
Yeah we don't throw programming languages away because they are undecidable.

So why would we throw type systems away if they are undecidable?

ChadNauseam · 10 days ago
Decidability isn't even that useful. If typechecking takes a million years, that's also bad. What you want is guarantees that correct programs typecheck quickly. Without this, you end up in swift land, where you can write correct code that can't be typechecked quickly and the compiler has to choose between being slow or rejecting your code
ChadNauseam commented on Start (Vibe) Coding Fast   chadnauseam.com/coding/ti... · Posted by u/ChadNauseam
ChadNauseam · 11 days ago
I've been getting my family members to start vibe coding. In my experience, claude works very well but the biggest issue is actually installing all the necessary tools. So I created a little setup script that MacOS users can use to get up-and-running quickly.

It basically sets them up with a development environment similar to the one I use personally. It uses the git settings from https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git , helps them set up their username/email, downloads Ghostty, VSCode, fnm and pnpm, etc.

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