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How does the economy compare with the structures in EVE Online?

It was smaller scale and simpler, easy to understand without spreadsheets. Even a middle school student could understand their slice of the economy.

After struggling with this problem for a while, we started using Qustodio. It's not perfect by any means, but it's the most broadly effective and usable tool for parental control I've found. Loads better than the confusing iOS native screen time tools.

Did you read the article? It was an open problem.

Was it? It was an open problem to Knuth - who generally knows how to search literature. However there is enough literature to search that it wouldn't be a surprise at all to discover it was already solved but he just used slightly different terms and so didn't find it. Or maybe it was sovled because this is a specialization of something that looks unrelated and so he wouldn't have realized it when he read it. Or...

Overall I'm going with unsolved, because Knuth is a smart person who I'd expect to not miss the above. I'm also sure he falls for the above all the time even though the majority of the time he doesn't.


Agreed with all of that, but with the added point that Knuth has done a lot of work in this exact area in The Art of Computer Programming Volume 4. If he considers this conjecture open given his particular knowledge of the field, it likely is (although agreed, it's not guaranteed).

> If he considers this conjecture open given his particular knowledge of the field, it likely is (although agreed, it's not guaranteed).

It is as good as guaranteed. If Knuth says it doesn't know how to solve the problem, and if anyone knows, then they will inform Knuth about it. Knuth not just a very knowledgeable person, but a celebrity also.


Also, if Claude had regurgitated a known solution, it would have come up with it in the first exploration round, not the 31st, as it actually did.

It would be interesting if it were Dan Simmons…

This does not appear to be true if you read the earlier "Activation" section. If you have an existing subscription, it pauses while the free period is active. After that free period, your existing subscription resumes. As I read it, there is no "auto-subscribe" after the free period ends -- you just revert back to whatever you had before (or nothing, if you weren't a subscriber before).

If I'm reading it wrong, let me know.


I think you are right. I'll edit my comment to point to this.

Even if they did let the free users continue using, and then preesnted them with invoices, those would mean nothing without a registered, up-to-date payment method on file.

I mean, pay this invoice ... or else what?


> I mean, pay this invoice ... or else what?

Or else they send it to collections.


I don't think replacing "increased" with "greater" or "higher" would compromise communication to researchers at all, but it could cut down on misinterpretation and miscommunication in the wider science reporting world.

Seems like it would be overall beneficial.


Yes, but should we expect researchers to have the lay communication skills to even consider such things, to realize that the phrasing could be misinterpreted? Traditionally that's the job of the institute's PR department writing press releases. Anyone reading an abstract directly from its authors should also be expected to have basic academic reading skills.

It's that, as I understand it. Anthropic is the only vendor certified to run its models on DoD/DoW classified networks.

Take your pick from the many other choices offered by companies that don't care about mass spying on _anyone_.

Have a look at https://thaura.ai.

Or don't.

I thought we were the allies and looked down on powerful secret police. Like the Nazis or the Soviets. Did we lose those wars?

The US is no longer a reliable ally to Europe. Look at the threats against Greenland.

I hope the next few elections change this, but right now that's how things are.


When? Its entire history from the foundation of the Republic to 1947. The name was changed after WWII; now a faction wants to change it back. The difference in name never changed the behavior, in either direction.

You're hiring, so of course that's the message you're getting from recruiters. "Market is hot", so take their candidates quick before someone else snaps them up. Don't believe this line without confirmation.

No, that's just the reality of the market right now. Software engineers are an extremely hot field, likely because everybody is trying to add AI to their products.

https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-glo...


I'm an software engineer with 17 years experience and I can't even get an interview at most places I put my resume in to.

I'm being very picky with what I look at, which doesn't help, but yeah, it doesn't seem great. Maybe they're all in person gigs? Or is there some ageism? (There has always been some ageism in software)

Largely in-person gigs in the SF Bay Area, yeah. One reason the rents are up so much.

Easier to hire consultants to add AI to do your software engineering for you than temporarily hire humans with needs and benefit costs to add AI to do your software engineering for you.

Yeah that would make me consider finding a different recruiter. Real estate agent mentality means their interests are not aligned properly.

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