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I've never had Claude Code in VSCode add attribution to a commit when I didn't use it. VSCode is adding the attribution even when you have all copilot features disabled and therefore could not have used it.

How did you arrive at 35% less? The first is 11 characters, the second is 14, and 3/14 is 21%.

That is a good question. As you say, it's 21%. I had the 11 and the 14 correct; I don't remember how I got 35%.

Is it easy to measure a factory worker's productivity? It would seem surprising and interesting if every job's productivity is hard to measure except for one particular kind.

Any job where there's a definable output can be measured. Factory workers are one type.

Others might be farmers; if they're able to yield x tonnes of valid crops out of y acres.


24 is the highest number. Where you gonna go from there?

500mL is a pretty typical size for a travel mug/tumblr. I'd consider that two or three servings though.

500mL of Americano (diluted coffee) is not 500mL of espresso. I challenge you to drink half a litre of espresso in one sitting.

Not saying something will happen isn't the same as saying something won't happen.

Correct. It was kind of a joke based on that.

This is simply incorrect. Midwesterners have Fish Fries, often on Friday. Lake fishing is a big deal in MN, WI, IL, at least. https://www.culvers.com/what-is-a-fish-fry

annual suicide rate in the US is ~13 per 100k, murder is ~5 per 100k. so from a cohort of 50k people, we'd expect about 9 to die from one or the other per year. and these 11 deaths under investigation were over 4 years. so, yeah: my suspicion is that nothing special is happening here.

the big grain of salt: this doesn't take into account the differences in social and economic demographics of researchers and suicide + homicide victims. I'd suspect scientists skew wealthy and are less likely than average to be victims of suicide or homicide, but I don't know.


This is amazing work. I've always wanted to be able to make visualizations straight from a SQL REPL. I've been thinking about building something sort of like this with Perspective[1] + DuckDB. Perspective would give an interactive chart (and/or wicked datagrid), and using a Perspective virtual server, you could feed filter + pivot conditions in the UI back to the database query. Maybe this is the kick I need to get this out of ideation.

[1]: https://perspective-dev.github.io/


I mean, if an LLM, when given a query not in its training data, resorts to searching Google and then summarizes those results as the truth with 100% certainty, because, fuck it: YOLO… I'm already very capable of doing that myself, thank you. What's the point, even?

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