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Sure, but the best way to come up with a good design is to talk it out with the LLM.

Soon that will be counterproductive and you'll be better off trusting whatever design it comes up with.

These are great.

Well written. I have a similar background and I agree with most of your observations and conclusions. Not the part about prestigious universities catering to 'rich kids", though, at least not any STEM departments.

Above? I don't know anything about these particular auctions, but how could any auction arrive at a price above market value?

non-paywall link?

So don't feel bad, is my point :)

> Why does “as if the waters had but newly retired” mean there’s a lot of water (and thus mud)?

It doesn't. It means there's a lot of mud. It might help if you had the rest of the paragraph in front of you. It sets the scene for us with a bunch of sentence fragments -- bullet points, we would say. Here's the beginning of each of them:

    Michaelmas term lately over...
    Implacable November weather. 
    As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired... 
    Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle...
    Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. 
    Horses, scarcely better

... and so on.

And yes, modern audiences aren't attuned to biblical references.

Good stuff. Are star count and forks etc. the criteria for inclusion of repos? Lots of repos result in "Repository not found".

You:

- can read Old English

- find Beowulf, in Old English, dull

... how did this happen? Isn't reading Beowulf a primary motivation, if not the primary motivation, for the hard work of learning Old English?

From the parent comment: "Heck invite the regulars to the 2nd drink with that extra money that is coming in now if you want, or give them a discount." That could even be revenue neutral, if she wants it to be. Why not try that?

The chat in what tool? Not Cursor nor Windsurf, it sounds like?

No, you should always wait until the last possible moment to refill the leaky bucket, because the less water in the bucket, the slower it leaks, due to reduced pressure.

Candidate for hardest collective fall for an April Fool's Day joke in Hacker News history?

This is so sad.