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by windows_hater_7 | 2025-12-04 22:07:46+00:00
No offense taken. My first point was that some of these students were legitimately diagnosed with learning disabilities long before grades, the SAT, or college admissions were even a thought. I also should have been more clear that I wasn't diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD until I was around 9, so I went from needing to repeat grades to being more successful in school as a result of getting the support I needed.

My overall point is that learning disabilities like dyslexia have no impact on intelligence, and accommodations just level the playing field. I imagine that if I hadn't been diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD, I wouldn't have made it to the same school.

But for people who truly need academic accommodations, the playing field will never be level, because every aspect of school takes them longer. I don't get more time to study for exams, and if it takes me twice as long to read and comprehend the same chapter of a textbook as someone without dyslexia, I have to study twice as long just to get through the same content. I think it's fair that I get to take notes using "prohibited technology" during lecture when it is impossible for me to decode what the lecturer is saying fast enough to turn it into handwritten notes.

However, I agree with the article that the percentage of students who claim to have disabilities has gotten out of control. Almost 60% of the students in the extended exam room finish the exam in the standard time anyway. It does make it appear as though everyone with accommodations is gaming the system.

Having ADHD and dyslexia is not "quirky" or fun. It consistently ruins my life. It is not something I make part of my identity.

I would do anything to not need accommodations.
by bananalychee | 2025-12-04 22:07:48+00:00
I have firsthand experience being diagnosed and prescribed medication for ADHD within about half an hour of self-reporting mild symptoms with a physician remotely, for one, so perhaps I'm more of an authority on this subject than most commenters here. I suppose it would be equally trivial to seek an ASD diagnosis, since Asperger's is now lumped in with autism and classified as a disability despite not being one.
by aniforprez | 2025-12-04 22:07:52+00:00
Aside from the usual separation of tech stacks for different teams, the big thing for me is lack of any sort of type hinting or safety in templates at least in the big frameworks such as Django, Rails etc. I would much rather work with a separate build process that utilizes typescript than deal with the errors that come out of incorrectly reading formless data and making typos within templates.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-04 22:08:09+00:00
Priorities only become priorities because people fought for them to become priorities.

You can fight that battle via significant self promotion, but you can also lobby for yourself by keeping in constant contact with a subset of stakeholders who actually matter (your manager, your skip manager, your PM, your PM's manager, and maybe 1-2 adjacent EMs).

And honestly, the latter is the norm and much easier as well simply because it ensures that other people are fighting your battle.
by schmidtleonard | 2025-12-04 22:08:11+00:00
Also, there is a massive conflict of interest associated with trusting the opinions of companies actively engaged in labor and environmental arbitrage. Opinions of politicians and think-tanks downstream of them in terms of funding, too. Even if those opinions are legitimately more educated and better reasoned, they are on the opposite side of the bargaining table from most people and paying attention to them alone is "who needs defense attorneys when we have prosecutors" level of madness.

If anyone is looking for an expert opinion that breaks with the "free trade is good for everyone all of the time lah dee dah" consensus, Trade Wars are Class Wars by Klein & Pettis is a good read.
by Aloisius | 2025-12-04 22:08:13+00:00
The Atlantic journalist talked to Stanford Professor Paul Graham Fisher who was co-chair of the university’s disability task force, so I imagine they either got it from him or someone else at the school.

They could have made it up, but since the article is a couple days old and no one has printed any retraction or correction, I'm more inclined to believe the number is accurate.
by onetimeusename | 2025-12-04 22:08:18+00:00
It would be interesting to test that maybe by looking at the disability rate before and after the honor code was changed recently. If there was an increase in disabilities, it might be because other cheating options on exams were limited.

For those wondering, the honor code was changed to make all exams proctored because of a number of academic dishonesty issues that happened allegedly.
by qazxcvbnmlp | 2025-12-04 22:08:23+00:00
This is an important distinction. Indeed, many behaviors (ie attachment issues) that are maladaptive for an adult can be adaptive to a child and it is important to not change those without taking into account the environment a child is in.

An 8th grader may not have control over how their time is spent, but an attuned response from the people around them will help the child adapt.

A child experiencing: 'everyone around me can take this test, but i cannot, I must be dumb'

vs

A child experiencing: 'everyone around me can take this test, but i cannot, I must be dumb' and a caring figure in their life explaining to them 'you show traits of ADHD, this commonly makes it harder for you to focus on things like a math test. it really hurts when you fail the test and you wanted to get an A. Why don't you try again at the same problem at home, I believe in you. And maybe I will talk to your teacher about some extra time for the next test. We can't always get this, and even if you don't pass the test it's ok.'
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-04 22:09:17+00:00
>TI pivoting away from semiconductors and towards other goods may seem like a stupid move in hindsight, but even in hindsight it's not clearly the case

I think even by the turn of the 90's this could be seen as an extraordinarily stupid move. The PC was on the up and up and they abandon expertise on a resource that will only explode in demand? I'm sure there was some cushy educational deals with school supplies, but they literally left a gold mine for China.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-12-04 22:09:24+00:00
> Isn't this simply a part that shouldn't have been allowed to be sold based on it being both faulty and also misleading?

"Faulty and also misleading" pretty much describes the code output by vibe coding. And don't get me wrong: I use LLMs daily to help me write functions / write test cases / find bugs / find edge cases / explain error messages etc. But I don't vibe code entire parts like that part that melted.
by ux266478 | 2025-12-04 22:09:31+00:00
> These societies hit scaling limits precisely because they failed to diversify.

Neither of them hit 'scaling limits'. The Phoenicians made a strategic mistake at the outset of the Punic wars, and Viet Nam took the Mekong delta just 150 years ago, almost entirely wiping out the Khmer Krom. Shortly afterwards, international politics had changed so much that aggressive territorial expansion stopped being profitable.

> One can deprioritize the points of difference

Which is assimilation. Think about what deprioritization actually entails. Prioritization of language for example. Deprioritization means that you cannot have a person who speaks Sicilian fluently, and English at an A2 level. As a natural consequence, Sicilian as a language dies in that family after 3-4 generations have passed as a natural effect of no longer being the higher priority language. This happens across all cultural axes. Speaking as someone whose descended almost entirely from early Syrian immigrants to America. Deprioritizing identity means giving up that identity to every degree that matters.

> Romans Italians and later provincials into their citizenry.

Roman power was established at a time when their diversity meant gangpressing non-Latins into conscription and not giving them citizenry afterwards. While they eventually began extending citizenry to conquered people, and later even equated Romanness with citizenry, much of their diverse populations like the Germanics, the Celts, the Levantines, the Maghrebis, never cared about Rome or Romanness. The Germanics even destroyed Rome, and none of the rest cared when it all went up in flames. It was just an annoying exploiter, one in a long line of many. I think the scaling limit point is interesting because Rome explicitly did hit a scaling limit at the peak of their diversity and shortly afterwards collapsed into hell on earth. Cherry on top of Anatolians and Germanics running away with their identity because it had become completely meaningless.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-12-04 22:09:38+00:00
So it’s also the perfect time to constrain the product flow to jack up the prices.

They’ve been acting like a cartel for a long time now and somehow they never match the demand even after 18 months straight price increases. They already have the fab, the procedures, and everything, so stop acting like they’re setting up a brand new fab just to increase throughput.
by Cieric | 2025-12-04 22:09:45+00:00
At this point I'm not sure I can give a satisfying answer, but zig was just fun to use from the beginning. It was just c, but with a bunch of special features like comptime, the lessened foot-gun-ness of zig was just a benefit since most of the conventions were just things I was doing in my head but not putting into the code (since there wasn't really a good way to do so without compromise). The other thing I liked was I could just immediately read and write it without much looking at the docs. Their standard library was a bit of a hurdle, but the fact that the whole thing existed on my disk and I could just pop it open and read the code really helped (I assume this is the same with Rust, but I have trouble reading rust without going to lookup syntax). So while I can't give good reasons for using it in a commercial setting, for personal projects it was just fun. Rust in comparison hasn't really been fun to try and pick up.

At this point however I don't really like the way zig is going. So I won't really advocate for zig at this point, but I can say when I first started using it, it was fun and I could just write code that worked.
by jbullock35 | 2025-12-04 22:09:53+00:00
> Being able to read/write with some haste is not unrelated to job/academic performance.

Yes, I agree. But my point is about handwriting, rather than writing in general. Handwriting speed is something that we are effectively testing with many in-class exams. And handwriting speed - unlike reading or writing speed - is indeed unrelated to job performance. It is also unrelated to any reasonable measure of academic performance.
by AlexandrB | 2025-12-04 22:09:58+00:00
Do you think the disabled are being helped by letting bad actors trying to get a leg up over their peers abuse accommodations meant for them?

On pretty much every "culture war" issue the "left" fails to adequately grapple with bad actors and those that abuse empathetic policies to harm others or unfairly advance themselves. Long term this will be to the great detriment of marginalized groups because societal support for these accommodations will erode. It's really frustrating to watch.

Edit: If you want a recent example of this coming full circle, take a look at service animals. Sometime around 2021-2023 there was a wave of people claiming their pets as "service animals" or "emotional support animals" and bringing them everywhere in public. At first this was tolerated or even welcomed by businesses but increasingly animals are being banned from these spaces because of badly behaved pets. Those with genuine need for a service animal are caught in the crossfire.
by blibble | 2025-12-04 22:10:53+00:00
> Why is this, I wonder?

because that's Microsoft's business model

their products are just just good enough to allow them to put a checkbox in a feature table to allow it to be sold to someone who will then never have to use it

but not even a penny more will be spent than the absolute bare minimum to allow that

this explains Teams, Azure, and everything else they make you can think of
by Kirby64 | 2025-12-04 22:10:58+00:00
> Cheap PCs are crap.

Expensive PCs are also crap. My work offers Macbooks or Windows laptops (currently, Dell, but formerly Lenovo and/or HP), and these machines are all decidedly not 'cheap' PCs. Often retailing in excess of $2k.

All my coworkers who own Windows laptops do is bellyache about random issues, poor battery life, and sluggish performance.

I used to have a Windows PC for work about 3 years ago as well, and it was also a piece of crap. Battery would decide to 'die' at 50% capacity. After replacement, 90 minute battery life off charger. Fan would decide to run constantly if you did anything even moderately intensive such as a Zoom meeting.
by shadowgovt | 2025-12-04 22:11:02+00:00
That's one theory.

Counter theory: for all of human existence people have shared resources and traded among each other. Yes, for truly scarce resources trade breaks down.

So is "good housing" a scarce resource on Stanford's campus? Or is their default resource allocation schema too anti-human so it's turning something that should be a simple trade and negotiation problem into a knife-fight?
by chrysoprace | 2025-12-04 22:11:06+00:00
Fantastic. I was actually working on something like this myself. I was planning to use an LLM as a fallback for recipes that don't contain properly formatted recipe data.

Curious as to how you get around some of the anti-scraping measures like Cloudflare. I put in a recipe blog (https://www.maangchi.com) that usually blocks me with Cloudflare but your site was able to scrape it just fine.

Edit: also as a very minor point your counter on how many recipes have been imported seems to keep going up each time I try to visit the same recipe. It says I've converted 5 but I've just tried to visit the same recipe 5 times.
by lordnacho | 2025-12-04 22:11:11+00:00
No, people who are older than 40 still grew up in newspaper world. Yes, the internet existed, but it didn't have the deluge of terrible content until well into the new millennium, and you couldn't get that content portable until roughly when the iPhone became ubiquitous. A lot of content at the time was simply the newspaper or national TV station, on the web. It was only later that you could virally share awful content that was formatted like good content.

Now that isn't to say that just because something is a newspaper, it is good content, far from it. But quality has definitely collapsed, overall and for the legacy outlets.
by netsharc | 2025-12-04 22:11:17+00:00
I got Gemini Pro (or whatever it's called) for free for a year on my new Pixel phone, but there's an option to keep Assistant, which I'm using.

Gotta love the enshittification: "new and better" being more CPU cycles being burned for a worse experience.

I just have a shortcut to the Gemini webpage on my home screen if I want to use it, and for some reason I can't just place a shortcut (maybe it's my ancient launcher that's not even in the play store anymore), so I have to make a tasker task that opens the webpage when run.
by jph00 | 2025-12-04 22:11:18+00:00
I don't know about Stanford, but in earlier schooling accomodations can include things like being allowed to sit on a bouncy chair, or use a fidget toy, or type instead of hand-write (physical asynchronous development is a common issue), or wear headphones, or take more frequent breaks.

I do think that more flexibility in educational environments might be good for most people, yes.
by echelon_musk | 2025-12-04 22:11:27+00:00
I almost read beyond Part 1's introduction before looking at the comments.

But thanks to your comment I now know it was written with an AI and that makes me want to stop here.

If the author is asking an LLM to confirm his biases in order to make his point it will probably contain sycophantic hallucinations.

Britain is broke. That's probably all there is to say.
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by unshavedyak | 2025-12-04 22:12:10+00:00
Rust is hard in that it gives you a ton of rope to hang yourself with, and some people are just hell bent on hanging themselves.

I find Rust quite easy most of the time. I enjoy the hell out of it and generally write Rust not too different than i'd have written my Go programs (i use less channels in Rust though). But i do think my comment about rope is true. Some people just can't seem to help themselves.
by munchbunny | 2025-12-04 22:12:11+00:00
Some fairly simple examples where accommodations make the test more fair:

* You have a disability that hinders your ability to type on a keyboard, so you need extra time to type the essay based exam through vocal transcription.

* You broke your dominant hand (accidents happen) so even though you know all of the material, you just can't write fast enough within normal "reasonable" time limits.

* You are blind, you need some way to be able to read the questions in the test. People who can see normally shouldn't need those accommodations.

I don't think those are cases where you are lowering the bar. Not by more than you are allowing the test taker a fairer chance, anyway.

The problem is when you get into the gray area where it's not clear than an accommodation should be given.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-12-04 22:13:24+00:00
We only need the memory manufacturers to not collude with each other, not even external pressure.

You want to tame their cartel like behaviors? Just get into their books and it would be clear as day if they’re artificially constraining the supply, and I’m not even talking about spending extra billions.

You cannot manufacture something that modern life depends on and not get government scrutiny.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-04 22:13:25+00:00
There's room for making more, but I don't think doubling makes sense from a profit point of view.

Especially because the demand curve that's skyrocketing right now is the RAM that isn't in long-term contracts. Doubling all production would much more than double the RAM available for normal purchases.

> To get prices down, supply would have to grow tremendously. Enough to soak up even more purchases from the very motivated, and to cover all the purchasers that have currently pulled back.

Is "down" here back to normal levels?

But normal levels are like a tenth of the profit margin. They'd make significantly less money doing that.
by lloydjones | 2025-12-04 22:13:33+00:00
I don’t really relate to many comments here stating “my approach is X”, or “I went from servant-leader to process-master-whatever leader”.

I’ve found that trying to be anything but flexible to the environment is unrealistic and even egotistical.

E.g, There are some environments where the CEO is so “command and control” that the “I want us all to bring our authentic selves to the peace circle of work, and from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, we will figure out a synergy that works for all” just won’t ever work.

And for me, being unable to adapt the approach to environment suggests ‘one trick pony’.
by stevex | 2025-12-04 22:13:40+00:00
One thing Django has going for it is that the "batteries included" nature of it is perfect for AI code generation.

You can get a working site with the usual featuers (admin panel, logins, forgot reset/password flow, etc) with minimal code thanks to the richness of the ecosystem, and because of the minimal code it's relatively easy for the AI to keep iterating on it since it's small enough to be understandable in context.
by skx001 | 2025-12-04 22:14:03+00:00
Key points:

- Overall, 59 percent said they regard AI as a threat to their future job prospects, far more than immigration (31 percent).

- 43 percent said they were already struggling financially or had limited financial security.

- Fifty seven percent felt the country is headed down the wrong path. During the 2009 recession, that number was only 37 percent.

- When asked about political violence, 28 percent said they view it as “acceptable when the government violates individual rights.”
by hylaride | 2025-12-04 22:14:15+00:00
> (My current understanding, if you find your culture has been corrupted with a clique/wolfpack of mercenary ex-FAANG people, or a bunch of performative sprint theatre seatwarmers, is that you either have to excise/amputate everywhere the cancer has spread, or accept that you're stuck with a shit culture forever.)

You just described my last job. It went from one of the most productive (and I mean we fucking SHIPPED - quality work, usually the first time around), engaging, and fun places I've ever worked to a place where a new VP would sit in every single group's sprint planing, retros, and standups and interject if we deviated one iota from a very orthodox scrum framework. The engineering turnover was pretty much 95% within a year, with only the most junior people remaining because they didn't really know better to move on. Work slowed, tech debt ballooned, but OMFG were the product managers happy because they were also allowed in every step of the way.

Work slowed to a crawl, too. Eventually a private equity firm swooped in and made things even worse...