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Women's sizing is so dumb. They could just provide inches or cm like they do for the men, but for some reason (well for marketing reasons, as discussed extensively in the article), they use these random sizes and numbers that aren't consistent and change over time.

I think this is why stretchy materials are getting more and more popular. The women in my house use stretchy pants almost exclusively, because they are much more forgiving with body shape. As long as the waist fits, the rest will fit well enough.


Mens sizes have changed over time. Go get a vintage t-shirt from the 80s, medium size, and try it on. It'll be the size of a small or xs today.

I meant more the pants and dress shirts, which are sized in inches.

> pants are sized in inches

I wish! That number is kinda-sorta-related-to inches, but it's not, at least not anymore. I wear a 31 or 32 jean, but my waist is about 34.5 inches. And any jeans which fit my thighs properly (turns out to be about size 34) will fall off my waist.

Measure your own waist and pants, see what you find!

Sizing is chaos.


I assume you are talking jean sizes, which might be related to inches in some historical sense, but now it's more abstract.

However dress pants, sports pants and everything that isn't pants is just as bad as for women.


you're right! i just try the clothes i used to wear as a toddler, it's ridiculous how much they don't fit

it's not always necessarily about people being fat but also about style, tighter t-shirts where more in fashion back in 70/80s, not it's more loose style

>Women's sizing is so dumb. They could just provide inches or cm like they do for the men, but for some reason (well for marketing reasons, as discussed extensively in the article), they use these random sizes and numbers that aren't consistent and change over time.

Relevant: TIL that while male rowers are classified as "lightweight" or "heavyweight", larger female rowers are called "openweight" instead of "heavyweight". <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/32p2ka/til_th...>


Lightweight rowing is pretty much dead, anyways.

It was originally introduced to give countries with shorter people a chance to compete (as rowing depends a lot on height), but in practice it mainly resulted in promising candidates who didn't quite make the cut for heavyweight being forced into eating disorders.

Lightweight rowing has been cut from the olympics already, so to a lot of organisations it has lost its relevance. There are still world championships, but I bet it is only a matter of time before it'll disappear there as well.


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To be clear, you’re advocating for women to lose the right to vote? The misogyny in this thread was disappointing already, but seeing this comment being voted up is maybe a sign I should not be on this website any more.

Voted up?

If you mean the troll post didn't immediately fade with one downvote that might just be a matter of having two accounts.


But very gatekeepy. New accounts are already highlighted and get mercilessly reported and downvoted if they post spam.

Maybe just hide them if they post GitHub links.

I've loved some of the vibe coded apps that are hosted somewhere that have made the front page, but a lot of the links to GitHub projects intended to farm stars for throwaway portfolio padding (which often don't work).

Egh. No silver bullet here.


As someone who has posted a couple of Show HNs that went to GitHub, I'd have to respectfully disagree. :) We are sharing language libraries, so GH makes the most sense. You can get the library and sample apps there.

Oh yes, I'd be very disappointed with no GH links or new code libraries, but making GH links for new users go through stricter review/more limited visibility might be a good trade off.

You still somewhat mute new users who want to share a useful/interesting GH link, but I'd hope higher karma users can help us out here.


I'm not entirely sure that's a bad thing. If you aren't proud enough of it to attach your real name, or your pseudonymous account, maybe it shouldn't be posted.

It has nothing to do with "pride". Anonymity is about being able to speak freely without having to feel the need to self-censor one's views. I don't want to feel hesitant to make a comment on a controversial subject out of fear that it will be permanently associated with my projects in a detrimental manner.

This is doubly true with anything that involves your real name. I don't think enough people understand that there is a genuine, non-zero risk that commenting on political matters with your real name risks getting you imprisoned or killed 5, 10, 20 years later. The internet is a permanent record for your views, and history has given us many examples of dictators who have purged millions of people deemed intellectuals, enemies of the regime, etc. This is true regardless of how much you trust your current government, because governments change and authoritarianism can happen anywhere. Even the self-proclaimed bastion of free speech is currently attempting to persecute people criticising the government online[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-s...

(...that said, the LLM spam situation is so dire that even with these views on anonymity, I would be willing to create a new account where I carefully self-censor everything I say until I meet whatever proposed threshold would be necessary to submit a ShowHN, so I'm not opposed to such a limit out of necessity.)


"Do these characters have the emotional memory of the 800 things that have happened to them? ... I don’t really know the answer to that.”

They do have a history, because in the Grimes episode he talks about things Homer did in other episodes, and the characters themselves sometimes make reference to things in the past.

But it must be a fun writing challenge to take characters that don't age but somehow seem to rack up a lifetime of experience.


Along with the favorite montage of tons of stuff happening and Homer remarking: 'what a week'.

"I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda."

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jHQM9cCK4Qw


Their ratings would tell another story. Still one of the top rated shows.

Ok let me rephrase: it's been terrible for 15 years in comparison to what it used to be.

Also thank you for reddit.


I can agree with that. Which then begs the question, is the rest of TV so bad that it's still top rated, or is it momentum, or are we just looking back with rose colored glasses? :)

And you're welcome!


The most interesting thing here to me is the leaderboard, because they actually included the estimated price per game. Gemini gets the highest score with a fairly reasonable cost (about 1/3 of the way down).

To be clear, that's not estimated price, it's actual price I paid across all the real games. My hope is you'll see it trend down over time as I find more ways to make the harness token-efficient :)

That's even more interesting then! It would be cool if you added a price to performance column. Even if it's just for this one task, it's still interesting.

Performance is tricky to measure. Right now the best measure of performance I've got is the "blunder index", but that's currently flagging a lot of stuff that I really don't consider to be true blunders - I think my top priority for the next few evenings is going to be iterating on the blunder-annotator, and that'll help me identify what issues in the actual gameplay code to focus on. And the blunder index isn't really defined in such a way that you can do arithmetic on it meaningfully :)

It's hard to tell now, but most likely your second post got "second chanced". That's where they go through things that they think might be popular and put them back on the front page, usually a couple days after they were initially posted.

I'm more interested in the fact that disclaimer at the top makes me think the entire article is written by AI as a summary of a bunch of reddit posts and tweets and discord topics?

Is that what the top says?


Most of the article was written by AI I guess, but I think there's some human editing to it and the OP is the editor

author here, entire editorial is entirely human written

Then what did the (now removed) disclaimer refer to?

I assume the backup is the copy in R2.

That's better than nothing. Personally, I wouldn't consider it archival storage, so much as the possibility that 20 years from now Cloudflare (or a holding company) pays me $100 compensation for my lost data!

I have a NAS backup as well.

I'm not sure you've thought this through. That would mean you can't record law enforcement or any other abuse of power.

The issue here isn't the recording, it's the packaging it up for sale that's the issue.


I've given a bit of thought on this, and I think the best path might be civil liability for the privacy loss-- defined broadly. Private security camera that never goes anywhere? You're fine. Start posting that same footage online where it results in people being massively tracked: big liability.

I think otherwise it's too difficult to define the exact boundary between harmful and harmless use-- instead it's better to say that if your use harms someone you'll regret it.


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