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Only if you’re so rich that your degree doesn’t need to pay for itself.

I think it’s perfectly germane. When a medium is both a means for making a good living _and_ a form of artistic expression, there’s a natural tension that emerges from people who p…

> What’s the point in generating writing … if it gives next to zero feelings of accomplishment? Getting promoted, getting a better job, generating sales leads, things of that natur…

The language pattern the author refers to is called litotes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litotes ), but to say that English doesn’t use them is… not quite right.

I don’t think BART employees really have any say in where BART stations do and don’t go, or how many trains they get. Try city councils instead, although none of them take BART any…

I generally find that Waymos are cheaper than Uber/Lyft including tip . I’ve also seen that, although Uber and Lyft peak times seem correlated to each other, they seem uncorrelated…

Note that, at least in Thomas Malory’s telling, the arm holding Excalibur out of the lake is not the Lady Of The Lake, who is nearby on the lake. The arm holding Excalibur is neith…

San Francisco’s “Main Street” is in no way a major artery, however. Market Street served that function. Here’s an 1853 map https://rumsey.geogarage.com/maps/g3463000.html in which …

Ooh, we got a doxastic voluntarist over here!

Clement Greenberg wrote that "Hopper simply happens to be a bad painter. But if he were a better painter, he would, most likely, not be so superior an artist".

As a careerlong DevOps guy, I’ve heard many times that “if your job title has DevOps in it, your company is doing DevOps wrong” – overwhelmingly from people with “DevOps” in their …

People are also not really expected to be individually responsible for mitigating flood or fire risk; they buy insurance. People can’t buy insurance for getting locked out of their…

I do live there. I can hear the foghorns from the bridge at night. It’s nice!

The fog doesn’t hide the beauty; the fog is the beauty.

In my experience, the business use of retaining years-old metrics is overvalued , because changes in the system tend to prevent any kind of long-term apples-to-apples comparison. Y…

We didn’t make software engineer money when we didn’t have “engineer” in our titles. I would be perfectly happy to be a “senior systems administrator” or similar if it didn’t impac…

Are you suggesting that it might be just coincidental that companies stopped putting chalk dust in milk at about the same time that doing so became illegal?

Fine, you pedant, it’s ironic that a textually sympathetic review of a memoir lionizing the virtues of secondhand brick-and-mortar bookstores, while fretting about their continuing…

Ironic that this review of a memoir about bookstores starts off by linking to it on Amazon.

When did “koan” become a synonym for “aphorism”?

I changed jobs at the end of 2020, my new job has better pay and better work-from-home arrangements, and I don’t regret a thing. My hypothesis is that a significant chunk of the pe…

On the contrary, Twitter’s users generally seem to believe that Twitter’s moderation is abysmal , and they have clamored for years for it to be better than it is, on a variety of a…

You’re saying “takesies” does not rhyme with “backsies”? As a counterexample, what would be a word that would rhyme with one but not the other?

The core point about people systemically underestimating the complexity of any field outside their own is well taken. Joseph Conrad writes: "Men earning their bread in any very spe…

> And the D&D Beyond software is clearly a first attempt at an Apple App Store style walled garden from which to extract rent forever and ever. Second attempt, actually. WOTC had a…