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Philosophy students tend to be understandably insecure about the value and prestige of their field, and study often ends up indirectly training students to defend philosophy. Impre…

Frasier, at a free sample station: I do thank you, but I'm afraid I'm rather particular about the provenance of my shellfish. To subject a scampi to the radiation of a microwave is…

It's probably very store specific. If you know the Market Basket in Somerville, MA, it's got a legendary produce section. I've been to locations in NH with crap. IMO H-Mart is the …

I've become a Costco person in recent years. At least in my perception, inflation has affected grocery stores unevenly: Whole Foods: eye-bogglingly expensive (and no, I don't think…

We play with a base point being a dime or a quarter. Note also that the function from fan to points is subject to house rules, it's not always p(f) = 2^f (I've seen rules for examp…

This is the rational response to this "financialization" of brands, and it leads to high-quality goods being chased out of the market entirely (see "The Market for Lemons"), except…

There is a section of the article covering precisely this, headed "The external actors: arms to both sides"

Note that node-fetch will silently ignore any overrides to "forbidden" request headers like Host, since it's designed for parity with fetch behavior in the browser. This caused a m…

Stop grinding for a second. You don't need to be perfect to win. You don't need to spend 100 miles "hustling" in the desert to prove your worth. The real secret to sustainable grow…

This kind of view tends to logically conclude in the idea of a noumenal, unknowable reality. I think it's more reasonable to say that truth itself is gold star we award to descript…

Reminds me of the blog post about Waymo's "World Model". Training on real-world data results in a sufficiently rich model to start simulating novel scenarios that aren't in the tra…

Might sound like a rube here, but: is agentic development really this good at novel UIs? The video shows a sort of cassette tape music player, and a fancy looking audio visualizer/…

I really don't know anything about it, but I'd speculate that the fantasy is plain old 'misattribution of arousal'. The heart gets pounding at the idea of violating the taboo again…

I ran it on the "society if..." meme lol https://imgur.com/a/nFQN5tx

It's funny reading this take, because I went through a fancy coffee de-conversion myself about a year ago. I have a burr grinder which can produce the appropriate grind for the bre…

> White House Deputy Communications Director Kaelan Dorr defended the post after criticism of the image manipulation. > “Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will contin…

Oh! :) I saw "philosophy" and "rationalism" in the same paragraph and went into auto-pilot I suppose.

Sure. The idea of raw, uninterpreted "sense data" that the empiricists worked with (well into the 20th century) is pretty clearly bunk. Much of philosophy took a turn towards anti-…

Rationalism in philosophy is generally contrasted with empiricism. I would say you're a little off in characterizing anti-rationalism as holding rationality per se in low regard. T…

This is the most egregious one in my eyes, too. I've run A/B tests on a few signup forms and without fail it validates the standard practice: the lowest drop-off rate comes from re…

Web frontends have trended towards various forms of isolation (CSS scopes, shadow DOM), namespacing (CSS modules, BEM), or composition (tailwind etc.) because CSS cascading and inh…

Neat, have you considered linking to exrx or anything for the exercises?

ORMs come with a lot of baggage that I prefer to avoid, but it probably depends on the domain. Take an e-commerce store with faceted search. You're pretty much going to write your …

The method in the article is very close to the idea of a "branded type". Though maybe there's a distinction someone can point out to me.

It's amusing to consider how much of a Rorschach test this article must be. But it's a great point, even if it arms us to abusively write off unwelcome ideas as scams. As the autho…