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I'm all about hating on the psychiatry profession, but I believe what may be missing here is that these diagnoses are always optional. If you like your grief, you can keep your gri…

It's not the size of the landmass that counts, anyway. It's how you use it.

I believe this is a "good" bubble in the sense that the 19th century railroad bubble and original dot com bubble both ended up invested in infrastructure that created immense value…

This is leftist propaganda masquerading as objective research, entirely ignoring the significant amount of "hate speech" censorship that goes on, as well. Whatever your opinion abo…

Let's make us American workers even less attractive in the most globalized and exportable industry of all by playing Wagner Act games.

It's inevitable that social media will split up into separate and distinct networks of people who can no longer stand or even undertand the other sociopolitical tribes. All of us s…

They're just encrypted IQ tests, working around the Duke Power supreme court ban on IQ testing employees. You're being tested on your general intelligence, not because anybody care…

I'm in my forties and have been doing ironic retro window managers since I was a teen rocking olvwm on my slackware 486 box in the mid-nineties. Months fade into years, which have …

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Gonna stick with my gummies, thanks.

Try to avoid the bespoke features of psql in favor of generic SQL unless cornered by circumstances into doing so, methinks. If there's one complaint I have about pg, it's that it h…

Yup. With nothing but love for sqlite.

Garbage data analysis, reporting the statistical rebound from a statistically anomalous period (covid) as if it's some kind of trend. To the article's credit, they make no effort t…

I'm big on digital minimalism and have relied on Chromebooks for everything for well over a decade now. I have Gimp, Inkscape, and the other flagship Linux apps I need. I have ssh …

Immigration and assimilation policies in the west have been too rapid, faster than even those who think they're open minded can adapt to new people. The result is a pervasive socie…

We lack the moral courage to be honest about why real world community disintegrated and are therefore doomed to suffer these pedantic lectures that miss the point and point in rand…

Hopefully they double check, as I would hate for him to be buried alive in a box.

AI is enabling a new generation of exploits and hacks that will force tech to get a lot simpler, more human readable, and more privacy oriented. Everything is going to need to be r…

Holding my first child for the first time decades later approached the sense of otherworldly bliss and joy that I experienced when, as a young teen in the mid nineties, I got X to …

A swing and a miss. The future of materials is going back to plant fiber; wood, hemp, etc. There will be plenty of fancy composite materials for specialty applications; but our wor…

Programmers would be better served by learning nothing except SQL instead of their current strategy of trying to learn everything except SQL.

I am emotionally invested in having been born in "the twentieth century" instead of "the 1900s."

Google is evil and all, but they're on the right side of this fight.

Maybe the question is there to filter out crusty cynics who aren't up for the very basic bullshitting it takes to get along in a team setting.