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> as long as they're the right ones? Which ones are the right ones? Yours? Mine?

ActiveRecord is Ruby's nigh unassailable superpower for webdev. A few jobs back my last act in that role was moving all DB access from a separate Scala microservice into a Rails mi…

This comes up a lot. But it's wrong, or at least incomplete. People who want to live in their house don't want the value of that house to go up, because then their taxes go up.

Several years ago someone stole my former startup's first hardware prototype, along with a bunch of other stuff. In 300 years, should my descendents have a right to claim restituti…

Maybe an English degree would be a good complimentary one? Muphry's Law strikes again: compl-e-mentary vs. compl-i-mentary.

It's only flawed for beginners. With 10 years or more of experience, it's possible to design successfully based on that experience.

the idea of Jesus had to come from somewhere What present-day meme will reach a similar level of distribution and hazy origins? Will we see future generations speculating about the…

Words follow that I hope might help you or someone else; but might not. I know sometimes the last thing one wants is "yet more advice." These are just things that work for me. I'm …

I'm curious what was wrong with the in-floor heating. Modern in-floor heating is really nice, though you have to account for thermal lag.

"Pretty successful" is a poor proxy for "satisfies condition X." Kindle is known to be bad for anything where the spatial layout matters.

They should, in a kids' math textbook.

Many of us have lost a sense of community and place we once had. I don't know what about our culture has done this, but it's bad. The marketing, political, religious, and cultural …

Such subversively worded math problems should be avoided, no matter who the named parties are. "Jimmy, Jack, and John go to the store..." would be just as effective of a setup for …

I can see Who Let The Dogs Out and The Macarena making periodic comebacks, getting future reboots/covers/remixes, etc.

A lot of posters here aren't interested in discussing the actual data. They're personally offended, and responding off of that. The perfect summary of much of modern political disc…

The number of tents, needles, etc. found on sidewalks and in parks/open areas.

Consider this scenario: 1. The US drops all agricultural subsidies and tariffs. 2. The US begins importing most of its food from elsewhere. 3. "Elsewhere" goes to war with a US all…

I’ve always felt a little awkward when using the word but couldn’t articulate why. It's worth considering the possibility that the "why" is due to insidious bullying, a miasmatic r…

Modern Family became unwatchable when they doubled down on the incredibly long awkward pause reaction shot sequences.

From 2014. The MERGE discussion is from 2022.

I spent my first few years of life living in a city near a downtown. My friends were a mix of colors, nth-generation residents, immigrants, and refugees. Race had nothing to do wit…

Do the new CDs have the same watermarks?

But fundamentally there is little common ground This is the lie we are all told to preserve the walls between "us" and "them," to divide and conquer our society. We are told to foc…

we have far similar values with each other than with atheists. I would describe the values of the altruistic modern atheism of people I know, which has a lot in common with Christi…

Even among people who seem financially stable, I've been surprised how many of my peers spend money as soon as they see it and have never had more than $X000 at the same time ever.…