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Yeah, made me chuckle that an LLM— probably Claude— was used to write this. The use of "regime shift" is what gave it away for me. I've never seen a human write that, but Claude do…

You should read Postman's Technopoly. He critiques "context-free" news as leading to a confused viewership and argues that it's an unexpected consequence of modern news media: tryi…

This. People are getting the message that "sugar is bad" but the public health messaging of "fat is bad" still lingers in many people's heads. It's sad, because as you mentioned so…

The article specifically mentions a previous study that showed that gains from short rests were greater than those from sleep: > In a previous study, led by former NIH postdoctoral…

> Allowing any version drift of dependencies at all means that if you don’t check in and restore using the package lock file, you cannot have reproducible builds. This is the germa…

That would make the difference between me using this tool and not using this tool. Losing my shell history isn't worth a momentary ergonomics gain.

Google is, fundamentally, an engineering company. Despite their size and breadth, they still don't understand customer support. Their approach is to use software to solve problems,…

One use case is maintaining node-level state for stream processing systems. This gives you a scaleable way to do stateful computations (such as aggregations) without the complexity…

CAH would never admit it, but I feel like at least part of this can be seen as political commentary. From the top of their page: "The holidays are here, and everything in America i…

Agreed. I was surprised that the article didn't mention the Hawaiian Pidgin expression "da kine"[1], which functions similarly to "jawn". Funnily enough, the da kine Wikipedia page…

Actually, it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England

One thing to add to this discussion— DFW's description of the Federer/Agassi point in Roger Federer as Religious Experience doesn't actually match up all that well with what actual…