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A core tenant of many-o-religions is faith, and if "the world" has counter-factuals, those are tests against that faith. Tossing away elements and breaking faith likely ends in exc…

Flip side: more sitting on the toilet ensures a more complete emptying and less rushing/straining.

Ash. I am telling you, preparation matters not.

I went to the second rated steakhouse in NY at the time and got a steak some ten years back. I would have preferred my home-sous-vide by a wide margin. I have only had a better ste…

All coffee tastes like cigarette ash to me. Similarly, I have been to places that people rave about. My buddy used to run a coffee shop. "Your beans were overcooked"; no, not it. T…

"Claud said" is a hedge. It is abdication of responsibility. That said, a meat-proxied answer should come with more credibility based on the proxy. I'd put more weight into my deve…

> The error boilerplate as it exists interrupts the actual logic and makes most of your code read as sad paths that might never execute. Yes! You have to think through and account …

Reputation and some fact checking. I want my news to say, "politician say x; and is a liar, here is the evidence." Nobody should want a propaganda parrot. If I look into it and the…

Teaching kids responsibility and autonomy cones in right after keeping them healthy. 2 year olds do a bad job. They are 2. Yet it is valuable for them to learn to manage themselves…

No no no. Absolutely not. A parrot repeats, we need verification. "We've always been at war with Eurasia." -Politimouth The news should say this is not true when it is not true.

Yes, beer test: would I have a beer with them / did they order a beer at lunch like everyone else This was a practice that our company had to be explicitly coached away from. Early…

If you are prototyping, assign unused to the underscore. foo := thinger() _ = foo # no longer unused

It would be premature to jump to 1930s style defenestration due to job loss from ai. Software developers have always been in the job of automation and replacing human work. Capital…

The other day, i was fed up with my mac webcam software. I just needed to fix being washed out. Every piece of software I found cost money, several were a monthly subscription. Ove…

Is this a pro-bribery comment?

Instead of making mice seek out cats, this one encourages poor public health policies in people.

Probably all of the behaviors. Life is resource management of inputs and outputs, and every niche has unique constraints. Pure sexual selection can lead to interesting solutions, b…

There is a missing word. "Make" is too loose and people disagree that it applies because they disagree on the base meaning of the word. "Commission" is much closer to what is happe…

> sorry, wont make it. Appointment. Ok > sorry, wont make it. Stupid appointment. Banned!

So no discussion happened and they were left uninformed? I talk through things with my family and share different takes and sources. Some are unhinged and called out. But usually t…

I think this is wildly wrongheaded. The socially polite "no politics" is a critical insulator allowing normally non-socially acceptable behavior to grow. I am convinced it is those…

I immediately took it to be a slick 2001 reference. Devs tell computers what to do. Computers tell Daves "I can't do that."

The doctor from Idiocracy: it says your shit's fucked up.