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Cats make certain people's opinions about consent quite clear.

Can I make a feature request? I would love to be able to search by author. I recently started Caro's LBJ series (it's amazing so far) and I'm curious how many awards he's won. Anyw…

Beautiful. I'm going to use some of these to make a coloring book for my toddler.

Yes. We are right to be suspicious due to the main goal of start ups and corporations: profit for their shareholders. Theranos will always be in the back of my mind regarding healt…

> The wrong strategy is to push every engineer to use infinite tokens. Companies doing this are celebrating 500% more pull requests. But customer outcomes don't match the volume of…

Power dynamics. Usually the person making the giant PRs is the one with all the sway. An earlier-career engineer is unlikely to push back against that level of influence.

I loved it too. I audibly laughed at this one: "Korean girl Short I didn't know how to start a conversation with her, so I just asked if she was Korean and she said yes. Then I mad…

> "Going to the gym, talking to strangers at the gym, ... these are both artifical replacements for human activity that is missing." As opposed to what, our ancient hunter gatherer…

In parallel, they're also starting to downgrade their quality. In the latest season of Stranger Things there's a wild amount of in-scene exposition, where the characters explain wh…

Whenever I use Django, I enjoy it. Simple as.

> "If I delete a card, does it count against the 1000 cards?" > "Yes, every card you create is counted, even cards that are deleted later. Each card ID increments by 1, so the next…

No, my parents and in-laws have routinely expressed how much they love to watch and spend time with my kid. But they're also retired and have lots of trips and hobbies going on. Th…

It's a lot to ask grandparents to take care of an infant full time during the work week. Here and there, on occasion, that is a completely reasonable thing to ask for. It helps str…

Optimism. And unfortunately based on the doom and gloom that the news and social media constantly shoves in our faces, we have a short supply of that.

Wow. Thank you for sharing. May his memory be a blessing to you and yours.

Additionally, I recommend the book Empire of Pain for an excellent deep dive into the Sackler family and how they essentially created the opioid epidemic. You'll be infuriated as y…

I feel like this would be fun... if all of my friends used it too and it didn't feel like a "thing".

Like what?

Diagnosis is done via biopsy.

Additionally, DHH somewhat regularly blogs about political things. While I understand it's his "personal" blog, can you really have a personal blog separate from work when you're t…