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cd4pluson Show HN: Nutrepedia – Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx

I can't enter a serving size that's not a whole number on mobile because it automatically closes the keyboard when the text field is cleared

cd4pluson Ticker: Don't die of heart disease

This is wrong. Our bodies evolved to eat a diverse omnivorous diet and complex carbs + the antioxidants present in vegetables and fruits are anti-oxidative.

cd4pluson Everything you need to know about California’s SB 79

What an incredibly weird take. Higher density cities are better in virtually any environmental metric per capita. This is widely supported

cd4pluson Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight

Am I missing something or are they reporting that prices have "jumped" because they've increased 30% since 2020? That seems like a fair use of the word.

cd4pluson Positron, a New Data Science IDE

It's really a shame posit quadrupled the cost of rstudio server/workbench because these tools are really nice in an academic hpc environment

cd4pluson Uv's killer feature is pulling in local dependencies

pixi seems fine, but it also is just using mamba on the backend so you might as well continue to use miniforge

cd4pluson Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE

I can't stand jupyter notebooks for several reasons. I've been using https://quarto.org/ and writing .qmd docs and really enjoy it.

cd4pluson Turning psychiatric labels into identities

Jerry Fodor? Noam Chomsky? Hilary Putnam? Patricia Churchland

What is a pure philosopher??!? I'm not arguing the specificity of the question, I'm saying that question is nonsensical.

cd4pluson Turning psychiatric labels into identities

Are you not a practitioner if you contribute to the field...? Seems impossible to meet your criteria.

What's a pure philosopher? Are Frege and Decartes not philosophers because they also did math? Does Alan Turing count? What about Popper and Kuhn? Are they philosophy enough for the philosopher club? Where, when, how and by whom do you think the concept of 'empirical science' was derived?

To be clear, everyone, including scientists, do philosophy every single day. You don't think Darwin did some philosophy in on the origin of species?

cd4pluson Turning psychiatric labels into identities

You haven't looked very hard then

cd4pluson Enhancing R: The Vision and Impact of Jan Vitek's MaintainR Initiative

yeah, I also disagree with this. It's true Seurat is still heavily used for scRNA/scATAC but I see most new models increasingly being written/tooled for python and based on anndata. Geneformer, scGPT, scVI etc. I wish there was better operability between the scverse stuff and Seurat, but Seurat went their own way from SCE/bioconductor so that's probably not going to happen.