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syncretic intelligence is more accurate

> Interestingly, cold brew makes me a bit anxious but doesn't really satisfy the caffeine craving the way a traditional cup of coffee does.

Same, it gives me all the physical anxiety of coffee without any of the mental benefits - I don't understand how it's taken such a large share of coffee drinkers by storm!

is reddit not already orangered?

Agreed! By the way, guess what else is paywalled by Figma https://tokens.studio/

edit: there is a free tier but core functionality like "create a variable" or "reference a variable" is Pro-only :P

That's so sad. I'm pretty militantly anti-spider but jumping spiders, despite seeming like they were sent from hell to terrify us, are just little furry big-eyed arthro-bros

That's a meaningless distinction to advertisers and in the context of this lawsuit.

Were brand ads placed colocated with hateful content in a user feed? That's the only question that matters to advertisers at least. Attribution doesn't change the damage to their brand.

And even this lawsuit doesn't challenge that fact that the answer is "yes", ads did get placed next to hateful content - the lawsuit just claims results were skewed by gaming ad targeting and so aren't representative.

chopsticks are excellent for cheetos

How does mapping spelling to sound work in languages like English that have homophones?

"wear", "where", "were-" (as in werewolf), "weir" (in some regional dialects) can all be pronounced identically in modern English. If we map them all to a single spelling, is that an improvement to readability and understanding?

Bigger discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38091216

It's illegal to drive without a license, but your license doesn't automatically get suspended/canceled when you die - a loved one has to do the legwork to cancel it. So probably technically legal until a court case involving someone declared legally dead who's just driving around somewhere?

His arguments against absolute open-mindedness weren't grounded in discussions of his faith - even just the full version of his quote shows that, it was in reply to a metaphor for theory of mind his friend told him:

"For my friend said that he opened his intellect as the sun opens the fans of a palm tree, opening for opening's sake, opening infinitely for ever. But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my mouth, in order to shut it again on something solid. I was doing it at the moment. And as I truly pointed out, it would look uncommonly silly if I went on opening my mouth infinitely, for ever and ever."

Other variations of the quote he told included an addendum: "The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. Otherwise it is more akin to a sewer, taking in all things equally."

Neither of those relate to grounding his epistemology in Catholicism.

While I definitely agree his Christian apologia means a heavy dose of salt with intellectual claims, he's not even arguing for a moral center in this metaphor. Simply an intellectual self, to not be a gaping maw of consumption, as you wouldn't be physically.

Discernment with respect to ideas you're willing to entertain isn't exclusively the domain of religion, as far as I'm aware.

> It isn't even a metaphor really, it's a word game relying on particulars of the English language

It's absolutely a metaphor, just because you didn't understand it doesn't change the meaning the author conveyed. It's written in English, I'm not sure what point you think you are making by pointing that out.

> you could just as easily express the exact opposite point

So you didn't read my comment you replied to? You need new nutritive food each day, not junk or empty calories - the metaphor covers this exact scenario.

When you're eating every day do you just grab literally the first thing at hand and stuff your face until you're full? Or do you make conscious choices about what to put in your body?

If you're in the first camp you may not understand this metaphor - it's for people who consciously consume, both food and thoughts. If you mindlessly scroll and ideate, sorry you're the target of Chesterton's criticism - that doesn't make his metaphor bad, it just makes his argument valid.

> I guess you could print it on a coaster to put your "eat pray love" mug on

The irony, considering you're engaging with this quote at the same shallow level you claim to criticize.

G.K. Chesterton has an entire body of intellectual work consistent with the quote and metaphor extension I've done above - but you've decided to tilt at the windmill of a pithy quote as if it's synecdoche.

To extend the original metaphor - your mouth doesn't stay shut forever, or you starve. So the idea is more to sink your brain or teeth into substantive thoughts, as you encounter them. It's not about closing your mind/mouth around a new dogma, but about exercising them for nutrition not for pleasure/vice (or letting them atrophy).

I think the "re-closing" of the mind here more represents fitting new information into a new holistic, consistent worldview. New information would obviously require that exercise again.

Chesterton is simply arguing against allowing yourself to be buffeted by the winds of thought trend, to the point you have no center.

a lot less than 100, or used to be https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20179802/how-to-make-a-f...

I came the other way with it - originally used Google Music and had to switch to Youtube when they sunset GM. I already paid for GM so it was easy to pay for YT music since they had (nearly) every song I'd ever uploaded already available and migrated it for me, then getting ad-free Youtube videos was a nice pleasant surprise.

I'm also in CA and lived on Arizona for most of my teens and early 20s. Never saw this pricing. I would have remembered it, especially during the skint college years. It's always been a dollar. At best you'd see 2 for 1 deals.

It sounds like you live in a heavily subsidized market - probably best not to try to draw generalizations about inflation from your specific circumstances, they are atypical.

No, he vetoed more than one good bill today! Busy day for Gavin.

Where? I remember buying Arizona with 99c on it well over a decade ago.

edit: it's been 99c for 3 decades, since they started business https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-04-12/az-iced-te...

Whoops I missed this reply!

I think it's absolutely an opinion piece - defining specific items as principles by definition means expressing opinionated ideas about the relative priority of those items over others. Also, imperative mood contains value judgment, which is inherently opinion-based (e.g. "Never expose PII"). Making arguments for why you should or should not do things requires expressing opinions about relative importance, weight etc.

If this were instead an article describing what feature flags are, or one performing a survey of various approaches to building/scaling them, I think the lack of voice is just fine - that's dealing in statement of fact. But this article mandates and implores and exhorts - the value judgments inherent in that pathos are empty without genuine authorship.

Also I'm not saying the lack of voice is bad even for conveying meaning or teaching - more that it is jarring and uncanny to read imperative claims in an empty robotic voice devoid of ethos.

Finally, I also might be biased by my first documentation love, the zeromq guide, which is an extremely-strongly-opinionated piece of docs that does its job exceptionally well. I think when writing about how or why, a strong writer's voice is more compelling. This article stretches past just the what into those other question words, so its seeming lack of authorial authority falls flat to me.

Thanks for giving me an excuse to blabble lol.

What urgent outages are you having that can't be circulated with a quick "hey is ___ down for you" in a shared org channel? Also, you still have to get up and walk over to the hubbub to find out what's happening, then walk back before digging into the issue - in that time you could have just read the slack message and been fixing.

You're inventing solutions to a problem that actually worsen the issue.

edit: also, automated alerting solves literally all your problems here - and that should be an investment even if you're at a company with 100% RTO. Your first line of alert will still be digital in that case. If you're waiting to hear panicked seatmates to solve issues you're sure not worried about immediacy.

Did you mean "team managers" in-metaphor? As in non-players, non-coach excess staff? Totally agreed if so, didn't want to rebut unless you actually meant 1st-line managers of teams of players (which I'd place as "coach" in this metaphor).

Increased documentation is a cost you pay no matter what, you just pay it later in other formats when in-office - when the SME you treat as a guru finds a better-paying gig you have to scramble to rebuild their expertise from nothing or hope they are nice enough to do a thorough knowledge transfer. That kills productivity far worse and for longer than taking 30m at the end of your day updating some shared wiki.

All this to say, the trade-off you're proposing doesn't exist. You're arguing for paying twice instead of paying once - twice in the sense that you lose productivity now via random interrupts, and in the future when your siloed knowledge leaves you high and dry. Hope the "other things" you got done instead of documenting were worth it in that scenario.

That again sounds like a problem with your company's knowledge sharing culture, not with the industry at large. Silos exist even when every butt is in an office seat, that's a well-known issue that far pre-dates pandemic remote work moves. The answer isn't "make everyone defenseless to random interrupts from other people" but "learn how to actually document things so you're not a company full of points of failure".

It seems like what you really want is for others to treat your emergencies as theirs. They're not, they're yours. If you can't wait 15 minutes for a ping back without being completely stuck, you aren't planning your work correctly. That's nobody else's fault.

I've only eaten mutton in heavily spiced dishes and it does go very well in those settings - you need other strong flavors to stand up to the gaminess of the mutton, which might be why it hasn't caught on in American cuisine which tends to focus less on heavy spice profiles and more on just cooking ingredients to present their natural flavors.

Definitely getting strong uncanny valley prose vibes.

Hard to tell if it's generated or written in an attempt to be as plain English as possible, but either way feels strangely vacuous for a technical opinion piece. There's no writer's voice.

The fee isn't revenue-based, it's install-based - and not based on hard numbers.

Also, demo installs apparently count against that threshold https://twitter.com/necrosofty/status/1701717971016790508 (their original reply https://twitter.com/unity/status/1701689241456021607)

Plenty of others have already chimed in why it's likely you haven't experienced actual burnout if that's the case, but an analogy might make it clearer:

You've experienced headaches, but never experienced a migraine.

When you get a headache you can just pop an over-the-counter pill to numb it out. Migraines are a fundamental neurological shift orders of magnitude more debilitating - that Advil would be like a drop in the bucket.

It sounds like you have a healthy relationship to work - keep doing whatever you are doing that is keeping you fundamentally mentally healthy!!

That's not what happened here. If you have difficulty keeping context of the thread we're all in, scroll up and reread. Snarking (and being wrong to boot) contributes nothing to the discussion.

True, though you can't claim that's an analogous situation - C++ wasn't in alpha when the JVM was implemented.

Decoupling is of course possible, but the difference here is that the lang powering the runtime is not guaranteed to remain the same language it currently is, since it's in active initial development. That introduces a unique axis of risk to runtime stability, it's dishonest to pretend otherwise.