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by ksenzee 1y ago
> I’ve never understood why women are so eager to go work. Work has never been particularly fulfilling Understandable, but the thing is, staying home with kids is work. It’s a vocation. Everyone should get to choose what work is fulfilli
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Those two things are now compatible. Unthinkable for those of us who were around in the 20th century, but now true.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
> Stop using a hammer on nails. sorry, what am I supposed to use on nails?
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by ksenzee 1y ago
This doesn’t match my experience. I needed a particularly boilerplate module the other day, for a test implementation of an API, so I asked Gemini to magic one up. It was fairly solid code; I’d have been impressed if it had come from a juni
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by ksenzee 1y ago
It was definitely said tongue-in-cheek. At the time I interpreted it as “we’re done having kids, and also we’re running around after two little kids and too tired for that.”
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by ksenzee 1y ago
To quote a relative of mine, when asked if he and his wife were going to have a third child: “No, no. We found out what causes that. We don’t do that anymore.”
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by ksenzee 1y ago
I don’t see much difference between the amount of Italian you need for music and the amount of English you need for programming. You can have a conversation about it in your native language, but you’ll be using a bunch of domain-specific te
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by ksenzee 1y ago
And we know companies certainly do what's best for their long-term growth and survival, rather than prioritizing short-term profits. We certainly don't need to worry about innovation grinding to a halt, and scientists leaving the
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by ksenzee 1y ago
I don’t think this is related to AI at all. (Unless you’re suggesting it’s AI-generated?) It’s “thinking” as a metaphor for the abstraction being used.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
I'm curious how. We have a lot more potential distractions now, but the same inability to just be.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
You’d probably find you’d “signed” a “contract” with them that contains a binding arbitration clause.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Cochlear implants aren't magical hearing restorers. If they were, you'd be right. But they aren't. There are limitations. Music is especially difficult to perceive properly.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
I never knew why the possessive wasn't used, thank you!
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by ksenzee 1y ago
The quote in the article seems to come from nowhere. It’s not in the post they link, and Google doesn’t find it. I went looking because I was uncomfortable with the way Chesterton’s Fence was being used here: it’s not supposed to be “that f
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Did you read the article? This is absolutely addressed. “Resting the meat keeps the juice inside” is obviously correct and he is not arguing against that point. The question is whether there is another way to keep the juice inside.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
I believe you meant "Different how?"
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by ksenzee 1y ago
It’s almost time for someone to annotate these 1996 annotations to explain “hard disks” and “floppy disks.”
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by ksenzee 1y ago
All right then. What a fascinating way of looking at the world.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
If you’re writing a piece like this, you’re naturally going to pick an insult that will land with your audience, right? If you read an article where the author says “that’s training bra thinking,” obviously the author is envisioning women r
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Oh I'm sure it's not meant to be unfriendly to women. It's meant to be unfriendly to men, who are the only people reading the article, in the author's mind. You do see the problem, yes?
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Folks seem to be using StoryGraph these days.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
“Common among their culture” is a quick way of determining whether lots of other people are able to hold this belief and function fine. It also suggests an origin for the belief that isn’t unique to the person. You can’t go around saying “a
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Every once in a while I manage to forget I’m a woman in a space that’s not friendly to women, and then I come across something like this.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
I don’t know whether it’s “everyone trusted everyone” so much as “everyone expected really bad things to happen anyway.” Like, if there’s a good chance I might lose this kid to diphtheria, or drowning in the river, or whatever, sending them
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by ksenzee 1y ago
This is interesting to me, because I'm not aware of anywhere I can get unfortified flour. Even the artisan bread at the farmer's market is usually made of flour subject to FDA regulations.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Right, so I looked at that paper and its citations, and I am still not seeing any studies showing that folic acid supplementation causes problems beyond "can mask signs of B12 deficiency," which is not very compelling. I did see o
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Flour fortification is one of the great public health successes of the 20th century, and I’m not aware of any data showing that folic acid is any more harmful than any of the other synthetic B vitamins added to our food. I’ve actively looke
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by ksenzee 1y ago
What a great metaphor. I’m adopting that immediately, thank you.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
They’re restarting coal-fired power plants to run AI datacenters. I don’t know what your personal threshold is for “massive” environmental harm, but that meets mine.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
This can’t be stressed enough: it depends on what you’re doing. Developers talking about whether LLMs are useful are just talking past each other unless they say “useful for React” or “useful for Rust.” I mostly write Drupal code, and the J

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