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Five times.

Four times.

If my anecdote came off as folksy, I apologize. At least I didn't need to pepper in any racial slurs.

Alan Watts is a sore subject to me. I've given his philosophies a fair shake and many don't ring true for me.

However, I've met several people in the tech industry who are adherents. Whenever any conversation entered slightly philosophical in nature, which happens unusually often in tech in my experience, the individuals I'm thinking of would immediately ask, "Well, have you ever read or listened to Alan Watts?" I'd simply say something like, "Yeah, but he doesn't really do it for me." And I'm met with this condescending "You'll understand/agree when you get older (aka wiser)" response. I'm 35, not 15.

Anyway, yeah, I'm sure it's not all Alan Watts stans, but isn't it weird that it happened 3 times? I now regard advertising Alan Watts as a red flag.

It's a better alternative to the current experience of having existing projects practically held hostage. If you used Pantone colors previously, they now render as black until you either pay Pantone or install this.

There's this school of thought where difficult or counterintuitive concepts aren't adequately explained without a folksy anecdote. Obviously, I prefer hard data over folksy anecdotes, but I'm starting to think the folksy anecdote is a sideshow to distract from poor data or a lack of data to back up a claim.

Ever since I was made aware of Betteridge's law of headlines, and I started noticing it was correct based on my own experiences, I more or less refuse to read anything with a question as the title. I'm sure I'm missing a few good things with this practice, but I'm saving a lot of time missing out on wastes of time. Enough so that I consider it a net benefit.

Similarly, from now on, I'm going to be immediately suspicious of all claims that are served up with a side of folksy anecdotes.

The whole thing seems like a fallacy by appeal to "common sense".

Thank you!

Well, crap. I literally just moved to Vite.

Thank god. Maybe I'll finally stop getting recruitment spam from them.

How do people learn how to reverse engineer ICs from pictures like this? I can make out the connections for the most part, but I wouldn't know where to begin to glean anything else.

Maybe I inferred something that wasn't actually implied, but it sounds like the author's use of Sqlite was with a disk-backed database. I'd be curious to see how the languages compared to an in-memory only Sqlite database's times.

Obviously there's a lot of mental health issues at play here. But I can't help but be horrified. Someone with such an intense desire for privacy has their entire life and personal affairs laid bare in the New York Times. It sickens me. It feels like tabloid levels of exploitation.

If you want to get back at someone, you could just punch them in the face or kick them in the nuts. We live in a world where simple assault results in less serious consequences than hacking.

People get hacked because of iframes all the time. This is called clickjacking. It's an example of the so-called confused deputy problem. Developers can and should mitigate the issue by setting the X-Frame-Options and Content-Security-Policy headers appropriately.

Water, fire, air and dirt

Mosquito magnets, how do they work?

The fact it was a pubic hair makes it all the more baffling.

I'm surprised by how polished this version of Tetris appears to be, given it's for a word processor with a monitor that doesn't do the art of the game the justice it deserves.

Can I flag my own comment?

I thought the Java edition of Minecraft was functionally dead as far as updates and support go. Have reports of its death been greatly exaggerated?

The building I live in has named its 13th floor as it's 14th floor in the elevators and apartment numbers. It was built in the 1970s. It annoys me to no end. When people ask how many floors my building has, I flinch. Do I say 40, or, well, technically 39?

I'm so thankful Journey to the Microcosmos exists. Keep up the great work, James Weiss, Hank Green, and the rest of the team.

The testing methodology, where the human and the dog must see each other, suffers from the same biases as Clever Hans.

I will point out that while he may not have proven dogs can be psychic, he didn't disprove it either.

I wish there was a way to measure how many people would self-report these symptoms without having had COVID first. Unfortunately, those numbers aren't being collected.