I was just thinking that the one thing the race to the bottom has not yet replaced with a cheaper, enshittified version is death. Love, friendship, food, urbanization, yes.

Generally seems like the right message, but there are plenty of third factors that might be a more direct cause — amount of drugs, microplastics, pesticides, etc in the environment / food.

Yeah, I wish git blame could highlight the lines written by Claude/Codex. Usually when I ask my colleagues ‘so did you use AI much for this one’ they will say yes. But it makes code review that much harder, especially when they then take my PR comments and feed them to the LLM, so I’m coding by playing telephone with a bot.

I mostly use:

• square knot (generl tying a rope around something; learned it earlier than memory)
• bowline hitch (loop at the end of a knot that won’t close up, like I need a handle or want to attach the end of a rope to something; learned it in boy scouts maybe)
• taut line hitch (clothesline, tent to stake, something that I can tie loose and then cinch up for tension; learned it from a cousin while camping)

Sounds like there are some other ones I could learn too! But as many folks have said, learn a coupe and use them frequently.

A while back I needed to widen a doorway that had been built undersized and prevented moving our broken-at-the-time washing machine. It took months until a carpenter was on site and could do it as a side project, since I couldn’t find the precise sizes of wood to match the remaining trim.

Since then I purchased a table saw, and now being able to rip boards to arbitrary widths I look back on that project and see why the carpenter said it was easy.

All to say, eventually there’s a critical mass of tools/materials that begins to make jobs faster.

In the “hire someone” vein, setting an artificial deadline can sometimes help. “If I don’t build the X by Y myself, then we just go buy it.”

As with anything, momentum builds too. If it’s not something that has a lot of constraints, just looking for one little step is easier to accept than Starting The Project. Like, I’m not necessarily going to frame the new opening today, just cut a hole in the wall in the back of the closet. May depend on housemates’ tolerance. But often just getting into the workshop is enough to overcome activation energy for me.

Or, ‘sun in the morning helps you wake up.’ Assuming I’m not missing anything by skimming.

At least it doesn’t seem to be AI generated!

Looked interesting but wow it’s ad encrusted.

Do post again if you figure it out!

Yeah, that seems to be the article’s thesis, just a misleading title.

What I’m proposing is neither global pessimism nor naïve faith. It’s local skepticism, or disciplined trust, which is precisely what science needs to improve itself. The history of science is indeed a graveyard of theories, but the fact that science keeps changing is a mark of its strength. It keeps changing because the world is complex and full of wonder. That isn’t a problem; it’s the engine that drives scientific progress

That’s the “mildly.”

Revived mine w/ Pokemon Yellow from the late 90s not long ago! It fared better than my Tomagachi.

Link for more.

I think explaining rationale for what you’re doing can be very helpful for patient comfort (not to mention compliance). Cis man here, but on the one hand I hear about enough women’s medical concerns getting dismissed to understand why that might be the assumption even when there’s good reason; and just from my own experience I like to understand what providers are thinking / working on with me.

Yeah, current company has their internal git server default to master and it was a little odd first time I created a new repo. Luckily all the CI templates can recognize either name so I just switched it.

Yes — and the term to read more about here is “growth mindset.”

Bought a lifetime pass, switched to Jellyfin after way too much Tidal promotion on my server.

I just downloaded the .deb (unless it was an AppImage) and it ran without further tweaking.

Yeah. If I stayed in the right lane, every couple miles I’d need to change lanes to avoid an exit only, or free up space for entering traffic to merge. But that leaves one of not two open lanes to my left.

Also changing lanes is stressful for me: the situation changes quickly, and even after checking blind spots I’ve almost sideswiped someone a couple times. (Also honked to keep a pair of cars in front of me from picking the same moment to shift into each other.)

So, I get the principle, and I also am annoyed with slow traffic in the left lane. But if there’s room to pass on the left, that’s what I see as necessary.

I guess this is probably safe. /r/dashcamgifs makes me want as much space as possible between me and the other 2-ton projectiles.

If driving were a sport where you got points/safety for being right, I would drive very differently. I have right of way over that person parked in the intersection? Back to a save point for them!

I forget where she got it, but my mom sometimes quoted a nursery rhyme ending with “he was just as dead as if he’d been wrong.”