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If this causes decent cheese to go past "damn, that's expensive" and into "I can no longer afford this", at least I won't mind death so much, I guess.

> However, I think the sheer popularity of this format means that someone lies it, even if not me.

Search engines like it. That's the entire story.

There's good long-form recipe content, but nearly all of it's only there for SEO reasons. Most of these sites just make up the "genuine" stories so they have something for Google to chew on. No-one involved, reader or writer, cares about it, except search engines.

Almost none of the sites publishing recipes online created those recipes. Very often, no-one there's even cooked them once.

Pro tip: even the worst of those fake-story-before-the-recipe sites usually include the micro format for recipe markup, which means all kinds of existing systems/software can reliably and quickly strip all the crap and give you just the recipe. I use Paprika3, but I bet there are simple browser extensions that can do it, too, like a Reader Mode for recipes.

99.99% of that content was stolen in the first place.

Most of those recipe sites, no-one involved in the site has ever cooked the recipe, despite what the ghost-written made-up story about it would lead you to believe. That's why so many have obvious mistakes in them.

> h. they don't get paid for their work;

Flip side is that means I can charge them for room & board. Bring it on.

> The biggest mistake I see PMs make is coming in with an over optimism bias and assuming that your product must be top of mind for all users when the reality is that the most often scenario you discover from user interviews is that the problem you're trying to solve is of relatively minor importance to most people.

You see this come through in products all. The. Damn. Time.

Some PM, and probably one or more designers who were on their side, wanted an "experience". The user just wants to get in and out of your thing as fast as possible and in a way that requires minimal attention.

I just wanted to pay my fucking water bill. A barely-formatted HTML form with nothing else on the page would have been better than almost anything they might come up with. Anything but expert and extremely tasteful efforts to improve on that, will just make it worse. But no. The PM wanted an "experience".

And don't get me started on people in software who complain about users complaining about redesigns. Those users just wanted to do the three clicks they do every morning to do the one thing they do with your software, then forget about it again until tomorrow. You surprised them with a full screen "LOOK WHAT'S NEW" they didn't want and had to figure out how to get rid of, then made them waste some time playing "Where's Waldo" for the element they usually click, and maybe even made it so they couldn't figure out how to do that one thing at all. Of course they're not happy.

Not the parent, but I assume they mean the nose stud, green or blue hair that looks like it's needed to be redone for a month (but was, in fact, dyed yesterday), and at least one full-sleeve tattoo, look.

[EDIT] For the record, I've seen women with that look who weren't very good, and I've seen plenty who looked different from that who were good. I don't agree with their broader assessment.

> Will a dude with cheeto dust on his star wars t-shirt give a fair shake to a good looking woman who is wearing business attire and makeup

The Cheeto-dust legible-t-shirt look is unfashionable in tech and probably not a great idea. Been true since the late '00s at least. I think the put-together woman wins in that match up.

> compared to another dude in a t-shirt?

Depends. Is the t-shirt $150 retail, made of merino wool, and sporting a small brand logo that the interviewer will recognize from the gear lists on that minimalism/travel blog they really like?

An editor with always-on help displaying the most common actions one might want to perform, is super-useful not just for n00bs, but for anyone who doesn't work on the command line enough to memorize the commands to operate vim and emacs.

Crucially, you don't have to ask nano for help. It helps by default.

I've seen conservative acquaintances (IRL, not just people I "know" online) posting about how excited they are to use Twitter again/more after Musk takes over, so yeah, seems plausible.

[EDIT] Meanwhile, I've also seen people on the left (though not any I personally know—not many people I know, tweet) announcing that they'll be reducing their Twitter use, in anticipation of what they think Musk will do to it.

Everything Everywhere All At Once is almost certain to at least be nominated, and it's a feel-good sci-fantasy family action-comedy... more or less.

Interesting. That appears to explain why the review has a strong, "quirky, 'hip' campus Christian newsletter" vibe.

> 1099 is definitely the way to go for as long as you can - people still get social security credit.

Dirty secret of remote work is that lots of companies are abusing the 1099 system to make it happen. The workers definitely don't meet rules for being 1099, but tax compliance (not to mention sorting out benefits) across a whole bunch of states and even countries is crazy overhead, so the realistic options are to make everyone 1099, or to only hire from one state.

... then again, a bunch of bigcos abuse 1099 for non-remote employees all the time and have for years, so, not like this is unique to smaller all-remote or remote-friendly companies.

Rather, "Nobody Will Admit that A Novel about Football is the Best Novel of Our Generation". This does not appear to be about people denying that the book is about football.

Also, the novel is actually a novella.

Also, it seems not to be a book, but a web page:

https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl...

[EDIT] Also, from the story:

> Raghib Ismail. Call me Raghib.

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[ANOTHER EDIT]

Further into the story now—in case it helps anyone decide whether or not to read it, this isn't slightly-twisted reality or magical realism or light urban fantasy or any of that, really, but full-on dream-logic.

An afternoon "shake the after-lunch drowsies" shower is truly a glorious thing.

Having an "executive bathroom" is at least 20% of the benefit of WFH. Under-appreciated in discussions about this.

At a lot of schools, you can take CLEP tests to get out of (especially) 100 and 200 level courses. Take the test, pay a (somewhat lower) rate for the credit without taking the actual class, and it's done.

If you're capable of completing 5 semesters worth in 2 semesters, you're probably capable of passing several of those tests with only a little studying over a Summer.

I feel like quitting receiving healthcare when a provider switches their records systems or adds a new one and I have to input all the same shit yet again (what the fuck is even the point of digital medical records? They can't keep even the most basic info straight anyway!), so I can only imagine what that's like for the people who have to work with it daily.

It doesn't help that hospital systems tend to be garbage at customer service, so the person's been told to wait an indefinite (but always very long) period without any indication of how long it'll be, and asked to tediously fill out the same information five different times on five different pieces of paper and iPads, all while feeling terrible, before they finally snap at a poor nurse who isn't to blame for their hospital being an uncaring money-making machine with little regard for humanity.

Consolidation's a big part of it. The last decade has seen nearly all the small practices and offices in my city gobbled up by a couple of huge companies. With that comes the MBAs and the bureaucracy.

Can confirm. They paint people who google symptoms as kooks or as annoying, but you have to if you ever want to get an actual diagnosis and treatment, because doctors and hospitals are, quite often, worse than Google at figuring out WTF is wrong.

Do your best not to end up in a hospital without an advocate (friend, relative) watching out for you. They'll fail to treat you at best, then discharge you with a shrug and a huge bill; and they'll kill you with mistakes, at worst.

> Because the teachers all have Education degrees, and that's what they were told in Ed School. So don't anyone dare "demean" their job by suggesting that they have actual work to do in properly educating their students.

You have been to a remarkably bad college of education, if that was your experience. Which is saying something, because most of them aren't great, but for very different reasons.

"You're not going to win the lotto jackpot".

[EDIT]

OK, one example was a bit flippant and easy to dismiss, but:

"No, this isn't going to bring us meaningfully closer to economically-viable fusion power"

"No, this isn't the War to End All Wars"

"No, you're not going to keep your New Years fitness resolution"

"No, your company's not going to succeed"

"This miracle chemical's probably gonna turn out to be bad for our health. I look forward to finding out how fucked I am because of it in 40 years when someone gets around to doing anything about the alarming study someone will likely do in 10 years only to be ignored. If I make it that long. But at least we can make things fire-resistant 6% cheaper than before!"

Et c.

Author's just hacking at a straw man and crowing about how much better they are at fencing than it is, best I can tell.

TFA gets where it going by defining "pessimism" in a way that makes TFA's conclusions correct. It doesn't seem to be concerned with nuance.

You can do the same thing in reverse with "optimism" by pinning that term to an extreme version of it, which is obviously going to be wrong most of the time, while making "pessimism" the milder outlook that happens to align better to reality. Straw-manning, basically.

Because it's usually right? See also: cynicism.

Reads article

Oh, this is about a very specific kind of pessimism in which a statement like "new economically-valuable technologies will emerge" is purely the domain of optimism.

A lot of horror is experienced in a way that's most similar to comedy. That's not to say that it's explicitly supposed to be funny to the viewers (but sometimes it is! A significant portion of horror films include scenes of over-the-top violence that is absolutely intended, at least in part, to get a laugh through sheer shock and "OMG I can't believe they did that" value) but also that the tension-release cycle is pretty similar to comedy (and, sure, also porn, but it's much more similar to comedy for a bunch of reasons that should be pretty obvious, I think).

Horror may also have a larger-than-most-genres share of fans who are watching at a much lesser level of suspension-of-disbelief, remaining very aware most or all of the time that "it's just a movie" and appreciating the craft, daring, and skill of the filmmakers, as much as the experience of the film per se.

There's horror outside the comedy-esque thrill-zone, of course, and it tends to be really damn bleak and scarring, even without much gore (It Comes at Night, for instance). The gorey flicks are usually not among the "worst" the genre has to offer, IMO.

> Metal Gear Solid criticizes the player for enjoying all the killing.

Then there's Spec Ops: The Line. Yikes.

Welcome to the effects of class socialization. You appear to have about the mix of Fussellian Middle and Upper-Middle preferences and attitudes (plus a bit from his Class X[1]) that's essentially standard on HN.

[1] Which, unfortunately for his hopes, turned out to just be a fashion wave in the Upper-Middle and was eventually, partially, incorporated into it—I dunno if he just let optimism get the better of him, or truly didn't recognize totally normal Bohemianism when he saw it.