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Learning How To Learn (available on Coursera here [0]) and its companion book[1]. That course seriously improved how I learn new topics and has paid dividends many times over since then.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Learning-How-Learn-Spending-Studying/...

Because there is plenty of evidence that saturated fats are much better than the polyunsaturated fats that will be replacing them in this arrangement.

Because people are tired of the "food science"-agriculture-industrial complex selling them magic bullets to a health epidemic of our own making than end up just getting more people obese every time.

Because nutrition is one of the most fraudulent sciences at present, and no one can agree on which 90% of the literature is wrong.

Because the last 70 times articles in popular nutrition were published beginning with "This could be the holy grail to ..." they were wrong.

Not the person you were responding to but there have been papers published examining the government using drug metabolites in waste water for targeted enforcement in Eastern Europe. In the US, that data is still gathered and hasn't been used for enforcement yet as far as I know, but like every other syrupy bit of data the US government sponges up, it will be used for enforcement eventually.

Agreed. The good news is that so far most (all?) of the enshittification-oriented changes have been easy to ignore. Gamified badges? Who cares, I never look at the profile any way. Feed of bullshit recommendations? Who cares, I never look at it. Now, it probably is still a bad thing, but as a daily GH user, it hasn't impacted me much so far.

In professions where tooling is very important, this is somewhat unique to tech; carpenters, machinists, plumbers, etc are definitely spending a lot of money on their tools.

Using the phrase "my sweet summer child" violates like half of the comment guidelines and is a boring canned phrase to-boot. If you want to insult someone, at least be creative about it.

New Haven pizza is excellent, but Frank Pepe and Sally's are overrated in my humble opinion. Additionally consider checking out Zanelli's, which is across the street from Sally's and one of the best and most unique places in New Haven.

Having lived in several of the US cities with a famous pizza culture, and visited most of the rest, I will say that New Haven definitely has the highest median and mode quality of pizza places in the US. There was a place called Brick Oven Pizza there that famously had "Rated 11th best pizza place in New Haven" on their box for a few years, which is a much stronger claim than most cities.

I can't comment on "The Greatest Showman" since I haven't seen it, but on a certain level "The Last Jedi" was kind of artsy fartsy; Rian Johnson spent so much time on cinematography and color grading[0] that he ended up with a movie that was visually very striking, without any plot fundamentals that felt like a deep betrayal to the universe.

[0] Think space-walrus cliffs, or red-salt Hoth, or lightspeed kamikazee, or the Snoke throne room battle

There are some pretty out-there ones now. No .muffin yet, but its a lot more plausible now than it was 5 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...

That reminds me of this: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Lingua_abstrusa

I am not making a claim about the truthiness of the "joke". I'm saying it's old, not funny, and frankly annoying. And, to be clear, I have no stake in defending large vehicle ownership; I'm just saying you will elicit more agreement and fewer eye-rolls if you drop the "compensating" joke.

The point is that the compensating / micropenis jokes have been beating a dead horse for at least 10 years at this point. It's boring, it's embarrassing and it takes away from your message when you pepper them into your speech.

The article doesn't make this very clear and the way it phrases it is confusing.

> Dyes must be "bloomed" before use. In their unbloomed state (i.e. in the jar) they are different color than in use.

With the evident meaning: "bloomed" -> out of the jar, in the water.

But blooming means precipitating the dye in whatever solution it will be in, usually using a salt like sodium bicarbonate.

[EDIT] The Wiki page on lakes makes it clearer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_pigment

I tend to agree with your overall point, but the comparison is not a particularly good one; you are comparing knowledge of a black site decommissioned in the 1960s to one of the most famous events in human history.

If you've had an account for a decade, why are you using one that is 13 days old (ie the past two weeks)?

> [E]ven if Covid did lab leak, that doesn’t lend any credibility what-so-ever to the rest of the lab-leak conspiracists who claim that the vaccine is just a 5g killbot.

No one operating in good faith is conflating these ideas.

Comparing languages requires comparing their ecosystem in 99% of cases, since most people don't have the luxury of having enough time to reimplement whatever they need from scratch.

> What the author's actual point is, though, I have absolutely no idea.

This is what makes me unsure its satire; what is it poking fun at exactly? What is the metaphor?

> It's clearly satire.

I don't think it's "clearly" satire, though I lean in the direction that it probably is satire; I have heard plenty of SF rationalist types say similar things before, so on HN the probability that it isn't satire is much higher than in the outside world.

> And fairly well constructed prose imo.

Agreed. It is fun and well-constructed prose, which definitely earns it several points in the "probably satire" column.

The whole "explain like I'm 5" thing is ridiculous. A huge percentage of topics simply cannot be broken down to an average 5 year old in a way that makes the conversation worth having at all. The 5 year old has no context about why in recent years there has been a huge push towards running your own code on other people's computers using various isolation techniques, or why people are trying to exploit that. The 5 year old has no context for what the exploits actually are, or how to mitigate them. Even if you break all of those things down into 5 year old bitesized chunks, you end up with boring word soup completely disconnected from the meaningful parts of the conversation.

Really what ELI5 is, is a technique to allow the asker to not have to look anything up. From the parent comment, you can look up "patch", "AMD", "microcode"; or you can demand "ELI5!" and have someone else type up long, careful definitions that don't reference context or words that a 5 year old doesn't know.

Regarding what microcode is, here is a good explanation of the differences between microcode and firmware:

https://superuser.com/questions/1283788/what-exactly-is-micr...

I legitimately can't tell if this is satire or not.

> [E]ven in LA most restaurants don't have no prayer zones yet

No municipality in a region with a bill of rights providing freedom of religion is going to create no prayer zones.

> It's hard to go to dinner without the prayer drifting over from other tables

This makes me think this is satire...

That is true, but the author of Metascala wanted to write it in Scala. Other people are free to write a simple C++ implementation of the JVM themselves.

> The earth is round, there is no need for nuance there.

Clearly there is _some_ need for nuance there since the Earth isn't exactly a sphere. Even calling it an oblate ellipsoid isn't a perfect model. There is nuance everywhere, and clearly some models are more wrong than others; modeling the Earth as flat is much less accurate than a sphere, which in turn is less accurate than the somewhat flattened spheres common today, which in turn is less accurate than whatever the true shape of the Earth is.

But the takeaway from that shouldn't be creating a dogma that "the Earth is round" and moving on, just to own the guys that claim its flat (who are by and large just trolling you).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_the_Earth

From Wikipedia for .com:

> The domain was originally administered by the United States Department of Defense, but is today operated by Verisign, and remains under ultimate jurisdiction of U.S. law.

.edu holds US-centric requirements today. Not sure about .org, .net, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu

That's "JDL", which isn't the same 3 letters.

Before I saw that this comment was OP, I read this as "Bullshit, shrinkwrap contracts reduce ..." which I thought was strange since it seemed to be broadly agreeing with the point of the site.

I don't understand, what set of programmers never (do/want to?) to reach 1.0? Are you referencing something like the Tex versioning scheme?

Conventionally 1.0 is just the inflection point where things are featureful and stable enough that you start making guarantees about the stability of whatever interface/contract/API/whatever that matter to the consumer of whatever you are building.

I see this joke frequently when looking at available wifi; is this meme a reference to a particular thing (other than the FBI having surveillance vans) or did a bunch of people just converge onto it?

Yeah the old refrain that the Redditification of HN is an illusion[0] becomes less true with each passing year. Communities obviously change with time, but the Covid era and the tumult with Reddit really did a number on this one.

As a postscript, the comments linked in the "illusion" claim of the guidelines are very interesting. Several of them are pointing out distinctly un-HN like behavior, though others point out things that have already become normalized on HN. The frog is boiled slowly.

[0] "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills." -- last guideline at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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According to google the current life expectancy (in 2020) is:

77.28 years

So a touch shy, but almost.

It may not be "trolling", but it definitely violates the spirit of the HN guidelines[0] (somehow hitting 3 out of 4 of the first comment guidelines -- failing the kindness test, snarkiness test, and editing out swipes test).

The comment OP called trolling would be much stronger and more interesting if it posted a "credible rebuttal" instead of being snarky and rude. If that hits an issue with the bullshit asymmetry principle[1] for you, downvote and move on with your life.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law