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My research is in urban planning so I mostly use city/state/federal data and occasionally data from court cases.

Most of that data is sparsely updated and I'm not clued in on many real estate APIs to track up-to-date trends in housing and prices so I would love to know more about what your work looks like!

I misread it the same way--I've been praying for a good API to do some housing affordability data projects.

Wouldn't that just create simulacra of human language? Seems difficult to draw a circle around "human stupidity" while keeping the innate human qualities & also not amplifying similar AI aberrations

You're missing out on a billable hour per week! Two hours if you time all your updates correctly.

Not that I have any deep subject matter knowledge but I agree, it feels like app store McCarthyism

Hey just wanted to say I use your app for all my reading, both school and recreational. Having a good desktop ebook interface has probably 5-10x how much I usually read over the last year--thanks for that!

Thanks for this--it's like a performance art piece on what happens if you don't take any humanities classes. No notes!

You can throw out Reddit guy words all you want but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I didn't exclude any discipline I said it extends to all of them. That's not how "no true scotsman" works. I gave you sources to back that up. Also, gender studies is not really classified as a social science and I did Google "replication crisis gender studies" and didn't find much--I'm not sure how a replication crisis can extend to a largely theoretical discipline that doesn't really conduct classical scientific studies? You just said you don't classify the field as a science so clearly it wouldn't. I was supporting my first point which you seem to have misunderstood.

"Anectdotal non sequitur" no, I'm qualifying a larger trend I have observed. It's not a non-sequitur, it's based on the article you shared which covers a project that critiques academic structures like journals. You're the one who started this discussion about your own feelings towards the field--you just didn't qualify your comment as subjective, which it is.

"It's an activist community masquerading as an academic discipline."

If I were you I'd say strawman :-)

Poor "science" exists in any discipline. Look at these articles and tell me how many named studies are in gender studies, for instance. I don't really think you'll find bigger critics of the academy in other fields either. These disciplines also don't classify themselves as "sciences" either as you would have it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_misconduct_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

I think you're expressing an unhealthy resentment here. I work as a SWE and I appreciate the critical thinking involved in the types of problems I get to solve. I'm also in graduate school for something that often borders on humanities and I am amazed at the complexity of thought that goes into the field due to how limitless the scope is and the way in which the humanity of the field allows anybody to participate. The STEM students I teach often struggle with exactly that, as well as with having well-developed communication skills. Turns out that choosing either STEM or humanities and forsaking the other leaves students deficient.

While I work in data and do appreciate the sentiments in some ways, I'm not sure this feeling is unique to any type of office work?

My brother passed down my grandma's advice on college, which was to believe that you will pick up the things you need to know one way or another so take the opportunity to learn things you will probably never encounter again. It definitely still resonates with me when I think about what skills I want to develop outside of work

I won on hard mode once! That's my achievement for the day. Great job.

Welcome to Maoism-Third Worldism comrade

Generally it depends what you need to get from it. If it's a standard research paper with introduction, methodology, results, and discussion you can use the introduction to gauge your understanding of the essential background and then check the findings.

Discussion will usually tell you where the researchers see issues in their methodology and findings, as well as suggestions on where to go from there. Reading the methodology may be extraneous to you if you trust the researchers and results. It's good for attempting to reproduce or to critique findings, but you'll ideally get a sense of the methods from the other sections.

On the other hand, if you're reading Audre Lorde you'll have to break out a highlighter and gut it out.

> The author doesn't address that blockbuster movies have always found a "trendy look" and run with it. Is what she claims Netflix is doing any different than any other popular cycle in filmmaking?

I think this is pretty clearly the author's thesis--movies now look a certain way and they used to look characteristically different. I think the main point is that the author (and apparently hundreds of people here) find the current visual style really lacking compared to past stylistic movements. They aren't refuting the historical existence of the trend as much as the current character of it.

This is a guess although I work in "edtech" and wrote a thesis on institutional finance so it's a slightly educated guess--I think rising tuition rates coupled with stagnant real wages and increasing CoL change the cost-benefit on the value of any given degree. It's probably not a social pressure or potential increase in earning as much as a perception of CS/STEM being the only way to get by or else it's just not worth getting a degree since college enrollment is slowing or decreasing recently.

I don't enjoy the genre of hiring managers writing self-servicing articles like this. I think a lot the issues they might face in receiving applications are on their end. For instance, are applicants writing "to whom it may concern" because they lack details on the position? Most applicants probably would like to turn in the best application they could, where is the mutual disconnect preventing them from meeting your expectations?

Nothing interesting but:

Work:

- QGIS for its accessibility, print layout, and plugin ecosystem

- Notepad++ & DBeaver for being reliable daily tools at work

- The VS Code Jupyter notebook plugin

Grad school:

- Typora for simplicity and elegant note-taking in markup, though I've only been on the trail version.

- SumatraPDF for lightweight book reading on the computer (I read ~30 books this way this year)

Honorable Mention:

- This tiny, ad free solitaire app that hasn't been updated in 2 years. My go-to for planes and waiting rooms. [0]

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/classic-solitaire-klondike/id1...

I agree here that school seems great. You might find out you hate it more and be able to come back to your job (or a similar one) with no real loss due to the GI bill. More likely, you will spark some passions and learn more about what you want to do.

Either way, I think gaining the perspective you have gained is great. There's probably far more jobs you don't want to do than jobs you do want to do, so finding out you don't like a job is not just normal/healthy but also very likely. Don't feel like you don't have any prospects, being critical is good and you just need to try more things (which school will help you do).

Not sure practicality is the goal--Being inconvenient might actually be the intent.

In Death and Life she talks about "diversity", which was more about housing types and prices rather than like demographic diversity, but often accomplished the same thing. Definitely a way of making things more affordable.

Yeah there is a reason, it's that the developers don't usually set aside public space, especially not in small quantities like that. If they're required to, they will typically lump it into one large park with something like a stormwater retention pond. They are trying to maximize lot size and not really think about pedestrian circulation.

Also, on the topic of North American cul-de-sac suburbs, I made a Twitter bot that is working its way through every census-designated cul-de-sac in America. Here's a good example of one with pedestrian access: https://twitter.com/culdesacbot1/status/1604474398442156033

lol

They absolutely do protect people against being in situations with people who have repeatedly endangered others. What responsibility do the survivors have to make an "open, public accusation"? They're going to derail their personal and professional lives to be openly scrutinized and reminded of a traumatic event? Obviously these politicians are known creeps and haven't been dealt with yet, why would anybody think that would change for them?

Don't be paranoid. She does great work. Give me a captcha I'll do it right now.

I like going on day trips, having two nights a week I can stay out late and sleep in late, being able to make brunch plans, go out of town for a day, taking day-long hikes or backpacking, being able to go fishing.

I think you could probably make that schedule work well for you, but I think the future of remote/asynchronous work is just choosing your own schedule instead of standardizing a new one.

For sure man, give easy ($) access to favorable treatment and reach to accounts interested in self-promotion. Sounds like a really good outcome for the platform, what we need is MORE ads nested in the feed.

FBI monitoring popular singers is very common historically! I highly recommend this book for an overview:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/651913/the-folk-sin...

I would say little self-hosted servers. Especially as infrastructure-as-a-service takes off and people look for alternatives. We all pile on to one person's Plex, Minecraft server, host our projects off of it, etc. Things like Raspberry Pis fit under this as well.