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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.

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.

Put another way, according to Johns Hopkins, there have been a total of 24,079,325 reported cases of infection in the UK. That means a smidge more than 8% of infected people are suffering from prolonged symptoms as they are defined in this study.

That is statistically significant, but not exactly overwhelming by my personal yardstick of whether or not I'd gamble money on it. Not exactly scientific, I know.

UPDATE: I've read up a bit more about Long COVID. I believe a relative minority of people who suffered from COVID experience lingering health issues. I think Long COVID is currently ill-defined. The respiratory and cardiopulmonary symptoms make perfect sense given what is known about COVID. Other symptoms like mental fogginess make sense as secondary symptoms from respiratory and cardiopulmonary complications.

I still don't find this particular study convincing in its claims of hair loss and sexual dysfunction being mechanically related to COVID aside from the general stress of it.

As a layperson, I have some sort of cognitive dissonance calling it "Long COVID" as if it's a separate but related disease, or a continuation of the primary infection. People's bodies suffer long-lasting damage while successfully fighting off all sorts of infections. But I don't recall it being framed this way.

ORIGINAL: Like most people here in the comments, I'm coming at this report with a healthy amount of skepticism.

The relatively paltry numbers and self-reporting remind me of the folks in cancer clusters in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania, who completely believe they're victims of the Three Mile Island accident even though it's scientifically impossible for that to be true.

I believe the symptoms are real. But about a million things can cause hair loss and sexual dysfunction, including stress. Perhaps the stress of getting sick during a pandemic when people are dying and you know you're infected with the same illness? The fear of the unknown? Seeing people survive with complications and worrying that the worst of your particular case is yet to come? The guilt from wondering why you were pardoned when so many others weren't so lucky?

I'm pretty sure there's historical precedent for psychological symptoms made physical among the survivors of pandemics throughout history.

That's not to say that there are no precedents of lingering disorders, for example encephalitis lethargica in the wake of the 1918 flu pandemic. But my layperson's application of Occam's razor is telling me this is more Morgellons than encephalitis lethargica given the data currently available.

I would be more than happy to be proven wrong about so-called "long COVID" if it meant there could be a more effective treatment than the complicated world of psychiatric healthcare. If there could be a pill or a shot that could relieve these symptoms, I'd be delighted to eat crow.

Go hang a salami. I'm a lasagna hog.

How does this compare to the TrackerControl app?

Update: I switched back to Textra because Simple SMS lacked a way to see timestamps for arbitrary messages. It will show occasional times when a message was received with some lull between it and the previous message. Otherwise, the timestamps are a mystery. I don't like that.

The first book is my all-time favorite programming book. I was disappointed by the second one, though. It didn't hold the same charm and wonder as the original.

This is really cool, but... if the whole thing is to get a demo to run, the demo in question can be viewed on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeWcGhYVYXY

This is some cyberpunk-level stuff and I am here for it.