metalang

You might be thinking of the US Digital Service (https://www.usds.gov/)

I have met a lot of people who support some form of eugenics that do not support "isolating a single group that they believe is inferior". I think that is unfair criticism unless you're only restricting eugenics to sterilizing a group based on a single characteristic.

Steam already offers no questions asked refunds if a game is played for under 2 hours (and based on my experience will give refunds outside of that policy if the game won't run).

Substack already does the tiered levels thing. It's pretty common to see people with the super expensive tier on the AstralCodexTen and SlowBoring blogs. They've also gotten into community-building. I know quite a few people IRL who subscribed to SlowBoring just to able to talk to other people they originally met via twitter there.

The stock baskets for the Bambino are pressured, so yes. From my experience you can't get a "good" shot out of the stock baskets (but even crappy beans with a crappy grind produce something passable as espressso).

I have had to do it multiple times for every paper I’ve published. I do health economics research, which involves a lot of collaboration with physicians and people from other less quantitative fields (eg public health, implementation science, communications / media). From my experience those collaborators are unwilling to look at results until they look “finished” (ie are in the format that the target journal requires) and are part of a Word document that includes the working draft of the paper. Since they want to use Track Changes as version control, I can’t simply generate the tables again as a Word document and end up having to copy and paste them in, which is a huge time suck and runs the risk of making errors.

Thanks! I actually have not spent much time looking into that and will see if it helps.

By far my biggest pain point is Microsoft Word. I've found that there are existing solutions for most steps in the research process (Git for version control, Rmarkdown/Quarto/Jupyter/Orgmode for integrating the code and the analyses, Zotero for citations, etc), but almost every research project that I've been a part of has eventually required the manuscript to end up in Word due to either journal requirements or some collaborators refusing to use other tools. At that point all the advantages of the other tools go out the window. It's easy for people to change tables or otherwise break the linkage between the manuscript and the analysis code, and you're stuck spending a ton of time auditing the paper and fiddling with the appearance of tables. Furthermore, once you're in Word you have to manually move any changes in the analysis into the manuscript rather than being able to rerun the code and run the output through Pandoc. I would love a tool that lets me work with collaborators in Word (including track changes) without losing the advantages of my preferred workflow.