best self defense mechanism there is

this was also me in my 20s when someone asked if i wanted to go out drinking

always remember, <=> is the three-way comparison operator. it takes two arguments.

maybe giving him the nobel prize for literature was the committee’s way of saying he should have just been a writer

what is it giving mr hussein

i feel the same way about bob dylan as i do about the rolling stones. i like some of their music, but i can only stand listening to at most 3 songs in a row. after that i need a break.

the only people who are still tweeting about newtonian physics are those who do not yet understand newtonian physics

what about haskell

looks to me like he showed up after the first time he was called

Treat OR NO Trick

anybody have any guesses about what the hidden word is?

maybe we just need to Think Differently about what it means for something to be a summary

no not like that

that’s what they tell you right before throwing you off the plane

There is only two ways to protect a game against piracy, right? Either you don’t, or use our protection

this is the most denuvo quote i could possibly think of. it’s beyond parody, and yet, they went and said it anyway

i think you’re taking that quote out of context a bit. a few sentences later, the article says

Even physicians have weighed in on the shortcomings of B.M.I. The American Medical Association warned last year that B.M.I. is an imperfect metric that doesn’t account for racial, ethnic, age, sex and gender diversity. It can’t differentiate between individuals who carry a lot of muscle and those with fat in all the wrong places.

“Based on B.M.I., Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was a bodybuilder would have been categorized as obese and needing to lose weight,” said Dr. Wajahat Mehal, director of the Metabolic Health and Weight Loss Program at Yale University.

so the point they seem to be making is that, while BMI is controversial partly because people like to shoot the messenger, it’s also just not a reliable measurement in a medical context, even as a heuristic. the article also goes into more detail on its other shortcomings as well. the article also indicates how BMI was never intended to be used in a medical context. so, there are plenty of valid reasons for wanting a new metric.

but i do think the sentence you quoted isn’t really doing the author any favors in terms of trying to communicate the central point of the article.

i’ve been clutching my pearls for the past 10 years but it’s nice to know i can rest easy tonight

sovereign citizen

basically people who think the legal system has hidden cheat codes, and if you can say the magic words then all of a sudden certain laws no longer apply to you

i’ve mostly given up on expecting/trying to make coffee taste good. at this point i just eat the roasted beans and carry on with my day. it’s also more efficient since you lose a fair amount of caffeine through the brewing process. at this point i only have like 8-15 beans a day.

i still go to a cafe from time to time if i want a nice cappuccino or something, but i don’t bother with any of it at home.

edit: i should mention that roasted coffee beans can taste pretty good if they’re been roasted properly (and even better if eaten within a week of roasting). and you can get a pretty decent bean roaster for like 200$, and then after that a 3 lb. bag of unroasted beans costs like 30$. the 200$ upfront charge is pretty expensive, but it ends up paying for itself pretty quickly since you save an insane amount of money from buying unroasted coffee beans. when eating the roasted beans, a 3 lb. bag can last about 6 months to a year. so thats about 30$ to 60$ a year spent on coffee. even when i was brewing coffee, i found that the roaster paid for itself in about 6 months. not to mention that it’s not that hard to learn how to roast coffee beans, and everything tastes much better when using freshly roasted beans.

what a beautiful language