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gingerrr commented on An Unexpected Benefit from Quitting Coffee – 10 Months In   hamy.xyz/blog/2025-10_une... · Posted by u/speckx
zdragnar · 5 months ago
I found the same thing with aeropress. I can drink coffee all day, and have the occasional Americano no problem, but twice had a shot from an aeropress over ice and it gave me awful anxiety attacks both times.

Interestingly, cold brew makes me a bit anxious but doesn't really satisfy the caffeine craving the way a traditional cup of coffee does.

YMMV I guess

gingerrr · 5 months ago
> Interestingly, cold brew makes me a bit anxious but doesn't really satisfy the caffeine craving the way a traditional cup of coffee does.

Same, it gives me all the physical anxiety of coffee without any of the mental benefits - I don't understand how it's taken such a large share of coffee drinkers by storm!

gingerrr commented on The Reddits   ycombinator.com/blog/the-... · Posted by u/sandslash
westmeal · 2 years ago
Posts about the reddits on orange reddit :)
gingerrr · 2 years ago
is reddit not already orangered?
gingerrr commented on Figma removed `window.figma` on view-only pages today   forum.figma.com/t/figma-r... · Posted by u/Justineo
seumars · 2 years ago
It sounds to me that if your team is relying that much on inspecting values, you're doing the developers (or designers) a disservice one way or another. A well defined set of design tokens is all that's needed, and isn't rocket science either. Not to mention that encouraging developers to copy-paste CSS should be frown upon anyway.
gingerrr · 2 years ago
Agreed! By the way, guess what else is paywalled by Figma https://tokens.studio/

edit: there is a free tier but core functionality like "create a variable" or "reference a variable" is Pro-only :P

gingerrr commented on Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders   knowablemagazine.org/cont... · Posted by u/highway-trees
jjackson5324 · 2 years ago
That's great, but if I ever see a jumping spider in my house then I will not hesitate to murder it in cold blood.
gingerrr · 2 years ago
That's so sad. I'm pretty militantly anti-spider but jumping spiders, despite seeming like they were sent from hell to terrify us, are just little furry big-eyed arthro-bros
gingerrr commented on X Corp. vs. Media Matters for America et al.   plainsite.org/dockets/52o... · Posted by u/thinkcomp
andsoitis · 2 years ago
Thank you. Several of those seem less like ads placed against any specific post, but instead alongside in a stream of posts.
gingerrr · 2 years ago
That's a meaningless distinction to advertisers and in the context of this lawsuit.

Were brand ads placed colocated with hateful content in a user feed? That's the only question that matters to advertisers at least. Attribution doesn't change the damage to their brand.

And even this lawsuit doesn't challenge that fact that the answer is "yes", ads did get placed next to hateful content - the lawsuit just claims results were skewed by gaming ad targeting and so aren't representative.

gingerrr commented on How Apple Made the Space Black MacBook Pro Darker Than   ifixit.com/News/86128/how... · Posted by u/promiseofbeans
ricc · 2 years ago
Or chopsticks
gingerrr · 2 years ago
chopsticks are excellent for cheetos
gingerrr commented on How to pronounce the trickiest English words   wsj.com/business/media/ho... · Posted by u/lxm
wongarsu · 2 years ago
Pronunciation drifts in all languages. But usually languages take some effort to have either a clear mapping from spelling to pronunciation (when you read it you can pronounce it) or from pronunciation to spelling (when you can pronounce it you can spell it); or some compromise that tries to achieve both. Hence when pronunciation drifts too far that eventually causes the word to be spelt differently too.

Meanwhile English seems to have spelling set mostly in stone hundreds of years ago, and any shifts in pronunciation since then are just ignored (barring minor reforms like the ou->o thing that part of the world adopted)

gingerrr · 2 years ago
How does mapping spelling to sound work in languages like English that have homophones?

"wear", "where", "were-" (as in werewolf), "weir" (in some regional dialects) can all be pronounced identically in modern English. If we map them all to a single spelling, is that an improvement to readability and understanding?

gingerrr commented on Tesla earns $690M less than expected in third quarter   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/jethronethro
fragmede · 2 years ago
That seems like one of those "there's no rule about a dog playing basketball" Air Bud things - unless you can cite a specific law, I don't believe it's actually on the books as being illegal. Also not something I'd recommend, but I'd be very surprised to see a law specifically banning it.
gingerrr · 2 years ago
It's illegal to drive without a license, but your license doesn't automatically get suspended/canceled when you die - a loved one has to do the legwork to cancel it. So probably technically legal until a court case involving someone declared legally dead who's just driving around somewhere?
gingerrr commented on Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens   journals.sagepub.com/doi/... · Posted by u/anjel
throw__away7391 · 2 years ago
> G.K. Chesterton has an entire body of intellectual work

As a Christian apologist. His views were a foregone conclusion. No one who engages in such games deserves to be taken seriously.

This is completely "consistent" at least with so-called "Christian intellectuals", as they want other people to be "open minded" to their proselytizing while they themselves remain completely closed to the even possibility that they're completely wrong. They do not engage in good faith and see no problems with this because they consider their ultimate aims more important.

gingerrr · 2 years ago
His arguments against absolute open-mindedness weren't grounded in discussions of his faith - even just the full version of his quote shows that, it was in reply to a metaphor for theory of mind his friend told him:

"For my friend said that he opened his intellect as the sun opens the fans of a palm tree, opening for opening's sake, opening infinitely for ever. But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my mouth, in order to shut it again on something solid. I was doing it at the moment. And as I truly pointed out, it would look uncommonly silly if I went on opening my mouth infinitely, for ever and ever."

Other variations of the quote he told included an addendum: "The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. Otherwise it is more akin to a sewer, taking in all things equally."

Neither of those relate to grounding his epistemology in Catholicism.

While I definitely agree his Christian apologia means a heavy dose of salt with intellectual claims, he's not even arguing for a moral center in this metaphor. Simply an intellectual self, to not be a gaping maw of consumption, as you wouldn't be physically.

Discernment with respect to ideas you're willing to entertain isn't exclusively the domain of religion, as far as I'm aware.

u/gingerrr

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