I remember learning a few years ago that it was a New Yorker piece. Kind of surprising given how much it sounds like a copypasta/greentext post.

I think it's been around for a bit (at least I remember seeing it last year). Double laxative effects aside, I always thought this would taste weird.

Eloquently put. Did a site tagline just drop?

They get into it pretty quickly, but it doesn't get a name till later. The name of the idea seems to be called "cueing theory" or the "three cues system". Basically, it says that beginning readers should look at cues or context for reading new words, such as the first and last letters of the word, what the sentence says so far, etc., and use these to try to infer what the new word is. Sounding out a word should only be used as a last resort under this system.

The thing that's funny to me (in a kind of way) is that the way the people who support these ideas talk about teaching reading sounds a lot like training an AI language model - i.e. use the preceding context to guess the next word. They even go so far as to use a sticky note to cover the next word and try to get the kids to guess it as a classroom exercise.

I don't remember if ever wanted more lanes, but when I started driving (grew up in the south so that's all I knew) I could tell that something seemed inefficient. My phase that I'm embarrassed by now was when I thought traffic would be solved by replacing human drivers with self-driving cars. Very-young-me already knew the answer though lol (I played with a train set growing up a lot).

What do you mean by the FIRE sector? Isn't part of this push back to the office due to commercial real estate interests? I'm sure there are FIRE people who own "investment property" but I don't know if that is the strongest force at play here. Not disagreeing with you just trying to get a better picture in my head.

"Come see the most wild story of the Summer that's bound to draw crowds into seats."

My parents had no idea what seeds they were planting when they got me train sets as a kid.

For some reason we never hear them say that being a doctor is a calling...

I think the joke they're making is "skinny Tony Soprano"

Woman evolves into Wowoman

Either HL3 dropping exclusively on Linux or Microsoft forcing a switch to Windows 11 will force me to switch to Linux permanently - whichever happens first (probably windows 11 :doomer: :windows-cool: )

I just started Horizon: Zero Dawn and I might try this out!

Is this going to cause an eventual crash in the dick-market?

Rock climbing (bouldering and top rope, looking at getting into lead sometime)

Relevant (long) YouTube video where I first heard about the "island of stability": https://youtu.be/Qe5WT22-AO8

(Check out the rest of the channel, I definitely think it's relevant to people's interests here)

The typical suburban American is too fucking stupid to even realize that all of the infrastructure they use every day actually has a cost and that they should share in this cost in proportion to their use of it.

I don't mean to come off as too combative and I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here, but sometimes I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because a lot of the problems with suburban development seem obvious if you seriously think about it for more than 10 minutes.

Technological improvements happen by standing on the shoulders of those before you. Even if they "stole" information there's a lot of work that goes into understanding that information and pushing it to the next level.

Six, to be precise

I've been using chemex for a while. How different is using the reusable filter from the standard paper filters? Definitely might considering getting one of those when my paper filters run out.