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was searching for some documents from 2017 but found a video of a friend in a blackface with a toy gun screaming that anime is gay
New blog post, this time about prepared statements and their surprising performance implications: https://blog.soykaf.com/post/postgresql-elixir-troubles/

Back in my day we had just standard MK brainwashing. None of the Ultra shit you kids have these days.

you can't spell fediverse without fed and diverse
which just proves what a fucking stupid name it is

"But many people reading it are not high-decouplers; they hear “eugenics” and “work” and immediately all of the history, from Francis Galton to Josef Mengele, is brought into the discussion: you can’t separate the one from the other."

Just use the word brainlets

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"The analyst John Nerst, who writes a fascinating blog called “Everything Studies”, is very interested in how and why we disagree. And one thing he says is that for a certain kind of nerdy, “rational” thinker, there is a magic ritual you can perform. You say “By X, I don’t mean Y.”

Having performed that ritual, you ward off the evil spirits. You isolate the thing you’re talking about from all the concepts attached to it. So you can say things like “if we accept that IQ is heritable, then”, and so on, following the implications of the hypothetical without endorsing them. Nerst uses the term “decoupling”, and says that some people are “high-decouplers”, who are comfortable separating and isolating ideas like that.
Other people are low-decouplers, who see ideas as inextricable from their contexts. For them, the ritual lacks magic power. You say “By X, I don’t mean Y,” but when you say X, they will still hear Y."

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