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New comment by cd4plus in "Show HN: Nutrepedia – Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx"

cd4plus — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:14:07 +0000

I can't enter a serving size that's not a whole number on mobile because it automatically closes the keyboard when the text field is cleared

New comment by cd4plus in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

cd4plus — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:40:05 +0000

This is wrong. Our bodies evolved to eat a diverse omnivorous diet and complex carbs + the antioxidants present in vegetables and fruits are anti-oxidative.

New comment by cd4plus in "Everything you need to know about California’s SB 79"

cd4plus — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:42:58 +0000

What an incredibly weird take. Higher density cities are better in virtually any environmental metric per capita. This is widely supported

New comment by cd4plus in "Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight"

cd4plus — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:41:28 +0000

Am I missing something or are they reporting that prices have "jumped" because they've increased 30% since 2020? That seems like a fair use of the word.

New comment by cd4plus in "Positron, a New Data Science IDE"

cd4plus — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:20:59 +0000

It's really a shame posit quadrupled the cost of rstudio server/workbench because these tools are really nice in an academic hpc environment

New comment by cd4plus in "Uv's killer feature is pulling in local dependencies"

cd4plus — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 23:19:22 +0000

pixi seems fine, but it also is just using mamba on the backend so you might as well continue to use miniforge

New comment by cd4plus in "Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE"

cd4plus — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:49:15 +0000

I can't stand jupyter notebooks for several reasons. I've been using https://quarto.org/ and writing .qmd docs and really enjoy it.

New comment by cd4plus in "Turning psychiatric labels into identities"

cd4plus — Tue, 28 May 2024 20:13:20 +0000

Jerry Fodor? Noam Chomsky? Hilary Putnam? Patricia Churchland

What is a pure philosopher??!? I'm not arguing the specificity of the question, I'm saying that question is nonsensical.

New comment by cd4plus in "Turning psychiatric labels into identities"

cd4plus — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:42:11 +0000

Are you not a practitioner if you contribute to the field...? Seems impossible to meet your criteria.

What's a pure philosopher? Are Frege and Decartes not philosophers because they also did math? Does Alan Turing count? What about Popper and Kuhn? Are they philosophy enough for the philosopher club? Where, when, how and by whom do you think the concept of 'empirical science' was derived?

To be clear, everyone, including scientists, do philosophy every single day. You don't think Darwin did some philosophy in on the origin of species?

New comment by cd4plus in "Turning psychiatric labels into identities"

cd4plus — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:08:05 +0000

You haven't looked very hard then

New comment by cd4plus in "Enhancing R: The Vision and Impact of Jan Vitek's MaintainR Initiative"

cd4plus — Fri, 17 May 2024 01:25:24 +0000

yeah, I also disagree with this. It's true Seurat is still heavily used for scRNA/scATAC but I see most new models increasingly being written/tooled for python and based on anndata. Geneformer, scGPT, scVI etc. I wish there was better operability between the scverse stuff and Seurat, but Seurat went their own way from SCE/bioconductor so that's probably not going to happen.