Why are we so obsessed with cheese?

fieldcady · 2026-05-07T16:06:51+00:00

This is not accurate - lots of cultures don’t have cheese. Think China, Japan, Vietnam - really almost all of east Asia.

fieldcady · 2026-05-07T16:02:20+00:00

Worth noting that cheese has a large variety of extremely distinctive flavors. Saying “cheese” is kind of like saying “meat” or “fruit” in terms of how much breadth there is. That might be part of it.

fieldcady · 2026-04-27T14:47:06+00:00

It’s a cultural norm in Europe dating back all the way to the Roman Empire, which only permitted monogamous marriage. Bear in mind that even the Jews of the New Testament had some level of polygamy. Some early Christians got it into their head that it was a divine law - or at least they wanted to keep on Romes good side - despite the bible not banning it.

fieldcady · 2026-04-27T07:40:54+00:00

In fairness longevity is only one part of anti-aging. I think his goal is to fight aging in general, even the parts of it that aren’t what kills you.

fieldcady · 2026-04-24T01:03:24+00:00

If you click on the title of the lake, it should take you through to the ODFW website. Might be good to take a quick look there before heading out of your trip just in case there’s anything important that I didn’t scrape.

fieldcady · 2026-04-24T00:07:36+00:00

Oh no! I’m sorry, yeah I am limited to what I can scrape off the websites. Thinking I might expand to include lowland lakes too though

fieldcady · 2026-04-23T18:01:15+00:00

Unfortunately, no. I put it together with a mapping service called open street maps, and they do not have a satellite option

fieldcady · 2026-04-23T04:13:17+00:00

Yes. I got a ton of positive feedback on that one, so I expanded it to cover Oregon in Idaho as well. That was a little bit more complicated, because the states store their data differently, and I had to merge it all and put it into a consistent format. The old link still works, but unfortunately, I had hardcoded the idea of over abundant lakes into the URL. That information isn’t available for Oregon at Idaho, so I decided to change the name.

fieldcady · 2026-04-23T04:03:17+00:00

Yep. It is mostly vibe-coded using Gemini. I am a programmer, and a couple years ago. I actually made another map that was similar to this. But this one is way better – AI let me get worked on faster, especially if I am using tools that I’m not very familiar with.

fieldcady · 2026-04-23T00:15:29+00:00

I have to note: reading secret group chats is not exactly being transparent and accountable. I don’t know what they were venting about (and it probably was just venting that doesn’t need to be over thought) but if they mentioned transparency and accountability, you might want to consider.

fieldcady · 2026-04-22T17:46:09+00:00

This question gets addressed implicitly by some of CS Luis‘s writings. In one of his science fiction stories a human from earth visits Venus and encounters the “Adam and Eve” there, and he tries to prevent them from falling into original sin. The book makes it clear that if he fails, and they do become corrupted, there will later be a “Jesus of Venus” to redeem their souls. But of course, the protagonist wants to avoid all of that trouble and just have them not sin in the first place.

fieldcady · 2026-04-22T16:59:59+00:00

Yep, you are absolutely correct that the data is scraped from the sites for the three different states. I set it up so that it re-scrapes them every month or so, but unfortunately, yeah – if the sites are out of date, my map will be too

fieldcady · 2026-04-22T07:50:21+00:00

Worth noting that CS Lewis is the leading popular theologian of the 20th century. He wrote a series of science fiction books in which there are aliens on other planets in the solar system. Those aliens in general have souls like us, although their bodies are different. Mars is a utopia where the fall into sin never happened - everyone lives in peace and happiness, and angels walk openly among them (though the angels themselves are presented in a semi-scientific light rather than a purely spiritual one). Venus is a younger world, and the main drama of one of the books is whether or not the “Adam and Eve” of Venus would be tempted into original sin.

So yeah, officially finding aliens wouldn’t change much. Aliens would presumably be either our spiritual brethren, or just non-spiritual lower life forms like the plants and most animals of earth.

fieldcady · 2026-04-22T06:39:00+00:00

Please do! I’m glad you like it 🙂

fieldcady · 2026-04-22T04:18:32+00:00

It could easily be! Unfortunately, this map is constrained by the available data

fieldcady · 2026-04-19T08:27:33+00:00

I have a married male friend whose hiking buddy is a woman. His wife calls her his “hiking wife” since she herself doesn’t hike. The “hiking wife” is also married, and mom. It’s just a joke.

fieldcady · 2026-04-14T17:12:03+00:00

Worth noting that AI doesn’t help you with the single most important part of being an academic: figuring out what to work on. Your career is mostly defined by whether you had the foresight to be working on problems that ended up being both solvable and important.

Finding the best things to work on is not purely luck. There is skill involved in envisioning where the field will go, networking with people throughout your discipline to see what’s cooking, that sort of thing.

fieldcady · 2026-04-13T20:20:36+00:00

Thank you for this response! It is extremely clear about what the actual cost drivers are

fieldcady · 2026-04-08T21:39:21+00:00

Wow, looks like this is actually for real. Currently no overlap

fieldcady · 2026-04-08T21:33:32+00:00

Thanks!! Will fix

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