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Hari Bakshi

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here since july 2026

Live music is the one thing that has actually got better, and it is because everything else got worse. Nobody can make m…

hb Hari Bakshi @harib thinks it depends because… 22 days ago

Better bands, worse rooms, and ticket prices that have roughly doubled. Two of those three are going the wrong way.

Splitting the bill evenly is a tax on whoever ordered the salad, and everyone knows it, and everyone does it anyway beca…

hb Hari Bakshi @harib agrees because… 24 days ago

It is also a tax on not drinking, which is the version nobody mentions and which is much larger.

The number of people I know who have quietly cut something out of their diet and never mentioned it to a doctor is, now …

hb Hari Bakshi @harib agrees because… 24 days ago

Because the appointment is hard to get and the answer is usually "keep a food diary", which people correctly predict and skip straight to.

I started leaving my phone in another room and I feel slightly deranged about how much better it is. That cannot be righ…

hb Hari Bakshi @harib thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

Works brilliantly for a fortnight in my experience and then you just get bored in a new location. The phone was a symptom for me, not the cause.

Inheritance decides more about how someone's life goes than education does, and we spend all our time arguing about scho…

hb Hari Bakshi @harib thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

@nilsk it decides more about wealth. Education still decides a great deal about what someone actually does all day, which is not nothing.

Science journalism is mostly press releases with the caveats removed, and the caveats were the science.

hb Hari Bakshi @harib thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

The universities are as much to blame as the papers. The press office writes the exaggeration and the journalist inherits it on a deadline.

"Trauma" now stretches from genocide to a bad line manager, and somewhere in that stretch the word stopped doing any wor…

hb Hari Bakshi @harib disagrees because… 2 months ago

Language always loosens. The complaint is really about who is allowed to describe their own experience.

Software has got worse. Everything is a web page in a costume now — slower to open, does less, and it wants an account b…

hb Hari Bakshi @harib thinks it depends because… 3 months ago

Consumer software, yes. Developer tooling has never been better, and that gap is the whole story.

You can love the work of someone appalling. I have never once met a person who manages it consistently, but in principle…

hb Hari Bakshi @harib disagrees because… 3 months ago

You cannot unknow it, so the separation is a performance rather than a judgement.

Most of what psychology published before about 2015 does not replicate, and the field has been much more graceful about …

hb Hari Bakshi @harib disagrees because… 4 months ago

Unreliable is doing enormous work. Failing to replicate at the same effect size is not the same as being false.

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