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I don't usually read articles and just only take the clickbait headline but this one seemed interesting enough to read after my jog and I enjoyed it.


Also, Texas Monthly is a first rate outfit. I have read a few long form articles from them. All excellent.


I don't know if i should be embarrassed for not knowing what is a fruit and what is a vegetable.


1. Tomato. Biologically a fruit, culinarily widely used as a vegetable.

2. Carrot (whole plant shown). The top is just edible leaves, that is the most definite vegetable. The root is considered a root vegetable and is used as a vegetable.

3. Red onions, one of them is sprouted. All parts are edible (to humans, they are toxic to many other species including dogs and cats). Same situation as with the carrot.

4. Banana or plantain. It's botanically a fruit. Both are the same species and the name depends on whether the cultivar is used as a fruit (sweet, eaten raw or used in desserts) or more as a vegetable (more starchy and used mostly for cooking). I don't bananas well enough to discern the cultivar, so I don't know.

5. Grapes. Botanically a fruit. They are also used as a fruit and the most uambigously not a vegetable of all of them.

6. Corn, seems to be sweet corn. Again botanically a fruit (strictly speaking the individual corns are the seeds). Shown with husks which are also technically edible but you'll probably need to deep fry them to make chips or something. Assuming we are just going with the corn they are considered a vegetable.

7. Avocado. Botanically a fruit. Eaten raw like a fruit. Used in salads and condiments more like a vegetable? The Wikipedia article avoids making any judgment on whether it's a vegetable. So dunno.

8. Mr. Potato Head from Toy Story. A CGI rendering of a plastic toy. Mr. Potato Head should not be eaten. But also he is presumably based on a potato which is considered a root vegetable.

9. Eggplant. Botanically a fruit, culinarily considered a vegetable.

I hope this left you even more confused because it certainly did for me. Also I have no idea what the correct answers are for the quiz, and I got tired of trying different combinations.


Mr. Potato Head is also made from plastic which recently switched to fully plant-based materials

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I wonder if that's also part of the joke? but I think it's sugarcane, not corn, so probably not.


Humanity doesn't seem to have a universally accepted definition for that. Originally, colloquially, all the plants were vegetables that had edible parts. Later fruits and vegetables had their own category, even though many of the fruits are not true fruits, some vegetables are actually fruits etc. It's a mess, as colloquial language usually is.


I was a recent grad (2023) too but now I think that expecting a job solely with a bachelors isn't realistic anymore. Standards are being raised and it's even more "who you know not what you know" than it used to be. The only thing advice i can give to grads right now is work on what you are passionate about and take care of your health.


this fractalfir person is super talented. See them on the rust reddit all the time. I'm not knowledgeable on compilers at all but others seem to really like their work.


I think they’re pretty young too. Hoping for a bright future ahead of them!


ocaml gui text editor. very early stage right now but i'm learning a lot about ocaml and performance. :)


I found this hilarious XD


i envy dimitri's ambition and capabilities. i want to be able to dedicate that much effort and more into something I'm passionate about. mostly personal discipline/skill issues but MAJOR props to dimitri and this awesome project.


If you decide to have kids that’s a great long term project.


I'm glad you said this actually, because I had a section in the "why" video where I tried to compare this project to how I've felt having kids and cut it out because it was too cheesy. maybe I'll bring it back!


Please do.


I'm glad more aspects of Vietnamese culture/history is being looked at and showcased, being a vietnamese-american myself.


Can you help verify some of the translations? I’m getting different results using GTranslate.


I'd advise to use Chatgpt instead of Google Translate, they are in different leagues when it comes to the translation level.

Google translate is closer to a B1 level sometimes...


I fully support young folks being put in those high pressure situations. Lets them learn and showcase what young people can do.

I think there are huge benefits when you put together a team of people that usually don't have distractions like kids, intimate relationships, health problems etc that can hinder productivity.

Even more beneficial to a team when you combine the wisdom and experience of older folks with the passion and energy of the youth.


or young folks are passionate, idealistic, lack real-world experience, and idolize heroes, which makes them perfect foot soldiers for carrying out tasks without questions.


This is exactly what happened when Obama was elected, btw. Cult of personality is a dangerous thing from either end of the political spectrum.


Let them create some startups, not coup the government.


Sometimes it is weird to see a webpage from my university on here. Usually UH doesn't get a lot of attention for its STEM. At least from my anecdotal experience.


UH is famous at least in the high temperature superconductivity world.


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