LeonB

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   by LeonB 5y ago

   Certainly, you make a good point. When we talk about someone “in crisis” it’s very likely to have them appear quite violent. And all people threatening suicide are threatening violence. ==== edited to add (as stated below) What I'm int
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   by LeonB 5y ago

   > We're going to have a special mental health response team to deal with suicidal people and the non-violent mentally ill." Who would oppose that? When it diverts funding away from mainstream policing then it would be very stro
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   by LeonB 5y ago

   “playing a major chord sort of implies a bass note a couple octaves below the root of the chord” Wow! Of course! Lightbulb moment. This isn’t something that occurred to me independently but makes so much sense I wonder how it hadn’t, and it
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   by LeonB 5y ago

   Wow! “It was the only feature film written by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), who wrote the story, screenplay and lyrics.” — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_5,000_Fingers_of_Dr._T .
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   by LeonB 5y ago

   My bad sorry. It was tested on humans.
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   by LeonB 5y ago

   In mice
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   by LeonB 5y ago

   I would like a typescript style transpiler tool chain for testing out new language features that are seamlessly transpiled down to existing sql. Once that’s in place I don’t know which features I’d want first… but there’s a lot of them!
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   by LeonB 5y ago

   I agree. Things are becoming more declarative over time. And it progresses over decades, as it takes that long to work out the right things to be able to declare.
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   by LeonB 5y ago

   I’ve slowly come to realise that: 1. There’s a large latent pool of talent that can only do part time/flexible jobs but aren’t even looking because so few are available. 2. The total economic loss from such jobs being rarely offered is
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    This is not a very sound assumption. How we learn and the speed at which we read (how we chunk the information together - and how as an author we put together information to be readily chunkable) are very closely tied together. Edit: hold
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    (Agree, that’s why I only waved vaguely, lol. Ted is full on.)
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    Really? I know of him as… Oz Trials, hobbyist computer magazines, publishing, lots of publishing, but digging holes and putting waste in it?
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    Ted Nelson envisaged micro-payments as part of the underlying platform (he invented … waves vaguely … all of this)
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    I think it’s worth looking into a possible involvement of naval pilots, as sometimes even the best of the best write cheques their body can’t cash or buzz the tower without clearance.
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    With 2 billion monthly active users… I think a response needs to be far more thoughtful than “Do they, though?”
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    > How to admit you don't know something as a senior engineer and learn from junior engineers who are closer to the new technologies. Definitely! This is something I do a lot and love to do. I’m excited when i realise “oh, rather
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    I don’t think the GP comment is “taking issue” with it - but showing that without a specific piece of knowledge it’s easily misunderstood.
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    I was hoping the clock would turn out to be upside down, or reflected in a mirror or both.
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    Registering the methods/details before performing the experiments is another technique that is used.
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    “First do no harm”
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    > is this a stunt? Scam? Fake? Magic? Bullshit? Hard to pick just one. The "got suspended after adjusting a baby" line is -- you have to admit -- a bit of a red flag.
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    > I’d like to see some scientific studies proving chiropractic adjustments are harmful. The burden of proof lies very much in the other direction.
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    How did the worst colleague teach you that? Did they do the opposite of that?
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    You can learn everything for free - but the paid courses are valuable and can make it quicker and easier to learn, as the authors take the time to be more comprehensive and consistent. (I spend my own money on them)
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    by LeonB 5y ago

    In addition to the other answers - Pluralsight
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    by LeonB 6y ago

    I saw a similar but different variation involving a low-use system. Imagine it was a system for detectives to track complex murder* investigations. They only need to conduct approx 10 such investigations per year, but quality/correctne
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    by LeonB 6y ago

    This was my experience too, with a useful online page I built. People loved it but wouldn’t donate to help it. Someone suggested I productise it but I thought, based on the donations, that it wouldn’t have many purchasers. But they were rig
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    by LeonB 6y ago

    (Good) comedy writing teams can do “spit-balling” successfully. I think it’s possible. I don’t think “brain-storming” is the right angle to come at the problem.
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    by LeonB 6y ago

    What do you mean by “capital outflow” here? Do you just mean “spending” or something more?
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    by LeonB 6y ago

    Ted Nelson’s response to wired is an interesting read: http://web.archive.org/web/20001101230424/http://www2.educ.k...