LeonB

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by LeonB 6y ago
I think extending the metaphor to bombs is a bit much. It's more like if the U.S. accidentally bombs a civilian caravan and the response is "we should stop trying to assassinate terrorists" in other countries. I wouldn't
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by LeonB 6y ago
agreed. it deserves a response of "this is true, code of conducts need to be done thoughtfully and well" but can expect a response of "this proves babies should be discarded with bath water"
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by LeonB 6y ago
This sent me down a rabbit hole looking for the difference between inertia and momentum. Which showed me, above all, that the people who write dictionaries aren't qualified to write about terms from physics. I also see that effort it t
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by LeonB 6y ago
A crowded public bus has far more intense interruptions than those in the workplace. I've never been thrown from my seat at work. (Ok -- once.) At work I've never been surrounded by a group of strangers having a shouting argument.
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by LeonB 6y ago
Yeh you’re right. But the other element he’s throwing in is Fogg’s Tiny Habits. So it’s those three combined, in such a way that he makes it his own, and as demonstrated here, achieves a bit of erasure along the way. Also - that life hack a
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by LeonB 6y ago
With sharepoint you can check the file in/out and see version history, possibly with a comment on each versio. But it’s not very similar to version control system. Particularly since formulas and data live together. Better than nothing
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by LeonB 6y ago
Fogg’s stuff is pretty well researched and rises a few steps up from formalised folk research (though I get what you mean). I don’t think James does enough to credit Fogg. I mean Atomic Habits — based on Tiny Habits... and the name “two min
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by LeonB 6y ago
Yes, the name "2 minute rule" has been taken, and mixed up with a bunch of other ideas from the same place (and related places). That's why it's twisted. > I never said Dave Allen's idea was contentious Sorry, I
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by LeonB 6y ago
I used to code on the bus while commuting to work. There were many interruptions that meant it would only be successful if I optimised it such that I could start/stop at a moment’s notice. Through this experience I learned that you def
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by LeonB 6y ago
It credits lifehack, who credit Dave Allen. Though the ideas/details have been twisted along the way, the “2 minute rule” is straight from Dave. All credits on it lead back there. It’s not a contentious idea, the guy’s still alive. It’
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by LeonB 6y ago
This is good advice. But it conflates two different (but related) ideas from Dave Allen: "Next Action" and "2 minute rule". Both are fantastic ideas. I recommend going to the source to learn about these, the book "G
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by LeonB 6y ago
I don't think "the 2-minute rule" (originally from Dave Allen of 'Getting Things Done') or the article above frame procrastination as "laziness." It clearly about "Task Initiation" which is a pro
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by LeonB 6y ago
Obviously they can't turn the car off while you're driving, so they'll perform these checks either when you stop the car or when you start it. The solution then is to never ever stop the car. And you may also need to fool the
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by LeonB 6y ago
it works for me now on Chrome.
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by LeonB 6y ago
Octopus notes is an interesting idea. Thanks for the link on it. And I do like to write a lot of little parsers. I worked with someone once who would somehow transform every business problem into “we need to write a compiler”. Sounds crazy
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by LeonB 6y ago
i used to be part of a decentralized mesh network. I see that part as less likely each year. Things centralize, then when the central node gets corrupted, everything is perturbed for a while and somewhat decentralized, until the next centra
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by LeonB 6y ago
Thanks Thomas!
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by LeonB 6y ago
I also wrote a version that used javascript to see what elements existed in the page and generate the relevant before/after styles. Adding attributes would’ve be doable. But it gets a bit silly really, once you have a giant page.
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by LeonB 6y ago
If the page knew to show “<script>” before and after script tags, and to apply “ white-space: pre-wrap;” to script tags, it would’ve been slightly clearer what those tools were doing to you.
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It uses the same idea as the one above, just has less explanation.
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by LeonB 6y ago
That’s not off topic at all, very astute observation. Pseudo elements are not part of the DOM. They’re not really there. Here’s a HTML reference https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#pseudo-elements
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by LeonB 6y ago
You must be very special :). I don’t know why that would. My googling said it could be rheumatoid arthritis: > Rheumatoid arthritis Popping joints can also occur with forms of inflammatory arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis. High-pi
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by LeonB 6y ago
> occasional reports of dislocations (My wife treats hypermobile people... dislocations are prevalent there, in many many joints.)
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Hypermobile (and hEDS) population and related connective tissue disorders.
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by LeonB 6y ago
Hypermobile (and hEDS) population and related connective tissue disorders.
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by LeonB 6y ago
Heading incorrect, should be “mostly” harmless. (Also, my wife specialises in helping a subset of the population for whom cracking the knuckles is far from harmless... i suspect she’d be furious at this headline.)
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by LeonB 6y ago
I think the term “halo effect” could’ve been referenced in there in several places. When someone is good (or successful) at one thing we assume them to be good at many other things. (Interesting article though.)
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by LeonB 6y ago
I generally see people who describes themselves as capitalists in the “good” sense, act in accordance or in support of capitalism in the bad sense. They claim to like “the invisible hand” of the market etc, but don’t complain about monopoli
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by LeonB 6y ago
It’s a new feature. There’s some related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754456
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by LeonB 6y ago
Agree re plugins, and it’s not just the work to verify them once, they change over time. Their motives change or are revealed (once enough customers are locked in they switch to evil mode), or they are acquired by profit-hungry capitalists

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