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by bena 11mo ago
Reminds me of something Joel Spolsky wrote about on his blog. The best managers were those who "moved the furniture out the way". Basically clear the way for the people working on the problem to do so.
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by bena 11mo ago
It's difficult because the variance is so wide. To compare: Three profiles of people with diagnosed Autism. Blindboy Boatclub: An Irish satirist who wears a plastic bag on his head in public appearances. Formerly of a band called The R
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by bena 11mo ago
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/the-human-body-in-space... NASA seems less sure than you do. And considering we have to get to the asteroids before we even start to think about mining them, talking about the mon
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by bena 11mo ago
First, what's the return on that? You are talking about massive investments to shoot off into space never to return. Who's paying for that? The only way you do that is if you're so fucked, it's your only option and the p
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by bena 11mo ago
Yes, it's incredibly easy to do these things once you've done all these other, incredibly difficult things first. The furthest a human has been is 250k miles (far side of the moon). The fastest a human has traveled is only 0.0037%
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by bena 11mo ago
I mean, nothing in the human body can be truly represented by a single number. Even height and weight change throughout the day. People are typically taller and lighter in the morning than in the evening. Weight especially is variable, it c
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by bena 11mo ago
15 points is right around one standard deviation. It's not nothing, but IQ is already a little squishy. No one's IQ is a single number. But the article also goes into problems with the study and other potential issues. Basically,
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by bena 11mo ago
I think the issue with that is that linux is the kernel. Everything around it is how you interact with it. So how to change settings would be the responsibility of the shell used. And there are several shells and even window managers on top
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by bena 11mo ago
Probably from the preserved skulls of those lucky enough to get preserved. So, you know, good ol survivorship bias.
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by bena 11mo ago
Babies have really poor vision until like 6 months. So it's like, kid comes out, everything is a blurry mess, stuff happens to them and they have no fucking clue.
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by bena 11mo ago
Like all good problems, the answer to gatekeeping is "depends". What he talks about with the initialisms and such, essentially using shibboleths to exclude others is a bad form of gatekeeping. When addressing an audience that may
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by bena 11mo ago
It sounds like school with extra steps.
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by bena 11mo ago
I have this, I've so far solved every day this year. And I think the last week of December, because I also received this for Christmas. Some days are incredibly easy due to the day before. Some days, you can flip the orientation of one
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by bena 11mo ago
Usually. There's diminishing returns the higher you go. The difference between 150 and 175 is much smaller than 125 and 150. When you go from 30 seconds to 15 seconds to solve a problem, that's noticeable. But when you go from hal
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by bena 11mo ago
Tangent: It's interesting that the author linked to an article that linked to Sirlin's article about "scrub mentality" rather than linking directly to Sirlin's article. But I agree with what the author is trying to
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by bena 11mo ago
Part of the test is the speed at which you get the answers. So while one may not be able to solve the entire suite of questions within 10 minutes, we can know that someone who can is smarter than someone who can't.
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by bena 11mo ago
They asked what else could be used. I told them, then I explained why it wouldn't work as well as a standardized test. And the variance can happen even in "top level" public schools, for certain definitions of "top lev
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by bena 11mo ago
One could use course grades. The problem with that is the variance in instructor quality between institutions.
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by bena 11mo ago
You build apps for Shopify. You are asking for industry predictions from industry professionals in an industry you know nothing about while assuming a lot about that industry. Why do you think they should do all the heavy lifting for you? Y
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by bena 11mo ago
Makes sense, what do you think it was trained on?
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by bena 1y ago
Only moderately so. The Jets are not favored to win many of their games. The expectation is that they lose. There are multiple teams where mediocrity would be seen as an improvement. However, people buy the jerseys, go to games, etc. Things
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by bena 1y ago
All sports are entertainment. No one watches the Jets expecting them to win.
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by bena 1y ago
First of all, Data never willingly jeopardized the crew. Second, they work alongside actual aliens. Being different is not a disqualification. And Maddox isn't callous, he just doesn't regard Data as anything more than "just
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by bena 1y ago
To paraphrase Jean Luc Picard: Am I conscious? Why? Can you prove that I am conscious?
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by bena 1y ago
“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” Becau
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by bena 1y ago
It's possible he messed up the dosage. What he gave you wasn't good anymore. Or something else I'm not even thinking of. The fact that he gave you something else that time, and that you've never had that experience again
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by bena 1y ago
It's kind of the central concept of the 1990 movie Flatliners as well.
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by bena 1y ago
Yeah, people think they can "fight" it, but you can't. That stuff will knock you out. The counting is just so they know when you're out.
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by bena 1y ago
It's completely ephemeral and ridiculously difficult to prove or demonstrate. We only really know what goes on inside our own heads. And unlike other things, like long covid, there's no outward expression of not being able to visu
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by bena 1y ago
I mean, the issue is that we cannot know what is actually going on in someone else's mind. All we can do is describe it to the best of our ability. So there is some likelihood that things like inner monologues and aphantasia are simply

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