Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
freahsteaksauce
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
3 ms
·
1.
▲
by
freahsteaksauce
3y ago
Wait how did you end up here?
2.
▲
by
freahsteaksauce
4y ago
What metrics matter?
3.
▲
by
freahsteaksauce
4y ago
What kind of fence is it when you think you know why the fence is there but you're obviously wrong?
4.
▲
by
freahsteaksauce
4y ago
Jerk is the feeling you get when you change acceleration, for example in a car when you go from a little gas pedal to flooring it. That abrupt change is jerk. The third derivative of position with respect to time.
5.
▲
by
freahsteaksauce
4y ago
The book I'm reading Weapons of Mass Instruction explains this as being part of the goals of forced schooling as designed by Carnegie and other industrialist to make easier to manage laborers.