growingkittens

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Ahh, my blind spot - tactile feedback. My hands aren't very sensitive to touch.
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As an alternative, my Surface Pro 3 has an LED on the Caps Lock key to indicate on/off. It is a terrible keyboard otherwise, but perhaps there's other keyboards out there with this feature.
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Sorry - I meant a workday at the GE Research lab you mentioned.
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What was an average workday like?
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Thank you for posting your summary! I appreciate summaries because each individual finds something different to emphasize about the text. Have you looked at the book "Handbook of Systems Thinking Methods" (2023, Salmon, Stanton, e
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Inessential complexity increases the workload of maintaining a system (like the climbing wall vs. stairs: can't maintain an upstairs floor unless you maintain the ability to use the climbing wall). Bells and whistles, especially when i
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These two things are related: > I can never keep the workload under control, or my habits change, and give it up. > to build up a highly personalised system that doesn't need to work for anyone else. "Anyone else" inclu
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by growingkittens 3y ago
One way to find an answer on the Internet is to be wrong on the Internet: unless there's a voting system involved. Click to disagree anonymously, the whole thing is automatic and effortless. You don't have to organize your thought
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by growingkittens 3y ago
We need an equivalent to the FDA for dark patterns - patterns "Generally Recognized As Dangerous". Ban the use of dark patterns.
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As people age, they experience the difference between: - the future-that-is, and - the future-that-could-have-been, or the future they imagined based on their collective experience as a younger person. Computers completely shifted the pote
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It's still a thought experiment. People in general lack imagination outside of the range of their experience. Imagination is a skill that has to be practiced or lost.
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I found this while looking for the name of the (multiple) Minecraft mods that involve programming: https://mcreator.net/ It seems to be a Minecraft mod maker that simplifies the process of building a mod. There's a pag
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We need another BASIC. How far into Minecraft modding have you gotten?
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Most of what I remember involves "transferability" - the ability to take a skill in one area and apply it in a different context. One way to teach this involves combining subjects, such as practicing reading and comprehension skil
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The long-term impact is much more ambiguous to measure. I paid particular attention in school when a teacher would explain why they were trying to teach us something. I noticed the same patterns of teaching among different teachers in the s
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> Disaster recovery for millions of digital records is much easier, make a copy on a different disk and give it to someone to hold. Repeat once a decade. Who is this "someone", though? There's no long term, passive, digita
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Actually being trapped in a non-functioning mind or body without knowing the problem would change many minds. Don't read too much into an offhand high school thought experiment.
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No. Until I knew I had a brain injury, I could not figure out how to work around my issues. Everything I tried was a dead end. It was unrelenting failure and judgement. Knowing what a problem is gives you the ability to solve it. Not everyo
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A lot of autism and disability research sounds like it's written from the "outside in" - like peering into a window vs. being in a house. I wonder how much research engages disabled people about their experience vs. observati
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In 100 years with minimal, passive effort, a piece of paper will be fragile, but usable. In 100 years, a hard drive will degrade without multiple transfers to new media - an active process. The barrier to digital archival is much higher tha
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Sima Qian chose suffering and mutilation over death to complete his life's work. The written word can persist throughout space and time. What will happen to our digital archives?
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> So much of my career has been shaped by running into developers or just people interested in programming out in the world. This is probably less common now, but remember not to laugh at young girls in the programming section of a books
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Do you have any particular reason for saying so? No regulation is bad or worse. Even less accountability.
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These mega companies like Amazon are "too big to regulate." Our legal system hasn't scaled in response.
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I have noticed this about art education. If you go to college - you have to find a college with a rigorous program. Then, the material itself is dry and obscure, and sounds a bit like magic woo (it's not though). One of my "someda
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You're describing a procedural problem - different words for the same concepts. This is one way science is not systemic. As a result, experts end up solving the same problems in different silos. Generalists can spend time "transla
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The problem we face is being a culture of many specialists, with few generalists. Generalists are capable of managing a wide range of information and have the ability to transfer skills and knowledge between domains. You don't have to
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> You could consider this a form of epistemic learned helplessness, where I know any attempt to evaluate the arguments is just going to be a bad idea so I don’t even try. Replace "the arguments" in this sentence with "comp
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> Maps and spacial diagrams [...] allow us to see information from a different perspective, showing us connections and relations that would likely escape us, to visualise data in its spacial context. This is one reason why drawing skills
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Nino's workflow is on my "technology wishlist"! I study systems and system dynamics. The technology we have is capable of so much more, but so little of it works as a system. Nino is a step in the right direction. Imagine a s

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