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by klenwell 7y ago
Bullshitter, bullshit thyself: Bullshit.js is a bullshit, bullshit bullshit JavaScript bookmarklet that will bullshit you to evaluate the bullshit of bullshit text on any Web resource, cultivating bullshit bullshit and bullshit thinking.
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This is also covered in Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep where he cites several controlled studies demonstrating the role of sleep in learning and outlines the neurobiology behind it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/sh
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This is also a great listen on the subject: NUMMI (2015) A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota opened NUMMI as a joint venture. Toyota showed GM the secrets of its
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"Beware the chopsticks gene." Abstract: Population stratification is a potential source of error in psychiatric genetics. New study designs and statistical methods can help guard against this problem. Molecular Psychiatry (2000)
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A favorite quote of mine from Donald G Reinertsen's Principles of Product Development Flow: I used to think that sensible and compelling new ideas would be adopted quickly. Today, I believe this view is hopelessly naive. After all, it
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> There was an appalling timesheet system called Agresso, the most counterintuitive Windows GUI I ever encountered. I love the idea that there was a terrible timesheet system called Agresso. And that it's still around today! Some th
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I've shared parts of this before but it seems apropos of the topic at hand. I was working a Fortune 500 corporation. Been there 5 or 6 years. Pay was ok. Culture was meh. Technology was open source. I was happy enough but figured it wa
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Yes, that was the error. I tried it again with Firefox and it worked. It was just slow. Maybe a UI doodad to indicate it's processing. Thanks for sharing the cmudict. Yes, I think that was the one I downloaded back when I was tinkering
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Pretty cool. Evergreen workshop debates about stress and meter were one of the things that drew me back to programming while I was pursuing my MFA years ago. Care to share what dataset you're using to identify meter? The rhyme scheme f
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Tour Operator Thomas Cook Collapses(nytimes.com)
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I feel like this could be the basis of an interesting, what, Comedy Central show maybe? Get two semi-famous people together every week. Have them play RPS to 10 or 20 wins. Just enough to get to the meta mind games and drama but not long en
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The current NY Times headline (did it change?) doesn't mention penalties but emphasizes the creepy tracking part: Orwellabama? Crimson Tide Track Locations to Keep Students at Games But for that gross invasion of privacy, I'd sa
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I think other comments in this thread have done a great job of pointing to some common sources and their resolution. I'll mention a few things I've found interesting in discussing the question over the years: 1. I am often the sou
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As a team lead, one question I always ask in my 1-on-1's: On a scale of 1-5 (low good, high bad), what's your stress level since we last met? If my teammate says 4 or 5, I ask what we can do to bring it down to a 3. We also addr
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A Mountain Top Called ‘Little Man’ Falls in Norway, and Residents Celebrate(nytimes.com)
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> Honestly I'm sick and tired of the normalization of rent seeking. It's draining our collective creative energy. I feel like this is the prototype of Roko's basilisk.[0] I mean the rent-seeking part isn't new. That&#
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I see a link for "How to get Sugar on an OLPC XO Laptop". Is this going to revitalize my old XO laptop? (I would really love to be able to do that.)
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Former sweeper here (years and years ago). We were also responsible for restrooms, which I still find are generally a pleasant experience relative to other public restrooms. When sweeping, you had an assigned area that you were expected to
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This is a great example of 1 of the 2 fundamental biases Kahneman identifies in Thinking Fast and Slow: answering a difficult question by replacing it with a simpler one. The other one (also perhaps relevant to the general topic of this thr
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No kidding. When I hear about long grueling hiring processes like this, I wonder what the hiring company is finding out in the 8th hour of interviews that they didn't in the 7th. Or in the case of one job my sister applied to: the 8th
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As a kid, I kinda took hypnosis for granted largely on the basis of cartoons. It wasn't until I was in my twenties and had read up a little on human cognition and evolutionary psychology that it occurred to me to ask, "Wait, is hy
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Well stated. Once the employee is out the door, they're really just a MacGuffin to drive the real plot: management trying to figure out how it can improve the company and culture to avoid this situation again. Even if I was happy to se
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I thought this interpretation was pretty widely recognized. I had encountered it before I read Graeber's Debt. (Don't remember where. It had been years earlier.) His treatment was just a recap of what I already knew or at least wa
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You would hope, right? It's actually a lot of shades of gray. The most astounding part about it was once the scammers had this verbal consent, they check could print a check themselves against my grandmother's account and cash it.
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> Please - teach your parents to just hang up on these clowns. That was the other thing. It was impossible to get my grandparents to do this. I think I eventually got them to let the answering machine answer and not return calls for mess
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And he'd been working there long enough to know that this wasn't a common event. He even qualifies it, "You know, it's very hard for that to happen."
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The victims didn't come forward because they felt so ashamed about falling for the con. This is such an interesting essential part of scams. I guess it's a part of human nature. I remember tracking down a phone scam that caught
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I had read the book as well and I still had to watch it several times to appreciate all the nuance and really put it all together. For example (warning: potential spoilers, though you'd have to be pretty super attentive to detail if yo
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I generally try to avoid downvotes but I downvoted your top-level comment because I thought it was a derail on an important topic that needs more awareness and informed conversation. (To put it in terms some devs might better relate to: I t
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I tried to automate my most recent Ubuntu PC using this Ansible playbook as a starting point: - https://github.com/lvancrayelynghe/ansible-ubuntu It has some bells and whistles I stripped out (or wished I did). One of

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