mabcat

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by mabcat 10y ago
In my experience taking the lane stops people from assuming that they have space to pass except by changing lanes. Car drivers mostly take their cues from the cyclist. If you're cycling in the gutter it signals for car drivers to try t
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by mabcat 10y ago
Features is another term for inputs, variables, etc. It has a connotation of being recognisable as a property of the thing being modeled, that you might have cleaned up from the raw data.
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by mabcat 10y ago
Tim Ferriss has poked at the positive effects of intermittent fasting on cancer/health/longevity a bit. I found this interview with Dominic D'Agostino very informative: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/11
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by mabcat 10y ago
As in bloggsfamily@localisp.net.au that both parents and all the younger sprogs share. Still common as anything.
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by mabcat 10y ago
It does allow you more flexibility with pricing. As an example, iStock sell photos that cost 1 credit or 3 credits depending on how fancy they are. But the credits cost a variable amount depending on whether you bought a few credits or hund
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by mabcat 10y ago
Same for me when removing a device. Meanwhile, removing a linked app works just as you'd expect
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by mabcat 10y ago
This is a "just noticeable difference", stacks of research on it. In some situations the JND for temperature is as small as 0.02 degC. Whereas if I sneak the room temperature up over the course of about 10 minutes you may not noti
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by mabcat 10y ago
By the way, "holding a pen in your mouth makes you feel smiley" is definitely in psych 101 courses, and social 201, and also showed up in cognition 301 if memory serves.
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by mabcat 10y ago
I helped run a clinical trial for an antidepressant one time. It was a double-blind randomised within-subjects-replicated crossover design. All that control was complicated, time consuming and very expensive. Only the hospital pharmacy knew
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by mabcat 10y ago
Declension is for nouns, inflection's the more general term
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by mabcat 10y ago
Second part: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/th...
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by mabcat 10y ago
Don't fly to Sydney then! I don't know what devil-deal was done, but the app won't allow you to summon an UberX inside the airport boundaries.
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by mabcat 10y ago
I switched to 1Password after Lastpass got acquired. I obviously have no special knowledge how secure it is but it's serving me well. OSX browser integration excellent, iOS integration mediocre.
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by mabcat 10y ago
That curl command doesn't connect on my OSX El Capitan.
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by mabcat 10y ago
I think your comment has blurred some distinctions that the post takes care to pull apart. Every human inevitably suffers and has reason to commit suicide, so why don't they all want to? Many more people want to commit suicide than do
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by mabcat 10y ago
I think you will find, depending on where you live, that personality rights are often much narrower than that. In general the rights stem from protections against passing off or unauthorised use in an advertising context. In Australia and
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by mabcat 10y ago
I needed something like this literally last night, glad to find it now. If you want it to be more widely used, maybe it could use some SEO or marketing love? You don't seem to be on page 1 for company name generator, business name gene
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by mabcat 10y ago
> Now as to whether people actually want this, I don't think they do. They do. Surely you've seen statuses to the effect of "any one of my friends who supports [belief] can just go and unfriend me so I don't have to u
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by mabcat 10y ago
Nah, happens with my AirPort Extreme mounts as well
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by mabcat 10y ago
That is a great article. I just strictified the cheeky shell scripts that automate deployment of my current project.
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by mabcat 11y ago
Unfortunately you have a fundamental misunderstanding of health experimental design. Double-blind means that neither the participants nor the experimenters know which participant is allocated to which group. It doesn't say anything abo
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by mabcat 11y ago
The example in the article is that export pens get twice as much QA time (two test clicks instead of one test click) which involves twice the QA labour cost as for domestic-market pens. Same components, different process. More generally I&#
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by mabcat 11y ago
Check out http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/ , it was an interesting perspective shift for me.
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by mabcat 11y ago
> against non-obvious features (there's a word for this, I can't remember it) Are you thinking of "affordance"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
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by mabcat 11y ago
What is the main rule, exactly? The only way to measure happiness is self-report. Most psych studies in general are self-report. Very hard to get at people's mental states without it.
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by mabcat 11y ago
Virgin Australia prints the PNR and frequent flyer number in plaintext. I scanned a recent VA boarding pass with a PDF417 scanner, and amongst all the other stuff is 16 characters without an obvious meaning. The boarding pass in the article