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by mwexler 6y ago
Assuming you go to the same garage, and that the mechs are not the owners... Your car is one of many at the garage. You may have particular expectations on time or how you like your settings (specific wheel alignment, etc) A bit of extra
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by mwexler 6y ago
I find it interesting in the US that we hold lawyers to the high standard of no lying, while law enforcement officers are given more latitude, esp in interrogation situations. Seeing it in TV shows and movies, which often have officers and
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by mwexler 6y ago
Yeah, this is a tough one. You can't just have random people saying "please change this email for another person" without permission, on one hand, but you violate other codes if it's clear you send med or financial info
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by mwexler 6y ago
I don't want to love this... But I do.
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by mwexler 6y ago
Props for use of "vulgarization"; I hadn't seen this word as a noun or process before but it seems to fit nicely in context.
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by mwexler 6y ago
Funny, that phrase can also describe k itself... It's a mindset, or cult, depending on who you chat with about it. Very powerful, and somewhat obtuse, which often go together. Fwir, Kdb+ is written in k which is sorta APL, and then t
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NJ Supreme Court: No 5th Amendment right not to unlock your phone(arstechnica.com)
1 points by mwexler 6y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 6y ago
Modeling the problem for devs is actually not the hard part, the math is somewhat simple for the accounting part (time value of money gets more fun, but I digress). The hard part for me still is undoing years of language baggage associated
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by mwexler 6y ago
Airline "fuel surcharge" ticket fees come to mind. As high fuel costs plummeted, the fees did not.
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by mwexler 6y ago
Perhaps we follow different sources. Bowlby and Ainsworth suggest that att drives many, many behaviors and thought processes. Clinical psych has found situations where the theory applies and some therapies have had success. Yet social psy
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by mwexler 6y ago
That's not really the way science works. The theory drives testable hypotheses. We look at data to feel some confidence that the hypotheses are correct. If we don't find that data, we can continue to believe in the theory, but w
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by mwexler 6y ago
Ever notice how the phrase "I love how CSS works..." is inevitably followed by "but x or y really sucks, is too complex, is inconsistent..." I can't recall meeting a cheerleader for CSS the way you do for, say, li
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by mwexler 6y ago
This article and comments would read the same in the 80s about Benetton and 90s about the Gap. By being vague about identity, they got extra runway but then got greedy and flamed out. Let's hope uniqlo can manage to escape the pattern
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by mwexler 6y ago
Like clockwork, every decade or so, someone says "Hey, we haven't looked at attachment theory in a while! We can get a few pubs and a book out of it.". A bunch of studies later, we see the repeat of all the previous finding
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by mwexler 6y ago
It really comes down to cost. Managing change, and cash in general is a huge time and risk bucket, so some banks eat the cost, and some pass it on to you directly through fees or hoops to jump. Most branches removed individual branch coin
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by mwexler 6y ago
Hence the partially empty cereal boxes and snack bags which sell by weight but package to maximize visual perceived volume. I still recall the disappointment as a kid when I got a new box of cereal only to see that a huge portion was "
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by mwexler 6y ago
Thoughts on comparing this to bitwarden? Pros, cons?
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by mwexler 6y ago
I miss the rise (and fall) of desktop.com (which is coming back under a new owner; some ideas never go away). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop.com for more. Katie Mitic and the Drebes had a vision for clie
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Western Digital Sued to Permanently Block SMR in NAS HDDs(extremetech.com)
1 points by mwexler 6y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 6y ago
No dates on the post. Anyone know date range this applies to? Is it still happening today? And does this happen to other fridges (I see Samsungs in a few stores, for example, are they similarly crippled)?
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by mwexler 6y ago
It's fun to see folks rederive these things. Multiple arms of psychology have dove deep into this for many years now, including social psychology (individual biases and relationship behaviors), cognitive (modeling decision making proc
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by mwexler 6y ago
If you like this to explore music of other places, try also https://radiooooo.com/ to travel through time and space. Mentioned here a few times ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=tr
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by mwexler 6y ago
All this work to elim background is great. But we also will need business oriented group meets which emulate real life: Allow breakouts, 2-4 people in group "sidebar" to chat, the burble of other convos drift in, providing a gen
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The Postlight CMS List(postlight.com)
4 points by mwexler 6y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 6y ago
For another POV on pain perception and it’s role in driving decisions and behavior, Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational book talks about his early experiences with immense physical pain and his research into the impact of pain perception.
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by mwexler 6y ago
I find video abusive to my time. To consume the content, which I assume is the author's intent, I must give up my time in whatever chunk the author chooses. But I can consume text at my own pace in multiple methods. Tech usually pref
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by mwexler 6y ago
My experience on the phone differs from yours. My customizations (low salt diet or other health requirements) are ignored or done incorrectly or misunderstood due to my accent or just background noise; I have to repeat the credit card twic
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Microsoft cuts dozens of staff as it shifts to AI for MSN news stories(engadget.com)
10 points by mwexler 6y ago|2 comments
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by mwexler 6y ago
Clever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by mwexler 6y ago
Another good one to read is Statistical Rethinking via https://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/ . A bit easier to understand than Gelman's book, but together, these give you an amazing foundation in mod

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