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by rendall 9mo ago
This is the best article on Wikipedia! https://c1ic.link/bzSBpN_login_page_2 Edit: Chrome on Android warned me not to visit the site!
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by rendall 9mo ago
I think it's a great idea. In my experience this kind of thing works only with the discipline and will to actually get to it, and that really depends on the project, team and management dynamic. I've been receiving a "stale i
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by rendall 9mo ago
On the contrary, I think we are entering a new golden age of local journalism in the US, but it does not look like the old one, so we do not recognize it yet. What is collapsing is the legacy institutional model. What is emerging is a proce
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by rendall 9mo ago
...my sister once came home from school saying: “The nuns mentioned someone called Sigmund Freud and said I should know who he is.” “Ah,” said my father in a serious tone (his only tone) . “That’s awkward. He was my grandfather; he inven
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by rendall 9mo ago
I have a pet theory that everybody gets one lifetime, and no matter how long that life is, it always subjectively feels like one lifetime. Whether you live three days or a hundred years, it will always feel about the same amount of time, bo
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by rendall 9mo ago
That reminds me in turn of a joke we used to have, that the afterlife is being on a subway car with constant, unclear, but important announcements. Maybe this stop is heaven, maybe hell, maybe nirvana, maybe oblivion. There's no way to
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by rendall 10mo ago
I really enjoyed my roast review. I loved the feedback that I'm only 5% helpful and 35% contrarian! I will endeavor to boost that helpfulness percentage next year. I am surprised at the passion that some seem to feel over their own rev
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by rendall 10mo ago
I think your question is reasonable, but no, I do not think a company gets to promote a service as having no ads as part of the sell, and then put ads in by default.
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by rendall 10mo ago
The Nordic... or shall I say Scandinavian nations all crib from each other. Education, family policy, labor markets, digital government, environmental policy. Leadership just rotates depending on the issue.
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by rendall 10mo ago
Addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46298857
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by rendall 10mo ago
There is no coherent principle that that cleanly includes Denmark, Norway, and Sweden while excluding Finland. Not geography, language, religion, culture or history. Finland is not on the Scandinavian Peninsula, but it is physically contigu
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by rendall 10mo ago
Very fun
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by rendall 10mo ago
...By clicking “Accept All Cookies” you consent to the setting of these cookies and technologies. By clicking “Decline All Cookies” you decline all non-necessary cookies and similar technologies... [Accept All Cookies] There was
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by rendall 10mo ago
It is. I might sound critical, but my criticism is not of the article. Nor of Sacks and his jello, really.
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by rendall 10mo ago
I think there is probably an anthropocentric flaw in the rat display. Human eyes are side-by-side and forward, with a big binocular overlap and a clear vanishing point. A forward-facing curved screen fits that geometry well. Rats' eyes
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by rendall 10mo ago
> When [Sacks] woke up in the middle of the night with an erection, he would cool his penis by putting it in orange jello. This is a remarkable sentence, and it appears suddenly in the article without context or explanation. Naturally,
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by rendall 10mo ago
> making another random email youremail+anystring@gmail.com will always redirect to youremail@gmail.com Before making a random email address, try using youremail+f1@gmail.com or something similar.
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by rendall 10mo ago
The Fibonacci scale isn’t sacred; it’s just a coarse, non-linear scale that keeps people from pretending to have more precision than they actually have. Any non-linear sequence would work as long as it forces you to acknowledge uncertainty
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by rendall 10mo ago
There’s a well-established Agile technique that in my experience actually succeeds at producing usable estimates. The PM and team lead write a description of a task, and the whole team reads it together, thinks about it privately, and then
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by rendall 10mo ago
Thank you. I'm apparently passionate about it. I can understand not liking the taste, or hating the jitters, or belonging to a religion that discourages it, but as it's one of the very few unambiguously good and healthy joys of th
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by rendall 10mo ago
I don't think that, when all is considered, there are that many spiritual traditions that forbid it, and there seems to be no unifying principle from the ones that do. Mormons forbid "hot drinks" that are, for historical re
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by rendall 10mo ago
The claim that some people with high blood pressure may risk cardiovascular harm from coffee is supported, under certain conditions, especially severe hypertension and heavier consumption. This is true. The more general inference everybody
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by rendall 10mo ago
My experience is that cold turkey is just the pits. Tapering off can eliminate side-effects and iirc is recommended by health professionals.
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by rendall 10mo ago
Coffee's great. In the early morning, just the thought of a large cup of steaming black gets me out of bed with pep in my step. A cup of coffee or two in the afternoon always kicks the doldrums away. Before the grumpy start making nois
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by rendall 10mo ago
Thanks for sharing your experience That sounds really unsettling to go through. I’m glad things have improved for you, but episodes that feel psychotic can be important to look into, since there can be many possible causes, not all of them
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by rendall 10mo ago
https://archive.is/ZN5LZ
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Dynamic Pong Wars(markodenic.tech)
41 points by rendall 10mo ago|14 comments
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by rendall 10mo ago
After many years of living with cats, I have come to believe a cat actively refuses a command or request in a way that looks to humans like the cat does not hear or understand the request.
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by rendall 10mo ago
Wikipedia’s sourcing rules are a big part of the problem. Reliable sources on Wikipedia mostly means prestige, center-left Anglosphere media and a narrow slice of academic publishing. In practice that gives generalist news outlets more ep
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by rendall 10mo ago
Wikipedia is not resistant to capture. It is structurally exposed to coordinated editing groups, and the platform has no robust way to detect or neutralize them. On politically or strategically important pages, especially where state or fin

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