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by toomim 5y ago
This comment is so good that I'm replying to it just so that it appears in my /comments history.
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by toomim 5y ago
> the idea that my success could be predicted by my knowledge of geometry and vocabulary words is laughable. You really should look into the g-factor research. This isn't about knowledge , but rather performance . It turns out t
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The SAT does.
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It used to be so great... :-(
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Often because there is no way to get the gas to a power plant. There might not be a local power plant that uses natural gas, or there might not be pipelines, or the local plant might not need the gas. Methane pops up in many places, and in
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by toomim 5y ago
There are many structures for IQ tests. Some use analogical reasoning, some use arithmetic pattern matching, some use vocabulary and language skills. You are perhaps thinking of the style of IQ tests that require you to fill in analogies
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by toomim 5y ago
Perhaps you've never interviewed someone. I am an employer. When I interview job candidates, I ask them about their lives, about their day, where they grew up, and lots of questions because I am starting a relationship with them. The
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by toomim 5y ago
You might want to read up on general intelligence, which is the well-documented phenomena that your performance on tasks like rotating shapes in your mind correlates very strongly with other tasks: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by toomim 5y ago
That sure looks like an IQ test to me.
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They weren't filtering people based on MBTI. MBTI is quite commonly used to characterize what types of jobs an individual might take on. If you understand a person's personality, it gives you a way of imagining how you might wo
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by toomim 5y ago
On the contrary, there are literally thousands of formal studies of MBTI. Here, look: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=mbti... It is very well-studied in psychology. To say that most academi
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by toomim 5y ago
Your question is the topic of the article [1] Mnot was replying to. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30312897
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by toomim 5y ago
Your use-case sounds perfect for Braid: https://braid.org This works like SSE, but is designed specifically to articulate changes to the state of HTTP/REST resources. If you're in Javascript, you can use the braidify l
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by toomim 5y ago
These are great insights by both Mnot and Josephg. I've followed up on this conversation on the HTTP working group mailing list: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2022JanMar...
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by toomim 5y ago
And the Braid protocol, using a variation on SSE: https://braid.org
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by toomim 5y ago
Nah, the upgraded 4-core T430 is plenty fast and very productive. You'd be surprised. I used a dual-core upgraded T430 for quite a while. The problem was actually the battery life. 2-3 hours just doesn't compare to a M1 Macbook
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by toomim 5y ago
True. Whereas most Computer Science communities gather to solve a particular problem (like comprehending natural language), HCI contributions tend to be the problem definitions themselves. A common CHI paper would read "we studied a
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by toomim 5y ago
Wow. This should be the top comment.
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by toomim 5y ago
CORS is such an ugly web standard. It's not only a pain in you butt, but it also makes your requests slow through these extra pre-flight round-trips. I have hope that we can remove it, though, in new versions of HTTP. CORS only exists
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by toomim 5y ago
Or indieweb. Or making improvements somehow?
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This is the philosophy that Steve Jobs followed, if I'm not mistaken.
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Wow, that's funny. I really enjoyed the colors he chose! It must be a matter of taste.
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by toomim 5y ago
"Cultural genocide" should be called "memocide". At the point that you are only using the word "gene" metaphorically, it's time to switch to the word that already exists for that purpose: the "meme&qu
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by toomim 5y ago
Woah, this solves the acceleration problem? I want to try it!! Thank you!
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by toomim 5y ago
Well said!
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Although I appreciate the results of this study, there's a big misconception in here about Cognitive Distortions: > Cognitive distortions are errors in reasoning resulting from negative intuitive thoughts that are not evidence-based
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by toomim 5y ago
You know, the IETF is an open group, and you can write some examples and submit them as a pull request: https://httpwg.org/CONTRIBUTING.html
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by toomim 5y ago
Problem 1: We're too distracted by modern technology and its games for our attention. Solution 1: Try meditation! Problem 2: My friends and family aren't following through with their meditation. Solution 2: Let's gameify medi
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by toomim 5y ago
> Not sure I understand the hate on tap to click? Sometimes I start to move the mouse cursor, and then change my mind, after I put my finger down, but before I move it. This room-for-indecision is totally fine if I'm using push-to-c
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by toomim 5y ago
I smell sarcasm.

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