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Tired of the know-it-alls.
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vertline3··on A judging system that can score a routine from the angles of a gymnast's joints
I think it might change the sport a bit as gymnasts seek to emulate the machine's ideal. Might become a bit stale.
vertline3··on IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
Well he addressed the replication crisis in earlier writings, which others have noted is a problem as well.
vertline3··on IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
Those birkenstocks look pretty comfortable. Plus maybe they last longer. I suppose they aren't "sexy" , but I suspect the guys have conceded that. I won't knock it until I try it, which is never.
vertline3··on Russian Cosmonauts Say That the Hole in the Soyuz Was Drilled from the Inside
I do this mistake sometimes, I am off in my measuring, and have to drill a hole beside the one I drilled. I know it's likely not the cause, but if I built a shuttle, maybe it would have holes like this too. :/
vertline3··on Abusing Amazon‘s Look Inside feature to leak unreleased content
another similar recent move was the widespread disdane mobile Diablo got at blizzcon, fun YouTube clips of that.

My point about the drops is that skinner boxes are dangerous. My RA flunked out due to wow. Some small group of people really struggle with casino stuff

vertline3··on Abusing Amazon‘s Look Inside feature to leak unreleased content
I was thinking hearthstone card packs as loot boxes, and they sort of popularized skinner boxes in games with the epic drops in wow
vertline3··on FizzBuzz in ten languages
This is neat, I didn't know it started there.
vertline3··on FizzBuzz in ten languages
One common one when learning recursion or lispy things is factorial with recursion? But it's also in proof as well. It may just be really simple or something so I'm not sure my example counts
vertline3··on Abusing Amazon‘s Look Inside feature to leak unreleased content
I imagine they get thousands of people applying a day. Sad you flew to Ireland, that's messed up that they forgot.

The bad practices for me, are their pivoting toward lootbox pay2win gambling designs.

vertline3··on When Too Cute Is Too Much, the Brain Can Get Aggressive
Yeah that's what I noticed, used in marketing a lot. I was thinking we had some feeling we were being manipulated but I guess not.
vertline3··on FizzBuzz in ten languages
Why or how did fizzbuzz earn its place in lore? I looked at Wikipedia and it didn't seem to go into detail.

Also we have the teapot, hello world, Foo Bar

What are some others?

vertline3··on When Too Cute Is Too Much, the Brain Can Get Aggressive
I've never had that trait, but I suspect it is caused by a resentful feeling of being treated like an infant.
vertline3··on Software Methodology: Why One Size Fits No One
I like just programming.
vertline3··on A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love atomic power
These are hard problems that I am not sure about: decommissioning, spent fuel storage.
vertline3··on I wrote a free book about TDD and clean architecture in Python
Thanks, I will read. And hopefully I will review. Hope I can hold myself accountable to that.
vertline3··on Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos – a Problem for Video Game Developers
I feel intent should matter, is the intent to show the tattoo art? or to make a likeness recognizeable? Mike Tyson has a tattoo on his head, is the intent to convey a likeness of Tyson? or to sell the tattoo as a brand in itself(t shirts and such as a logo)? I mean is it fair use?
vertline3··on I Do Not Like Go
Great to hear, sounds like they were both designed to solve similar issues with cpp
vertline3··on I Do Not Like Go
Right, Swift is an apple thing though. I generally like Apple's choices, but stay away from walled gardens, so can t go too deep into its merits.
vertline3··on I Do Not Like Go
Youre okay it's 5 am I've been up all night. I agree with the thoughts that Rob Pike can be opinionated, and that can be good and bad. There was a website cat-v I used to go to and cat-v harmful stuff software.the site really likes plan9 and go and Rob Pike.

I feel it gives some insight, but I think it's bad to be too opinionated as this cat-v site can be

vertline3··on I Do Not Like Go
Ugh. Not going to wrestle with a pig, I'll get dirty and he'll enjoy it
vertline3··on I Do Not Like Go
It's a replacement for c plus plus. Python, Ruby all those things are higher level. Haskell is different paradigm. It's apples and oranges
vertline3··on Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
Taleb's biggest thing is exposing holes in predictive models. Silver's biggest thing is making and using predictive models. So it's only natural for these two to quarrel.
vertline3··on Don't Post Evergreen Content on Medium
The problem is I get more viewers on Instagram than with hosted stuff. So ideally I would love to not use Instagram, but I guess I feel my hand is forced :/
vertline3··on Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards
By saying I did not pet the rooster you are saying that I misapplied it in way that was lying. This is odious. They published a story not considering the feasability of it. People who knew better called them out.

Crichton himself noted the irony of it by using the famous name to attach greater importance to it. Yet he noted it is true that we will quickly forget when reading other stories and himself has called for turning away from media.

Finally Overton's Window for me is about framing debate and can be applied over broad areas.

vertline3··on Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards
If they are wrong about this, they can be wrong about anything.

Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

vertline3··on Vinod Khosla is willing to litigate California’s coast for the rest of his life
This stuff has been dealt with thousands of times before. Take what he paid for the access, add for inflation, cut him a check and move on.
vertline3··on China says rejecting physical cash is illegal amid e-payments popularity
I think it's a wise decision. Cash allows the poor easier access. Plus more options help money circulate easier.
vertline3··on Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? (2007)
I think there was a lost book by Archimedes that may have been about constructing these, called "on sphere-making"

It mentioned the archimedes sphere in the story

"Rehm suggested that it might possibly be the legendary Sphere of Archimedes, which Cicero had described in the first century B.C. as a kind of mechanical planetarium, capable of reproducing the movement of the sun, the moon, and the five planets that could be seen from Earth without a telescope—"

vertline3··on Type 2 diabetes: NHS to offer 800-calorie diet treatment
Yeah I think I had it backwards it was nutrients that mixed perfectly, I was editing my post as you wrote that about weight gain. I thought Norman Rockwell used it to try and join the war.
vertline3··on Type 2 diabetes: NHS to offer 800-calorie diet treatment
So I guess back in the day, milk and bananas were considered an ideal food combination,
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