fourbits

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by fourbits 6y ago
It's called the Nocebo effect [1]. It's discussed on Mind Field S2 E6 The Power of Suggestion. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
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by fourbits 7y ago
If I'm not mistaken a subset of these protests are in reaction to Amazon allegedly working with ICE. I did a quick ctrl-f and don't see anyone else talking about this in here. How does HN feel about it? Personally it's just a
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by fourbits 7y ago
Possibly off topic but after years of trying I'm finally on a good streak at 750Words [1]. What's really changed the game for me is filling out my entry in vim. I used to be bummed with copy pasta entries because I couldn't s
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by fourbits 7y ago
Yes! That's what I'm getting at. It seems like technical interviews as I've experienced them (Microsoft being the biggest name I've tried so far) are knowledge based stress tests. This doesn't make sense to me becau
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by fourbits 7y ago
Yes! I learned this in my first internship when I froze up on the terminal because I had a manager hovering. It's something that comes up a lot in my circles. I did feel a little better when I eventually taught that same manager someth
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by fourbits 7y ago
I had never heard of this set up a project interview test. Sounds stressful and awkward but For me, it would possibly be preferred to algorithms because one of my strengths is reasoning about technologies. In group projects and when working
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by fourbits 7y ago
Honestly I see no reason to eat this stuff ever unless I'm in a pinch. If I want a burger I'm not wanting something that looks or smells like meat just something with the same form factor as a burger. Lately it's lentils and
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by fourbits 7y ago
Wake me up when toilets tells us anything we need to know about our health. Depending on implementation it could even be scary. A companion app that gives you AmazonFresh ads: A little low on zinc today eh? Why not try some Pumpkin Seeds™ I
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by fourbits 7y ago
""" Much of evolution depends on historical contingency, too. The earliest organisms had many oxygen-controlling pigments at their disposal. But once lineages of organisms committed to using certain ones for certain jobs, it
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by fourbits 7y ago
Yeah that's my experience as well. I went for a B.A. so I was able to take a larger variety of CS courses than the average B.S. student and it still was only my Web Applications professor that did live coding with web2py and Vue.js
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by fourbits 7y ago
The YouTube music equivalent of Discover Weekly is probably the "Mixtape" feature (with the main difference being repeats from your listening history are allowed which is convenient in the case of the offline Mixtape feature). A l
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by fourbits 7y ago
Next figure out how to work the YouTube and YTM recommendation algorithm. I know I'm not the only one paying for premium and actively discovering small independent artists everyday through recommendations.
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by fourbits 8y ago
Reminds me of the precogs in The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch