joelegner

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by joelegner 3y ago
Is that really how these layoffs go? The HR person is belittling ("I need you to focus") and the employee passively takes the belittling. Here's a script the employee could have used. "Excuse me, I need to pause. I have
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by joelegner 3y ago
The human body seems to be designed to talk. Talking is generally learned automatically. Reading and writing are not automatic. Talking also has nuances that are lost in transcription. Maybe the more a recording act resembles talking, the b
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by joelegner 3y ago
Each incident also likely boosts their numbers, justifying why they need budget for their SWAT program. Or as Upton Sinclair put it, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it
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by joelegner 3y ago
I started on version 10 on DOS around 1991 or 1992. I think version 12 was the last one on DOS, and it was so snappy! Never been the same since.
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by joelegner 3y ago
I think the brain is designed to free up memory holding information that is not useful. Memory associated with a technical term like phrasal verb seems to be something it would garbage collect. The brain will remember the term while it’s us
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by joelegner 3y ago
I prefer "to go" over "takeaway" for two essentially meaningless reasons: First, _go_ is older than _away_. According to Etymology Online, go dates back to Old English ("gan"), while away in sense of "at a
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by joelegner 3y ago
Alternative reinforcement is an area of ongoing research. There are issues with cost and stiffness of the more exotic types. Research is probably slower because of the need to at all times be confident our structures are safe. We cannot fre
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by joelegner 3y ago
Where did you hear that reinforced concrete has a lifespan of 100 years? As a structural engineer, I can tell you this is not correct as a general rule, but is true for structures subject to chlorides, especially marine structures like brid
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by joelegner 3y ago
What do you use in its place? Are your alternatives meeting your needs?
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by joelegner 3y ago
Even if you never intend to attempt a project like this, there is something valuable to be gained by reading narratives like this: humility. Not many folks could pull this off. I sure could not. It’s a good reality check.
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by joelegner 3y ago
I did not ask the learned resilience claimant for evidence, because I take resilience training to be orthodox for the psychological community, and I believe the person I responded to does as well. Information is surprise, and the surprise f
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by joelegner 3y ago
Do you have any citations that support your claim, which seems to be that “resilience,” is unhelpful or harmful?
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by joelegner 3y ago
Let there be some ants. Let each individual ant act according to local rules. None of the individual ant’s rules say “build an anthill,” yet after a few days there is an anthill. I predict there are many anthills that have never been observ
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by joelegner 3y ago
High childcare costs universally generates outrage. But should it? Perhaps this is how the population eventually flattens. Maybe it is okay that the marginal cost of another human being keeps increasing. If adding a child to the planet is e
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by joelegner 3y ago
I think this is the right view of success. Great success requires both talent and hard work. It’s most obvious in domains like sports and music. I noticed that in my teens by watching Michael Jordan. He was great because he had a body seemi
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by joelegner 3y ago
Another interpretation is that the portraits communicate essentially zero information about the subject. No information means no way to differentiate beyond the absolute basic facts: male, age such and such, seems to be wearing western clot
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by joelegner 3y ago
Isn’t predicting what we want out of a science, more so than explaining?
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by joelegner 3y ago
In my field communicating with other English-speaking people is probably 80% of the job. Someone who cannot read and write clear English prose will not be successful. Serious question: if I eliminate someone from contention because they str
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by joelegner 3y ago
May Stockton Rush become a synonym for dangerous hubris, for the benefit of future generations.
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by joelegner 3y ago
I have this vague idea that a person’s beliefs are not truly known until they use them as the basis to bet something of value. This guy bet his own life, so I agree with you. He believed what he was saying.
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by joelegner 3y ago
Are you talking about life safety or some other kind of safety? “Safety” is a word having many different senses. Your mentioning of promotions and competing ideas makes it seem to me you are using safety in a much broader sense than the sen
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by joelegner 3y ago
Simone wielding AI nefariously will eventually use this tidbit about human nature to terrible effect.
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by joelegner 3y ago
This is great advice, thanks. I have the means to pay someone instead, if that's the way the market works. I should clarify: I bet a high caliber person would consider it a hobby project. It might be more appropriate for an amateur. It
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Ask HN: How does a domain expert (me) find software people to develop an app?
1 points by joelegner 3y ago|4 comments
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by joelegner 3y ago
Individuals and businesses received direct payments in the form of stimulus checks. I have to think also money got into people’s hands by lending as the banks are how the new money gets into circulation. That’s my layperson’s understanding
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by joelegner 3y ago
If so, how do said corporations get access to the the money that would have previously gone to savings? More plausible to me is the idea that stimulus — printing new money by fiat — resulted in more cash in circulation. Corporations are lik
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by joelegner 3y ago
The law has far more power over corporations than society has over parents and parents have over children. We are better off doing what is most effective: regulate the industry.
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by joelegner 3y ago
I took it to mean the age restrictions and restrictions on advertising to kids, not an anti-trust action.
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by joelegner 3y ago
The breadcrumbs part is a good point. I can look at an old note and see what wacky rabbit hole I had visited that day. If you’re asking me about the stack exchange question, I don’t use tags for my notes.
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by joelegner 3y ago
I tend to agree that I rarely, if ever, read any of the copious notes I’ve taken. However, I find the iOS notes app is a good middle step in a workflow from reading to remembering. What I like to do is read a chapter of a book, scientific a

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