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>This effect would disappear almost completely if they instead of estimating their rank they estimated their score In the article, in the section "The effect is in the noise", just…

The key claim: "Random data actually mimics the effect really well." This makes some sense. If people are asked to guess a number between 1 and 6 and then roll a die, the people wh…

Have you tried putting those explanations into your repo?

Yes, that is interesting. It sounds like he was aware of the theoretical possibility of a book being regurgitated verbatim. Do you know if he was aware it had been done? https://ne…

Making reasoning easy to scrutinize: https://gitlab.com/brlewis/solve-debate

The article gives anecdotal evidence that combining personal stories with advice in a book is more effective than delivering distilled information.

I thought the explanation for podcasts was people who drive to and from work, and don't care for current radio shows.

Accept-Language headers aren't used in a particularly good way by browsers and servers. If used better, they would be a particularly good solution. The idea you mentioned of browse…

My hunch is that Accept-Language became the best way to determine a user's language about the time it became common to bring a laptop while traveling. People use arguments today ag…

I think your information about lack of notifications is outdated. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...

I once insisted with an optometrist that they only take my insurance number and not my SSN. They contacted my insurance and the insurance sent them my SSN. I can't avoid medical in…

That's distinguishing the String class from primitive string. I don't think that would still work with another `extends String` the same shape as Hash. For example: https://www.typ…

This seems like a great idea, nicely implemented. Minor bug report: the pronunciation button pronounced Spanish "adaptar" as "ajaptar".

Deep sleep is not improved by consistent sleep/wake times, and adjustments to noise/temperature/light conditions? If not, which sleep phases are? (I don't have an answer to the ove…

From the article, In fact, the lawsuits claim that RealPage shares "peer lists" with clients that tell them exactly who else is providing data to the company within a specific dist…

See my answer "what's cool about deno" https://gitlab.com/brlewis/brlewis-aoc/-/blob/main/README.md...

Don't give up on your network. For applying cold, have you tuned your resume for Applicant Tracking Systems? I am starting a new job in April with a company that contacted me via L…

Isn't that assuming that Orange's legal costs would have been the same whether or not they settled?

>It is also bizarre that someone could take BSD code, make trivial modifications, and now such cannot be sent upstream or used under the original license. No it is not bizarre. Tha…

> especially blind players Isn't accessibility for a web-based MUD just a matter of adding `aria-live="polite"` as an attribute to the incoming text? Five years ago I did this on h…

That's missing the point. The article isn't about an advantage for large production projects.

This article would have worked a lot better without the second paragraph. The writer's simple pleasure of typing "go run ..." should not be predicated on believing that deno doesn'…

>functions are global so you now need to name them uniquely to avoid collisions I hear this here, and elsewhere I hear that PHP has evolved into a decent language. Both can't be tr…

The survey methodology is biased toward old technologies, from the era where you sent HTTP headers that advertised the stack you were using. Modern stacks often hide that info. (It…

It's possible that most commenters here are right, that the writer just has inferior reasoning capabilities compared to us, and that there's no way any of us could possibly fall fo…