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Robert O. Becker also studied this. His book "The Body Electric" (1985) was quite interesting. Nice to see some more recent research into this topic.

For a few minutes after reading this I was worried about smartgit losing its way. But it seems they actually still offer perpetual single-payment licenses, where you purchase a few…

> It puts a name to a considerate consensus-based way to approach change When reading about nemawashi I immediately thought about its usage in software refactoring. This is somethi…

In my opinion it is plain fraud: intentional deception to deprive a victim of a legal right or to gain from a victim unlawfully or unfairly.

There is this concept of the "Four stages of competence": - unconscious incompetence - conscious incompetence - conscious competence - unconscious competence At first you are unabl…

That official identity documents requiring a smartphone is the "smallest imaginable amount" is questionable. With this proposal I can not even go on vacation without a smartphone. …

I read the pie chart as this: Only 11.5% barely notice them or can completely tune them out. 88.5% are annoyed by them with varying degrees of annoyance.

They believed the scurvy protection came from the sourness of lemons, so they switched to lime which is even more sour than lemon, but contains less vitamin C.

It is estimated that the full electrification of all railway tracks in Germany will be completed not earlier than 2070. But maybe I am confusing "Deutschlandtakt 2070" and the elec…

Maybe we need to integrate the AI golems as persons into society, so they can learn and interact with us as individual persons, like us. But remembering Battlestar Galactica, cutti…

In Germany they decided to make the EPA (electronic medical record) opt-out starting by 2024. Managed by "gematik GmbH", a company with limited liability. Because why should the en…

Eery, this song performance reminded me of the ending song of Portal.

Oh, yes indeed. Thanks for pointing out my confusion and the difference between those two!

The magnetic north pole is wandering pretty fast. Currently magnetic north pole is at coordinates 86.146, 146.826 [1] - right in the arctic ocean. It is not in Canada for quite som…

Yet another etymological curiosity: hǫfn is "old norse" for harbour or port. Now going to wiktionary and following the etymology: hǫfn: From Proto-Germanic *habanō, *habnō (“harbou…

Rewrite this function into latin-py, a python dialect based on latin, with all identifiers (even append) and keywords translated to proper latin. Add comments in proper latin. Add …

I like this passage from "Demian" by Herman Hesse: And at this point I felt the truth burning within me like a sharp flame, that there was some role for everybody but it was not on…

I learned to love linked lists as soon as I discovered that I can just store them in vectors to get the performance of guaranteed contiguous memory: // LinkedListItem[k]: item[k], …