This website of Death Row information, including chilling last words...
https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders...
Similar: http://www.goodbyewarden.com/#214
Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
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#262I enjoy rabbit holes with much less meaning, such as:
http://z0r.de/ or http://www.theuselessweb.com/
The last one is great. I once discovered this gem:
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#263https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws Which contains (apart from the obvious Murphy's law and Occam's razor) such pearls as the Peter Principle, the Dunning-Kruger effect, and Hofstadter's Law. 20+ tabs guaranteed!
In a similar vein, and perhaps even more useful, here is a collection of probably 100+ useful concepts and thinking tools (make sure to read all comments and also the comments in the linked article at the top):
Concepts for Your Cognitive Toolkit
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#264Gallery of US Nuclear tests. Lots of info at this site, beyond just American tests.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#265https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws Which contains (apart from the obvious Murphy's law and Occam's razor) such pearls as the Peter Principle, the Dunning-Kruger effect, and Hofstadter's Law. 20+ tabs guaranteed!
We share the same vice!
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#266Pokemon glitches are an incredibly interesting rabbit hole. They provide a good mix of video games and low level programming goodness:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheZZAZZGlitch
https://www.youtube.com/user/ChickasaurusGL
These two channels together will give you everything you need to get started and document close to every known glitch in the pokemon games. Well that and perhaps TRRoses old website for background on what exactly is going on in these videos, but that got taken down. Bulbapedia probably still has what you need though:
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Glitch_Pok%C3%A9mon
A favorite example of mine:
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#267Discovering new human and bot algorithmic artists on twitter by searching for #generated:
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
There seems to be some misunderstanding what is meant by "subsequent encounter" in this context. These are codes for office visits. "Subsequent encounter" means that a patient is not seeing a physician for the first time about their injury. There are also codes for "initial encounter."
So initial vs subsequent encounter are completely different codes? Wouldn't this approach double the number of codes? Why wouldn't this be some other field of data associated with the form instead of mixing it up in the diagnostic 'topic'. I know nothing about medical diagnosis codes.
The codes are used to make the reimbursement system complicated enough that it can be gamed. That's the general purpose of impenetrable bureaucracy.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's good in general to be careful of the "this is what I think people are like" genre of blogging. Especially when it's presented with such certainty. See also: slate star codex, TLP. At least those two are working psychiatrists. Venkat Rao is just a guy with some opinions that he has retrospectively derived from his own career progress, as far as I can tell. It smacks of rationalisation.
Yes, true. But I also think Rao is incredibly self-aware of this. Interact with him. Very strong opinions, gingerly held.
His writing doesn't seem to convey that to me. On the contrary: there's a kind of pretentious of style that I find uniquely intolerable. Which is too bad, because I'd otherwise probably be pretty interested in some of what he has to say, but I'm too much of a dick to get past it.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#270http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes Discover new command line utilities or combinations of them to solve various things. Learned all kinds of useful stuff. Things like I know but always forget about: python -m SimpleHTTPServer To server the current directory on port :8000 Then there is silly stuff like: dd if=/dev/dsp | ssh -c arcfour -C username@host dd of=/dev/dsp To output your microphone to…
helpful tip to build upon #1: you can pass a valid port number to the SimpleHTTPServer command to open that port instead of 8000.
What about specifying the interface?
Last time I checked it wasn't possible.