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rehevkor5 commented on Some people can't see mental images   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/petalmind
andy99 · 2 months ago
I’ve read tons of these and still have no idea if I have aphantasia or not. I can’t understand whether people just have different ways of describing what’s in their minds eye or if there’s really a fundamental difference.
rehevkor5 · 2 months ago
There's no diagnostic test for it. So is it real?
rehevkor5 commented on US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces   bbc.com/news/articles/cqx... · Posted by u/tartoran
docdeek · 2 months ago
This seems like a bad decision to me. Not only does it seem not to be in the spirit of the law (you can still report but not as easily now) but it's not clear why they shut it down at all. Cost? Inefficiency? Just wasn't getting used much? They have a better solution?

On the other hand, the US seems so partisan now that had the current administration told the world they were taking huma' rights abuse reporting seriously by creating a web form, some people would probably be criticized for that, too.

rehevkor5 · 2 months ago
It seems to be an extension of aspects that he talked about in his speech https://www.war.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/4318... Specifically:

> allow me a few words to talk about toxic leaders. > The definition of toxic has been turned upside down, and we're correcting that. That's why today, at my direction we're undertaking a full review of the department's definitions of so-called toxic leadership, bullying and hazing, to empower leaders to enforce standards without fear of retribution or second guessing. > We're talking about words like bullying and hazing and toxic. They've been weaponized and bastardized inside our formations, undercutting commanders and NCOs. No more.

> Third, we are attacking and ending the walking on eggshells and zero defect command culture. > A blemish free record is what peacetime leaders covet the most, which is the worst of all incentives. You, we as senior leaders, need to end the poisonous culture of risk aversion and empower our NCOs at all levels to enforce standards. > I call it the no more walking on eggshells policy. We are liberating commanders and NCOs. We are liberating you. We are overhauling an inspector general process, the IG, that has been weaponized, putting complainers, ideologues and poor performers in the driver's seat.

> No more frivolous complaints. No more anonymous complaints. No more repeat complainants. No more smearing reputations. No more endless waiting. No more legal limbo. No more sidetracking careers. No more walking on eggshells.

> we know mistakes will be made. It's the nature of leadership. But you should not pay for earnest mistakes for your entire career. And that's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records that will allow leaders with forgivable earnest or minor infractions to not be encumbered by those infractions in perpetuity.

> People make honest mistakes, and our mistakes should not define an entire career. Otherwise, we only try not to make mistakes, and that's not the business we're in. We need risk takers and aggressive leaders and a culture that supports you.

That makes his view of complaints, and his preference that people "take risks" and don't worry about "not being perfect", pretty clear. He thinks those things are "debris" that have been "weaponized" and that he's "liberating" people from. Maybe that seems great if you're in the military. Not so great if you're on the receiving end of those "risks", or if you or your family becomes the broken "eggshells".

rehevkor5 commented on N8n raises $180M   blog.n8n.io/series-c/... · Posted by u/doppp
anticorporate · 3 months ago
This.

I like n8n. It feels a little less rough around the edges for visual coding than something like huggin or nodered. The documentation is good, but finding examples and things like that offsite is impossible.

rehevkor5 · 3 months ago
The documentation leaves a lot to be desired. Especially regarding custom node development. But also on the user side, for example the kaka trigger node has zero info on its doc page.
rehevkor5 commented on A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut   science.nasa.gov/science-... · Posted by u/acossta
userbinator · 4 months ago
Took me a bit of time to realise this wasn't about spotting a plane from the ISS... which is apparently possible but difficult:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3243916/Can-...

rehevkor5 · 4 months ago
+1 thought they had caught an image of a Spirit airlines plane...
rehevkor5 commented on Syncthing 2.0 Released   github.com/syncthing/sync... · Posted by u/KindOne
coffeekid · 5 months ago
Different use case. Syncthing just keeps folders "in sync" between two machines even if they are not on the same network. Great tool to always have a backup of pictures taken from your phone to a small raspberry pi running at home for instance.
rehevkor5 · 5 months ago
It also syncs modifications, so it's not really a backup solution.
rehevkor5 commented on Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions   davidgomes.com/async-queu... · Posted by u/davidgomes
63stack · 6 months ago
Another thing is that the article emphasized that it's single threaded. That by itself guarantees that there will only ever be 1 inflight request, since calling the send() function will block until the request completes, and the callback is called.

If there is some kind of cooperative multitasking going on, then it should be noted in the pseudo code with eg. async/await or equivalent keywords. As the code is, send() never gives back control to the calling code, until it completely finishes.

rehevkor5 · 6 months ago
Yeah that confused me at first too. They seem to be treating send() as if it has the same behavior as a setTimeout() call. If you think of it that way, it starts to make sense.
rehevkor5 commented on Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions   davidgomes.com/async-queu... · Posted by u/davidgomes
rehevkor5 · 6 months ago
Their "proper implementation" lacks sufficient error/exception handling around the callback() call. It'll become permanently broken if it throws anything.
rehevkor5 commented on Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)   w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHer... · Posted by u/theandrewbailey
guhcampos · 6 months ago
Maybe it's because I'm old, but I have always instinctivelly thought of links as pointing to to nouns: links point to a place, and that place has a name, not a verb, maybe an adjective.

So links to my website are fine, while links to my website are inherently not. I also have a strong pet peeve around imperative tone, so I'd never write something like go to my website or follow this link.

rehevkor5 · 6 months ago
Imperative would be appropriate for things like tutorials and howto pages.
rehevkor5 commented on TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale   afterbabel.com/p/industri... · Posted by u/cwwc
bmurphy1976 · 8 months ago
Please add YouTube to the list. I'm watching my kids' brains slowly melt as they go from YouTube short to YouTube short like little crack addicts trying to get their next fix. Throw in a bunch of AI generated bottom of the barrel swill and I'm on the verge of blocking YouTube entirely yet again. I blocked YouTube for years because of all the garbage child targeted auto generated videos that were flooding the platform. It's very frustrating because there is a lot of good content that I would like them to continue to have easy access to, but the cost of entry is way too high.
rehevkor5 · 8 months ago
YouTube really needs to provide an option in their mobile app to disable shorts.
rehevkor5 commented on Teach, Don't Tell (2013)   stevelosh.com/blog/2013/0... · Posted by u/Tomte
mistrial9 · 9 months ago
rehevkor5 · 9 months ago
https://diataxis.fr/ is newer/more fleshed out

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