Somehow reminded me of how Michael Scott remembers things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSi41cNvmXQ
Readit Newsrisfriend commented on How actors remember their lines thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/pepys
This is stuff for spy movies.
Learnt this from a cxo few years ago and this has certainly helped - to be able to make time for yourself, every workspace task should be a calendar entry.
Not surprised that Nestle behaves unethically.
risfriend commented on The Graph of Wikipedia [video] youtube.com/watch?v=JheGL... · Posted by u/miohtama
I've used my same wiki handle since 2003, and actually knew what the #1 linked-to article was/would be (don't want to spoil, but it's obvious if you're a frequent visitor to wikipedia).
Half-way through OP's video reminded me of this really fun mapping utility, self-described: sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/
We don't need to find out, wikipedia itself documents it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_with_the_mo...
risfriend commented on Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate esa.int/Science_Explorati... · Posted by u/thunderbong
The article mentions the cosmic distance ladder, which is one of my favorite things in all of science. How do we know how far away the really far stuff is? It's non-trivial and I find the history fascinating.
It all started with knowing the distance from the earth to the sun. Nobody had a clue until Richer and Cassini got within 10% in 1672. Then we nailed it down in 1769 with James Cook's voyage to Tahiti, the primary purpose of which was to observe the transit of Venus from the other side of the world.
From there if you know basic geometry, you can observe the nearby stars shift a bit when the earth goes around the sun (parallax), but that only works to about 10k light years.
Then, we discovered a couple unbelievably convenient astrophysics hacks: Cepheid variables (Henrietta Swan Leavitt, 1908) and Type 1A supernovae (Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1935, the namesake of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory). These allowed us to move out a couple more rungs on the ladder.
From there, the relationship between redshift and distance becomes significant and that takes us to the edge.
https://www.uwa.edu.au/science/-/media/Faculties/Science/Doc...
The distance was also known in 16th century as per Hindu hymn of hanuman chalisa - https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/10370/did-our-a...
risfriend commented on Learn to Read Korean in 15 Minutes ryanestrada.com/learntore... · Posted by u/Tomte
I've become lazy after google translate app started translating from camera directly without even taking pictures. I've purchased online some Chinese products in past with not a letter of English on them but was able to read in seconds with Translate and camera.
risfriend commented on Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex... · Posted by u/ahonhn
And buy a very expensive tracking device with frequent security issues?
I am lucky to live in a country in which a large religious population eschews the smartphone, so saying "I don't have one" is acceptable and common here. But I have colleagues who tell me that they are expected to have a smartphone from everything to banks to government services to simple small restaurants.
And where is this?
Reuters/BBC have been famous to pounce and sensationalizing.