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xjay commented on Google dropping continuous scroll in search results searchengineland.com/goog... · Posted by u/elsewhen

xjay · 2 years ago

Re: Pagination

Situation: There are N results shown per page. There are N+1 results remaining.

Rigid/simple: The last result is put on a separate page.

Flexible/human: If the last results are within some reasonable threshold then include them on the last page.

The last page is a different context.

xjay commented on Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf] gwern.net/doc/psychology/... · Posted by u/hardmaru

xjay · 2 years ago

Perspectives

[2015-09] Anne C. Reboul: "Why language really is not a communication system: a cognitive view of language evolution" - , Laboratory on Language, Brain and Cognition (L2C2), Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod, Bron, France [1]

> [2013-09] Noam Chomsky: One of the most striking cases of incompatibility, that I know, is the sharp conflict between computational efficiency, and communicative efficiency. Language is just badly designed for communication, but well-designed to be efficient, it seems. [2]

> [2013-09] Noam Chomsky adds: There's a kind of phrase that is sometimes used for this that drives people crazy; "Language is beautiful, but unusable." It's kind of true, you know. Even if people don't like it. [2]

[2022] Nick Enfield: "Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" [3]

> Language cannot create or change physical reality, but it can do the next best thing: reframe and invert our view of the world. In Language vs. Reality, Enfield explains why language is bad for scientists (who are bound by reality) but good for lawyers (who want to win their cases), ... [3]

> [2023-01] Ev Fedorenko: "Although language and thought often go together, they are robustly dissociable." [4]

> [2023-01] Ev Fedorenko: Fallacy 1: "Good at language = Good at thought". Fallacy 2: "Bad at thought = Bad at language". Fallacy 3: "Bad at language = Bad at thought" (emphasis in being judged on how smart you are based on how you say something). [4]

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-72JNZZBoVw&t=4493s

[3] https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/5472/Language-vs-Real...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE9AiYuCwdE&t=250s

xjay commented on Simple sabotage for software (2023) erikbern.com/2023/12/13/s... · Posted by u/adammiribyan

xjay · 2 years ago

In a web context, I was thinking this when I checked out the web site of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) [1]; why would they use a thin, small typeface with light gray color on a bright/white background which makes the text less appealing to read? It must be subtle sabotage from within!

(Some may counter this with Hanlon's razor [2]; Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)

[1] https://www.eff.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

xjay commented on The 'Dead Internet Theory' theconversation.com/the-d... · Posted by u/TamTech

xjay · 2 years ago

Somewhat related: "The Egg" [2009*] is a fictional short story by American writer Andy Weir. [1]

> You, a 48-year-old man who dies in a car crash, meet God, the narrator, who says that you have been reincarnated many times before, and that you are next to be reincarnated as a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD. God then explains that you are, in fact, constantly reincarnated across time, and that all human beings who have ever lived and will ever live are incarnations of you. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egg_(Weir_short_story)

Kurzgesagt adaptation of the story (31M views):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI

xjay commented on Högertrafikomläggningen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag... · Posted by u/destructuredObj

purple-leafy · 2 years ago

> Driving on the right

No thanks

> 2024-06-09 date format

That doesnt infer what you want. Are you saying you want YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-DD-MM

xjay · 2 years ago

Underscore as a separator, YYYY_MM_DD:

  1970_01_01
  2024_06_09
  2024_12_31
  16383_12_31

Treated as base-10 number literal in some programming languages.

5 bits for DD [0, 31] + 4 bits for MM [0, 15] + 14 or more bits for year [0, 16_383] = 23 bits.

xjay commented on The Distinctiveness of Human Aggression (2022) robkhenderson.com/p/the-d... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

xjay · 2 years ago

Related: 2016: Facts and statistics on domestic violence at-a-glance

> The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project: The world's largest domestic violence research data base, 2,657 pages, with summaries of 1700 peer-reviewed studies.

> Overall, 25.3% of individuals have perpetrated IPV.

> Overall, 22% of individuals assaulted by a partner at least once in their lifetime (23% for females and 19.3% for males).

> Rates of female-perpetrated violence higher than male-perpetrated (28.3% vs. 21.6%).

> Higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) among younger, dating populations “highlights the need for school-based IPV prevention and intervention efforts”.

> Among large population samples, 57.9% of IPV reported was bi-directional, 42% unidirectional; 13.8% of the unidirectional violence was male to female (MFPV), 28.3% was female to male (FMPV).

> Among school and college samples, percentage of bidirectional violence was 51.9%; 16.2% was MFPV and 31.9% was FMPV.

> Within military and male treatment samples, only 39% of IPV was bi-directional; 43.4% was MFPV and 17.3% FMPV.

> According to national samples, 0.2% of men and 4.5% of women have been forced to have sexual intercourse by a partner.

https://domesticviolenceresearch.org/domestic-violence-facts...

xjay commented on Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts pcworld.com/article/23546... · Posted by u/robtherobber

xjay · 2 years ago

Windows should be broken up.

"Windows 11 Platform" for applications, drivers, security updates, and gaming. No (forced) Microsoft account. Only security updates.

"Windows 11 Plus" is a subscription model for enhanced features.

What their system requirements tell consumers:

> Windows 11 Pro for personal use and Windows 11 Home require internet connectivity and a Microsoft account during initial device setup. [1]

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifica...

xjay commented on Let yourself be monitored: EU governments to agree on Chat Control patrick-breyer.de/en/let-... · Posted by u/rdm_blackhole

jauntywundrkind · 2 years ago

Nations ruling to control the Internet as they see fit just makes me hope, "the more you tighten your grip, the more more star systems will slip through your fingers."

The pretense of control feels ridiculous. Trying to force your state upon the entire online universe stands a chance of normalizing non Big Tech routes, creates a moral ground for e2e encryption to be even more visible & more of a cause.

xjay · 2 years ago

EU: In the name of the EU government, you are all under arrest.

Democracy: It's treason, then.

xjay commented on Why is x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that divides x? arunmani.in/articles/high... · Posted by u/arun-mani-j

xjay · 2 years ago