Teach me something useful about a subject you know very well.
Doesn't have to be a detailed lesson, in fact ideally just a few words or a single post.
Boosts appreciated, 2023 is coming and I'd like to get smarter. Maybe we can all get a bit smarter.
I'll start:
My job is voiceovers and I can tell you with absolute confidence that reading your writing out loud is like a magic trick for better proofreading.
The mouth stumbles on mistakes the eyes glide over.
@ancatdubh @ConorMahood great advice. If the 2FA feature actually worked. There are countless sites using countless services out there where the 2nd authentication simply doesn’t happen. And these are big brands too.
Very often 2FA relies on a third party, like email, or text, or whatever. Which is an intrinsic flaw.
@ConorMahood well it's not useful but it is interesting...
Wombats have square poop.
@jorsh woah that is horrifying and thus, extremely interesting!
Thank you!
@ConorMahood @jorsh Pro tip: never dump that entire bag of potatoes straight into your compost bin, unless you're fond of a years worth of rotting corpse smell.
I wish this was not something learned by personal experience.
@nosrednayduj I think it's because human brains are so good at guessing... It's why nearly everyone can read the attached image and almost noone can proofread effectively (especially their own writing).
She also had hawk like vision (unfortunately now has macular degeneration) and could usually see a bus number before the rest of the stop could see the bus. Was astonishing going out and about with her to see just how many errors are on billboards and signs that us normal people never notice!
@Zotmeister @ConorMahood I'll give you an interesting variant on that. I've used my hands as base 6. Counting on (generally) my right hand from zero to five and then for six I raise one finger on my left hand and none on my right, representing 10 in base six. That lets you get to 35 on two hands.
I've worked at doing base 2 but haven't found enough instances where I need to manually count past 35.
@AdamSchmidt @ConorMahood Nice! Hadn't considered alternatives before, but it occurs to me that most people could probably trivially handle left-hand fingers each being five and right-hand fingers each being one, getting them to 24 even without thumbs.
Or even better: left hand is tens, right hand is ones, thumbs are five times more than the other fingers. It's our natural base 10, and it gets us to 99. This could probably be learned easily by most anybody! And hey, no accidental birds XD
@ConorMahood @doalty @smellsofbikes @Gwyntaglaw @DataChick After 20 years, I can remember only a few times code ran perfectly the first time.
In each case, it was because I’d spent a great deal of time examining the problem first.
@ConorMahood The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions, or COLREGS, define a strict order of precedence for what boat has the right of way in any situation. Broadly speaking, the order is:
- any vessel being overtaken
- not under command
- restricted ability to maneuver
- constrained by draft
- engaged in _commercial_ fishing
- sailboats
- powerboats
- seaplanes
- any overtaking vessel
1/2
@ConorMahood
2/2
When two boats of equal status meet, generally the one on the right goes first. Sailboats have special rules:
- A sailboat on a starboard tack has right of way over a sailboat on a port tack
- If two sailboats are on the same tack, the leeward sailboat has right of way.
If a sailboat is running its motor for propulsion, it counts as a power boat.
@bannedalot @ConorMahood it's not necessarily irrational, your models make a lot of good choices! Like when you decide to get up to go to the bathroom because your bladder is full or eat because you are hungry.
But a key to understanding things like racism and discrimination lies in understanding that these models are very dumb and don't discriminate in the information they encode. When you're watching COPS so are they.
@smellsofbikes @bannedalot @ConorMahood there are people who believe that! But I think most believe that there are two systems interacting, but that which system is doing the work isn't always transparent.
In cognitive psychology these are called system 1 and system 2, there's quite a bt of work out there. Kahneman is a key developer of the concept. https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555
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