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jurieon Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem

Looks like a neat project; that might help with forming some better habits for myself.

FYI, the top portion of the homepage is wider than my phone's screen, but I can't scroll sideways to read all of the text. Let me know if you want a screenshot...

jurieon Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds

Even more confusing is when people don't give an indication of which side of the hour they're talking about. I grew up speaking Canadian English, and was completely lost when I asked a Brit for the time and was told "Quarter four".

Is that 3:45, 4:15, or .25*4=1?

jurieon Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds

Albertan here; we're flat and our roads are straight, but we also measure distances by travel time, whether in the city ("I live 20 minutes from the mall") or across the province ("Calgary is three hours from Edmonton").

I suspect that it's a western thing more than a terrain thing. I wonder if that applies to the western USA as well?

Another interesting thing that I've noticed is that Europeans and North Americans have a very different concept of historical time and relative distance. To me, a building that has stood for 100 years is OLD, and 200km (Somewhere that's "about an hour and a half to two hours away") is a day trip that's nothing out of the ordinary. When I was in the UK, I noticed that people held the opposite view - 100 years ago was just yesterday, relatively speaking, while traveling 200km for a day trip was inconceivable.

jurieon Why I published in a predatory journal

This has got to be how anti-vaxers obtain their "peer reviewed", "scientific" studies...

jurieon The Fuck – An app which corrects your previous console command

Like this?

  $ cat << EOF > ~/.commit_reasons; strfile ~/.commit_reasons
  Testing...
  %
  Testify...
  %
  Testarossa...
  %
  Does it work yet?
  %
  How bout now?
  %
  Oops.
  %
  Fixed a thing.
  %
  EOF
  
  $ fortune ~/.commit_reasons | cowsay | git -F -

jurieon Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications

QNAP NAS models have a similar setup. In addition to their own package format (qpg? I think...), they also are getting the ability to run Docker apps natively.

I agree RE the fragility. Even on my mid-range rack mount units, I'd rather stick to just having them serve up iSCSI or NFS to something more... server like that runs the actual instances.

jurieon Show HN: Is It Snappy? – Measure latency with your iPhone's 240 Hz camera

The cell phone camera is a great way to test whether a multimode fiber optic cable is connected at the far end, too.