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tiglionabbiton A Manual for Creating Atheists: A Critical Review (2014)

Quite right. It seems Christians are more threatened by Muslims than they are by Atheists, despite them both being abrahamic religions.

tiglionabbiton A Manual for Creating Atheists: A Critical Review (2014)

Why make people into atheists?

Don't you want to live in a world where people make decisions based on observable things, rather than blind faith in arbitrary nonsense?

You can't reason with a religious person. Their axioms can be completely incompatible if, for example, they believe the afterlife is more important than actual life.

tiglionabbiton A web of trust for NPM

Then cache the dependencies you're using.

tiglionabbiton Things I wish I’d known about CSS

Exactly. Another fundamental abstraction they should have mentioned in the article is [the surprising way z-index actually works](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Positio...), especially being aware of the existence of [stacking contexts](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Positio...).

tiglionabbiton Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

"Wants to work with" doesn't apply here. This is what the phone does by default, so it's not a conscious choice of the user. Also, if the college had written the `accepts` field on their form correctly it would have been converted to JPG automatically when they uploaded it.

tiglionabbiton Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

Huh. So, according to the other comments, if they'd set the `accepts` on their form to MIME types instead of extensions, the browser would have converted the file to a JPG automatically.

tiglionabbiton Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

Thanks!

tiglionabbiton Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/bordellum/eyJ3IjogImJ...

Bordellum. It's a word, I think?

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/disaproval/eyJ3IjogIm...

Disaproval. So close to a real word it looks like a misspelling.

Anyway, this is really interesting.

tiglionabbiton Tesla Model 3 Vulnerability – Disable Autopilot Notifications, Speedometer, etc.

And no one would want them because they're a few years out of date.

tiglionabbiton Job Tenure and the Myth of Job Hopping

Then we should all start our own business, right?

tiglionabbiton Why I Procrastinate (2019)

Definitely right. Sometimes I look at notes I made for myself, telling myself what to do, and then ultimately rebel against my past self because I don't want to do what I'm telling myself to do.

Systems are better when they're an augmentation of your memory that you can appreciate. For example, I always put events in my google calendar so I can remember when they are and catch overlaps early.

I've had a bad relationship with todo lists. They get stale really quickly. If I look at a todo list that's a few days old, I might think, "Why should I do that now? Why should I factor the work in this way? Just so I can say I'm done with this item?" In practice, the way I factor a task changes constantly. So now the way I do todo lists is more like an aid to my memory. When I have time to do stuff (which is rare) I'll write down the things that are most important at that exact moment. Sometimes I'll skim through todo lists from previous days to jog my memory, but I won't copy over everything. I'll arrange the things into an itinerary for the day and see how many of them I can get done. Usually it's not all of them. And that's OK.

tiglionabbiton Blue–Green Distinction in Language

The additive/subtractive colors thing is has a really neat sort of symmetry to it. That's how I knew it was the correct explanation. There was no such beautiful internal logic to the Red Blue Yellow system and I couldn't figure out how people came up with it.

I never believed my teachers. As early as 4th grade they were treating me like a troublemaker for not following rules like their three-paragraph essay format.

I don't like the idea of having authorities on knowledge. I much prefer Montessori or Socratic teaching methods, or explorations. They're harder to do, but they produce a better understanding of the material and they allow the student to teach the teacher as well.

tiglionabbiton Blue–Green Distinction in Language

I remember this one distinctly because in school they just gave me a handout and asked me to come up with the explanation myself. I thought about it. I didn't know. It seemed like if you had an angle of attack then the air would hit against the bottom -- like a knife would want to continue to travel straight through a fluid. I didn't know what the significance of the curve over the top of the wing was. They tried to guide me toward the equal-transit-time explanation and I was like, uh, ok, is that really true? I remained suspicious of this for a long time.

tiglionabbiton Blue–Green Distinction in Language

What sort of alternative primaries? Just slightly-adjusted colors that still trigger each of the three cones individually?

tiglionabbiton Blue–Green Distinction in Language

My high school art teacher made us make color wheels using red, yellow, and blue paint. She showed us books that use these "primary colors" and said that this makes them more pleasing to children.

I thought about it for a moment. If these are the primary colors, why aren't they what printers use? Printers use cyan, magenta, and yellow. And there's a great symmetry there, since those are all the secondary colors to light's primary red, green, and blue, which are the colors used in computer monitors. And the only thing that makes these colors primary to us is that they're the colors that the cones in our eyes perceive.

So I decided to experiment. When I made my color wheel, I substituted blue for cyan and red for magenta. The color wheel I produced was much more vibrant and beautiful.

There are a lot of things my school teachers tried to teach me that show up on wikipedia's common misconceptions list. For example, the "equal-transit-time explanation of aerofoil lift". I got pretty jaded about this stuff. Now I don't trust anyone's explanations unless I can understand them on a deeper level.

tiglionabbiton React Table is a “headless” UI library

I've edited my comment.

I've used HOCs to share behavior between React components in the past. You can also accomplish similar things with the Render Props pattern, depending on how you want to organize code. Using hooks is new to me. Anyway, my point is there has always been ways to factor out the behavior from React components. I'm pretty sure the reason they don't encourage factoring it out completely is so that DOM events are still handled in the domain of the UI, since they don't deal with types in your model.

https://reactjs.org/docs/render-props.html

tiglionabbiton React Table is a “headless” UI library

React doesn't avoid this. They describe sharing behavior through higher-order components in their documentation. https://reactjs.org/docs/higher-order-components.html

tiglionabbiton Tesla Cybertruck

Dunno. Maybe if you also pushed the passenger side seat forward enough?

tiglionabbiton Tesla Cybertruck

> I love the fact that Tesla are moving away from the boring

Yeah that's for Elon's other company.

tiglionabbiton Tesla Cybertruck

I have a Toyota Matrix. It's a hatchback with a back seat that folds down into a flat bed. It's big enough for me to fit a bike without removing the wheels. Works for appliances and furniture as well.

tiglionabbiton 16-inch MacBook Pro

I've been using a macbook with one USB C port happily for a few years. When I need more ports, I use the multiport dongle:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MUF82AM/A/usb-c-digital-a...

What more do you need?

tiglionabbiton We do not use foreign keys (2016)

Not if you have multiple processes accessing the database simultaneously without some additional coordination layer.

tiglionabbiton How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

I love the trend of animal games. I'm a big fan of Shelter (https://store.steampowered.com/app/244710/Shelter/)

tiglionabbiton Perfectly Cropped

It lists your mom first too?

Honestly I rarely ever use any button in the "share sheet" except for Copy or Copy Link. Every time I open it I'm just searching for those Copy buttons. I'll "share" it myself with Paste. Idk how "sharing" ended up like this.

tiglionabbiton Perfectly Cropped

A friend of mine got bit by this sort of thing when setting up their Amazon Echo on their iPhone. When they got to the page where they were supposed to choose a wifi connection, it was perfectly cropped and showed no indication of being scrollable, so they thought those were all the networks it could see and there must be something stopping it from seeing theirs. Being a curious person, I walked through the process with them and when we got to this screen I was also confused, but I tried touching and dragging the list and sure enough it scrolled. Surprise!

tiglionabbiton US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits

I kinda wish they'd rebase the repository to put that stuff in so git blame would still give you the original authors.

tiglionabbiton How to prepare a technical interview (and why good programmers also fail)

I can confirm that soft skills are highly valued and useful on the job as well. They are the #1 criteria at most tech companies I've worked at. I'm highly regarded as awesome technically but I've lost jobs based on my poor soft skills alone.

The company I'm working at right now gives out a bonus at the end of the year so long as your work "meets expectations", but they have a specific rule that if they don't like your behavior it doesn't matter how good your work is because your bonus will be set to zero. It's the "no brilliant assholes" rule.

tiglionabbiton Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events

The way Chrome displayed flexbox stuff permanently changed at some point after version 70, breaking an app of mine that had been working fine for years.

tiglionabbiton Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says

OKCupid doesn't have fake profiles, right?