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  1. Last 7 days
    1. has everything a contractor needs to start construction

      I wonder if CHPA provides BIM LOD 400 models for their homes.

    2. contain a detailed overview of all the components and materials a construction team needs to estimate a project and get it constructed

      I wonder whether it is possible to define a "wall" that is comprised of custom defined "bricks".

    1. Bluecast (an audio app).

      Like discord chat, or more like one of those social audio apps?

    2. no-code way to create custom feeds? Try out SkyFeed or Bluesky Feed Creator

      This seems interesting. Do I still consume the feeds on the Bluesky application?

    3. sometimes describe Bluesky as a browser with a whole marketplace of extensions, made possible by its open network

      "Open network" -- not open API, or open codebase. I wonder what this means when you're building something to use this network.

      See [here] (https://atproto.com/) for the answers, maybe.

  2. Nov 2024
    1. try asking questions that lead the person to question what they believe.

      Have done this -- it works.

    2. Moreover, in situations of high stress or distrust, your body releases another hormone, cortisol

      This is why debating is a skill; your body actively hampers your ability to think critically when presented with contrarian information.

    3. It’s a feeling many people want to have more often.

      It can become an addiction like any other!

    4. In just one two-week period spanning the 2016 election, both Republicans and Democrats drastically changed their opinions about the state of the economy – in opposite directions.

      Shouldn't they have reinforced their positions on the economy instead?

    5. how your brain functions

      As in, by physical imperfections in the brain? Or brain disorders?

    1. unlike your phone you can't ignore your watch it is always in the peripheral of your vision edging you on to be present

      Not smartwatches though...

    1. some Python code from PyHSS that does it for you

      I had chatGPT port this to dataweave:

      ``` %dw 2.0 output application/json fun TBCD_special_chars(input) = if (input == "*") "1010" else if (input == "#") "1011" else if (input == "a") "1100" else if (input == "b") "1101" else if (input == "c") "1100" else do { // log message "input " ++ input ++ " is not a special char, converting to bin " (input as Number) as String {format: "0b"} // converting input to binary }

      fun TBCD_encode(input) = var output = "" var offset = 0 var matches = ["*", "#", "a", "b", "c"] while (offset < sizeOf(input)) do { if (sizeOf(input) - offset >= 2) do { var bit = upper(input[offset to offset + 1]) // Get two digits at a time bit = reverse(bit) // Reverse them

              if (any(bit[i] in matches for i in (0 to 1))) do {
                  var new_bit = TBCD_special_chars(bit[0]) ++ TBCD_special_chars(bit[1])
                  bit = (new_bit as Number) as String {format: "0b"}
              }
      
              output = output ++ bit
              offset = offset + 2
          } else {
              output = output ++ "f" ++ input[offset to offset + 1]
              break
          }
      }
      output
      

      fun TBCD_decode(input) = var output = "" var offset = 0 while (offset < sizeOf(input)) do { if (!contains(input[offset to offset + 1], "f")) do { var bit = input[offset to offset + 1] // Get two digits at a time bit = reverse(bit) // Reverse them output = output ++ bit offset = offset + 2 } else { var bit = input[offset to offset + 1] output = output ++ bit[1] break } } output

      // Example usage var encoded = TBCD_encode("12*34#") var decoded = TBCD_decode(encoded)


      { "encoded": encoded, "decoded": decoded } ```

  3. Oct 2024
    1. This page sold me on clay bricks; they are easier to build with, and provide better strength, and insulation, once construction is completed. These benefits outweigh the increased cost, for me.

    2. Though, it is recommended to account for expansion around doors and window openings

      How, though? What would happen with clay bricks around a wooden door?

    3. When it comes to cement bricks, due to their tendency to shrink, these structures may be more prone to cracks

      Have seen this first-hand.

    4. Standard clay bricks weigh about five pounds each, while an eight-inch cement brick can be as much 43 pounds

      Is a standard clay brick about eight inches as well?

    5. The power of a brick to absorb water is measured by the rate of absorption

      You don't want your bricks to absorb water.

    1. However, the notes don't have to be textual, nor do they have to be something which is mergeable.

      Can I have binary files in my notes??

    2. Overwriting existing notes for object 056ca11c01b47e2bfe1e51178b65c80bbdeef7b0

      It seems that you're able to make notes on commits. Since a commit can be referenced by a tag, or branch, you can make notes on those, too -- kind of.

    3. I have wondered if git's notes function would allow one to keep some kind of issue management system within the repository itself.

    1. SDK uses a method from a Software Development Kit (SDK)

      From any SDK? Surely they can't mean you can stick an arbitrary "SDK" somewhere in Salesforce, and use it as a data source?

    1. In graph theory, such a layout is known as a complete graph

      I wonder what a "fully connected" brain would look like.

    2. five links that can break one at a time while leaving all nodes indirectly connected with each other

      I count two, but okay

    1. deletes stale data records that are missing data to clean it and make it more usable

      Does this thing enable me to version my Salesforce data?

    2. DataPacks API

      Is this an alternative to the Metadata API?

    3. Product2 DataPacks

      Wait -- DataPacks aren't just for Omnistudio components?

    4. lib/querydefinitions.yaml
    5. The automation server uses IDX Build Tool and the SFDX-CLI (Salesforce Command Line Interface) for automated deployment

      Why both?

    1. Orgs configured in each project

      So a single project can be configured with multiple orgs, even though they are sObject records? How does this work?

    2. The OmniStudio Tracking Service is an event-tracking service that captures details of actions that users perform

      All actions? Does it require configuration to be useful?

    1. The problem is not Explicit TLS but rather the opportunistic use of TLS for the sake of backward compatibility

      If one's email service did not require TLS, would one be unable to email with another who's service did not support TLS?

    1. Urban Consumer Price Index (CPI) year-to-date inflation stood at 1.6 percent,

      I wonder what my income should be, knowing the CPI.

    2. The Bank of Guyana has reported that food prices have increased by 3.2% during the first half of the year,

      First half of 2024.

  4. Sep 2024
    1. we recommend checking the inside of your car’s fuel door

      The inside of my fuel door has some Japanese business.

    1. questioning the materials that they are studying

      I do this and think I'm just being nosy.

    2. Kornell, Klein, and Rawson (2015), however, found that it was the retrieval attempt and not the correct production of information that produced the retrieval practice benefit – as long as the correct answer was provided after an unsuccessful attempt, the benefit was the same as for a successful retrieval attempt in this set of studies.

      One fires the same neural pathways in reading the answer, maybe, as one fired in attempting to retrieve the answer. The knowledge that the answer is correct then strengthens that pathway's connection to the answer in "memory"?

    3. Thus, it is important to balance success of retrieval with overall difficulty in retrieving the information (Smith & Karpicke, 2014; Weinstein, Nunes, & Karpicke, 2016)

      I guess you must find a way to make flashcards more difficult, but not too difficult, to make them as effective as possible.

    1. sedition for someone to use a computer system to circulate messages deemed to excite or attempt to excite disaffection towards the Government

      "Disaffection" is a very broad term.

    2. the State needs to be protected

      By a sedition clause in a local cybercrime law?

    1. A VPN tunnel is the specific encrypted connection within a VPN

      So a VPN tunnel requires a VPN be active on the machine at the start of the tunnel?

    2. connection between a network device and a VPN server

      So a VPN tunnel is used to connect to a VPN? That doesn't make sense to me.

    1. Your field of vision might narrow.

      This is especially dangerous when driving.

    2. women have often been socialized to display more positive emotions and internalize feelings that some perceive as negative, like anger

      I feel like I try to do the same. Am I socialized to do so? By whom? Lisa?

    3. Children and women are more likely to cry than adult men

      You may psychologically still be a child. You must rectify this.

    4. a distress signal used to summon help and provoke helping behaviors in others.

      Maybe Lisa's comments after my outburst were upsetting because I did not understand they were meant to be helpful.

    5. You can’t believe what you’re hearing. It’s unfair; it’s untrue.

      This is a fairly self centered way to view the world.

  5. Aug 2024
    1. steam license is different it gives you none of that it's a subscription not ownership

      One can remove the DRM from steam games.

    2. valve has built up a following that resembles a cult

      I can see this.

    1. I wonder how their different races might have affected their outcomes. They obviously should have had the same opportunities. Where did it all go wrong for Arthur?

    1. would like to see like step files I'm sure there's a reason they're not releasing those because then you kind of have like all the files you need to kind 00:08:41 of Clone this thing if you wanted to

      Isn't that the point of making it open source? Do you have to pay for the step files?

    2. its own custom firmware

      Be nicer if it used QMK.

    3. sit like this yet again

      That's more pronation than I'm comfortable with.

    1. Republicans mostly in the countryside and Democrats mostly in big cities

      I wonder if that means PPP is Guyana's Republican party, and PNC is Guyana's Democratic party.

    2. its politicians themselves who draw their own district maps

      What the fuck lol

    3. I wonder if I can use the knowledge shared here to identify Gerrymandering in Guyana.

    1. Much like my grandfathers, I wish I'd know the man better -- or at all.

    2. Nelson Mandela once praised him, saying, “He is one of those men who have become famous because, in their fight for human justice, they have chosen the whole world as their theatre.”

      Did he know Nelson Mandela?

    3. Minister of Justice and Foreign Affairs of Guyana

      When?

    1. you'd still move through time  at the speed of light

      I'm beginning to feel like "speed of light" is a bad name for the universal constant.

    1. I think I should define groups of my org-fc flashcards to review as a single unit. They should be interleaved.

      Maybe test doing this with org-transclude.

      Must look for good ways to implement retrieval practice.

    2. if retrieval-based learning situations are constructed in such a way that ensures high levels of success, the act of bringing the information to mind may be undermined

      So cheating hampers learning.

    3. Importantly, both overt and covert retrieval practice improved memory over control groups without retrieval practice, even when feedback was not provided.

      So even just re-taking an exam could assist with learning. Interesting.

    4. retrieval practice may be more beneficial for higher-order learning if it includes more scaffolding (Fiechter & Benjamin, 2017; but see Smith, Blunt, et al., 2016)

      What is scaffolding?

    5. Retrieval practice effects on higher-order learning may be more sensitive than fact learning to encoding factors, such as the way material is presented during study (Eglington & Kang, 2016).

      I'm having a hard time understanding the meaning here.

    6. the effectiveness of retrieval-based learning has been extended beyond simple testing to other activities in which retrieval practice can be integrated, such as concept mapping

      What exactly is concept mapping?

    7. may seem surprising that retrieval (which happens when we take a test) improves memory

      The brain is a muscle, after all. Expercising that muscle strengthens it.

    8. the more helpful interleaving of related information

      I find myself confused about what information should be interleaved.

    9. for languages, mix vocabulary themes rather than blocking by theme

      Right, but what's a vocabulary theme?

    10. two sessions neither too close together (i.e., cramming) nor too far apart are ideal for retention

      Maybe the rest time is subjective.

    11. Students tend to cram for exams rather than space out their learning.

      I wonder whether a memory's good storage strength would be undone by increasing it's recall strength through cramming. The research seems to suggest it would.

    1. Covert Retrieval is a cognitive process in which individuals recall information from their memory without demonstrating this process through observable actions. It occurs internally and silently.

      Normal flashcards are covert.

    1. the bulk of his shots come in from the left half space

      This is very similar to Diaz's style.

    1. the ranking of sushi over Pizza   should not be affected by the new option

      I think I disagree here. What if the new candidate is excellent? I must assume that Mr. Arrow is smarter than I am.

    2. ranking someone first gives that candidate Four  Points ranking them second would give them three   and so on with zero points being awarded for last  place

      So with n candidates, first place gets n - 1 points?

    3. social Choice  theory

      Excitement -- is this something to do with the size of a group?

    4. Maybe a democracy can work, if it's voting system works well enough.

    5. do verger's law

      Duverger's Law

    6. the last 100 years there were 21 times a  single party held a majority of the seats in the   British Parliament but only two of those times  did the majority of the voters actually vote for   that party

      I cannot recall the last time I heard Brits were satisfied with their government. Guyana, too.

    1. All moneys borrowed by a council with the approval of theMinister

      What about money borrowed without the minister's approval?

    1. educators believe that if a learning task is interrupted and resumed later, then the information learned during that task is more likely to be remembered.

      Maybe because that interpretation provides an opportunity to actively recall the study material.

    2. Frequently, more complete than uncompleted tasks are recalled,”

      Maybe this is to do with the participants' pride?

    1. the more extreme the genre, the more friendliness I’ve encountered

      Interesting to me; I have not had that community at home.

    2. Music is rhythm, rhythm is structure, and structure is soothing to an ADHD brain struggling to regulate itself to stay on a linear path

      This makes perfect sense.

    3. Music is scientifically proven to help ADHD brains

      Music in general? Not just "heavy" music?

    4. “extremely geeky” autistic hyperfixations

      Like attempting to come up with math-like definitions for each genre, and subgenre, of music.

    5. Heavy music makes me feel like I’m expressing my emotions in a way that wouldn’t be possible otherwise

      The music kind of speaks FOR me, instead of TO me. It probably does both, at times.

    6. allowing me a rare moment of calm.

      This was slipknot/linking park/SOAD for me.

    7. why am I always so tired

      Maybe you're also depressed?

    8. wasn’t putting my mind to it

      I was told this as well.

    9. lost inside my own head, and with so much going on inside, the outside world can appear hazy

      The music kind of quiets that noise for me. Maybe it simply distracts me from the noise?

    1. Ask the Minister…who would read it? Glenn Lall? I can’t even go through that. You need technical people. A Field Development Plan for an oil and gas sector you need specialized people. They would put Glenn Lall, the specialist to read it. Who in your agency would read it if you see it?

      I think this justification is bullshit.

    1. a duly authorised officer of the Guyana Police Force travelled to New York

      Who is this officer?

    2. this entire process was video recorded by the Police Officer from the Guyana Police Force

      Any chance this video will be released?

    3. District in which the offences were allegedly committed

      Which is ???

    4. a sting operation was carried out by Police Officers

      Should there not be a published report detailing this operation?

  6. Jul 2024
  7. May 2024
    1. Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) - supports service data flow detection, policy enforcement and flow-based charging

      Is this the CCS??

    2. Authentication Center (AUC) - Provides a protected database that stores a copy of the secret key stored in each subscriber's SIM card

      A users table?

    3. Equipment Identity Register (EIR) - A database that contains a list of all valid equipment on the network. Equipment is then marked as allowed, denied or restricted.

      What's the difference between denied, and restricted?

    4. Visitor Location Register (VLR) - Temporary database which is updated via the HLR whenever a new MS enters its area.

      So this handles switching devices between towers?

    5. Home Location Register (HLR) - Database used for storage and management of subscriptions. Such as subscribers service profile, location, and activity status.

      Isn't this what an HSS does?

    6. The BSC is the connection between the mobile and the Mobile Switching Center (MSC).[

      We have something called an "SMSC" -- is that similar to an "SMC"?

      I don't think so; SMSC seems to stand for "short message service center", where SMC here stands for "message switching service".

    7. In addition, 2G allowed for the digital encryption of phone conversations and greater wireless penetration levels thanks to greater spectrum efficiency.

      What does penetration mean here? I guess it's something to do with the wireless signal's ability to penetrate physical barriers?

    1. Note that the SNAPSHOT changes constantly. Whenever an agent deploys the artifact, it is updated in the shared repository

      Does this mean I can update an existing snapshot version multiple times? That could be very useful.

    1. Push the commit to Gerrit

      Wouldn't this fail if the remote has a different HEAD?

    2. Rebase the commit if needed

      You'd be able to just push if you did a new commit. Maybe my workflow is bad.

    3. Amend the commit

      This is surprising to me; I'd just do a new commit.

  8. Apr 2024
    1. Many games have seen less than 1,000 fans in stadiums

      What happened to Arab's love for the sport? There was a lot of that sentiment going around for the Quatar WC.

  9. Mar 2024
  10. Feb 2024
    1. Recently as yesterday, we had a fire prevention talk from the fire service but unfortunately this happened today so definitely we need to review all of our facilities’ fire prevention techniques,

      🤣🤣🤣

    2. fire of unknown origin

      Why is this filed under crime?

  11. Jan 2024
    1. Very interested to know what Kennedy's instructions were, and what thet CIA was doing, exactly. I wish I could read the actual documents.

    2. Cold War concerns about another Communist Cuba in Latin America drove President John F. Kennedy to approve a covert CIA political campaign to rig national elections in British Guiana, then a British colony but soon to be independent, according to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive

      Link??

    1. The documents should have been released. Were they?

    2. In June the Clinton Administration prepared to send a new Ambassador to the little country -- apparently unaware that the prospective nominee had helped to undermine the restored leader

      Is Weiner allergic to citations, and sources?

    3. But State Department and C.I.A. officials refuse to release them, saying it is not worth the embarrassment

      Then there should be some record of them saying so, no?

    4. President Kennedy ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to subvert the country's leader

      Need a source.

  12. Dec 2023
    1. Feeling frustrated or upset is a natural response that occurs when the outcome of a situation turns out differently than expected.

      Expectation are resentments waiting to happen, remember?

    1. Why did we decide on our SQL table having this schema?
    2. Markdown is an excellent language to use for doc files stored next to code

      There are markdown documentation frameworks, but I still want to try sphinx.

    3. I didn’t mention tl;dr here, because it’s the opposite of what is desired. tl;dr is what journalists would call “burying the lede” when the important parts appear at the end of a document

      Implying that a tl;dr only appears at the end?

    4. Define the Audience

      See the quadrants of diataxis as a good example of what kind of documentation to write, depending on who is meant to read it, and when they are meant to read it.

    1. program, project, or product level

      Interesting delineation

    2. Digital transformation

      Ved's literal title

    3. times you've had to manage, extend, support, or maintain brittle and undocumented systems

      I am currently going through this

  13. Nov 2023
    1. he's Elite at getting the ball into the box from set pieces same as James brous 00:03:00 Kevin De bruyne Alexander Arnold

      Why don't we run Trent on the right of a midfield 4?

    1. he believed that people didn't ever want to do the wrong thing instead when people did the wrong thing it was simply out of ignorance

      I agree to a point: I think people do the wrong thing when it's the easier thing.

    2. could you consistently day in and day out overcome the monster of Temptation

      I don't know. Maybe. I did it for 20 days, and felt I could definitely have done more. Maybe I should.

    1. The response contains just a status code of 201 Created, which indicates that Salesforce successfully received the job data.

      What happens if I hit the endpoint multiple times?

    1. always true)

      Then what's the point of having this in a field? Should I do a boolean field, with a default value of true?

    1. He discovered that patients would often try to avoid pain—but that that avoidance would lead to deeper distress

      Reminds me of me trying to avoid stress, and regret, only to be met with stress and regret. Do not avoid pain -- accept it, identify it, and... push through it?

    1. 3. When do you feel most like yourself?

      How do I know this if I don't even know who I am?

    2. 1. Who do you admire?

      Rowen comes to mind. Steve Simpson.

    1. Maybe the PPP aligns itself with the Petty Bourgeoisie because they were the working class people that the PPP "championed" in the past. That would be classic corruption, viewed over time.

    1. Try to choose something that you find soothing and enjoyable

      I can think of nothing I do that I find soothing. I guess gaming is enjoyable, though. I have this nagging feeling that escapism is bad, though.