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Babies sleep better when their head is near their mother's heart. This seems to be the obvious reason for the left-handed cradling bias [1]. If a baby sleeps better, it cries less. If it cries less, it attracts fewer…
There is also a bias for how babies are held [1]. It holds even with left-handers. Holding a baby's head near the mother's heart helps the baby get to sleep. Which means the baby doesn't cry (and attract predators) and…
> THe government shouldn't be raising anyone's children, that's what parents are for. The government does raise children. It's called the public school system.
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One of the things I love about this is while Alex Jones was definitely negligent in his case, this pretty much does exactly what he wanted. One of the things I've discovered in my long career of people being wrong about…
I'm definitely not aware that the credibility of the US DOJ has been destroyed. And I question why a 501c3 charity would need "field informants" and to launder money through shell corporations. Especially to leaders of…
My sole comment is that people who use verbiage like this are mentally ill. Not "mentally ill" like I'm calling them an epithet. But like, actually mentally ill. There are things that are simply not pedagogically useful…
Amazing that choice of curricula for elementary schoolchildren draws such a reaction. Kids can read whatever they and their parents want. Schools don't have to teach it.
All of which is confirming my point. The Iranians are a beautiful people and a beautiful culture that is still run by maniacs. The original person's implication that the "antagonism" towards the IRGC is novel to America…
"antagonistic" They are a theocratic regime which is not supported by 80% of its population. Being gay is punishable by death. They employ surveillance from China to ensure hijabs are worn by women at all times. They…
Most likely motivational media for their new child recruits: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/04/iran-recruitm...
They of course are "not better than in the USA." But one can hold that weight long past you're drowned in the ocean.
Whatever the epithets, the truth of the matter is those urban areas are closer to what Canada aspires to be (and currently is). Whereas the parts of Canada she cares about are alive and well in the US (and used to be…
> When I think about the counterfactual me that grew up in a large American city, New York or L.A. instead of Toronto, And just think, those are the American areas most common to Canada. There are places in America…
> This ICE stuff is that scaled up to a multi-billion dollar federal agency with, apparently, no accountability for following the law at all. It should be mentioned that "illegal" is a definitive word. There are…
By all means use Segment. Segment was a great technology with an incredible technical vision for what they wanted to do. I was in conversations in that office on Market far beyond what they ended up doing…
> The "micro" in "microservice" doesn't refer to how it is deployed, it refers to how the service is "micro" in responsibility. The "micro" in microservice was a marketing term to distinguish it from the bad taste of…
I remember when microservices were introduced and they were solving real problems around 1) independent technological decisions with languages, data stores, and scaling, and 2) separating team development processes.…
They also failed as a company, which is why that's on Twilio's blog now. So there's that. Undoubtedly their microservices architecture was a bad fit because of how technically focused the product was. But their solution…
I've been developing under that understanding since before Fowler-said-so. His take is simply a description of a phenomenon predating the moniker of microservices. SOA with things like CORBA, WSDL, UDDI, Java services…
A useful distinction I've made before is that of technical vs business services. This also mirrors the alignment that arises in tech companies between platform (very useful to be centralized) vs architecture. Platform…
We should terraform Australia first. Gigantic. Full of energy. Able to support massive inland freshwater lakes with desalinization. Essentially unlimited solar yet unable to utilize spare capacity. And it's already been…
As a history refresher: DOGE is part of the USDS, created by Barack Obama in 2014. Dealing with PII was an overt part of their remit, as the Medicare system (written in COBOL) had substantial difficulties dealing with…
I was asked to join USDS by the head of the agency in 2018. I am fully aware of the widespread fraud they were encountering, as well as the technical difficulties of fixing it. I am also aware of the less-than-neutral…
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Babies sleep better when their head is near their mother's heart. This seems to be the obvious reason for the left-handed cradling bias [1]. If a baby sleeps better, it cries less. If it cries less, it attracts fewer…
There is also a bias for how babies are held [1]. It holds even with left-handers. Holding a baby's head near the mother's heart helps the baby get to sleep. Which means the baby doesn't cry (and attract predators) and…
> THe government shouldn't be raising anyone's children, that's what parents are for. The government does raise children. It's called the public school system.
[dead]
One of the things I love about this is while Alex Jones was definitely negligent in his case, this pretty much does exactly what he wanted. One of the things I've discovered in my long career of people being wrong about…
I'm definitely not aware that the credibility of the US DOJ has been destroyed. And I question why a 501c3 charity would need "field informants" and to launder money through shell corporations. Especially to leaders of…
My sole comment is that people who use verbiage like this are mentally ill. Not "mentally ill" like I'm calling them an epithet. But like, actually mentally ill. There are things that are simply not pedagogically useful…
Amazing that choice of curricula for elementary schoolchildren draws such a reaction. Kids can read whatever they and their parents want. Schools don't have to teach it.
All of which is confirming my point. The Iranians are a beautiful people and a beautiful culture that is still run by maniacs. The original person's implication that the "antagonism" towards the IRGC is novel to America…
"antagonistic" They are a theocratic regime which is not supported by 80% of its population. Being gay is punishable by death. They employ surveillance from China to ensure hijabs are worn by women at all times. They…
Most likely motivational media for their new child recruits: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/04/iran-recruitm...
They of course are "not better than in the USA." But one can hold that weight long past you're drowned in the ocean.
Whatever the epithets, the truth of the matter is those urban areas are closer to what Canada aspires to be (and currently is). Whereas the parts of Canada she cares about are alive and well in the US (and used to be…
> When I think about the counterfactual me that grew up in a large American city, New York or L.A. instead of Toronto, And just think, those are the American areas most common to Canada. There are places in America…
> This ICE stuff is that scaled up to a multi-billion dollar federal agency with, apparently, no accountability for following the law at all. It should be mentioned that "illegal" is a definitive word. There are…
By all means use Segment. Segment was a great technology with an incredible technical vision for what they wanted to do. I was in conversations in that office on Market far beyond what they ended up doing…
> The "micro" in "microservice" doesn't refer to how it is deployed, it refers to how the service is "micro" in responsibility. The "micro" in microservice was a marketing term to distinguish it from the bad taste of…
I remember when microservices were introduced and they were solving real problems around 1) independent technological decisions with languages, data stores, and scaling, and 2) separating team development processes.…
They also failed as a company, which is why that's on Twilio's blog now. So there's that. Undoubtedly their microservices architecture was a bad fit because of how technically focused the product was. But their solution…
I've been developing under that understanding since before Fowler-said-so. His take is simply a description of a phenomenon predating the moniker of microservices. SOA with things like CORBA, WSDL, UDDI, Java services…
A useful distinction I've made before is that of technical vs business services. This also mirrors the alignment that arises in tech companies between platform (very useful to be centralized) vs architecture. Platform…
We should terraform Australia first. Gigantic. Full of energy. Able to support massive inland freshwater lakes with desalinization. Essentially unlimited solar yet unable to utilize spare capacity. And it's already been…
As a history refresher: DOGE is part of the USDS, created by Barack Obama in 2014. Dealing with PII was an overt part of their remit, as the Medicare system (written in COBOL) had substantial difficulties dealing with…
I was asked to join USDS by the head of the agency in 2018. I am fully aware of the widespread fraud they were encountering, as well as the technical difficulties of fixing it. I am also aware of the less-than-neutral…