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> Unfortunately, the theory behind this book, and the various follow-ups, is no more than pseudoscientific nonsense. And Erikson appears to lack even basic knowledge of psychology or behavioural science.

This seems to happen often. Are there any non-pseudoscientific psychology theories? AFAIK only IQ and (possibly) the "Big Five" personality traits.

Short list of (likely) "failed" (pop-)psychological theories:

- stereotype threat [1]

- implicit bias - specifically refers to unconscious prejudice that exist independently of any explicit / conscious bias; however, measurements of implicit bias do not predict biased behavior [2] and therefore implicit bias training is likely completely useless [3] (this is not to say that explicit bias doesn't exist or that bigots don't try to conceal their bigotry)

- power posing, the idea that putting your body in a "power" position (a pose that projects confidence) alters your hormonal levels - even the original author no longer believes [4] that this effect is real (although I personally still think that "power poses" can have an effect on other people and how they perceive you)

- growth mindset, the belief that you can learn and improve (which I personally think is probably better than the reverse), doesn't actually result [5] in better educational outcomes (but can result in millions of dollars wasted [6]). The original researcher since came up with [7] a convenient concept of "false" growth mindset - "saying you have growth mindset when you don't really have it" - but critics rightfully counter with (from the Wikipedia link above):

> "If your effect is so fragile that it can only be reproduced [under strictly controlled conditions], then why do you think it can be reproduced by schoolteachers?"

and

> to claim that your performance in a cognitive task is entirely dictated by how hard you try and is nothing to do with raw candle-power flies in the face of more than 100 years of intelligence research".

- Stanford Prison Experiment [8] (where participants were knowingly acting out their roles and which was never successfully replicated)

- Milgram Experiment (which, although somewhat replicated, was recently criticized [9] that few participants actually believed the experiment was real - a potential issue with any replication attempts as well)

Hope I didn't mess up any links. This is based only on my completely amateur research of online sources, I'm more than happy to be pointed in the opposite direction!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat#Criticism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_stereotype#Statement_...

[3] https://qz.com/1144504/the-world-is-relying-on-a-flawed-psyc...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_posing#Replication_failu...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck#Criticism

[6] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180522114523.h...

[7] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/12/how-pr...

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment#Cri...

[9] https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-shocking-truth-of-...
I'm Swedish and yes, it was almost insufferable when this book was the hotness during the past two years, but this is hardly "one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time". It's not even the worst one that got mainstream in Sweden. Electromagnetic hypersensitivity[1] is far more stupid and God knows how much money has been wasted on shielding people from electromagnetic fields by local governments. Hell, just the fact that this has been debated and taken seriously by politicians and government officials is astounding to me. It's a sad reflection on the state of physics literacy in my country.

So, stupid? Yes. One of the worst pseudo-scientific scandals ever to have swept over Sweden? Not even remotely close.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivi...
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The thing is, the probable first set of targets in a war with Iran would be air defense targets. “If it turned out to be a hostile missile” that could mean imminent death. It’s very possible the air defense operator panicked and acted out of perceived self preservation.
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> ...forces unleashed by Silicon Valley—rising housing costs, choked infrastructure.

Housing costs and choked infrastructure were unleashed by policies designed to deter population growth.

What wasn't anticipated is that the incumbent residents would have less economic power than the new arrivals almost overnight, putting them on the "deterred" side of the bargain unless they'd already locked in their housing costs by buying.

The unfortunate thing is that the incumbent residents least likely to benefit from anti-growth policies, i.e. long-time renters and paycheck-to-paycheck workers, are the first to bear the brunt of the shortages.
Are these e-scooters profitable yet? At what point will the VCs pull their money out?
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Managers like them as they try to make sense of how their reports behave and work together, people they know but not really. Sounds like some people like them as a way to make sense of issues with their personal relationships. People outside yourself make decisions that are frequently confusing, and people like this sort of categorization to make sense of them.
Can you give a study for this? And plants, no matter which, obviously have other benefits than cleaning compared to an artificial filter. Seeing nature, even on screen, boosts human health. https://environhealthprevmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1...
Another important factor of trees is their ability to cool down the city. Moss might not be able to provide the shade the trees offer, but they can provide a cooling effect a simple filter could not provide.
Apart from that, while trees are awesome, they take a long time to grow, and a lot of resources during that time. Moss is easier to farm and therefore can be easier to replace if it dies. And no matter how well tended a tree is: A city is a hard place for trees. And taking climate change into account, it will get even harder. Trees that were once fitting for a city might not do well there anymore. And I dont think the moss trees are supposed to exist instead of actual trees. They are instead a great way to boost a citys health next to actual trees and to fill gaps where trees are missing or have been newly planted. So why use trees and mechanical filters, when you can get trees and moss?
I built a site that’s adjacent to this idea (www.darkpattern.games). It catalogs the dark patterns found in mobile games. Premium currency and ads are two of them but there are many more. The idea is that you could educate yourself so the dark patterns have less power over you and also you can browse the site to find good games that don’t have dark patterns.
It comes in far shorter (but more intense) bursts.
FTR, many tree species can live for hundreds of thousands of years.
I think the right way to think about this is that psychology has the imprimatur of legitimate science (and some pscyhological research is indeed legitimate), but a lot of it is more about having an idea you like, conducting a few inadequate studies, and publishing them in a domain journal with little critical review and no reproduction.

Then, the folks who teach these courses see these papers (presumably in their undergraduate psych classes?) and end up believing them, becacuse they don't have the necessary scientific analytic/critical skills to evaluate them.

At my employer, the IAT was originally presented as scientific fact (with citations). Over time, the citations changed from "This is great!" to "This work appears to not be scientifically accurate, but we like the idea" to "we will not be using this, unless you want to try it voluntarily".

I think in general most people in society don't really have the ability to differentiate bullshit science from real science. I've actually left my scientific field permanently because I've seen far too enough examples of fraud and incompetence leading to tenure track positions.
The connection between conflict in Syria and fossil fuels is that USA/Saud wanted to build pipelines across Syria, and Syria's sovereign government didn't want to build those pipelines. That's why USA created ISIS and gave it lots of arms and ammunition. Recently, we assassinated one of the guys who saved Syria from ISIS.
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Yes, and that would have worked had the CSR been dealing with a car return issue that was past the refund eligibility date. But they're talking about a piece of software that isn't critical to the car's functionality and can be refunded.
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Kind of opposite mindset here.

Current codebase generates around 3000 casting errors. I doubt I'm the only one with this kind of "history" to deal with AND the application is crashing with memory access errors.

What's my cleanup plan for this? Multiple compilers with every warning enabled on multiple platforms. Even a platform we're not targeting. We've mapped out which files and which lines have the biggest code smell. Now we have a giant map on a 65" tv to guide us.

Why all this attention? We're moving this nightmare from 32 to 64 bits. Parts of it were originally 16bit which have already been updated. Cast errors alone are now signposts to other bad code.
Is it even possible to help nature in a way that generates profit for a business? Most things that help, say, a rare fungus or a migratory bird, don’t make money for humans. That’s why we’re in this mess to start with.

I also don’t believe we know how to help nature. It’s too complex. I think most “ventures” just do more harm, possibly including reforestation (are we SURE big, dark forests are good?) I put more trust into “rewinding” projects that involve just leaving things alone, no matter how much it distresses humans to see dead/dying animals and weeds.
I’m curious if it is possible we are being fooled by other scientific hoaxes at this very moment but yet don’t even realize it.
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It just seems that theres so many features, conventions, ways to do the same thing, etc. and it seems overwhelming to try to learn C++ let alone learning how to write good code in it. Especially as someone who has minimal C or C++ experience (I know enough C to read largish codebases, but would probably fall flat trying to write anything)
Well, if it's only some "signature" that is broadcasted (or not), one could flip a switch and appear as a civilian aircraft.
Strangely after Quantum, Firefox worked worse for me. It is still the case, with Firefox regularly pausing all network activity for a few seconds or even a minute, so I am stuck with websites stuck loading or video stuck loading for a decent amount of time. The UI and everything functions, it is just the network communicating that is stuffed, so anything that requests something has to wait until Firefox's network part decides to respond. I am used to it now, but this happened when Quantum came out and has remained the same for me since.
I skimmed the entire article and am still confused about how this guy managed to persuade the media and “large parts of the Swedish population” that he’s a behavioral scientist. I mean, especially for laypeople, the first question you should ask when someone claims to be an expert in a certain science is “does s/he have a Ph.D.?”. This guy did not disclose his academic background, which no Ph.D. holder would ever hide, and his best claim to authority appears to be “in an interview with Filter I referred to a psychologist who supported my claim [to be a behavioural scientist]”, which is truly bizarre (and false btw). Additionally, this guy debuted as a crime novel author ffs (according to Google-translated version of his Swedish Wikipedia page[1]). What a joke.

(Granted, there’s a small percentage of frauds among Ph.D. holders. Meanwhile, the percentage of frauds among self-proclaimed non-Ph.D. experts is likely close to 100%.)

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u=h...
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> I wish more engineers cared about auto complete. A lot of software people I know say "just use vim" or "just remember things" and I feel these view points really stifle progress.

They are not very well versed in vim if they don't know about the autocomplete capabilities of it.

The most basic form is matching with ctrl-n in insert mode. http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/insert.html#i_CTRL-N

This can be beefed up by coupling it with ctags and even goes up to 11 with full language server protocol support by using coc.nvim.

Never let anyone tell you can't do that in vim. Most of the time, they are wrong.
> curiously, none of them want to do this.

How do you know? If you ask someone whether they're harboring murderous intent, they're obviously going to say they aren't. Most people that actually commit murder will go on to claim that they never had murderous intent, and in the majority of cases, they're probably not even lying. Yet they still murdered.

We can't even understand our own motives and intentions. The internal monologue is a parlor trick, consciousness is a lifelong self-delusion. If we can't accurately conceptualize or reliably control our own behavior, despite living inside of ourselves all the time, what makes us think we can do it for others?

When you're working to accomplish a specific end with a specific group of people, as long as they're providing useful work, adhering to social norms, and not otherwise exhibiting specific malice or triggering physiological fight-or-flight responses within the group, there's no sense getting worked up about whether or not the neuronal spasms that produce consciousness may've been yielding some unconventional theories lately.

"I have this really high-level theory that I feel may characterize typical variations among several major human ethnotypes" -- well, shit man, my brain is doing weird stuff today too. I dreamed about computer-birds. Now, can we stop talking about this and go over your commit from yesterday?

In general, everyone is wrong about everything all the time, and that ought to be good enough for all of us. Let's stop firing useful people over it.
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> zsh will freeze and compile a list of hundreds

Recent zsh will (configurably) ask if you really want completion it detects there will be more than a smallish number of candidates

Still a pain for other completion sources though
The likes of the author of the article will surely claim that there are, but that's what another "expert" few years/decades from now will be writing review on.
> the question remains as why so many people bought the book

I tend to think that people like very simple answers to complex questions.

Full spectrum of personality traits back-and-forth? The answer is four colors.

Perhaps the fact of just being able to understand any given answer makes people feel smart. I deduct it this way, since the author defends himself by claiming skeptics "are attempting to make out that his readers are idiots".
I don't understand this post.
Maybe, but how many of them are compiler engineers? Go does not strike me as a language, that a compiler engineer would love.
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MBTI has 16 archetypes, but they're all combinations of 4 letters / scales / dimensions, where 16personalities added one to that (assertive <-> turbulent).

I do believe it helped me find out about the differences of other people's internal worlds, but the journey did involve avoiding a lot of pitfalls and taking everything with a healthy dose of skepticism.
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Notably, this type of issue is exactly why it's important to have more than one implementation of web standards!

If Chrome is your only target, the standard ceases to mean anything. The real standard is just whatever Chrome does.
Yes, for instance YT or Spotify subscriptions would cost you 30% more when purchases via IAP.

Spotify is NOT ok with that (I think they disabled IAP).
However, Google does allow for that.

Protip: Tapping `<button/>` elements is 23% cheaper than tapping `UIButton`s, which is something I realised looking at my YT bill one day.
Thank you for taking the time to write this. I really appreciate it. This line particularly resonated:

> Clients who commit to pilots or trials without committing cash are not worth anything. You can offer fully refundable trials, but always take some sort of deposit.
I lived in a popular ski town.

Every week you would hear "it's too expensive, what about the youths?!"

Every week you'd also hear "overcrowding is killing alpine skiing, why are the lines so long, why do we allow so many people?!"

I've never related too much with the people who, upon witnessing the high season hordes as the park operates at 100% capacity, conclude "yes, it's cheaper entry that will fix our problems."
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Back in 2016, it was estimated between 85-89% used a passcode [0]; I expect it's probably even higher today.

[0]: https://techpinions.com/apples-penchant-for-consumer-securit...
Biometrics shouldn’t be trusted this way. Biometrics are closer to a username, not a password.
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Somehow ARB, and now Khronos keep forgetting that having something like MetalKit or DirectXTK as part of the specification really matters to onboard newbies.

OpenInventor could have been it, but SGI had other plans for it, and no one at either ARB or Khronos actually cared about it.
If deforestation is still occurring (net result that we are cutting down more trees than we are planting) then cutting down more trees doesn't solve the problem.

We do in fact need people to just start planting trees.
Over a year ago the Hangouts app had a notice at the top saying support was going away and to switch to the extension. That is still working fine.

We've been moving people over to Chat in our domain but a large (probably majority) still use Hangouts.
A huge percentage of people use stupid passcodes, because convenience is more important than security for them.

Six ones, or up and down the middle column, that sort of thing.
Adding sufficient acreage of forest would "artificially" create more precipitation, no?
You need to setup an identical-ish host, could even be in VM so that you can build software that will run on the Ghost Ship. This in and of itself could be difficult, Debian 4?

Using this Shadow Ghost Ship you can build a copy of tcpdump that you can just scp over and run in place. Don't touch the package manager, /etc, /var, anything!
One feature of these personality taxonomies is that inevitably in the set of different categories designed to be of equal human value or worth, one or two categories are always discernably worse than the others.
Awesome website! Great work, it would be nice to have a sort parameter to sort by score or price.
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As a swede this is a bit embarrassing to me. I have a few friends who's bought into this completely, and of course bought the book. All without even a hint of critical thinking. It is hard to tell your friends they've been conned.

I can understand it to some extent. Here's someone, who claims he is a behavioral expert and scientist, and who offers a seemingly plausible simple method to understand yourself and other people, and how to use that method to efficiently interact and work with others. Who wouldn't want that?

Unfortunately the books are still sold. I've considered printing stickers that warns about the nonsense and sneak it on to copies in book stores. How else can we stop the proliferation of this junk?
Pushing it back further, Fairchild was born of US DOD demand for military electronics. So, the US military is the founding father of Silicon Valley.
Being able to pay to remove adds is OK according to the site, he refers to it as a demo or trial.

So long as you can pay to get rid of ads and the IAP aren't pay-to-win (Warframe does this pretty well) I'd argue it's not Bullshit.
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Nah, https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listextensions.php
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It took me awhile to wrap my head around when I initially encountered it, but the idea made sense after I thought about it. If the process exited successfully, we don't care--it did what it was supposed to do. But if it failed, we'd probably like as much info about why it failed as possible; and so having the exit status be more like an error code clearly has some value.
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> If I make a PS4 game, or a Nintendo Switch game, I can sell it on the PSN store and/or Nintendo e-Shop, sure, but I can also produce a physical copy that I can obtain outside of the store, and that is definitely not the case for Apple software developers.

> Apple software developers MUST go through the AppStore and they MUST pay that fee, no matter what.

I think you also need to pay a fee to publish any PS4 or Switch game that would run on untampered consoles.
While I sympathize with your sentiment a more accurate and less provocative way of saying almost the same thing would be to say that the biggest barriers to dealing with climate change are social and political, and so changing social norms (so corporate behavior as evidenced by Murdoch) becomes unacceptable, and electing politicians who will pass meaningful climate-change laws, is really important.
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"as long as it is never restarted"

Seen that. And then one day, power failed. UPSes kicked in. In one hour, still no mains power. Batteries depleted, systems started shutting down...including that one.

Had to build a replacement in a real hurry after that.
Is Vulkan the response to the fact that single cores aren't getting faster and games need to move towards multithreading? Is there an analogous solution for other systems like physics, collisions or pathfinding?
Exactly. That's why questionable MBTI/socionics are useful to people and Big-5 is not. And either of them are not real, actual 6-σ science anyway.
Provocative title. More accurate, but less surprising would be "A significant portion of a population were fooled by a charlatan offering simple answers to complex questions". That wouldn't be as salacious though.

But I'm very happen with what VoF did. The book has still been a huge annoyance for years though, and I've seen personally workplace accomodations based on its idiocy.

But if I'm allowed to generalize a bit myself, I would say that it's not more people than are swayed daily by political facebook memes or fake internet "news" publications with superficially professional design, regardless of nation.

Critical thinking is hard, and takes a lot of time to process, and we're continuously hit with increasingly more information that it's impossible to deal with. I hope that people smarter than me can create tools and models to make it easier.