💩 Shit I just heard in my office
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All I see is bronze.
EDIT: And a little white.
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Sapir-Whorf bullshit
It obviously doesn't apply in this situation, but I don't think it's fair to say the entire hypothesis is bullshit. The idea that culture and language shape each other in a feedback loop seems pretty cromulent.
I haven't read any academic breakdown of it, though, so my understanding may be pretty far off what the actual scientific argument is about
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It obviously doesn't apply in this situation, but I don't think it's fair to say the entire hypothesis is bullshit. The idea that culture and language shape each other in a feedback loop seems pretty cromulent.
And because of the nature of neural plasticity, it affects what adults really can perceive too. Yes, the senses themselves work the same way, but the way the brain processes them varies: irrelevant stuff (i.e., low-excitation synapses) tends to get pruned.
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The idea that culture and language shape each other is interesting and probably legit. "Sapir-whorf bullshit" is more like "Your culture has no word for cupcake so when I hand you one it's invisible!"
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According to Wikipedia:
the principle is often defined to include two versions. The strong version says that language determines thought, and that linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories, whereas the weak version says only that linguistic categories and usage influence thought and certain kinds of non-linguistic behavior
Looks like I'm saying the weak version makes sense, and you're saying that the strong version hinted at in the article is bullshit. So we're pretty much in agreement
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I just figured the popular understanding of it was blown out of proportion and thus wrong
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Did you know that what.thedailywtf.com forum has fifty different words for 'cupcake'?
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Fifty shades of cupcake?
I'd quote the relevant part, BUT I CAN'T SELECT TEXT IN @tar's POST!
DISCOUUUURSEEEEE!
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Did you know that what.thedailywtf.com forum has fifty different words for 'cupcake'?
Are you sure it's not the same word with fifty different character encoding errors?
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Or to get a good paying job rowing a trireme. From what I recall reading (mainly regarding the Peloponnesian War) , the richer folks viewed war as a point of honor and so forth, the poor often looked at it as an opportunity for employment. And they definitely had free time to show up to vote.
Except that the poor generally weren't allowed to vote.
Democracy was a very specific thing in those days. Everybody had a vote, as long as they were male, past a certain age, rich and of noble birth.And about the colour blue, this may be interesting
[What is blue and how do we see color?][1]
[1]: http://uk.businessinsider.com/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2?r=US
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And about the colour blue, this may be interesting
[What is blue and how do we see color?][1]
[1]: http://uk.businessinsider.com/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2?r=USThe only ancient culture to develop a word for blue was the Egyptians — and as it happens, they were also the only culture that had a way to produce a blue dye.
So once we isolate quuxvlartkt dye, then quuxvlartkt will totally be a colour too.
Filed under: quuxvlartkt
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Just like with purple?
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Exactly! Or, redblue, as we used to call it in the old days, before we gave it a proper name...
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I see a sequel coming: Fifty Shades of Quuxvlartkt.
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Link in the comments on that site was quite interesting. Online colo[u]r test. Killed 5 minutes.
I scored 7.
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27 over here. And I thought I was doing well, too.
This is going to get moved by an angry blakeyrat, isn't it?
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This is going to get moved by an angry blakeyrat, isn't it?
He doesn't have that power ;)
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Except that the poor generally weren't allowed to vote.Democracy was a very specific thing in those days. Everybody had a vote, as long as they were male, past a certain age, rich and of noble birth.
I'm not aware that being poor was really excluded.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy
Also, Donald Kagan writes that "In the fourth century, Plato and Aristotle must have been repeating old complaints when they pointed out the unfairness of democracy: 'it distributes a sort of equality to equal and unequal alike'."[53] Instead of seeing it as a fair system under which 'everyone' has equal rights, the critics saw it as the numerically preponderant poor tyrannizing the rich.
There's more stuff on that page talking about poor people having the ability to vote.
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One of our team members has been working from home a lot as he's been ill for weeks.
An email pops up from him today:
I have been fighting a losing battle for too long. I finally offer my unconditional surrender.
I’m just going to take a PTO and try to recover, so that I’ll hopefully be better by Monday
Jesus, man! Flu is not cancer. Don't scare us like that.
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The idea that culture and language shape each other is interesting and probably legit. "Sapir-whorf bullshit" is more like "Your culture has no word for cupcake so when I hand you one it's invisible!"
Yeah -- in reality, it's more like "Your culture has no word for cupcake, so when I hand you one, you either go "What is this thingymabob?" or try to find the closest things in your language that describe what you've been handed."
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Yeah -- in reality, it's more like "Your culture has no word for cupcake, so when I hand you one, you either go "What is this thingymabob?" or try to find the closest things in your language that describe what you've been handed."
My experience of giving cupcakes to people who don't have a word for it is different. Usually involves a bit of cleanup, too.
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Liked because I'm not having to clean that up!
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Scored 0.
Surprised the Belgium out of me, as I usually miss some here and there. Could not get the green square test, no surprise there.
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I scored 29 at my workplace's monitor, which surprised me because I always considered my color acuity pretty good. I scored 4 just now back home.
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learning to push back against those who have nominal authority over you is hard.
Reading Snoofle's back catalog on the old site helps.
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"Did you know they found out that people only started seeing the color blue in the past few hundred years?"
"Did you know that not paying attention to QI is just the same as not paying attention in school?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgAURVO28Ok&t=1m43sEdit: do keep up, flabdablet
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I scored 20, in what is more a reflection of my patience for this kind of tests than of my visual acuity.
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http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge
I scored 7.
Huh...I got 8, which was better than I thought I'd do.
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Huh I figured it was rated out of 10, I just scored 60.
Then again:
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I scanned my eyes back and forth and some of the squares would jump out as being wrong. Looking right at them didn't necessarily help.
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Yeah, I can see some of them being wrong, too. Nothing major though. Specifically third and fourth rows closer to the left hand side.
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Having actually closed out the test, it now seems to be saying that 0 is the best score and 99 is the worst, so I guess in addition to being nearsighted I also have poor "colour acuity" as well... And all this with my new glasses too... Anyone who can see colours want to tell me that my effort up there looks like a chessboard or what?
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I'm going to do this test again later, when I have time to spend on it. Then we'll see who has colour acuity!
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Remember that it's also a test of your monitor.
I got totally different results depending on which screen I used.
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it now seems to be saying that 0 is the best score and 99 is the worst
I haven't checked to confirm that it's the same test that I took after it turned up in another forum, but I was the first poster there to report a score higher than single digits. I got 256.
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I can't deallocate memory from a C process if you kill it from the OS
I'm no C expert, but I'm pretty sure killing the process frees all memory…I might start a product line of ClueHammers; they'd look like Piko Hammers, but have the word 'Clue' written in large friendly letters on the sides. I could make a lot of just from selling them here…
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1.) Well, and plus, even if, EVEN IF Windows did not free memory after the program exits, using Java instead of C wouldn't accomplish jack shit because of course Java still has to use the same routines to allocate and free memory under the hood, and the Java GC doesn't run - get this - if Java isn't running. I know, mindblowing isn't it?
2.) I'll take two ClueHammers so I can dual wield them please.
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Anyone who can see colours want to tell me that my effort up there looks like a chessboard or what?
I always get under five and usually a perfect score on that test, and yours there is pretty patchy.I don't know about that particular site but on [url=http://www.colormunki.com/game/huetest_kiosk]another site with the same test[/url] I had [url=http://thecommentsection.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=5422&start=15#p107987]a bit of fun...[/url]
And that one collects scores and shows the maximum and minimum for age/gender categories. It's clear that lot of other people in all the categories have been having fun, but at last time I looked I'd had the most.[EDIT: having tried the the one linked above, it appears to be not only identical but linked to the same database as the one I linked, the best and highest scores are the same.]
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Java still has to use the same routines to allocate and free memory under the hood
At least up to Java 7, it didn't do that in any meaningful way. (Java's memory management is very different to that of C.) I've yet to get around to checking what Java 8 does; the memory management is one of the areas that got changed.
Doesn't invalidate your overall point. Just had to pick at a pendant…
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I'll take two ClueHammers so I can dual wield them please.
Screw that. Sword-chucks, yo!
Filed under: or maybe ClueHammer-chucks
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I prefer Staff-chucks.
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Note to self: Re-read 8-bit Theater.
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Screw that. Sword-chucks, yo!
<small>Filed under: <a href="#">or maybe ClueHammer-chucks</a></small>
I like the idea of Hammer-chucks.
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Chuck-chucks?
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Wood-chucks?
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Two Chuck Norrises attached by a short chain seems like it'd be impossible to use without
hurting yourselfdestroying the universe.
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"We can tell you by mid-April how soon you can expect to get these servers so you can start using them."
The servers that are functionally identical to the sandbox we have now, but Production .
Why is our infrastructure team so heavily understaffed U_U We're doing massive, long-delayed server upgrades due to EOL support, plus our new Node crap needs new servers, plus my stuff.
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One of the things you're going to have to learn is that what Mr. Manager wants is not always right, shouldn't always be done, and that you should push back in asserting that it shouldn't be done. You've learned part of it — that what the boss wants is often a bad idea — but learning to push back against those who have nominal authority over you is hard.
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Ancient D-Coder saying: "Sometimes you have to manage your manager."