Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

One lens of this kind of difference brought by this paper is to consider differences as a signal for *domain specific cognition*, not deficit. "Social class operates as a potent psychological context that shapes cognition and neurodevelopment in crucial ways across the lifespan."

And if we take seriously a strengths-based approach to the cognition of these children, a new world unfolds where we see how much the benefits can cascade. In my humble opinion...what a beautiful set of strategies:

But the evidence doesn't necessarily support this!

"In psychology and among the lay public alike, assessments of
intelligence and tests of cognitive ability are taken to be the sine qua non of good thinking"

"The studies reported here demonstrated that many biases discussed in the heuristics and biases literature are surprisingly independent of cognitive ability in the range examined in our experiments"
(Stanovich & West, 2008)

Obligatory #psychology post about motivation for new years resolutions, some stuff I've learned both as a psych researcher and this year as a person trying to stay committed to very complex rehab!

- when we say set attainable goals WE MEAN IT! Cut the goal in half. Ambition is the mind-killer. Attainable is the recursive motivation feeder.
- mindful tracking means make it easy for yourself to see your effort, not fixate on outcomes
- we overestimate the cost of lapse, remind yourself of this

@spoltier developer tooling brings me personally to Rust. On a second thought, the word “niche” is probably inappropriate for Rust is good because it excels in many domains and learning to program in Rust alone makes you a better programmer even in other languages. I just don’t see a future where Rust becomes a mainstream language for general-purpose applications like Java/TypeScript/Python are.

@raito you actually don't need the hardware to start REing an FPGA; you can get probably 90% of the way there without any hardware at all (this is how I did most of https://whitequark.github.io/prjbureau/intro.html); you do need to test your stuff on hardware *eventually* and in some cases you can only get information you need by hardware tests, but this is, I want to underscore, a minority

Did you know "collaborative two-stage exams" are a thing? I learned about these from my friend Dr. Claire Meaders who is doing excellent work in how we teach about biology. And as usual, I try to think about how we might incorporate some lovely lateral learning into how we run software teams.

Imagine if performance evaluations had an individual component AND a group component. Imagine being able to promote whole teams together. It's a cool idea.

https://www.drcathicks.com/post/when-things-happen-not-just-what

The overlap between self-compassion and my own areas of expertise (learning/high performance/resilient productivity) are super fascinating.

"Because self-compassionate individuals have an emotionally positive self-attitude that is not contingent on performance evaluations, they should be freer to engage in activities out of interest rather than out of a desire to protect or enhance their self-esteem."

@ddosecrets is the real deal. we don't deserve the amount of work, risk, and integrity it takes to run a group like that. $400/150k, i think they deserve the funding: https://donorbox.org/ddosecrets-five-years-later

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

JSON is bouba and XML is kiki

@mcc javascript promises are completion based and not readiness based. when you call .then() it will either call your function right away, or add it to the callback list that's executed when the thing that's blocking the rest completes

you don't need to poll/wait/whatever on a promise for it to have forward progress, unlike in rust or python

I know you guys like funny or weird source code comments. Here are interesting comments in the source code of SQLite https://github.com/endlesssoftware/sqlite3/blob/master/os.h#L133

Can we approach a normal distribution with µ = 0 and σ = 1?

Please share so we get a pretty graph. ^^"

As I understand it, domain-driven design can have different ubiquitous languages for different bounded contexts. Sometimes, two languages will use the same noun, like Customer. There may need to be some sort of “bridge” linking the two. I’m interested in, um, the conceptual issues around that. How do people think about (then implement) the translation?

Please boost.

What I'm listening to today: "SNCF Lo-Fi Hip-Hop ▶ YAMAHA SU10 Unquantized Beat", Q_yr Ko

Okay, this one is a *bop*. Made on the SU10, a 1996 portable sampler resembling a much worse version of Yamaha's cult-beloved QY line, most of the appeal here is the contortions the musician had to go through to get the SU10 to do anything at all. Watch their fingers; it can't do sequencing, so they're toggling fixed-length loops made on a PO-33. Fun stuff.

Note: Yes, *that* SNCF.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7pv8bZMTWw

Is this true for you? “The more I code the more comfortable I am deleting code.”