motleyhatch | 2 years ago | on: A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret
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motleyhatch | 2 years ago | on: With Firefox on X11, any page can pastejack you anytime (middle button paste)
There was no link in the mailing list post or any of its replies.
As of right now, there is no link in a HN comment.
I tried hard but could not find a relevant bug on Bugzilla, but that could be because security-related issues are typically kept under wraps until the details are safe to be publically revealed. At least that was the case for the one I submitted a few years ago; as the submitter, I can see it when I'm logged in, but it doesn't show up on anonymous searches.
If Mozilla's stance on this really is as described in the mailing list, I would very much like to add a dissenting opinion. This is clearly a security issue that needs addressing. If the clipboard buffer needs special protection, so does the primary selection buffer.
Whether most people like or dislike copy/pasting this way is irrelevant. Some people use it. The other browsers on X11 are properly protected. Even Edge on Linux gets it right. Firefox is the odd one out here and they should fix it.
Especially these days, where install instructions on web pages often look like this:
curl -o- https://example.com/trust/me/install.sh | sudo bash
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1855345
https://github.com/turistu/odds-n-ends/issues/1#issuecomment...
motleyhatch | 2 years ago | on: Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%
It can still happen. I've been actively using SO for 14 years and had my first question marked as a duplicate last week. The question was already 9 years old and had been thoroughly answered. Last week somebody decided to "optimize" it, which sent it to the review queue and finally led its closing.
motleyhatch | 2 years ago | on: My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (2005)
> the broader medical community did not seem to object
It seems there was quite a bit of controversy between Freeman and the more scientifically conservative medical community. James Watts, who originally partnered with Freeman and shared a practice with him, left "in disgust" due to the irresponsible application of lobotomy. Other professionals, like John F Fulton, have criticized Freeman's procedure for its lack of precision and broad collateral damage.
In the mid 1950s, the whole field was changed fundamentally by the introduction of the first antipsychotic drugs. Yet Freeman continued to perform his operation well over a decade after that.
> Freeman faced no repercussions for his actions while he was alive
He did eventually lose his medical license in 1967 and lived to see his views fall out of favor with neurologists/surgeons and patients alike (but not for long, he died a few years later).
I agree that it's a fascinating part of our recent history. I wish there was some way to get insight from the future about which of our currently accepted treatments will be seen as inhumane or counterproductive or simply bizarre in 50 years.
motleyhatch | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: An Interactive Audio Lesson About the Shape of the Universe
The voice is perfectly fine. Non-native speaker here - I understood every word; the narration was very pleasant and not annoying in the least.
motleyhatch | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: An Interactive Audio Lesson About the Shape of the Universe
That was fascinating, and very well done. It's not often you see somebody actually creating interactive scripts (and miniature models) of things like particle collisions for a presentation. The availability and the quality of the external links is also highly appreciated (even though sending me to Vsauce might cost me another evening). A couple of suggestions for improvement:
An estimate for how long the lesson will take (on average), best stated up front.
An indicator for where we are in the presentation (like "slide 5 of 18").
A way to pause the audio in the middle of a slide (I just saw you already addressed this one).
On the "Corrections" slide, you mention a fascinating PBS documentary. It would be nice to get a link to that, too (if available).
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One rational reason not to switch for $6 would be the hope/expectation that the offered incentive will increase. In the experiment, the subjects who held on to their first choice the longest received 10x the reward, while the quick switchers got only 1.2x (assuming the alternative cup was winning).