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Scott Wiersdorf
Personal blog · scott.wiersdorf.org/blarneyscienceculture
Scott Wiersdorf's personal blog at scott.wiersdorf.org covers science and culture. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link posts on how the Unix find command works, including its performance and how it evaluates expressions, and a post on disagreeing cordially while staying open to being wrong in science.
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What Hacker News says?
Good science should be open to new ideas. I'm totally on board with mask wearing, social distancing, isolating when possible, etc. etc., but always keeping in mind the possibility that we could be wrong is a crucial factor in coming to objective truth through empirical means. Reminds me of this blog post I read a while back: http://scott.wiersdorf.org/blarney/science It's hard to disagree cordially and constructivel…
Comment linking /blarney/science
on “The Covid Science Wars”Submitted Wattvision (YC W09) setup as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI wrote an article on `find` performance a few years ago, may be useful to someone: http://scott.wiersdorf.org/blarney/071024a.html tl;dr version: find examines each entry in a directory hierarchy; if the entry (be it a regular file, symlink, directory, device, or whatever) matches the given criteria, it will be printed. If no criteria are given, it’s an automatic match (and will be printed). find evaluates its expr…
Comment linking /blarney/071024a.html
on “Find is a beautiful tool”Submitted Why we have skeptics as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flu shots aren’t good science as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye Quicksilvεr, Hello Google Quick Search Box + Proxi as a story · 1 points
HN discussion