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Interpersonal Traits of Aspies Placed in Context

a chapter from A Mind-Body Look at the Concept of Asperger's Syndrome (pdf) by Michael Samsel, LMHC

A Hacker News discussion (2021) on this list

Uncommunicative Eye Contact

In humans, eye contact is the center of the attachment system. In Asperger's Syndrome there is either an avoidance of eye contact (most common) or an unvarying, relative unblinking, staring, constant eye contact (less common). Avoidant eye contact gives an impression of 'having something to hide', and also eliminates a big channel of communication and trust. Staring eye contact, because of its unchanging nature, is also uncommunicative, and is generally experienced as disturbing on the receiving end.

Thread Pools

Thread pools on the JVM should usually be divided into the following three categories:

CPU-bound
Blocking IO
Non-blocking IO polling

Each of these categories has a different optimal configuration and usage pattern.

FFmpeg cheat sheet

A list of useful commands for the FFmpeg command line tool.

Download FFmpeg: https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Full documentation: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html

Basic conversion

Here's a list of mildly interesting things about the C language that I learned mostly by consuming Clang's ASTs. Although surprises are getting sparser, I might continue to update this document over time.

There are many more mildly interesting features of C++, but the language is literally known for being weird, whereas C is usually considered smaller and simpler, so this is (almost) only about C.

1. Combined type and variable/field declaration, inside a struct scope [https://godbolt.org/g/Rh94Go]

struct foo {
   struct bar {
 int x;

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Using Git Commit Message Templates to Write Better Commit Messages

The always enthusiastic and knowledgeable mr. @jasaltvik shared with our team an article on writing (good) Git commit messages: How to Write a Git Commit Message. This excellent article explains why good Git commit messages are important, and explains what constitutes a good commit message. I wholeheartedly agree with what @cbeams writes in his article. (Have you read it yet? If not, go read it now. I'll wait.) It's sensible stuff. So I decided to start following the

	// ==UserScript==
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	// @description Hide your comment scores and karma counters. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456203
	// @author sillysaurus3
	// @version 1.0
	// @match ://news.ycombinator.com/
	// @grant none
	// @downloadURL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sillysaurus/4d917e925548e4c7ec6f6bb96c94ef5c/raw
	// @updateURL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sillysaurus/4d917e925548e4c7ec6f6bb96c94ef5c/raw
	// ==/UserScript==

	#!/usr/bin/python3
	#
	# Simple Bloom filter implementation in Python 3
	# Copyright 2017 Hector Martin "marcan" <[email protected]>
	# Licensed under the terms of the MIT license
	#
	# Written to be used with the Have I been pwned? password list:
	# https://haveibeenpwned.com/passwords
	#
	# Download the pre-computed filter here (968MB, k=11, false positive p=0.0005):

	//
	// Author: Jonathan Blow
	// Version: 1
	// Date: 31 August, 2018
	//
	// This code is released under the MIT license, which you can find at
	//
	// https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
	//
	//

	default['sshd']['sshd_config']['AuthenticationMethods'] = 'publickey,keyboard-interactive:pam'
	default['sshd']['sshd_config']['ChallengeResponseAuthentication'] = 'yes'
	default['sshd']['sshd_config']['PasswordAuthentication'] = 'no'