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This is like naming your kid World President Smith.

This could work. Right? https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2002-12744-001

My realtor's last name is House


> Studies 1-5 showed that people are disproportionately likely to live in places whose names resemble their own first or last names (e.g., people named Louis are disproportionately likely to live in St. Louis).

When I lived in Austin, it seemed like a third of boys born were being named Austin. I presume many of them will end up living there as adults but not because of this particular bias, because they were raised there and have family’s there seems to be a more likely driver.


"Nominative determinism" is everywhere once you look for it. My vet's last name is McStay.

I just listened to an interview with Carl Trueman about his new book which criticizes transhumanism.

Seems more likely this falls under the replication crisis umbrella. My wife's favorite numbers are my birthday (mm-dd), which is a small reason she fell in love with me. Neither of those numbers are related to her birthday. My favorite number(s) do not overlap with my birthday. Maybe my mm-dd values just aren't low enough, like 02-02?

> Studies 1-5 showed that people are disproportionately likely to live in places whose names resemble their own first or last names

There are several cities in the US that share my last name. I don't live near any of them.

> Study 6 extended this finding to birthday number preferences.

D'oh!


My urologist, and I swear I'm not making this up, has the last name "Wiener".

My friend M. Goode’s father was a urologist named Dr. P. Goode. For real.

Quite a coincidence, but how did you know he's Austrian?

See also: Nominative determinism in hospital medicine, by orthopedics Limb, Limb, Limb and Limb

https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/10.1308/147363515X141345...


Reporting bias.

Unfortunately Linux doesn't run well on my Microsoft Surface Pro 4 (which is perfectly functional other than the lack of Windows security updates). I'm very unlikely to buy or recommend a Microsoft computer again, even though I liked the hardware.

Looks like your device is supported & has been for a while ?

https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/nwr4kd/best_d...


I check out the status every so often. Not much is upstreamed yet, so it requires a patched kernel and some mucking about, likely on an ongoing basis. I'll probably try it at some point but not until I have moved my uses for that machine onto something else.

For what it's worth, I have a surface laying around somewhere. It doesn't run Windows any more. I have plenty of older Linux machines that are still supported.

Moving forward, I'm sticking with hardware where everything works without setting the Linux 'taint' bit (i.e., zero proprietary code in the kernel). Most laptops made in the last few years with an AMD CPU + GPU meet that requirement.

I'd require that even if I was running windows, given how badly I've been burned on short hardware support lifespans in the past. For instance, I also have an Intel OEM reference motherboard that never had Linux video drivers. It no longer boots windows.


I don't think the fix is released yet, except for possibly Insider builds.

And don't pay for multiple years at once even if you're sure you'll be keeping the domain for a long time - at any moment the company could be bought by someone else you don't want to be trusting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybolos

Apparently it was on MythBusters, but I don't remember that one.



Matches the name of episode 152[1] the Wikipedia article cites for the info. Seems the classification of seasons and even the season's episode order on Wikipedia differs from the one in the Youtube title.

[1] Text-based summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2010_season)#Epis...



Weirdly, not available in the USA :(


That survey was power users only: https://www.androidauthority.com/dark-mode-poll-results-1090...

I would be astounded if a majority of general Android users used dark mode, as light mode is the default on most phones (all, IME).


Mine switches between light and dark depending on the time of day. It was the default behavior.

From the first sentence of the article proper: "A study published in July 2025".

No need to ask - the whole point is open access. https://info.arxiv.org/help/bulk_data.html


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