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Outrage Fatigue

This morning, I listened to the latest episode of Science Quickly on Apple Podcasts about Outrage Fatigue. They interviewed Tanya Lewis from Scientific American. You can find the transcript of the podcast on Scientific American. I learned that Outrage Fatigue happens when constant exposure to upsetting news leads to exhaustion and burnout. While feeling outraged can help us recognize and respond to problems, excessive outrage especially when fueled by negative content on social media can spread misinformation and cause people to withdraw from public discussions....

February 6, 2025 · 2 min

Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias is a cognitive pitfall that affects our ability to think critically and objectively. It will lead us to seeking information based on what our existing beliefs while ignoring the other information and evidences that contradicts it. Majority of people call it the father of fallacies because most us of are suffering to it almost daily. It is often stems from how beliefs are passed down through generations. Majority of us, especially Filipinos were raised to adopt the beliefs or worldview of our parents, whether about religion, politics etc....

January 15, 2025 · 2 min

Mindhunter

I finished my rewatch of Mindhunter series last couple of months, and it left me wanting more! On my first watch, I was probably more focused on the story so I missed a lot of small details. On my rewatch, I appreciated a lot of small details and classic beautifully executed scenes, I also noticed how well thought out the casting was. While pondering on it again, I noticed some things that I didn’t get or understand the first time to watch....

August 28, 2024 · 3 min

Containerized Services using Podman

Managing Container Images using Podman Applications can run inside containers, providing all dependencies, that is, container image and a file system bundle which provides the app files, 3rd party libraries are there. Container images are available from image registries that allow users to search and retrieve container images. You can use the search subcommand to find available images from remote or local registries. [user@artcdc ~]$ podman search rhel INDEX NAME DESCRIPTION STARS OFFICIAL AUTOMATED redhat....

March 8, 2020 · 4 min

Introduction to Containers

Background In general, a typical software applications are dependent on other 3rd party libraries, components, services or config that are running in the host or environment. A traditional application may break if there are new updates on its dependencies that are not supported by the application when it was written. For example, you have a windows application that is deployed on a windwows server that is dependent on a TLS 1....

February 2, 2020 · 3 min