The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History’s Great Unsolved Mysteries

Dionysus, the god of wine, sets out the stages of inebriation

For sensible men I prepare only three craters: one for health (which they drink first), the second for love and pleasure, and the third for sleep. After the third mixing bowl is drained, sensible men go home. The fourth crater is nothing to do with me—it belongs to bad behavior; the fifth is for shouting; the sixth is for rudeness and insults; the seventh is for fights; the eighth is for breaking the furniture; the ninth is for depression; the tenth is for madness and unconsciousness.

Little nugget from the article.

Even until now, there’s no explanation about how the king died and what happen after that.

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Inflasi gaya hidup →

Hal yang hampir tidak bisa kita hindarkan, dengan naiknya pendapatan, bisa naik juga gaya hidup kita, hal itu yang disebut inflasi gaya hidup, lebih banyak memikirkan yang sekarang dibanding dengan finansial di masa depan.

Tulisan terbaru yang setelah lebih dari sebulan tidak menulis blog.

Milky Way Timelapses

THIS IS AMAZING!!!11!!!!

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How I jumped from software testing to data science →

“Wow,” I thought to myself, “the goal of testing is to protect the customer from evil bugs created by evil developers, and the ultimate manifestation of that goal is to slip the ship date!” That misguided belief stuck with me and drove many of my behaviors around software testing for nearly a decade.

There are many misguded belief around software testing, they should help developers also and present some solution for every bug or future-bug that they think will hinder either devs or end users.

To have so many scenarios around testing, it will involving devs, and i kinda agree when QA and software tester engineer sits or doing test together with devs, PO within the same squad (no, this is not only applied to agile/scrum), it will creates dynamics within the team.

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The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds” →

We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds

The retweet button are powerful, powerful enough to destroy ones credibility, it can started with false news, with link of course, and people without context or without reading the link, will be trigger happy and it will clicked retweet button without thinking.

The retweet and share, in other words, incentivize extreme, polarizing, and outrage-inducing content.

Very true, the last Indonesia presidential election are proof, the one who got the loudest voice are the true one, no matter how false the news is, no matter how much misinformation or just simply hoaxes, it doesn’t matter, as long that tweet (or other re-share mechanism) supporting our view, judgement or their bias.

Combined that with logical fallacy, perfect weapon.

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