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  • The quantified scientist would be the first to tell you that he’s making these determinations on a sample size of one (sometimes he gets a friend to help, and then it’s a sample size of two).

    So maybe what ever tech you’re thinking about will work for him and not for you or vice versa.

    Unfortunately, it’s kinda like the wild west out there. The tech changes so fast that no one has time to do a big study and figure out what actually works.












  • So this is pretty good.

    https://measuredcollective.com/is-google-forms-gdpr-compliant/

    It’s a list of things you need to do in order to make the use of Google forms gdpr compliant.

    One thing they don’t touch on is the use of personal accounts to collect data. People tend to use Google forms because it’s easy to set up using their personal account, but that essentially removes any company oversight from the collection and data processing. This makes it much harder to satisfy the data controller requirements.

    Of course if it’s an external contractor gathering the data and processing it independently, your company is likely to dismiss all this as not their problem.

    If it’s real academic research it will have had to go through ethics approval, and this should include data handling, and gdpr compliance.








  • The main differentiator of fish over everything else is it prioritizes intuitive behavior over backwards compatibility.

    Zsh is to bash as c++ is to c. Most bash scripts and habits will work in zsh, but zsh is just more convenient and has more options. Fish is intentionally different.

    Do I wish fish had existed instead of bash so we had a nicer terminal experience? On the whole, yes. But I also couldn’t be bothered to learn another shell where most of the instructions online won’t be able to help you, and I ended up sticking with zsh.