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by pknight 11y ago
Yep, voltage on the eneloops by comparison is 1.2V. Lots of battery operated toys work better with 1.5V batteries. There are rechargeable alkalines that provide 1.5V but they are very unreliable and the rest of the rechargeable AA market is
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by pknight 11y ago
The number one reason is because it is FOSS, easy to install, easy to use and easy to extend. The thriving themes and plugins ecosystem is the result of the platform becoming popular because of the aforementioned. If it wasn't FOSS Wor
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by pknight 11y ago
Usually an acquisition spells trouble for the product's users, but this is a different kind of situation. I think WooCommerce and Sensei will only get better as a result. The only folk who have to worry is the people building competing
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by pknight 12y ago
I think about the future of WordPress a lot. Like what would WP look like if it was mostly JS? When I look at all the front-end developments (React etc), it's really hard to gauge. On one level I'd love to see things become more f
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by pknight 12y ago
The specifics of Rossi's contraptions may be kept private and shady, but the process involved is not something that only Rossi has been working on. Lenr itself is contentious still but there are so many groups working on it now, includ
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by pknight 12y ago
I'm merely responding the parent comment who is basically saying don't report anything that hasn't been fully understood yet. It's bizarre. In this case, if the effect involved is real, it is real without being understoo
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by pknight 12y ago
Any new discovery should not be mentioned in the press before it is fully understood then?
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by pknight 12y ago
On the face of it, it does sound really bad, yes. However, the E-Cat is a longstanding project and whatever the nature of the process behind the anomolous results, it is gaining an increased amount of attention from groups working around th
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by pknight 12y ago
It's a shame that ones personal experiences result in generalizations that are then attached to Open Source. People can and will be assholes in any kind of project or group. That has not got a lot to do with Open Source. It would be fa
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by pknight 12y ago
tldr; Author gives away work for free, navel gazes in detail about how many people didn't compensate the author, argues that they should because it is in their best interests. I hope I spared someone the bore. Also included, a rant abo
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by pknight 12y ago
After 5 years of getting my degree in psychology the dirty little secret I have found is this: all of the persuasion studies are incredibly appealing to marketers and the general pop and also the researchers who are incentivized by money an
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by pknight 12y ago
> That's why if you want to reach a goal, you should tell as many of your friends and family about it as possible so you risk "losing face" if you fail. If only that were the case, that would be grand. The opposite tends t
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by pknight 12y ago
I hope this is not meant to be serious.
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by pknight 12y ago
The one hosted there is very limited. You can't move windows from one virtual desktop to the next for one. Mdesktop is pretty light weight.
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by pknight 12y ago
The fact is current day parapsychological research is far more scrutinised than regular research in the social sciences, because of the controversial implications and because there is a large group of people that simply won't entertain
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by pknight 12y ago
Author actually is doing what she loves and succeeding, by the way. Any advice should not be taken in a vacuum. It doesn't make it bad advice because it doesn't solve all of life's problems. The point with the notion of doing
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by pknight 12y ago
You make a lot of cynical, flawed assumptions. People do care about security and the increases to the degree of their awareness. But whether people care or not about security/decentralized implementations is irrelevant. People may not
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by pknight 12y ago
The physics measurements are interesting for different reasons. Those are measuring very objective things, even if measurements vary, they vary for ways we can conceivably calculate. Some physicists even raise the idea that certain constant
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by pknight 12y ago
I think you continue to miss both my points. If you're measuring apples falling to the ground, of course you wouldn't expect effect size to diminish with higher N. But social/psychological studies are not like a physics study
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by pknight 12y ago
> These do in fact get smaller with increasing sample size, whereas an effect size that diminishes with increasing sample size is solid evidence that the effect is not real The realness of an effect is not just judged by the effect size.
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by pknight 12y ago
No, what is meaningful is not what the effect size (a number) is measuring, it's just a statistical metric. So in this case, I think it's clearly meaningful if humans have the power to impact other humans inner-state non-verbally.
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by pknight 12y ago
A "small" effect size doesn't make it any less interesting or less impressive. If anything it underlines how even the most trivial human interactions can make a meaningful impact, positively or negatively.
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by pknight 12y ago
By own admission, I'm a bit of a WP fan boy, but this was a stellar example of putting forth a constructive criticism about WP (in this case, for App usage). Almost all WP sentiments here tend to have obnoxious/negative/hist
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by pknight 12y ago
Do you have any data that actually indicates a move away from off the shelf cms-es? There is always a case for building a custom CMS and some companies go that route. That has been case since the WP/Joomla/Drupals off the world ca
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by pknight 12y ago
I am also skeptical of this plugin but I think almost all of your points are moot. There is big market for a solution that lets users backup and restore the filesystem and a database on a more granular level. Not being able to easily and co
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by pknight 12y ago
I think at one point they had plans to do this and anybody would have been able to create and sell sets. This would have been amazing. I think they have changed their mind since, years have past and they now use a kickstarterish system for
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by pknight 12y ago
I think it's a flaw to bring in village life in pre-modern time in the context of the meaning of privacy. For one, in that context what information one shares is apparent and the impact of the information is more readily understood. Th
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by pknight 12y ago
Well, pre-internet our family only ever had 1 set and they retain a very high base value even as they age, never felt a need to update to a newer set continually. Point still stands though, are PG's essays devalued because he puts a ye
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by pknight 12y ago
The type of content does not matter, can you think of any significant written work pre-internet that purposely obfuscates when it was written? Even an encyclopedia isn't shy about when it's written. If you want your content to app
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by pknight 12y ago
Care to provide some logic instead of downvoting all my comments?

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