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by roel_v 6y ago
Are you a scientist? Because it really doesn't. For example, in most papers that I think harder than normal about, I don't care so much about 'the data' as I do about a description of what this 'data' is actual
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by roel_v 6y ago
How do you mean? For both the left and right hand, you extend the fingers, pretty much symmetrically. It's not perfectly straight depending on how the staggering is done, but straight up is worse than all the alternatives.
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by roel_v 6y ago
Because your arm is at an angle to the rows of the keys (with a non-split keyboard), so when you extend a finger, it doesn't go straight up. With staggered keys, you can reach the key on a row up by only extending your finger (i.e, mov
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by roel_v 6y ago
If the power plants would shut down or be severely damaged, wouldn't the resultant lack of power cause all sorts of damage, including things like accident victims not being able to reach emergency services and all the other classic rip
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by roel_v 6y ago
You can buy tiny usb (in the past, PS/2) dongles (more like pass through devices) that do just that.
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by roel_v 6y ago
Why would anyone want ortolinear layout in non-split keyboards? Do you sit with your elbows scrunched up in front of your body?
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by roel_v 6y ago
I wonder if there is a business to be made out of taking these pay to play mobile games and straight up cloning them (not ripping off the graphics, that would land one in legal hot water, but just making the exact same game) and sell them f
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by roel_v 6y ago
LOL I can imagine how this went down when this letter came in at this cat food factory. Marketing: Hey you engineering nerds. We just got this letter from an actual Professor, saying we can save money changing the designs you made us use fo
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by roel_v 6y ago
So I don't know much about ML; how much better would one expect ML (which I take in this context for 'deep neural network'?) approaches to be compared to a multinomial logistic regression, for applications like this? Is logis
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by roel_v 6y ago
At first they came for x, and I didn't speak out, etc...
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by roel_v 6y ago
And yet on every other OS, users can take screenshots and use virtual keyboards... It's not because X's security model is broken that the solution is 'we'll just remove that functionality'.
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by roel_v 6y ago
If every other compositor/desktop system/whatever it is, is running fine, but not with Wayland, then how is it a Chrome 'bug'?
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by roel_v 6y ago
The people replying like that are in the barely-not-novice-anymore category themselves, and their mental model of the world is that everybody is just fumbling around doing everything wrong like they were doing themselves a short time ago. I
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by roel_v 6y ago
20000 bees = one small hive. Doesn't make as catchy a headline of course, but just for reference.
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by roel_v 6y ago
I've worked on this in the past too (not as rigorous as it sounds you are). My main problem: how do we define our optimum function, and how do we quantify the variables going into it? How do you do it? I assume you're not sitting
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by roel_v 6y ago
Well, I thought about building my own, but it's not so easy as you make it seem to get one that is efficient (i.e., not just brute force capacity through size) and easy to use. - How to make it not look like an animal food barrel in yo
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by roel_v 6y ago
If it makes you feel better - my wife insisted on paying 350 euros each for two 'design' humidifiers. Just the replacement wicks they sell are e50 to replace them all. But hey, it does have 5 different fan speed settings...
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by roel_v 6y ago
Why? Evaporation humidifier won't make more noise when they're empty, and water level detection is surprisingly hard to make reliable while still being convenient in consumer devices. And you have to refill them daily anyway, so u
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by roel_v 6y ago
This is not a pump and dump. In PnD, there is an element of subterfuge - the people you are selling to are unaware of what is going on. In this play, all actors are fully informed of what is going on. I mean, maybe some people don't re
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by roel_v 6y ago
"This is text-book illegal activity." Is it? If I have the money to put a short squeeze on someone by myself, with my own money, is that illegal? Isn't that what some people do all the time with smaller numbers? (honestly ask
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by roel_v 6y ago
Well yeah in the papers of the OP maybe, I don't know. I more meant to address several commentors in this thread that seem to think in general that peer review is 'redo the research' and/or 'validate that it's
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by roel_v 6y ago
"Peer review" is not "have someone else re-do the experiment". That's just not feasible, especially since reviews are done without pay. It's not realistic to expect people to spend more than a few hours reviewi
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by roel_v 6y ago
Wikipedia itself has descended into the same pathologies you see in 'science' today: a bunch of gatekeepers who, by account of having been there the longest, have set up a moat of rules and 'culture' and such, to the poi
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by roel_v 6y ago
TIL: there are men who own 15 pairs of shoes and 15 belts mostly over a three year time span . I'm pretty sure I haven't owned 15 belts in my whole life, nor 15 pairs of shoes since I left college, and I'm in my early 40&#x2
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by roel_v 6y ago
I'm a bit lost in the discussion here - is your first line a correction of the GP and you used the > mark 'wrong', or did the GP update his post and is the quote not in there any more?
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by roel_v 6y ago
Not sure if you're just trolling now... It's the same as 'arguing' with an anti-vaxxer at this point. I'm not going to go into detail on the power relationship here. If you're going to deny that a university in
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by roel_v 6y ago
Stop spreading misinformation. THE COURT CASE IS LINKED IN TFA, and I linked it again (from another source) above. The article does say that she was an instructor. Not a tenured professor but the person she had the relationship with was h
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by roel_v 6y ago
Yes I know about the Daily Mail's reputation, but the court documents are linked in the post. I don't have PACER access so I can't verify, but this is one that would be very easy to refute. Also, there are many other online s
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by roel_v 6y ago
Uhm, what is missing from most of these 'but whistleblower!' comments is that this woman is an unhinged stalker who, after having an affair with one of her students, went off the rails and was fired from Florida State University i
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by roel_v 6y ago
People have been saying that sort of stuff daily for as long as I've been online, 25-ish years. Of course someone will say 'but this time it's different', but I chalk this up to a broken clock being right twice a day.

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