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by ronaldx 12y ago
On the contrary, it does gives the same result. $ anchors to the end of the string, \D clears the non-digits from the end to allow \d to match the digit '2'.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
> $40k per year is quite close to minimum wage in California. This didn't sound right, so I checked it for you: Full-time minimum wage in California is officially about to increase to $14k . Based on a 30-hour work week (ref: wikip
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by ronaldx 12y ago
You may have missed that the result is not significant, despite the headline, when considering the real data. Only laboratory questioning showed a significant psychological bias (and there an unnamed hurricane was rated less risky than ei
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I can't see the full-text to check the stats, but I'd wager this claim is heavily dependent on single point Fifi: a category 2 hurricane that was amongst the deadliest. Edit: Ah, in fact, there is no significant result that corr
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by ronaldx 12y ago
> The name of the setting is "Who can see my friend list" And the answer is "anybody" - if they just take a minimal amount of time and effort to piece it together. The setting is giving the sense that the friend list
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by ronaldx 12y ago
In my opinion, this would be a lot more difficult. I am slightly naive as to exactly how stockfish works, but: Computers can do a lot of accurate brute-forcing; humans must see the position in a more holistic, intuitive way. Excellent human
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Your questions are on discrete probabilities with knowable objective answers (cards/coins/dice), but the teacher also needs to teach the sense that there are continuous probabilities with fuzzy subjective answers (weather/rea
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The article's point is perhaps that it's better to try and gain some intuition for whether or not you have the right answer, rather than checking the answer key. Relying on the answer key (or waiting for the teacher to say "y
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by ronaldx 12y ago
It's hard to say that the Sistine Chapel was inspired by religion - it was paid for by religion, yes.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I agree with what you are saying, and I think this is perhaps the most important tradeoff that many CMS designs do not deal with properly. This is particularly true of the current plethora of 'static site generators', many of whic
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Noscript advice from that site: "Tried everything and still can't sign in? It could be due to one of these issues: Your computer's clock may be set ahead 10 years or more." Mmm, sort of.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I'm very glad that OpenDNS have done this, as I think it makes them a worthwhile service. I was not prepared to use or recommend them with ads. However, their lack of transparency on the business justification is a bit worrying. A poss
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by ronaldx 12y ago
IMHO your way is better because the bids will be more genuine. The parent way can be gamed: the loser may benefit from deliberately bidding a bit higher than they would otherwise to force the winner to pay more. (Although you can argue this
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Slightly easier fix that doesn't immediately require a trusted middleman: swap pieces of paper after committing that anyone who doesn't reveal loses his stake in the company for 0.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I like to see TempleOS's posts but I think the system works quite well as it is. He posts with the knowledge that he is banned (rather than creating a clean account), so I would take this as a deliberate policy of his choice. I also do
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Is it wrong that I now want to do these exams for fun?
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by ronaldx 12y ago
What you have said is unconvincing, and gives you quite a lot of wiggle room. by "association with your Google Account ", do you include "association with your personal identity "? The description of the server log sug
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by ronaldx 12y ago
> Taxing consumption vs. taxing income promotes more savings and less consumption It promotes saving amongst people who can afford to save. For poor/normal people there are several priorities they are not meeting before they would r
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by ronaldx 12y ago
> that you have bought at a steep discount from some provider in exchange for a large chunk of your privacy. I have some doubt that the consumer observes this discount. If consumers insisted on privacy-by-default, the point of sale cost
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by ronaldx 12y ago
1. Sure. My point is that I should have the right to choose what's in my interest, rather than have a company tell me what's in my interest. At a minimum, companies should explicitly say exactly what they are doing with my data. T
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by ronaldx 12y ago
You may have missed: "Hey, this also has the nice benefit that customers will upgrade to our latest version."
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I'm now more hard-line than this on data privacy: I have come to believe that businesses should not be legally allowed to store any consumer data unless it's obvious to the consumer that it's absolutely required for the prima
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The screenshot you link seems to me indicative of a dark pattern: User unsubscribes from all categories (one-by-one-by-one) = invent a new category and auto-subscribe the user.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I'm very interested in whether or not manual transcription is pedagogically beneficial. I personally write a lot. I certainly find it useful to do that. However, I would not normally recommend Zed Shaw "Learn Code the Hard Way&quo
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Absolutely disagree. I personally learned (as I think many people did) by copying code out of books. Whenever something went wrong, I had to figure out whether it was my typo or the book's typo or my conceptual error or the book's
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by ronaldx 12y ago
This is not a good argument for using or staying with Gmail. In fact, writing this another way potentially identifies a more compelling reason to leave: By using Gmail, you are incrementally harming the privacy of everyone you communicate w
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The best option I found, to match my own preferences, was Runbox: https://runbox.com/why-runbox/email-privacy/ Edited to apologise: The cheapest option seems to be $20pa, sorry. I find it excellent value.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
OK, I getcha, thanks. Heads Up specifically means that there are match-ups between 2 players. This doesn't mean it's necessarily a 2 player tournament, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Heads-Up_Poke
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by ronaldx 12y ago
This makes the article correct (although makes no allowance for sampling error, nor for overfitting the available data). Even so, I still dislike the use of this figure, as ROC AUC overstates a poor score: it hints at the model being corr
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I was burned by this, thanks.

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