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by yarcob 6y ago
Maybe I chose the wrong word. Writing good summaries is hard! What they describe in the paper (they call it a "treatment") is more like a training for newlyweds. Maybe I should have phrased it like this: Couples who decline to tak
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by yarcob 6y ago
I don't think this is actually an example where you really know what the right thing to do is. A) You can do what you think is right B) You can do what other person thinks is right It's not clear that either A or B is the correct
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by yarcob 6y ago
Please make sure to read the full paper before jumping to conclusions! This was not a fully randomized study! The main outcome of the study was that couples that participated in ANY treatment had similar outcomes. The benefit was compared t
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by yarcob 6y ago
I loathe how everything on the internet has become this worldwide competition. Somebody does something, and immediately everyone says, well, this other person did this much better. Like, who cares? This guy built something, made fun videos
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by yarcob 6y ago
As noted by gus_massa in another thread, the 55% figure for human accuracy is from a different study with a different datasets, so it's questionable how comparable the results are.
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by yarcob 6y ago
I make client side Mac app with trivial copy protection and unlimited free trial, and people still pay for licenses. My app is practically almost free except for a nag dialog, and I still make a living from it. Piracy may matter to big comp
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by yarcob 6y ago
In this case I used the word "systemic" to mean "relating to the system as a whole" as opposed to just a small part of the system. I don't know if there is a better word. Maybe "societal" would work better
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by yarcob 6y ago
It doesn't sound like he was short on the payment. Apple failed to pick up the device they offered to take as a trade-in, and then just proceeded with locking him out of the account rather than just contacting him and asking what'
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by yarcob 6y ago
> What is a systemic disadvantage for non-white students but racism? Parental income or education could be a systemic disadvantage that is not racist. Or a lack of role models. Or different amount of support by families.
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by yarcob 6y ago
> checking what percentage of students by race pass the test, win the lottery, and are admitted. If there are unexplainable discrepancies between those steps, that would be good evidence of racism Yes, I agree that this would be evidence
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by yarcob 6y ago
I've asked and answered my own questions on StackOverflow before. It's great for documenting things in a way that lets others profit from your knowledge.
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by yarcob 6y ago
I never said anything about racism. You are putting words in my mouth. Systemic disadvantage doesn't mean someone is actively trying to harm these students. A 10x difference needs a bit more explaining than some handwaving about racial
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by yarcob 6y ago
Am I the only one who read the article? > A district analysis of the program found that more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are
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by yarcob 6y ago
My experience in school (and now with my kids in school) was that there was no such thing as a group of "average" students. There's a huge variation in most grades. Sure, you could pick the smartest kid in each class and put
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by yarcob 6y ago
I meant without first testing them and putting them in separate classes.
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by yarcob 6y ago
Not useful for the many gifted students who are not white.
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by yarcob 6y ago
I think the smarter thing to do would be to stop demanding everyone complete the same tasks. Let the quicker students skip the repetitive exercise and give them something challenging. Or let them explain it to the slower kids.
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by yarcob 6y ago
Your argument sounds like it's taken out of a motivational book. You can do it! You can become a better person! You just need to change every single detail of your life and you will be a better person!
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by yarcob 6y ago
I thought that there were a couple of free options for iOS/macOS, but to be honest I haven't looked into it for a couple of years, our in house solution is good enough.
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by yarcob 6y ago
It's why we rolled our own crash reporting solution (based on PLCrashReporter). We don't want opaque 3rd party code in our apps. There's a reason why those frameworks and services are "free", and it's not becau
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by yarcob 6y ago
A few years back I tried an iPhone app (123D Catch from Autodesk) that allowed creating 3D models just by manually moving the phone around an object. No turntable or stand needed. It worked surprisingly well, but was unfortunately discontin
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by yarcob 6y ago
Also, noone will notify you when a sales tax or VAT law changes -- you have to find it out on your own :) It's not an impossible problem, it's definitely doable, but I'm pretty sure you need a couple of people and won't
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by yarcob 6y ago
Your welcome page doesn't mention VAT, so I am going to assume that you do not handle VAT. This makes your product unsuitable for anyone in Europe. There are other solutions for digital products that take lower commissions, for example
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by yarcob 6y ago
Right, I was thinking of things like large simulations where you need to keep a large dataset in RAM and update every datapoint at every iteration. Or maybe multiple VMs running simultaneously doing CI jobs could also do it. I don't th
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by yarcob 6y ago
There's an option 4: you are running out of RAM and macOS is doing a lot of swapping. These SSDs can probably write on the order of 3000MB/s = 0.003TB/s, so you could end up with 155 TB total writes after just 155/0.003&
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by yarcob 6y ago
> GPUs dont work fast or slower based on temp as long as the temp is in the rated range Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assumed that mining would quickly cause the GPU to reach the maximum temperature, at which point it would automat
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by yarcob 6y ago
2015 and earlier MacBook Pros had replaceable SSD drives. Remove 10 pentalobe screws, take off bottom panel, remove 1 torx screw, pull out SSD, put new SSD in, reassemble, done. The soldered on stuff is a recent change, and it's stupid
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by yarcob 6y ago
I just upgraded my 2015 Macbook Pro with a 2TB SSD and a new battery. I'm planning to keep using it for a few years. The 2015 MBPs were the last ones that had replaceable drives (it's a proprietary slot, but adaptors to M2 are ava
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by yarcob 6y ago
- He mentioned that mining is more efficient when the GPUs are cooler, so using them to pre-heat outside air is better than using them to heat up room temperature air. - since he would be forcing a lot of air through the miner, almost all h
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by yarcob 6y ago
OP is in Austria where it often gets below freezing. Air/air heat pumps and ventilation heat exchangers tend to freeze up when it gets too cold. So heat pumps often need to run in reverse (to melt the ice on the condenser) and heat exc

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