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I miss Usenet. Don’t make me miss Twitter too.

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alper, to random
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Booked a plane from Amsterdam to Berlin and after realising what an 1hr+ ordeal it is to get into the city from BER immediately regret not taking the train.

ratkins,
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@alper FEX takes you an hour to Mitte?!

(I will admit we’re a bit spoiled being five minutes walk from Ostkreuz, if the timing’s lucky I can be plane-door to front-door in under 40 mins.)

ratkins,
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@alper Oh yeah that sucks 🤷‍♂️

MrLovenstein, to random
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Secret Panel HERE ❤️ https://tapas.io/episode/3175205

ratkins,
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@MrLovenstein Aww

grimalkina, to random
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"Randomized trials cannot address all causal questions of importance in medicine and health policy and may have limited generalizability; thus, investigators may need to use observational studies as a source of evidence to address causal questions. The challenge, then, is to balance the importance of addressing the causal questions for which observational studies are needed with caution regarding the reliance on strong assumptions to support causal conclusions."

A challenge of our time truly

ratkins,
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@grimalkina This might be really dumb or something that’s already being done but is it possible to separate the statistics part and the science part? Like, the scientist comes up with the hypothesis and the experimental design and makes the observations, then collaborates with a statistician who crunches the numbers? Hell, maybe even assign a statistician to the scientist to ensure they’re disinterested in the outcome.

ratkins,
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@grimalkina I agree outsourcing sounds like a terrible model. I more had in mind the “balanced team” approach we used at Pivotal Labs where engineers, designers and product managers worked together daily—often pairing across disciplines—in service of the project. I’m more interested in the things a scientist doesn’t find in the data (because they find the stats painful and want to get back to “the science”) than the p-hacking to get the result they thought they should.

ratkins,
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@grimalkina I suppose it’s Sturgeon’s Law, 90% of everything is crap like any other field. Once in a while you get a team who fights against the overwhelming external incentives and engineers themselves an environment where everyone is respected and valued and they can do great work.

jk, to random
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interesting that "portable computer with a really good keyboard and a really good battery life" doesn't exist since the two trends went in opposite directions

ratkins,
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@jk The iPad Magic Keyboard is pretty good though, if you count the (current) MacBook range keyboards as “pretty good”.

alpha, to random
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Trying out ordering non-brand name items from Aliexpress, since I figure I may as well cut out the middleman (Amazon) that’s not actually providing any value.

ratkins,
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@alpha I’ve done it. Shipping takes a little longer and you can just give up on the idea of returns, but for ¼ of the price it’s mostly worth the risk.

paul, to random
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Yikes, bailing on the platform you funded because they are worried about safety is quite the stand.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

ratkins,
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@nickfoster @paul You can run your own PDS as of a month or two ago.

Dr_Bombay, to random
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😢

Beloved Bay Area Bartender Steven Liles, an Anchor of Smuggler’s Cove, Dies at 65 https://sf.eater.com/2024/5/9/24152870/steven-liles-obituary-san-francisco-bartender-smugglers-cove

ratkins,
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@Dr_Bombay 55 according to the headline not 65, “of natural causes”? That is way too young for natural causes.

ratkins, to random
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This Sonos thing has finally made me turn automatic updates off. I hope it hasn’t got my iPad already.

ratkins, to random
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Pinch gesture on the Watch is working remarkably well as of a few weeks. Almost never have to do it twice to get it to register.

ratkins,
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@alpha No I mean https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/watch/apdabb7b275c/watchos

ratkins,
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@alpha I was going to wait for this year’s model (new case/band design?) but then I found myself in the Apple Store due to some hardware issues and came out with an Ultra 2. No regrets.

danhon, to random

Not clear what was internally driving Sonos' release of a clearly not-minimally-viable-product from the point of view of its users. What vreasons might they have had for pushing this release out now and sticking to a high-level "we need to rearchitect so we're iterating and will bring it back".

Why not wait until it's ready?

I may not agree with their decision after knowing all the information, but at least hopefully there's a better reason than the dogma of ship now and improve over time.

ratkins,
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@danhon I’m fucking dreading it. It’s an app I use every day.

ratkins, to random
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Can anyone who’s hit the upgrade already tell if it’s cross-platform garbage on iOS or is it native?
https://www.threads.net/@chriswelch/post/C6wAJ4COInX

cliffle, to random
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Turns out, an "optimization" I made in the desert in the middle of the night in a dust storm dropped the Cuddlefish's LED controllers from 50 fps to 25 fps. Good thing I'm re-testing this stuff, and in a place with such luxuries as "running water" and "walls" to boot!

(It was a scheduling conflict between two realtime tasks, one of which does a big SPI transfer without yielding or using DMA because I was in a hurry. They clashed just enough that I dropped every other frame.)

ratkins,
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@cliffle “Schlimbesserung” as the Germans say :-)

danhon, to random
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ADHD is great for being dropped into a crisis situation, consuming all the documentation, talking to everyone, and then synthesizing the gestalt back in a format useful to exec leadership and their board, I think?

Or it's just the adhd is comorbid with me being me?

ratkins, (edited )
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@danhon “You sending the Hon?! Sheeyat, that’s all you had to say!”

jasoncoon, to random
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OK this power bank actually looks useful. Anyone know of anything similar, with quickly & easily swappable 21700/20700/18650 cells, without the "tactical" BS? 😆
https://www.kodai-industries.com

Video of a power bank where a lithium battery cell is quickly removed and swapped for another.

ratkins,
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@chemdoc77 @jasoncoon Now to make an 18650 bandolier…

ratkins,
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@chemdoc77 @jasoncoon Oh my god no those are terrifying. I mean like this but full of spare (charged) 18650s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandolier

Nervengift, to random German
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sus.
(Vela Luka, Croatia)

ratkins,
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@Nervengift I can see the pixels!

pitchfork, to random
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Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61
https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Latest News @latest

ratkins,
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@pitchfork @latest Aww man.

ratkins, to random
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Another weak signal supporting my contention that I am just too old or not quite rich enough to never have to die. Any middle class person a decade younger than me or someone my age with fuck-you money will live forever as long as they don’t get hit by a bus.
https://mstdn.ca/@dabertime/112401908735572326

ratkins,
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@BenAveling Fair point. But I’m still optimistic that (physically, at least) “ageing” is unnecessary and at some point we’ll work out how to turn it off. I just hope that point is after Murdoch dies.

cammerman, to random
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I understand the advice to build a website for your thing rather than just using a Facebook page, and boy do I ever agree with every criticism of the Facebook path.

But...

From the standpoint of a non-technical independent business owner, I imagine that they don't feel particularly better or worse between the two common situations: Beholden to and constrained by Mark Zuckerberg versus beholden to and constrained by a freelance web dev/designer.

ratkins,
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@cammerman @jchyip Amen. Facebook is testament to our (technologists) failure.

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