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Re:Sci-Net on Friday May 16, 2025 @09:13AM (#44005094)
Almost unrelated, but this is one of the domains that just show up as "Server Not Found" by default to users in Germany. It's getting blocked by ISPs on the domain level after a "voluntary agreement" with copyright holders: https://torrentfreak.com/publisher-reinforces-paywall-with-s...
Re:I Hate Work on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @07:55PM (#38539150)
Get out while you still can! I think a lot of software engineers are only content with their job because they're unaware to the alternatives to working as a corporate drone. You might be good at it and it might comfortably bring in a lot of money but it doesn't sound like that's what you truly care about so they're not really convincing arguments.
Re:I Hate Work on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @07:42PM (#38539036)
Why airpods specifically? I recommend the Truthear Hexa, like 1/3 of the price with better tips and far superiour audio quality
Re:2023 WebMD Wrapped on Monday December 04, 2023 @08:05PM (#38525708)
>You truthfully replied that it was just your lack of sleep that was to blame, but you conveniently left out the fact that your sleeplessness was the result of staying up all night researching Mad Cow Disease. Yikes!

This hits too close to home!

Please, please, please let me scroll where I want, lord knows it would be the first time
Re:Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 [video] on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:25PM (#38524684)
GTA VI confirmed!!
> I was commenting on the topic of memory as a whole

You specifically said that the study was lacking a fourth group (spaced repetition software.)

>This study appears to focus on short term memory, but for my money, long-term memory is much more significant. As such, it would have been useful to add a third option: using a SRS system like Anki

Then you should go tell the journal editors that this study is incomplete and didn't cover the type of memory you consider more significant, hopefully they will retract the paper

> My point was more that if you’re trying to decide which method is better for remembering something (handwriting vs. digital), the introduction of a spaced repetition system (either software like Anki or a Leitner box for handwritten notes) will outcompete either one that is used alone.

The study in question compared three groups (pen & paper note taking, smartphone and tablet) on information retrieval and note taking duration after reading a dialogue.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but that systematic spaced repetition will lead to better information retrieval is kind of obvious and has a lot of literature to support it, but how is it relevant to this study?

keep jerking off to cartoons weirdo
Hey, they're demonstrating it's working for overly sexualised cartoon characters too!
Re:Henry Kissinger Has Died on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @09:06PM (#38468418)
Not him, the man that has drafted the Paris peace accords
Love it! Can't wait for tomorrow (7 minutes from now.) The way I want to go "from A to B" made me think you had to guess the countries in order, which is not the case apparently.
Interesting idea but I'll stick to my regular 10fastfingers training regime
Re:The Dead Children We Must See on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:27PM (#38452303)
why are you writing stupid obtuse comments when you could just not engage with the post?
Cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic.
Re:The New Paris Métro Is Coming, and It's a Big Deal on Saturday November 25, 2023 @09:29PM (#38418672)
>and the replacement bus ran once every hour, which we missed by a few minutes (because we spent time buying and eating fresh croissants, yes, whahah! but were also completely unaware that we really should go to catch that bus ...), so we had to get a taxi.

YTA here bud, if you had spent less time on the pastries you wouldn't of missed the bus!

Re:The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:56PM (#38417086)
Probably in another year or two they'll find another statistic that will render the old one moot like again and again.
Re:The Killing of a Berlin Power Broker on Saturday November 25, 2023 @07:08AM (#38413022)
Sounds like the author hasnt been to Berlin in a while://
Re:Paul Auster on cancer, connection and the fallacy of closure on Saturday November 25, 2023 @07:05AM (#38413010)
Moon Palace was one of my favourite books in English class too! I read it again as an adult a couple years ago and didnt enjoy ih too much unfortunately.
Or make the walls squiggly ~~~ for extra structural integrity
Re:Minecraft rewritten from scratch in Kotlin, hypixel works on Friday November 24, 2023 @07:17PM (#38409856)
Bedrock is essentiale modified PE edition
Re:Minecraft rewritten from scratch in Kotlin, hypixel works on Friday November 24, 2023 @07:16PM (#38409843)
No, hypixel is a famous minecraft server network abd community and not a mod.
Re:Retries – An interactive study of request retry methods on Thursday November 23, 2023 @06:09PM (#38398778)
Exponential backoff doesn't apply for successful requests right? The simulation doesn'T reflect that i think. peace
Re:Retries – An interactive study of request retry methods on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:59PM (#38398667)
The pale red failed retries should be more kiki-like, the way they are now, their pointedness is hard to see when theyre moving
Re:The first Spanish AI model earning up to €10k per month on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:31PM (#38398391)
lmao.
Re:Hutong on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @08:20PM (#38387929)
Bless you!
> Epic, Windows store, GoG

VALVe has such strong network effects playing in their favour, nobody is gonna buy on those stores if it's also on Steam, except GoG maybe, as it lets you download the games DRM free IIRC

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