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rnadomvirlabe

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rnadomvirlabe··on c100
Nice design, but the website is vague. What about the actual tech specs (not simply GB of ram and SSD space) or a picture of the "user-replaceable" internals? How about a picture of the port layout? About the workbench operating system, the information is also surprisingly light.

Am I missing context here that others have that make this website sufficient?

rnadomvirlabe··on Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume
How do you separate the details included in a synopsis from what someone thought about the book?

The details included in a synopsis reflect what the reviewer found important enough to share. I still value the synopsis of a known reviewer exactly for this reason. If I’ve read books on their suggestion in the past and enjoyed them, I’m inclined to take their advice again. Perhaps they could use LLMs to speed up some of the writing, given their perspective, but I wouldn’t agree with the statement “LLMs do a fine job summarizing” in the context of reviews. The author and their collective reviews matter, something absent with LLMs.

rnadomvirlabe··on Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
You just asserted the same thing again. Why do you say this is the case?
rnadomvirlabe··on Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
Why no doubt?
rnadomvirlabe··on Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
I find copilot to be much more straightforward, and I can track per request against my credits. Here is the explanation of what a request is:

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/billing/copilot-...

rnadomvirlabe··on GnuCash 5.9
I used GnuCash for a while, but I ended up spending too much time making the online sync settings work. For accounts where I had to manually download and import, I would end up putting off importing them due to the friction. I now pay for Quicken Classic and it's some of the best money I spend each year. The online account connections consistently work as expected, and it gets the job done for much less of a headache overall.
rnadomvirlabe··on We just caught our first "BANANA "
You can also see that if you click the link in the post.
rnadomvirlabe··on New iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro
Am I reading this right that I can't use my Apple Pencil 2 on a new iPad Air or Pro? I have to buy the new pencil? What?
rnadomvirlabe··on Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's
Is this for one store or all stores? It's commendable that you posted your code, but a minimal README would be appreciated.

Looking through your code, I see that the default store is Chicago South Loop (701). This would be helpful information to include on the website displaying the results.

rnadomvirlabe··on Sex differences in work preferences among gifted men and women
Does anyone have the study where this originated?

This chart is quite difficult to read, and it's not clear how the data was collected or what amount of overlap exists between the people in each category. Also, what were the sample sizes? Are the men and women in approximately the same careers? These are preferences; were individuals asked to rank preferences or did they rate each preference independently? What does a standard deviation mean here (units)?

I take the display to mean that, for example, the sampled profoundly gifted women prefer to have satisfaction in their work much more than the sampled profoundly gifted men. Or does it mean that women rank satisfaction over other items more than men but they really do care equally about satisfaction in a nominal sense?

Can anyone else chime in on their interpretation?

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EDIT: Link to study

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00169862231175831

rnadomvirlabe··on The highly involved build process for my doctoral dissertation
Microsoft Word still reigns supreme in many fields. Some journals still require it as the format for submission.
rnadomvirlabe··on Matplotlib
What about it? Are you trying to point to something specific?
rnadomvirlabe··on Pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code
I use the paid version and I find it well worth the money to be able to quickly compile multiple math sources into one LaTeX document for reference. It's a huge time saver and works surprisingly well, even on my handwritten notes.
rnadomvirlabe··on Show HN: I struggled to focus at work due to ADHD so I built a solution
What even is this? Please don't make me watch a video to get an idea of what you do.

I don't know if it is meant to schedule tasks, track time, interrupt you if you're distracted, or anything else. I can't even tell why it is made for ADHD. Please add some additional writing on the homepage that describes what the app does. I don't know whether it is a web app, a native app, available on mobile or just desktop.

Is this a strategy to pump up those signups using curious people who will never come back to the app once they know what it is?

rnadomvirlabe··on Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents
If you are interested in this sort of thing for producing LaTeX documents, I've had good experience with [Mathpix](https://mathpix.com) in the past. It can take most anything I throw at it, and even render matrices well.