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dryanau | 1 year ago | on: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

I've been using this for a few days now, and while I love the speed, I have experienced a couple of glitches with the file list e.g. duplicate files/folders shown, files missing, especially after doing a bunch of move/copy operations. I would have expected hitting F5 to refresh the view but I had to close the application and open again (blazingly fast) to get a fresh view of the folder's contents. It happened in side-by-side view, if relevant. Presumably some bug in the caching mechanism, at the very least I would force F5/refresh to do a fresh query of the current folders' contents and display correctly.

dryanau | 1 year ago | on: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

What do you mean when you say it doesn't "work"? You click the windows icon and nothing comes up? It displays but nothing is clickable? On 2 different machines? Really? This seems like hyperbole. It sounds like there's a specific feature that doesn't work for you as it used to, but instead of describing the issue you've thrown up your hands and declared it to not work. If it truly does not open or respond to clicks I'd love to know about it and retract this comment!

dryanau | 1 year ago | on: Git cheat sheet [pdf]

I like GitKraken, except for the fact that it lacks the ability to show first parent only, i.e. `git log --first-parent`. That feature is available in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code (Git Graph extension), but I don't like these as much as GitKraken, so I end up switching between command line, GitKraken and VS/Code. It's a bit of a mess. Does Fork support `--first-parent`? It's especially hand in merge-heavy workflows with very noodly graphs that you want to simplify.

dryanau | 2 years ago | on: How a "dumbphone" made me better

I use olauncher which has a super minimalist home screen. It doesn't block apps but it doesn't use icons. Instead you type the name of the app you want which I find makes me more purposeful with my phone usage. Turning off notifications for virtually every app also helps. If it's truly important I'll check it. Otherwise it's something I can look at once a day/week/month depending on the app.

dryanau | 2 years ago | on: The lifespan of large appliances is shrinking

> This day and age, the knowledge is at our fingertips.

I don't feel this way at all. I don't know how to access information about products that I know to be unbiased. I can certainly find comparison websites and blog posts, some of which I'm sure are unbiased, but it's not clear to be how to reliably ascertain which is which.

dryanau | 2 years ago | on: X blocks Taylor Swift searches after fake AI videos go viral

What on earth are you on about. I just built some classifiers to run in industrial settings, why is it my job to do or say anything about Taylor Swift deepfakes.

> Because it's up to people like you to demonstrate to society that

Condescending as shit.

dryanau | 2 years ago | on: Why Children of Married Parents Do Better

I doubt there's any confusion. The purported meaning of the phrase is clear. But its usage in practice is often (but not always) quite punishing toward masculinity in general.

dryanau | 2 years ago | on: AI accurately predicted 70% of earthquakes a week in advance

The article seems to conflate accuracy and recall:

> AI-powered earthquake forecasting scores 70% accuracy

> The AI accurately predicted 70% of earthquakes a week in advance, with 14 forecasts coming true within 200 miles of their estimated locations and matching their anticipated magnitudes. However, it issued eight false warnings and missed one earthquake.

The precision was 14/(14+8) (64%) and recall was 14/(14+1) (93%) which means the F1 score was .756. The accuracy was 14/(14+8+1) (61%). I'm not sure where they got the 70% from, perhaps a different F metric. In any event, it's clear the author is confused about the terminology.

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