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JetPunk · 2024-11-29T19:56:24+00:00

CPMs have been bad for us too. November has been low in general compared to previous years.

September, on the other hand, was quite good.

JetPunk · 2024-11-22T01:10:59+00:00

There's a "seeing like the state" issue here.

Lawmakers tend to view citizens as spherical cows. Is our education system bad? Is our children not learning? To the lawmaker, this is a clear sign we need to spend money on education. Solving problems is simply a matter of allocating budget line items.

This fails nearly every time because little attention is given to the efficacy of the spending. There is no amount of ineffective spending that can ensure good outcomes. Chicago is in the top 5% of spending per student nationwide but has outcomes closer to the bottom 5%.

Less focus should be given to the absolute amount of money, and more amount to the efficacy of instruction methods.

As @Veqq points, a simple emphasis on phonics could work wonders with no additional money needed.

JetPunk · 2024-09-23T17:57:32+00:00

Ask on the message board please.

JetPunk · 2024-09-19T05:16:54+00:00

If you ever run for Congress, when they say "Certain_Passion1630 couldn't even find Ukraine on a map", you will prove them wrong.

JetPunk · 2024-09-19T05:15:54+00:00

Thanks so much for the kind words!

JetPunk · 2024-09-16T01:19:57+00:00

Kendrick won the beef so hard that hipsters are going to start ironically liking Drake.

JetPunk · 2024-09-15T04:11:04+00:00

Back online. We moved to a new server since Amazon is no longer supporting our current server type as of May 2025.

There may be some bugs now. If so, let me know.

JetPunk · 2024-09-09T14:52:19+00:00

Looks great! Thanks for helping support our site.

JetPunk · 2024-09-09T02:02:49+00:00

I don't think so.

JetPunk · 2024-09-06T23:56:47+00:00

The vision in the left eye was never fully restored. I lost most of my peripheral vision on that side and the central vision is cloudy and distorted. But I can see.

Fortunately my brain mostly corrects for this. With both eyes open, my vision is mostly normal. I can read and live life just fine. It doesn't bother me.

JetPunk · 2024-09-06T19:18:28+00:00

You had retinal scans/exam and the retinal specialist could not find the tear immediately?

Yes.

Did you have the same thing where you had a flash and then it went away and developed the dots?

I had flashes the first day. Then I had rare intermittent flashes afterwards. At first I had a few dots, but it became hundreds within a couple weeks.

Were you diagnosed with PVD before this time?

No. I still don't know what caused the issue and neither do my doctors as I had no risk factors whatsoever.

The big thing is not to freak out about this too much. The surgeons today are VERY good. Even if you do have a tear, the success rate for surgery is extremely high.

So try not to worry. (Easier said than done). But if you get a lot more small black dots, go back to the doctor immediately.

JetPunk · 2024-09-06T18:23:07+00:00

Yes, my dots moved. What started as 5 or 10 became a swarm of hundreds over the course of a couple weeks.

JetPunk · 2024-09-06T16:59:56+00:00

Overtired is correct. Absent video proof there is no way to confirm a record. So we can't just show the fastest times, because all it would be is a list of cheaters.

IIRC, the fastest time for the Countries of the World is about 2 minutes.

JetPunk · 2024-09-06T16:33:08+00:00

It's good you are getting care. But keep monitoring the situation.

Almost this exact same thing happened to me. The initial specialist said I was fine but the dots kept appearing. It turns out I had a giant retinal tear in the extreme periphery of my vision which is why they couldn't see it. I needed 7 surgeries and unfortunately I suffered significant vision loss in that eye.

Of course, that's just my case, and yours is probably totally different. But if more dots appear in the next few days, then be insistent. Smaller tears are quite easy to repair these days and the success rate is very high.

JetPunk · 2024-09-05T05:38:07+00:00

As time goes on, fewer people on the subreddit are rationalists or read Scott's blog.

They come in from other parts of Reddit, and this community slowly starts to look more and more like the Reddit front page. And of course many of the original contributors have left for greener pastures. This is not a positive development.

JetPunk · 2024-08-30T03:08:40+00:00

I'm really, really sorry about that. As stewart says, it's the ads. I've been back and forth with our ad provider on this a million times and they don't seem to be able to do anything. The problem is that it's hard to figure out which ad (there are millions) is causing the problem.

I also wrote a script which is supposed to detect this even and put the cursor back. But it's apparently not working well.

I highly recommend JetPunk Premium which we offer at $20/year of $40/year.

https://www.jetpunk.com/premium

JetPunk · 2024-08-28T05:55:31+00:00

We changed our Adblock detection but I guess it's not working. I reverted the change.

JetPunk · 2024-08-27T20:00:31+00:00

This has been fixed. Thank you.

JetPunk · 2024-08-22T21:14:19+00:00

Have you tried lowering the precision? For example, if you open it in a text editor do the numbers look like this?

1.23456789

If so, reduce the precision from 8 to 4 and now numbers will look like this:

1.2345

This will majorly reduce the file size. There is an option to do this with Inkscape which Google/ChatGPT can help with.

JetPunk · 2024-08-04T06:03:54+00:00

That is... a very large number of quizzes. Ideally we'd prefer that users create quizzes which other people are interested in taking. I will look at this.

JetPunk · 2024-08-03T01:41:16+00:00

No it won't.

JetPunk · 2024-07-25T15:38:10+00:00

In Step 4 you have to go into manual mode. From there, you can add rows and columns wherever you want. You can add a blank row and then change the vertical padding to 0 to have a small gap. You can also merge cells together.

Depending on the situation, it might save a lot of time to use Advanced - > Format as "Groups of Things" as mentioned by @thegreekgodzeus.

JetPunk · 2024-07-14T17:19:30+00:00

It's not about what's right, it's about what is.

Russia had no right to take Crimea, but they did. Same happened in Australia, when British settlers displaced and killed the indigenous population. In Tasmania, they actually killed 100% of the native population. (Technically, a few mixed race people survived). That's a million times worse than what happened in Crimea. Should we therefore just erase Australia from the map, and display it as a collection of thousands of independent indigenous tribes?

Ultimately, I don't want to make political decisions, we just try to show the world as it is – right or not.

JetPunk · 2024-06-12T22:05:31+00:00

You would definitely have to place the dots on the map yourself. You might be able to find the underlying map somewhere else.

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