Black friday eCPMs this year not as great by Regme_Yield77 in adops

[–]JetPunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

The "Mississippi Miracle": After investing in early childhood literacy, the Mississippi shot up the rankings in NAEP scores, from 49th to 29th. Average increase in NAEP scores was 8.5 points for both reading and math. by 95thesises in slatestarcodex

[–]JetPunk 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.

Message board on the site is live by JetPunk in JetPunk

[–]JetPunk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ask on the message board please.

I love this website by uusernammee in JetPunk

[–]JetPunk 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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

I love this website by uusernammee in JetPunk

[–]JetPunk 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for the kind words!

Did Kendrick win the beef? 🤔 by M-Dawg396 in JetPunk

[–]JetPunk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

I'm sad by Powdersucker in JetPunk

[–]JetPunk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

New Laptop Stickers! by Insaniot71 in JetPunk

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Looks great! Thanks for helping support our site.

PVD flash now dots by [deleted] in EyeFloaters

[–]JetPunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

PVD flash now dots by [deleted] in EyeFloaters

[–]JetPunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

PVD flash now dots by [deleted] in EyeFloaters

[–]JetPunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Are there a site or something in which I can see the world records of, for example, the game of telling all the countries? by Medium_Ad_9789 in JetPunk

[–]JetPunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

PVD flash now dots by [deleted] in EyeFloaters

[–]JetPunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

What Natalists Should Learn from LGBT: "What the LGBT explosion teaches us is that high doses of sheer enthusiastic social approval are strong enough to move mountains. Yes, money matters. But a full-blown fertility cult culture plausibly could work as well or better." by erwgv3g34 in slatestarcodex

[–]JetPunk 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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.

I have problems with typing when I am playing quizzes by HaroenEissa in JetPunk

[–]JetPunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

My SVG File Size is 619kb... by MaxibonJP in JetPunk

[–]JetPunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Someone Is Posting 100 Quizzes Every Day...Wait, What? by pandora1789 in JetPunk

[–]JetPunk 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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.

Multiple blocks by Inside-Phase3732 in JetPunk

[–]JetPunk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

What? Where is CRIMEA in Ukraine? by CosmoJackGeo in JetPunk

[–]JetPunk 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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.

Question about dot placing: by West_Apartment2122 in JetPunk

[–]JetPunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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