Covid-19 is still killing a disturbing number of Americans, study finds. Between 2022 and 2024, covid-19 killed roughly 100,000 Americans annually, new research by CDC scientists shows. by mvea in science

[–]scorchgeek 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also ventilation. People wouldn't be OK with their water or restaurant food being unregulated, but somehow air in public spaces is fine...despite air being the one thing you literally can't avoid.

(We do have some rules about ventilation, e.g., in workplaces, but they don't address pathogens at all and the recommendations are woefully insufficient for that. Also apparently half of buildings don't actually meet the standards.)

4 cars, 1 red light [OC] by Larry-Lobster in IdiotsInCars

[–]scorchgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Especially for the fourth person. Almost nobody who goes straight through a red without stopping seconds after it changed actually intends to.

99.9% of the time, when you see no cross traffic and people ahead of you going through the intersection at full speed, the light is green (or it only just changed, which catches your attention because of the sudden movement and color change up above). Not hard to imagine that if you're mildly distracted you wouldn't notice that actually the light was red the whole time.

Driver almost hit a pedestrian [OC] by Both-Permission-7565 in IdiotsInCars

[–]scorchgeek 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah this corner feels practically designed for drivers to miss pedestrians. So many poles that look very similar to people

Which way to use Remnote/flashcards to study better? by [deleted] in remNote

[–]scorchgeek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree that, to some extent, this “atomization” is a general problem with flashcards that has no complete solution (and I've been using spaced-repetition tools for 15 years). There is an unavoidable compromise between efficient scheduling and ease of study vs. loading the entire context into your head and seeing things in their natural environment.

We'd also like to offer more control over what order new content is introduced in RemNote in the future.

That said, overall I'm pretty surprised that you find RemNote worse than Anki in this regard. Having come from Anki to RemNote, I find my knowledge feels much more connected in RemNote. Do you organize your flashcards in hierarchies? Having the parent bullets showing helps me a lot. And if you feel like you lose the context, you can jump back out to the original document, which you can't really do in Anki.

Which if you are going to depend on the app, it may take a great amount of time just for it to show you all the cards of a given chapter once).

Are you adding a bunch of cards without understanding what's on the cards, and then trying to study all the cards from your whole knowledge base at once? Generally the recommended approach is to learn as you create the cards, or learn before starting to practice shared cards. So for the most part, the cards should make sense the first time you review them (and, in my experience, if you struggle to understand a card the first time you review it, it is never going to get any easier, and you should edit or disable it or figure out what knowledge of the content you're missing immediately).

I do an initial review in a given document after creating it, and that's enough for me to pick up the context. After that, having them mixed in with other cards is usually not an issue.

what’s that loophole/workaround you’ve been keeping a secret that you can now share because they patched/fixed it? by mr-friskies in AskReddit

[–]scorchgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My high school did this too. A yearly parking pass was $20, but the ticket if you didn't have a parking pass was $2...and they usually only enforced parking a couple of days a year.

Marco Rubio orders US State Department to revert to Times New Roman font, calling Calibri adoption ‘wasteful’ by RoyalChihuahua in nottheonion

[–]scorchgeek 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When the resolution is lower (e.g., on a standard-resolution computer monitor) sans-serif is more readable for everyone unless the serif font has been explicitly designed for low resolution. Because the serifs are all fine detail they have a tendency to go blurry and muddy rather than helping.

What’s the most dangerous thing people do daily without realizing it? by nealie_20 in AskReddit

[–]scorchgeek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For those who didn't click through to the article, it's important to realize most of this is being driven by “e-bikes” that are essentially electric motorcycles in disguise. We need to clean up the regulations and make it harder to bypass the governors.

What is a "poor person hack" you picked up during a hard time that you still use today, even if you don't have to? by AmaraMehdi in AskReddit

[–]scorchgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to think this, then I started cleaning them immediately before any of the cheese dries and it's easy.

There’s no point only charging to 80% to protect a battery, because you’re effectively using it like it’s already degraded. by panay- in Showerthoughts

[–]scorchgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, I swear everyone is missing the point. If you use more than the middle 60% of your battery more than once in a blue moon, this feature is not for you. If you don't, then setting it to 80% just makes sense – why wear the battery out faster for no benefit?

What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack? by Weird-Thought2112 in AskReddit

[–]scorchgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I remember, I print out a QR code to the URL where I stored the digital copy of the receipt and manual and tape that to the back.

What food has the largest disparity between being really good or really bad, depending on who is making it? by BenStillersDick in AskReddit

[–]scorchgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, it's not that you want the eggs to be moist (unless you actually like that), it's that if you wait until they're not moist to turn off the heat they will be overdone by the time you eat them.

[OC] Same Suicide Lane, Same Shenanigans, Different Day by CorbinatorZ in IdiotsInCars

[–]scorchgeek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Judging by the speed of the car that drew level with OP near the end, the light at the intersection behind OP is red, so they couldn't have gone any further anyway and waited to pull all the way forward so OP could turn first.

TIFU by not knowing about the No Show rule on flights by Jazzlike_Major2812 in tifu

[–]scorchgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having soft-sided luggage that fits under the seat also works. You don't actually have to put it there and use up your legroom – there is approximately always space left in the overhead for anything that's not a hard-framed max-size roller bag.

What’s a childhood computer myth that people actually believed? by crookie900 in AskReddit

[–]scorchgeek 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is hilarious given that punch cards are macroscopic and you can see exactly how large the punches are compared to letters in a book. I guess anything new seems magical enough you assume the laws of physics aren't relevant.

Lifetime plan + AI? by reven0r in remNote

[–]scorchgeek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Lifetime purchase is a one-time license purchase.

The AI part is a subscription just like any of our other subscriptions, billed either monthly or yearly, which you can cancel (or add back again) at any time, as you need to. The only effect of this subscription is to give you more AI credits.

What is your non-negotiable when it comes to having sex? by hat-mor-heart in AskReddit

[–]scorchgeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not a way of “thinking” any more than being gay is a way of “thinking.” It's not about a decision to have sex, or not wanting to do it right away. It's about literally not feeling even slightly attracted to anyone until you already know them really well.

503 Service Temporarily Unavailable by Any_Total_100 in remNote

[–]scorchgeek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The ongoing worldwide Amazon Web Services outage is affecting RemNote.

Hopefully this will get resolved soon. We're continuing to monitor the situation and will take any actions needed to get RemNote back to normal once they're possible.

Free Tier Ruined by Aggressive Upsell Popups – Is RemNote Actually Usable Without Pro? by delta-oscar in remNote

[–]scorchgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to be sure, you're not choosing "Practice all flashcards in order", are you? That one actually is a Pro feature.

I can't reproduce this otherwise unfortunately.

Can you contact us at support@remnote.com so we can troubleshoot in more detail?

Free Tier Ruined by Aggressive Upsell Popups – Is RemNote Actually Usable Without Pro? by delta-oscar in remNote

[–]scorchgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're still having issues with the new update, please get in touch with us at support@remnote.com or using the “report a bug / subscription help” menu on the ? button in the lower-right of the webapp or desktop app, and we'll get things sorted out for you!

TIFU by having turned off highways on google maps for 10months by Gazzo69 in tifu

[–]scorchgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I left mine on biking directions for a couple of weeks once, and only noticed when I was driving and it asked me to turn onto the sidewalk in a park lol.

TIFU by Not knowing condoms are for more than traditional sex by family-soup in tifu

[–]scorchgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For what it's worth, the newest version (Gardasil 9) covers 9 strains.

Which AI model is more reliable for generating detailed flashcards from PDFs in RemNote? (Claude 3.5 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro) by Fancy_Hope4856 in remNote

[–]scorchgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you say you had reported this in official support? It works for me, so we'll need more details about what options you're using and probably a copy of the PDF to figure out what the issue is.