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rsecora commented on Giving people money helped less than I thought it would   theargumentmag.com/p/givi... · Posted by u/tekla
vannevar · 11 days ago
Contrary to the author's assertion, the Denver Basic Income study, which gave $1000/mo, found a significant improvement in housing for the test group vs the controls. She misread the results, failing to note the initial housing rates for control vs test.

https://www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/research

rsecora · 11 days ago
Results for Group A (1000$/m) closely resemble results for control Group C(50$/m). Metrics like % of Unsheltered participants, change in full-time employment, % of participans in a house they rent or own... have a diference of 1 or 2 points.

Thats the point of the author, those are minimal variances, and insuficient to claim inpact due to basic income.

Personal opinion. The study itself exert a nontrivial influence on participants. The act of being engaged, regular check-ins... affect positively. Their lives improve independent of the financial component because they are part of the study, not because of the amount of money in the procedure.

rsecora commented on Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD   undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... · Posted by u/susam
hualapais · a month ago
I’m personally fond of Motif, even going so far as to hold XEphem as the epitome of timeless user interface design; I wish I had an entire OS following those blocky UI conventions. While normally using emwm, CDE would be productive and welcome on any of the BSDs and illumos distributions, IMHO.

Now if only OpenLook/XView could be made to lose its 32-bit cruft and become more portable. What a wonderful pair of desktop environments CDE and OpenLook would be to choose from—and perhaps add more functionality to—in 2025.

rsecora · a month ago
I was surprised when the 64bit fork appears in github.

The OpenLook 64bit fork is available at [1], it has 64bit & X11R7 patches. It has a miriad of changes related to ids sizes, %ul, function casts, and a migration from X11R4 to X11R7.

Sadly, if a legacy applications is old enough to be linked to OpenLook, it surelly require adaptation. They need their own migration to transition to 64 bits and X11R7. This openlook fork is the start of the journey to resurect them.

[1] https://github.com/ggodd/xview-64bit

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rsecora commented on Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io   dbdiagram.io... · Posted by u/vseplet
rsecora · 4 months ago
I usually go with the FOSS https://pgmodeler.io

Its feature-rich, albeit focused on Postgres. And it's ability to compare database schemas makes updating and applying diffs much easier.

rsecora commented on Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty   annas-archive.org/blog/al... · Posted by u/rzk
franciscop · 6 months ago
I'm curious why there's no clear "Spanish" in these ISBN visualizations; there's 2 slots for English, one for France, Germany, Japan, Soviet Union, China, etc. but no big one for Spain. Do we really have so few books in Spanish? Or is this a predominantly English distribution?

I say this as someone who grew up in Spanish libraries and book shops, surrounded and immersed in Spanish books, so it feels a bit strange to see the tiny bit we occupy in the world map here.

rsecora · 6 months ago
The dataset consists of books from the Anna Archive, each identified by an ISBN. The ISBNs and titles are extracted from datasets [1], which include magazines and books primarily in Chinese, English, and French.

Example: Germany publishes five times more books than the Netherlands [2], and Spain publishes twice as many books as the Netherlands. However, in visualizations, Germany appears similar to the Netherlands, while Spain and Mexico do not aligned with the high-level labels [3].

[1] https://annas-archive.li/datasets

[2] https://internationalpublishers.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/...

[3] https://software.annas-archive.li/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv...

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