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rbn , to Smart Homes in Uk Smart Bulb Recommendations

I installed 14 Philips Hue White & Color LEDs in 2016 and so far not a single one of them broke. They were quite expensive back then (around 40€ per bulb) but I'm still quite happy with the overall quality. Not sure if they are still as durable but nowadays they are way cheaper, so maybe that's an option for you as well.

rbn , to FoodPorn in Homemade clubhouse sandwich with apple fries

Might taste just fine but looking at it, that's not a form of presentation I'd consider as 'food porn'.

rbn , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in How to download and remove DRM from an Amazon documentary?

In case you haven't done that already, also check out YouTube. I'm often suprised how much copyrighted documentaries are available there.

rbn , to Ask Lemmy in You are transformed into an animal of your choice, and must send a message to the president in order to turn back. wdyd?

Couldn't you just draw in the sand with a stick? I think if there's an ape who's fluent in English handwriting that would make it to the news pretty fast.

rbn , to Not The Onion in I Couldn’t Escape Poison Oak. So I Started Eating It.

Also it's just a case of anecdotal evidence and definitely not a recommended practice, it was interesting to read this guy's experience. Thanks for sharing!

rbn , to Free and Open Source Software in Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

The study differentiates between male and female only and purely based on physical features such as eye brows, mustache etc.

I agree you can't see one's gender but I would say for the study this can be ignored. If you want to measure a bias ('women code better/worse than men'), it only matters what people believe to see. So if a person looks rather male than female for a majority of GitHub users, it can be counted as male in the statistics. Even if they have the opposite sex, are non-binary or indentify as something else, it shouldn't impact one's bias.

rbn , (edited ) to Free and Open Source Software in Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

Thanks for pointing that out.

Seems like a wild idea as...
a) it poisons the data not only for AI but also real users like me (I swear I'm not a bot :D).
b) if this approach is used more widely, AIs will learn very fast to identify and ignore such non-sense links and probably much faster than real humans.

It sounds like a similar concept as captchas which annoy real people, yet fail to block out bots.

rbn , to Free and Open Source Software in Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

Thank you. Unfortunately, your link doesn't work either - it just leads to the creative commons information). Maybe it's an issue with Firefox Mobile and Adblockers. I'll check it out later on a PC.

rbn , (edited ) to Free and Open Source Software in Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

Anyone found the specific numbers of acceptance rate with in comparison to no knowledge of the gender?

On researchgate I only found the abstract and a chart that doesn't indicate exactly which numbers are shown.

edit:
https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/594ddd8a-711c-453f-abae-92638e1bf918.webp

Interesting for me is that not only women but also men had significantly lower accepance rates once their gender was disclosed. So either we as humans have a really strange bias here or non binary coders are the only ones trusted.

edit²:
https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/05554d35-a623-471c-a7fb-57301d48164e.webp

I'm not sure if I like the method of disclosing people's gender here. Gendered profiles had their full name as their user name and/or a photography as their profile picture that indicates a gender.

So it's not only a gendered VS. non-gendered but also a anonymous VS. indentified individual comparison.

And apparantly we trust people more if we know more about their skills (insiders rank way higher than outsiders) and less about the person behind (pseudonym VS. name/photography).

rbn , to cats in Cat keeps messing with security cam

Air-water heatpumps are far more efficient than air-air! ;)

rbn , to Espresso in Scientists Use Ultrasound to Make Cold Brew Coffee in 3 Minutes Instead of 24 Hours

I know some ethical reasons to skip coffee but as far as I know there are no significant health issues with coffee unless you drink vast amounts of it. Any sources for that claim?

rbn , to Ukraine in German chancellor backs EU plan to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine arms

You could also liquidate the assets and leave it up to Ukraine what to do with the money. If they buy a big pile of weapons now or if they prefer to invest the money for a longer term could be up to them.

I guess Ukraine rather needs a lot of help right now instead a bit of help over the next 100 years.

rbn , to World News in Latvia Starts Digging Ditches On Its Belarus Border Amid Concerns Of Attack

Are there any better known sources? Charter97 doesn't appear too trustworthy to me or am I wrong?

rbn , to 196 in Candyman, Candyman, candy nope
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