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Living Room / Re: On Medical Research Bureaucracy and the Institutional Review Board

« Last post by tomos on March 30, 2018, 07:19 AM »

A good read.
Another quote:

this is happening at the same time we’re becoming increasingly aware of the shortcomings of big-name research. Half of psychology studies fail replication; my own field of psychiatry is even worse. And citizen-scientists and science bloggers are playing a big part in debunking bad research: here I’m thinking especially of statistics bloggers like Andrew Gelman and Daniel Lakens, but there are all sorts of people in this category. And both Gelman and Lakens are PhDs with institutional affiliations – “citizen science” doesn’t mean random cavemen who don’t understand the field – but they’re both operating outside their day job, trying to contribute a few hours per project instead of a few years. I know many more people like them – smart, highly-qualified, but maybe not going to hire a team of paper-pushers and spend thousands of dollars in fees in order to say what they have to say. Even now these people are doing great work – but I can’t help but feel like more is possible.

(some links included in that paragraph at source)

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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model

« Last post by tomos on March 28, 2018, 04:25 PM »

Excellent.

Nudone has been hard at work, look at this little baby cody model!

-mouser (March 28, 2018, 01:58 PM)

looks very cute

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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone

« Last post by tomos on March 28, 2018, 02:08 PM »

I found Umidigi S2 PRO, would you invest in it?

-kalos (March 28, 2018, 12:48 PM)

would you recommend it? what caught your eye?
Btw, what's the difference between the Pro & Lite versions?
(I'm not a fan of the bigger phones myself, but do need to replace my phone - I broke the screen...)

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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone

« Last post by tomos on March 28, 2018, 12:30 PM »

As for its screen, sound quality, signal, robustness? I think that would matter most for me.

-kalos (March 28, 2018, 10:14 AM)

it's easy enough to find reviews of almost any phone on youtube or wherever

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: China

« Last post by tomos on March 26, 2018, 01:38 PM »

We have beer and seafood.

-reneet (March 26, 2018, 04:01 AM)

sounds good

-tomos (March 26, 2018, 11:44 AM)

Holy carp Batman, this is an old post :')

-Stephen66515 (March 26, 2018, 12:38 PM)

ftfy

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Living Room / Re: Chess?

« Last post by tomos on March 26, 2018, 12:04 PM »

Let's start with a Twitch link.

He's on a show right now!

https://www.twitch.tv/chessbrah

-TaoPhoenix (March 25, 2018, 03:43 PM)

doing live coverage now of the Candidate games

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: China

« Last post by tomos on March 26, 2018, 11:44 AM »

We have beer and seafood.

-reneet (March 26, 2018, 04:01 AM)

sounds good

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Living Room / Re: Chess?

« Last post by tomos on March 25, 2018, 01:04 PM »

Yeah, I'm still watching chess -- and have been enjoying the canditates.

Btw Tao, if there was a prize for obscurity, you would win it
e.g.

...Annnnd

That's how it's done.
(see my other thread, Insight can't be on a timeline)

-TaoPhoenix (March 25, 2018, 12:19 PM)

and who are the Canadian chessbrahs?
Any chance of a link?

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Living Room / Re: Artists: Share your artwork with the forum!

« Last post by tomos on March 22, 2018, 04:07 PM »

Hi, tomos; uh, I don't have a tradition, per se.  I like Fra Angelico, though.

-BGM (March 22, 2018, 02:27 PM)

  I loved many of the early renaissance painters when in college (well, still do when I look at them again) -- sent you a PM on the topic.

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Living Room / Re: Artists: Share your artwork with the forum!

« Last post by tomos on March 22, 2018, 10:09 AM »

^ more lovely stuff

Here is an altar I designed, muralized and painted:

-BGM (March 22, 2018, 09:01 AM)

what tradition you are working in? (clearly not north/central european at any rate)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Show name of printer in popup box

« Last post by tomos on March 21, 2018, 05:23 PM »

Thanks!  Please message me when it happens! 

-omegadoc (March 21, 2018, 02:27 PM)

I cant speak for mouser, but always think that's a bit of a foolish approach, hoping someone will not only do something for you, but then also go out of their way to contact you about it. I know it's commonly seen: but I suspect the people making that request have little success.

One solution would be to subscribe to the thread, you will get notification of new posts -- either make a new post, click 'Preview', (or edit your post), and tick 'Notify of replies' below the text field.
Or just get Screenshot Captor to check for updates on Startup (preferences).

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Living Room / Re: Artists: Share your artwork with the forum!

« Last post by tomos on March 21, 2018, 10:31 AM »

Getting back to the art --

I like yours there too mouser:
the first text one, is there a story there in the written text?

and is there a story in (or behind) the text in this one?

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Living Room / Re: Photographer Tutorial Company Release Satire Version for Pirates

« Last post by tomos on March 21, 2018, 10:25 AM »

very nice
their video about the fake tutorial is good fun

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Living Room / Re: Image attachment problems

« Last post by tomos on March 21, 2018, 04:45 AM »

I have tried three times to post a handful of images.  Once I accidentally attached a .psd file, another time a .tif, the last time one (or all) were too large.  Every time the editor undoes *all* of the attachments instead of just the offenders.  I've already spent 15 minutes.  I'll try again later, maybe.

-BGM (March 20, 2018, 09:34 PM)

may be of help:
due to huge size of modern photo files, I've started taking a screenshot of the image, or images that I want to post. Easy to upload then -- from Screenshot Captor anyways -- and the image isn't too big visually either.
(FWIW also has advantage not having the original exif data or filename.)

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: How to get it to work with File2Folder?

« Last post by tomos on March 21, 2018, 04:42 AM »

^well I sent you on the wrong track by suggesting drag & drop robot.
(I had also misread your post and thought you wanted the folder name be different from file name... but all sorted now )

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: How to get it to work with File2Folder?

« Last post by tomos on March 20, 2018, 06:40 PM »

had a closer look,
you wanted:

Isn't it possible to batch process the basic task of File 2 Folder? i.e., I have 10 files name file 1.txt, file 2. text, file 3.txt,.... (one click batch process) and have them each go to folders named 'file 1', 'file 2', 'file 3', etc...
It would seem very useful when you want to run the basic File 2 Folder action but on multiple - and in my case hundreds! - files in one step?

-chumbolito (October 28, 2017, 03:22 AM)

from the Files 2 Folder help file:

4) If you have selected multiple files and choose 'Files 2 Folder' from the
   menu, a box will pop up with three options:
      1) [..]
      2) Move each file to individual subfolders based on their names e.g.:
          Good.bat   -> .\Good\Good.bat
          Better.txt -> .\Better\Better.txt

http://www.dcmembers...es_2_folder/help.txt

is that not what you wanted?
Okay, it's not one click, but it's two (I think) and that for as many files as you want...

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: How to get it to work with File2Folder?

« Last post by tomos on March 20, 2018, 03:56 PM »

I'm not sure, it's confusing because it's not the same thread where I had posted the same request and from which this app was suggested as a solution. So go here and you'll see my post and the replies to it: https://www.donation....msg413800#msg413800

-chumbolito (February 16, 2018, 05:13 PM)

hi Chumbolito,
Skwire, who replied to your post at that link, is the author of Files2Folders
he recommended another app of his (instead of drag n drop robot) - did you have a look at that?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Images pasted into onenote are half size

« Last post by tomos on March 20, 2018, 10:39 AM »

Here is my screenshots pasted into Onenote at 96 and 30 dpi for the top and bottom tomos' capture from this website, along with a screenshot of the entire website that was pasted into onenote with a ctrl-v after the screen was captured.As you can see the full page image is tiny compared to the small part of the screen that was captured.

-absoblogginlutely (March 20, 2018, 10:12 AM)

so OneNote ignores dpi and auto-resizes the pasted image depending on the size of it...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Images pasted into onenote are half size

« Last post by tomos on March 20, 2018, 10:09 AM »

^yeah, I guess unless the size of the images pasted in OneNote has changed recently, this is probably a OneNote thing. If pasting often I can see though why someone would prefer it pasted 'just right', as opposed to needing dragging to resize.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Images pasted into onenote are half size

« Last post by tomos on March 20, 2018, 09:34 AM »

My DPI was originally set to 96. I set it to 75 and the images are still showing up tiny in Onenote.

-absoblogginlutely (February 28, 2018, 12:00 PM)

was there no change at all?
try going the other direction: e.g. 140dpi

maybe even take a screenshot @96dpi
then change the dpi setting and take same shot again -- paste both into onenote and see what exactly the difference is, if any.
If none, you've at least completely ruled out that aspect.

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Living Room / Re: Artists: Share your artwork with the forum!

« Last post by tomos on March 20, 2018, 07:16 AM »

I do not get time to doodle, but my son used to do some on the computer when he was 4/5 years. If Ok then I will search for them in hdd and post.

-anandcoral (March 20, 2018, 05:24 AM)

I say go for it.
I reckon I was at my most creative around the age of four -- came across this (again) lately:
a painting done for St. Patrick's day (hence the harps; the green for shamrock: we used wear coloured paper harp brooches on our lapels with a bunch of shamrock) apparently painted at the age of four. Back of picture also of interest :-)

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Living Room / Re: Artists: Share your artwork with the forum!

« Last post by tomos on March 20, 2018, 06:06 AM »

The website is http://www.barbarabickell.ca.

Here are just a few of my favorites:

[ attachments ]

I am completely captivated and mesmerized by them.. Amazing.

-mouser (March 19, 2018, 07:58 PM)

thanks for picking out those -- there are some lovely paintings there.
My favourites from those are the Goldfinch with wallpaper behind, and the Chickadee on the sewing machine. I grew up with one of those sewing machines, one of my sisters still has it:

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini Review of jAlbum web site creator.

« Last post by tomos on March 18, 2018, 08:32 AM »

Looks good Chris

the only thing missing for me was pricing (starts @ 39$ / upgrade info given above)
https://jalbum.net/e...v74re4a112mz06nyek1f

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Living Room / Re: Need help translating old German documents

« Last post by tomos on March 18, 2018, 05:36 AM »

^ here a version where the bits of the page are lined up better:
https://www.dropbox....31_preview2.png?dl=0

It's a letter / certificate from the parish (or State: see last para below):
a bit of a mix between a letter of introduction and recommendation; it confirms baptism (no d.o.b. given); confirms citizenship (more below); and asks for good treatment of the subject. It also says they will always take him back (they use the word Aufnahme), which I guess, was a positive if he was emigrating somewhere, and they weren't sure whether to allow him in or not.

At the beginning it gives:
the name (see other document: the son born 1813)
the parents names (again as per other doc)

Of particular interest:
in the last paragraph, they call him a citizen of Bern Canton, and 'since ten years' a citizen of Switzerland --
I see wikipedia says "Switzerland has existed as a state in its present form since the adoption of the Swiss Federal Constitution in 1848". That could be a reason for him only being a Swiss citizen for ten years at that stage (aged ~18).

What confuses me a little is the mix of religion (parish / baptism) and state (citizenship).
It is signed by the 'Staats-schreiber'. This translates literally to the State-writer -- must have been some official position, seems to have been a government official as opposed to a church one.
I guess in those days religion and State were much more mixed. Dont know about Switzerland today, but they still are mixed in Germany -- if you say you are a member of one of the main Christian churches when registering (which you have to do when living here or on moving) the state collects a tax from your wage which goes to that church.

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Living Room / Re: Need help translating old German documents

« Last post by tomos on March 16, 2018, 02:02 PM »

Please take a look.

https://www.dropbox....an_20180304.png?dl=0

-Deozaan (March 16, 2018, 12:42 PM)

in that case I may as well share the little I did
https://www.dropbox....an_20180304.png?dl=0

I translated the important words (apart  from where unsure) in the lists.
In the middle there, there is a paragraph about Johan Franz, giving date of death, and then comes his wife's name, then their children.

I searched a couple of the locations -- they are around Bern, Switzerland.

Re the first two names, surnames are given first:
I cant read the first letter of his -- Tevahlen maybe? or is it a 'Z'? [his is Zwahlen]
hers is Dupuis