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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:blogChannel="http://backend.userland.com/blogChannelModule"> <channel><title>Flutterby!</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/</link><description>Last updated 2024-04-23 18:10:03.215975+02</description><language>en</language> <image><title>Flutterby</title><url>https://www.flutterby.com/adbanners/175x24base.jpg</url><link>https://www.flutterby.com</link></image><item><title>Ask MeFi question for Fluffer pro</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32005.html</link><description><html><body><p>An Ask MeFi question for "Fluffer pro tips" did *not* go in the direction I was expecting...</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-23T18:10:03</pubDate></item><item><title>The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32004.html</link><description><html><body><p>It's been a while since I've been cycle counting, but this is interesting: <a href="https://16bpp.net/blog/post/the-performance-impact-of-cpp-final-keyword/">The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword</a></p> <blockquote><p>In case you skimmed to the end, here's the summary:<ul><li> Benefit seems to be available for GCC.</li><li> Doesn't affect Apple's chips much at all.</li><li> Do not use <code>final</code> with Clang, and maybe MSVC as well.</li></ul></p> </blockquote><p>At the very least, it's another one of those things to hide behind the preprocessor so you've got options.</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-23T17:33:46</pubDate></item><item><title>30 Million Canvas Grading Records Reveal Widespread Sequential Bias and System-Induced Surname Initial Disparity</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32003.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://record.umich.edu/articles/study-alphabetical-order-of-surnames-may-affect-grading/">Study: Alphabetical order of surnames may affect grading</a></p> <blockquote><p>An analysis by University of Michigan researchers of more than 30 million grading records from U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades. This is due to sequential grading biases and the default order of students&#8217; submissions in Canvas &#8212; the most widely used online learning management system &#8212; which is based on alphabetical rank of their surnames.</p> </blockquote><p><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4603146">30 Million Canvas Grading Records Reveal Widespread Sequential Bias and System-Induced Surname Initial Disparity</a></p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-23T01:26:30</pubDate></item><item><title>Mike Masnick: The Coddling of the American Parent</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32002.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-parent">Mike Masnick: The Coddling of the American Parent</a></p> <blockquote><p>Jonathan Haidt&#8217;s new book &#8220;The Anxious Generation&#8221; blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that&#8217;s easy, wrong, and dangerous.</p> </blockquote></body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-22T23:47:20</pubDate></item><item><title>Mother Jones: These Floridians Rebuilt Houses in Flood Zones. Now FEMA Is Cracking Down.</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32001.html</link><description><html><body><p>Great article on the politicization of insurance risk, perverse incentives, and rebuilding in flood zones: <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/lee-county-fema-flood-zone-construction-50-percent-rule/">Mother Jones: These Floridians Rebuilt Houses in Flood Zones. Now FEMA Is Cracking Down.</a></p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-22T23:43:17</pubDate></item><item><title>National Bureau of Economic Research: Nothing for Something: Marketing Cancer Drugs to Physicians Increases Prescribing Without Improving Mortality Colleen Carey, Michael Daly &amp; Jing Li</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32000.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w32336">National Bureau of Economic Research: <cite>Nothing for Something: Marketing Cancer Drugs to Physicians Increases Prescribing Without Improving Mortality</cite> Colleen Carey, Michael Daly &amp; Jing Li</a></p> <blockquote><p>...We find that prescribing of the associated drug increases 4\% in the twelve months after a payment is received, with the increase beginning sharply in the month of payment and fading out within a year. A marketing payment also leads physicians to begin treating cancer patients with lower expected mortality. While payments result in greater expenditure on cancer drugs, there are no associated improvements in patient mortality. </p> </blockquote></body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-22T21:13:16</pubDate></item><item><title>Mastodon thread about Sears kit homes</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/31999.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@sidereal/112293051206867591">Mastodon thread about Sears kit homes</a>.</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-22T19:04:03</pubDate></item><item><title>https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12633</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/31998.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://ktla.com/news/college-applications-rose-in-states-that-legalized-recreational-marijuana/">College applications rose in states that legalized recreational marijuana </a></p> <p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/coep.12633">Contemporary Economic Policy: <cite>Higher education: The impact of recreational marijuana on college applications</cite> Christopher D. Blake, Danna Kang Thomas, Joshua Hess</a></p> <blockquote><p>Using a two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences model, we investigate the effects of local recreational marijuana (RMJ) policy changes on college applications and find that the three largest state public schools reaped, on average, an almost 54% increase in applications. This increase does not appear to come solely from low-ability students as both first and third quartiles of admitted student composite SAT scores to the largest three public schools do not decrease. Rather, they both increase by almost 3.8% though these estimates are not statistically significant. Robust difference-in-difference and event study models support the signs and magnitudes of these gains and show they diminish over time.</p> </blockquote><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12633">https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12633</a></p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-22T17:54:12</pubDate></item><item><title>CVS pharmacy in the Petaluma</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/31997.html</link><description><html><body><p>The CVS pharmacy in the Petaluma Target/Kenilworth location is closed today. Presumably for 4/20 celebrations?</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-20T18:55:02</pubDate></item><item><title>Why did it take me so long to realize</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/31996.html</link><description><html><body><p>Why did it take me so long to realize that Tesla is just taking "move fast and break things" a little too literally?</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-20T06:00:13</pubDate></item><item><title>Whoah</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/31995.html</link><description><html><body><p>Whoah, it's Bicycle Day, already! How'd I miss that?</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-19T19:10:02</pubDate></item><item><title>Zrythm, "A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation"</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/31994.html</link><description><html><body><p>Interesting: <a href="https://www.zrythm.org/en/">Zrythm, "A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation"</a>.</p> <p>Currently okay with Logic Pro as my DAW for the things I do, but should I get back on Linux I'm definitely intrigued, because this looks like there's a lot of stuff that's more built for usability for people like me rather than skeuomorphism for musicians.</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-18T17:39:42</pubDate></item><item><title>Yvonne Craig: An Interview with the First Actress to Play Batgirl</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/31993.html</link><description><html><body><p>&#8220;One of the reasons &#8212; no, two of the reasons &#8212; we hired Yvonne are being smushed by this costume.&#8221;</p> <p><a href="https://www.kentucky.com/living/article287795420.html">Yvonne Craig: An Interview with the First Actress to Play Batgirl</a></p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-18T16:12:05</pubDate></item><item><title>Changes in Permanent Contraception Procedures Among Young Adults Following the Dobbs Decision</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/31992.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2817438">Changes in Permanent Contraception Procedures Among Young Adults Following the Dobbs Decision</a></p> <blockquote><p>We observed an abrupt increase in permanent contraception procedures among adults aged 18 to 30 years following <i>Dobbs</i>. The increase in procedures for female patients was double that for male patients. These patterns offer insights into the gendered dynamics of permanent contraceptive use and may reflect the disproportionate health, social, and economic consequences of compulsory pregnancy on women and people with the capacity to become pregnant.</p> </blockquote><p>doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.0424</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-18T02:21:05</pubDate></item><item><title>Oh</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/31991.html</link><description><html><body><p>Oh, look, the cryptodweebs are reporting me for offering up cited debunking of their bullshit. Apologies to the my awesome instance admin for wading through their crap. A good reminder to block and move on, rather than engaging the idiots.</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-18T01:25:02</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
