embwbam

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by embwbam 1mo ago
Where are you? I am in BC and can’t find them in grocery stores
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by embwbam 3mo ago
Amazing! Sorry I meant if the boats turned more slowly I think it would encourage more planning (and the enemies wouldn’t turn on a dime either) In that mac game, there was a tradeoff between speed and the number of cannons / health to
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by embwbam 3mo ago
This brings back some memories! I used to play the Ancient Art of War at Sea on my dad's Mac Plus as a kid. Having never sailed, it was fun to learn about tacking while trying to broadside spanish galleons. Years later, I lied about my
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by embwbam 4mo ago
I don’t play much, but some people who play the “commander” format build decks that are carefully balanced against each other. My buddy and I had a blast collecting most of the Lord of the Rings set and playing games of Hobbits vs Sauron, G
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by embwbam 5mo ago
There are other RPGs with light rules that are WAY more fun than D&D. I've been playing "Blades in the Dark" recently, where the players run heists in a victorian ghost industrial city. It's an absolute delight. D&am
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by embwbam 5mo ago
You’ll never be blown too high. Rocks can be dangerous, but only in certain places and only if you make bad decisions: there are many safe locations around the world. It’s probably about as safe as skiing overall? Quite weather dependent, b
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by embwbam 5mo ago
One can take many good ideas from less wrong, yudkowsky et al without adopting a rationalist identity. Sure, it attracted wackos and they made a cult or two. But that could happen to anyone!
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by embwbam 5mo ago
I work remotely, and my schedule is flexible. I live in Squamish BC all summer which is great for wind. In the winter we are in UT but my friends take lots of kiting destination vacations. I’m fairly late in my career though (44yo), so I’ve
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by embwbam 5mo ago
Not sure if you were looking only for indoor hobbies, but I picked up Kiteboarding recently, and it is the most outrageously fun thing I've ever done. It's like being a kid and jumping off the house with a bedsheet, except it work
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by embwbam 1y ago
I have heard that phrase a million times and never understood it until your example. Thank you
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by embwbam 1y ago
A lot! Maybe it's obvious, but I've long thought that religion's primary function is to help people process death (and other suffering). Now that life isn't constant suffering, many of us have discarded religion, but the
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by embwbam 1y ago
I’ve been athletic most of my life. At 42 I feel much older than at 32. Chronic injuries add up! Be careful out there everybody
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by embwbam 1y ago
The adaptive optics system for the DKIST solar telescope actually deforms each point of the mirror at 60Hz or something to do wavefront correction!
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by embwbam 1y ago
Evolution doesn't care at all if we get to the top of the food chain. I think that we, as the dominant species on the earth, mistakenly assume that we are the most evolved since we are in charge. Which is more evolutionarily successful
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by embwbam 2y ago
For anyone else who discovers they are a fast metabolizer of coffee: try eating a big breakfast before drinking coffee to slow absorption. I wanted to be a coffee drinker for YEARS, but it made me really high, and I felt super tired later i
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by embwbam 2y ago
What about the book made the difference? I'm 100% convinced that it's better to do as you say, and forget about the accounts, and also unable to resist the temptation to check them every day. I'm constantly tempted to make ch
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by embwbam 2y ago
I work for the National Solar Observatory, creating Level 2 data for the DKIST Telescope’s observations of the sun. (For example, an image of the Temperature that lines up with the observation) Just the other day, the solar physicist I work
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by embwbam 2y ago
The plastic straw thing makes me sad. We spent our societal outrage on those instead of single-use plastic bottles. Sigh. I think they're a distraction.
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by embwbam 2y ago
#2 is true of everyone. I'm not arguing against the kind of empathy you're describing, I just think we should extend it to all sorts of criminals. The murderer and rapist in the cell was screwed the moment they were born to dysfun
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by embwbam 3y ago
Any modern trumpet players you love?
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by embwbam 3y ago
People process caffeine super differently. I’m pretty sure caffeine makes me crash 4-6h later which is great for falling asleep
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by embwbam 3y ago
Time crystals are neat! A normal crystal is one that has a definite repeating pattern in space. A time crystal is similar, but instead of repeating in space, it repeats in time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crysta
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by embwbam 3y ago
Woah, that's a very cynical take! He made them obtuse on purpose? You're not wrong that I found the Sequences extremely challenging, and didn't get through all of them. But I thought he wrote HPMOR to make the lessons more ac
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by embwbam 3y ago
I don’t identify with the religious zeal around bayes theorem, but can you elaborate on your criticisms of Yudkowsky? I’ve loved Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and read some of his essays, and Less Wrong’s coverage of cognitive
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by embwbam 3y ago
My girlfriend had a poorly aimed egg thrown at her late at night in Marseille on a kebab run for wearing a short skirt in a Muslim neighborhood. Seems pretty rough to me!
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by embwbam 3y ago
How much are you missing out by buying bond funds? Why would there be much of a difference?
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by embwbam 3y ago
They do that on purpose. The API gives you a setting you can change to 0 or 1 for maximum creativity or maximum reproducibility
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by embwbam 3y ago
Great, thanks! She wants to work as a first priority, but staying in the US longer than 6 months would be convenient.
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by embwbam 3y ago
My girlfriend is Canadian, and an AMGA Rock Guide (American Mountain Guide Association: the US certifying body). She would like to be able to work for gyms and guiding companies in the US. What's the best way to make that happen? (shor
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by embwbam 3y ago
I see what you’re saying. I agree that abstract metaphors confuse people. But clearly, the way we are teaching monads right now isn’t very effective for most people. Haskell comes from a population that loves to understand things from the g

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