howlin

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by howlin 5mo ago
I'm a vegan so experienced bean eater. There are a couple things I found that help, but they do come at a cost of flavor or texture: Soak and rinse, but the soak water should be boiling when the dry beans go in. Alkaline. Sodium Carbo
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by howlin 6mo ago
It seems like if the content is this hollow and useless, it shouldn't matter if it was a human or spambot posting it.
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by howlin 1y ago
A lot of these problems are already managed by nurses or clinic assistants. It's pretty rare to get a lot of face to face time with an actual M.D. Certainly this is true the more you look at poorer communities.
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by howlin 2y ago
Resources on wild pig management usually recommend trapping or baiting rather than trying to shoot them. Shooting at them with a semi-auto while they are fleeing is a particularly cruel way to address the problem, as you're not making
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by howlin 3y ago
There's clearly a sweet spot in the amount of entropy/unpredictability that is "interesting". Otherwise observing white noise would be the most interesting thing imaginable. I don't know the details, but probably y
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by howlin 3y ago
Career focused culture has destroyed a large amount of social cohesion. If machines do more work, humans can go back to community building. Type A personalities that demand social mobility can play politics to see who leads their respecti
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by howlin 3y ago
It's worth considering how old the US version of democracy is, and how many systems came after. Americans have a deep reverence for their personal brand, but it's worth considering they don't install their government model on
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by howlin 3y ago
Fungi make up one of three primary kingdoms of multicellular life. Mushrooms and other fungus have a variety of flavors already, and some of them are quite meat-like. Given fungus cells are more similar to animal than they are plant, it is
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by howlin 3y ago
Anyone visiting wine country north of SF can visit a vineyard and tasting room that is/was tied to their family. It is almost a little museum with various artifacts from the family. The wine is also decent, and many bottles are quite a
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by howlin 3y ago
I don't really understand why iron is being considered over aluminum. Is aluminum production from ore too complex compared to iron? I would have to imagine burning metallic aluminum produces much more energy per gram.
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by howlin 3y ago
> I think this is pretty cool. Maybe I’ll buy some McDonalds today too. Plenty of people will have plenty of issues with a major corporation. But it's worth pointing out that McDonald's is one of the most prominent fast food ch
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by howlin 3y ago
It's very hard to take this essay seriously. Mostly because it so completely dances around the obvious purpose of a "superstore" that it is hard to connect this described experience much at all to what people actually do in
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by howlin 3y ago
It's popular to connect The Plague to mid 20th century fascism. The message is actually much deeper and more broad than that specific point in time of Western history.
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by howlin 4y ago
> Maybe really low/no interest loans for first time home buyers so they can at least get into the market. One big reason homes are priced so high in places like the USA is because home loans are already government subsidized. When p
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by howlin 4y ago
> LLMs is the confident hallucination of incorrect facts This is a very common feature of delirium in people. Chatting with an LLM seems a lot like what it would be to talk to a clever person with encyclopedic knowledge, who is just wak
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by howlin 4y ago
> My friends and I would build CounterStrike maps that were the layout of our highschool and would then run around and shoot each other. This was very taboo at the time. I had a friend that was the victim of a local news "expose&quo
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by howlin 4y ago
The US government accepts these for debts and issues debts denominated in these.
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by howlin 4y ago
There are a lot of problems that arise from lack of domain expertise, but they can be overcome with a multidisciplinary team. The biggest defeating problem for pure AI teams is that they don't understand the domain well enough to know
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by howlin 4y ago
Nuclear should be heavily subsidized regardless. Whenever they aren't needed for immediate demand, these power plants can be put to use for so many other tasks: desalination of water, energy storage in terms of hydroelectric pumping, d
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by howlin 4y ago
> We need more gas and oil fast. We need more reliable and consistent base energy in overabundance fast. Nuclear can do this without creating a climate catastrophe. Even if you need energy dense chemical fuels, nuclear energy can be us
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by howlin 4y ago
That this comment is in every discussion of TV tropes is a weird trope in and of itself.
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by howlin 4y ago
In theory it could empower amateur storytellers to punch above their weight by creating semi-professional animated films. Though to be fair, there was a similar realization when it was clear the Quake engine could be used for filming custo
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by howlin 4y ago
Even if TWTR paid TSLA, this is still an obvious conflict of interest.
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by howlin 4y ago
For medium and somewhat hot peppers, the rule is pretty simple. Don't eat more than you are willing to chew. Mostly this is a problem of eating whole seeds or big chunks of pepper you aren't actually chewing up and digesting. Onc
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by howlin 4y ago
> The conscious mind is along for the ride, not in charge. If you look at extremely simple choices, you may be able to say this. But these generally aren't the sorts of decisions we walk about when we talk about free will. Perhaps
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by howlin 4y ago
Generally at some point the microbes die but some of the enzymes they've produced are still active and slowly breaking things down into tastier chemicals.
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by howlin 4y ago
You can neutralize some of the acid by adding alkaline ingredients. Sodium bicarbonate or calcium hydroxide are two common ways. But this may neutralize the pH to the point where the sauce isn't naturally preserved from molding or ot
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by howlin 4y ago
You can cultivate "chicken of the woods" fungus on certain wood mediums. This has decent flavor texture and protein content. It's a little fickle to cultivate and getting spores or plugs may be tricky. But this is probably
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by howlin 4y ago
Looks an awful lot like the patterns left by woodpeckers who probe wood for critters to eat. Perhaps this is an animal that occasionally checks for sound, chemicals or some electrical field that would indicate a burrowed creature nearby to
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by howlin 4y ago
The issue with this analysis is that culture isn't genetic. A steady stream of people coming from high birth rate cultures are going to be adopting these modern lower birth rate cultures. Especially if they are intrinsically appealing

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