nvilcins

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by nvilcins 2y ago
1. Depends on the person. 2. Depends also on the kind of environment they have at home. (e.g., living with kids in small apartments is a distraction, etc.) 3. Do not underestimate how much people can slack off in the office.
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by nvilcins 2y ago
Different ways of erosion leave different kinds of traces. The ones in the Sphinx enclosure are indicative of water (more specifically - rainfall) erosion.
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by nvilcins 2y ago
Latvian here. You are right about the taxes in the Baltic countries - in all three you can get ~20% effective tax (minor differences between the countries). And they are really similar otherwise. Most people in a similar situation to yours
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by nvilcins 3y ago
I've been doing intermittent fasting for years now, on a not-so-typical schedule: first meal late in the day (5PM-ish) and the second (final) one within a couple of hours. What I love: * Total mental clarity during the first half of th
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by nvilcins 3y ago
The elevator in our apartment building has a touch-button(?) panel. Guess what happens during the cold season when you you've got your gloves on? Yep, absolutely nothing! (bonus f.u. points if you are carrying stuff and cannot easily t
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by nvilcins 3y ago
> - Related: be sure to understand the difference between transaction vs explicit locking, a lot of people assume too much from transaction and it will eventually breaks in prod. I recently went from: * somewhat understanding the con
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by nvilcins 4y ago
This is awesome! Does anyone have a collection of similar kinds of fun questions?
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by nvilcins 4y ago
Absolutely this! As a long-time remote worker I also noticed (especially in early 2020) that a significant portion of people were struggling simply because they assumed they can continue doing things _exactly_ like at the office, only at ho
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by nvilcins 4y ago
We absolutely need low-stakes mechanisms to discover potential causalities to research further. What we need to stop is put unreasonable emphasis on association studies (i.e., interpret the results incorrectly).
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by nvilcins 4y ago
Less discussed but similarly controlling of your life are all the nasty visual tricks apps and services use to grab your attention (bright red notification bubbles) or to annoy you into submission (so you download their mobile app or upgrad
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by nvilcins 4y ago
FWIW, for me HIIT was the catalyst to exercising. As someone who wanted but struggled to motivate myself to take up regular physical activities, the short duration of HIIT was what sold it to me. Sure it's "intense", but I f
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by nvilcins 4y ago
Been practicing 6-hour 4-day work week schedule for a while now and I'm the happiest I've ever been. No real noticeable difference in productivity long-term, and a significant improvement in the amount and quality of personal (non
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by nvilcins 5y ago
Eat in. Drive an older car, or bike. Work remotely. Live where rent is not astronomical. Reduce alcohol consumption, especially at bars/clubs.
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by nvilcins 5y ago
Given that different variants of the same virus outcompete each other (very evident with Covid), why would that not apply to different viruses of similar nature? SARS-CoV2 and Influenza both effectively compete for the same vulnerable popul
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by nvilcins 5y ago
(Just to clarify a question raised in the child comments) Those were Spotify ads promoting other podcasts, not sponsors promoted in the podcast itself.
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by nvilcins 5y ago
Even though I had been a (long time, non-family subscription) premium user of Spotify, they started playing ads during podcasts (music was fine). How is that a "premium" service? Canceled the sub. Tangent: Now that I occasionally
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by nvilcins 5y ago
Props for YYYY-MM-DD
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by nvilcins 5y ago
Dummy question from a non-front-end dev: What is the simplest way to host this project as it is on the web? (as a static page, no additional functionality)
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by nvilcins 5y ago
Tangentially, I frequently add dates to filenames to keep things organized. And _always_ in the `YYYYMMDD` format for clarity and technical reasons; `DDMMYYYY` (or God forbid the Americans' `MMDDYYYY`) never made much sense to me.
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by nvilcins 5y ago
Those jobs are temporary. On the other hand how many jobs were made redundant as a side-effect of the pandemic? Catering moving a lot towards delivery, people realizing they can actually work from home, etc.
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by nvilcins 5y ago
This a great concise illustration of what's wrong with the information ecology today.
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by nvilcins 5y ago
I'm a novice coffee enthusiast, and I was blown away by the difference appropriate water made to the coffee. I am now "making" my own water by adding optimal mineral mixture to distilled water. The results are superior to tho
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by nvilcins 5y ago
No less than 5%, or 100 billion.
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by nvilcins 5y ago
Adding two _trillion_ dollars of net worth sounds pretty productive to me.
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by nvilcins 5y ago
We all operate with abstractions and simplifications - because it's impractical (and actually impossible given the complexity of the world) to process end evaluate every single detail. Dealing with contradictions in our own beliefs (pa
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by nvilcins 5y ago
I think the problem is that people interpret the "do anything" part as "become #1 at anything" (i.e., "prodigy" as per the parent post). I would say something like "get to the 80th percentile at anything&q
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by nvilcins 5y ago
> I don't remember if the wording was specifically like this [..]
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by nvilcins 5y ago
Wow those sound like such badly designed questions. What country is this?
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by nvilcins 5y ago
And the best part is - the citizens (who are impacted by this directly or indirectly) are paying for this.
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by nvilcins 5y ago
The title of the BBC article [1] that references the study: > Teens, tech and mental health: Oxford study finds no link What the study actually says, according to the same article: > We couldn't tell the difference between social

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