picklesman

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by picklesman 7d ago
As someone in the market for my first wearable, which devices are better for health tracking? thanks!
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by picklesman 2mo ago
indeed it would be prohibitively expensive
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by picklesman 2mo ago
I basically replaced all forms of entertainment with reading. I find there is also less of a barrier to start since the audio part makes it feel slightly more passive. I still watch movies / tv / YouTube occasionally but I’m much
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by picklesman 2mo ago
What you’re describing sounds more like studying / reading textbooks and is totally valid, but not the type of reading I’m talking about, which is mostly for curiosity and entertainment.
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by picklesman 2mo ago
Yes, it feels very similar. Except speeding up a movie seems absolutely insane to me, whereas with a book it just feels like matching my mental ingestion rate.
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by picklesman 2mo ago
Indeed it keeps me on pace and paying attention. Finding the right speed takes some experimentation. Too slow and my mind will wander, too fast and I can't absorb the material / don't have enough time to ponder.
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by picklesman 2mo ago
I use Libby and I have a few library cards and an audible subscription. There are also other less ethical ways that I use, though to compensate I buy the books I really like in physical form.
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by picklesman 2mo ago
I'm the same way for fiction, but there's a certain class of non-fiction audiobooks (memoirs, (auto)biography, essays, etc) that works very well for me even when doing light chores. It's made me much more selective about what
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by picklesman 2mo ago
Yeah I noticed when I'm reading in a place with a lot of other stuff going on I usually need to go more slowly due to ambient distractions. As for screening I've never consciously asked myself what I wanted to get out of it but I
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by picklesman 2mo ago
Oh for sure. I listen with wireless buds with a huge button (Jabra Elite 4, sadly no longer made) so pausing/unpausing takes almost zero effort. For particularly dense passages I'll just slow down the audio as needed as well. Even
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by picklesman 2mo ago
Depends highly on the subject matter
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by picklesman 2mo ago
I read 189 books last year, mostly due an accidental discovery. I have a lot of trouble reading in noisy places, since I get distracted easily. My habit would be to put on some very minimal / low-information ambient music like Stars of
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by picklesman 1y ago
Check out dbdiagram.io though I don’t know if it handles views either, I never tried.
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by picklesman 1y ago
Yeah my current approach is to generate a plan with Gemini Pro, with plenty of back and forths, and then have it write the plan to a markdown file. Afterwards I get either it or another model to follow the plan step by step. Without doing t
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by picklesman 3y ago
When I was studying music technology and using state of the art software synthesizers and sequencers, I got more and more into playing my acoustic guitar. There's a deep and direct connection and a pleasure that comes with it that comp
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by picklesman 4y ago
For me that is the appeal. I don’t listen regularly but do occasionally enjoy his interviews depending on the guest. But yeah, if you don’t like long rambling discussions it’s safe to say it’s not for you.
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by picklesman 4y ago
While that possibly makes it harder to acquire a gun in the city, an individual purchaser or black market dealer could simply drive a couple of hours to get their hands on one, no? Also while impossible to prove, I think the numbers would b
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by picklesman 4y ago
Debatable. Seeds are very high in omega6 fatty acids which should be balanced with omega3. They also can go rancid more easily which is not healthy to eat. I noticed this article also subscribes to the “saturated fat is bad” way of thinking
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by picklesman 4y ago
Ha! Indeed! In fact in informal Quebecois French, it's also used as a verb, with the same meaning as in English. As in "J'ai Frenché ma blonde" --> "I Frenched my girlfriend"
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by picklesman 4y ago
Me too! Btw, in the spirit of the title of this thread, in English you would say "as a French person". In the past, "Frenchman" was used but it's understandably out of favour these days. "French" can be us
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by picklesman 4y ago
I was gonna say, this is exactly what I recently used data studio to do. Using GA as a data source I was able to create custom charts more easily in data studio. I feel like the charts in GA are much more constrained. For example I couldn&#
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by picklesman 4y ago
Not to be too snarky, but the location itself does a lot of the work ;) To contribute something more positive, I've been following this photographer who does great POV videos of these very areas (and who also produces/obtains simi
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by picklesman 5y ago
Funny, I've found that enough time can heal the "overexposure" and I can listen again. Sometimes it takes years, as in 5 to 10. Speaking of the Beatles, I have pretty much all of their songs completely memorized so I need t
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by picklesman 5y ago
Hah fair enough. Whole bunch is usually is 2 pots of 4 grams, 3 infusions each. But some people (like my wife) can guzzle filter coffee (much more total caffeine than my single shot) all day and have no trouble getting to sleep. Which makes
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by picklesman 5y ago
I recently started infusing my own oils to then use sublingually for similar reasons and it's been a revelation! You can know pretty much exactly how much THC you're getting and adjust / repeat as necessary. I haven't sm
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by picklesman 5y ago
I was cringing during his discussion with Rogan because of this. It’s a common pitfall for a certain type of nerd to think that expertise in one area allows them to make claims in completely unrelated fields. That and he didn’t challenge Ro
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by picklesman 6y ago
You are comparing literal Nazis who are calling for insurrection and murder to someone peacefully fighting against oppression.
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by picklesman 6y ago
While in theory this is true, in practice we have seen in recent years that misinformation has as much weight (if not more) as true information in our fragmented global media landscape. I see it more as doing their part to reduce the noise
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by picklesman 6y ago
I highly recommend listening this this episode: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/heavyweight/brholm
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by picklesman 7y ago
Yeh yep indeed. I didn’t make that connection, but for me what came to mind was Dustin Hoffman’s failed artist character in the Meyerowitz Stories. Not identical but he too laments “not playing the game”. The scene at the beginning where he

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