sometimeshuman

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by sometimeshuman 3y ago
Why do so many prominent admirable people age so poorly ? When I think of Musk now I think "silly culture-war shit-kicker". Lately when he communicates I gain no insight and actually feel dumber. Most recently: "Kids learn th
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by sometimeshuman 3y ago
Worse, it's high trust in certain contexts and low critical thinking overall. Here are comments recently told to me in personal conversation: The U.S. doesn't produce oil any more. The U.S. spends $1.232 trillion dollars a month o
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by sometimeshuman 3y ago
You are right, I saw what appeared to be a 10X lower value in Wired and posted my misunderstanding prematurely. Here's the the blog post that appeared on HN's top 30 from yesterday. But I still can't find a reference to a pap
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by sometimeshuman 3y ago
Related, days ago the BBC reported what I assumed was a typo that the ocean temperature has risen 13.8C the past ~30 years. After reading the article I tried to double check the source but couldn't easily find it. Yesterday HN's t
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by sometimeshuman 3y ago
I lived in a high and dry mountain area and dry-eye disease was making me miserable. It affected the quality of my life and sleep. I ended up spending about $1000 on 3 Venta "air-washers" and the relief they provided were worth ev
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by sometimeshuman 3y ago
This video explains hypersonic weapons in the general sense. But the threat is from the newer advanced hypersonic weapons that are steerable at low altitudes. There is no "I know where it is going and can intercept" as the speaker
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by sometimeshuman 3y ago
In 1st grade it was an unspoken understanding that Latin kids are put in the slow class. It's understandable since most of us didn't speak English at home. But my teacher realized that I was advanced for my age so she put me in th
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by sometimeshuman 3y ago
Perhaps. But then we should not let anyone vote who has hit escape velocity. The person you described might be very well off at which point they are a single issue voter -- low tax rates.
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by sometimeshuman 3y ago
Those guys took the App layout and button graphic without permission from GarageMax (formerly GarageMate/GDMate) and still use that unauthorized graphic. I wouldn't trust anything they say. link below is from 2011. Nexx released a
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by sometimeshuman 3y ago
"Are you still doing Intermittent Fasting?" Yes. "Are you still saying Intermittent Fasting?" No. Out of respect to people who have the discipline to go 24hours or more without eating I can't bring myself to say
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by sometimeshuman 3y ago
"I thought bleach and alcohol were thought to not create pressure for resistance because of their nature." Agreed, and I missed if this article stated otherwise. Also we have been adding chlorine (the active ingredient in bleach)
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
"that goes stale when you'd expect it". Super dumb question, but would fresh baked bread placed in the freezer last a few weeks ? I don't buy fresh baked out of concern most of it will get thrown away.
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
The most dangerous communicators are those who/that make assertion with a confidence that is not in proportion to their level of certainty. A good start is to get rid of ChatGPT's "Sure!" opening word. It's giving m
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
The most dangerous communicators are those who/that make assertion with a confidence tone that is not in proportion to their knowledge level. A good start would be to get rid of ChatGPT's "Sure!" opening word. It's
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
The video reference the common ChatGPT "in the style of" prompt. Is there a list of what "styles" ChatGPT's model has been trained on ? Or is this information not disclosed since it would be an admission that ChatG
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
I wonder this too. I tried scraping iOS App reviews from Apple's server and I didn't get far before my IP was blocked.
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
While the photo might not be a good example, in the animal kingdom exposing your neck, like exposing your belly, in an overall non-assertive way would indicate submissiveness. It's in your interest to be submissive if you doubt you wil
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
I often cited example is to write something in the style of "Dr. Suess". Doesn't this imply that Dr. Suess's books are in the training data set ? How can one find out what other books, screenplays, magazines, etc. are in
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
Sorry for the tangent but a surprising number the general public doesn't know the meaning of percent[1]. So even if a teacher is told those percentages many wouldn't know what to conclude. [1] Me, giving young adults that worked f
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
In case you want to filter by country, run this admittedly ugly code, in the console. Change 'US' to your country of interest. var jq = document.createElement('script'); jq.src = " https://ajax.googleapis.
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
"The wealthy are ... the only people who have a reason to". IME what matters more than wealth is having health and energy. Exploring ways to reduce your exhaustion might be the best use of your time. You can increase your energy b
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
> I can't make myself do that. Then don't. Or maybe you subconsciously don't want to do the work or have no good ideas. That's OK. But I can't see how this cynical attitude serves you otherwise. As a reminder YC&
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
The founder of this company claims that the air speed is 120km/h in a PC-World video interview. It is surprising with such high airspeed that this device is "quiet". Is it possible that most of the sound energy is ultrasonic
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
The specifics of anyone's path will not be repeatable. Nevertheless I'll share specifics and a general conclusion at the end. 10 years ago in my late 30's I had destroyed my previous career by being out of the industry for to
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
This is the first comment I have read where "Gen X" is dragged into the generational culture war. The generic brand of that generation made me think it would fly under the radar and we'd break this tired pattern.
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Dawn-to-dusk dry fasting improves heart disease and cancer biomarkers(medicalxpress.com)
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
Humor may apply here since the best way to kill this is to pronounce it la-tinks instead of Latin X. My parents are from Central America so feel free to say a latinks person told you it's pronounced that way.
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
This got dark quick: "basket case" Originally referred to one who has lost all four limbs and therefore needed to be carried around in a basket. I've only heard of basket case from the context of barely ridable motorcycle in
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
To follow-up: I heated a skillet until water sizzled when dripped on it, then added long grain basmati rice and kept it at medium high heat for 2m30s. The grains moved, crackled, and browned. Since they didn't pop or puff the result do
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by sometimeshuman 4y ago
Wether or not it is popped, is it ready to eat ? From a prepper perspective it would be great to have an alternative way to prepare rice without having to boil away water that might be in scarce supply. It's also attractive to cook ric

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