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by strken 25d ago
Hang on, no, imagine if someone said "people eat meat" and it was the core part of an argument that people need a minimum of 2 acres of farmland to support their food consumption. It would be important to point out that vegetarian
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by strken 28d ago
Yeah definitely! I'm not suggesting exercise is comfortable, just that a 10 minute workout that takes a sedentary person another 20 minutes to recover from has less of a lifestyle advantage over a 30 minute workout that ends with a gen
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by strken 28d ago
> This is the conflict. WFHers are happy without forcing RTOers to work in the same manner. RTOers are only happy when they force WFHers into the office. If you work from home and I work from the office, you're forcing me to collabo
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by strken 29d ago
What I was thinking is that I'd like to see some research on recovery time, physical impact for the rest of the day, pain after training, productivity on tasks after training, and so on. My hypothesis is that HIIT and other high intens
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by strken 29d ago
From the public health perspective, zoomed out far enough, motivation and habit are the same thing. You want people to do X; which factors hurt and which help?
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by strken 29d ago
Reading these studies has slowly convinced me that motivation is a more important factor than optimising a workout. Yeah, we know that resistance training is wonderful and so is high intensity cardio, but the biggest barrier seems to be mot
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by strken 1mo ago
Interestingly, using source would have the same "bug" as TFA mentions. Though the obvious fix is to use single quotes in the .env file.
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by strken 1mo ago
The claim is usually that A) people have an inflexible appetite and will be increasingly driven to eat while at a caloric deficit, B) at some point this is almost involuntary and that point differs between people (e.g. consider not eating f
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by strken 1mo ago
If I'm reading you right, you're suggesting that if person A and person B have different proposals that inconvenience you in vaguely similar ways, you believe they are functionally identical people, even if they're fighting e
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by strken 1mo ago
Misery week might greatly increase happiness during the week itself. An unheated room with an outdoor toilet, no running water, limited food options, and hard work is basically going camping.
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by strken 1mo ago
There's this very annoying thing where meditation experts try to dumb it down until they're basically describing a state of not thinking about stuff, and then someone else goes "oh cool yeah I don't think about stuff whe
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by strken 1mo ago
I don't mean to be a jerk about this, but if you ever find an owl pellet and pull it apart, you'll be able to see the exact number and species of small animals it ate the previous night. Owls spit out roughly one pellet a day. Med
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by strken 1mo ago
What do you mean "the distinction is faint"? The distinction is clear and obvious: does this thing have actual ecological value, and does this group suggest viable alternatives?
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by strken 1mo ago
He was wrong. Animals don't "instinctively" reach a natural equilibrium when they're introduced to a new environment. They eat all the available food, die off en masse, and repeat, until the food sources which were vulne
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by strken 1mo ago
Well, the contention of TFA is that you will turn ideologically crazy if you have an extreme belief and only speak to average people who disagree with you. Turning ideologically crazy sounds like something that would also happen if you only
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by strken 1mo ago
Those people certainly exist, but so do actual environmentalists.
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by strken 1mo ago
I think the point here is that there are two categories of "environmentalists", one of actual environmentalists who go out on the weekend and plant shrubs and monitor the Lesser Black-Tailed Whatever, and the other of people who d
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by strken 1mo ago
We're getting close to post-scarcity on calories at this point. You can feed someone three meals of rice and beans for under an hour of minimum wage labour in most of the developed world, which is pretty neat even if the extra money is
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by strken 1mo ago
I've lived in an apartment complex with weirdos before, including one lady who used to scream at random times, but we basically couldn't hear them. The screaming lady was only audible if the window was open. All the apartments wer
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by strken 1mo ago
I literally meant the team should decide, collectively. Maybe take a vote.
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by strken 1mo ago
Plastics tend to be more chemically active than a lot of rocks, for example. Although that's not going to protect you from crystalline dust from silica and asbestos.
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by strken 1mo ago
This particular test might be reasonable, but at some point you're just filtering out anyone who's not in your bubble, which is a problem when your beliefs are extreme because your bubble is tiny. Imagine a Marxist who refuses to
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by strken 1mo ago
I'm baffled by the claim that tech oligarchs are bad readers, as opposed to getting the point but disagreeing. Some authors seem to think that readers may only read Heinlein if they are prepared to join the army the next day or renounc
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by strken 1mo ago
AI has been trained on real data, and some real human speech uses the same catchy hooks as an AI. In this case, the style seems consistent with his earlier work.
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by strken 1mo ago
There's a bit of nuance here. A material which doesn't biodegrade but is inert, a material which biodegrades but only when exposed to light or moisture or heat, a material which biodegrades into something else which is in turn ine
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by strken 1mo ago
I'm not an extrovert, I'm more or less on the line between the two extremes, and I prefer WFO or hybrid. Teams should really be choosing their model of work themselves, and anyone who doesn't like it should shuffle off to a d
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by strken 1mo ago
I think there's a coherent argument lurking in there, but the author hasn't refined it enough. Here's my attempt. The industrial revolution seemed like the end of the artisan as an important man in his community, the death o
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by strken 1mo ago
This is setting up a contrast between long term memory and an LLM. You might equally contrast someone who is physically in the Grand Canyon with an LLM given access to a drone with sensory attachments. I'd bet that if you told groups o
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by strken 2mo ago
I think you're seeing a compound word because it's part of your native dialect, whereas I'm seeing each word independently. If you think about "grilled", "cheese", and the silent "sandwich" as di
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by strken 2mo ago
I haven't tried using an AI to write prose, but I use Claude to write code daily and it spits out the worst comments I've ever seen, along with some surprisingly good ones. Would we not expect AI fiction to be the same? A stream o

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