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by Swizec 3y ago
At least here in SF, walking was explicitly allowed during the lockdowns. As long as you said it's for exercise or for a necessary activity like grocery shopping.
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by Swizec 3y ago
Yes and nuclear is much more compact. Wind farms take up lots of space. It’s a shame we aren’t building more smaller reactors quicker. I think it would solve a lot of the problems that come from treating every plant as a unique one off mega
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by Swizec 3y ago
I believe the numbers I quoted are averages, not only when the wind is blowing. Source: https://www.ewea.org/wind-energy-basics/faq/ Here’s a better number: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-many
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by Swizec 3y ago
If more nuclear takes 20+ years to build while we can get wind farms online next month, is it really faster? I love nuclear but have to admit it’s dead until we figure out how to build these things faster. You can get 10MW of wind built in
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by Swizec 3y ago
> and if you have good form, warm up, and only add 5-10lbs per workout Most beginners I’ve seen do not take the 5min it takes to learn proper form. And even if they do, they lack the proprioception to know when they’re doing it right. Yo
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by Swizec 3y ago
If it helps you feel better, I know people who were lifting heavy for years, even competing in bodybuilding and threw out their back moving an empty bar because they didn’t think of it as a deadlift and used poor form
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by Swizec 3y ago
Deadlifts are also famous for having a high injury rate. I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone who doesn’t have a base core strength and a coach of some sort to teach proper technique. For things like walking and running the safety margins ar
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by Swizec 3y ago
Serious competitive athletes break their bodies in youth and never fully recover. For the rest of us we probably didn’t do enough when younger. There is a wiiiiiide space of healthy activity levels between couch potato and 100 mile per week
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by Swizec 3y ago
I love reading discussions about how the internet has become stale and ruined. It was best in the 90’s. No the 80’s! Obviously the 00’s. No-uh the 10’s were best. Always the internet was best when the commenter was young with lots of free t
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by Swizec 3y ago
They’re pretty fun and super affectionate! It’s like having a little curious buddy who wants to do everything with you, learns your routine, communicates what’s on their mind, always warns you of scary things and sounds, viciously attacks a
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by Swizec 3y ago
> making a mess every 30 minutes for 70 years Oh that's adorable. I have a parrot and poops aren't even the biggest mess he makes. They love to fling food. And shredding. And throwing everything you hold dear. And even a tiny 1
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by Swizec 3y ago
How hard are you pressing the clutch that it gives you knee pain? I did my first 10 years of driving in a manual and when you get a hang of the gearbox you barely need the clutch at all. Just a light tap, barely disengage anything. Nowadays
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I have a hard time believing it's nothing more than a cost cutting measure. It's a "keep bricks interchangeable" measure. Every LEGO set designer gets a budget of a few new piece suggestions per year. This includes
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by Swizec 3y ago
> SLR photo chip -> Cryptographically Signed Image -> Blockchain or Other Trust System Documents Production of Image and with key system thar matches image to record, all alterations to image are documented on said blockchain/
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I got into a cycle where I could notice my fast-thinking brain spitting out words/concepts in what felt like the speed of light before my slow-thinking brain would take those and turn them into actual sentences The way I’ve seen t
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by Swizec 3y ago
> You have to find the hot spots, negotiate for the space, deal with any vandalism, reload the machines, respond to problems. Not what many would consider “passive” I’ve spent a lot of time in various solopreneur, micropreneur, and indie
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by Swizec 3y ago
It’s the algorithm. You’re playing a different game when your content has to compete with and grab attention on its own vs when a gatekeeper decides to broadcast you at 3pm to every TV.
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by Swizec 3y ago
As a middle schooler blindly copypasting assembly to make the mouse work in my Turbo Pascal programs, can confirm that this was extremely rare in the mid 90’s. Just having a computer at home was rare enough, the fact that you were into prog
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by Swizec 3y ago
> It's gotten to the point within my own company I'm developing a bot to join all meetings and transcribe the conversation. Zoom has this feature btw. Teams probably does too.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I don't have an answer but I do think "it's cathartic" is part of things I write because the thoughts need to get out of my head. I can’t not write. I publish because getting feedback on my writing (both implicit an
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Read Flow by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi This is the book every productivity self-help book published in the last 20+ years reference. Including the one I self-published many moons ago. Mihaly is the only person who has done actual researc
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by Swizec 3y ago
> It doesn't appear that pro-grade cameras fall the same way though I wonder if cameras are just too durable and don’t need to be upgraded as often? Even a consumer camera will last you roughly forever in my experience. I still use
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by Swizec 3y ago
Sun/Jenday Conure mix
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I guess the engineering for cameras that nice has fairly high "minimum cost" that can't easily be brought down by industrialization? It may be a value thing. Why would you sell a $500 toy to the consumer market who are u
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by Swizec 3y ago
> In particular it's hard to get a crow to do tedious, boring chores for some almonds or whatever when they know there's relatively fresh pizza in a dumpster 2 blocks down the street. I have the same problem with my parrot. He’
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by Swizec 3y ago
Like I said: it happens at very large airports where not all connections fit around the terminal building, and at very small airports where the terminal itself is small. Many international airports do the tarmac thing for smaller regional-i
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I do remember walking on the tarmac yes. I have walked on the tarmac plenty of times in the last 10 years either at smaller airports or at very large airports. At large airports it's because smaller flights don't get to park
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by Swizec 3y ago
I like audiobooks for nonfiction. Especially anything business-y. I like to let the audiobook flow through me on long runs like a guided meditation on a topic. The end effect is like having the book’s lessons embedded deep in your subconsci
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by Swizec 3y ago
In a world where seed and A stage AI startups are getting $100mm rounds and half that money's going to NVIDIA ... eh it's probably not too overvalued. I think there's more oomph left in the bubble.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Thought AI companies farming copyrighted work on the other hand, that's a different story. Copyright also happens to be opt-out. You have to explicitly say “this is not copyrighted” for copyright to stop applying. See your comment

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