TexanFeller

9 ms·

91.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
Equating achievement to financial success is a big mistake, but a bigly American one. The great scientists, while often somewhat privileged, were rarely in the billionaire class or their time’s equivalent. The average brilliant scientist or
92.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
ADHD is not at all well accommodated in public schools. I could never finish most homework as a child, because it was too boring and repetitive(I got it in 1-2 repetitions, but they made us do 20). My ADHD was severe, but I still got put in
93.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
Newton, Euler, Darwin, Einstein, Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman… Our modern world wouldn’t exist without them. Look up estimates of their IQ. Read some of their work and try to imagine having the same level of insight and producing similar vol
94.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
Grit is not more important than raw intelligence for making world changing discoveries, that’s nonsense on its face. It’s a necessary but not sufficient condition, it takes BOTH incredible intelligence and extreme grit combined to make worl
95.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
Austin to Ft Worth is not the route to my parents, it’s a separate drive I sometimes need to do. Yes there is good charging along that route, my point was that a hybrid could make that trip without wasting time for charging or filling up.
96.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
Very slow degradation after reaching 70% capacity is cold comfort when EV batteries are barely adequate for many people at 100%. EVs typically start with ~300mi range. 70% of that is 210mi. I live in the city, but my parents live ~150mi awa
97.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
I think more importantly we may have failed to identify the bigger threat . China is #1 in many of these financial metrics and on track to take us down economically. They’re also ramping up to invade Taiwan which would bring us into a milit
98.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
If they were doing fine before then why was a significant medical intervention with possibly irreversible effects warranted? I can't make sense of the premise.
99.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
I’m unsurprised that a large component of the treatment is effectively just “lose weight”. For many years I’ve heard accounts of significant weight loss reversing type 2 diabetes.
100.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
A couple years ago I heard an interview with someone that has stuck with me. He said that human “reasoning” didn’t evolve to reason in the logical sense, but to _provide reasons_ likely to be accepted by other humans, allowing better surviv
101.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
False. I went into a first visit at a doctor office one time and after spending about five minutes total with me he sent me home with a BP Rx. No mention of verifying it with home readings to make sure I really need it and he didn't ev
102.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
I have long arms which I think makes the difference more pronounced. I see a much larger difference than most people if my arm isn't supported at heart level.
103.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
I daily drive Firefox. I haven't found a single website in years that's made me open Chrome. There's nothing slow about Firefox.
104.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
Right, but splitting isn't sufficient for many people. The person I know was on 50mg. They tried to carefully shave off 1/8th initially, then 1/4 etc. It was error prone cutting them exactly and even a 1/8th change in do
105.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
SSRIs have all kinds of horrible effects that are seldom acknowledged, that's why it's exciting that ketamine is getting popular for treating things like depression, anxiety, and OCD. Besides how you feel a few hours after treatme
106.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
I took Lexapro for a month one time. Luckily I happened to also be seeing an endocrinologist so I happened to have before and after blood work. A few weeks after Lexapro my prolactin level spiked to far higher than is normal for a male. The
107.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
Someone close to me is doing the same. Sertraline isn't easily available in tiny dose increments useful for weaning off gradually, and its half life isn't very long, so missing or reducing a dose is almost immediately noticeable f
108.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
Sean Carroll is my go to guy for long form physics and philosophy discussions that have some depth but are still accessible. His October AMA on the Mindscape podcast is over 4 hours, but I haven't listened to it yet.
109.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
Yes I'd die fighting and take a few with me. Just submitting is not an option.
110.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
My personal library has grown massively in the last few years. I have a few rooms with the walls covered with textbooks and deluxe/limited editions of classic works. They're very comforting to look at, at least when I'm not s
111.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
One must understand what a good underlying implementation looks like to expose a good interface, it's easy to implicitly bake stupid implementations into an interface that cannot be fixed by just changing the implementation. The exampl
112.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
No longer relevant. Hardly anyone but severely immune compromised people and untreated OCD sufferers(I used to be an extreme case) wear masks now.
113.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
Battery life is the main thing that made me upgrade to the Ultra model. It has double the battery which gets it to the point I don’t have to worry about battery.
114.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
This is particularly interesting to me because someone very close to me is in treatment for fairly advanced BC. While it might not be in time to help her, it’s exciting that someone is finally trying something very different than the normal
115.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. You know what's far more common than eating disorders and body dysmorphia? Overweight and obesity which afflict about 75% of America(not hyperbole, look at the stats). Kids shouldn't
116.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
"Local Data Storage. No Subscriptions, No Cloud" This is what we need more often from our software, especially from software that works with sensitive data. I do typically want sync options though since I tend to use several diffe
117.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
Sean Carroll produces a great deal of content for people that want a bit more rigorous explanation rather than the leaky metaphors of most popsci. He often delves into equations and technical details, but keeps it at a level mostly understa
118.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
I also live in a large city, in TX, so I most definitely had regular exposures. Whether asymptomatic or not infected at all seems like a distinction without a difference. Either way I didn’t miss work, vacations, or get noticeably harmed. T
119.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
I did this for covid. The second my vaccine kicked in I dropped all precautions and started staying indoors with as many people as possible for as long as possible, basically trying to never go a day without a small exposure. I’ve tested fo
120.
by TexanFeller 2y ago
Google search has been getting worse for years. Kagi.com is what Google would be if they had kept improving Google instead of optimizing search results for ad revenue.

More ›