WhompingWindows

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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
Food seeking behavior =/= thin males =/= thin citizens. Lot of weak linkages happening there.
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
Why existential dread? We're extremely lucky to be alive. That one sperm hit that one egg and we survived to now. That is extremely unlucky, each of us is one sperm out of hundreds of millions, so savor this existence!!
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
People don't read things thoroughly for good reason: there's too much shit to read. If we read things thoroughly, we'd all waste our lives reading terms of service, user agreements, and fine print, and never get anything of v
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
The headline from HN: "Nuclear turn green" (why the typo?) The actual headline: "Gas and Nuclear Turn Green as EU Parliament Approves New Taxonomy" (HN left out gas) So gas is actually being considered "green"
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
Industrial Revolutions required many things that Frodo's world lacked: 1) Abundant and cheap coal (heat, steel making, steam engines, etc). We know this didn't exist, for why should Saruman rely on the comparatively bad fuel of gr
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
I thought the distinction was: "white papers" are not necessarily peer-reviewed by an academic journal's editors; white papers tend to be internally-made documents within an organization, edited by that organization's me
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
We store confidential code on Github. How do I know it hasn't been used in CoPilot?
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
I think the average person living in today's world has it way better than 99% of humans in history, it's easily the best time to be alive. Infant mortality, life expectancy, chances of dying to violence or starvation or preventabl
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
I didn't downvote you, however I think people may dislike the idea of one having their own pet hypothesis without linking serious evidence to back it up. Amyloid plaques have been heavily studied and may have some tangential but real l
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
In northern New England, we see a lot of homes using heating oil and woodstoves. These create a lot of local emissions and can be expensive or use a lot of time/effort (woodstoves). Heat pumps that work especially well in cold climates
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
Consider: ADHD reduces executive functions, which are like the "secretary" of the mind. This means they can not direct attention onto where they need to: work, school, onto family and friends, etc. Those with ADHD have less 3 frie
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Ask HN: How to Manage Group Texts?
1 points by WhompingWindows 4y ago|2 comments
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
This is an old article, it's 15 years old which makes it ancient in the battery world. I have a Prius from that generation and mine doesn't have V2G. I can't find any numbers, how many Priuses actually have V2G capability?
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
Wow! Give yourself some credit, you're doing great friend, holding down all those systems, that's a very hard job! From personal experience, I haven't written any libraries or frameworks and I'm definitely a like 40th-50
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
Even if you think objectively, in this case, he's most likely underpaid and undervalued by the startup. 1. He's working much longer hours than he's paid for, probably for pie-in-the-sky options that 95% chance won't amou
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
Why should it be a right that we are bound to as modern citizens? I didn't sign off on the 2nd amendment, it was signed off on 250 years ago by a small group of pre-modern colonial elites. It originally was considered useful because co
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
I think your equation isn't apt. Facebook likes run through personalized networks and are fed to users by privately curated algorithms which prioritize engagement and serving ads to benefit: Facebook. In contrast, a pure democracy woul
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
What is a techno bush doof?
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
Shoutout to the greatest album released in the 2010's, Yo Yo Ma and Chris Thile's Goat Rodeo Session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-31e8Nlujw
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
For a long time, a friend recorded TV shows and movies on multiple VCRs. I went to their house, it was literally stacks of video casettes on every wall surface, thousands of them. They even used to mail them back and forth to other countrie
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
I think every single field has complexified throughout history. Agriculture now has dozens of chemicals and large machinery. Woodworking now has advanced machinery and a handful of ways to do the same cuts. Music evolved from Gregorian Chan
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
Is it surprising that as the Minecraft generation gets older, some of them might think, why not build a huge underground base?
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
You're mathematically incorrect, unless you consider a typical worker saving 25% of their take-home "doing nothing". A typical take-home for a month's work in US might be $3000. Cheaper rent could net you $300-$600 more,
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
Stop Drinking Calories. No alcohol, no soda, no fruit juice. This is by far the easiest way to lose weight. Bonus: You don't need to eat what's in front of you. My family looks weirdly at me because I remove half the bread from a
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
I think your odd use of the exclamation mark is a great counter-example to your comment! After a long sentence with zero commas, here we have a punctuation mark! It doesn't exclaim, as in "Watch Out!" or "This is amazing
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
Well, he certainly had a ton of help from other people to ensure he wasn't taking shots in the dark most of the time. He copied most of his best ideas from other sources, and point-blank refused to acknowledge Woz and Apple 2, publicly
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
In a tech world with dozens of "amazing leaders", is it possible that some of them just got lucky? They took some shots in the dark, some got lucky, some got unlucky: can it be that simple? If Steve Jobs was coming up today, could
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
You'd have to stick with vegetables and fruits, but even then there's debate over what is truly healthy. Is corn healthy? Is wheat healthy? Are carrots healthy? They're all plants after all, however... All three are high in c
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
Marijuana needs to be reclassified off of Schedule I Status in the USA, so it can be more thoroughly studied. Schedule I category shouldn't include recreational drugs like marijuana, which has no overdose possibility and has limited wi
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
I've been in data analysis for a few years -- grew from scientific research in SAS with zero VCS, into programming and data analysis in R and STATA, still no VCS for a while...eventually I was allowed to use Github after I left my rest

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