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by cheald 9mo ago
Income taxes were originally only levied against the top ~3%.
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by cheald 9mo ago
It still requires willpower, but to use a metaphor, it's much easier to travel down a well-trod path than it is to cut a new path through the jungle. Repetition and consistency establishes the path, so the willpower required to travel
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by cheald 9mo ago
Depression isn't monocausal so it'd be far too simple for it to have a single solution. But in general, humans just work better when we're regularly putting our bodies under reasonable physical load.
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by cheald 9mo ago
That's a great way to think about it. "Get moving" is a lot less intimidating and feels more achievable than "exercise" which conjures images of marathons and four-plate squats.
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by cheald 9mo ago
This is a finding that keeps coming up, and I've certainly found it true in my life, but there's a significant chicken-and-egg problem in that depression frequently precludes the motivation to exercise, and if you don't alrea
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by cheald 9mo ago
Rather ironic to complain about phishing attempts with clickbait (which, I largely think of as phishing's kid brother).
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by cheald 9mo ago
I suppose I'm showing my age here, but Stingrays/IMSI-catchers have been around and in use for decades by both federal and local governments, and the problem of mass surveillance is not particularly an ICE problem. In my lifetim
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by cheald 9mo ago
I'm certain it will kill people, but medical error already kills a huge number of people - the exact number is heavily disputed, but in the US the lower bound is in the tens of thousands annually.
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by cheald 9mo ago
The bone density and muscle wasting are a product of a calorie deficit without protein or weight training. You'll see the same effects without GLP-1s if you just diet and don't actually lift. As confirmed by DEXA scans, I maintain
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by cheald 9mo ago
My experience hasn't been aversion so much as just total apathy. The magic they once held is completely broken, and I'd rather eat real food.
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by cheald 10mo ago
This is, specifically, why oral GLP-1s haven't been a thing until now; peptides are too fragile to survive the digestive system and make it into the bloodstream.
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by cheald 10mo ago
When all one has is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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by cheald 10mo ago
Wow, I did not expect to feel the things I did flying through Ironforge.
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by cheald 10mo ago
It's already home to the largest nuclear power plant in the continental US (Palo Verde), and there are essentially no natural disasters to contend with.
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by cheald 10mo ago
There's absolutely nothing wrong with SSE. The problem is that the author is, apparently, stapling SSE directly onto streaming LLM responses, using the LLM inference provider as the "message queue", and then complaining that
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by cheald 10mo ago
I think the author took the wrong lesson here. I've had doctors misdiagnose me just as readily as I've had LLMs misdiagnose me - but I can sit there and plug at an LLM in separate unrelated contexts for hours if I'd like, and
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by cheald 10mo ago
There's also https://github.com/chaiNNer-org/chaiNNer if you want to run arbitrary models. https://openmodeldb.info/ has a great array of them to choose from.
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by cheald 10mo ago
And a $115b burn rate. They're toast if they can't figure out how to stay on top.
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by cheald 10mo ago
It's frequently suggested that you take vitamin K2 with vitamin D, which helps direct calcium to the bones.
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by cheald 10mo ago
"Putting the entire population on vitamin D supplements would be too expensive for the country’s national health service, he told me." This seems absolutely bonkers. Vitamin D is dirt cheap, and if you can think at all beyond fi
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by cheald 10mo ago
In regards to obesity and fat loss, smooth, consistent weight loss is essentially always preferable to rapid weight loss - both from a whole health standpoint, and from a durability-of-effect standpoint - and sooner is always better than la
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by cheald 10mo ago
Neat! Is that published anywhere? It seems conceptually related to ddpm/ancestral sampling, no? Except they're just adding noise to the intermediate latent to simulate a "trajectory jump". How does your method compare?
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by cheald 10mo ago
I do (same username), but I haven't published any of this (and in fact my Github has sadly languished lately); I keep working on it with the intent to publish eventually. The big problem with models like this is that the training dynam
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by cheald 10mo ago
Stable Diffusion 1.5 is a great model for hacking on. It's powerful enough that it encodes some really rich semantics, but small and light enough that iterative hacking on it is quick enough that it can be done by hobbyists. I'v
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by cheald 10mo ago
My wife has chronic migraines which are successfully mitigated by rimegepant (gepants are CGRP antagonists), and didn't have any particular change in headaches from GLP-1. What has helped, interestingly, is supplemented creatine HCl (s
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by cheald 11mo ago
AI is great. Midwits with AI are dangerous. I've been saying for a long time that the failure mode for AI isn't the AI itself, but the humans using it, and the better the AI gets, the more I think that's borne out.
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by cheald 11mo ago
That's very similar to what I've been experiencing. "This is the best solution, it's what everyone uses" when I know for a fact that it's actually not . Very disappointing when you're trying to solve actu
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by cheald 11mo ago
Man, I really hope that this isn't the model I've been getting when it's set to "Auto". It's overconfident, sycophantic, and aggressive in its responses, which make it quite useless and incapable of self-correc
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by cheald 11mo ago
Yes, this is broadly true. Just about everything that does not have Linux-disabling anticheat runs wonderfully on Linux these days. You can check https://protondb.com/ to see how any given game runs.
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by cheald 11mo ago
Easily half the other events on the calendar are kid-related. Of course it's going to infer that, absent other direction, the most likely overarching theme of the visible events is "child care".

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