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by cheald 2y ago
It's an interesting observation, but I couldn't replicate this by taking a photo of a Google Images search for "north face logo", or with a photo of the reddit user's photo. Pixel 7, stock Camera app. The photo turn
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by cheald 2y ago
Strength is more closely correlated with muscle density than size: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32768372/ Powerlifters who train for strength generally train low-rep, high-weight progressive overload programs and of
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RO systems vary by efficiency, but 1:5 seems way out of whack. My tankless system claims 2:1 output:waste, and while I haven't measured it directly, I'd say that's probably pretty close to right.
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by cheald 3y ago
"Okay, but how do I open it in Excel?"
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by cheald 3y ago
Foods rich in good probiotic bacteria, such as strains of lactobacillus and bifidobacterium are a good place to start. Anything cultured or fermented is usually a good bet. There are also probiotic supplements, if you want a particular stra
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by cheald 3y ago
IANAD, but I'd hypothesize that a healthy oral and gut bacterial biome heavily populated with the various good bacteria may serve the purpose of outcompeting undesirable bacteria and keeping them from growing past critical levels.
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by cheald 3y ago
Coding on paper should ever only be done as a pseudocode or paper prototyping exercise. There is value in the ability to think abstractly without an IDE prescribing structure for you, but there is zero practical value to testing a developer
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by cheald 3y ago
SD 1.5 (using RealisticVision 5.1, 20 steps, Euler A) spit out something technically correct (but hilarious) in just a few generations. "a woman chasing a bear, pursuit" https://i.imgur.com/RqCXVYC.png
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by cheald 3y ago
SD 1.5 is 983m parameters, SDXL is 3.5b, for reference. Very interesting. I've been streching my 12GB 3060 as far as I can; it's exciting that smaller hardware is still usable even with modern improvements.
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by cheald 3y ago
Inference should ideally be done on an instance with a GPU, and it should have enough GPU VRAM to hold the entire model. This one is only a 7b model, so it should run pretty easily in a modest amount of vram. You can likely run it locally i
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by cheald 3y ago
IMO, the primary target audience for good commit messages is the same target audience as good code comments: me six months from now. Being able to read why and how a particular thing was done has helped me in debugging and troubleshooting a
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by cheald 3y ago
The primary perk for a more expensive unit is the ability to modulate that fan speed based on the particulate level in the room, IMO. I've got a couple of units that I paid ~$140 for which can step their fan speed up and down based on
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by cheald 3y ago
First off, as much as possible, eliminate liquid calories. Those really add up fast and don't contribute to satiation. Second, try reducing simple sugar/starch intake in favor of complex and higher fiber alternatives where possibl
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by cheald 3y ago
Red wine in particular has a lot of flavonoids, which are particularly healthful, so it's plausible that there are some health benefits from it. The alcohol itself is probably not conferring any health benefits, though. As with most t
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by cheald 3y ago
"kilogram calorie" - it's the unit that we colloquially refer to as a "calorie" in the US for nutrition purposes. That maintenance requirement is just "keeping the cells alive when you're laying in bed in
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by cheald 3y ago
Congratulations! 55lb is a big chunk of weight to not be carrying around! It's very true that for weight loss, diet is the single most important variable, but that doesn't mean exercise doesn't matter. The kind of exercise
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by cheald 3y ago
Aspirin has "severe (but rare) side effects", too. Many of the OTC pharmaceuticals we take have potentially nasty side effects. The only 100% safe stuff is homeopathic, and that's because it's not actually chemically act
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by cheald 3y ago
New solar has the same T&D costs (plus batteries!), doesn't it?
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by cheald 3y ago
"Could reach" is a fairly hedged phrasing, there. The plant generated 16,477 GWh in 2021 [1]. Over 5 years, it'd generate 82,385,000,000 kWh. At the LAX average retail rate of $0.287/kWh [2], that generation would return
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by cheald 3y ago
You can browse code on Github just fine (and search within a file!) - you just can't search through the tree, which is a function of whatever platform the code lives on, be it your box or Github or some other web UI.
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by cheald 3y ago
You can still clone and grep, can't you? You can't file issues or submit PRs through Github without an account, either.
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by cheald 3y ago
It's a little too neat to say that "turmeric cures cancer", but laboratory evidence does indeed show that curcumin may have anti-cancer properties. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam&#
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by cheald 3y ago
I'm still broadly convinced that the whole net neutrality outcry back in 2017 was due to a fundamental misunderstanding of how peering works and misplaced anger due to the peering dispute between Cogent and Comcast (and Verizon, and I&
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by cheald 3y ago
Reddit may not have experts per set, but in the right subreddits it definitely has enthusiasts. In ages gone by, you'd find the same people on message boards or forums, talking up and comparing the minute details of this or that. There
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by cheald 3y ago
Grepping my dpkg list for packages which start with \s0. is fun. aspell (currently 0.60.8) has a release note for 0.11 on Sept 12, 1998 gettext began in 1994 and is currently v0.21-11 tftp is 0.17-25 and dates back to 1981 telnet is 0.17, a
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by cheald 3y ago
My understanding is that for triglycerides, lower is basically better, outside of "extremely low as an indicator for disease". For example, https://academic.oup.com/clinchem/article/60/5/737&#x2
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by cheald 3y ago
I think you're reading something into it that isn't there. It's just not on the shelf, I'm not likely to notice it and incidentally purchase it when I'm buying ibuprofen or whatever, and I have to go out of my way t
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by cheald 3y ago
Yup, it's discussed extensively, predominantly as "val/val" (GG) and "met/met" (AA).
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The point is more to not be in a position to have to go out and buy some when I'm feeling cruddy. Since it's controlled, I can't just have some shipped to my door when I'm laying in bed sick. I just got in the habit of p
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by cheald 3y ago
"Suggestible You" by Erik Vance explores this phenomenon, and really turned me around on placebos. I'm, generally speaking, not particularly susceptible to placebo effects, and always kind of (arrogantly) chalked placebo effe

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