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by cowmoo728 8mo ago
it's also so aggressive about taking out debug log statements and in-progress code. I'll ask it to fill in a new function somewhere else and it will remove all of the half written code from the piece I'm currently working on.
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by cowmoo728 1y ago
beetroot juice was a few years ago and it's for a different purpose - nitric oxide to relax smooth muscle in the airways. the red recovery drink at recent events is tart cherry juice, which is thought to aid in muscle recovery.
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by cowmoo728 1y ago
I've seen this exact pair of coyotes three times now. I have a few blurry photos of them. They're about the size of my dog, who is roughly 60 pounds, so they are sizable and could hunt a small dog or child. However, they're v
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by cowmoo728 2y ago
it's also true for people in cgs (centimeters, grams, seconds) sports like running, cycling, and lifting. if you look at the best in the world (pogacar, ingebrigtsen, blummenfelt) they don't look like fitness models. they look sur
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by cowmoo728 2y ago
I recently spoke with someone in biotechnology who was doing a deep dive on "exercise pills". she told me that it would only be approved if it treated a specific disease, like muscular dystrophy, because the FDA views any potentia
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
what if positive feedback loops are on short timescales (1k years) and negative feedback loops are on geologic timescales (1 million years)? then for current human purposes the negative feedback loops may as well not exist.
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
I considered this for my pet's medical care. I did some things at a very expensive private equity owned bay area vet clinic, and other things at a much cheaper location quite a drive away. The bay area clinic wanted 4x as much for a re
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
probably a significant amount, otherwise private equity wouldn't be buying veterinary practices all around the nation. I know that the service I receive at a veterinary clinic I used to go to has become worse, a number of vets quit and
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
Someone who has never thought about off roading or 4x4s may be very surprised that the dirt matters so much because they have never thought about it. So it sounds like an important topic to address for the audience of the New Yorker.
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
inside my office bike storage room, and inside my apartment building basement. the even more expensive carbon road bike goes inside my apartment. the city bike can be locked up for short grocery runs and things like that, but it doesn'
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
I don't like riding heavy bikes with mechanical brakes because they never stop as reliably as good hydraulics. The ultimate limit is always the tire grip on the road, but it's easier to control properly set up hydraulic disc brake
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
I would only buy an e-bike with a premium brand name motor and battery. Bosch, Panasonic, Yamaha, Shimano, Giant. The next thing I would look for is 2 or 4 piston hydraulic disc brakes from SRAM, Shimano, Hope, Magura, Tektro. As long as th
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
depending on the failure type (shear, compression, tension) carbon fiber behaves differently. but when the fibers actually break it pops so quickly that it exceeds human perception. real time view of tensile failure: https://yout
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
the comment above you is correct that consumer goods will often brag about "aircraft grade" when referring to 6061. like flashlights, tools, combs, pens, cufflinks, money clips, etc.
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
it takes incredible engineering to make a 10s video have 360p visual quality but still require approximately 500mb of data to load
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
There are a lot of men in tech with lots of money, engineering expertise that they believe will carry over to biology, and a fear of becoming old and irrelevant.
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
Exercise moderates negative feelings and hormones and often causes people to maintain a better sleep and diet routine. Everything in life becomes easier with a light/moderate regular exercise routine. It's inseparable from diet.
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
Or, if you're working in a multi story office or apartment, take the stairs instead of the elevator. It seems silly but it actually makes a big difference to go from mostly sedentary to walking up stairs.
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
They will still function but a 12spd Ultegra / Force road bike will eat the chain and cassette and lose shifting precision if they're not maintained regularly. And high end road bike cassettes and chains are expensive to replace.
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
I have my high maintenance carbon road bike, but I also have a belt drive commuter bike. Belt drive bikes with hydraulic disc brakes and internal gear hubs rarely need maintenance, basically just an annual checkup on brake pads, tires, and
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
The questions in this specific midterm, and the readings and expected answers, also have a strong ideological direction.
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by cowmoo728 3y ago
"Takes a New Midterm" I think this is attempting to imply something interesting, but the questions asked in the midterm don't appear to say anything novel or interesting about gpt-4. 1. basic algebra question 2-6. reading com
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
one other to add: claim high-value projects/tasks, but don't finish them. when another team starts working on the same problem, schedule a meeting over their head and tell the other team's director level that you're alre
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
RDD (Resume Driven Development) The desire to add $TECHNOLOGY to run a relatively small site even though it will likely never scale beyond what a single postgres instance running on a mac mini can handle.
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
That YouTube video specifically appears to have been raided by 4chan so I would be careful drawing conclusions from the comments.
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
I think you're confusing RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) and ISOs (Incentive Stock Options). Stripe employees were given ISOs. ISOs expire worthless if not exercised. And if Stripe employees chose to exercise their options, they were not
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
> In the early 90s, Austrian economist Steven Horwitz called the Mises Institute "a fascist fist in a libertarian glove." > In 2003, an article by Chip Berlet of the SPLC noted Rothbard's disgust with child labor laws,
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
There is a very large difference between FTX and SVB. The people behind FTX will probably go to jail because they committed crimes and effectively stole money. SVB mismanaged interest rate risk and ended up on the wrong side of interest rat
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
It's very annoying. I regularly get a technical question from someone and answer it in a detailed back and forth where we debug. Then I realize history was off, turn history on, and then copy paste hundreds of lines of conversation bac
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
Patagonia isn't cool anymore because they stopped selling corporate branded vests. It's Cotopaxi now. Also fashion has changed, bright colors and solid shapes are in, Patagonia's understated look is out. https://ww

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