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by djtango 2y ago
I love food and I love eating. Some of the most interesting dishes are vegetarian because you have to work that much harder to bring a dish together. That really excites the chef/epicurean in me. And then you can just get a good qualit
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Other people are reporting that they can feel it with ice. Do you ski much on ice?
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Yes - I was a Chemist in another life and the reality of physiology is that it is insanely complex and "just take vitamin pills" can amount to Dunning Kruger if things like the medium (a suspension, a solid, the solvents around it
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I have first hand seen Teams eat a whole bunch of better product's lunches. Overnight Meet Slack Zoom all got poopoo'd by finance because the company was already paying for MS Office
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Realistically that isn't that much money unless you want to be some kind of hobbyist HFT tinkerer. With no stance on whether people should be doing HFT as a hobby, presumably there is a finite amount of colocation space available and a
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For people who understand sound - how much can acceleration, jerk and snap affect the tone a piano creates? A (mis)conception of the piano is that it is purely percussive and velocity is the only parameter you control for voicing on the pia
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Was on the BBC that now people are buying it from the black market to lose weight for beach bodies
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That sounds like sneering at a sports team that's winning "that team is only winning cos they play better together and their manager is better"... Reminds me of when Greece won the Euros or when Iceland beat England. It'
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To be honest I'd recommend just taking a look. It's been 10 years since I first encountered the book (and programming) and I'm sure the lessons can be found elsewhere. But I find the book a marvel of pedagogy and rank it as m
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All the virtual possibilities in the world doesn't reduce our burden to care for a growing number of old people. Nor does it reduce our need for food or other natural resources. These will continue to be the bottleneck especially as we
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Truth be told, I feel like we're hitting some diminishing returns on information automation. Most the low hanging fruit is probably done now. With ageing demographics and increased education around the world, I think the next major pro
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What? The monorepo is huge that sounds like a nightmare to coordinate across so many engineers and such a huge codebase
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Money is a key part of the formation of societies and history shows that many independent civilisations came up with money time and time again. Gold is a great form of money thanks to its unique chemistry: Its colour and lustre is unique -
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Who knows. I did a postgrad in medicinal chemistry and I was always amazed at how we scaled up from tiny molecules/proteins into this crazy emergent system. Yet at the individual molecule level there was still so much we couldn't
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I appreciate your response here but it's still pretty handwavy. Ultimately it's pretty easy to sit back and say - well it's just so. Sure we have a flight or fight and pathways towards adrenaline and cortisol. We also have pa
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Mostly principles. I enjoy cooking a lot and I also am very strangely enthusiastic about fresh produce so the search for high quality ingredients is a bit of a hobby. But it's a damn lot harder to do in a place like Singapore where we
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Ugh I haven't eaten one in a while but do have a soft spot for Dr Oetker pizzas. Don't mistake me for someone who doesn't enjoy food or eating. My lifestyle is impractical and annoying but it also pushes me to do things like
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You chose an analogy close to my heart! I have managed to convince myself that most "food" in the supermarket is inedible poison! It's exhausting and a real nuisance to my quality of life but I equally refuse to knowingly con
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I take your point - you're right maybe there isn't anything that much more different. But it feels a lot more different because the two examples you used are very clear and direct stimulus-response pairings. See food, get hungry (
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The evolutionary advantage of it is fairly apparent - but understanding how we can control our own body chemistry without pharmaceutical intervention is of great interest to me. It's a silly example but what if you could combat age ons
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Not really challenging me, I'm more marvelling at the fact that as giant bags of proteins, we're able to look at our baby and our testicles decide that it's the time to stop doing what they do most of the time. Cognition is s
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I can't really refute this but I suspect based on the body of research on this study, the drop must be a lot more than just sleep deprivation. There are plenty of men who work long hours and have poor sleep but I don't believe the
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Isn't that amazing? That we can help people extraneously without having to administer chemicals which have a nonlocalised effect on our bodies. There's still so much to learn I recently heard that new fathers see a reduction in te
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So much of this resonates and articulates fragmented anecdata I've accumulated via lots of learning. I love the concept of increasing the error - it definitely helps. Makes me think of reductio ad absurbum for the body. Do it more wron
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On rules and applying them I am always reminded of this quote from Bruce Lee: "Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kic
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Yes constraints are great. My piano teacher would basically just repeat to me like mantra: - was it legato? - were you playing free from tension? - was your tone even? - were you in time? Very rarely would he actually ever tell me anything.
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Fully agree that mastery allows you to broaden out / think at a higher level. I guess that's the "meta" I recently read a post about how Nadal gets an unfair stereotype of being brutish due to play style but from a young
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Yes - I'm learning singing at the moment and just the other day the teacher fed back - don't try to over-conceptualise what you're doing. Just do it, focus on the outcome, stay relaxed and the body will figure it out. I'
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I admire your commitment towards not writing Scheme but I recommend giving it a go. Maybe use it as an opportunity to learn Vim or Emacs and have a go at structural editing. It'll change how you think about your code...
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No I haven't - it looks interesting thanks for sharing. I did once think whether a client could abstract over IMAP to build to build a WhatsApp-like UI/UX so clearly other people have thought the same. Although I will confess I&#x

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