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by djtango 1y ago
Rightly so - I happen to enjoy staying fit and strong far beyond what my life needs of me. I also enjoy keeping my mind enriched. But the reality is that a sedentary lifestyle is the norm in the aggregate, despite the numerous people who bu
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by djtango 1y ago
The Roman legion marched up to 3mph, 18 miles a day bearing up to 70lbs. They did this on considerably less nutrition and with smaller frames than your average American today. The average human doesn't need to be that fit and strong
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My experience from having met top calibre musicians and athletes is that the work ethic, focus and growth mindset is often transferable.
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While many will speak of his Schubert and Beethoven, I always liked him for his coverage of Liszt[1] and used his recording of the full Années de pèlerinage as a reference of sorts. [1] https://geocities.restorativland.org/V
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Why did MMS feel so janky back in the day? Was it a client thing or a protocol thing? Whatsapp felt so responsive back in the day. I'd be pinging my family in real time halfway across the globe on mobile in 2009. For Free. That was a k
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As a native speaker, you probably scratched your head and worked out what could fit in that gap and eventually worked it out. Then you'll grumble because the other speaker didn't choose your preferred diction. As a non native spea
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Beijing gets down to -20C in winter and I've experienced 40+ in Shanghai so it's not even out in the sticks either
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I didn't read it as that - If I understood correctly, generated code must be quarantined very tightly. And inevitably you need to edit/override generated code and the manner by which you alter it must go through some kind of proce
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by djtango 1y ago
Open Studio (OpenStudioJazz) and Nahre Sol I like. Charles Cornell gets an honourable mention. Watching Nahre Sol break down Chopin's E flat Nocturne (Op9#2) gave me a penny drop moment. I have often had trouble memorizing the left han
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30 years of playing the piano and listening to all kinds of music and harmony never really clicked with me even after studying music theory. But watching YouTube videos made an instant impact. YouTube is a distracting mess full of doom scro
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Meta but the discussion from this anecdote drove so much societal commentary, I totally forgot I was here to talk about Xenon-assisted mountaineering and experienced whiplash when people started talking about xenon again...
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I believe the Xenon team also did hypoxic tents
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I don't disagree except that software is different to building bridges because once you build the bridge, it's a bridge and you're done. Software engineering is like deciding after you built the bridge that it needs to now be
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Ha I've been learning the piano for over 30 years and I still feel the same as that quote and am not convinced I can hear so many voices at once so well, though admittedly I have improved a little recently because a lot of the music I
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by djtango 1y ago
Does anyone have any resources on Netcode, its a really interesting problem I haven't had any first hand exposure to from the engineering side.
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So everyone is talking across each other... AI is a sharp tool, use it well and it cuts. Use it poorly and it'll cut you. Helping you overcome the activation barrier to make that redactor is great if that truly is what it is. That is p
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This just came up recently in conversation the other day - don't surgeons lose the fine motor control by then? My friend was saying a surgeon's best years are in their 40s
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When I worked at bigco the US employees were remunerated a lot better but they only got 10 days off a year and were pressured to not take off more than 5...
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The key synthetic step using Ir was published after I graduated (and left Chemistry...) way to make me feel old :) I'm very impressed by the level of chemistry demonstrated by a 17 year old. During my time as a chemistry student this l
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Thanks for sharing! This was in a pre-LLM era and I couldn't be bothered to research the right way to do this. Those parser combinators are excellent, so clean
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We once hired a F# developer to write Clojure and within a week, he was writing some of the clearest Clojure I've read. Learn paradigms not languages...
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Yeah so prepend is just currying cons with the head
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I remember I did an Advent of Code day 1 in Haskell a while back. The meat of the code was a one liner. But opening a file, throwing away the first line and parsing a CSV took a lot more head scratching, especially if you've only ever
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by djtango 1y ago
Sight reading never really ends - I tested a friend (professional virtuoso) when he was drunk at a noisy party and he sight read one of the Chopin song transcriptions by Liszt (I deliberately chose something a bit obscure). Nothing quite as
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by djtango 1y ago
Huh? What happens if you stop using your washing machine and go back to hand washing everything?
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Not a materials guy but would densified wood lead to such a drastic increase in thermal conductivity?
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ChatGPT is always in my pocket, I can use it effortlessly when I'm travelling. My Chinese isn't good enough to explain the difference between ice cream and gelato to my in-laws but ChatGPT gave me a good-enough output in seconds,
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There are plenty of public spaces which are also really nice and calm considering you're pretty much in the thick of it. You can sometimes even hear the Guildhall students practising which is a lovely treat
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In my last apartment, I installed a tabletop dishwasher on the balcony and had it share the water inlet with the washing machine using a y splitter. It would probably be an eyesore and a huge space killer to use indoor on the kitchentop but
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Yes and being able to buy and take whatever you want has led to rampant antibiotics abuse. Unfortunately medicine at the high level always has to cater to the lowest common denominator. Personally, while I agree AI can probably take up some

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