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by dwd 8mo ago
The 150 minute moderate to vigorous exercise a week comes up a lot, and for a lot of different benefits. There's also heart muscle elasticity: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circulationaha.117.0... a
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by dwd 8mo ago
The stories I've heard over the years involving family and friends are horrifying. Uncle (a CFA station chief) was on the missing list overnight during the Ash Wednesday fires, when he and his partner were trapped at Mt. Macedon. Witne
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by dwd 8mo ago
Which is the case for pretty much all conspiracies. Collusion or communication is generally unnecessary when each participant is acting in their own best interest.
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by dwd 8mo ago
Did a lot of contract development work nearly 20 years ago on a product called Solutions Electrical (1) that looks to still be around. It crossed my mind recently whether a LLM would be able to meet all the various International standards a
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by dwd 9mo ago
Rimmer planning for his astro-navigation exam sums up the "infinite loop" of preparation. From the Red Dwarf book and quoted previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28033747
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by dwd 9mo ago
There are a lot of sports that are much better in person. Football is made for TV as the action is confined. Types of play that would require viewing player movements outside the "set" are discouraged like lateral passes. Basketba
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by dwd 9mo ago
Cricket is another where the radio broadcast was always better, as you could have the TV on in the background but listen to the radio, only looking up when something happens. The commentators, particularly for the Aus/England Ashes ser
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by dwd 9mo ago
"Greetings" The ending to Blake's 7 doesn't get any bleaker. Red Dwarf was hilarious. Highly recommend the books, as they contain a lot of jokes that wouldn't translate to screen easily and would resonate with anyon
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by dwd 9mo ago
Reminds me of an old joke from The Onion https://theonion.com/ultra-realistic-modern-warfare-game-fea...
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by dwd 9mo ago
"Keep Calm and Carry On" is very much the British way, even though us Antipodeans refer to them as whinging Poms. Keep a stiff upper lip chaps.
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by dwd 9mo ago
+1 for the Rubber duck, and as an unblocker. My personal use is very much one function at a time. I know what I need something to do, so I get it to write the function which I then piece together. It can even come back with alternatives I m
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by dwd 9mo ago
Parks & Recreation for anyone who's worked in a Government department.
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by dwd 9mo ago
We load haphazardly through the day, though anything that I would predict would be required for the night time meal I would hand wash immediately rather than dump in the dishwasher for the person cooking to have to clean first. Starting the
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by dwd 9mo ago
It is very hard to gain weight when paired with some daily cardio and/or weights, even when you are eating to build up more muscle mass. Eating healthy snacks through the day: handfuls of oily nuts (peanuts, cashews, macadamias), full
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by dwd 9mo ago
Been following a whole food diet for a few years now, with one simple rule: avoid anything pre-made that has preservative or additives. Everything is made as much as possible from scratch with fresh, frozen or dried ingredients. The only do
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by dwd 9mo ago
Been self-hosting for last 20 years and I would have to say LLMs were good for generating suggestions when debugging an issue I hadn't seen before, or for one I had seen before but was looking for a quicker fix. I've used it to ge
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by dwd 9mo ago
> I actually have six species of bamboo on my property. I have enjoyed Steve's rants since "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns" and the Google "Platform rant", but he may need someone to talk to him about bamboo a
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by dwd 9mo ago
A design system I am required to use made a recent "major" update announcement: "Styles have been converted to variables. Styles are out and Figma variables are in". Where what we really needed was a stable release versi
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by dwd 10mo ago
His son Christopher spent his whole life editing and organising all his father's unfinished works. The bulk of that was the History of Middle Earth of which a few volumes cover LoTR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
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by dwd 10mo ago
I was allowed one set as a kid and chose this to pose with my 1:72 Spitfire & Hurricane. https://plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=46
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by dwd 10mo ago
Eric Weinstein made a good point about Trump and his use of language: Trump was much closer to saying “The immigrants are taking your jobs.” Well, to a labor market analyst, that’s not remotely the same thing at all as saying “US employers
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by dwd 10mo ago
> English is hard, even for native speakers. But it's also wonderful! English loves to steal words from other languages, and good writers love to choose the right word. It's like having an expansive wardrobe and picking just th
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by dwd 10mo ago
I've been using pure walnut oil on wooden chopping boards. Anyone else had experience good/bad using walnut?
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by dwd 10mo ago
Played in a thrash metal band during the Halcyon days doing covers of the likes of Anthrax and Metallica and trying our best to write original material. Performing is fun but only a small part of the experience. Our band was one of a 1&#x2F
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by dwd 10mo ago
Exactly. Maybe not HN so much, but Reddit is cooked, as clever/snarky comments are what makes it fun.
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by dwd 11mo ago
This would appear to be further validation of the "Perception is controlled hallucination" theory. Sensory input is secondary and serves only to correct our evolutionary developed predictive processing.
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by dwd 11mo ago
When you have the electronic ticketing system already in place like Brisbane it makes sense to use it to monitor usage, so you can precisely see each journey, and better plan scheduling and expansion. For example, you would be able to see h
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by dwd 11mo ago
I think the cost saving will be realised by not having to expand the road network as quickly if they convince people to use public transport. The cost of land acquisition/resumption along with the improbability of widening some central
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by dwd 11mo ago
Wombats are the same. Cute and cuddly when little and one day just snap.
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by dwd 11mo ago
Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/1360/

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