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by helmholtz 4y ago
Very interesting recommendation. Is it a slog to get through? Or readable?
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by helmholtz 4y ago
For sure. I love writing, and it's less screen time, plus cognitively better. I have an armchair for reading research papers etc. But I just clean up afterwards. I think Tablets are an unnecessary environmental cost. I bought a 32&quot
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Why? Your whole being leads to a design process. Your whole being, the circumstances you grew up in determined what you value. This determines whether you like cozy spaces, or stark sterile spaces, dark or light wood, pops of colours or neu
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Mine looks exactly the same because I clean it. I work paperfree anyway, since I can do engineering on the PC. I ruthlessly move everything out of my visual periphery and in a storage or a cabinet away from my eyeline. Whether that makes me
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by helmholtz 4y ago
That one always cracks me up. Munroe truly is a genius. The 'imaginary friends' one is just as funny.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Video editing, photo editing, connecting a Focusrite to the machine. Connecting a midi keyboard. Connecting a remote printer. Connecting a Bluetooth headset. Getting usable battery life. Installing software that allegedly supports Linux. Al
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Isn't this incorrect? If it's summer, south of the Tropic of Cancer , the stick should be North of the line. It's the Tropic of Cancer where the sun is overhead, not at the equator. Or did I understand basic astrophysics wro
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by helmholtz 4y ago
As always , it is a question of degree. A young adult in the 70s had plenty of time to reflect and live outside. The technology of the preceding 50 years has not made this more accessible. If anything, the slot-machine nature of our comput
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Hedonistic Adaptation. People love the photos of themselves from the 90s, 80s, 70s and every previous decade before that. You're definitely on the bleeding edge of that adaptation. For most people, phones from 5 years ago are already e
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by helmholtz 4y ago
And? GPs response was way more combative than the explicit pause. The guy took pains to highlight "assuming a good faith discussion". Clearly, it's a question that IS on the table. It's driven by wanting to understand fu
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by helmholtz 4y ago
That website really grinds my gears. He's the equivalent of an HN influencer I guess, because I seem to come across him every three days. Like the Stratecherry guy. And it's so naff. It's clearly designed to look like that
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by helmholtz 4y ago
If you're a long distance hiker, Matt Shafter's video [1] is very useful. The sleeping bag, instead of going first thing in, kind of spreads _around_ the other heavier objects, which we try to keep close to the lower back / b
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Brilliant. I had to look up how to solve it, but highly recommend others spend some time on it.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
High-brow humour is not HN's strong suit it would appear :)
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Key word being some. If everything is emphasized than nothing is. Growing up in India, I'd day good riddance to shouty colors and permanent visual overstimulation. Grey is calmn. Neutrals are calmn. Fuck colors.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Could you give more context to why that is so? Couldn't it be adjusted the way something like income tax is?
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by helmholtz 4y ago
That's not my experience. I need to be making progress to be sane. Achieving something small everyday makes me have confidence in life and a sense of control. This is crucial to keep existential dread at bay. I have a calendar where I
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Succinctly, that is why we have the society we do. Great meta commentary.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Why are you seeking absolute definitions where none exist? If you have to ask, its probably bad for you. Edges of the grocery store, avoid the aisles, ingredients-not-meals, things not in packaging.... Rules of thumbs abound. Next, a bit of
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Flat leafed parsley, Parmesan, and mix this all into farfalle and its a Gordon Ramsay approved recipe.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
This seems like unnecessary nitpicking. What would you say are examples of ultraprocessed food that's not full of salt, sugar and fat?
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Hahaha, my first thought as I clicked the comments was "I wonder if Chris already has this in DifferentialEquations.jl" and here we are.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
"Apparently not your case" My friend, I lived most of my life in India. Trust me. I know everything there is to know about heat. I KNOW the engineers who're in this field. I see them every year at the same damn conference, wh
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by helmholtz 4y ago
It's useful in warm and humid climates. In warm and dry climates, a swamp cooler will beat the pants off of an airconditioner in damn near every metric you can think of. So, sure, in the swamps of Florida, we should be OK with using
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by helmholtz 4y ago
And stepwells, and latticework false walls, and high ceilings, and ventilators at the top of the house, and having a false-basement thing in houses where it's a bit cooler in the afternoons, and siestas and walking slowly from place to
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by helmholtz 4y ago
It is intrinsically better though. Wired sound infinitely nicer sounding, and with much lower latency. Will we ever have a day when wireless will be sufficiently low latency?
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Yep, me too. I guess most programmers dont know what modelica is or does.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
"Plenty of supply" and "peak oil" are not mutually exclusive
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Username checks out I guess. This is an extremely low-effort comment. It seems that you would _prefer_ to live in a society where job security is so fragile that a well-meaning letter can get you fired?
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by helmholtz 4y ago
What the fuck? So one should actively go out and seek more of it? To me, BECAUSE things are uncertain, there's even more value in things that can be made certain. Then, we at least have the hope of being free to devote our limited, anx

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