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by henryaj 1y ago
It's interesting looking at the messages of recent commits of people removing their names: - Upon reflection, I don't think this letter was the right approach for this situation. Although I cannot retract my initial decision to si
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by henryaj 1y ago
Given its role in energy transfer, does this suggest creatine might be a good supplement for improving sleep?
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by henryaj 1y ago
Also the working on PRs workflow seems broken - the local branch doesn't have the changes that are on the PR so I can't pick it up and continue working on it. Agreed that worktrees seem clearly better.
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by henryaj 1y ago
> Fake meat isn't really a product for vegetarians/vegans This is just flat-out wrong.
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by henryaj 1y ago
Why do you fucking think? Because it's tasty. You can disagree with the ethics of how we make animals suffer because they taste nice and still think they taste nice.
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by henryaj 1y ago
WhatsApp has a somewhat similar feature - pull up to start a group voice chat. You can ping others to let them know you're around. https://faq.whatsapp.com/1973730693032338
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by henryaj 1y ago
WhatsApp has this now - https://faq.whatsapp.com/1973730693032338
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by henryaj 1y ago
You imply that, like a stopped clock, LLMs are only right occasionally and randomly. Which is just nonsense.
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by henryaj 1y ago
Also very very good is Guesstimate - https://www.getguesstimate.com/ .
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by henryaj 2y ago
I had a very similar experience during a lab internship I took during my biochemistry undergrad degree. First part of a project was running PCR on a particular plasmid that we were going to use to transfer a gene into Drosophila. But for so
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by henryaj 2y ago
Yup. From Sam Bowman's Foundations[0]: > [The TCPA] moved Britain from a system where almost any development was permitted anywhere, to one where development was nearly always prohibited. Since [it] was introduced in 1947, private h
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Heroku – second outage in two days(status.heroku.com)
9 points by henryaj 2y ago|2 comments
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by henryaj 2y ago
I read it. I'm so sorry for what you went through, and that times are hard. Sending hugs your way. Late 40s - you have so much of your life ahead of you! Are you medicated (with e.g. actual antidepressants)? Please explore that avenue
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by henryaj 2y ago
That stuff looks fucking terrifying. Incredibly potent and super lipophilic so long-acting...
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by henryaj 2y ago
I love Connections! Can you tell us more about your benchmark?
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by henryaj 2y ago
I don't know what to believe. That document is pretty damning reading to be honest (thank you for sharing and pointing to the relevant sections), but the original post from Melzer still raises some alarming issues I think
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by henryaj 2y ago
Is it? It's missing context but it's not misrepresenting the facts of the case.
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by henryaj 2y ago
Thanks. I guess that's the '27 August 2010' update in that document - is there more to read on it somewhere? The doc I linked suggested it was the police who modified SW's statement, which triggered the re-evaluation of
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by henryaj 2y ago
> [SW's] police report states that, after Assange woke her up trying to initiate intercourse, the two had a conversation in which she asked Assange whether he was wearing a condom and he replied he was not. She then said he “would b
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by henryaj 2y ago
Statement from Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, on Assange and the accusations of rape against him - https://medium.com/@njmelzer/response-to-open-letter-of-1-ju...
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by henryaj 2y ago
Yup. Easy to destroy trust.
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Wegovy and Ozempic (semaglutide) associated with reduction in alcohol addiction(recursiveadaptation.com)
76 points by henryaj 2y ago|162 comments
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by henryaj 2y ago
This seems very surprising for a molecule that intercalates DNA!
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by henryaj 3y ago
> Also microsd is a terrible for long term storage. How come? I would have thought flash would be better than e.g. a regular hard drive.
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by henryaj 3y ago
What's the safety angle? Presumably her potential stalkers are unlikely to have access to surface-to-air missiles.
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by henryaj 3y ago
> There are now mountains of exceptionally good research showing a solid causal link between social media use and negative mental health impacts Given that essentially every young person uses social media, I don't see how there can
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by henryaj 3y ago
I dunno, I think billionaires are doing a pretty good job changing the world (thinking of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and OpenPhil as the best examples). https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/again
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by henryaj 3y ago
> dictators and other bad people not dying Equally true of trying to cure cancer, or infant mortality, or medicine generally - you're giving healthy years of life to good and bad people alike.
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by henryaj 3y ago
> Slowing down aging is like going to space: it’s a fun complicated problem for nerds to think about but it is utterly meaningless to the quality of 99% of lives on earth. Except that aging is the causative factor behind Alzheimer's
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by henryaj 3y ago
Agreed - Bentham is a hero.

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