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by kovek 5y ago
Here’s a video about happiness. It explains that has something to do with our prefrontal cortex (which IIRC is related to intelligence) - https://youtu.be/4q1dgn_C0AU
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by kovek 5y ago
I feel as if my doctor doesn’t take my signals seriously. Should I find a different doctor? How do I find one that will fit?
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by kovek 5y ago
In the examples I gave, the individual had found the solutions by themselves.
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Ask HN: How do you hack your health?
1 points by kovek 5y ago|6 comments
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by kovek 5y ago
The article doesn’t seem to discuss much about dogs?
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by kovek 5y ago
I wish the ground on the bike lanes was a different color. Color is a nice cue that you’re entering the bike lane when walking
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by kovek 5y ago
This reminds me of standing up too fast
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by kovek 5y ago
Reminds me of the games Buddha would not play
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by kovek 5y ago
This might not be the right place to ask.. How to find value from LessWrong? I see people derive value from it, but when I visit it, it’s not obvious
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by kovek 5y ago
I like to mention Mouth Taping since so few people know about it. Keeping the mouth closed at night helps with a few issues. This idea is unpolular (unlike CPAP, for example), but it can help, do check it out
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by kovek 5y ago
Could there be a tool that would translate PRQL to SQL? One could then write in ~/my_scripts/closest_points.prql and then run a command to get the sql equivalent and use that in exiting SQL tools that do not currently access PRQL
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by kovek 5y ago
I think in the beginning of the century some older people felt similar towards websites and such. “It doesn’t work the way I want”. Some technical/knowledgeable people understood the nuances. Same goes here
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by kovek 5y ago
ECS or "Entity, Component, System". You have Entities (like a soccer ball or a player, or any object in the game) which are objects, that contain a list of Components (like phenomenons on the entity, like physics, sound tracks, he
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by kovek 5y ago
Seems like the some of the best work is done in thinking during menial tasks moreso than during actual coding time!
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by kovek 5y ago
Just as you can find meaning in the path you took. See how people will be happy even after missing some opportunities - https://youtu.be/4q1dgn_C0AU?t=1001 . It depends on our prefrontal cortex!
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by kovek 5y ago
I just learned that I need to pay aws 400$ for last month. I was thinking it would be 50$.
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by kovek 5y ago
If only we could use software to query the text of the bills.
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by kovek 5y ago
I thought passport has libraries for the web server also
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by kovek 5y ago
I really like to use code-server instead
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by kovek 5y ago
Does passport do something similar?
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by kovek 5y ago
I believe most mental health issues are symptoms of a general health issues. Improving sleep is first (check out mouth tape). Then comes getting out of the house. Then exercise like yoga (improve your breathing). Then come other life change
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by kovek 5y ago
Tape your mouth shut when sleeping. Search google/youtube “Mouth taping for sleep”
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by kovek 5y ago
Airpods Max are difficult to connect to macbook pros
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by kovek 5y ago
This is the discussion I’m curious about. Is there some theory around valuing something? Are we declaring that a company will be worth X Net capital in Y years? Actually, I believe investors try to maintain a P/E of around 15 (or 20-30
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Ask HN: Great Equations Editor
2 points by kovek 5y ago|0 comments
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by kovek 5y ago
Most text editors work in what vim calls "insert mode" Vim also has normal mode where every key has an effect on the editing. You can jump forward, backward, delete a word, a line, yank(copy), paste. readline and MacOS Cocoa also
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by kovek 5y ago
Will users eventually be more empowered against the publications? All of these publications try to play against human biases to receive attention and sell ads. There are psychological tricks. By now we should have tools that distill whose i
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by kovek 5y ago
Such a strong belief that moderate drinking is beneficial.. "It gets the heart running". How to explain that it's not beneficial? How to show a study and have people believe in said study? Which study did you refer to?
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by kovek 5y ago
Will it be possible to one day make custom orders to the fabs for custom designs at very low volume?
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by kovek 5y ago
Qualia is the ability to experience for example the color red. Or the color blue. An exercise… The universe is interesting, it contains some fields, some particles, some quarks, protons, electrons, photons. Some places don’t have light and

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