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by lumb63 2y ago
Almost any diet that contains mostly real food rather than artificial food-like substances will produce substantial improvements in health. Contents are hugely secondary to actually consuming real food.
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by lumb63 2y ago
They might be able to beat “ad blockers” referring to the software that blocks ads; I don’t think they’ll ever beat “ad blockers”, the humans that are looking to block ads. There is a certain breaking point where people will simply not watc
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by lumb63 2y ago
One of my fears with the growing use of LLMs for writing software is that people are using them as a catch-all that prevents them from feeling the pain that indicates to us that there is a better way to do something. For example, nobody wou
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by lumb63 2y ago
+1 for minimalist footwear. I keep telling anyone who will listen, “isn’t it crazy that we don’t have foot shaped shoes?” And then we wonder why we have bunions, knee pain, and tight hips when we sit sedentary at a desk all day in our not-f
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by lumb63 2y ago
I have come to like this approach reasonably well. My current company uses a similarly simple problem to evaluate candidates. For me, it was a breeze, and I thought we’d be hiring slouches left and right. Once I started administering the in
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by lumb63 2y ago
It seems to me that most people will not be willing to lower their standard of traveling to the extent required by public transit in most places in the US, even if travel by car becomes very difficult. The gap is simply too wide. I live in
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by lumb63 2y ago
> It took over a decade of research, elaborate numerical models, and 13 Greek marines fighting in it from dawn till dusk to prove it was surprisingly good at its job A decade of research and mathematical models to determine that an anc
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by lumb63 2y ago
The first step is accepting that you don’t have enough time to do it all simultaneously. From there, I’d suggest you to prioritize the most salient interests. I’d also give preference to interests which require a long-term time commitment.
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by lumb63 2y ago
You talk about demand for home ownership as if it is entirely induced via economics rather than inherently valuable. I don’t understand why? There are reasons why home ownership is desirable neglecting economics entirely. Owning a home give
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by lumb63 2y ago
Almost as if people are skeptical of/apathetic to guidance from an organization that recently got done eroding decades of public trust.
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by lumb63 2y ago
But how do you know another human is “conscious”? Certainly there is an intuitive sense to it that would be very difficult to put into words, but that is the crux of the matter. Every other human, whose brain you have no ability to peer int
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by lumb63 2y ago
Something that has bothered me for a while is the cost structure of college. At least at my school, everyone paid the same amount, plus or minus three or four thousand dollars. Meanwhile, a computer science major will earn on the order of d
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by lumb63 2y ago
This is terrible reporting. I don’t support the warrantless monitoring of citizens via Section 702, but the email displayed shows zero nefariousness as far as I can tell. It is just the FBI deputy director encouraging FBI agents to lawf
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by lumb63 2y ago
Would anyone more familiar with the field be able to provide some cursory resources on the protein folding problem? I have a background in computer science and a half a background in biology (took two semesters of OChem, biology, anatomy; d
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by lumb63 2y ago
The most humbling part is, there’s always another level down. I thought programming code for the Linux kernel was low-level, until I worked on a team where there was an entire separate MCU on the same package underneath the primary cores ru
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by lumb63 2y ago
+1 for embedded software. I work for an IoT company and the web and app devs think LLMs are the saving grace of the universe. The firmware team just keeps chugging along, ignoring the noise, debugging hard problems, and writing unsexy low l
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by lumb63 2y ago
From what I understand (having heard an EE at work talking about this), at bleeding-edge nodes, electromigration is no longer the biggest concern; the reliability of the individual transistors is. They apparently stop transisting eventually
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by lumb63 2y ago
I can’t understand why publications would strike deals for their content to be used for training LLMs. It seems incredibly short-sighted to me. They gain a windfall in exchange for what is basically nailing their own coffin shut.
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by lumb63 2y ago
Another factor which may come into play is inaccuracy. In a distributed system where there is a known algorithm for making local and global decisions that are as-close-to-optimal as the algorithm can determine, then everyone gets to benefit
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by lumb63 2y ago
It also looks like it only applies to foreign peoples? That said, I don’t know how you select for only foreigners without collecting identity.
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by lumb63 2y ago
There is a body of actually elected officials whose job is to create legislation to enact public policies. The FTC is neither elected nor capable of creating legislation. This is an overreach of their power and will likely be ruled as such
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by lumb63 2y ago
Another interpretation is that the ruling party is bribing people now that election season is ramping up by passing rules it knows has no standing in court, but won’t get shot down until post-election. Imagine all the people who voted for B
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by lumb63 2y ago
I didn’t realize this was satire until the second paragraph. Well done. As a firmware engineer who is trying to build a website in his spare time, I find CSS absurd. I’ve found SCSS and Sass make it much more bearable. The ability to repres
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by lumb63 2y ago
It is asymmetrically difficult to lose weight compared to gaining weight. The body wants to maintain homeostasis, but tries way harder when it perceives the threat to be starvation. This makes a lot of sense considering historically that co
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by lumb63 2y ago
What’s most interesting is this is incredibly unpopular amongst voters of both parties.
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by lumb63 3y ago
Milton Friedman discusses this in depth in his book Free to Choose (from the 1980s), for anyone who’s interested. Here we are 40 years later, problem still unsolved.
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by lumb63 3y ago
I think it’s a way of farming status/clout. People who make fun of people who pose fringe ideas are rewarded with likes. People who shut down people on “the other side” are rewarded with likes. People can get likes by pushing the promi
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by lumb63 3y ago
Fantastic. An additional way by which someone looking for help or support from a human can be denied that help and have their needs offloaded to a technology that probably can’t help them. Here’s how I see this playing out: practices start
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by lumb63 3y ago
I’ve thought about this a fair bit. The idea of companies being a firewall for liability to protect individuals seems…off? Companies don’t make decisions, individuals do. Certainly there is some utility to the idea of limiting liability, bu
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by lumb63 3y ago
I see what you’re saying, but I think there’s a moral argument to be made for wanting code to be open source, but for humans only. Contrary to what law says, corporations are not people. The contributors likely feel like their altruism is b

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