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by mckirk 4y ago
For productivity I've also tried binaural sound, and found it can help me focus (or at least make me imagine it helps me focus, which is close enough for me). There's a great website that allows you to customize quite a few parame
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For people interested in using caffeine for tasks that don't provide an outlet for the jitteriness in the form of physical exercise: Check out L-Theanine[1], it works wonders for keeping caffeine's focus, but dampening the anxious
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I was already halfway through the article when I realized I'd misunderstood the title: It's not about about using games to interview people (Factorio style), which still might have made sense to test self-taught engineers, but abo
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It's a great title for catching your eye though! And for making you wonder if you're having a stroke.
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Long Covid Has Forced a Reckoning for One of Medicine’s Most Neglected Diseases(theatlantic.com)
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Incidentally, that song was written with Chesley Sullenberger in mind, the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, which he glide-landed in the Hudson River. That guy is a real hero, and apparently a real human bean.
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Damn. I guess it's a pretty bad sign then if you've been meaning to floss more for ages, but keep forgetting.
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When you see that art style, you know it's going to be good.
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So then wouldn't it basically be 142% louder?
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I get the feeling it might not be as easy to implement as your comment makes it sound. Granted, I have no idea about hardware design, but it would be hilarious if you e.g. calibrated your EMI-detection a little too sensitively and your PC s
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I would actually be quite interested in seeing some numbers to back that up, but I'm not sure if there have been studies on the damage of mining yet. In some ways, letting a GPU run at a constant load (and thus constant temperature) is
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I definitely have, and I wouldn't use an electric furnace nowadays unless there was no alternative. That's what the 'I'm kidding' was meant for. Sadly, heat pumps can't mine Bitcoins on the side afaik, so I cou
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I completely understand; C&C and Need for Speed were an important part of my youth and to see them treated so badly has left me with quite the poor opinion of EA. But for some reason, their shitty way of running the game business seems
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And here I was, having a good day, when you had to remind me of EA's atrocities... Kane Lives!
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Well that's easy: a 2kW Bitcoin miner heats your house just as well as a 2kW electric furnace. (I'm kidding but I'm also not; I'm regularly amazed by the fact that the most complex and intricate computational machines ha
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Ultimately it's a game theoretic problem though, isn't it? Your own personal impact on energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions is negligible, even if you are jetting around in your private jet. Therefore it only matters wh
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I can also wholeheartedly recommend the audio book, it's quite well narrated and definitely kept me glued to my earphones for a while.
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Holy crap, this is amazing. I've wondered about this a lot when it kept happening, and so far my most likely seeming theory had been 'static discharge through the carpet', or something like that... But the chair generating an
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I'd just get a Keychron in whatever format you prefer, maybe together with a set of keycaps you like. Still fairly cheap compared to going full custom, but definitely respectable performance. I'd always go for hot-swappable switch
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Not sure why that's a good thing; I'd expect the 48% to rise in the wake of this, and that's certainly not what you'd want.
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I have to admit, I did not expect them to be able to weather a crash like the recent one, and I've mentally upgraded Tether from 'could go at any moment and take the crypto market with it' to 'will need some good reason
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Genuinely curious, what do you like about it compared to Win10? I've only tried it in a VM for a few minutes so far, but was unnerved by the general feeling of 'pretty, but impractical', mainly thanks to the taskbar and the r
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Just look at Windows 11 to see how far removed designers can be from users, despite probably seeming quite competent.
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On the one hand, I personally enjoy exercises like this, and the end result is quite pleasing to look at. On the other hand, the whole idea is kind of funny to me. In my experience, a proclivity to programming serious low-level code in C ve
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The amount of data Spotify has on user behavior must be awe-inducing. Not that I'm complaining, the Algorithm has shown me plenty of good music that I would have missed otherwise. Seeing the data analyzed like this and the results publ
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Seeing as initially, inflation was primarily driven by Covid-related supply chain issues, which itself would have been 'transitory', I think it was quite reasonable to call the resulting inflation 'transitory' as well. C
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I read this as 'emerge from 5 weeks hiking' at first and thought 'well, that's relatable to be honest'.
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It might be worth distinguishing here between 'some people that can time the market' and 'market conditions that can be timed by some people'. 'You can't time the market' would preclude both, but I think G
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I recently got back into the C&C franchise and realized how much I'd missed that part of my childhood. It was pretty cool to realize there's still an active community around these games -- check out Sybert on YT, he's doi
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Is it really meaningless? Despite how fuzzy the exact boundaries might be defined, I think it would be pretty safe to assume weed would be in the 'soft' category, and crack in the 'hard' category.

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