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by pgt 5y ago
Same with food. If I have unhealthy food in the house, I will eventually eat it in a moment of weakness when I experience a dip in fortitude. So the solution has been to not allow bad food in the house, by never shopping on an empty stomach
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by pgt 5y ago
I used to be in in favour of nuclear. Nuclear works if you can guarantee political stability for 100+ years, but here in South Africa we can't even keep our coal plants running, nevermind guarantee political stability for 28 years (las
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by pgt 5y ago
Ah, I also stopped at 19 and didn't even notice the paddles were shrinking! Yeah, maybe speed up. And powerups in the middle that make ball bigger or grows one paddle again would be interesting.
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by pgt 5y ago
+1 for successfully marketing on HN.
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by pgt 5y ago
15-minute cycle to the coffee shop and back forces oxygen in my brain. I also take a full-spectrum mushroom complex: Shiitake, Maitake, Lion's Mane, Cordyceps, & Reishi.
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by pgt 5y ago
Congratulations on playing and solving Wordledles: meta Wordle!
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by pgt 5y ago
Simpson’s Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
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by pgt 5y ago
There’s a genetic component - don’t remember which gene, but only some are subject to its effects.
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by pgt 5y ago
Aren't blood cells made in our bones? If yes, it seems reasonable to assume that anything which affects bone density would also affect blood cell production, no?
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by pgt 5y ago
Yes, backend is easier.
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by pgt 5y ago
Unfortunately this is only an excerpt from a longer article and does not offer any answers about what the diet of the ancient past was, or what the diet of the future should be.
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by pgt 5y ago
> "He eventually pulled together lists of best practices and key principles of innovation based on this work, which became “the theory of inventive problem solving” alternatively known as TRIZ. > Believing he was on to something,
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by pgt 5y ago
If you want to unify markup, styling and behaviour, Reagent with its Hiccup syntax remains the holy grail for me: http://reagent-project.github.io/
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by pgt 5y ago
IP address per device instead of per network interface. Lisp instead of JavaScript.
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by pgt 5y ago
They turn blue when cut: https://shroombros.co/the-mystery-solved-why-magic-mushrooms...
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by pgt 5y ago
Frank Herbert was a mycologist. It is not widely known that the blue eyes of the Fremen in Dune are an homage to the cerulean blue of Psilocybe mushrooms. In Chapter 9 of Mycelium Running, Paul Stamets reveals: “Frank went on to tell me tha
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by pgt 5y ago
If you simulate a depressed brain sufficiently accurately, are you prolonging the suffering of a depressed mind?
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by pgt 5y ago
Janet is dynamic with a garbage collector. Carp is a GC-less static Lisp with deterministic memory allocation via a Rust-like borrow checker. I only wish Carp had stayed nearer Clojure's syntax. A more familiar syntax would make it mor
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by pgt 5y ago
/all chat, not all chat.
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by pgt 5y ago
Phone numbers should act like URIs that resolve to one or more contacts via "DNS".
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by pgt 5y ago
I've done some thinking in the ACL space: https://github.com/theronic/eacl (totally beta software - don't use in production)
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by pgt 5y ago
Well done
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by pgt 5y ago
The Web After Tomorrow beckons: https://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/ Well done, @dustingetz!
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by pgt 5y ago
Go go go Nikita! If there is anyone in the Clojuresphere who could pull this off, it is Tonsky.
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by pgt 5y ago
Wow, this is basically deconvolution. Can't wait to hear this applied to reverby audio. Reverb is basically blurring ('smearing' of sound) in the audio domain.
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by pgt 5y ago
I, for one, was hoping for an anatomical analysis of the evolution of the universal sphincter. This article is about assholes in life/the workplace.
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by pgt 5y ago
Presumably for the same reason that GPS time signals had (have?) pseudorandom noise added: to prevent an adversary from using your own systems to steer missiles with high precision.
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by pgt 5y ago
I for one am looking at alternatives.
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by pgt 5y ago
Every year RMS sounds less crazy.
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by pgt 5y ago
In South Africa, the power frequently goes out. Gas doesn't fail in a centralized way, though the supply can.

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