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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
boiling breaks down cell walls which makes nutrients more available. i'm not an expert but i read about it somewhere.
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
not to get down in the weeds but carrots aren't that fibrous, but their *available fiber content goes up 2.5x when you cook them, from about 2g per stick to 5g. leafy greens, especially kale, are better for filling up. and you still ne
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
it's interesting how the constraint of being in water limits inhabitants from developing technologies like fire and throwing projectiles for hunting. octopuses seem like they have the physiology and neurology to figure out projectiles
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
the problem is when you provide a substitute for a real human need and it's cheap and addictive, the net effect is going to be negative. people will jump to the cheap thing and everything else deteriorates. i'm sure people have po
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
> ...the crows still had to figure out the center-embedded order where open and closed brackets were paired from the outside in...if the birds only learned that open brackets were at the beginning of the sequence and closed ones were at
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
a guy won an Ignobel prize this year for his moose crash test dummy paper https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A673... . one of his suggestions if you're suddenly about to hit a moose, steer tow
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
I agree. I heard a researcher put it like "we often think of the conscious mind as being the guy in the driver's seat, making decisions, and guiding behavior; but really *most of our decision making and behavior is guided by subco
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
I couldn't disagree more. In my opinion the golden rules of naming things are: 1. Names must be descriptive. 2. Names must be unambiguous. 3. Names should be no longer than they need to be to achieve #1 and #2. If your names are becomi
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
I wouldn't want it. In my 15 years of using a credit card I've had fewer than a handful of times where there was a fraudulent transaction on my account. The credit card company covered me, and in total I don't think it has ex
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Monitoring Solar Flares(0123.substack.com)
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Nociception(0123.substack.com)
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Australian Honey Pot Ant(0123.substack.com)
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
I was commenting on monthly cost. Upfront cost for owning is much higher. Compare a mortgage down payment to a rental deposit. How much more expensive proportionally matters; it should be up for discussion democratically. To own property is
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
4x higher tax, not 4x total cost. First housing prices would crash, so rental prices would also drop. And they wouldn't go up 1:1 with tax increases. They would go up by some percentage which is fine. It should be a little more expensi
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
> Renting is no less valid...than ownership I think ownership is better because people value securing the shelter where they sleep. Renting is worse because you can't make decisions about how to improve land and architecture. You ar
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
I would start by making property taxes substantially higher for non-owner-occupied property. If you are rent-seeking rather than residing on the property you should pay way more, maybe 4x or higher, in taxes. Housing prices would crash and
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
It works because of the "inherent compliance of the legs as well as hairlike microstructures on the legs that work kind of like a directional adhesive". It would be hard to manufacture a tiny pressurized system with valves and tho
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
The ideal tool to "discreetly capture [insects] for sample collection". At least 700 actuations before it starts degrading, that's impressive.
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
Dr. Nick Lane is my favorite author on this subject. My reduced summary of a slide he presented titled "what is life" goes: - free energy powers growth - growth is thermodynamically favorable - heredity is growth, doubling by exac
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
> the only thing worse than no documentation is incorrect documentation. verify instructions work. i absolutely agree with the principle but i notice especially with internal projects that it is often not lived up to. once-valid docs bec
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
boredom is useful to a writer. a lot of my favorite writers have mentioned writing all first drafts with pen and paper. what happens in your brain when you're writing is important, even when it feels boring, slow, or repetitive. who ha
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
agreed. i've worked extensively with graphile, and from working with people who were really strong in postgres i learned all the things we needed could be modeled in postgres. many of the less obvious solutions would involve functions,
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
a smart guy i worked with early in my career taught us an order that i always liked "outside-in": display, position, flex, margin, padding, border, background color, text style, etc.. and i'm familiar enough with that approac
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by rojobuffalo 5y ago
> I’d take working with someone who’s great at naming functions and variables over someone who can code a solution to the knapsack problem. totally agree
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by rojobuffalo 5y ago
i love coming back to the 4 thoughts (buddhism). 1. impermance 2. suffering 3. karma 4. precious human birth suffering arises as a failure to recognize impermanence. thoughts and behaviors that reduce suffering create ripple effects (karma)
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by rojobuffalo 5y ago
here's one that animates a CSS radial-gradient and centers it on the click location https://gist.github.com/rojobuffalo/3a4f108937ffcd318c70
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by rojobuffalo 5y ago
i like your hobby. i agree fewer parts is part of the definition of simplicity. i'd suggest "predictability" fits somewhere in the definition as well, in the sense that when you make a change to the system you can predict the
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by rojobuffalo 5y ago
it's naive because it's a common claim that pretty much never plays out that way after a year or two. as to why, i'd say the reasons are poor, but it's because of ego, desire for power and influence, greed
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by rojobuffalo 6y ago
there are payroll companies like https://justworks.com/ that have entities in each state to deal with the wage tax issue. that's the "easy" way as far as i know.
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by rojobuffalo 6y ago
i'm very fond of iOS/macOS Notes app. i use it heavily every day. one breakthrough for me was to stop trying to organize. i just write everything down in bulleted lists. and i create a note for each day with the date at the top, e

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