rpozarickij

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by rpozarickij 14d ago
I wanted to mention AWS Snowmobile [0], but after looking it up I found that apparently it was discontinued [1]. It seems that nowadays there are more economical/efficient alternatives (I guess theoretically you could still beat these
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by rpozarickij 14d ago
> verify you're a human There could be a technology that cryptographically ensures that each letter/character came from a physical keypress/touch from a human when you want to interact with a human online in written form,
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by rpozarickij 16d ago
> Your account may be terminated if you don't have a Paid account and haven't accessed for 6 months I hope file sync is treated as "access", otherwise this would make me anxious.
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by rpozarickij 19d ago
> During the winter time the GPU also doubles as a 300W in-house heater There could be a service that works in reverse where if someone needs a heater for a few months, they could rent a portable server (e.g. using older repurposed GPUs)
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by rpozarickij 22d ago
A fun fact about another well known company - Foxconn. Apparently the founder Terry Gou came up with this name by joining words "fox" and "conn". Fox is an animal he liked and "conn" refers to connectors (which
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by rpozarickij 27d ago
I've seen people using "chat" to refer to ChatGPT because it's easier/simpler. I'm pretty sure an average person has no idea that chat.com will redirect you to chatgpt.com (or what a redirect is for that matter
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by rpozarickij 1mo ago
The Unhook extension on Firefox does a very good job of hiding various parts of YouTube (including Shorts) that you don't want to see/access. I use the YouTube app very rarely, but out of curiosity I went to iOS YouTube app settin
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by rpozarickij 3mo ago
Before owning a Garmin watch (Epix Pro Gen 2 in my case) I had no idea just how useful always having a flashlight* with you is. I'd put this feature near all the health/digital features in terms of usefulness. I have it set to red
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by rpozarickij 3mo ago
According to Wikipedia [0] the headquarters of IERS (International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service) is in Frankfurt, Germany (contact information on their website [1] has an address in Frankfurt too). The web server hosting the
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by rpozarickij 3mo ago
There's also Homerow [0] that adds Vimium-like features OS-wide on macOS. It does have some rough edges but overall I've been very happy with it. It usually works well even on apps that don't have proper keyboard navigation i
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by rpozarickij 4mo ago
There's also a level above that, where you're aware of what is aware. I find this mental state to be even more calming/grounding than being aware of breathing but I'm not always able to shift myself into it. Being aware
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by rpozarickij 4mo ago
While this is true, but to my understanding this applies to women as well. Even one of these things has lots of benefits, but both are even better.
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by rpozarickij 4mo ago
Magnesium Taurate is the form of magnesium I settled on. I take 1500mg of it (300mg elemental Mg) every evening before sleep, but I feel that even half of this dose has a noticeable effect on my sleep. Magnesium Glycinate was destroying my
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by rpozarickij 4mo ago
> If simpler packaging lowers costs and sales stay the same In reality packaging is a very big part of marketing. People are drawn by vivid and bright colors, which is especially relevant in the modern world where unfortunately so many o
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by rpozarickij 4mo ago
I wonder whether the mere-exposure effect [0] could also be at play here. For me, the first reaction to the Ferrari Luce was utter shock, but after looking at it again several hours later I'm starting to see some of its exterior elemen
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by rpozarickij 5mo ago
When I installed very high quality (CRI 98, R9 94, virtually flicker free) light bulbs to one of my apartment rooms I had headaches and felt occasional confusion for about a week while being in that room, so I had to slowly increase the amo
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by rpozarickij 5mo ago
I've played other instruments (not very professionally) for 10y when I was much younger but was often surrounded by sounds of violins and these don't sound realistic at all. My main instrument was the saxophone and whenever I hear
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by rpozarickij 6mo ago
It's also worth keeping in mind that Anthropic's compute needs are nothing like those of a company like Shopify or Adobe, so revenue might not paint accurately enough the picture of what they're dealing with right now.
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by rpozarickij 6mo ago
Direct livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo
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by rpozarickij 7mo ago
I'm curious whether Apple has addressed the tinnitus issue of its ANC technology (or some part of it). I couldn't use neither AirPods Max nor AirPods Pro (1st generation) because they were making my tinnitus noticeably worse. I ha
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by rpozarickij 7mo ago
In addition to uBlock Origin I'm also using AdGuard as my home WiFi DNS server and I'm seeing zero ads and no cookie notices in the linked article. For cookies I'm using uBlock Origin's Filter lists which are available i
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by rpozarickij 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure for me "mining.fyi" wouldn't have created any associations with landmines (although "mines.fyi" does seem to match the contents of the website closer). It'd be really interesting to see A&#
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by rpozarickij 8mo ago
This isn't exactly the same but I've been using git-recent [0] (with `gr` alias) for many years. It sorts branches based on checkout order (which is what I usually need when switching between branches) and allows to easily choose
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by rpozarickij 8mo ago
I use the Background Sounds feature (in Accessibility settings) on iOS with a Bluetooth speaker every night while I sleep. It's quite battery-friendly and has several sound options alongside dedicated volume control with which you can
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by rpozarickij 8mo ago
Limiting animal fats (which are mostly saturated fats) has a very noticeable and measurable effect on how I'm feeling and doing overall. Primarily using olive/avocado oil and nuts/seeds as my fat sources significantly improve
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by rpozarickij 8mo ago
I've been doing this for a very long time but I use rolled oats and plain water (I drain the water completely before eating). I eat soaked oats every day and always have a fresh bowl or two soaking in the fridge. They are still fine to
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by rpozarickij 8mo ago
> peanut butter While peanut butter does contain some useful nutrients, there are much better choices out there in case someone would like to further improve/optimize their nutrition. Many topics in nutrition can be quite debatable
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by rpozarickij 8mo ago
I've developed a habit of holding my breath for a few seconds whenever a particularly smelly/polluting car drives by me while I'm walking on the street, so when I hear/see an EV approaching I often feel relieved. I'
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by rpozarickij 9mo ago
> 4,000 tons I did some math out of curiosity to better visualize this amount in my head. If we assume that a typical serving of potatoes in a meal where potatoes are an important part is 200g, then with 4 million kg of potatoes you can
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by rpozarickij 9mo ago
The Reuters article doesn't mention it, but apparently Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) [0] designed [1] this airport. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaha_Hadid_Architects [1] https://www.zaha-hadid.com&#

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