rpozarickij

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by rpozarickij 3y ago
> I also think that an average duck is happier than an average human. Perhaps being able to think doesn't help much when it comes to happiness. Thinking is useful practically but it's as if you have to suppress it in order to e
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
And this channel has been active for 16 years already (the first video was posted in Dec 2007).
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> increase frequencies you don’t hear well Wouldn't that make you less sensitive to those frequencies and thus speed up the worsening of the hearing issues?
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
In curlconverter.com clicking on "C" redirects you to the --libcurl option documentation page instead of generating a C snippet. Wouldn't a more user-friendly way be to still generate a C snippet, but to mention that it can b
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
I'm curious what do you mean by "utopian" and could you give some examples?
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
Bose SoundLink Flex Bluetooth Speaker I was blown away by the sound quality produced by this relatively small speaker. It has very rich bass and other frequencies sound very good too. I often carry it around my apartment and use for things
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
Although a bit above $200, but I own an Aranet4 CO2 monitor (it also measures humidity, air pressure, and temperature). It has a great app that allows you to see historical data too. I've been using it for a while already and I'm
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
It turns out that when you Google "cicada", there's a speaker button near the Wikipedia card in the top right corner which allows you to play the sound of cicadas from within the search results page.
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Twist[0] has been announced a while ago already. It should have a 12-inch color e-ink display in addition to a regular display. It was supposed to become available in June 2023, but there's only silence. [0]: htt
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
Hm, I still couldn't find the price after signing up for the newsletter.
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I wonder how is it possible to use less total energy? If you need to apply an amount of energy to travel a given distance, the amount can't be that different whether the energy comes from muscles or from an electric motor (or a combina
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
> avoid thinking and effort and instead rely on an external brain For me personally this was probably the biggest game changer because I'm now able to offload a lot of thinking to GPT-based tools and use my brain cycles for the less
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
> did they talk about using it as a display for a Mac? Actually the did: > bring the powerful capabilities of their Mac into Vision Pro wirelessly, creating an enormous, private, and portable 4K display with incredibly crisp text I wo
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
> I mostly sit with my noise cancelling headphones on, with no sound. And lately, I'm just moving towards not having them on at all when I'm not in meetings. I find it very difficult to sit in complete silence. It's as if
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by rpozarickij 4y ago
Side question: are there any Discord channels in this area (learning new programming languages) worth attention?
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Salginatobel Bridge(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rpozarickij 4y ago
Nowadays it's as if silence creates some type of mental pressure inside me. I found this to work really well in many different situations: https://youtu.be/P48QELwruQs
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by rpozarickij 4y ago
You can be attentive while not giving your 100% to the task. For example while writing a piece of code you might know what you want to accomplish but you aren't straining your brain to type out the actual code. So you type the name of
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by rpozarickij 4y ago
I'm really sorry to hear that you're struggling so much. I've been dealing with sleep issues for the last ~7 years, but it's not as bad as what you are having. I do relate to that state of barely getting any sleep and th
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by rpozarickij 4y ago
> higher brightness monitors There's also an emerging market of RLCD (reflective LCD) monitors which don't use internal backlight but instead rely on external light. If the monitor receives enough light the image is pretty shar
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by rpozarickij 4y ago
Maybe we need some type of credit system that takes the health of the battery into account. For example, if you have a new battery you also have 1000 credits. If you swap it for an older battery (which is worth, say, 500 credits), you'
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by rpozarickij 4y ago
In addition to the aforementioned items, I've recently accidentally discovered that I sleep way better with earplugs. Silicon ones (they require some know-how when it comes to putting them in properly, which is mostly a process of tria
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by rpozarickij 4y ago
I'm curious whether the people who designed those old buildings back in the day really thought about cooling or it was just a welcome (as long as heatwaves don't last too long, as mentioned in other comments) side effect of making
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by rpozarickij 4y ago
> The human body loses the ability to cool it self with 100% humidity I wonder whether there are practical/efficient ways of decreasing humidity in situations like this in closed spaces? So that you could use a regular fan again to
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by rpozarickij 4y ago
On Android tethering can be enabled with just a few taps. I wonder whether this could be automated, e.g. you click on the macOS toolbar and a macOS app communicates with an Android app and the apps do the needed actions in the respective op
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by rpozarickij 5y ago
A bit off-topic and I don't know whether anyone will find it as interesting as I did, but today while reading the source code of npm I stumbled upon a word called "arborist" (which means "tree surgeon" ( https:&#x2F
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by rpozarickij 5y ago
> what are the practical steps one takes to "repair" or "renew" their gut It was already mentioned in other threads, but you can find valuable insights in the AIP (autoimmune protocol) diet. Its main principle is that
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Any tips for finding such places? As for someone who has been living in the same city for their whole adult life, the thought of finding a place in a different country/city that would tick as many boxes as possible seems quite daunting
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by rpozarickij 5y ago
I have evaporative dry eye caused by meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD). In short, my tears evaporate too fast because my eyelids don't produce enough of the lipid part of tears. I used to have occasional symptoms of dry eyes without kn