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by seadan83 2y ago
Re: yawning I listened to a "Science Vs" podcast on it (or perhaps it was "unexplainable"), yawning is not yo increase oxygen levels. Study participants sat in an oxygen enriched room and also a depleted room without a c
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by seadan83 2y ago
> supposedly thinking and walking are a new relationship, previously impossible Not quite, the relationship between walking and thinking is more salient now. Not previously impossible. Note OP cites examples of walking that are all pract
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by seadan83 2y ago
Okay, and when your feisty neighbors take all your jerky and have hunted all the animals that are not in hibernating - then what? While "simple", that does not equate to abundant nor easy. Or, would you agree that there was plenty
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by seadan83 2y ago
How do we know there would be a selection for younger people? Someone with a family is perhaps less inclined to change jobs. Someone older is more likely to have health issues or a dependent with health issues, which is an even stronger dis
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by seadan83 2y ago
The ideas and implications of greater access to music, and a lower barrier to creation IMO are interesting. Though, "worse" is utterly subjective. There is no way to rationally consider the sentiment until it is quantified in _som
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by seadan83 2y ago
Agile is meant to be a collaborative process with a user or customer to discover the truly desired objective. Baked into agile is the notion of changing courses. A business that wants a deliverable by a certain date wants a contract - not A
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by seadan83 2y ago
My summary statement saying "everyone" should be taken into context rather than strawmanned. Fwiw, and also across most of europe in a similar time period: "The Great Famine of 1315–1317 (occasionally dated 1315–1322) was the
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by seadan83 2y ago
How do you hunt for dinner in a cold winter? I appreciate your glibness, I was equally glib when I wrote "everyone"
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by seadan83 2y ago
Not in the very slightest? Didn't most early american colonies die of starvation and disease? I feel you completely discounted this: "Our ancestors would have been lean and would not have typically expended energy for just pure le
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by seadan83 2y ago
Interesting you mention walking as what our ancestors did. Until about 100 years ago, food and energy scarcity was the norm. Our ancestors would have been lean and would not have typically expended energy for just pure leisure. In other wor
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by seadan83 2y ago
What is your definition of utilitarianism? Utilitarianism is not a form of democracy. Good is not subject to a vote and is not decided by the masses. Fwiw: "Utilitarianism is a theory of morality that advocates actions that foster happ
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by seadan83 2y ago
TLDR: (1) Wikipedia lists as one of the rules to not draft. That is the 5 bicycle length minimum distance provision [2]. (2) think of fastest-known-times (FKTs) like sailing around the world. Guiness does not list them all, guiness is not
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by seadan83 2y ago
That makes sense for tour de France. They spend a lot of time attacking and then conserving energy. The attacks are zone 5 (hr) efforts. High toll on the body and immune system. Endurance athletes ride differently, they avoid higher power z
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by seadan83 2y ago
For the record Lael was going for, there is a restriction. Drafting would be allowed for a team effort, which would be multiple cyclists. I don't understand therefore why you write: "There is no restriction against drafting"
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by seadan83 2y ago
There are a few different records for around the world. This is the self supported, solo, womens record. No drafting is required for that record.
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by seadan83 2y ago
From the article: > Environmental advocates have long pushed to end logging in primary or old-growth forests, which soak up far more climate-damaging carbon than logged-and-replanted areas.
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by seadan83 2y ago
I take you are referring to a different filter. I was responding to: > "the unfortunate truth is that filtering for someone who's already in a good situation is actually a really good filter " Be what it may, the "car
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by seadan83 2y ago
Because the answers are likely not reliable anyways. Catfishing is the term.
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by seadan83 2y ago
> The hiring process sucks and it sucks that this method of filtering works, but it does work. How do you know this? (That this is not just sampling error, survivor bias, and/or confirmation bias) I speculate that a good hire is alm
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by seadan83 2y ago
The interesting stuff that will make an employment unpleasant is not going to come out in an interview. That stuff comes out over time. To boot, I can think of quiet a few lies/half truths from interviewers. It is like dating, nobody s
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by seadan83 2y ago
> This is an example of superior intellectual performance to humans. So is too multiplying _many_ large numbers together. > The llm understands what it is unminifying and it is in general superior to humans on this regard. Proof neede
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by seadan83 2y ago
Reads more like a screed than an essay. I agree with other commenter so far argument provided is weak. I found lots of false equivalencies, and unsupported logic. This one example was striking: > But like all organisms, modifying our env
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by seadan83 2y ago
My mistake, good correction
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by seadan83 2y ago
Generally agree, but the principle of paying attention and proceeding with caution vs blinding trust in signaling remains. Another example would be roundabouts.
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Emitting heat technically. Imagine rocks warmed by a fire or those in a sauna, they cool off very, very slowly. At earths core is a giant chunk of super compressed and super heated lead. I don't recall if the core is the size of the mo
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by seadan83 2y ago
Maybe, but that was not the question. I think that perspective is lacking context as well. Programming has generally gotten better over the last 50 years. It is not a dichotomy of just good code vs bad. Most code is bad, has been bad, and b
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by seadan83 2y ago
Thanks for pulling the quote. I agree. It is a distinction of "should be" and must be". FWIW: Uncle Bob clarified this exact topic in a recent youtube interview with Primeagen (about 5 months ago). The gist is if the length
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by seadan83 2y ago
Agree, to add, there are many different AIs that have been created over time. The "classical" AI is not a monolith and "classical" vs LLM or ML is seemingly overly reductive. For example, decision tree AI vs weighted heu
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by seadan83 2y ago
Over reliance on signaling. The idea comes from intersections in southeast Asia for example. It's a massive free for all with higher safety rates than signalled intersections. In the face of uncertainty, drivers slow and focus on situa
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by seadan83 2y ago
I have trouble agreeing. > There would be times when you could not get on to the highway at all, when traffic was heavy but not so heavy that it slowed. The flowing traffic makes space for the merging traffic, which also takes up any exi

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