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by sn9 2y ago
Calculus isn't on the standard SAT or even the Math Subject II tests [0], at least not in the early 2000s. They taught us calculus because it's a prereq for engineering and physics and that's been important since the space ra
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by sn9 2y ago
Stripe's Increment had an entire issue devoted to remote work: https://increment.com/remote/
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You should really read the kalzumeus salary link for the exact words and methods.
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The karmic traditions developed this most completely and thoroughly. You don't need to buy into the supernatural claims to benefit from them. A great starting point can be Shinzen Young's The Science of Enlightenment and/or
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by sn9 2y ago
Well yeah if you don't know yourself well enough to know that you never want kids in the future, you obviously wouldn't get an irreversible procedure. But everyone has a point after which they decide they don't want more kids
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by sn9 2y ago
Yeah people just need to focus on doing the basics right [0]. [0] https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/where-should-my-priorit...
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by sn9 2y ago
If you've decided you don't want any (more) kids in the future, a vasectomy is the easiest way to insure that with the least likely side effects for anyone. Why would you force your wife to be subjected to the side effects of birt
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by sn9 2y ago
Have you tried renting some goats? Not sure if they'll preferentially target the plants you want gone, but could save on labor.
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by sn9 2y ago
Anything that removes friction from getting you to consistently strength train with progressive overload will do more for your health, quality of life, and appearance than damn near any other possible intervention. A squat rack, weights, an
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I would add an immersion circulator to cook food sous vide as similarly impactful here, though getting a good thermometer is more necessary. It's made meal prepping incredibly easy and food is always perfectly cooked. You never have
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by sn9 2y ago
https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/where-should-my-priorit...
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Well you can't be healthy on just sugar either. Be an adult and eat your fruits and veggies. A pretty easy solution would be to mix vanilla whey protein into a fruit smoothie to boost your protein. Another would be to just abstain from
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by sn9 2y ago
You said that Go and Rust managed to avoid these issues. Is there anywhere I can read about how they avoided it? And why other popular modern languages can't?
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Using Python for glue code and compiled native code (whether C or C++ or Rust or whatever) is a classic strategy. Just profile your code with something like Scalene: https://github.com/plasma-umass/scalene Alternativel
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The Macrofactor team has a great series of articles on their site that goes into probably more information than necessary. I'd also look into Mike Isratel of Renaissance Periodization and their Youtube playlists, Eric Helms, Eric Trexl
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Most people don't call themselves autodidacts for things that have never usually required conventional academic learning environments. That's just called living a normal life.
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Do you think they're rederiving everything from first principles? Like math autodidacts are speedrunning thousands of years of mathematics without books?
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by sn9 2y ago
The basal metabolic rate doesn't matter at all. You want the Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE) which is all the energy you use in a day. Tracking your calories and changes to your bodyweight lets you do that. (You'll want to u
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by sn9 2y ago
Relevant metric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_globe_temperature
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by sn9 2y ago
The key is that changes in bodyweight integrate all the relevant information, so if you're tracking bodyweight and calories, you have all the information you need to make actionable choices to manipulate your bodyweight at will. Add in
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by sn9 2y ago
In a six month period some time in the future? Plausible. In the next six months? Unlikely enough to be a myth.
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ML and LLMs are complete overkill. You can do this with simple difference equations. Anyway nowadays you can just use Macrofactor which makes it all easier (not just the calculations/predictions but the data input itself).
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This is an extremely online place filled with people who game or are gamer-adjacent. This intended meaning is obvious from context.
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Or you could just have a Terraform fuel plant synthesizing fuel colocated with every landing site.
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It's kinda like getting the benefits of F#'s type system but with compilation to native code without garbage collection or data races.
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by sn9 2y ago
https://teachyourselfcs.com/ and/or https://csprimer.com/courses/ Basically, prioritize books/textbooks over tutorials/guides/papers until you've mastered the material in under
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by sn9 2y ago
The default view is for median TC which is resistant to outliers.
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You think that's shocking? This is just pre-tax TC. When you take into account taxes and cost of living, comparing NYC to a place like Austin makes NYC TCs look positively stingy.
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Science uses an apprenticeship model so it's not surprising that you would see a sort of lineage or connected network of outstanding work. Anyone who's had a great mentor knows how impactful they can be on the trajectory of your c
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Performance is one thing but there's also maintenance costs and the cost of servers. Also potential for future scaling.

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