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by sterlind 4y ago
Cursorless is indeed fantastic for this! I used it extensively last winter/spring when I couldn't type.
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by sterlind 4y ago
You'll have to get up much earlier to walk 5 miles to work vs. biking. Not to mention the many people who can't walk far for reasons out of their control.
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by sterlind 4y ago
WSL actually mounts over 9P from Plan 9 fame. fwiw I remember WSL1 being dog slow on file IO perf.
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by sterlind 4y ago
yes, theoretically. the wrinkles are: finding a cough syrup that's pure DXM, and if they're doing anything fancy with extended release (I don't think so, but worth checking.) your best bet is getting a compounding pharmacy to
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by sterlind 4y ago
I tried to watch that interview. It's just dry, boring, slow and abstract (to me) but I'll grant you it wasn't what I was expecting. My issue with Thiel is his hypocrisy: he warns about surveillance AI and how it's evil,
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by sterlind 4y ago
PSA: don't stop drinking grapefruit juice abruptly, if you are on meds. your effective dosage of medication will swing wildly as your liver enzymes adjust. this has killed people before - someone will be on a carefully titrated dose of
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by sterlind 4y ago
not necessarily. UFOs might not hide intentionally; maybe they don't care but happen to rarely hang out in populated areas. for instance, maybe they just care about the sea floor, and only surface to beam data back. or they're pre
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by sterlind 4y ago
if it's an endurance thing, mounting a Segway would be easier. if it's a dexterity thing, yeah, Segways wouldn't be safe.
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by sterlind 4y ago
> Walking isn't hard for most people; in fact, for most people, walking is among the most pleasant human activities. But walking is hard for some people, and I don't get why Segways didn't take off as mobility aids. Espe
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by sterlind 4y ago
Re: Purdue, that's easy. Painkillers make living with intense chronic pain bearable. Oxycontin was a great pain med for a lot of people. A friend of mine has a mangled spinal cord, and she's severely crippled by the pain alone. Bu
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by sterlind 4y ago
EDS has a bizarre stigma attached to it for some reason. I'm pretty noticeable (I can fully dislocate my shoulders, for example), so I was immediately diagnosed with HSD, and finally with hEDS a year later. I haven't had issues wi
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by sterlind 4y ago
Fluoroquinolones are also completely contraindicated in patients with connective issue disorders (e.g. Marfan, EDS, Loeys-Dietz.) It can lead to organ rupture, torn arteries, aneurysms etc. CTDs often remain undiagnosed for a long time, so
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by sterlind 4y ago
there's nothing about this on Google, and neutrino detectors are definitely not advanced enough for this. was this a joke that went over my head?
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by sterlind 4y ago
So Gattaca, basically. I don't want to live in Gattaca! Society would start pressing people to conform at the genetic level, like a micro-targeted kind of racism - not (just) directed at cosmetic traits like melanin or epicanthal folds
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by sterlind 4y ago
I dunno how you'd use genetic algorithms, since solutions are paths, and there's usually no way to splice segments of candidate paths together. This kind of problem is known as planning in old AI, and it's languishing. most t
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by sterlind 4y ago
I'm bad at math, but this is because d/dx ln(x) = x^-1, while d/dx x^k = kx^(-1+k), so as long as k > 0 the derivative of the latter is larger, right?
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by sterlind 4y ago
At least officially, Jim Bell (author of the Assassination Politics essay) was not imprisoned for writing that essay, he was sentenced for tax evasion and using fraudulent SSNs. I'm sure they investigated him after publishing the essay
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by sterlind 4y ago
covid seems to often damage the heart, even in healthy people. you should ask to wear a Holter monitor - an EKG you wear for a couple weeks, which records data. smart watches can pick up arrhythmias too, though it's less detailed. if i
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by sterlind 4y ago
or Ken Shirriff mining Bitcoin on the Analytical Engine.
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by sterlind 4y ago
me! discord: starstruck hash 7373 interested in math, CS, languages, biology, philosophy, history, pretty much everything it's a problem
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by sterlind 4y ago
The issues themselves aren't punching down, but the way he's using the characters is. Imagine Alice deciding to falsely accuse the PHB of sexual harassment to get rid of him. Or Asok becoming a manager and only promoting members o
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by sterlind 4y ago
Are these other countries producing their own insulin? Or importing it from the US? I can imagine pharma companies retaliating against, say, Canada, by refusing to sell Canada insulin (or only at US-equivalent prices), unless Canada bars ex
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by sterlind 4y ago
Graph rewriting systems are really neat. I've been working in Mathematica lately, and the language is a term-rewriting system. It's been really powerful and intuitive and for the life of me I can't understand why it's no
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by sterlind 4y ago
I wish I recalled better, but I saw a hypothesis that centered around tRNA rather than the ribosome as the origin of replication. after all, the ribosome simply catalyzes the binding of tRNA to mRNA, and amino acid linkage. iirc the idea ce
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by sterlind 4y ago
how do neural networks learn? is it by intelligence and will? no, it's by backpropagation. error is propagated and minimized. simple equations lead to emergent complexity. canyons form as water follows paths of least resistance, and in
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by sterlind 4y ago
that pair of episodes gutted me when I watched it. it's so realistic how the "gimmies" fold into all the rhetoric we have today. and how the system is just utterly broken - there's no single bad guy, everyone's just
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by sterlind 4y ago
weren't the Brits using CCTV to catch kids skipping school a while back?
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by sterlind 4y ago
Right, exactly. Google could have this and make it perfectly accountable. Just surface a user notification that X entity accessed your camera's data for Y time range, ideally with a reference to a case number. People will push back if
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by sterlind 4y ago
There's a lot of niche languages for niche specialties. Like Ada/Spark for aviation/defense/safety-critical systems, Coq and Isabelle for formal verification, FORTRAN and Julia for scientific computing, Mathematica for p
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by sterlind 4y ago
We understand how the flu behaves. We've had >100 years of flus and Spanish Flu only happened once. The only experience we have with poxes in humans is smallpox and monkeypox. Smallpox was not a good time. Past monkeypox outbreaks h

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