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by switchbak 3mo ago
Here in Canada you're not allowed to 3d print a modded grip for the rifle you're not allowed to buy, but in the USA you can get OPIOIDS at a GAS STATION! ... things are definitely different down there.
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by switchbak 3mo ago
Also you can just walk in a farmer's field, pick a mushroom out of a cow patty and boom - you're high AF! Someone should regulate cow shit, there's little to no control over it!
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by switchbak 3mo ago
There's lots of evidence for positive influences of Caffeine on the body (some negative as well), especially the brain. In particular, there's active and promising research on the neuroprotective effects for Alzheimer's [1] a
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by switchbak 3mo ago
"The point isn't whether it's true about you in particular" - then wtf are you saying? That this person can say true things but is still wrong? I agree with them, and I also agree with the concern in the article. Both ca
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by switchbak 3mo ago
"Load bearing beliefs" is a thing in the podcast/YouTube world at a minimum. Perhaps you're not as online as some other folks (probably a good thing!).
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by switchbak 3mo ago
I think when it comes to watching the night sky, weighing to populated areas isn't necessarily right. It's not like you should value rural folks' view of the night sky less. Paraphrasing (strawmanning?) the original - it does
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by switchbak 3mo ago
“Remote areas” make up most of the world.
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by switchbak 3mo ago
That's mostly a value judgement though. What about fiction vs non-fiction? Travel vs escapism? This is hugely subjective, and very personal. What one person finds educational could be a navel gazing time wasting pursuit to someone else
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by switchbak 3mo ago
"the "deep" thinking associated with reading has always been a bit of an elitist idea" - precisely. This is all about massaging the categories such that consuming or producing a given type of media in a particular style
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by switchbak 3mo ago
Java's RMI sounds similar ... but I haven't really seen much of that used in a robust way. You can only ship serializable state which becomes quite limiting after a while. Shipping the data and reusing the same code across nodes s
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by switchbak 3mo ago
You need to ramp up, of course. Given you're training at an appropriate rate, and you're doing sensible things - you should be fine. By sensible things I mean: short and intense weight training, intense cardio sessions, and not-to
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by switchbak 3mo ago
They did say “legal supplements”, not prescriptions. But I’m not sure what they’re actually suggesting.
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by switchbak 3mo ago
There are (illegal) substances that are highly effective for treating these issues, PTSD, etc. Psilocybin, ibogain, etc. Obviously when administered correctly, with therapy, etc. It seems to me that cannabis users aren’t seeing the benefits
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by switchbak 3mo ago
That’s valuable: I thought the whole thing was dismissed based on the brown dwarf explanation, this is interesting that that’s not the case. It’s hard to keep up with all the news, particularly so given all the slop floating around. YouTube
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by switchbak 3mo ago
That PR piece was brutal to navigate. Undoubtedly punched up by AI, it took far too long to even understand what the treatment entailed.
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by switchbak 3mo ago
I’m still waiting for those well sourced numbers I asked for. Again, I’m not making any excuses for the USA, though you seem insistent on believing so. Two things can be true at the same time: that the USA has been a destructive world influ
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by switchbak 3mo ago
You know what happened in China in this past century?
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by switchbak 3mo ago
First off, you're arguing with someone who mostly is in agreement with you. "please provide a strong argument for this statement, with numbers and sources" - I see you provided me none of what I asked for. "Or are those
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by switchbak 3mo ago
"Their self serving reasons are irrelevant" - I disagree, we have no idea what kind of filtering or injection of BS has been done to this model. When you outsource your thinking, you have to be extremely careful that the model doi
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by switchbak 3mo ago
I see you're getting downvotes, but my intuition strongly aligns with yours. Many of the top minds/academics in (North) America are from overseas, and most of the time that's India and China. And it's been this way for a
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by switchbak 3mo ago
That comment was so devoid of thought, it actually made my head hurt.
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by switchbak 3mo ago
That's precisely why it's a good example. It's always taken work to lose weight, just because it's not common doesn't mean it's impossible. The common rhetoric loses that nuance, that's my point. I didn&#x
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by switchbak 3mo ago
"US intelligence has killed and ruined the lives of far more people than China has" - please provide a strong argument for this statement, with numbers and sources. I'm no apologist for the US Intelligence and related organiz
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by switchbak 3mo ago
This is in Canada. Our healthcare problems are both well known and well documented, but also strongly resistant to being solved. I do wish we had a system as efficient as what you describe. I’ve personally been on the receiving end of this
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by switchbak 3mo ago
No it’s not. It’s just not. If someone doesn’t like what I wrote they can hack it, ignore it, or vibe code up an alternative for their Xerox Alto for all I care. Privilege has nothing to do with it, nor does respect. Wtf.
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by switchbak 3mo ago
I think the dumbing down of things is a closely related yet adjacent issue. And I too absolutely despise the enshitification you’re describing. I drove a BMW rental recently, and I swear it felt like I was driving around a toy. Such obvious
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by switchbak 3mo ago
That’s the “diets don’t work” line. I’m not denying that most people use AI for the path of least resistance, but I am saying that there’s more potential than just that, and it’s almost entirely overlooked in the broad debate.
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by switchbak 3mo ago
The thing is - everyone complains about AI stealing our attention and understanding. But you can just as easily use an LLM as a tool to gain a deeper understanding. It's just the default path for most folks is "Hey clanker, do the
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by switchbak 3mo ago
Absolutely - you used to have to control the richness of the fuel mixture manually. You used to have to crank it to start it, manually interact with a clutch to shift gears, etc. I appreciate the tactile joy of interacting with simple syste
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by switchbak 3mo ago
Columnar vs row based is a large architectural distinction. In theory it'd be great to support both, but this has also been an elusive and complex problem to solve. You're not going to see a simple "columnar type" on a r

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