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by vkk8 5y ago
I'm surprised that this doesn't get brought up more often. Somehow I have to upgrade all my hardware every few years, which of course increases the demand for chips, even though the software I use doesn't have much extra func
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by vkk8 5y ago
An often overlooked aspect of statistics of human traits is that even a small difference in the variance of a normal(ish) distribution results in a large difference in the extreme quantiles. As men tend to have more variance in everything d
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by vkk8 5y ago
Depends a bit on your location also. In some countries, the social security is good enough that people can survive on them while doing whatever (low cost) hobbies they like. I've heard of a few academics continuing to do research while
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by vkk8 5y ago
> This study suggests that the brain does not remove these built up paque over a 4 week period. What? It explicitly says that all of the tracer they used was cleared after 4 weeks: "After 4 weeks, there were no differences in normal
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by vkk8 5y ago
Is anyone aware of any serious(ish) open source game projects using Godot? I very much like the idea of game development as a hobby project and I'd think that contributing something small to an existing project is a better way to learn
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by vkk8 5y ago
Yes. A 0.4% increase in health problems is what most people would consider "basically safe". How does that compare to effects from other bad dietary habits many people have. For instance: * eating fast food once or twice a week *
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by vkk8 5y ago
> Urban planners used to incorporate fitness into their designs and that seems to mostly be a thing of the past. Do you have a source for that? I've never heard of such thing before.
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by vkk8 5y ago
Maybe it was once, but things like Myfitnesspal make diet tracking pretty easy for everyone nowadays. As for timing and macronutrient composition of foods, that's something the dieticians can probably help, but it's also something
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by vkk8 6y ago
Older people with extraordinary abilities have, in traditional bureaucratic companies, learned that bullshitting and playing politics is the easiest way to succeed. When they internalize this way of working, there is no going back; it makes