zhynn

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by zhynn 4y ago
Why not use heat pumps to heat the mass? What if the air conditioner exhausted the heat into your mass battery? It's not either/or.
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by zhynn 4y ago
What if aliens have no notion of discrete numbers, what if everything is probabilistic analog math? What about an organism that can see/focus/sense multiple things simultaneously, and a single "thing" is a set. What ab
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by zhynn 4y ago
The trolling terrifies me. Trolling someone by creating awful video (just think about how deeply, photo-realistically, awful it could be - porn is just the tip of the iceberg) is going to get really bad. I am not sure how this is going to s
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by zhynn 4y ago
I do this too! I have been doing it for about a year now, and haven't ever run into someone else that does this kind of audio-journaling. Would you be up for comparing notes sometime about how it is working out for you? I am finding
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by zhynn 4y ago
You might also find this academic paper interesting: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=NGUTIS&aid=NGUTISv1 The title is a bit click-bait-y, but the argument is sound, I think. Forcing transparency changes how people do th
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by zhynn 4y ago
Fantasy novel covers are exceedingly easy to do because of the mountain of examples in the training data. Basically: any kind of art that we have lots of examples of are very easy to make with these tools. My fun has been with two games:
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by zhynn 4y ago
The consistent temperature of steam is the key, I think. The rest is the mass and density of the eggs... but the easy-peeling of the steam is the reason I keep coming back to it.
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by zhynn 4y ago
you missed the important point, IMO: being hungry. it's bizarre that we can be mechanically and nutritionally full yet still be hungry. These low BMI individuals were not hungry. WTF is going on with the hunger response being so mes
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by zhynn 4y ago
I did the SMTM study and they prohibited dairy. So I got my B12 from sweet potato.
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by zhynn 4y ago
The third week suuuuucks. I did 4 weeks. The third week was the worst. I was sick of potato and my weight loss plateaued in the third week. It started going back down again in the fourth, which offsets some of the boredom. I don't
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by zhynn 4y ago
I felt fine after a month of nothing but potato and a few cheat days. But... it's not just potato. I ate oil too. And spices and vinegar. And a sweet potato every few days for variety and B-vitamins. But as far as I can tell you ca
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by zhynn 4y ago
potatoes have protein.
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by zhynn 4y ago
Having done 28 days of the potato diet, this is true. It is difficult to get over 1kcal of potato. Eating two kilos of potato in a day is heroic. I would eat like 1 kilo per day, and be satisfied-full. It's wild.
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by zhynn 4y ago
potatoes have like 3g of protein per potato. And to stay full you eat _a lot_ of potato. I tried it! It was easy, then not easy, then totally shitty, then fine, and then I was done (28 days). I ate a few sweet potatoes along the way for
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by zhynn 4y ago
I participated in the SMTM study, and am totally happy to share my data if anyone is at all curious. Results for me: - it was not as easy as i thought it would be - i lost weight - my appetite and satiety feedback systems were reset
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by zhynn 4y ago
In the northeast many people are terrified of ticks, and they go scorched earth genocide trying to keep them away with neurotoxins. It doesn't stop the ticks, they are extremely resilient and don't use lawns as their primary habit
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by zhynn 4y ago
Still fireflies out here in Vermont. Please visit and/or move here full time with your family! We need more full time families out here. The fireflies really are spectacular.
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by zhynn 4y ago
I wish i could afford to do what you are doing, but I can't survive in 2022 USA and support my family without access to credit. It is maybe possible, but it is wildly impractical. And the ability to borrow helps to smooth out the turb
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by zhynn 4y ago
It amuses me every time I do it, but my two most common browser prefixes when I want a break are: old (resolves to old.reddit.com) new (resolves to news.ycombinator.com) It makes me chuckle.
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by zhynn 4y ago
I love steam. And the revenues from steam allow valve to experiment and explore (and support my favorite esport Dota2). The Valve Index and Steam Deck would not exist were it not for revenue from Steam. Not to mention Proton. As long as
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by zhynn 4y ago
I steam them to get consistent hot exterior temps. Plus it is easier to rinse them when they are in a steamer basket. And it uses less water. And the water is faster to boil. Totally agree with you on this though.
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by zhynn 5y ago
I think you are spot on. I have been toying with a formal theory about this stuff which I then turned into a rambling HN post. Here's what I came up with: In my theory, the reason that NMS is unsatisfying is because it has great p
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by zhynn 5y ago
Line goes up.
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by zhynn 5y ago
Or put another way, you are temporarily penniless. As long as that situation persists (which you may have no control over) you are penniless. You will rely on the charity or labor wages for resources in whatever local currency is used.
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by zhynn 5y ago
Please consider donating! Erowid is an amazing force for good in the world. It is a reminder of what the internet is philosophically capable of.
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by zhynn 5y ago
Erowid is one of the OG internet resources. It is an international treasure, and Earth & Fire Erowid should get a dang medal for their stewardship. Edit: please consider donating!
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by zhynn 5y ago
I know you wanted to veer back to the topic, but just to add another example to the pile: the math on mass transit is just blindingly obvious. A cheap centralized transit system is wildly more efficient for moving people around than indiv
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by zhynn 5y ago
Plug for CJ the X's excellent video essay on the dialectics of Rick and Morty. Given the thought you put into your breakdowns of both R&M and NGE, I think you might like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm4dxUIR
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by zhynn 5y ago
My game was: - follow my curiosity - take advantage of times when my curiosity and focus aligned with work - manage the anxiety that came as a consequence of focusing on things I shouldn't be. My new game is: - channel m
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by zhynn 5y ago
Primarily: medication Secondarily: being able to have a short hand category for looking up strategies to handle my own challenges and finding a sympathetic community of people with eerily similar challenges. The medication has been surprisi

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