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- Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. There is even more trimming that goes on as well. Chefs trim what's ordered, tallow may be rendered for non-consumptive reasons, and so on. Like a poster above, as an athlete I eat more meat than most people, and I don't seem to eat those numbers... I feel like we are missing some data points.
- Yeah, I remember reading it in highschool and all we talked about eas the love story and parties. I re-read it in my early thirties for some reason and quickly realized the story was about temporal and moral tragedy. Daisy and Gatsby aren't romantics; they are morally shallow and selfish. I felt like the book was more about how we created a world were we train ourselves to chase glamor, but are punished for it in the process.
Funny enough a while back my wife and her friends were talking about having a "Gatsby" themed party. I think that is exactly what woukd have Fitzgerald rolling in the grave. Haha
- I think what OP is specifically refering to is the intensity level that varies among individuals. I suspect that oft times when people train with a low weight/high rep scheme, they accidenrly let their intensity levels slip. I suspect that for most people, especially newer lifters, doing a high weight/low rep scheme makes keeping the workout for intense because it is easier to focus on being intense for a short time. Just a thought....
- I'm a parent (age 7 and 5 now). We had a strict no screen policy before the age of two, which really meant the oldest saw very little until after the second was born. It isn't that hard to live a normal life without screen in the home. I think a big part of the problem nowadays is making sure home is for home stuff. Not just work, but all other non-home stuff (preparing taxes, discussing bills, online banking, online health insurance bullshit, and so on) has infiltrated our homes. I've found that reserving a block of time to tackle that stuff instead of trying to do it throughout the makes parenting more manageable without giving children a screen.
Both my kids really struggled at night for years, and I sypmpathize with the lack of sleep.
- That's definitely out of reach of most Americans. I live in rural America, and am pretty active in my community. I can thing of 2 or 3 couples besides myself who could make a trip like that reality. We are all remote-workers working in software.
- Most comments here seem to discuss coding results. I know these are compared against industry benchmarks, but does anyone have experience using these with non CS related tasks? For example the other day I was brainstorming a kayak trip with both ChatGPT and Gemini 3.0. ChatGPT was off the rails. Trying to convince me the river flowed a different sirection than it does, and all sorts of weirdness. Gemini didn't provide information nearly as well as a human with experience, but it wasn't _useless_ information. The OpenAI model was a catasrophe at this. I'd be curious how the different models rate for the general audience, and if that plays into it at all.
- I meed LLMs to stick around to help me sort out cooking recipes at home so I don't have to go to the rest of the internet. If I have to let go of the coding help and go back to the old way of doing things at work then yeah, that'll be painful but I can suffer through it.
- I don't contend with your view at all, and agree completely. I've spent lots of time in the Middle East and know exactly what you're speaking of. I actually happened upon this article the other day, whicj I found interesting regarding early symbiosis[1]. I'm not a biologist, so I can't speak to the subject a whole lot.
1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/raccoons-are-show...
- Indeed. A year ago I purchased a working/field line golden retriever from a reputable breeder (pm me if interested) and embarked on training my first gun dog. We've done a few hunting trips this season and I found myself telling my father the other day something along the lines that I don't really care for the _hunting_ so much as I find something primal and natural about the symbiotic relationship that I've formed with this dog, especially when we hunt together. It's like he knows his chances of survival are better if we work this out together. I fail to articulate the feeling well.
And as a parent comment suggested a slavery relationship... I don't know.. If so, I've got a pretty well pampered and happy slave dog.
- Agree. The conversation behind "adoption" was totally different as well. I was a young Army private when the first iPhone was announced. Before that I remember the iPod touch and other MP3 players beingthe rage in the gym and what not. I distinctly remember in the gym we were talking about the iPhone, my friend had an iPod touch and we took turns holding it up to our faces like a phone, and sort of saying "weird, but yeah, this would work".
Point being, when smart phones came out it there was anticipation of what it might be, sort of like a game console. ChatGPT et al was sort of sudden, and the use case is pretty one dimensional, and for average people, less exciting. It is basically a work-slop emitter, and _most people I know_ seem to agree with that.
- Lol. This is brilliant. I'm not sure if anyone else has this happen to them, but I noticed in college my writing style and "voice" woukd shift quite noticeably depending on whatever I was reading heavily. I wonder if I'll start writing more like an LLM naturally as I unavoidably read more LLM-generated content.
- I'm sure someone has done the math, so I'd be intrigued if anyone can point it out. I'm curious as to the ratio of traffic deaths to driving hours is? It would be even more interesting to see if we had numbers for deaths against "productive" and "leisure" driving hours. Like, we all see the occasional accident, but drive on... So I am not sure the media _needs_ to bring attention to it. As a society, have we just come to accept some deaths as a cost of doing business??? I dunno... just speculating.
- Indeed. I live in a pretty red state, and have lots of red or red-leaning family and friends, and practically nobody I know is "anti-solar" or even considered it a political stance. I do run into more anti-windmill though, but the reason is clearly that nobody likes looking at them across the landscape (windfarm in SE Utah was controversial for this point). Also in the southwest solar is often not favored because some amount of water is used to clean the dust off, and water scarcity here in the SW US is starting to finally creep into peoples' minds.
I'd imagine a lot of the lack of solar farms in the rural midwest and southwest is due to land use conflicts with ag and ranching. I don't have data to back that up though, just a hunch.
- Eh. This is less of a US political party problem. We aren't the only consumers and emitters. Even if we were, I don't think this _really_ is democrat vs republican. Silicon Valley types vote left. Also pushed gaming, cryptocurrency, AI, internet marketing, and everything else that helps us consume more dumbshit.
- Springer press has a book "Programming for Engineers and Scientists" or something like that, which is the first book I picked up to "self teach CS". From the get go pointers are involved and explained in this linear memory model and explained how they work on the stack and what not. I always thought this was the best approach; the reality is taught first, the abstraction (syntax) second. Not sure why so many programming books do it the other way.
- You'd make a terrible wildlife biologist.
- So many of the comments here seem to be completely unaware of what an EDR does. Do none of you all work for companies with managed devices? There isn't anything abnormal here...
I work on a REM team in a SOC for a big finance company all you US people know. An employee can't hardly fart in front of their corporate machine without us knowing about it. How do you all think managed cyber security works?
- Another beaver comment... I know you didn't explicitly say it, so I will just to clarify in case you meant well. For all the city folk on here who read the beaver dam stuff and infer that beavers are destructive to eco systems, rest assured this is not the case. Consequences for local eco systems? Yes. Positive ones. There is no shortage of information out there about this subject. Sorry to preach, but I happen to live in beaver country and have spent more time in the dwindling forests and wilderness than most people. When people start talking about beavers building dams in this context it sounds so ridiculous.
Another note: The largest beaver dam discovered is about .5 miles in length. Even if it was purely destructive to local eco systems it would hardly compare to human development.
- You must not be from around here. Most of us here on HN are lords, vassals, or nobles in this technofeudalist society. The technomonarch is currently giving us enough fiefs to behave appropriately.
- There definitely is a sort of pseudo generational gap of how peole interact with computers. I was having a conversation with a 20ish year old the other day about computer for storage and they didn't understand the filing cabinet analogy. Like, for then everything had to be in the desktop folder, but the concept that C:\Users\User\Desktop was like having a folder in a filing cabinet, where C: was the actual cabinet, was so alien to them.
- I have been on Firefox for some years now on Mac, Linux, Windows, and Android. Last year the IRS website had some issues, but that seems to be resolved. Otherwise, I've had zero breakages that cone to mind. I use ublock origin, and pivacy badger, and a few other extensions. I wonder if sometimes the issues people experience with firefox are actually caused from their extensions???
If you haven't used Firefox in a minute, I recommend trying it oht again.
- I've been using kagi maybe a year now, and it is great. I know it is great because every so often I jump on someone else's computer for a task and have to search so.ething and I'm completely overwhelemed by what comes up.
- I just tried the same thing with my name. Got me confused with someone else who is a touretts syndrom advocate. There was one mention that was correct, but it has my gender wrong. Haha
- Can you expound on your use of peptides? My nephew was diagnised with crohns at the age of 10, but they now figure he was being mistreated when symptoms started at age 4. He is somehow still alive, but there have been significant developmental problems due to crohns and an overuse of steroids and other weird medications in his treatments.
His parents have been doing IV infusions for the past two years, which seem to be having more of a positive impact than anything the health care system did, and now they are about to start peptide therapy, which is something I know little about.
- Would putting some UV filter glass, the kind often used in museums, work to protect it the resin? I'm wondering if you fixed a glass casing around it that way... granted you'd have corner seems for the glass though
- In short, my experience with Agile is that is only adds a way to quantify what happens, so it definitely creates an illusion of productivity. I do see how it is actually useful when talking to managers and investors about progress. However from the engineers' view it is just more of an administrative burden. In my view the "sin" that Agile committed was the promise of productivity, when really (from engineering viewpoints) it appears to be an unnecessary accountability mechanism.
I worked in fiance once with Agile, where there exists in the culture an infinite growth mindset. So I found that we were putting a metric to everything possible, expecting future "improvements" and peoples' salaries were dependent on it. Some companies probably don't suffer from this though.
- Cool tool. I recently picked up a White River knife in CPM Magnacut. I could have used this tool when I was shopping around, but it looks like I landed on a good knife steel anyways. I haven't used it enougj yet to work on sharpening it though, so we'll see how that goes.
- I used to live in a 14 story building, so I have a pretty good approximation of the size.
Do you really observe that in your circles? I've lived in 6 different states, from Maryland to Idaho, and I've never got an impression that many people take any real though or consideration for their health at all. If anything, I'd armchair guestimate something like 10% of adults seem to put any real attention of effort into their health. I feel like late teens to late college year people put more effort in general, but only because they themselves are on the meat market and don't usually have complex lives (kids, careers)