LLMs, for better or worse, bring some of that capability to users who aren't fluent in scripting. It allows language centric control, but a couple more layers of abstraction up from direct coding, especially with the…
The description of interacting with a computer through language seems oddly prescient of LLMs.
Definitely agree on exercise. I'm a temperamentally neurotic person and had ADHD diagnosed as a child. I no longer take ADHD medication, but I run 3-4 days a week and it makes my baseline tension and neuroticism much…
The only way I really made an early wake up work was wearing amber safety glasses to block blue light for an hour or two before bed every night. I will note that if you feel absolutely terrible on 8-9 hours of sleep,…
There are really different kinds of 65-70. My parents are both 70 and very active. I often meet 65 year olds who are frail and slow with chronic pain and diabetes, when my dad is going on 50 mile bike rides a few times…
I would also argue for regular exercise as a fundamental of a stable mind. I've always been an anxious person, but since I started running 3-4 days a week consistently, my baseline neuroticism has significantly dropped.…
Android has an old person setting with larger text and icons and explicit home/back buttons. I might set up my parents with it, but I currently have it on my phone in my attempt to make my phone less addictive. The…
What's the drift like on a G Shock with no time signal available? There isn't a time signal in my region. I've been considering getting a second watch (on top of my Coros running watch) because my phone has bad time…
It's great for a couple years, but compensation is so much lower here I wouldn't do it long term, except if you marry a local or are independently wealthy. I make a third of what I did in the US, and my job in the US…
Thinking about it. I'm pretty attracted to the idea of a career with some kind of protectionist licensing system, like doctor or actuary, but that may just be staving off the inevitable. Might teach high school. After I…
I have a friend who got an English and Creative Writing degree from a liberal arts college, and then immediately went back to trade school for band instrument repair. It's not particularly lucrative, as trades go, but…
Not Germany, but I live in a rural part of New Zealand. I noticed that several places in my town, including the chippy, had signs posted out front saying they were open til "late." Coming from the eastern US I assumed…
There has always been some concept of a process by which people can become American and join in that culture through assimilation and integration. I've had ancestors in North America since 1650, including a vice…
There's also supposed to be a distinction about intent to leave in a relatively short predetermined time period. I consider myself an expat in New Zealand, because I'm on a ~2 year visa that cannot be extended, and I…
At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel "Don't Create The Torment Nexus." https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?lang=e...
I love to run, and even in winter, in the dark, in the rain, I will get home from work at 6pm, eat a small dinner, and head out for a 40-60 minute jog or interval session a few days a week. I do a aerial circus class…
Calling women females and men men in the same sentence is really something. Same with the smiley face in a comment about suicide. Intentionally overdosing on Tylenol gives you a day or so afterwards to panic and seek…
Wow, that's a really weird tone for a hackernews comment.
I'm not sure what it is in the Dayquil - the DXM or the "decongestant," but there is a stimulant effect that is half of what I buy it for. It is the most effective medication I have found for getting me off the couch…
That shampoo opinion is a sure tell that you're not a woman with long hair (men with long hair tend to be less picky). My hair behaves noticeably differently with different shampoos/conditioners even within the same…
For a lot of us, Ibuprofen works just as well or better than Acetaminophen, so banning Acetaminophen is not much of a problem. I am on a medication that's contraindicated with NSAIDs, but I made sure that a low dose of…
The text file looks great, but reading this just makes me think of the XKCD standards comic. Markdown has very few issues, and the remaining ones are so nitpicky that the downsides of having an additional standard are…
Provider salaries are often neglected in discussions of the causes of American healthcare expenditures. Not only do our orthopedic surgeons make obscene amounts, our nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, and even…
You still need a bachelor's to gain admission to that. There are other options for online CS bachelor's programs (WGU is the most famous).
If you like math, this is the best advice. I did math with a CS minor, had a great time in college, and I seem to go in the same pool as people with a CS degree for hiring on any team I would actually want to work with.…
LLMs, for better or worse, bring some of that capability to users who aren't fluent in scripting. It allows language centric control, but a couple more layers of abstraction up from direct coding, especially with the…
The description of interacting with a computer through language seems oddly prescient of LLMs.
Definitely agree on exercise. I'm a temperamentally neurotic person and had ADHD diagnosed as a child. I no longer take ADHD medication, but I run 3-4 days a week and it makes my baseline tension and neuroticism much…
The only way I really made an early wake up work was wearing amber safety glasses to block blue light for an hour or two before bed every night. I will note that if you feel absolutely terrible on 8-9 hours of sleep,…
There are really different kinds of 65-70. My parents are both 70 and very active. I often meet 65 year olds who are frail and slow with chronic pain and diabetes, when my dad is going on 50 mile bike rides a few times…
I would also argue for regular exercise as a fundamental of a stable mind. I've always been an anxious person, but since I started running 3-4 days a week consistently, my baseline neuroticism has significantly dropped.…
Android has an old person setting with larger text and icons and explicit home/back buttons. I might set up my parents with it, but I currently have it on my phone in my attempt to make my phone less addictive. The…
What's the drift like on a G Shock with no time signal available? There isn't a time signal in my region. I've been considering getting a second watch (on top of my Coros running watch) because my phone has bad time…
It's great for a couple years, but compensation is so much lower here I wouldn't do it long term, except if you marry a local or are independently wealthy. I make a third of what I did in the US, and my job in the US…
Thinking about it. I'm pretty attracted to the idea of a career with some kind of protectionist licensing system, like doctor or actuary, but that may just be staving off the inevitable. Might teach high school. After I…
I have a friend who got an English and Creative Writing degree from a liberal arts college, and then immediately went back to trade school for band instrument repair. It's not particularly lucrative, as trades go, but…
Not Germany, but I live in a rural part of New Zealand. I noticed that several places in my town, including the chippy, had signs posted out front saying they were open til "late." Coming from the eastern US I assumed…
There has always been some concept of a process by which people can become American and join in that culture through assimilation and integration. I've had ancestors in North America since 1650, including a vice…
There's also supposed to be a distinction about intent to leave in a relatively short predetermined time period. I consider myself an expat in New Zealand, because I'm on a ~2 year visa that cannot be extended, and I…
At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel "Don't Create The Torment Nexus." https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?lang=e...
I love to run, and even in winter, in the dark, in the rain, I will get home from work at 6pm, eat a small dinner, and head out for a 40-60 minute jog or interval session a few days a week. I do a aerial circus class…
Calling women females and men men in the same sentence is really something. Same with the smiley face in a comment about suicide. Intentionally overdosing on Tylenol gives you a day or so afterwards to panic and seek…
Wow, that's a really weird tone for a hackernews comment.
I'm not sure what it is in the Dayquil - the DXM or the "decongestant," but there is a stimulant effect that is half of what I buy it for. It is the most effective medication I have found for getting me off the couch…
That shampoo opinion is a sure tell that you're not a woman with long hair (men with long hair tend to be less picky). My hair behaves noticeably differently with different shampoos/conditioners even within the same…
For a lot of us, Ibuprofen works just as well or better than Acetaminophen, so banning Acetaminophen is not much of a problem. I am on a medication that's contraindicated with NSAIDs, but I made sure that a low dose of…
The text file looks great, but reading this just makes me think of the XKCD standards comic. Markdown has very few issues, and the remaining ones are so nitpicky that the downsides of having an additional standard are…
Provider salaries are often neglected in discussions of the causes of American healthcare expenditures. Not only do our orthopedic surgeons make obscene amounts, our nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, and even…
You still need a bachelor's to gain admission to that. There are other options for online CS bachelor's programs (WGU is the most famous).
If you like math, this is the best advice. I did math with a CS minor, had a great time in college, and I seem to go in the same pool as people with a CS degree for hiring on any team I would actually want to work with.…