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RHSman2··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
Only abstractly. If you are living in the process, it is hard and very few people live that.
RHSman2··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
Does it know somewhere?
RHSman2··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
I can off a few times and did loose the energy and focus.

I really noticed the effect coming back in but now it is my new normal.

RHSman2··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
My personal experience has been dramatic:

5/6g a day.

Very demanding job with lots of ‘thinking’

3 times a week gym

Pre creatine I would struggle to maintain ability to do the hard thinking around 3pm. Just like, fog or I could feel my brain didn’t have capacity.

Now, I am capable till the end of the day. Feels like a well trained athlete at the end of a game being able to deliver rather than just holding on.

RHSman2··on What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard
Suburbia is the creepiest thing known to man.
RHSman2··on Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars
Above a price point their is no objectively ‘better’

I have been playing for 40 years and can tell you I can be mediocre on a fender/squier/gibson

RHSman2··on AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields
In 10 years the world will not be the same.
RHSman2··on The first 40 months of the AI era
Ai rewards the curious
RHSman2··on Willingness to look stupid
How do you know if someone has an MBA? They’ll tell you.
RHSman2··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
That is a good LinkedIn endorsement of ever I saw one!
RHSman2··on LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
I started their but it felt like a dodgy way (as it could be seen to be illegal). We then just went aloffical and went through Google search API’s with LinkedIn as the target. Worked a treat and was cheaper than recruiter!!!

So when pay the highest scraper, it’s ok! Same data, different manner.

RHSman2··on LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
I had the pleasure of scraping LinkedIn for a client. Great fun.
RHSman2··on Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn
You should study a bit of physical geography and glacialology.

Not all ‘ice ages’ are the same.

A true ice age as you discuss is due to the distance we are from the sun. Unfortunately, we are in the opposite and the compounding effects of human induced greenhouse effect will doom us. It’s a bit like nature/nuture.

There is stuff we can control. How we handle our species and our home, the earth.

RHSman2··on California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info
It is a delete request. Your behavior may change and is on you. So, if you always don’t consent, nothing to delete.
RHSman2··on YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same
CEO of tobacco do the same. What’s your point? We sell things that are bad for humans. It’s a significant part of our global GDP
RHSman2··on GPT-5.2
The problem is not the intelligence of the LLM. It is the intelligence and desire to make things easy of the intelligence using them.
RHSman2··on Is it a bubble?
Because people who can’t code but now can have zero understanding of the ‘path to production quality code’

Of course it is mind blowing for them.

RHSman2··on The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)
I hope he knows you are proud of him.
RHSman2··on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
Yes. Money does make you happy (really, the pursuit of the money does not as it is not what we are evolved to be happy about)
RHSman2··on Log by time, not by count
Btw: logging and the ability to observe systems was the single and most successful act I have done in my career as a Data Product Manager. I have had to fight, do tricks and ‘play the game’ so much.

I cannot stress the importance of understanding atomic movements.

The cost is high but not as high as the cost of not knowing.

RHSman2··on Log by time, not by count
Logging (at scale) is the most important thing to understand reality in your system. At scale, realities are many.

Metrics enable the ability to aggregate concepts into some kind of meaning.

Meaning can then have alerts associated to them.

You cannot create metrics on things you don’t know, which is why logging is the base.

RHSman2··on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
I think you might be coming across as the moron here. Not someone who has done their ‘ritual’ for 10 years.
RHSman2··on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
Read it out loud ‘7 miles a week’

Most people sit at a desk for 40 hrs a week. That is way more damaging to your health.

RHSman2··on ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
I work with EPFL alumni. Brilliant minds.
RHSman2··on Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system
Dude, the sun always shines.
RHSman2··on Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high [video]
Humans measuring stuff and getting pedantic is a sport for the ages.
RHSman2··on Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting
More please
RHSman2··on Stepping Back
To grind or not to grind?
RHSman2··on Show HN: Engine – A multi-LLM alternative to Codex
Demo’s this 6 months ago. Super excited to see how far it has come since!!!
RHSman2··on 'Everybody is looking at their phones,' says man freed after 30 years in prison
There is no meant. We are evolving into what we create.
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