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For sleep a wired pillow speaker works great, the advantage being there is nothing to fall out of your ears, and you can isolate the sound so only you hear it through the pillow: https://www.amazon.com/Crane-Company-PS2-SoftSpeaker-Speaker...

1Password + Fastmail integration for generating masked email is also great.

Plus a nice UI for handling OTP, notes, credit cards, IDs, bank accounts, etc, it's easily worth the annual price for me.

OT but this book is so incredible. The breadth of information covered is amazing, even for being ~20 years old at this point.

The audiobook at .7 speed is my sleep aid.

FWIW I get the right answer on Google right now when I try:

Can you melt an egg?

No - if you heat an egg it's not like melting ice (or metal). Because an egg contains a substantial amount of carefully folded natural proteins in their native state.

Togglz is another option: https://www.togglz.org/

I tried this as a little hobby weekend project but found that after a while it would start hallucinating answers even if previously it had gotten them right. It didn’t even take that long sometimes, where I’d ask a question about revenue, then liabilities, and them to sum some revenue numbers and they would just start to be wrong.

I wouldn’t yet feel comfortable with this without some automated reconciliation which to my mind defeated the point of my hobby project but I’m curious if you’ve seen different? No doubt you’d expect this to improve over time though.

Does this mean the whole easter seaboard, should consider bottled water instead of tap?

Speaking of which…

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-on-ipfs/

Where?

For now Blind might have a sufficiently high quality network to make this worthwhile even on hiring. You wouldn't find it unless you were serious "enough" about your career, even if there is a ton centered around LC grinding and TC chasing.

I wonder how much of this can be traced back to the proliferation of System Design interview stages, and resulting training material?

From my experience all of these resources tend to direct you to think in microservices / uber-distributed architectures. I can easily imagine this causing folks to consider this as "the way we do systems now" and taking it to extremes.

The low barrier as well for 1 engineer to decide they want to just get busy on a weekend on their own and build something is another way I've seen this proliferate.

Not GP, but I don't think there's an actual "rate" as such - it's the actions the Fed takes to balance prices such that it falls within their target: https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/reference-rates/effr

Algos trading purely on the EPS beat due to Rivian?

Lattes in Miami are also $5, just saying.

> When you get a vaccine you are literally getting a live virus injected into you.

This is false for the mRNA vaccines according to the CDC:

mRNA vaccines do not use the live virus that causes COVID-19 and cannot cause infection with the virus that causes COVID-19 or other viruses.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...

Yes!

Because this is an aging blog, I'm guessing they focus on the ideas around remdesivir being potentially beneficial for longevity and its concentration in red wine.

I like it, but that might encourage the top profiles to take their audience off platform entirely. Unlike say Youtube, I don't think Twitter creators are able to monetize directly on platform?

In general love the idea of these sorts of plastics improvements and hope it can solve a lot of the existing waste issue. And cut down on the awful micro plastics!

But the cynic in me is wondering about the articles 10 years down the road talking about how these enzymes are now basically "salting the earth" and we can't wait to figure out how to get them out of the soil and water.

Apparently you're meant to use kibibyte for 2^10 (1024) bytes, with the prefix kilo being the International System of Units' version of 1000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units

Arthur Jackson really was a man ahead of his time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA8xTGP_M8g

I find if I set the playback speed to 1.3-1.5x, I’m forced to listen much more closely.

Give it a shot! It’s maybe a bit like that Thinking Fast And Slow story about the kids who scored better on tests with blurry questions.

Steve Jobs had a video on this, about computers being bicycles for our minds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTRzYjoZhIY

Technologies like Chisel can make this a lot easier I think: https://www.chisel-lang.org

I'm not super familiar with it, but one day perhaps hardware verification becomes as easy as software testing someday?

Maybe you've read the book Lifespan, but the research talked about in it feels far more optimistic than what you've outlined. [1] Certainly there is already a decent amount of money being spent on it, and more and more each year with promising results. [2]

Reading this book, aging feels like an area where we might see huge advances in the next 15-20 years.

There are already really strong results for extending vital life by significant margins in other species, including rhesus monkeys. There are already drugs people take that seem to have some of this effect, though I think currently they come with some dangerous side-effects that might not be worth it if you didn't have the underlying disease the drug was intended for.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Lifespan-Why-Age_and-Dont-Have/dp/150...

[2] https://www.cell.com/trends/biotechnology/fulltext/S0167-779...

Yes and no. When your RSUs are granted at 100k and then vest a few years later at 300k, from yours and the IRS' perspective you made whatever + 300k.

I just use a dedicated email address for newsletters. Easy as a separate iOS Mail account, read from the mail app.

Works well and I sort of find it calming having an email address that only gets (so far anyway) a handful of emails a day, that I signed up for. The only problem is it doesn't save your reading place in the email if you navigate to read another email.

Another huge challenge about dealing with the drug trade - people with guns and power probably aren't just going to go away because you've changed the dynamics of their most profitable market: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-11-20/mexico...

The mountains create a sort of trap for pollution in the air I believe.

States pay for higher education systems as a part of their budget.

From https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article239..., $800 million from North Carolina tax payers to universities it sounds like.

Meanwhile, Germany is re-introducing fees for non EU residents: https://www.studying-in-germany.org/germany-will-reintroduce....