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bryceaccon Why thinking hard makes us feel tired

from the first link:

>L-glu along with glutamine is the most abundant free amino acid in the central nervous system

this would suggest that L-glu is highly regulated in the body. Abundance usually means there should be storage of it if level swings can bring "inbalance" to it's usage.

on top of that, from this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3698427/

>In the brain, Glu, which is locally produced completely de novo from glucose, acts as a major excitatory neurotransmitter, and its activity regulates synaptic plasticity, learning, memory, motor activity, and neural development. But dietary Glu is almost impermeable into the circulating blood. Also there is the blood–brain barrier against Glu in between blood and brain so as to not to incorporate into it the brain.

if high MSG(or just G from other sources) consumption did cause neurodegenerative diseases, shouldn't we see that data clearly in places that consume more in culture?

bryceaccon What are you supposed to do with old clothes?

in the heat, I wouldn't want thick merino wool on. and in my experience, any thin thread 100 ones don't last that long even when babied. I do like thicker ones for the winter as base layers though

bryceaccon Lessons learned as a software developer turned project manager

in my experience, good managers of any kind will be there to push on issues that block me or help communicate/coordinate across the company whenever my work needs. Everything else should be hands off

bryceaccon What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?

it's true that cube might outperform many commercial grade purifiers but unfortunately it's only because fires/pandemic have skyrocketed prices on purifiers and made a bunch of scammy looking ones. As you see with that box, having a filter medium and a fan is all you need. No plasma/uvc or charcoal filters necessary. I only have a couple purifiers that are $100 each and have a good centrifugal fan and a filter in front of it that can be replaced for $30. A box fan as pictured doesn't have as much static pressure to pull through the filter well, but because you have four filters worth of surface area its fine. All you could upgrade with a commercial solution is having a smaller physical footprint.

bryceaccon What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?

correct, i remember discussion a long time ago that people would buy HVAC booster fans that look like inline duct fans and then put a giant bucket of pellets on the top of it to suck through

bryceaccon A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle

I saw dozens of bugs in apps that didn't handle iOS 10 correctly. They looked at one digit to determine what the device's capabilities were and saw a "1" so they did whack stuff.

bryceaccon How should net metering affect your electric bill?

why not both? they literally ALREADY HAVE the excess of cheap power AND can conserve. This is a push for action on policy and incentives

bryceaccon Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs

i see this thread has really gotten active with you and i mostly agree with it, but I didn't see anyone pointing out your description of cruise controlled cars being a blockade in the middle. I definitely don't see it that way with my adaptive cruise control (i never ever use regular cruise control anymore). Even at the closest follow distance setting, I am always about 2 cars distance from the one i am following. I have only ever used my one particular adaptive cruise control (subaru impreza) so I am not sure if other car models tend to follow closer and block the ability to change lanes.

>You will just have to put your signal on and take a spot, even if it puts you much too close to the guy in front with someone much too close to your bumper

This description makes me think you're talking about stop and go traffic, or at least where the entire highway is mostly saturated. At that point I hardly think any one particular lane is going faster/slower than the rest but that could be wrong. In this case though, I don't use cruise control because I mentally switch over to the mode of "gas and brake the least possible" to even the flow of traffic and not contribute to brake snakes.

edit: oh i see in some other comments you're talking about 3 lane i-5, I have only been on mostly 2 lane sections of i-5 where it's just trucks on the right and people waiting in a line to pass said trucks on the left... but three lanes I haven't had any issues

bryceaccon Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation

you misunderstand completely. sending a complete list of SSIDs from your surrounding perfectly tied to an exact GPS location gets you a map of the world and precise-enough location based solely off of SSID data. They are having customers build their database to track you later when you use any G-app that has wifi access but not gps access, they would then know your approximate location while reading emails.

bryceaccon Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation

that most definitely is the reason to ask for wifi scanning, but the point was reiterated many times in the post. This is about privacy AND the fact that GPS-only navigation works globally just fine. If the user wishes to have that improved cold start approximate location then sure, turn on wifi scanning. If they do not wish to give that up, they should still be able to navigate

bryceaccon Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs

>Doing this almost always triggers a tail-gaiting session and a driver becoming enraged at me ( I am not in the turning lane, for the record ).

Or the fast/left most lane I hope. I cruise control in middle lanes and still have people tailgate like there isn't one or two open lanes to the left of me

bryceaccon AirPods don't “just work”

i feel like i can't identify issues in my life because I am so used to doing workarounds. this is why everything needs to be tested by someone else that is completely separate from the work, their fresh perspective will point out such obvious issues and your first reaction should never be to balk and say "no but you just do it like this"

bryceaccon Outdoor cats are using $500 Starlink satellite dishes as self-heating beds

that judge link for some reason inserts emoji into the address bar and messes up the back button for one frame

bryceaccon Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

i read that as "why bother with a hacked up chromium when i can just use firefox"

bryceaccon How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight

1200w is pretty insane even for a gaming rig unless it had dual GPU in SLI. any normal rig will be fine with maybe a 750w psu and even at full benchmark power it would only draw 600w of that

my 5800x and 3070 when benchmarking draws ~540w, playing any games draws ~350w so that is the max i would realistically ever use at a constant rate

oh and "idle" is a disgusting 200w draw, desktops are crazy

bryceaccon Apple fires leader of AppleToo movement

It is a fact that many people "live on" their work devices as if they are their personal devices. I havent ever heard that be a requirement though, it just happens to be the way people use it

bryceaccon Why obsessively following successful people online is dangerous

dwelling would be thinking about doing things. People often get caught up in the research portion of vacations or hobbies and they just watch videos and read articles about it or scroll through hashtags of the subject on twitter or instagram but never actually get about doing the task.

So don't think about doing it, actually go out and do it

bryceaccon What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

my glasses fit in the hp reverb g2, very snug though, i can get you caliper measurements if you care

bryceaccon Ireland raises privacy question over Facebook smart glasses

true, but in this scenario it is at least better to have the video to debate about vs just testimony

bryceaccon Want to save the earth then don’t buy that shiny new iPhone

>Big lithium batteries

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/iphone-12-battery-life-result...

??? iphones have been barely breaking past 3xxx mAh and flagship android phones are breaking 5xxx mAh now.

also seems to me that they sell a lot of refurbs or recycle much of it when phones in decent quality are traded in, but yes that is a lot of their marketing speak

bryceaccon Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale

and there are entire sites dedicated to unraveling a twitter "thread" so it's actually readable. so backwards

bryceaccon Monitoring my home's air quality with AirGradient's DIY sensor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU

you just put a fan filter on the back, you can increase the amount of filters to not hurt the fan motor as much by making a triangle config or fan on top of 4 filters in a cube. fans are for air throughput not static pressure so real air purifiers have squirrel cage blowers

bryceaccon Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares

> convoluted cancellation process

probably the most important thing here. One press in the settings app vs calling some retention person that tries to keep you paying or something that can only be cancelled via fax or carrier pidgeon

bryceaccon TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

kinda funny how people must not realize literally every app is querying all that information all the time...

bryceaccon New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest

people don't make a hypothesis in a vacuum though, they should always coming from a starting point of observations. I think the real problem is motivation to critically think about a hypothesis and follow through with investigating it. People are too lazy to find out random truths

bryceaccon 'Miraculous' mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77%

well i guess this is fantastic to avoid the argument against eradicating all mosquitos as a whole since they may be part of a food chain or something. It just prevents the disease from transmitting!

bryceaccon Microfarms come to South L.A. frontyards, bringing fresh produce to food deserts

seems fairly intuitive if you just think of fat and protein calories all being densely packed in a piece of meat vs a literal pound of lettuce? Just like people joke with celery being net negative calories, you would lose a good amount of calories just chewing all that lettuce. Almost that entire pound would be water.

bryceaccon The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box fan

Look up the PMS7003, I think I got it for $40 bucks on aliexpress and it's used in many air filters to monitor PM2.5 and PM10 etc sized particles. Easily run by a raspi and i output to a regular segmented display for my particle counts averaged every 5 minutes to see the california fires and how quickly my air filter could clear the room. For reference the winix 545 ($110 from costco iirc) on full blast got me down to about 0 particles in 15 minutes.

edit: oh and regarding fan noise, the PMS7003 has a tiny centrifugal fan in it but I can barely hear it with my ear on top of it. The winix air filter on full blast though... crazy loud compared to the other low/med/high settings it's kind of hilarious how big of a jump it is in fan speed

bryceaccon Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict

growing up in the bay area you take it for granted when there are 5 different PMT shops every other block. I will also take calling it PMT (pearl milk tea) > boba to the grave

bryceaccon Wyze $20 Smart Watch

Very slightly more expensive when you hit a sale like this past cyber monday they were $28 each. To build on the plus sides vs wyze, they notify you almost instantly while wyze cams take 12-15 seconds. It has custom detection zones that can be any shape/size polygon, not just a square. I was most disappointed with the wyze outdoor having a hardcoded detection zone... and then unlimited detection time with no cooldown between detection which is also part of wyze's subscription service