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Most predators that eat exclusively large prey don't number in the billions.

Any reason you are averse to eating bugs specifically?

I had the same thought and had been holding my tongue. I think the more literal name probably suits the intent of the service better but my impulse to terrible portmanteau is screaming. :)

As an anecdote, I spent time in that margin-- where the presence of mass-produced, 'optimized' food probably meant the difference between my being able to afford enough food vs not-- but I consistently dreaded these sorts of 'inflated' foods, where nutrients had clearly been deprioritized for quantity. This chicken situation is one case, but they show up in a few forms in the US, and are particularly endemic to food deserts, where it can be genuinely hard to find food that hasn't been preserved or 'optimized' beyond the pale. As you said, yes, it certainly beat starving, but I would've rather had better food distributed more effectively. I believe we can have both.

It always feels weird when I pull a chicken breast out for dinner and it is bigger than my own breast muscle; I grew up with chickens and long intuited something was up but didn't know the numbers were that striking. Parallels to what has happened over the past several decades in the vegetable crop; nutrition, flavor and quality vs. sheer quantity.

What I'm getting from this is that there are tangible parallels between suggestive memory alteration and deep-frying a JPEG.

VIM started flirting with giving me RSI issues (mostly : and esc keys; yes, even on capslock. I have small hands) after some years. It's a comparison certainly but not a control.

Xah writes some of the most readable guides and doc I've found anywhere. Specifically, readable in the sense that meaning is efficiently conveyed. In technical contexts it's clear nothing else matters to him. He also isn't reluctant to speak his mind about ... well, just about anything, for better or worse. Usually better, I think, even when it's wordvomit, seeing someone else willing to talk about or criticize something reinforces it however subtly as 'something some people do' and something you may in turn be more likely to do yourself. Which is a net good.

I refer to him regularly, especially when translating ideas to people who aren't in the computer jargon 'orbit'.

The extremes his opinions (and overall style) sit at also force or at least nudge others to think about and elucidate their own positions, if only to themselves. I think it's intentional, and eat it up. I've noticed a lot of people can't stand him for the exact same reasons which suggests it's working.

Thanks! I've started using week numbers to keep track of certain weekly tasks and didn't have a good solution for the "I'm half asleep and can't recall(+forgot to write an alias for) a highly specific `cal` invocation" case.

I used one of these for a while, more or less. It was great. People didn't understand how I had no phone but never missed an appointment nor lost notes.

I've been keeping an eye, albeit not close, on this, and have mixed feelings erring happy that it's slowly trudging forward. I've had friends with PTSD for whom ketamine, as the most contemporary similar treatment that comes to mind, did wonders-- and others for whom it became a vice. In my experience PTSD tends to respond very well to that kind of 'break through' treatment; some people just need something to kick down their mental walls hard enough that they can start building roads out (ie. different behaviors, which later only need to be reinforced, not initiated). PTSD is deeply paralyzing.

I always thought a nontrivial % of HN users were on medications like adderall. The ambiguities-- the great potential good, likewise the great potential evil, and weighing them coldly-- of using a medication that can be therapeutically used or abused are pretty familiar to everyone I've known on any scheduled medication. Of course, the 'therapy session' nature of therapeutic MDMA and ketamine complicates that; you have to trust the therapist pretty much completely, and sadly any situation of total surrender is very easy to abuse, no matter how much it might have helped.