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etagoblaon This will go down on your permanent record

Does anyone have evidence that this video is real? If not, and you're having an emotional reaction anyway, you're part of the problem.

etagoblaon What if personal computers were a mistake, actually?

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etagoblaon A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier

Here's a thought experiment. Imagine if every fatty acid in your gut is contained in a cell that will independently try its best to maintain homeostasis. When it's under stress -- from any source -- it will secrete hormones.

Now imagine an anorexic woman who recovers, but she overcorrects and ends up overweight in the eyes of her anorexic friends. They shame her for overeating and she tries to eat less, which puts her adipose cells under stress. Is it possible that she'd keep gaining weight from the stress of undereating? If it's impossible, how do you know? If it's not impossible, should we blame anorexics the same way we blame people with habits that you think are bad?

etagoblaon Belarus’s Soviet Economy

>no vegetables

Oh no! What would we do without our rabbit food?

etagoblaon Total sleep deprivation impairs attention and higher-order cognitive processes

Chicken or the egg

etagoblaon Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

Prison, it's Onur's stalker.

etagoblaon Fries of the Future

http://biochemical-pathways.com/#/map/1

This is the moment I decide I'm absolutely done battling nerds who think that because they understand computers (usually badly) they understand everything about complex metabolic processes. The lack of humility is seriously mind-boggling.

There's a scientific consensus that you understand nothing about. People spend their lives on this stuff. Recommendations have certainly changed as new information came out -- we also discovered iodine and B vitamins -- but is there any government agency in the Western world that recommends a high-lard diet? If not I think you're batting out of your league.

Not that this absolutely needs to be said, but lard isn't pure saturated fat, and the unrendered fat of an animal is an organ.

etagoblaon Fries of the Future

I'm willing to wager that we thought saturated fat was bad for a very good reason, and it's not one of the reasons touted by people who want to eat deep fried bacon wrapped hot dogs for every meal. My first thought when someone calls a scientific consensus a scare is that they have an agenda. You'll see similar language in climate change denial. Yes, new data comes out and some theories are shown to not be perfect, but if you're getting your education from internet memes and hacker forums and scattered papers you're going to draw conclusions that miss things. It's also a matter of whether whichever studies are being touted right now are representative of the larger scientific landscape.

etagoblaon Fries of the Future

The fat scare is far from over. Not everyone spends time on Hacker News or controversial diet channels on youtube.

Moreover, nutrition is a lot more complex than "fad in, fad out". The subcutaneous fat of an animal can hold some pretty toxic stuff -- that's kind of its purpose. It wasn't a scare, people were just missing nuance and still more research needs to be done.

etagoblaon Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)

haha they don't like me today

etagoblaon Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)

Thank you, I needed to hear this.

etagoblaon Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)

It's not an absolute one to one relationship. I'm talking about general trends.

etagoblaon Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)

I agree, but there's a certain line that a good software engineer should not cross and that's where their improved social skills make local gf attainment feasible, because then they'll start devoting their time to other things.

In my case I can already see my increased HN karma pulling me away from our tablegen spec. With a gf I'd be useless.

etagoblaon Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)

I feel like this is anti-progress. My industry's success depends on me sitting in my room coding and not having a gf.

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This is literally an ad, with ad-tier information.

etagoblaon A Clever Way to Find Compiler Bugs

I'm surprised it warrants a blogpost specifically aimed at compilers. People test against simulations all the time.

etagoblaon Office noise bothers some people more than others

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etagoblaon Nine-year-old child to graduate university

Nice

etagoblaon Nine-year-old child to graduate university

I'm growing increasingly pessimistic about posts like this which claim to have a nuanced understanding of [child development] but actually rely more on personal feelings, anecdotes, and pseudoscience.

A smart girl who grows up in a school where everyone's getting pregnant at 14 might end up pregnant at 14. A smart kid who grows up in Flint might have to deal with the same lead poisoning as everyone else, with potentially varying symptoms. A smart kid whose parents are depressed in its adolescence might be depressed.

There are many potential causes of burnout and it's extremely unhelpful to assume that we know what's happening to these kids based on "I know a guy who knows a guy". What you're essentially doing is framing a kid's failures as a moral issue of perseverance and study skills when it might be, but it also might not be.

Imagine being naturally competent but having a mental illness that invites the public to inject their own personal biases.

etagoblaon A Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's

Exactly. Parkinson's is a mechanical issue and doesn't affect the microbiome -- they proved that with science.

etagoblaon In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas

I'm not responding to this because it seems like you really don't realize how vapid your comment is. If you want to learn more, please open a book, don't read internet forum research.

etagoblaon In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas

Basically you use carbohydrates, fat, and protein to make energy and when you don't eat those things you don't have energy. Really interesting stuff.

etagoblaon In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas

The topic of the thread was the 5 hour workday. I proposed that the 5 hour workday already exists in the form of shitty managers.

etagoblaon In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas

Have you taught your kids about the benefits of fasting? xD

etagoblaon In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas

My point is that the "5-hour workday" might be more common than many of us think.

etagoblaon In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas

I wish I knew how common it was to have a full-time job but only work for a fraction of that time.

My last software job was supposedly 40 hours/week. I'd usually come in for two hours and leave. They wouldn't be an intense two hours either. Once in a while I'd stay all day. Based on what I hear from my friends from university, this experience is not the median but it's not uncommon either.

Many managers really don't know how to manage. Morale goes down the shitter, and unless you have children it's unlikely you'll care about getting caught.

etagoblaon Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement

This made me laugh purely with shock value, but it made me laugh a lot.

etagoblaon Parenting: Who is it really for? (2017)

His writing is a little goofy sometimes, but take what you can from it. Where does he oversimplify? What does he get right? Has this made you think about your own life?

The real funny thing is that he's not even telling you what to do. He just spends a lot of time with his kid and wrote about why it makes him happy.

etagoblaon Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins

I laughed too hard at this