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nissarup··on Openhaystack: Build 'AirTags' – track Bluetooth devices via Apple's network
Sounds like a line from a conversation between a couple of pre-teen AIs.
nissarup··on The era of open voice assistants
Looks like you are in the market for a butler.

Especially your last point will, IMO, not be possible for a long time.

nissarup··on Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
"...admin through a brittle straw." :D That's exactly what it feels like.
nissarup··on Unit tests as documentation
For one narrow definition of documentation, yes.

I'm pretty sure our end-users would get no value out of reading the unit tests in the code of the application they are using.

nissarup··on Floral formula
Also prone to being infected by viruses.
nissarup··on Google presents method to circumvent automatic blocking of tag manager
Does this not change who is responsible for the data shared with Google?

With this the owner of the host is sending the scripts collecting data, where before it was Googles servers.

nissarup··on "Amazonian dark earth" was the work of ancient humans
Make biochar, there are many guides on the interwebs. Add continuously to you compost bin along with the normal stuff you put in there. When the compost is done, add it to the garden.
nissarup··on Things you're allowed to do (2020)
Or you could say that ChatGPT has made more of them available to people who don't have the resources for, say, hiring a personal researcher.
nissarup··on Optimal hydration may slow down the aging process in humans
On page 3: Per liter of water: Sodium chloride 2.6g Glucose, anhydrous 13.5g Potassium chloride 1.5g Trisodium citrate, dihydrate 2.9g
nissarup··on Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?
How is the results from the Darktable conversion? Are you able to share the script?
nissarup··on Podman in Linux
Thank you! This has been my main headache with docker. I'll switch to podman at home.
nissarup··on A working observatory which tracks "near-Earth objects"
I can't imagine how large a .2AU GIF would be.
nissarup··on WireGuard is now in Linus' tree
Assuming a spherical VPS in a vacuum...
nissarup··on Ask HN: Do you ever contact people who have had a positive impact on you?
Yes. I did. She have now been my girlfriend for around six years.
nissarup··on YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for Google
I hope it won't change. But they can make watching without an account less desirable; less bandwidth, more ads, no access to newly uploaded videos, first 30s. free, etc.
nissarup··on YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for Google
No. Not now. But that could change.
nissarup··on YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for Google
Adblockers.
nissarup··on Building a front end with no JavaScript
But you do need JavaScript to read the article about building a front end with no JavaScript...
nissarup··on Nginx quick reference
Wow! That is awesome.
nissarup··on WireGuard for iOS
Thank you for that link. I tried manually setting up a VPN for my phone. It didn't work. After deleting my old wg0.conf (and adding the DNS to the client) it worked.
nissarup··on The Periodic Table of Data Structures [pdf]
I want that read/write/space-optimized triangle prominently featured in every languages documentation, filled in with the different data stuctures from that language.

Need quick reads? Use Y. Quick writes? Use X. Etc.

nissarup··on L-theanine, a constituent in tea, and its effect on mental state (2008) [pdf]
Why? It's not exactly "survival of the fittest" but more like "survival of the good enoughs". If there is no pressure, it probably will not be improved.
nissarup··on When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health
So it's not just "listen to your body" it's more like "learn to listen to the specific right signals that your body is whispering very, very softly while yelling for more sugar". Is that right?

I'm sorry. This is horrible advice. In fact I would not call it advice at all. Basically you are just saying "do the right thing" without specifying what "the right thing" actually is.

nissarup··on When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health
Why would unpredictability be good? If you eat at the same time your body starts preparing to digest the food before you eat it, making for a faster, better digestion of the food.
nissarup··on When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health
But "you need to read up on healthy foods/workout routines" is something completely different from "listen to your body".

The two statements are similar in one way, though: Completely useless as advice that will get people healthier. "listen to your body" will get people to eat what they wan't. "you need to read up on healthy foods/workout routines" will get people to read all sorts of bad advice. Like, for example: "listen to your body".

nissarup··on When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health
But "listen to your body" is exactly "eat whatever you feel like eating"!

Eating sugar releases dopamine. Is that not my body telling me it's good?

nissarup··on When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health
"...the only rule for a healthy lifestyle is: Listen to your body" and "Don't follow any dogmatic approach!" really don't belong together.

Also if it was as easy as "Listen to your body" do you think we would be having all these obesity problems now?

nissarup··on Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefits of Fasting
And broccoli sprouts! Don't forget the broccoli sprouts!

Jesting aside. She is cool, talks very fast and deliver an awful lot of information in a short time.

nissarup··on Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)
I want these on a poster.
nissarup··on Ethereum fixes serious “eclipse” flaw
Awesome stuff does not lose your funds. That would negate the awesomeness of the stuff.
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