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puchatek··on What if regular exercise is the best cognitive exercise?
Yet there are always examples of extraordinary minds of people who either despise physical exercise it are even wheelchair-bound. Steven Hawkins comes to mind. Maybe those are just exceptions.
puchatek··on Writing down what I do in Obsidian
Gotta admit i also checked out obsidian and the top review for the app on the play store gave me pause. Seems the app cannot sync with your local server so you'd need the sync subscription if you wanted to use app and desktop together to maintain one set of notes.

Can someone confirm this?

puchatek··on How Tucson is facing up to a megadrought
Now this would be a great use of AI: turn clickbait titles into more adequate ones.
puchatek··on One in eight U.S. adult deaths aged 20 to 64 involved too much alcohol
Maybe to you this is all plain as day but it wasn't so long ago that people thought one glass of wine per day was good for the heart. Now we know that alcohol is always toxic with no safe minimum. I bet that hearing just how many preventable deaths are linked to this one thing is a big surprise to many.
puchatek··on How Iran can track and control protesters’ phones: hacked documents
Wouldn't burner sim be enough?
puchatek··on Space-based solar power is getting serious
Can you please respond to the comments below? I'm tired of ppl. bringing up nuclear and then ducking the debate
puchatek··on Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)
A cheer for the cheery!
puchatek··on Former WSJ reporter says law firm used Indian hackers to sabotage his career
Maybe you missed this sentence while reading the article?

"Solomon’s suit is the latest in a series of legal actions that follows Reuters’ reporting about hired hackers operating out of India."

puchatek··on LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip
Those molecules were engineered IIUC. They don't exist in nature
puchatek··on LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip
A trip is more than a series of visual disturbances. It's an emotional rollercoaster. Your perception of yourself and your surroundings changes drastically and you have many insights that you perceive as very significant. This can help take your attention away from irrelevant things and direct it to more meaningful things in your normal life.

And even the hallucinations can show you that we construct our realities in every instant of our lives. You know this already of course but knowing and experiencing are two different things.

puchatek··on Learning Is Remembering
I think it flows pretty well, fwiw. Strikes a better balance between readability and ambiguity.
puchatek··on Learning Is Remembering
Great. If i ever feel like my impostor syndrome could use a bump I'll be sure to throw Copilot into the mix.
puchatek··on So You Want to Compete with Steam (2018)
The whole point of Brexit was to boldly charge ahead into a bright future, unburdened by EU's anti-innovation laws (some of which are known as "consumer protection laws").

/s

puchatek··on Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trillions of Net Savings
I'm aware of how Soros is the Boogeyman for some people but I'm curious as to what exactly you are insinuating? What's the narrative?
puchatek··on H-m-m: Hackers mind map
I am currently trying a big sheet of white paper, folded once in the middle and a pilot frixion pen.

This is mostly for home stuff of which there is quite a bit for a home owner. It can just lie on since table or shelf and be updated easily. I put notes and todos together and the todos get a little check box in front of them. I'm in control of the hierarchy and it mostly mirrors the layout of the house. Doesn't get in the way for me.

I also want to extend it to other areas but for now I'm trying things out with the house domain.

Of course the downside is that i cannot easily edit it when I'm out and about and have some idea. And it's not really possible to have any automated reminders or integrations. (Not sure if there are open source alternatives to what rocketbook is offering; that might be a way to hook this into some digital setup)

puchatek··on Stop measuring community engagement
This. And also this:

> We still want our members to be happy, right?

... we might want that, but do the people running the platforms?

puchatek··on Ask HN: Why don't we have 3 day weekends yet?
Me and another colleague on a team of 6 have the same arrangement. Works well enough but if i worked even less then the limited exposure to the flow of relevant information would start to show. I might make up for that by declaring that i will only focus on some parts of our domain but that would make me less flexible than the rest of the team and i would feel more like a burden.

So there are parts of the world where you could reasonably go to a the day weekend if you wanted enough.

A nice side effect is that if you live in a country with progressive tax you end up getting a higher net per-hour wage than if you worked 5 days because of the lower income and thus lower tax rate.

IIUC the US has this perma-work culture where if you don't want to always be working and earning the most you can earn then something must be wrong with you, maybe you're a commie or a hippie or sth. I hear that Japan had the same but this is radically changing as a result of the pandemic. Maybe the US will change a bit too?

puchatek··on German digital signage ban prompts confusion
Yeah I'm happy to throw out that baby with the advertising bathwater. Fuck it, I'll even break the news to the few friends in advertising that society has decided to evolve and that their services won't be needed any longer. But unfortunately, ads are how people prefer to pay online so we're stuck with it.
puchatek··on German digital signage ban prompts confusion
If they are so inefficient then where does the wasted energy go?
puchatek··on Fix it, Fork it, Fuck off (2019)
> Many third-party dependencies in mature projects are non-negotiable. Removing them would require a complete rewrite.

How is this the maintainer's problem?

puchatek··on The gathering crisis in the UK
That cannot possibly be the only thing it delivered. The likes of Farage have been working on this thing for decades. They must be getting a lot more it of it
puchatek··on The layoffs at Klarna
By quoting her wrongly you missed precisely the reason why her's was considered a good approach to communicating this.
puchatek··on The layoffs at Klarna
I hope that your definition of success is healthier than your definition of failure.
puchatek··on The Calvine UFO photograph
Search light hitting a cloud?
puchatek··on Goat Rental – Hire Goats
The "world" seems to be made up of Canada, the US and Australia
puchatek··on A genetic modification boosts grain yields, shortens the growth duration of rice
You and your clones are not gonna be spread around in nature and multiply uncontrollably. Also you and your clones are not gonna be eaten by predators and affect them in unforeseeable ways (i hope). Those differences matter to the people who worry about GMO technologies. The fact that the development is spearheaded by for-profit companies does not help either.
puchatek··on The case for bad coffee (2015)
> waiting 15 minutes for my morning caffeine fix

I can prepare a homemade cappuccino in 5 minutes - with milk froth, from freshly ground beans, using an improved version of the classic Moka Express. While i empty and clean the pot, the water is boiled in an electric water cooker and the beans are ground. Then the milk goes in the frother. Hot water and beans go in the pot which goes on the stove. Froth into cups, a quick rinse of the frother and then the coffee is already ready to be poured.

The quality is not that of an espresso made with a high-pressure espresso machine but it's still pretty good.

puchatek··on I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
There's a potentially a killer feature of Firefox that justifies its use over Chrome: it seems to be impossible to prevent youtube ads from playing on Chrome while in Firefox just having ABP installed does the trick.

(this claim is based on rather limited testing so please correct me if I'm wrong)

puchatek··on The crypto crisis has created an advertising vacuum
Wanting to sidestep banks when doing business is antithetical to a functioning and economically healthy society?

Fourteen years ago a good deal of those banks crashed the world economy but are still around because governments decided that their immense loses had to be socialized using taxpayer money. Not my definition of economical healthy.

Before the advent of altcoins and before the fees skyrocketed people were using BTC to pay for stuff. A network that can facilitate this has value. What that value is is a matter of debate, just like it's debatable whether Tesla should be worth ten times as much as Volkswagen.

Any crypto that survives in the long term and will facilitate near-instant global payments at minuscule costs without middlemen will have enough value for a lot of people to want to have it.

puchatek··on Mimic 3 by Mycroft
And how well does STT work when the room is not quiet anymore, e.g. when music is playing?
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