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chiyc commented on What happens when an octopus engages with art? cnn.com/2025/07/17/style/... · Posted by u/robinhouston

psd1 · 5 months ago

You might enjoy Children Of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It's an imagination of what a spacefaring civilisation of octopuses might look like.

I won't hype it to the moon. I enjoyed Children Of Ruin more, which centres on spiders. But it's a decent read if you like SF.

chiyc · 5 months ago

Clearing up the mix-up here. Children of Time is the first book in the series that centers on a spider civilization while Children of Ruin is about octopus.

I haven't read Children of Ruin yet, but I've consistently heard from people that they enjoyed Children of Time more.

chiyc commented on What a crab sees before it gets eaten by a cuttlefish nytimes.com/2025/03/03/sc... · Posted by u/gk1

Jtsummers · 10 months ago

> I was hoping the article would include a video

It has several videos.

chiyc · 10 months ago

Yep, I missed that the archive link doesn't have video.

chiyc commented on What a crab sees before it gets eaten by a cuttlefish nytimes.com/2025/03/03/sc... · Posted by u/gk1

jjmarr · 10 months ago

Gift link with video, because a static archive doesn't do the opening video justice:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/science/cuttlefish-camouf...

chiyc · 10 months ago

Thanks! I didn't realize the static archive was missing the video. These are better than what's on Santon's site.

chiyc commented on What a crab sees before it gets eaten by a cuttlefish nytimes.com/2025/03/03/sc... · Posted by u/gk1

chiyc · 10 months ago

I was hoping the article would include a video, but there's a great 12 second clip on Matteo Santon's site: https://matteosanton.com/research/

chiyc commented on First live birth using Fertilo procedure that matures eggs outside the body businesswire.com/news/hom... · Posted by u/apsec112

nashashmi · a year ago

The headline inspires SCiFi stories of creating humans outside of the woman. But that is not at all what this story is about: eggs were brought to maturity level outside of the woman.

Currently eggs would be matured inside the mother with artificial hormones.

Now they can be removed before maturing and inflated after in a dish. Then fertilized. Then be injected back into the mother. Hormones are still used in the next step.

chiyc · a year ago

The article claims an 80% reduction in injections, but they must only be counting the injections prior to egg retrieval. After the 2 weeks of injections before the egg retrieval, there's another 8-10 weeks of intramuscular injections after the embryo transfer.

Still, this is a great development to lessen the entire ordeal for women undergoing IVF.

chiyc commented on Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out? · Posted by u/askHN2024

hoseja · a year ago

Is #5 really that bad? Kids can be real shitheads sometimes, but you have to be willing to really go through with it.

chiyc · a year ago

A well-meaning but frustrated parent might try that move in the moment but not consider what it could mean from their child's perspective. "My parent could leave me" should never be a potential consequence for misbehaving.

They're probably more aware of it because of worse things they've endured like it. A severe example is kicking your kid out of the car and driving off without them. Or packing them a bag and forcing them out of the apartment.

chiyc commented on Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy longform.asmartbear.com/a... · Posted by u/duck

rileymat2 · 2 years ago

I feel ignorant, I thought with card counting you were still pretty much playing the simple strategy but altering bet sizes as your expectations of winning increased?

chiyc · 2 years ago

It can also involve deviations in strategy based on the count, particularly with borderline hands.

chiyc commented on SICP in JavaScript sourceacademy.org/sicpjs/... · Posted by u/behnamoh

Akronymus · 2 years ago

Should ternaries be left or right associative?

chiyc · 2 years ago

Right associative! It's just one of the many rites of passage for people working with PHP to get bitten by its left associative ternaries. Naked nested ternaries are deprecated now, but maybe one day, PHP can have right associative ternaries.

chiyc commented on Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking compassionandchoices.org/... · Posted by u/mhb

t344344 · 3 years ago

I done 2 day dry fast and 3 week water fast. I know something about this stuff. It is VERY painful and stupid.

If relative asked me to help with this, I would just get an illegal gun with all the risks. Much safer!

I am pretty sure in my country (EU) this would be qualified as domestic abuse. Not giving water to senior who can not communicate is gross neglect, probably 2 years in prison. Nobody can simply consent to this, no matter how much paper work you fill in.

And dry fast may trigger all sort of illnesses. If they terminate fast, you end with senior who needs way more care. Kidney stones are particularly painful, and may be unrepeatable at advanced age!

chiyc · 3 years ago

Fasting as a healthy person is very different from someone nearing the end of their life. Many people suffering from sickness lose most of their appetite already and have little energy to bring themselves to eat.

chiyc commented on Thelonious Monk’s Tips for Musicians (1960) openculture.com/2017/12/t... · Posted by u/jynxxx

2devnull · 3 years ago

“Get up and walk around in circles for a few bars.”

chiyc · 3 years ago

Hahah, love it. A couple examples for anyone curious about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qweSlfP6BtI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgPQkMX75pY

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KarmaCake day159August 15, 2016View Original