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dotaenjoyer commented on How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)   thelogicaloptimist.com/in... · Posted by u/rzk
sireat · 8 months ago
6 eggs at breakfast every day?

My doctor's advice (which is also official government advice for high cholestorol) was two egg yellows max every week - that includes any foods that use egg yellows.

Egg whites you have more leeway and theoretically one could use 6 egg whites every day but that would include heavy exercise.

dotaenjoyer · 8 months ago
did many tests throughout the years, never had issues with cholestorol.
dotaenjoyer commented on How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)   thelogicaloptimist.com/in... · Posted by u/rzk
OnionBlender · 8 months ago
What is your healthier breakfast? I never really learned what is considered a healthy breakfast.
dotaenjoyer · 8 months ago
mine is also simple, 6 eggs, sometimes with a toast on the size and tuna and some fruits. been eating that for 12 years or so (eggs dont cost much here).
dotaenjoyer commented on Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator   filiph.github.io/unsure/... · Posted by u/filiph
kqr · 8 months ago
I have no familiarity with blue whales but I would guess they're 1--5 times the mass of lorries, which I guess weigh like 10--20 cars which I in turn estimate at 1.2--2 tonnes, so primitively 12--200 tonnes for a normal blue whale. This also aligns with it being at least twice as large as an elephant, something I estimate at 5 tonnes.

The question asks for the heaviest, which I think cannot be more than three times the normal weight, and probably no less than 1.3. That lands me at 15--600 tonnes using primitive arithmetic. The calculator in OP suggests 40--320.

The real value is apparently 170, but that doesn't really matter. The process of arriving at an interval that is as wide as necessary but no wider is the point.

Estimation is a skill that can be trained. It is a generic skill that does not rely on domain knowledge beyond some common sense.

dotaenjoyer · 8 months ago
I would say general knowledge in many domains may help with this as you can try and approximate to the nearest thing you know from that domain.

How you get good at being a generalist is the tricky part, my best bet is reading and doing a lot of trivia (I found crosswords to be somewhat effective at this, but far from being efficient)

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