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You have nothing to hide given the current, reasonable definition of crime.
What if that changes?
Readit Newsdrumttocs8 commented on Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Main thing I learned with health and fitness is that, for me, I was always trying to do right long enough so I could cheat and "reward" myself. And that always lead to failure. I had to change my mindset from, "Be good until you feel like you can be bad" to ,"You've adopted a new lifestyle. This is you now. You're not building up points so you can buy a whole pizza and 3 beers. You're doing this because this is you now. This is the reward, being able to run miles in the heat. Right now, sweat all over you, breath going in and out. This is the reward." For some reason that worked for me.
Yeah, but I mean... pizza and beer...
drumttocs8 commented on An end to all this prostate trouble? yarchive.net/blog/prostat... · Posted by u/bondarchuk
> The theory here is largely mechanical
I’ve long felt that the reliance on population-statistics (RCT) rather than individual diagnosis highlights how little we really know about medicine.
A mechanic wouldn’t try to fix a car based on a checklist of symptoms interventions that work X% of the time across the population of cars; they would actually inspect the pieces and try to positively identify e.g. a worn/broken component. Of course, this is harder in the human body.
I’m hopeful that as diagnostics become cheaper and more democratized (eg you can now get an ultrasound to plug into your iPhone for ~$1k), we’ll be able to make “medicine 3.0” I.e. truly personalized medicine, available as standard rather than a luxury available to the 0.1%.
The other difference, of course, is that the mechanic can just RTFM
drumttocs8 commented on It is as if you were on your phone pippinbarr.com/it-is-as-i... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Well yeah. Otherwise what are you suppose to just sit there awkwardly in public?
Public buses existed before cellphones
drumttocs8 commented on Apple's Software Quality Crisis eliseomartelli.it/blog/20... · Posted by u/ajdude
Make opening a settings page require multiple queries to Microsoft servers. That way you get lag with a bonus of variability and in the case of broken wifi, extreme lag as it waits for the connections to time out.
I'm not saying this is what happens. But it's scarily plausible and it really shouldn't be.
You can certainly test the theory pretty easily with Wireshark
> This hardware is really being held back by the operating system at this point.
Please elucidate.
To expatiate with perspicuity:
The Apple ecosystem is a walled garden.
drumttocs8 commented on Show HN: Audiocube – A 3D DAW for Spatial Audio audiocube.app... · Posted by u/noahfk
I can see it being useful as a VST, actually- could be an interesting part of my workflow in Live.
drumttocs8 commented on I've acquired a new superpower danielwirtz.com/blog/spot... · Posted by u/wirtzdan
I've got -7.5 myopia/nearsightedness in both eyes, with astigmatism. As a result, my eyes can easily go out of focus to do Magic Eye or this type of thing. The bonus superpower is, if I take my contacts out and get really close up on something, it's like I'm looking through a microscope; if I happen to have glasses on, sometimes I can also catch the light and focus in just the right way to further magnify what I'm seeing already zoomed in. In those instances I see whatever's reflecting through the glasses, so mostly eyelashes and skin/pores, but it's fascinating nonetheless. Can't see a damn thing beyond the tip of my nose without corrective lenses though LOL
Same vision, and I found it hard to do at first- but super cool when the image appeared crystal clear!
drumttocs8 commented on Learn perfect pitch in 15 years moderndescartes.com/essay... · Posted by u/yuppiemephisto
Or you could just take depakote[0].
Honestly fascinating.
Any first-hand experience?
Bitcoin failed as a currency, and as that became realized, institutional investors pivoted to the "digital gold" scam, to keep people long, while they divest or hedge. The two reasons why it failed as a currency are transaction latency, and lack of fungibility. Transaction privacy is necessary for fungibility. Both of those are just technical problems; I predict that a distributed ledger currency with private transactions like Monero, but a faster consensus algorithm like Avalanche or Hedera will become popular in the next decade. It's likely to be an Ethereum L2.
That is just the currency aspect of distributed ledgers. It's just one use case that we don't yet have the technology to properly address. The exciting thing that distributed ledgers enable is cryptographic institutions. These technologies allow us to solve coordination problems more easily than ever before. Democracies, businesses, communities, projects can all be coordinated better and more honestly using distributed ledgers. It's not an overstatement to say that distributed ledgers are as big of an advancement for human coordination as democracy was.
If you've been soured on these technologies because most of the currencies built with them are scams, I would encourage you to learn about them as if they were just incredibly robust databases that even governments would struggle to take down. Surely you can think of something cool to build with that, which doesn't involve money.