esquivalience (u/esquivalience)

esquivalience commented on Number Research Inc numberresearch.xyz/... · Posted by u/eieio

sanufar · 10 days ago

67 has been searched 13k+ times, more than 69 and 420 combined

Times are changing

Not according to https://numberresearch.xyz/info

    most searched:

    69 29504 searches
    67 13640 searches

edit: ...presumably due to the HN effect, 69 has jumped up to ~33k while 67 stagnates at ~13k!

esquivalience commented on Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

iammjm · 21 days ago

lets get concrete with "Exercise": what is one unit of exercise? like exactly what type of movement, at what intensity and duration should be performed how frequently to be as effective as therapy? like should i run every day at 160bmp for 20 minutes? whats the minimum effective dose?

esquivalience · 21 days ago

There are no units of exercise and no units of depression either.

In my opinion the best measure of exercise is perceived effort. So while you're asking for objective answers, I think a lot of this is inherently subjective.

The benchmark you're asking for is also ill-defined. For example: How frequently to be as effective as what type and what frequency of therapy?

esquivalience commented on Animated Knots animatedknots.com/... · Posted by u/ostacke

polarbearballs · a month ago

How are more people not obsessed with knots?

It's the purest form of human creativity! It's nothing but a strait line and humans have figured out how to twist and turn it into a million different objects and endless uses. Our entire species has propelled itself into a realm of knowledge built on the fundamental twisting of a simple lines and observing those properties.

The clothes you wear are knots. Every surgery you have ends in knots. The combined effect of knots on our technology and understanding of the world is fascinating.

Only humans can see a rope, have a picture in their heads of what it should look like and then set forth on creating it. It's just such a precious nugget of what it means to be human and have the urge to fuck around with shit.

esquivalience · a month ago

This is a big part of whatmade me take up knitting as a hobby – one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done.

esquivalience commented on Animated Knots animatedknots.com/... · Posted by u/ostacke

acomjean · a month ago

Is knitting a really long knot?

esquivalience · a month ago

As an avid knitter, I can confirm it really is. In practice there might be multiple knots as you change balls of yarn for example but topologically each sweater is just a very fancy knot.

In fact, the words are etymologically linked, they’re really just the same word! See https://www.etymonline.com/word/knit

> knit(v.)

> Old English cnyttan "to tie with a knot, bind together, fasten by tying," related to Old Norse knytja "bind together, form into a knot," Middle Low German knütten "to tie, knot," Old English cnotta "a knot," from Proto-Germanic knuttjan, from stem knutt-. Of brows, late 14c. Intransitive meaning "do knitting, weave by looping or knotting a continuous thread" (especially in reference to plain stitch) is from 1520s.

esquivalience commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon

edoceo · a month ago

I'm stretched to think of one thing that is easier in space. Anything I could imagine still requires getting there (in one piece)

esquivalience · a month ago

Death, and some science. That's it?

esquivalience commented on UK government launches fuel forecourt price API gov.uk/guidance/access-th... · Posted by u/Technolithic

alexfoo · a month ago

Decisions about fuel purchases are often irrational, much like many food purchases or generic medicines.

I know someone who avoids their local petrol station that is 10p/litre cheaper than most others nearby (within a mile or so) as they think the cheaper fuel must be lower quality. There are weird status things going on with purchases like this.

Only the other day my father refused to buy some branded paracetamol because it was ~5 times more expensive than the local pharmacy brand that was out of stock. (£2.25 vs £0.49 for 16 500mg tablets.) I'd usually agree with him but he was out of paracetamol and has been advised by his doctor to take 2x500mg a day and there was no viable nearby alternative.

A digression but for that generation (those born in 1940s/50s) that grew up with rationing I think it is hardwired into their brain to try and minimise the cost of so many things, but with lots of random exceptions. Later on that day he ordered an extra drink but decided he was too full once it had arrived so he left it. So he was worried about spending an extra £1.76 on paracetamol but not about spending £7 on a pint he didn't drink.

Many people decide what petrol station to use based on simply how close it is, what kind of shop is attached to it (and the bits of British snobbery around that), whether it also sells whatever else they want (bread, milk, beer, etc), or even whether it is easy to drive in and out of.

esquivalience · a month ago

Since paracetamol interacts with alcohol,there may be more rationality than first thought!

esquivalience commented on Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot github.com/moltbot/moltbo... · Posted by u/philip1209

esquivalience · a month ago

According to the README, Anthropic itself is one of the contributors to this project.

esquivalience commented on Viking Ship Museum in Denmark announces the discovery of the largest cog medievalists.net/2025/12/... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

ggm · 2 months ago

I wish people didn't use headline superlatives so much. If you compare this ship to the pleasure craft of Caligula which was destroyed in ww2, you have to start qualifying things by open water vs lake-bound. Caligula had two of them, in Roman times. One was 20m wide and 70m long. They were "carnival cruise line" party boats.

It's a big ship. It's an important find. It's not a supership or a supercog, or a beast, or a behemoth.

It's 9m wide, 6m high and 28m long.

Compare it to these: https://www.google.com/search?q=example+of+a+30m+commercial+...

This class of ship was a significant component of middle age trade and presages even larger ships, which in turn increased carrying capacity. Transport on water is bound by displacement to surface area so a small increase in surface area bounds a larger volume, where drag is bounded in surface area so as ships increase in volume the energy cost per unit carried drops significantly and thus the crewing and sail burden. Bigger ships mean cheaper goods.

Carrying 300 tonnes of cargo in 1400 was pretty good.

esquivalience · 2 months ago

But according to the article and other sources, it strictly is the biggest cog. Why wouldn't it be right for them to announce it that way?

esquivalience commented on Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons alinpanaitiu.com/blog/dev... · Posted by u/alin23

alin23 · 3 months ago

Thank you for the kind words! Do try to finish your cup, it's a great experience both to drink from something made by your hands, and to drink from a wooden cup if it's finished well.

Make sure you do water popping after finishing the carving and sanding process. It's what makes the difference between wood that catches your lips and wood that feels like ceramic. The process is simple: sand with 600 or 400 grit, whichever you have, then get all the wood wet with water (faucet is fine), let dry completely (hairdryer helps), sand again with 600/400 grit and repeat about 3 times until wetting the wood no longer makes it feel rough.

esquivalience · 3 months ago

Great advice thanks, and a new technique to learn too. When making walking sticks I usually go to 1200 grit, or 2500 where finish is really important. Finishing is my favourite part of the job, similar to your point about epoxy (why would you want to interface with a layer of plastic?)

esquivalience commented on Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons alinpanaitiu.com/blog/dev... · Posted by u/alin23

dotancohen · 3 months ago

The Wood Database? Thank you for once again reminding me how incredible the Information Highway once was, and could be.

I lament our detour onto the Commercial Highway.

esquivalience · 3 months ago

It's still out there! It only _seems_ distant.