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krzat commented on X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls   popsci.com/technology/tib... · Posted by u/Hooke
grues-dinner · 7 days ago
The original idle clicker. With modern materials, vacuum pumps, and magnetic bearings for the mechanics and lithography for the writing, we can pump those numbers up!

All silent in the monastery except for the ultrasonic whine of thousands of prayer turbines.

Prayer ring gyros, encoding the prayers into ultra-fast laser pulses going round millions of turns of optic fibre may be a competing technology.

krzat · 7 days ago
Reminds me of bitcoin for some reason. There are some logical reasons for these things to exist, but from outside perspective, it's just more advanced ant mill.
krzat commented on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)   pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti... · Posted by u/Bluestein
vonneumannstan · a month ago
"Just be a better person" is not real treatment advice lol.
krzat · a month ago
Actionable advice: be generous and notice how it feels. Then just be nice for the pleasant satisfaction it gives.
krzat commented on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)   pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti... · Posted by u/Bluestein
mehphp · a month ago
Anecdotally, I didn’t get severe anxiety and panic attacks until immediately after trying mushrooms. I didn’t even have a bad trip, but the next day something was off and I never truly recovered from that.
krzat · a month ago
Psychodelics allow brain to change, but the change is not guaranteed to be positive.
krzat commented on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized   nodaysoff.run... · Posted by u/friggeri
zkmon · a month ago
I envy all runners. I tried running many times, on consecutive days as well. After running for a minute or so, I start getting a burning sensation in the chest and I gasp for breath. I must stop and sit. After resting for a few minutes, I can repeat the same. However I can do fast walking for an hour. I suspect this is some condition that I have, rather than lack of practice. So I don't push it. Anyone thinks this is normal? Also I'm not sure if running for longer time is so much needed if I do walking.
krzat · a month ago
It's normal. Run slow and have breaks every minute. It will improve pretty fast (every run will be slightly but noticeably better than the previous one).
krzat commented on Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs   nolanlawson.com/2025/06/1... · Posted by u/feross
krzat · 2 months ago
For people familiar with snapshot testing: instead of snapshotting pixels, try snapshotting the semantic tree.

Basically, you generate a textual representation of your UI, and then compare it against pre-recorded reference.

krzat commented on What happens when clergy take psilocybin   nautil.us/clergy-blown-aw... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
bowsamic · 2 months ago
The truth is fully accessible through reason, you don’t need to take drugs to know things
krzat · 2 months ago
Reason is overrated. Knowing that smoking is unhealthy is not sufficient to stop oneself from smoking.
krzat commented on Rust compiler performance   kobzol.github.io/rust/rus... · Posted by u/mellosouls
fngjdflmdflg · 2 months ago
This was a big reason for dart canceling its previous macros attempt (as I understand it). Fast compilation is integral for Flutter development - which accounts for a late percentage of dart usage - so after IIRC more than two years of developing it they still ended up not going through with that iteration of macros because it would make hot reload too slow. That degree of level-headedness and consideration is worthy of respect IMO.
krzat · 2 months ago
Dart is a meh language but their focus on hot reload single handedly made it worth it's existence.
krzat commented on Being fat is a trap   federicopereiro.com/fat-t... · Posted by u/swah
krzat · 3 months ago
Body is reflecting one's lifestyle. I would say the trap is attempting to lose weight while keeping the fat person lifestyle.

"I'll do this temporary measure for X days and I will stay lean forever afterwards".

krzat commented on Swift and the Cute 2d game framework: Setting up a project with CMake   layer22.com/swift-and-cut... · Posted by u/pusewicz
krzat · 3 months ago
For Swift, it would be more natural to use SPM instead of CMake.
krzat commented on How much energy does it take to think?   quantamagazine.org/how-mu... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
krzat · 3 months ago
Random thought: what LLMs do may be just a tiny fraction of what real brains do, so artificial reasoning is probably a much easier problem than an artifical brain.

u/krzat

KarmaCake day595March 21, 2016View Original