Is there a collection of videos like this anywhere online? Or what would be a good search term?
I feel like I see a video like this once a year. There's got to be hundreds of them showing different molecular or biological interactions
Readit Newslupyro commented on HIV Life Cycle – animated and narrated [video] vimeo.com/260291607... · Posted by u/jb1991
Paul's Online Math notes was a godsend for me in college and I wish I knew about it in high school:
https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/
lupyro commented on Take Ownership of Your Future Self (2020) hbr.org/2020/08/take-owne... · Posted by u/makerdiety
> You know, you choose to be this bitter and critical. That's a choice.
Respectfully, I think that's your interpretation rather than reality.
What I said is far from bitter or critical. Quite the opposite. Maybe it's your own bitterness that's coming through in what you read in my comment?
What you describe in your habitual changes are not ends - those are means. And you always change them now by letting go of some self concept. It's quite the opposite of imagining yourself being so and so in the future and then everything "will be fine". But I asked "To what end?" and talked about something completely different than you are, obviously? Please re-read what I wrote.
Nah based off this comment and your previous one, you're choosing to be bitter and critical. It's not the content of your argument but how you're saying it.
I'll never understand this fascination with humanoid robots. It smacks of our innate narcissism, which lead to hilariously ironic and pervasive belief systems like "God made MAN in HIS image!" (surely not the other way around!)
Meanwhile the whole world already operates on incredibly precise high-tolerance robots doing low skill and repetitive tasks as well as extremely "high skill" tasks like painting/manufacturing cars or milling metal.
And we have wheeled robots like Autostore.com for other automation tasks.
A humanoid robot exists only to tickle our perverse self-centric obsessions, and namely: news sites, news consumers, and executives.
I guess it depends on where you draw the line on what is a humanoid.
The world we've built for ourselves is for humans. If you need a robot to flip a hotel room for the next guest it may not need real legs but its probably gonna be column shaped with some arms. That's humanoid to me.
Not trying to single out a hotel maid as low skilled, just trying to use an example of a common task in a very human environment
lupyro commented on Why it's so challenging to land upright on the moon nytimes.com/2024/03/04/sc... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
I would give just about anything to watch an NBA game played on the moon. Make the court 4x bigger, the hoops 3x taller.
The revenue for this would pay for several Starships.
In this vein I've always thought it would be cool to see what kind of sports we could have in a zero gravity stadium in orbit. Something like the training facilities in Ender's game.
Maybe a sport like Quidditch could become a reality
lupyro commented on A Zoomer explains her generation's malaise to older generations jonathanhaidt.substack.co... · Posted by u/jseliger
I can narrow it down to three critical problems with our society.
1. Car dependent cities.
2. Housing crisis
3. Wage suppression
Young people can't go anywhere because they can't afford a car because all their money goes to rent. Even if they WANTED to go somewhere, there isn't anywhere to go because car dependent infrastructure has killed all the places that young people used to hang out.
They don't make enough money to survive, much less thrive. I know a lot of GenZ people living in rotting camper trailers, sheds, tents, and cars. Many of my millennial friends are going through the same thing. They have no savings, no house, and they could never afford to start a family. A child is a ruinous event instead of joyous. There is no safety net and the tight rope is made of silly string.
But what they can afford are cell phones and Instagram/TikTok where they talk to each other.
I'm a millenial myself, and not a parent so parents please correct me. 4. Modern parenting is torture for children.
Up until the teenage years kids need to feel useful. They need to be able to help fix things, etc. They need to get into a little bit of trouble and get dinged up a bit.
Teenagers need a lot more freedom. Every ounce of their body is pushing them to distance themselves from their family, have sex and take risks. Instead parents insist on this "no drugs, no sex" policy. Of course both of those things can present major problems, which is why they should be discussed but not forbidden. Even sex ed today is maximizing fear and pushing waiting until marriage which is just as bad.
As the parent points out, living in a car dependent city with nowhere to go and no way to get there leaves you no choice but to stay home. Staying home means tv, internet and video games. Parents are out on a holy war against that as well.
Are you suffocating yet? Now remember that in addition to everything above your texts, location, browsing history, grades, etc. are all being tracked and reported for your parents to further control you. Could you imagine if you were treated like this as an adult. You'd have a civil war.
Let them fuck. Let them work. Let them do drugs. Let them make mistakes for christ sake. All of these things have consequences and are worth keeping in mind. But coddling them until 18 and expecting them to be functional is like raising an elephant from birth isolated until adulthood then releasing them to the african savannah. They'll be dead before sunset.
lupyro commented on Blue Frontier and its energy-efficient AC technologyreview.com/2023... · Posted by u/elsewhen
One thing that I think gets lost in the shuffle of air conditioning discourse:
AC units are generally heat pumps and they generally have smaller temperature differentials to overcome (i.e. heating a house to room temperature while it is snowing is a much bigger job than cooling a house to room temperature on all but the hottest of days).
This means, generally, AC is more energy efficient than direct heating like a furnace. The narrative about 'AC is going to destroy the world via emissions' is mostly because the already developed places have cooler climates than emerging places.
Living in Arizona, this is always a surprising fact to remember since the electric bill is highest in the summer.
On one hand I understand heating has way bigger temperature differentials to overcome but heat is so easy to make. Most machines and technology create heat as a waste or byproduct so it always feels like purposely creating heat should be so easy.
lupyro commented on Ask HN: [USA] Why is it impossible to schedule a doctor's appointment? · Posted by u/jc_811
> Or is this the new normal?
Its the new normal! Doctors book out forever, and they overbook.
When you do go there, the actual doctor looks at you for 30 seconds and moves on, like you're on a factory conveyer belt. And the efficiency seems to really drop when you need more than one doctor.
Don't go to the ER either... Go to urgent care first if you can't find someone, and take their referral to the ER or a doctor.
I hate that I've come to this conclusion but urgent care has been quite a disappointment every time I go. When I broke my wrist they did nothing and told me to go to the ER since they don't xray. When I was very ill and suspected food poisoning they told me to go to the ER since they don't do IVs.
If you can't xray or IV then what can you do? So useless.
Old School Runescape. I know it sounds impossible to play a game while working. However, a huge part of this game is click and wait between 10 seconds to 10 minutes. I get a ding in my headset when I need to click again. It requires just enough attention that I need to be active at my computer but after that click I have nothing better to do than work.
I think I had one objective C file in there for calling a library function I needed, but otherwise I just wrote C code.