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nakedneuron commented on Cat Gap en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat... · Posted by u/Petiver

verbify · 2 days ago

I once was thinking that if intelligent machines surpassed human intelligence, the end game would be human intelligence would atrophy but the machines would continue to serve us.

Then I had a humorous thought - what if this already happened, i.e. cats were superintelligent, invented humans to serve them and then they had no need for their own intelligence.

nakedneuron · 2 days ago

This is brilliant.

So, if machines will be decent servants to the cats, will humans get x-ed out of the equation?

nakedneuron commented on µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D microcad.xyz/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

willvarfar · 22 days ago

I've been searching for a CAD language that supports iteration in a good way. I've been designing a self-build house and it occurs to me that, once I have the walls etc, filling in the details for the manufacture of those walls could be done by a programming routine. Such a routine could work out how many studs are needed and their placement etc and generate the kind of cut-throughs where you can see the construction inside the wall that you sometimes see in construction books. Anyway, without for-loops that kind of thing is really difficult and I've given up.

nakedneuron · 22 days ago

Then build123d might be for you.

nakedneuron commented on McDonald's is losing its low-income customers latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

auggierose · 24 days ago

Yup. Something really simple and cheap, and definitely not worse in nutrition than McDonald's: Buy a pack of chicken legs, marinate them to your liking (for example: olive oil, salt, pepper, smoked or unsmoked paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, chicken or veggie bouillon cube), let them sit for an hour. Put it into the oven for 50min to an hour at 160 degrees Celsius. Cook rice on the side. After chicken legs are done take them out, and mix rice into the juices. Add some ketchup if you like. Put chicken legs back on top. Bake for max 4 minutes at 200 degrees. Enjoy.

Now, that will take you about 2 hours to make in absolute time, but the actual time to do this is very little, a few minutes.

nakedneuron · 23 days ago

How about some vegetables?

nakedneuron commented on 30 minutes with a stranger pudding.cool/2025/06/hell... · Posted by u/MaxLeiter

a5c11 · 3 months ago

Yes, we tend to remember negative experiences better than the good ones. Also, we all are so low on good emotions, we don't want to risk losing them to random strangers.

nakedneuron · 3 months ago

This hits deep.

nakedneuron commented on Attention is your scarcest resource (2020) benkuhn.net/attention/... · Posted by u/jxmorris12

_luiza_ · 5 months ago

Read once somewhere that both heaven and hell surround us and it's all about what we choose to pay attention to.

When nothing works, go for delusions (only if you're stable enough to not have them break apart the nature of your reality too much).

Also, go travel; be it on the other side of the city in a new coffee shop, in a new town for their town's day or sth, or in a new state/country/continent, travel somehow manages to shuffle the internals in one's brain enough to reboot to a different baseline; good trick for when current internal state is too meah.

nakedneuron · 5 months ago

Also moving through space was the default mode for our ancestors, so that I think a lot of latent despair arises out of the artificial confinements of our modern age. If you literally move your body while moving you're ready to heal.

nakedneuron commented on Attention is your scarcest resource (2020) benkuhn.net/attention/... · Posted by u/jxmorris12

incognito124 · 5 months ago

I wonder if attention span can be increased somehow. Also related, I noticed context switching from one deep task to another requires significant energy and time, I also wonder if that can be optimized.

nakedneuron · 5 months ago

Most effort goes into loading the working memory. The longer the disconnect the more effort reloading takes.

It occurred to me that it would be beneficial to use flashcards to trigger the memory. It sounds unconventional/unorthotodox use of flashcards but why not. Take screenshots of your codebase/functions/commits, capture progress on your workbench, take little notes of your progress/procedures/learnings/recipes and resurface them. I'm sometimes annoyed to rediscover a useful tool I made time ago.

I yet haven't done this systematically, much less using a SRS, but it is sure worth a try. Difficult to predict when this is worth the effort. But it's a good habit to keep "lab notes" anyway.

nakedneuron commented on Fast catherinejue.com/fast... · Posted by u/gaplong

nakedneuron · 5 months ago

Website is superfast. Reason I usually go for the comments first on HN is exactly this: they're fast. THIS is notably different.

On interfaces:

It's not only the slowness of the software or machine we have to wait for, it's also the act of moving your limb that adds a delay. Navigating a button (mouse) adds more friction than having a shortcut (keyboard). It's a needless feedback loop. If you master your tool all menus should go away. People who live in the terminal know this.

As a personal anecdote, I use custom rofi menus (think raycast for Linux) extensively for all kinds of interaction with data or file system (starting scripts, opening notes, renaming/moving files). It's notable how your interaction changes if you remove friction.

Venerable tools in this vein: vim, i3, kitty (former tmux), ranger (on the brim), qutebrowser, visidata, nsxiv, sioyek, mpv...

Essence of these tools is always this: move fast, select fast and efficiently, ability to launch your tool/script/function seamlessly. Be able to do it blindly. Prefer peripheral feedback.

I wish more people saw what could be and built more bicycles for the mind.

nakedneuron commented on Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder kevinboone.me/dtc-700.htm... · Posted by u/naves

nakedneuron · 6 months ago

> But I doubt that DAT units could ever have become as cheap as cassette players, and certainly not as portable, because the electromechanical design was so complex and fussy.

In fact they were portable. Cheap, certainly not.

Sold my beloved Sony TCD-D100 some years ago, as it was just sitting around. Beautiful device.

Also check out the TCD-D10. Truly a gem of 80s design.

(https://www.hifi-wiki.de/index.php/Sony_TCD-D_10)

nakedneuron commented on Biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s (2024) med.stanford.edu/news/all... · Posted by u/fzliu

DontchaKnowit · 6 months ago

Mid 20s here. Lived like shit until like 2 years ago. Started working out and eating right. In the best shape of my life.... then got diagnosed with an aortic anuerysm cant win

nakedneuron · 6 months ago

Honestly sad to hear... all the best.

nakedneuron commented on Biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s (2024) med.stanford.edu/news/all... · Posted by u/fzliu

safety1st · 6 months ago

I relate somewhat to this and those were two reasons I didn't exercise for a long time.

1) Feeling like shit: I found out that when I felt like shit it was a sign that I was going too hard. After falling off the wagon a few times because my workouts were so unpleasant, I decided that instead of quitting, this time I would keep going to the gym but just exercise like a pussy. Turns out light to moderate exercise is dramatically better than no exercise. Exercising like a pussy has eliminated all the aches and pains I used to have, fixed a wrist that was developing carpal tunnel, fixed a bad knee, lowered my blood pressure by 12 points, etc.

2) For me cardio is mind numbing, but weight training isn't bad. I mean weight training is basically doing a set, then sitting around for a few minutes messing with your phone or listening to a podcast or reading a book or whatever, then repeating. This is why most of my exercise is weight training, and my cardio sessions are 20min max. It works just fine, you get a ton of cardio from doing compound lifts. Also my gym has a jacuzzi where I can zone out after my workout and listen to podcasts, this turns the gym into the highlight of my day tbh.

nakedneuron · 6 months ago

"Pussy exercise" sounds like you're doing everything right for building your fascia!

As fascia stabilizes joints it explains your joints getting better. Focus on soft, bouncing movements if you want to regain, enhance or simply conserve fascia tissue.

Also, with time, it enables you to do with heavier weights and plainly brings back joy to moving. All the best.

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