tudorconstantin (u/tudorconstantin)

tudorconstantin commented on Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody... · Posted by u/drankl

jazzyjackson · 5 months ago

I'm very curious as to how you come to the conclusion that 'stress' has increased. I don't suppose it's that the world is more stressful, WWII, cold war, a thousand famines throughout history, what makes us so stressed that we can't cope in some way that we used to be able to cope?

tudorconstantin · 5 months ago

I have this personal theory that some time after an external stress-related impulse (be that negative - ww2, cold war, becoming paralyzed, etc, or positive - inheriting money, winning the lottery, not having to work for the rest of your life, finding the love of your lufe, etc), the brain adjusts and one comes back to the baseline of their perceived normal stress level. And that’s why we see people who are always happy and seemingly stress free despite having nothing, and ones that always seem stressed to the max despite having everything

tudorconstantin commented on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API? · Posted by u/meander_water

tudorconstantin · 7 months ago

The blockchain hosting companies like infura live by offering API access to ethereum, solana, binance smart chain, etc. I’d say they are now rather hosting companies because these blockchains are huge and a PITA to host reliably, but back in 2017 it was possible to host them on a personal computer

tudorconstantin commented on Next.js: The "Versatile" React Framework That Can't Handle Dynamic Routes github.com/vercel/next.js... · Posted by u/batchfy

tudorconstantin · 7 months ago

Am I the only one thinking that going back full circle to server side rendering, but to a way more convoluted way of having it, is actually a regression rather than evolution technologically? We had SSR since the times of Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and even express. But in a way more straight forward way of doing it: here’s some HTML, with some db queries that takes data, puts it in said HTML and sends it to the browser. Today we have react components that can be executed both on the server and on the client, we need at least 2 servers - one for the frontend and one for the backend, we have to hydrate the components when we render them server side, but not when rendering them in the browser, etc. I feel like we’re inventing stuff just because we can and there’s a huge cohort of engineers who complicate their development experience just because.

tudorconstantin commented on Sycophancy in GPT-4o openai.com/index/sycophan... · Posted by u/dsr12

tudorconstantin · 8 months ago

I used to be a hard core stackoverflow contributor back in the day. At one point, while trying to have my answers more appreciated (upvoted and accepted) I became basically a sychophant, prefixing all my answers with “that’s a great question”. Not sure how much of a difference it made, but I hope LLMs can filter that out

tudorconstantin commented on Magnesium Self-Experiments gwern.net/nootropic/magne... · Posted by u/rzk

mattlondon · 9 months ago

This is great and all but how can you objectively measure something like "mood" or "productivity"?

There are a lot of variables, even in your day to day work activities (e.g. you never debug & implement a fix for the exact same bug twice...one bug might be a satisfying and enjoyable activity, another might be a frustrating, difficult, and tedious pain in the ass)

I've done similar trials with magnesium glcyinate and personally not noticed any difference. But then I have not found any way to accurately measure differences between what a "good day" is Vs a "bad day". Even without supplementing, it feels like dice roll at the best of times

tudorconstantin · 9 months ago

Chess puzzles work quite accurately IME to assess my mental capabilities for the day. Especially the puzzle storm on lichess. There are enough puzzles there to not repeat themselves too often and they are rated so they have similar difficulty for the same rating. In my good days (lots of sleep in previous nights) I have way better scores than on my bad days (30-40% better)

tudorconstantin commented on My 16-month theanine self-experiment dynomight.net/theanine/... · Posted by u/dynm

tudorconstantin · 9 months ago

A bit unrelated, but try having l theanine after a night of drinking: it makes you wake up fresh and without a hangover because it speeds up alcohol processing and it metabolites by the liver and also prevents alcoholic liver damage. Me and all my friends who tried it say “i wake up totally fresh after theanine”. There’s also a study confirming this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16141543/

tudorconstantin commented on Hedge fund warns White House is inflating crypto bubble that could wreak havoc ft.com/content/5fe69580-7... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

brookst · a year ago

In 1635 they said it was crazy for tulip bulbs to be selling for 5 florins. They peaked at 5500.

tudorconstantin · a year ago

But once that bubble (and any other one) burst, it never reached new highs again. The bitcoin bubble burst multiple times and got back higher and higher

tudorconstantin commented on A Man Who Thought Too Fast (2020) newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/Anon84

mihaic · a year ago

Thanks for sharing, I have the same experience with chess, and have never liked it for the same reasons. There's no mediocre version of chess that you can do instinctively, and I don't really like to do tedious and repetitive mental work when playing games.

I just suck at chess, and have given it up, as it's something that's not for me. I can play some decent poker though (not really great, just better than chess).

tudorconstantin · a year ago

I think “puzzle storms” on lichess can be considered a way of fiddling with chess instinctively. I found it also helps with not giving pieces for free when playing full games and also seeing the blunders your opponent makes way faster

tudorconstantin commented on Tornado Cash verdict has chilling implications for industry cointelegraph.com/news/to... · Posted by u/andrewfromx

tudorconstantin · 2 years ago

TL;DR: the Tornado Cash developer, Alexey Pertsev, was convicted by the Dutch authorities to +5 years in prison for money laundering for developing Tornado Cash (not for actually laundering any money).

I wonder: will they go for the monero devs next? What about the creators of wallets that don’t require KYC before creating an address?