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username135 commented on New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely   lafollette.wisc.edu/news/... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
saulpw · a day ago
Consider that some people have gotten past it, and that it's not a "cope". Enlightenment is real even if it horrifies you because you aren't there yet.
username135 · a day ago
I've visited that space before. Its greatest tragedy isn't the ideas it births, but how seductive the nihilism becomes. You recognize its smallness once you've outgrown it.
username135 commented on Developer's block   underlap.org/developers-b... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
mikepurvis · 8 days ago
Ha, well ya can’t win em all I guess :)
username135 · 8 days ago
edibles
username135 commented on From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]   fertrevino.com/docs/gpt5_... · Posted by u/fertrevino
username135 · 10 days ago
I wonder what changed with the models that created regression?
username135 commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?   lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
CursedSilicon · 11 days ago
It's a bit telling that you "don't use extensions if you can help it" but trust advice from a 4chan board
username135 · 11 days ago
4chan, the worlds greatest hacker
username135 commented on How to Build a Medieval Castle   archaeology.org/issues/se... · Posted by u/benbreen
username135 · 12 days ago
For further reading, I submit to you the toils of one man on a mission in West Virginia

http://www.dupontcastle.com/

Sadly, I thing age and the scope of the project has caught up to him and his wife.

username135 commented on How to Build a Medieval Castle   archaeology.org/issues/se... · Posted by u/benbreen
atombender · 13 days ago
Great show. If you liked it, Ruth Goodman and Peter Ginn has made several shows together along with another archeologist, Alex Langlands, which I think are even better.

Of these, I think my favourite is Victorian Farm (2009), where the gang has to bring a real Victorian-era farm back into working order and then live like the Victorian farmers did. Unlike the castle show, it benefits from the gang having to research and learn the old ways on their own, whereas the castle is a big project where they're being taught or directed by the crew who's already working there.

The other shows — Tudor Monastery Farm, Edwardian Farm, Wartime Farm, Tales from the Green Valley, etc. — are all thoroughly excellent.

A minor point, but Goodman is not an archeologist or historian, but she's very good!

username135 · 12 days ago
I liked this show over the castle one they did.
username135 commented on Cognitive decline can be slowed down with lifestyle changes   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/ulrischa
joduplessis · 25 days ago
Don't try to be healthy, try to be strong or try to do an ultra - or even crossfit. Community & nutrition usually follow IMO.
username135 · 25 days ago
Hard disagree with this.

The number one reason I see people fail their diet/exercise goals is because they go to big to fast.

Training to do an ultra marathon if youve never run a 5k, swam a mile in open water, or even mountain biked for 5 miles is a sure fire way to get injured. You need to build a base of knowledge, muscle, and nutritional habits or you set yourself up for failure, imo. Not a hard rule, but close.

Crossfit is the last thing I would recommend to anyone, especially a beginner.

username135 commented on Open models by OpenAI   openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics
MYEUHD · a month ago
>Google started shipping 16GB as the _lowest_ amount of RAM you can get on your Pixel 9.

The Pixel 9 has 12GB of RAM[0]. You probably meant the Pixel 9 Pro.

[0]: https://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_9-13219.php

username135 · a month ago
Still an absurd amount of RAM for a phone, imo
username135 commented on Lightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space   livescience.com/physics-m... · Posted by u/Bluestein
trumbitta2 · a month ago
Popular language summary: "avalanche multiplication of relativistic electrons accelerated by force exerted by electric field"
username135 · a month ago
Big words without context will leave you confused, but it makes more sense when you read the entire summary, imo:

Plain Language Summary

We provide explanation of spectacular naturally occurring bursts of X-rays and accompanying radio emissions that are observed in association with lightning activity in the Earth's atmosphere. These burst events are commonly referred to as terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs). The core physical process leading to these events is avalanche multiplication of relativistic electrons accelerated by force exerted by electric field. In geophysical context, the electric field of sufficient magnitude and spatial extent for supporting these avalanches is generated either as an ambient field due to thundercloud electrification or produced in streamer zones of lightning leaders. These electrons radiate energetic photons (X-rays) as they scatter by nuclei of nitrogen and oxygen atoms in air. These X-rays are radiated in all directions and some fraction is radiated in opposite direction of electron motion. These particular X-rays lead to seeding of new relativistic seed electrons due to the photoelectric effect and thus strong amplification of the original avalanche. It has been established recently that these feedback effects occur on very small spatial scales, and in this work, we report the first fully time-dependent simulations of related dynamics, similarity analysis allowing better understanding of characteristics of events observed at different altitudes, and quantitative comparisons with observations.

username135 commented on Palantir is extending its reach even further into government   wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mooreds
bpt3 · a month ago
These sound like the exact reasons we don't have a direct democracy.

“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.” - not Peter Thiel

username135 · a month ago
Its always projection with megalomaniacs

u/username135

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