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zeku commented on Porting Python to a $3 smartwatch [video] youtube.com/watch?v=sv58a... · Posted by u/zdw

parhamn · a year ago

Is anyone working on an OpenWhoop? The algorithms/scoring/etc seem ripe for a collaborative open project. A $100+ version of this thats broadly hackable would be cool

I've been looking for one as the Whoop's data sync with Apple Health is bad.

zeku · a year ago

There is an app on iOS called "athlytic" that is basically this.

https://www.athlyticapp.com/

zeku commented on Study shows antibodies against PEG in 83% of the German population mpip-mainz.mpg.de/en/pres... · Posted by u/wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB

sva_ · 2 years ago

It's funny how impressions can differ, because my impression as a German visiting the US a couple times was that people there have an aversion towards drinking tap water.

That being said, the takeaway from this study shouldn't be that this is peculiar for the German population, it just happens that the Max Planck Institute for Polymers is located in Germany.

zeku · 2 years ago

It really depends on the location. Every city has a different perception of their tap water in the USA.

Where I'm from we drink tap water with no filter etc.

zeku commented on A suicide crisis among veterinarians bbc.com/worklife/article/... · Posted by u/rntn

yakubin · 2 years ago

I'd love to have a pet too, but I don't have the conditions for that (including financial conditions), so I don't. Even though I'd love to. But having a pet is responsibility, which includes financial responsibility. So yes, you shouldn't have a right to have a pet, when you can't afford it. That it may even be controversial is bewildering to me. Animals aren't things which exist for your pleasure.

zeku · 2 years ago

As long as you can afford basic care for a pet, then you can have a pet.

food, water, bedding, the ability to keep it safe, vaccines(they're pretty cheap mostly and often done by animal shelters for free--neutering too).

There are so many pets in shelters who could live good happy lives but no one is there to adopt them.

Better a pet to live with an owner who cant afford their chemo when theyre 14 years old than to be euthanized at 2 years old.

zeku commented on A suicide crisis among veterinarians bbc.com/worklife/article/... · Posted by u/rntn

Exuma · 2 years ago

One of my favorite cats has a bad tumor and a 3 month expected life span. I found out a few days ago.

I’m shattered and the thought of having to be in the room or not is just super depressing.

I’ve never lost a pet before or even someone very close to me.

I’m scared for how bad it’s going to hurt

Part of me (most of me) wants to be there to feel the pain in the deepest way and not bitch out. To be there for the last breath

Oh man I feel so bad

zeku · 2 years ago

Focus on how good of a life you've given your cat. Be there for it when it passes if you can.

My childhood dog had cancer and ended up having a seizure in my arms. Later I buried him myself.

Being there for him and burying him myself gave me a lot of closure and I'm proud I was able to be his friend and give him a good life.

zeku commented on Cancer expert given experimental treatments for incurable brain tumour abc.net.au/news/2023-09-2... · Posted by u/femto

zeku · 2 years ago

That's amazing, I hope this works as it seems promising!

zeku commented on Are you an Asker or a Guesser? (2010) theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/horseradish

dav_Oz · 2 years ago

While Japan is the most obvious "Guess culture" for Westerners.

My favourite example of a "Guess culture" is that of Iranian taarof[0]:

Another example occurs if a Western individual is not familiar with taarof in Iranian culture. When an Iranian individual is offering taarof, it is to first view it as a sincere offer with the hope of decline up to four or five times. If the individual offers more than five times, it can be concluded that the individual is not doing taarof, and the opposite side should respectfully thank that individual and accept the offer with gratitude.

In that example one has to decline about 5 times (!) to be sure the offer is genuine, most people unfamiliar with that custom will take the offer the second or third time or will be enraged that they don't understand a "No, thank you".

The most laborious combination is a "genuine offer" and you deciding to decline it. The person signaling the genuine offer will try to double down, - so expect an 8th time - until your genuine rejection is "accepted" and while you are at it firmly holding your ground try to sneak in a counter-offer, too ;) In the end you will end up most likely accepting a "symbolic offer" of the genuine offer. E.g. if you decline a ride you are offered genuinely (say because you want to have a comfortable ride with a taxi), you can decline eventually by accepting the symbolic offer that e.g. a taxi is called up for you.

Pretty hard to figure out if you are coming from an ask culture.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taarof

zeku · 2 years ago

Interesting. In The US in The South(Southeastern US) when something is offered it's often polite to decline twice and then accept a third time if you actually want something being offered.

zeku commented on Ask HN: Why did Python win? · Posted by u/MatthiasPortzel

r_thambapillai · 2 years ago

Python ended up 'specializing' in data contexts, thanks to Numpy / Pandas, and as a result, ended up becoming the first exposure to programming than anyone doing data stuff had. That was millions of people. In that space, it had no competitors.

Ruby ended up 'specializing' in web dev, because of Rails. But when Node and React came out, Ruby on Rails had to compete with Nodejs + React / MERN as a way of building a web app. Since people first learning programming to build a web app would usually start with javascript anyway (since a lot of very first projects might not even need a backend), it was a lot easier for the Nodejs/React route to become the default path. Whereas if you were a data scientist, you started on python, and as you got better, you basically just kept using python.

zeku · 2 years ago

It actually does have a competitor, R. R has a superior ecosystem for quite a few data tasks. Mainly in the analysis/statistics space.

However aside from that R is vastly inferior.

zeku commented on When did people stop being drunk all the time? lefineder.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/prismatic

cobbaut · 2 years ago

That main ban is for purchasing alcoholic beverages. Adults in France can buy alcohol and serve it legally to their children. Same in Belgium, until 2010 it was even allowed to serve drinks to children in bars providing that adults where present and buying the drinks.

I don't get some countries or people that forbid alcohol until you are 18 or 21. I drank beer when I was 8 and got totally drunk at 14. Which was a good thing, because it was at home and, well, lesson learned. Starting with alcohol when going out at 18 or 21 sounds much more dangerous.

zeku · 2 years ago

In North America drunk driving is a huge problem. You can't get anywhere without driving a car so if you're drinking and not in your house you have to drive home.

Social pressure/not yet fully formed brain etc. leads to ppl under 21 being more likely to drive drunk. That's the rationale for not being able to drink until 21.

"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that minimum drinking age laws have saved more than 31,000 lives from 1975 to 2017"

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/motor-vehicle-safe...

zeku commented on When did people stop being drunk all the time? lefineder.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/prismatic

s_dev · 2 years ago

Belgium wants to give kids beer to keep them off sugary drinks: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12248/belgian-plan-give-...

They tested it out and the test was successful. The kids preferred beer to sugary drinks. The beer was much weaker than what adults are accustomed to at 1.5% to 2% alcohol.

zeku · 2 years ago

Just some correction here for ppl who skim stuff:

The linked article says this was a trial in 2001. Only 1 school did it and it seemed to go well, but no other schools were willing to try it.

zeku commented on Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine workout.lol... · Posted by u/Vincenius

jeffhuys · 2 years ago

Thank you. That website is a LOT less pretentious.

zeku · 2 years ago

Leangains is a relic of time. Martin Berkharn(the guy who made it) was a VERY prolific poster on the bodybuilding.com forums around 2005-2012 or something like that. The tone of his entire brand is born out of that forum and style of communication. You had to fight for your life on there if you wanted to communicate.

I'm not excusing his tone btw just explaining.