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Don't think I'd want to take that risk regularly, although I did try raw milk a few years back and definitely preferred the taste to my standard supermarket brand milk at the time.…

I hope to and I'll probably ask on HN for volunteers once I have a stable-ish alpha ready. Might take a while, though; grad school owns my life for now. I'm a bit doubtful that it'…

A todo app for recurring personal projects. I found that breaking projects down into simple tasks really helps with my procrastination, but existing apps don't make that process to…

The UI feels unpolished (why can't I select multiple patterns in one movement? Why is the bomb/free selection so small?) but the game loop itself is quite satisfying. I remember pl…

The only thing that worked for me (also ADHD) is to have fixed study sessions, typically in the morning ("Kanji before breakfast") or during my train commute. Beyond that, I wouldn…

It's a nice story but imo would be better without the forced lesson at the end. As most here have pointed out, it's just survivorship bias with some poetic phrasing. As for taking …

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https://youtu.be/soDlyercgOo Fwiw, I don't think economic planning is or was the main problem of socialism, more the information gathering that precedes it or the mechanism design …

I'm German and switched to induction from (old) electric after moving to a nicer apartment. Despite ostensibly knowing about its responsiveness before I still ended up with slightl…

I know this is the kind of flattering in-group humor aimed at people like me, but I still found it hilarious. Also, considering that I'm listening to a talk about the computational…

I'm pleasantly surprised to see this kind of sentiment at the top. I also like the posts you linked a lot. I used to like these kinds of bitter sysadmin revenge fantasies, but I no…

The hardware does have its charm, I remember implementing DMG on an FPGA some years ago to learn HDL coding and it was a lot of fun.

For a second that title made me remember early SEO tactics of stuffing your H1 tags with as many relevant keywords as possible, except here it's optimizing for my queer nerd intere…

They do, albeit in much lower dosages to avoid or at least reduce the androgenic effects (hair/genital growth, voice deepening) of testosterone. Usually steroids with a better anab…

1. More of a CompSci aha: Hard problems are hard. Sometimes I get frustrated over getting stuck in a bad local optimum that I can't easily get out of. But then if I take a step bac…

As someone who recently had surgery for gynecomastia that I've had since puberty, I feel sorry for the kid and hope the breast tissue will naturally resolve. The event is confusing…

Source on the sterility? Afaik all that happens is that estrogen inhibits the pituitary, which will temporarily shut down testosterone and sperm production. But with patience or su…

I haven't tried this, but I could absolutely see this working for me as well. I've noticed that my visual imagination gets much more vivid just as I'm drifting off to sleep, so I h…

I am not having a great time and I'm not entirely sure why. A broad list of factors: I'm slowly passing the this-is-mostly-easy threshold in University. I expected that, but it's s…