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I run 4 days a week (4km per day), fast for two days (72 hours total) do two gym strength workouts, one sauna session, and two Zumba classes. I also do cold showers daily. Floating…

I've been coding in Claude Code recently, and having to wait for it to compute kills all focus and attention. I have to switch constantly, and it makes me tired pretty soon. I thin…

if humans stop age and live for thousands years, then there is no need for specific replacement rate. Alternative, make it possible to have kids without heavy burden on the woman b…

I am piloting a super sophisticated mech that is a literal home (primordial soup) for other tiny specs that cooperate together. And more and more I ask this question. Why? There is…

Unless we learn how to live for billions of years.

Top 5 Restaurants (Female vs Male Preferences) Female Picks: ------------------------------------------------ 1. Big Apple Brunch | Hell's Kitchen | 9.2/10 2. Pietro Nolita | Nolit…

at which point AI thing stops being a Stone soup? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup You need an expert who knows what to do and how to do it to get good results. Looks like …

this, 100% i've been running 35km while fasted for 36 hours, and it is way more difficult than when you allow yourself to eat a snickers on the way. now i am running my weekly half…

just tell them something nonsensical. They are unable to take a hint and continue with the nonsense. They start to be stuck on local minima. All of them. Video/images/text. I haven…

It just feels so good to think that I can just get out and forget all about it. It relaxes me, and it brings me tears of joy. Yesterday I've spent 8 hours hoping that I could do a …

As a person who did 21km run in fasted state (didn't eat for 36 hours before) and then swam in a 7 degrees pond with ice, I can definitely say: NO. I tried for 8 hours straight to …

If dev jobs disappear, I will finally be free from this

There is only one reason why my phone alerts: something gone wrong, and they need my attention. I hate phone alerts with all my soul. I wish they never existed as a concept.

You could check it against things that you know about yourself. I know from my clinical history that I have mutations in the UGT1A1 gene that cause me to metabolize bilirubin diffe…

it is better to have +1 company with Clojure (potentially hiring), than +1 Clojure dev looking for work

If I am not mistaken, this is the first time when the amount of applicants is significantly larger than the amount of jobs available on HN. For as long as I remember, the usual rat…

> I feel like Lisp and Haskell attract people that love programming more than shipping code. this! but I find Clojure incredibly pragmatic, we grow our codebase, ship things, just …

how can we be sure that this is indeed a system prompt and not a some sort of hallucination? it looks believable, but most of the ChatGPT4 stuff looks believable, which doesn't mak…

hmm, I didn't know, I will try it out, thank you.

Can we have a ChatGPT4 without system prompt? I would pay for that. Probably much more than for edited version. I would also really want the output to be deterministic in time so t…

AI art does "something" to my perception, I tend to strongly dislike it from the first glance, but I am unable to see why or whether it was generated. In general, it makes me want …

> It doesn't rely on any kind of structure from the universe to hold it up I am not sure that this is the case, for math to be it needs a set of axioms. Axioms have to mirror some …

I really like this answer, thank you, it gives me something to think about. Why are we sure that mathematics is not completely a part of this time-space bubble? Let's say there is …

that thread is horrible. Somehow no one there sees that people die after retirement, maybe it makes sense not to retire at all? as for me, I don't know where I am going to be one y…

Some time ago when money were cheap it made sense to grow, now when money are expensive it makes sense to shrink. I don't get why people get offended by it. we are not living in a …