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that’s just you lacking skills and making an identity out of being assertive. Rather than calling them skills, you go straight to “doesn’t make you non-assertive”. Rather preferrin…

Leverage, consequences and assertiveness are far better skills to learn when dealing with people including children rather than lies, shame and guilt.

Some kids cracked their knuckles. It annoyed some older adults, and instead of telling them to stop they made up some bullshit reason. Classic non assertive behavior. The kids, bei…

that optimal amount likely varies too. by age, sex, percent body fat, and genetics. uk's recommended level is likely way too low to be optimal.

What a shit article that doesn’t match what it is saying. If you are active you benefit from more protein. If you are not then maybe it’s not good without any reporting on how they…

pretty sure it was on by default for me

they typically offer a brokerage option. fidelity and vanguard both offered this when I had them. if that wasn't on the table I'd roll it into something that gave me flexibility.

You can buy IVV instead and get the same exposure but this time you get to vote. Or you could just not own spy and buy the shares individually.

use ai to read it. we're increasingly moving to world of ai reading the ai slop that someone else wrote to basically get back their original prompt.

I have so little faith in "high-level" officials that I prefer our AI overlords.

One beer company tried to do it. But because beer has vitamins in it, they were prohibited from doing it as it might have made the beer seem healthy.

and it's wrong. a 6000 line class is not easier for a model to understand. the same things that help humans also help agents. I find myself adding linters that must pass and the ag…

Gemini models have consistently disregarded rules and gone their own way for me. They will finish a task and get it done frequently way above the scope that you gave it, but they t…

I tried reading Myth of Sisyphus by Camus recently. I found it tedious and boring. Sort of a rehash of stoic and Taoist teaching. Yes embrace the absurd but sooo long winded. Has a…

My iphone 15 pro max. manufactured in Aug 2023. 536 cycles. is at 84%. I doubt it will make it to 1k at above 80%.

only true for commodities

It's literally how you got those things. Without leverage to get them, they would have just been complaints. You ask what you can do, and then you do it.

> Maduro was president of a sovereign country. It's funny how we accept the importance given to that statement. when he's just some dude who took control of a country and gave hims…

They aren’t necessarily experts at using Llm’s. They have different incentives as well

I helped fund that kickstarter. The first season released on that kickstarter was such a disappointment. As if they forgot to be funny.

California has the worst roads of any state I've driven in. San Fran and San Jose, rank among the top 10 in the country of the worst roads. Whatever they are using it for, isn't fo…

Propaganda source

They should get out of that business altogether and let anyone sue an airline

This is par for the course. We've had the gulf of tonkin incident, and weapons of mass destruction. The difference is now we have more information, so it only looks like it's gotte…

I bought a t-mobile g1 the first android phone. At the time my school's wifi needed you to log in every time you joined the network. I wrote an app that logged you in automatically…