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1. Depends on the person. 2. Depends also on the kind of environment they have at home. (e.g., living with kids in small apartments is a distraction, etc.) 3. Do not underestimate …

Different ways of erosion leave different kinds of traces. The ones in the Sphinx enclosure are indicative of water (more specifically - rainfall) erosion.

Latvian here. You are right about the taxes in the Baltic countries - in all three you can get ~20% effective tax (minor differences between the countries). And they are really sim…

I've been doing intermittent fasting for years now, on a not-so-typical schedule: first meal late in the day (5PM-ish) and the second (final) one within a couple of hours. What I l…

The elevator in our apartment building has a touch-button(?) panel. Guess what happens during the cold season when you you've got your gloves on? Yep, absolutely nothing! (bonus f.…

> - Related: be sure to understand the difference between transaction vs explicit locking, a lot of people assume too much from transaction and it will eventually breaks in prod. I…

This is awesome! Does anyone have a collection of similar kinds of fun questions?

Absolutely this! As a long-time remote worker I also noticed (especially in early 2020) that a significant portion of people were struggling simply because they assumed they can co…

We absolutely need low-stakes mechanisms to discover potential causalities to research further. What we need to stop is put unreasonable emphasis on association studies (i.e., inte…

Less discussed but similarly controlling of your life are all the nasty visual tricks apps and services use to grab your attention (bright red notification bubbles) or to annoy you…

FWIW, for me HIIT was the catalyst to exercising. As someone who wanted but struggled to motivate myself to take up regular physical activities, the short duration of HIIT was what…

Been practicing 6-hour 4-day work week schedule for a while now and I'm the happiest I've ever been. No real noticeable difference in productivity long-term, and a significant impr…

Eat in. Drive an older car, or bike. Work remotely. Live where rent is not astronomical. Reduce alcohol consumption, especially at bars/clubs.

Given that different variants of the same virus outcompete each other (very evident with Covid), why would that not apply to different viruses of similar nature? SARS-CoV2 and Infl…

(Just to clarify a question raised in the child comments) Those were Spotify ads promoting other podcasts, not sponsors promoted in the podcast itself.

Even though I had been a (long time, non-family subscription) premium user of Spotify, they started playing ads during podcasts (music was fine). How is that a "premium" service? C…

Props for YYYY-MM-DD

Dummy question from a non-front-end dev: What is the simplest way to host this project as it is on the web? (as a static page, no additional functionality)

Tangentially, I frequently add dates to filenames to keep things organized. And _always_ in the `YYYYMMDD` format for clarity and technical reasons; `DDMMYYYY` (or God forbid the A…

Those jobs are temporary. On the other hand how many jobs were made redundant as a side-effect of the pandemic? Catering moving a lot towards delivery, people realizing they can ac…

This a great concise illustration of what's wrong with the information ecology today.

I'm a novice coffee enthusiast, and I was blown away by the difference appropriate water made to the coffee. I am now "making" my own water by adding optimal mineral mixture to dis…

No less than 5%, or 100 billion.

Adding two _trillion_ dollars of net worth sounds pretty productive to me.

We all operate with abstractions and simplifications - because it's impractical (and actually impossible given the complexity of the world) to process end evaluate every single det…