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Since they're not regulated as medication, melatonin pills have no guarantees about actual melatonin content. In studies, the vast majority of supplement labels are inaccurate.

I use rssi to find my stuff regularly. There are a ton of android apps to do it. I also use it for room presence detection with homeassistant (using the BLE in my ESP32s and Shelly…

+1 in general that anthropic bias is strong, but it cuts both ways, even in relatively hard nosed statistical models (@see Drake equation vs Rare Earth hypothesis). Truth is, there…

They were arguably the most repressive secret police regime in the world. They disappeared people and their families, and used torture, intimidation, and the biggest network of inf…

This person is just making stuff up that feels true to them. Caveat lector. There are reams of grown up scientific research and philosophy on the relationship between language, tho…

I do this too, and i find this a great use for my LLMs. I write the full detail as a part of integrating. Claude or Copilot helps me craft the communication versions.

Depends on what you're using it for I suppose. A common tactic with Openclaw itself is to have a cheap or local model as the default, with rules to "escalate" to other models based…

I wonder if this is connected to Azure launching OpenShift Virtualization on "Boost" SKUs? There are a lot of VMWare customers going to OpenShift Virt, and apparently the CPU/memor…

What is the performance impact of soft RDMA over SMB this way, vs the traditional SMB on the IP stack?

In the land of the blind, the man with a I is king!

Speaking as someone with a company in the arts based in berlin: Sister comments get excited about population growth, gentrification, rising rent prices, and everyone's favorite c-w…

Why do you choose the CD era as your comparison point? Why not cassettes, or the LP decades? The industry has changed a lot and choosing a different baseline is illuminating to any…

Not sure if you noticed that your sources disagree with your thesis, with the limited exception that theres no convincing evidence that seratonin is the single causal factor for de…

That's a hell of a journey! Congratulations on the accomplishment and thank you for sharing. Like many other biological systems, neurological wiring is multidimensional and not a n…

Love it. Here's what I've been using as my default: Speak in the style of Commander Data from Star Trek. Ask clarifying questions when they will improve the accuracy, completeness,…

Particularly interesting is that when they split the dataset by sex, the transitions were present and at a similar magnitude in both sexes. We make much in western culture of the (…

On the other hand, Bandit is a TERRIBLE employee.

There is more than one way to stop being the leading economic and military stabilizing force in the world. The "table flip" doctrine is not generally considered to be among the top…

I just want to say: I've been publicly calling them "bullshit machines" since the first big media wave. I am incredibly pleased that this mental model helps other people, too. And …

> It was official policy for some time. Thirty years, two CEOs, and at least two industry redefining tidal waves ago. The people who trot out Microsoft's HTML 2.0 strategy as a rea…

I've been very pleased with my own results by disconnecting from social media and anything with a short (eg 24 hours) news cycle. Weeklies (eg the economist) are still generally wo…

Rednote is a fascinating experiment in T and C blindness. Just how far can you go in the terms? Put them in Mandarin worldwide? Apparently OK. Include a commitment to uphold the "1…

They're talking about the division between Gymnasium, Realschule, and Hauptschule. It's actually state to state nowadays whether they have separate schools or Gesamtschulen, but I …

If you have a specific vision, you will have to express the detailed information of that vision into the digital realm somehow. You can use (more) direct tools like premiere if you…

This is awesome, but I don't understand the mechanism for simulating partition. Water comes flowing in slowly... Flowing from where? To where?