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DontchaKnowit··on Grow a Garden Calculator
Does this even work for anyone?
DontchaKnowit··on Buying a Home Is Probably Even Worse Than NYTimes/NerdWallet Calculators Imply
I mean you can make any investment look great if you just make up the return.

What percentage of houses triples in value over 10 years? And home much are you spending in maintaining, insuring, and paying taxes in 10 years?

I think your point still stands but its not nearly as fabulous an investment as you are suggesting

DontchaKnowit··on They tried Made in the USA – it was too expensive for their customers
Who said OP was american.
DontchaKnowit··on What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)
Phenibut will FUCK you up. Ever take a big dose? Its like being piss drunk.

Very fun substance also nasty as fuck and undoubtably bad for your brain. (I got weird neurological "withdrawal" symptoms after like 3 days of taking it)

DontchaKnowit··on What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)
I honestly do not believe hardly any of the studies about adderall. I am an adhd patient and playing tennis on amphetamines once spiked my heart rate above 200. Not good. Also vasoconstrictors + valsalva technique for lifting heavy weights = anuerysm risk.

So, respectifully to the studies, im calling bullshit.

DontchaKnowit··on What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)
No im saying before ever doing any excercise of any kind I had shoulder problems. They resolved within like 2 months of doing a calisthenics routine.

Reading your comments you seem to have a really immature attitude about excercise and you seem to be hell bent on making your point so, whatever

DontchaKnowit··on What I learned gathering nootropic ratings
Ive been doing 3x weekly calisthenics for about 3 years and apart from occasional overuse-tendon-soreness that clears up in about a week, ive never had any problems. In fact im way less prone to injury and an ongoing shoulder issue I had cleared up after getting better at pullups

So, I disagree with you. If you take it slow and listen to your body and maintain good form youre golden.

DontchaKnowit··on Biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s (2024)
Yep. Definitely could be worse. I will most likely survive to a normal age, just might probably need a phat surgery at some point.
DontchaKnowit··on Biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s (2024)
Hey man somethins gotta get ya. I'll still live a pretty normal life probably, just got one hell of a surgery coming down the pike.
DontchaKnowit··on Biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s (2024)
Mid 20s here. Lived like shit until like 2 years ago. Started working out and eating right. In the best shape of my life.... then got diagnosed with an aortic anuerysm cant win
DontchaKnowit··on The Hollow Men of Hims
Article is unreadable. The auther is trying to be funny and clever but it just ends up being a slog. Im like 4 paragraphs in and still have no idea what Hims did wrong at all. Just present the information...
DontchaKnowit··on What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin
Lsd did it for me. Psilocybin was not spiritual at all.

For me the "spiritual exlerience" was just a profound sense of gratefulness. And then the idea that god and objective truth are one and the same. Whatever that means

DontchaKnowit··on Ask HN: What is your fallback job if AI takes away your career?
Painting houses.
DontchaKnowit··on What methylene blue can (and can’t) do for the brain
that is absolutely just straight up untrue. Yes excessive stimulant usage depletes magnesium, mostly cause you forget to eat. And yes for both vyvanse and adderall, if your stomach is too acidic it will decrease bioavailability, but neither of things things have anything to do with tolerance, which accrues on a semi-permanent basis every time you take the drug.
DontchaKnowit··on Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function
Idk whats the point of eating a protein bar as an occassional treat? They taste like shit but have high protein. If youre gonna have an occasional treat, have an actual treat. A cookie or snickers or something
DontchaKnowit··on The Gentle Singularity
Well, why dont we build more housing?
DontchaKnowit··on What methylene blue can (and can’t) do for the brain
I mean Ive been out of the loop for a while but that was always a huge disclaimer that was frequently repeated
DontchaKnowit··on What methylene blue can (and can’t) do for the brain
In my experience people are VERY bad at evaluating how they are affected by amphetamines. Ive given many people amphetamines and the response is usually "I dont feel anything at all" meanwhile, their pupils are huge, theyre tapping all their feet and fingers, and theyre hyper focusing on some minute detail of something without even realizing it.
DontchaKnowit··on What methylene blue can (and can’t) do for the brain
Being downvoted cause they werent paying attention to what the comment above them was saying. The Euphoria WILL always wear off, doesnt mean it doesnt continue to treat symptoms.

Also yes stimulants are the gold standard but I would argue that our metrics for success are bunk

DontchaKnowit··on I used AI-powered calorie counting apps, and they were even worse than expected
This is different than the style of ai calorue app that extrapolates caloric content from pictures of your food. That kind is gimmicky BS
DontchaKnowit··on PS5 shooter goes from 5 players to bestseller after devs defend game
I mean, you can make both available.
DontchaKnowit··on 4-7-8 Breathing
Iant wim hof dangerous?
DontchaKnowit··on Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
Most the time, yeah, actually.

Also- in my experience so far, LLMs do a far better job of accounting for things like this than I do.

For example I had claude 4 write something to recursive search the whole filesystem on a windows 11 machine and included a few checks for windows 11 file system specific things I wasnt aware of

DontchaKnowit··on The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994)
I tried to read this and immediately eye rolled at the gratuitous sexual violence that starts on like page 5.

Trashy book, imo. And reads like it was written by a middle schooler. Maybe if you slog through the bad prose and edgy sex scenes theres something good, but wasnt worth it to me.

DontchaKnowit··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
I mean, that bug doesnt seem very subtle.
DontchaKnowit··on The rise of judgement over technical skill
I find this hard to believe- how would you even know if someone used AI in producing a PR or indie product? Are you omniscient?

Further, there are articles here on HN all the time about people using AI for actual serious work. Heres a pretty significant example :

https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-...

DontchaKnowit··on The Surveilled Student (2021)
Right wingers have been saying the same thing about left leaning school boards for the last decade.
DontchaKnowit··on Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy
Yeah its like any other opiod- it depresses respiratory function which can cause death but it isnt directly toxic to any organs like APAP is
DontchaKnowit··on In the past year my illustration business has dropped more half
It still cannot reason, which is the only thing useful a dev actually does. So, sorry, but I still dont feel threatened
DontchaKnowit··on I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it
I have had tinnitus for as long as I have been forming memories. As a child I called it "the sound of silence" and thought everyone heard it.

Never bothered me much. Its much worse now at times. Still doesnt bother me much

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