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Thanks for taking the time to reply and explain; I didn't understand how it works.

My understanding of the parent's post was that someone with -2 vision may expect roughly perfect vision as their eyes age.

I couldn't find a study with data, but there are anecdotal guides online (for picking reading glasses) which state that by 60 years old, it's estimated that a person would need about +2.25 diopters in correction. So someone who is around -2 diopters may expect to have roughly perfect vision as they get older.

I experience that feeling too after watching other people play. It's hard not to compare my current progress with folks that have mastered various aspects or who have been playing for years.

That said - my first 100 hours or so were without outside influence and were pure fun.

I enjoy that this was posted to HN.

Factorio combines all the fun parts of my day job (algorithms, simple maths, tackling solvable problems) with a fairly quick reward cycle.

It has some very fun scaling challenges at every level of play. For anyone interested in trying it out they have a free and feature rich demo available (either through their site or steam).

Thanks for posting this. From the wiki page:

> an increase in CO2 results in a decrease in blood pH,[2] resulting in hemoglobin proteins releasing their load of oxygen. Conversely, a decrease in carbon dioxide provokes an increase in pH, which results in hemoglobin picking up more oxygen.

So lowering carbon dioxide concentration (through an activity like hyperventilation) will cause hemoglobin to pick up more oxygen molecules. And increasing carbon dioxide levels will release those molecules. Fascinating.

Haha amazing. I guess I was still waking up. It's too late to edit so I must leave the mistake for all to see. Thanks for pointing it out though.

Thank you for finding that. It seems like intermittent cold exposure may be the primary key then. I wonder if breathing exercises help modulate the bodies response to the cold. More oxygen available may mean better brown fat thermogenesis for example.

Thank you for posting this!

This physician summarized studies[0] that showed that blended food spiked insulation vs. the same food that was chewed. His information seemed solid, so this title was surprising to see.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMO-5mq3crU&t=16s

Thank you for posting this! I rely on an IL-6 inhibitor currently, and used to rely on a TNF-a inhibitor which became less effective over time. Seeing these influenced through breathing, meditation, and cold exposure is really interesting.

It would be nice to know if the changes primarily stemmed from one of the interventions they explored. Could I achieve the same results with one of the three methods for example?

Similar for me - there was a real sense of accomplishment on my first win in Slay the Spire on the easiest difficulty setting. To think that players have >90% win rates on that setting, much less on Ascension 20 is remarkable.

I've learned a lot from Jorbs - a twitch streamer. It's surprising how much statistics and planning can go into any given fight. It's possible to puzzle out how much of the fight will go ahead of time, with knowledge of one's deck and the enemies moves.

Interesting, I pay for the professional tier, and do not see a separate dropdown available for storage. The professional plan lists 5gb/user (at a rate of about $5/month), and the only way to scale up storage on my dashboard page is to provision more users (up to 100, so max of 500gb).

It’s a non-issue now, but yeah I’d prefer to interact with my plan the way that you describe and be able to scale storage independently (and ideally at a cheaper rate).

Regarding filters, that’s great! I didn’t see that before and will likely utilize it heavily now that I know it exists.

I'm happy to see ProtonMail getting exposure. I moved over from gmail about a year ago, and have been quite pleased with their service.

Only downside I've seen is that there isn't a clear way to increase available data storage, independent of other billable line items (like number of users etc).

Other items on my wish list would be more customizable email filtering, I'd love to be able to create filters such as 'is this from [internet provider] and does it contain the word bill? -> inbox, else spam'

Agreed!

I spent several hours reading through her posts yesterday and came away with a much better understanding of fiscal and monetary policies. I did not understand how many levers countries have to modify their currencies.

I also enjoyed her breakdown of contrarian investing[0] and how it can be applied.

0: https://www.lynalden.com/contrarian-investing/

I have Crohns, and want to expand on what Hinkley is alluding to. Some drugs modify the expression of a disease which prevents further damage, and others just mask the issue.

Disease modifiers like methotrexate or stelara will suppress aspects of the immune system, which protects the body from further damage. Ibuprofen on the other hand will mask pain but not modify the underlying issue.

If CBD was effective (for me it doesn't seem to be), then the challenge is in understanding if it is modifying the disease, or just hiding symptoms like ibuprofen would for pain.

From the paper: "Our results indicate that aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 is plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to days."

This partially explains how quickly this virus spreads, and why such incredible measures are required to stop the spread.

I love these debug stories. My interesting one was from a job repairing computers in high school.

My older colleague was upgrading a 486, and couldn't get the system to boot on the first try, but if you hit the reset button after it was already on then it would boot just fine. All the hardware tested fine in other systems.

I figured out the problem by listening to the hard drive. I could tell it wasn't spinning at full speed when it was initially booting. The system would get through the POST process before the hard drive could finish spinning up. So the initial boot from power-off would fail.

The solution ended up being to upgrade the hard drive (or downgrade the motherboard).

I noticed this behavior starting around the time the ranking algorithm became more ML driven. I think this may have been late 2015[0].

I switched to Duck Duck Go a few months back, at first for privacy reasons, but now find myself preferring that search engine's results for most things.

[0] https://searchengineland.com/8-major-google-algorithm-update...

I switched to protonmail a few months back, and have been very happy with the service. They focus on privacy and security as a core value. They have a limited free account (limited in terms of storage space and message volume), so not a direct replacement for gmail. I use the paid service for more storage and a custom domain.

I completely agree with you, but also have an anecdote that argues for the parent's view.

I was driving a long roadtrip from Texas to California, split into a couple segments over several days. At one point, my adrenaline and heart rate suddenly spiked. I felt freaked out but could not see a reason for it. I checked all my mirrors, traffic was busy but seemed to be moving along normally. A few moments later my vehicle was rocked by a semi-truck blowing past, traveling much faster than surrounding traffic, and missing my vehicle by what seemed like an inch.

The roadway was curved slightly, so I think the semi was in a blind spot when I was actively searching for the problem.

It's interesting that a subconscious process could alert me to a problem, in this case it didn't help me resolve it, but at least I was alert and looking. It had never happened before so there was a bit of confusion as well (why am I suddenly freaking out?) - but now I know how to pay attention if that feeling happens again.

Anecdotally, when camping I often wake up shortly before dawn when temperatures have dropped.

I imagine that poor thermal regulation and lower serotonin in the early morning is partly the reason for waking up early. I wonder if this is a hold over from our early days as a species; as hunter gatherers it would be advantageous to be up and awake before it's light out.

I lived in a van for a year in the bay area. My social life changed for the better. Being more mobile made it easier to visit friends and family in the area.

Dating was fine, it was polarizing in a way. Some girls were immediately turned off - and that was good to know. They are less tolerant of alternative lifestyles and ideas, and so not someone I would want to be friends with anyway. Some girls were totally into it.

There was a lot of mental overhead with living in a van. Where to park, how to work in a shower each day, making sure it's safe and the neighborhood won't be bothered with me staying in the area, etc. It will be different for a boat, since it's legal and you have more facilities available.

My productivity and focus went up at work after I moved back into an apartment. Having a shower and unlimited water & electricity felt incredible. It certainly gave me a new appreciation for modern conveniences.

One side effect of van life that may apply to boat living - you become more in tune with the weather, but less bothered by changes. I'd wake up with the temperature in the mid 40s, and it would be fine. Yes I'd put on a jacket, but I'd go about my morning routine without turning on the heater and be ok with it. I would compare it with being on a ketogenic diet - you still experience hunger, but your response to it is manageable / in your control.

I think experimenting with living off the grid will give you a new appreciation of life and a healthy perspective of what's important to you. For me, once I got the bug to try it, it didn't go away until I made it happen. So if you have a good opportunity to try it out, I'd suggest going for it.

Just wanted to provide a counter point - I also have a 32" 4k display but find the default text size easy on the eyes without scaling. I do sit pretty close to the monitor though, about half an arms length away (elbow to fingertips).

I move my head around a lot more to focus on different parts of the screen. But I like that experience.

My vision isn't great - I'm near sighted with 20/200 vision. I can use the screen comfortably at the default scale with glasses, or with a small bump in text size without them.

I'm using OSX, with Atom & iTerm2 mostly. So that may have different font rendering than Windows.

I've experienced this first hand. It's a surreal feeling, because you know that objectively everything is awesome, but emotionally you want to throw it all away.

I have also experienced burn out with a job that I disliked. In both cases there is a feeling of not being able to focus on the work at hand, that more effort will make you physically sick.

The author's example of eating ice cream at every meal resonates with me really well. You do get tired of it, even if it's conceptually amazing.

I have had a mixed relationship with fitness. Something that works for me is audiobooks and walking. The book keeps things interesting and makes it easy to lose track of time. There isn't much activation energy required either, you just grab the headphones and go. It gets really fun when you find a great book.

SF Chronicle had a good overview[0] of what could be going wrong. From the article:

The tower was built using a concrete frame instead of steel. Which is much heavier - it puts about 4.75x the amount of pressure on the soil below the building (as compared to other steel framed buildings of similar size).

It appears that some of the sinking could be due to weight and changing soil composition (less moisture and nearby excavation).

[0] http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Sinking-Millenniu...

I had never considered the difference between solitude and loneliness before. His words helped me understand that they are fundamentally different.

"Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns."

I went camping in an area without cell or internet service a few weeks ago, and this helps me understand the incredible experience I had. It was a strong dose of solitude, which had been missing in my day-to-day city life.

I tried searching for 'pig 14' - and got back an error message that included (html removed):

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