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coder4life··on Ask HN: Did you achieve your 2023 goals?
I wanted to befriend a crow, and finally take a boat across Lake Michigan - did neither
coder4life··on You Won't Lose Weight on Ozempic Forever
I went vegan at 49, lost 70 pounds in ~14 months. Most fucking ever; illicit (or licit, I'm DX'd ADD) stimulant use never dropped more than 15 pounds. I did not curtail drinking barley pops (I am in Milwaukee after all), or do any other dietary trick.

If you want to get technical, I dropped my Methionine (an amino acid in protein) by probably 35-50%, it's it's been my theory for decades that this is the reason

coder4life··on Ask HN: Hosting an ML paper reading, which papers to read?
Try "The ML papers that rocked our world 2020-2023"

Listed on this thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/16ij18f/d_...

coder4life··on The Nation's Only Unionized Strip Club Reopens in North Hollywood
Been at the Lusty Lady they mention in SF, with a couple coworkers, in 2001 or so.

It's not my scene, but I love love love that it was employee owned which is rare++

coder4life··on Fatigue Is So Much More Than Being Tired
Thanks for this nicety man!
coder4life··on Ask HN: How much do you pay monthly for AI tools?
$20/mo OpenAI $10/mo MidJourney $10/mo Github Copilot
coder4life··on Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new category for them
https://archive.is/XCkZD
coder4life··on Soybean oil decreases oxytocin levels in hypothalamus in mice (2020)
Walnut, almond, sunflower oil are not bad for you. They're expensive.

Vegetable oil as you know it and it's sold is soybean oil. Maybe another cheap oilseed like canola or corn, but that's it because it's cheap.

coder4life··on Soybean oil decreases oxytocin levels in hypothalamus in mice (2020)
This information is a decade old. The answer is don't let anyone else dictate what goes in your mouth, and you are, and they'll give you soybean or rapeseed (oops, canola). It's in every fryer in the land, and you lie to yourself to think otherwise.
coder4life··on US Postal Service releases national dog bite rankings
I came here to say the same. Thanks for the per capita stats!
coder4life··on Tesla CEO 'The laptop class is living in la-la land'
Underrated comment
coder4life··on Ask HN: How to suppress the >50% of FB feed that is trash?
If you're not using the FBPurity Chrome extension yet on your desktop, you should be.

On the phone app I can't help you

coder4life··on Ask HN: Is C# worth learning to only get a formal job?
Yawn. is there a "let me chatGPT that for you" like there's "let me Google that for you"?

Yes, learn C#. Its a great language, it's been evolving, picking up useful paradigms from other languages, and there's a ton of support.

Learn Rust instead of learning C.

coder4life··on Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
Got mine for $279 refurb on their site, $299 new. Get a third party pen w/eraser, I think they can be had for $40.

It syncs to Google Cloud

coder4life··on Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
Lighted USB volume knob - they're inexpensive, the large aluminum knob is on a sturdy base, can be pressed down for mute.

ReMarkable2 e-ink tablet -- okay, it's a standalone device, but interfaces to the computer in cool ways (like screen sharing), and it's changed my life as far as note-taking goes

coder4life··on Ask HN: Best laptop in 2023 with a $500 budget?
A Dell Precision 7510, with a 6th gen i7 / 32gb of DDR4 ram, 500GB m.2 SATA SSD, and dedicated graphics now runs $380.

I paid $700 for mine, used, about 18 months ago. Upgraded the ram to 64gb ($90), added another 1TB SSD, and got a dock ($30?)

coder4life··on I’ve Optimized My Health to Make My Life as Long and Unpleasant as Possible
hahahaha
coder4life··on I’ve Optimized My Health to Make My Life as Long and Unpleasant as Possible
I'm gloating that I read your comment, and only wasted 30 seconds (besides typing this)
coder4life··on Fat Loss Experiments I've Tried and Failed At
Lost over 70 pounds in 16 months going vegan. It's the only thing that worked and stuck (for me - YMMV). The ex150 looked interesting
coder4life··on America’s Shadow Self: California from a symbol of progress to a cautionary tale
Eh. People love to bag California; didn't this article say they're now eqv. to Germany, and if they were a nation to themselves, they'd be in the G4?

So what's cautionary about that? When I lived there the brag was we'd take over France's position in the G7 if a separate nation.

Are there any other states doing as well economically? That's right, silence is the answer.

coder4life··on Which companies would you take a paycut to join, based on positive contributions
I worked or a company which did bus time predictions for around 80 transit companies through the US. I can still go to their website of the company that bought them, and see my code still in action some 9 years after I left.
coder4life··on First-of-its-kind study shows how traffic pollution impairs brain function
Go electric for your brain and others
coder4life··on Httpiness, a developer-oriented HTTP client for slalom API testing
httpnile ?
coder4life··on Peter Thiel Is Not a Crypto True Believer: A Tale of Billionaires and Bagholders
That was the $2mil/yr to be 18 nonsense.

This is the Peter Thiel article: https://archive.is/06NQ6

coder4life··on My best techniques for evaluating character
hahaha to you both (after reading dozens and dozens of serious replies)
coder4life··on CDC, FDA see possible link between Pfizer’s bivalent shot and strokes
fearmongering drives many.
coder4life··on Twitter suffers major outage, leaving users unable to log on
Seems up at the moment
coder4life··on Ask HN: Focus Hacks?
Gun mufflers on top of earplugs Constantly updated pen and paper TODO lists
coder4life··on What software that you use daily “sparks joy” for you?
pics Paint.NET or Faststone image viewer

audio Audacity or Foobar2000 with DSP extensions

text Notepad++

coder4life··on Middle-aged men see weight gain as inevitable
They haven't been middle aged long enough. I dropped 70 pounds
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