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jiggywiggy··on Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student
I know a bunch of classical musicians, and while they study and work hard they all have steady gigs for one or more ensembles & orchestra's.

From the outside it feels somewhat more doable to be a pro , then a band or solo-artist, since there are quite a few orchestra's around that hire people on a stable basis. Spots are limited, but it's not super hard.

jiggywiggy··on Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
Rogan has a different audience. More mature, and TRT is dosed properly and often through a doctor. Young kids just shoot up as much as possible. I still think we need more research to know it's long term impact and side effects.

I do think it's fair to assume that if Hemsworth openly its likely to be possible more young kids will take it. But it also depends on how he talks about it.

jiggywiggy··on Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
It would be interesting to understand why the body is lowering it, might also be the body adopting to certain conditions. Could be that artificially boosting it, goes against something the body is trying to regulate. Or it could just be a side-effect of body in decline.
jiggywiggy··on Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
Muscular actors are almost without exceptions on it. Take Chris Hemsworth, he went from skinny to bodybuilder level of muscle. It would be fine if doesn't use it to sell workout programs.
jiggywiggy··on Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
Yeah but more reasonable to compare it males in a certain age group.
jiggywiggy··on First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
It's weird to me. We've had hundreds of thousands of years with no dentists and toothpaste and now I'm told only way to keep teeth healthy is to brush twice a day with chemicals and an electric tool.
jiggywiggy··on First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
I also grind me teeth. One dentist recommended me a guard. Just really don't like the idea of sleeping with plastics in my mouth 8 hours a day. What type do you have?
jiggywiggy··on How to Do Great Work
You speak mostly of not getting attached. Which is mostly a method not to build negative karma in Buddhism and build positive karma. But positive karma is not a goal in itself in Buddhism, realization is.

The Madhyamaka way, translated to the great middle way, mostly refers to combining freedom & meaning from emptiness. Meaning things are neither real, nor or they an illusion. Therefore the middle.

This is because understanding emptiness often leads to nihilism: "nothing really matters". The opposite seeing things as real, instead of acknowledging everything is changing, often leads to suffering: if laptop breaks, relationships end etc. Both are true and both are false.

The goal of madhymaka is to explain middle way between those and also practical how that leads to freedom, joy and meaning in every moment of life.

In the end the goal of Buddhism is not to change outer conditions but to get to a state were hapiness is experienced regardless of outer experiences.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhyamaka

jiggywiggy··on How the great firewall of China detects and blocks fully encrypted traffic [pdf]
Yeah already 10-12 years ago was clear.

My university vpn only worked for a few days while studying in China.

But there is this tiny little vpn software being spread around. Not sure if it's true but I remember it's falun gong teaming up with the CIA. Which at the time was able to go undetected, I think they keep rotating the IPS or something.

Was interesting how fast that tool spread "offline" between international students. Also Chinese have it but its less known among them.

Not sure if it still works:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegate

[Edit] Here is an old hn comment saying it doesn't work anymore and other options that are also hard;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101965

jiggywiggy··on Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports
Diet drink consumption gone up, but doesnt seem to have made a dent in the obesity crisis.

Your point is only valid if it actually lowers sugar and other carbs intake. Which isn't the case for most people.

Next to that. With diet drinks people drink more since they feel like they can get a way with, some do with sugar variants as well, but seems like more people binge drink diet versions which could lead to higher exposure relatively.

The has been processing sugar for millennia, these chemicals are pretty new.

jiggywiggy··on Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014)
Live isnt very painful for me.

Still enjoy a beer a bit too much. When I'm super happy and then have a beer it just adds to it.

It also can help me relax if I'm working to much. One can argue it's not needed, but at times nice.

jiggywiggy··on Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
The way to make this work is by renting a mac m1 on scaleway and put a VNC app on your iPad.

Works well. You just pay 70,- per month extra.

jiggywiggy··on Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
Okay but now you are expecting them to manage another OS? Im with you on allowing more freedom, but to expect them to maintain linux for tablets?
jiggywiggy··on Now you can search on Google for free: Solution with API
Semantic web wont do you good. Google doesn't like scraping and won't make it easy for you to do so.
jiggywiggy··on BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
Most developers think in abstract terms all the time. We can easily see the variables take shape and create our intended reality.

But for a lot of people that never do that, that's hard, the more closer edit mode is to reality to easier it is to understand what it will look like and the less brainpower it takes the creator. But yeah in some cases with notion the difference between read and edit mode is not significantly indicated.

jiggywiggy··on Show HN: Superblocks AI – AI coding assistant for internal apps
It's not better then me.

But I use it when I'm lazy, tired or at times drinking.

And then it's really nice. At times it costs me too much time solving it's mistakes. But then it nails something perfectly and I'm impressed again.

jiggywiggy··on The future of AI according to thousands of forecasters
Chatgpt 4 is amazing. Still cant comprehend they build this.

However if you work with it a lot you realize it doesn't understand reality, it predicts language.

It reminds me of YouTube videos of chess when human start to figure out chess bots and the tricks they use to draw out time.

Understanding language is super impressive, but a far cry from general intelligence. Maybe from here open ai can build further. But I have a hard time believing that this will be a foundation for general intelligence.

A lot of animals have a form of general intelligence but cant do math or language. Yet in some ways are more capable then the latest self driving cars.

jiggywiggy··on CSS Only dark mode without JS
Hahah old school hate for js. Very good.
jiggywiggy··on Russia 'Coup' Live Forecast
Yeah he is being smart, positioning himself as pro Russian. Which he probably is. But doesn't not make it a coup.

Putin calling him a traitor is a death sentence. If he didn't already plan to, now his only option seems to be to move against Putin.

In don't see how they can both stay in power for much longer. One of them has to go.

jiggywiggy··on Russia 'Coup' Live Forecast
Yeah interesting to see.

His videos are consistently insisting he is just defending and not hostile to Russia. Which is of course how he should position himself.

But Putin essentially gave him the death sentence so one or the other has to go.

jiggywiggy··on CSS Only dark mode without JS
Would be perfectly reasonable to use js over this feature.
jiggywiggy··on 'Incredibly noticeable': alcohol ban cut family violence, crime in Alice Springs
When blaming alcohol i always think of the middle east with low alcohol intake has highest rates of domestic violence.

Which would suggest at the minimum that culture is a bigger factor.

And also I'm curious to see if it evens out after a year.

It could be that men who are more violent by nature tend to drink more. And that in societies where it's not accepted alcohol breaks the social barrier whereas middle eastern countries it's more accepted so alcohol is not needed.

jiggywiggy··on A case for toe socks
Ah don't stress so much, your feet brewing in your unwashed shoes probably breed more bacteria then the soles of your shoes pick from a walk.

And if not, a bit of exposure to germs is fine.

Most diseases are hand and air transmitted.

And in my anecdotal experience germ freaks are more suck then dirty people. But maybe I'm just biased.

jiggywiggy··on A case for toe socks
From the shoes?
jiggywiggy··on GPT4 is 8 x 220B params = 1.7T params
I often hear the idea of digital is faster then biology. This seems mostly derived from small math computations.

Yet it seems the current form of large language computations is much much slower then our biology. Making it even larger will be necessary to come closer to human levels but the speed?

If this is the path to GI, the computational levels need to be very High and very centralized.

Are there ways to improve this in its current implementation other the cache & more hardware?

jiggywiggy··on First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources
You still live in 2019
jiggywiggy··on Show HN: Tremor 3.0 – Open-source library to build dashboards fast
You probably just want Tailwind css in react native. There are a few options to get those in. This tremor is mostly just some wrappers around tailwind.
jiggywiggy··on Tailscale doesn't want your password
I don't know about Windows, but if you see the example your Mac is putting it in your keychain app, which is usely available on other devices that are connected to your Apple account. Also if you install a new macbook. Most likely also on your iphone. If you have an Android phone that will be a lot less smoot
jiggywiggy··on TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)
Wasn't that my point?
jiggywiggy··on TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)
Large scale meta studies dont provide any form of substantial evidence, they point to vague correlations, from which you can look for causation.

Feel free to do salutation to the false god of large scale metastudies :).

Here you already know causation. Early diagnosis is proven of great benefit for many diseases. It's more effective to specially study different groups of people and see what does and doesn't work.

Btw here breast cancer is biannual indeed, annual if you had it. Might differ per country.

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