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I'd agree here. Most doctors have not really caught up to the giant data science revolution we have going on. A couple years ago I bought one of these [1] while trying to diagnose some general health/fatigue issues and after a year of data logging and life experiences it was pretty cool to watch how my HR/O2 numbers changed in response to various events - long bike rides, strength training, getting a cold, being on antibiotics, etc. The nice thing about this device was 1) it's much more accurate than smart watches and 2) provides raw time-series data vs some abstract fancy marketing UI.

At this point I now do comprehensive bloodwork panels at least quarterly and while I don't use the O2 device anymore I still have the baseline data saved. I'd recommend to anyone to start recording this type of data while you subjectively "feel good". It'll make it much easier to diagnose + press doctors on health issues if you can point to data associated with a time you felt well.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Wellue-O2Ring-Wearable-Sleep-Monitor/...

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11

It ain't stupid if it works. If you find an ethical way to get people handing you a dollar, keep going. That's business.

It's a pattern because it's a factual inevitability. Whether you're an individual lead engineer or a CTO/Founder, eventually you always look back and conclude things could have been done better and watch in pleasure/horror as you reap the benefits/drawbacks of how you laid down patterns and processes that the team dutifully followed.

Pick up some F# then. Both can interop, I've built many things in a combo of the two languages, plus it'll make you a better C# developer and your type system power greatly increases. Be careful though you might not want to go back to C#.

It was done in / seals its fate

https://www.marktarver.com/bipolar.html

I always thought this essay was a great take on Lisp(ers), but it's interesting how those sort of statements eventually can self-perpetuate a couple negative events into a state of learned helplessness.

I like the Digital Wellbeing app on Android. Set a daily timer for app usage and then it gets blocked once you're over the timer.

https://github.com/readme/featured/aol-programming-culture

https://aolunderground.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/297526060414740/

https://patorjk.com/blog/2012/05/03/cracking-magus-fate-zero...

Of course we always begged him to show off this trick every recess. Looking back now I have no idea where he got the idea or how he practiced his way into it, but he was always a playground daredevil who routinely made teachers come sprinting over the tarmac.

I will say you knew you jumped far when that playground mulch embedded itself in your hands and knees.

Before Web 3.7+ us self-taught hackers often had to learn out of books, in the dark ages these were basically compilations of actual printed paper and not even a single TikTok video in sight.

No likes or subscribes to the authors either, you had to go to a place that freely stored all these books and find the authors using a catalog of paper index cards. Check this one out sometime:

https://www.amazon.com/But-How-Know-Principles-Computers/dp/...

Exceptionally well done though, keep up the great work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M34OelgSlKI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8A14Qcv68

It really seems like most of this lyrical talent exited rap by the early 2000s, not that I listen much anymore. There's some decent artists these days but it seems like the raw peak talent is gone because you don't need it anymore to make top dollar.

What a fantastic analogy.

It's interesting that despite the high-performance culture though, Netflix is still slowly degrading. This past year I finally realized I could cancel Netflix and not feel like I lost anything, and I was an early subscriber to the DVD plan.

Any thoughts on Netflix's degradation over time? My take is that its transitioned from peak phase into cash-cow mode once everyone wanted a piece of the streaming pie.

Ha thanks, I have to say when I reflect on the experience it was about 10% "me" and 90% "others and the team". After towing the car home on faith that I would figure out the rest (my car maintenance experience was roughly changing tires and checking oil), I reconnected with a mentor who had decades of stage rally experience.

He ultimately invested tons of his time and effort into short-cutting me through many lessons and gotchas, even helping me rebuild the motor when it blew up before my 1st scheduled event. After awhile I called our rally team "God's Grace Rally Team" because the way it so quickly came together and succeeded so well in light of the many overcome issues was really a spiritual experience.

But yes, it can be done. Take that step of faith... reach out and ask for help too!

I started with controller and moved to a projector & wheel for my setup, but after years of practice the sim was good enough that I eventually bought a rally car, assembled a rally team, and placed runner up to the eventual class national champion in a full stage rally my rookie year.

One of my favorite memories was having an "off" that debeaded and blew out a tire. While driving up to 60mph on the rim to finish the stage I thought "wow the sim was really spot on with this experience"

I sold the car after getting my ARA "pro" license though, they don't simulate how you have to light dollar bills on fire to fund your hobby, nor the very real risks of serious injury or death.

My assumption is that your frequent misspelling of "Manhattan" and usage of the term "USofA" is that you're not a US citizen. So as a US citizen, I wanted to encourage you that most of us with a decent high school education do consciously/subconsciously understand that this whole country is based on immigration, and much of our WW2 STEM advancements were achieved by the sweat and blood of immigrants and foreigners (at that time).

Is it really forgotten? It's pretty well known that Operation Paperclip shoveled loads of foreign scientists into the USA. Hans Bethe, the Teller-Ulam design etc. all created by immigrants. The original a-bomb memorandum was all foreign.

Much of the USA's present technical superiority is due to the massive brain drain during WW2, I think most reasonably informed folks understand that the USA is largely a country of immigrants united by ideals under one banner, not a homogeneous people group.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%20...

It's hard to discern motivations, but I always like to pray on if what I'm doing is by faith and is loving. Against those things there is no law. At the end of the day, the only thing gained or lost here is eternal, and I'm not going to the grave with any of the earthly accumulations or losses. So most of the "counting the cost" needs to be in the spiritual domain.

They don't. I used to own an F-350 for a race team and when I sold it for a Corolla I had a long argument with my insurance agent as to why the Corolla was going to cost me more to insure.

Despite their outrageous cost to own (which you would think would primarily be the driver of insurance fees), apparently large trucks are both stolen much less and get in fewer accidents due to their size. Hard to argue with the insurance company on the stats there.

Has it really though? This entire article reads more like a propaganda position than anything. Plenty of anti-US countries have much to gain from continuing to foment this narrative.

I'd argue the actual negative would be that you have nobody in Washington arguing over debt ceilings and budgets (i.e. not caring at all about where money is going). In fact, it's quite positive that people are in conflict over the right way to handle money and if anything should increase confidence in its status as the reserve currency. All this political chicken is how the game has always been played.

Bottom line is that as far as trust and confidence go, the United States could certainly improve, but it's still by far the best. Who is honestly going to trust China's government with their terrible track record, especially after all their COVID lies, lockdown nonsense, quietly taking over HK and a growing threat towards Taiwan's freedom. And Russia? Give me a break.

It seems un-testable in terms of eliminating any sort of placebo/expectation effect though.

The Chinese government is right in the sense that drug cartels generally avoid getting too high on their own supply.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2023/03/24/douyin-tiktok...

It's why it's on our currency - "e pluribus unum".

It's also why Russia and China are constantly working to erode the unity of the American people, whether it's through false narratives that "we're more divided than ever", driving a wedge into political parties, fomenting rage-mode across social media, utilizing Twitter for propaganda or TikTok to keep American minds drained of their creative motivation while they ban the apps in their own countries... the list really goes on.

A cord of many stands is not easily broken, but others will do their damnedest to try.