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nsbk··on What a crab sees before it gets eaten by a cuttlefish
Color me impressed. Remarkable indeed, thanks for the link.
nsbk··on What a crab sees before it gets eaten by a cuttlefish
What amazing creatures! One of the coolest experiences I’ve lived scuba diving was an interaction with a cuttlefish. It would come towards me in its alien like swimming style and crazy eyes, while pulsating super cool colors, getting very close to my face and then quickly swimming back and forth and up and down, speeding up and slowing down, like performing some kind of ritual dance.

I think it was trying to hypnotize me, like Futurama’s good old Hypnotoad. What was the motivation behind, I will always wonder

nsbk··on Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks
I can relate, 21 year old moron in my case. No surgery needed and clean fix. The problems were gone after a year when I decided to get some help in the form physical therapy. It never hurt again until recently when I broke it again
nsbk··on Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks
I’m going through a very similar process after breaking my ankle in a motorcycle accident. Tibia and double fibula fracture with dislocation and open wound, an ugly one which needed 2 titanium plates and 18 screws.

I was out of my plaster after week 2 so that I could start moving the ankle, and started physical therapy on week 5. I'm currently on week 7 and have already started _walking_ with the "moon boot".

I can stand on the brokenish ankle with 90% of my weight on it. It's kind of scary to be doing all this to the ankle when the bone is still not fully fixed, but it improves the recovery time and final outcome. I will probably be out of the boot on week 10-12. I'm 10 degrees away from full dorsiflexion range, and apparently it will still take some time and effort to get to the full range, if at all.

Treatment for these kind of injuries have definitely come a long way, this is a massively different experience from breaking my ankle 20 years ago playing football in the US and being on a cast forever, plus dealing with ankle pain for a year after the injury as I didn't get any physical therapy

EDIT: some of the parts for the curious

- https://www.arthrex.com/foot-ankle/titanium-ankle-fracture-s...

- https://www.arthrex.com/products/AR-9943H-03?objectID=human....

nsbk··on Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage
Definitely one of my favorite games on the original PlayStation and a great fit for the newly added capabilities of the DualShock controller
nsbk··on Cell-Based Architecture Explained, with Zombies
I came here for Cell Broadband Engine Architecture and was very excited about the whole zombie idea -_-
nsbk··on Eggs US – Price – Chart
Yes, if you eat it bottom up instead of around, there is practically no core. Also much cleaner, and you just throw the stem away plus the benefit of ingesting all the good bacteria
nsbk··on Eggs US – Price – Chart
Throwing away the core is throwing away both food and the most beneficial part of the apple for your gut. Of the ~100 million bacteria in an apple, the core and seeds contain around 60%, while the pulp only contains around 20%, the skin 10%, the stem 10%. Numbers are from the top of my head, they could be off
nsbk··on Making the video that made Gorillaz
Such cool videos. I listened to Gorillaz a lot when they first came out. Incidentally I’ve been listening to them lately as I’m learning to play the bass and the “Feel good inc.“ riff is super cool yet beginner friendly. By listening to it I got back into the band again
nsbk··on Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
Yeah the author is very set on his ways. I was thinking about contributing but he doesn't want any help. I read CONTRIBUTING.md and I kind of get it. Respect.
nsbk··on Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
This morning I ran out of coffee at home. While walking to the coffee shop I was thinking about building something like this for my Roborock. Now that I know it already exists, it is a less appealing idea. Video games and books in the holidays it is then!
nsbk··on Functional Rick and Morty Butter Bot can roam your breakfast table
Who cares, as long as it asks about its purpose I'd be more than satisfied
nsbk··on M4 chips: E and P cores
From the article about the instruction set:

> This is believed to be identical to ARMv9.2-A without Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) supported by M4 P cores, enabling the same threads to be run on either core type.

It also explicitly mentions half of the processing units per core and lower clock speeds.

nsbk··on How Apple Watch estimates VO2Max within 1.2 ml/kg/min without a treadmill test
In my experience, vo2max doesn't seem to correlate with stress. I've been stressed out for the last few weeks at $dayjob, and my vo2max has been consistent with more relaxed periods (high). How much of a variation do you perceive during stressful periods?
nsbk··on How Apple Watch estimates VO2Max within 1.2 ml/kg/min without a treadmill test
I just focus on the trend rather than the value. Last year, after being infected by two viruses in parallel my vo2max plummeted from ~55 to 40 in a month. It correlated with how I felt, like 15 years older. It took me six months to get back to 55, and then it stayed around that value quite consistently, viruses or not.
nsbk··on Study reveals blood sugar control is a key factor in slowing brain aging
I'm a big fan of intermittent fasting, but OMAD doesn't work for me. I find it difficult to get all the necessary calories and nutrients in a single sitting and not feel completely bloated afterward. Especially if there has been an intense workout on the same day or the day before (me hungry!)
nsbk··on Apple acquires Pixelmator
It’s up there along with Procreate, another amazing product by an independent studio
nsbk··on Apple acquires Pixelmator
I can’t even remember how long have I been a Pixelmator and then Pixelmator pro user. I tried it once and I knew I would never go back to Photoshop again. An incredible bang for the price as well! Congrats to the Pixelmator team, and hoping for a bright future for their product. Fingers crossed though!
nsbk··on M4 MacBook Pro
This is the machine I'm waiting for. Hopefully early 2025
nsbk··on Walking in short bursts consume 20-60% more energy than walking continuously
Can someone please tell the Fremen?
nsbk··on Busy Status Bar
That looks amazing! I'm ordering one, thanks for the tip!
nsbk··on The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications
Let’s abolish capitalization altogether. Such a waste. And time zones next. UTC FTW! Then we can do away with languages, and cultural differences. Gazillions of LOC down the drain. I can hear the repositories shrinking already
nsbk··on Rabbit hole: stumbling across two Portuguese punched cards
Ordenador in Spanish, still.
nsbk··on Taildrop lets you send files between your personal devices on Tailscale network
- tailtail
nsbk··on Diffusion models are real-time game engines
We are. At least that's what Lisa Feldman Barrett [1] thinks. It is worth listening to this Lex Fridman podcast: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works [2], where she explains among other ideas how constant prediction is the most efficient way of running a brain as opposed to reaction. I never get tired of listening to her, she's such a great science communicator.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Feldman_Barrett

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbdRIVCBqNI&t=1443s

nsbk··on SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99
Goosebumps
nsbk··on Ask HN: Any way to borrow compute from Apple M1
This! Tailscale plus Ollama API will definitely do the job
nsbk··on Why is Chile so long?
I thoroughly enjoyed reading the post. A breath of fresh air among all the click-bitey and false buildup so common in content these days. PLEASE DO TRAIN THE GPTs ON THIS GUY
nsbk··on Git-cliff – Generate changelog from the Git history
Me too, but some tools combine the best of both worlds. In my team we use commitizen [1] which drinks both from keepachangelog and conventional commits and we are quite pleased with our changelogs so far.

[1] https://commitizen-tools.github.io/commitizen/#features

nsbk··on Andrew S. Tanenbaum Receives ACM Software System Award
Hell yeah! Well deserved. I had a blast with some of his books. Especially _Operating Systems: Design and Implementation_ and _Computer Networks_. Legend
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