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ulyssessword
5hr ago
all the beauty filters
You sure it isn't makeup?
For some reason we've decided that manipulating peoples' perceptions by changing the physical objects they're looking at is acceptable, while manipulating peoples' perceptions by changing the images directly isn't.
See also fast food commercials. They are (or at least were) genuine footage of actual objects...which were only superficially related to the food they sold.
ulyssessword
1d ago
0.6 mg made me quite sleepy after a short while. In the morning, I woke up from a deep sleep and (after a minute) felt well-rested.
5 mg made me almost collapse in exhaustion. I had vivid (though unremembered) dreams, and I was still tired as I got ready for the day. I was fine by the time I left for work, but it didn't feel like a normal good night.
ulyssessword
2d ago
I cut my 5 mg ones into (approximately) 1/8ths so it's at least close to the right dose.
Also, I tried 5 mg once, and it's a very different beast from 0.6ish mg. If I didn't already know it was the same drug, I wouldn't have been able to guess from the effects.
ulyssessword
2d ago
I also started 10 mg of melatonin at night, it does not do much but hey, this place did start from a psychiatrist's blog, so I had to mention it.
Try 0.3 mg instead: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
ulyssessword
3d ago
ulyssessword
4d ago
It would have been so much funnier on Good Friday.
ulyssessword
6d ago
Then stand by your convictions, admit what you're doing, and argue that it's good.
ulyssessword
10d ago
Show me the table entry for "brown adipose tissue heating" on a CO calculation and I'll believe it. Otherwise it's just part of the fudge factor.
Quantizing that component (and every other one) to individual variability is the weakness of CICO, as they can result in wildly different results based on unmeasured variables.
ulyssessword
10d ago
Did you calculate your base metabolic rate (or whatever the fudge factor is called in your system) so that it all worked out? If not, you got lucky that it happened to be both correct at the start and steady over time. If you have adjusted it, then that means your calculations are on target, and adjusting the inputs so that 3500 kcal = 1 lb resulted in a trendline at 3500 kcal per lb.
This study gives some people a 20% headstart on your dieting goals (admittedly they didn't measure "CI"), which is a pretty notable difference.
ulyssessword
10d ago
ulyssessword
11d ago
That's exactly what I'm talking about: It's a Calories In, Calories Out, Body Weight system and that third variable is essential.
Skimming through the paper, it appears that the difference between cold and hot is about 100 Calories per cold day, or about one pound per month. A pure CICO system couldn't explain why one person gains a few pounds every winter while an ostensibly-identical person (but fertilized in cold weather) doesn't.
ulyssessword
11d ago
A) CICO necessarily follows from the Second Law of Thermodynamics,
The naive version of CICO compares your meal plan to your gym time. The normal version compares all the food (including drinks!) you consume vs. all your planned or incidental physical activity. The true version compares the bioavailability of all the nutrients you consume vs. all of your metabolic activity, whether that's moving your muscles, thinking, growth, healing, generating heat, or anything else.
I have yet to see any diet plan that uses the true model of CICO. The closest I've seen is a single number for "base metabolism" that you back-calculate from your weight trends.
I think you're pushing a strawman, but I'm open to seeing a diet plan that uses the "true CICO" model I described. Anything less precise can't follow from raw thermodynamics.
ulyssessword
12d ago
...and therefore the scenario doesn't illustrate their point.
ulyssessword
12d ago
Scott would characterize the Developer as having lied to the contractor about having the approval, but did they?
Yes in your scenario, but it's not necessary. Try this:
Thus the Developer tells the Contractor to start pouring concrete. The building permit isn't their responsibility and the contractor is paid based on work done (not buildings constructed), so they have no reason to refuse. Worst case they get paid to tear up concrete afterwards. The contractor starts pouring.
ulyssessword
14d ago
I have two monitors here, and my alt-tab selection only shows up on my primary monitor. The taskbar does show up so you can select one application or the other regardless.Windows+arrow keys does work to reposition windows, so I'll have to remember that.
One of the more challenging parts of it was diagnosing the issue in the first place. It looked like every application simply refused to launch despite being "open".
ulyssessword
14d ago
Windows windows insanity?
A coworker brought his laptop up to the conference room, but (in hindsight, I think) it was still remotely connected to his monitor in his office. Every application opened its window on the office monitor instead of the laptop screen, so we couldn't use it for anything. We tried to change the display settings to cancel that...but the settings window opened on the other monitor as well.
We ended up restarting it.
ulyssessword
15d ago
I'm not that optimistic. It reminds me of The Simpsons:
The judges are empowered to help criminals. You thought judges were empowered to help? Empowered to help criminals, not you.
It'll take a good action to move my opinion in a good direction. Not just "they can do something; good things are 'something', therefore they can do good things."
ulyssessword
18d ago
Anything by Daniel Abraham (link to my old review), particularly the Long Price Quartet.
ulyssessword
19d ago
Do you have to drop it off at that specific apple store, or can you ship it to somewhere and get it shipped back? Even super-express return shipping is probably cheaper than $320.
ulyssessword
19d ago
Pretty sure. If you can find something better at predictions than the market is, you should be able to make tons of money (and incidentally make the market as efficient as your source).
ulyssessword
20d ago
Could be, but I'm blaming Microsoft regardless. Those ads have no place in the Microsoft Office Suite, regardless of who did it.
ulyssessword
20d ago
I'm following a lawyer's advice and will keep a tractor fender close by, at all times.
ulyssessword
21d ago
New Microsoft insanity.
I made a powerpoint presentation1, and went to save it. There were the normal options: Save, Save As, Export, Share, and one new one: Save as PDF.
Great, I thought. I want to save it as a PDF, so I will select the "Save as PDF" option. What a fool I was. Microsoft hadn't given me a convenient option to Save as PDF. It had embedded an ad for Adobe Acrobat Reader Pro's integration with their software, and offered me one free sample per 30 days, and the wonderful opportunity to buy (or rent, I assume) their software to unlock unlimited use and access many other features!
Needless to say, I went to "Save As", selected the .pdf filetype from the dropdown menu, and saved it as a pdf.
1 Not really, but Powerpoint some of the best software there is for simple image editing.
ulyssessword
23d ago
I recommend reading https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ before using melatonin, as there are some misconceptions out there. Specifically, the standard pills you can buy have about 10-30x the dose you want.
Knives, knives and more knives.
If you have three punknives, you can throw them all and the first one will return by the time you're ready to throw a fourth (at T5 with some perks, you can do it with two knives instead). They're silent, can be made nonlethal, don't need ammo, and can even attack in melee in a pinch.
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