I personally dont know how tar was used for health, but it was big export item of Finland during medieval times.

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It can make the actual work even more painful, because your mind is too focused on the reward, instead of trying to enjoy the hard work itself.

However, sometimes I need to talk, design or pair-program. For that I enjoy the office.

Animals do have sensors and can reason about real world quite intelligently. This is what LLM- models don't have. Surely, all the text in Internet has a lot of textual information about real world, but something "obvious to animal" might not be there.

I feel us humans are kind of both: We have sensors and experiences about real world, but also oral and written tradition.

Once we develope LLM- with cabability to sense and experience real word (perhaps with some evolutionary algorithm to make it better over time) it should start to be close to human beings.

Last time I used Chrome, you can only mute all at once.

As a non identical twin, I remember we sometimes actively tried to become different with my twin. Growing up, we hated being treated as one unit instead of two individuals. Also we competed a lot in sports, school etc. Slowly I found areas where I was better and my brother where he was. I have talked to some other twins and they said the same thing, about hating as being treated as one unit and wanting to become at least little different.

Unfortunately questionnaires might be only thing sometimes. My message is that, we should be more sceptical about them

Often, the method was asessed by asking patients to score their situation before and after the surgery (e.g one year later).

For sure, many people try to be positive and give too optimistic scores. At least I felt it hard to admit that the costly procedure had failed and saying it to my surgeon didn't feel easy.

What I fear is, there are many research papers done using patient questionaire and giving us biased results

I tried hard to make it work and was stressed often. Not worth... I blame myself mostly for being obsessed about the project, but I wish I would not have been working alone, especially as a newcomer to the field.

Biggest one has been chronic pain, for which doctors cannot do much. Another was the project at work, which was technologically "almost possible", but could never meet what the customer was expecting.

I had never heard it can damage your eyes permanently. It is not very common, but can happen.

Until I got blinded by stress! Excess stress hormone can even damage your eyes, its called central serous retinopathy... My central vision is gone and have hard time reading, I cant continue my career as programmer anymore.

Its surprising how damaging excess cortisol can be to a person