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New comment by poopchute in "Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)"

poopchute — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:56:02 +0000

ASI = Artificial Sentient Intelligence

New comment by poopchute in "FDA Approves Lilly's Zepbound (Tirzepatide) for Chronic Weight Management"

poopchute — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 16:34:40 +0000

I get major brain for on intermittent fasting. I have to spread out my protein and carbs over the day, so for me calorie restriction works best.

New comment by poopchute in "FDA Approves Lilly's Zepbound (Tirzepatide) for Chronic Weight Management"

poopchute — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 16:31:38 +0000

I'm specifically talking about when you're hungry and want to eat, but your calorie budget is very small. Obviously you should still be eating an appropriate amount of protein over the course of a day.

New comment by poopchute in "FDA Approves Lilly's Zepbound (Tirzepatide) for Chronic Weight Management"

poopchute — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 19:29:21 +0000

There are quite a few veggies that are low calorie, filling, and are tasty enough to snack on without dip. The ones I eat when I just want to feel full without a bunch of calories are carrots (45 cal/100g), cucumbers (14 cal/100g), sugar snap peas ( 42 cal/100g), and yellow bell pepper (27 cal/100g).

New comment by poopchute in "What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf]"

poopchute — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:58:07 +0000

We definitely use a mix of US/UK spellings in Canada. This gets further reinforced when you work a lot with a particular spelling (eg. we use spell 'colour' with the 'u' but every graphics library / css / etc use 'color' so its a toss up on which one I actually type)

New comment by poopchute in "A ‘megaflood’ in California could drop 100 inches of rain, scientists warn"

poopchute — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:16:39 +0000

Not necessarily. A roll of the dice is considered independent variables, however, a weather system year over year probably isnt an independent variable

New comment by poopchute in "99 bits of unsolicited advice"

poopchute — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:44:22 +0000

Really depends where you live for the hitchhiking thing. Its pretty common in small towns / small islands

New comment by poopchute in "Warp Drive News"

poopchute — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 21:54:52 +0000

Gravity travels at the speed of Causality, and that isn't changed in water

New comment by poopchute in "Google's new logos are bad"

poopchute — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 07:25:15 +0000

They are easy enough to tell apart when you look at them full size on a desktop monitor. But when you have a couple google services open in different browser tabs, well now those very similar icons are pretty annoying to tell apart as 32x32 .ico

New comment by poopchute in "New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars"

poopchute — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 04:18:42 +0000

(same way as all space craft)

New comment by poopchute in "U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student visas"

poopchute — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 04:26:56 +0000

Is that for all lectures? In the engineering program at my university, attendance as only taken during labs as those have strict attendance requirements.

New comment by poopchute in "Mishap during experiment led quantum researchers to crack a 58-year-old puzzle"

poopchute — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 22:16:26 +0000

Pretty interesting stuff! Veritasium did a couple videos with this researcher 7 or so years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_IaVepNDT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNzzGgr2mhk

New comment by poopchute in "Ask HN: A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?"

poopchute — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:55:27 +0000

Buuuut the website is used across 4.5 hours of timezones: from the west coasts GMT-8 to the east coasts GMT-3:30

New comment by poopchute in "First all-electric seaplane takes flight in B.C."

poopchute — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:34:02 +0000

I'm not sure about if its possible, but in the context of where this plane is flying, there is only lightning once or twice per year.

New comment by poopchute in "Designing Accessible Color Systems"

poopchute — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:31:58 +0000

I'm pretty sure this only affects protan(omaly/opia). The green and red cones along with the rods all play a roll in determining the brightness of any colour. When the red cone is shifted towards green, then all wavelengths to the right of that will be darkened. I thought tritanopia would experience this too since the blue cone is also an edge-of-the-rainbow cone, but apparently the blue cone plays a very small roll in detecting brightness. Therefore, a bright blue colour would appear to to someone with tritanopia as yellowish white, since it is nearly equally detected by the green & red cones.

New comment by poopchute in "Ted Chiang: Realist of a Larger Reality"

poopchute — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 23:46:37 +0000

I really enjoyed Ursula Le Guin's scifi for those reasons. The technology in Le Guin's stories basically doesn't matter; her stories revolve around relationships and culture. As an example, a story that focuses on a 2 planet system that has a slavery based society. On one planet, the slaves rebel. But even after their successful rebellion, the freed slaves fail to acknowledge that their women are essentially still slaves since they lack all basic human rights. Another story is about a planet/moon system where a few hundred years prior an anarchist culture secedes from the planets staunchly capitalistic culture, and then moves to the moon. The story follows a physicist/mathematicians life in an anarchist society. Another story deals with the toll that war has on people with telepathy. They have empathy for their enemies, but none the less they are in a situation in which they must kill those they have a telepathic connection with.

All the plot lines I talk about are in the collection of books belonging to the "Hainish cycle" series. Every book in the series is very good.

New comment by poopchute in "Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by fungi"

poopchute — Thu, 30 May 2019 00:11:39 +0000

I think a civilization could make a pretty good go at things without fossil fuels. The 2 big use cases for fossil fuel are the temperature of the heat itself (for things like smelting), but also how simple it is to make a steam engine with energy dense fuels (cars/trains/planes/electricity). Temperature wise, a lot of metals can be smelted with clever oven design using wood/charcoal (though another planet wont have exactly wood, obviously). Energy wise, wind mills and water wheels have been in use for thousands of years, and after the discovery of electricity, its reasonably simple to turn that mechanical energy into electricity (using wood-smelted metals).

New comment by poopchute in "How I Run a Company with ADHD"

poopchute — Mon, 13 May 2019 07:39:33 +0000

behold my adhd: https://i.imgur.com/Ubl57cP.png

New comment by poopchute in "A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata"

poopchute — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 02:33:44 +0000

Its a quick intro to computability theory. There is a progression of more and more complicated 'machines' on the way from Finite Automata towards Turing Machines. This article goes over what types of things each machine can and can't solve. Its more of a theoretical topic than a practical one (and why you'll occasionally see silly things like someone implementing a turing machine in powerpoint to show that powerpoint could compute anything)

New comment by poopchute in "The Gyllenhaal Experiment"

poopchute — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 22:47:12 +0000

I always think of Jim Carry in Bruce Almighty spelling out

B-E-A-Utiful

Surprisingly it helps with words that have that 'eau' mash of vowels.