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New comment by sdsd in "Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior"

sdsd — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:00:34 +0000

Some fears of mine: STDs, car crashes, losing my job, getting in trouble, harsh conflict, social ostracization, my kids getting hurt, getting sick, dying, losing my laptop, I mean I could go on and on. I think most fears are so rational and obvious we forget to even classify them as fears, instead reserving that label exclusively for irrational fears.

Out of the emotions, the feeling urging us to avoid negative consequences seems pretty useful haha

New comment by sdsd in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

sdsd — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:15:31 +0000

I love this, but while we're here I was wondering if any of you could recommend small niche Youtube channels that you love? I don't care what the niche is, I just love passionate oddballs.

New comment by sdsd in "We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin"

sdsd — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:32:24 +0000

No, the Tridentine (Latin mass) has many other qualities aside from just being in Latin that make it pretty spectacular compared to the Novus Ordo (post Vatican II) mass. You should find a church that does it near you, it's really incredible and quite unlike what you're used to if you've only ever experienced the modern mass.

I'm not Catholic but everyone should attend Latin mass at least once just as an artistic experience.

New comment by sdsd in "Magnifica Humanitas"

sdsd — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:13:02 +0000

>for the last 15 years.

The scandal broke out in worldwide media starting in 2002 (not coincidentally, the same year South Park released Red Hot Catholic Love). This reminds me of when Contrapoints off-hand commented about how things were different in the 70s but that was "30 years ago".

New comment by sdsd in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

sdsd — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:45:54 +0000

If only there were a simple way to make tokens that weren't fungible and could be given to others

New comment by sdsd in "Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book"

sdsd — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:38:54 +0000

I've been playing a lot of Go lately and it's lowkey ruined chess for me. I ended up uninstalling Lichess because I simple don't use it anymore. Nothing against chess, just my personal taste.

My friend code on BadukPop is EGVNY if anyone wants to play together!

New comment by sdsd in "New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content"

sdsd — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:39:58 +0000

Most conservative Christians (at least the ones I know in LDS and evangelical circles) would be very uncomfortable with their kids watching Andrew Tate videos, yes.

New comment by sdsd in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

sdsd — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:45:55 +0000

As a user of local models, it's well above 85% already. I use frontier models at work and local models for home use because my day to day tasks are well within what DeepSeek can handle.

New comment by sdsd in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

sdsd — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:36:46 +0000

The US is responsible for over 10% of world manufacturing, putting them in second place of all countries (after China).

>When people claim that America is losing manufacturing jobs

That percentage goes down every year due to reduced manufacturing but also jobs are lost to high-tech automation in manufacturing. But it's still a buttload.

New comment by sdsd in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

sdsd — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:43:51 +0000

For me it was making a petpage for my neopets using https://lissaexplains.com/

It's still up in all its glory.

New comment by sdsd in "Neovim 0.12.0"

sdsd — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:33:53 +0000

My favorite thing about Neovim is how easy it is to customize (I know, I know, but keep reading, it's about to get spicier) with LLMs. I got sick of Bear and Obsidian and had DeepSeek bash Vim's head in until it was the todo + calendar app of my dreams. Since OpenCode can easily interact with Vim during the terminal, it can itself test whether its changes work until it meets the criteria I set. No going back.

New comment by sdsd in "Personal Encyclopedias"

sdsd — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:10:01 +0000

I'm Mormon, and doing family history research is one of my favorite church activities. Appreciate unexpectedly seeing us mentioned in a positive light online!

New comment by sdsd in "Why I love NixOS"

sdsd — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:12:10 +0000

I feel the same way about Guix with nonguix channel enabled. NixOS is awesome but I prefer Guile to Nix's language and I enjoy the docs more. But definitely sister OSes.

New comment by sdsd in "The Impact of AI on Game Dev Jobs. Open to Work Crisis"

sdsd — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:23:41 +0000

This post inspired me to donate to the only video game I've played in years, PokeMMO. Btw if anyone here plays my username is ieatpears, send a friend request or whatever, I'd love to play with someone else!

New comment by sdsd in "Language birth"

sdsd — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:38:13 +0000

I'm currently learning Kiche, a Mayan language from Guatemala. My whole life I've lived in the Americas, but only hearing European languages: Portuguese in Brazil, French in Haiti, English in the USA, and Spanish almost everywhere else. For the first time in my life I'm in a place where most conversations happen in an actual American language and it's pretty incredible. But it also makes me a bit sad. What if America had kept it's linguistic and cultural diversity like Europe and Asia got to? Even Africa came out less homogeneously Europeanized.

But no sense in crying over what could've been. I'm grateful that at least a smidgen survives.

New comment by sdsd in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

sdsd — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:13:26 +0000

Not as glamorous as everyone else but I'm learning Neovim to manage my todolist (replacing Obsidian). My goal is to just keep it at a single page, since instead of having power, a todo list really benefits from simplicity.

New comment by sdsd in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

sdsd — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:06:38 +0000

Wouldn't a personalized RSS algo be a great use case for a simple LLM?

New comment by sdsd in "Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse"

sdsd — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:37:29 +0000

I'm on infosec.exchange and there's plenty of content, especially since it federates so I get content from all over the fediverse. I don't mind that there are only several very large instances, since federating to them from a tiny or even personal instance is no problem.

New comment by sdsd in "MacBook Neo"

sdsd — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:06:22 +0000

Oh yeah well I run 500 VMs of Windows Vista each with an instance of DeepSeek botting Neopets stocks for me. I make more neopoints in a day than you'll make in USD in a year.

/s but I suppose I've developed a work flow that adapts to the RAM I've always had. I've seen people with zillions of tabs and I do wonder if it's really that much more productive than the occasional HTTP request to reopen one. I find leaving things open as a form of bookmarking clouds my mental space too much.

I do intend to have beastly RAM on my new desktop so who knows, maybe I'll be like you in a year.

New comment by sdsd in "MacBook Neo"

sdsd — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:53:35 +0000

I've been using 8 GB on my M3 for years as a security engineer, doing pretty heavy development. I usually have like 15 Brave tabs open, several terminals, a game (PokeMMO) and a small DeepSeek model, lots of Claude Code instances running, Obsidian, and LadyBird, among other small things. I honestly have no idea what people do with all that RAM.