Hacker News: verdenti

New comment by verdenti in "Intel Launches $699 Core I9-13900KS, the First 6 GHz CPU: Available Now"

verdenti — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:42:05 +0000

I couldn’t care less about power consumption at this couple of hundred W range. The difference is probably a couple of dollars a month with home computer usage.

New comment by verdenti in "El Salvador’s Historic Digital Asset Securities Law Passes"

verdenti — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 07:55:02 +0000

Exporting electricity takes a bunch of infrastructure.

New comment by verdenti in "The Collapse of U.S. Healthcare – The Perspective of a Primary Care Physician"

verdenti — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 02:44:39 +0000

Single payer is good but it doesn’t solve the problem of really sick old people running up the bill for everyone. I don’t even see what the way out is. Really old people that are subjectively classified as irrecoverable have to get private insurance on top of single payer maybe otherwise you get cut off. That subjective decision maker will get called a “death panel” though. Someone’s got to make some hard decisions somewhere.

New comment by verdenti in "It's time to stop texting"

verdenti — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:18:01 +0000

I hate texting. So much fiddling with the fingers for something I could say in 30 seconds face to face/over the phone.

New comment by verdenti in "Microsoft Says It Will Give US Workers Unlimited Time Off"

verdenti — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:03:35 +0000

In SWE managers never really care about time off unless there’s a legitimate reason like a severely impacted team or taking time off at a crunch.

New comment by verdenti in "Mercedes is the first automaker to offer Level 3 self-driving in the US"

verdenti — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 06:29:51 +0000

That just seems like adaptive cruise control. Comparing Tesla to this is apples and oranges.

New comment by verdenti in "Iran Is Using Facial Recognition to Enforce Modesty Laws"

verdenti — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 02:42:11 +0000

Is this a nefarious use case?

New comment by verdenti in "Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT"

verdenti — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 20:57:53 +0000

Stable diffusion’s model still won’t do pornography, hate speech etc. right? I’ve only run it using DreamStudio.

New comment by verdenti in "Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT"

verdenti — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 20:53:04 +0000

I’m completely onboard with chatGPT’s “moralizing”. It may be an unpopular opinion but it’s a better experience and keeps the riff raff out.

New comment by verdenti in "It’s not just what you eat, but the time of day you eat it"

verdenti — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:50:09 +0000

Exactly, I’ve done OMAD continuously for two years now and it has worked well for me. The only thing you should be looking at is it’s hard to get all your vitamins and minerals from one meal a day so make sure you take a multivitamin.

New comment by verdenti in "It’s not just what you eat, but the time of day you eat it"

verdenti — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:47:15 +0000

This is too bad because I rarely want to eat in the mornings. I’ve always skipped breakfast because I can’t build an appetite until lunchtime. I truly enjoy the food during dinner however.

New comment by verdenti in "Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT"

verdenti — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 03:57:57 +0000

I guess monetizing chatGPT should be simple, I would pay a monthly subscription for it in a heartbeat. Are there any competitors at this point that can match its performance? How hard would it be to replicate?

New comment by verdenti in "Why Intermittent Fasting Has So Many Health Benefits"

verdenti — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 23:38:43 +0000

Lose weight for the most part with tangible results over a relatively short time. This is in contrast to something like just skipping breakfast.

New comment by verdenti in "Why Intermittent Fasting Has So Many Health Benefits"

verdenti — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 16:35:20 +0000

I’ve been doing OMAD for two years and I can’t remember the last time I’ve been constipated.

New comment by verdenti in "Why Intermittent Fasting Has So Many Health Benefits"

verdenti — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 16:32:57 +0000

OMAD (one meal per day) genuinely works with the only caveat being that you need to make sure you’re getting all your nutritional requirements for the day. This means having a larger single meal and taking multivitamins for me. Also I avoid all processed foods, especially processed meat. I’ve been doing it for two years now.

New comment by verdenti in "Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes"

verdenti — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 15:39:50 +0000

As a Canadian, Canada needs way more people for how much habitable land we have.

New comment by verdenti in "Tell HN: Happy New Year"

verdenti — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 04:39:10 +0000

Anecdotal tip. It’s next to impossible to drop from daily to weekly. It has to be way more infrequent- like biannual for you to not fall back into daily usage.

New comment by verdenti in "Meta employee buys 12-year lease on cruise ship to see the world while working"

verdenti — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 19:23:58 +0000

Really not all that bad as long as he’s allowed to bring food/alcohol from ports onboard. Does it have a kitchen? Or does he have to always buy overpriced cruise ship food. That seems like it would be the dealbreaker for me.

New comment by verdenti in "Why do bees die when they sting you?"

verdenti — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 19:20:24 +0000

What’s the algorithm here? Can you whiteboard/pseudo code it haha?

New comment by verdenti in "I Disapprove of What You Say, but Will Defend Your Right to Say It (2015)"

verdenti — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 21:56:14 +0000

Only until what you say is an explicit or implicit threat to my life.