remotelove
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- Comment on Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower. 1 week ago:
A minor one and a component of Vitamin B12.
- Comment on Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower. 1 week ago:
Have a normal, balanced diet if you aren’t extremely active. So yeah, just eat a banana. :)
I run a lot and a sweat a lot, so my electrolyte loss is fairly high. (You can see the buildup of salts on my gear after it dries and before I wash it.) Electrolyte supplements are great for athletes that can’t practically make up the losses with regular food intake.
But… To say that Gatorade and other electrolyte drinks are overused by people who aren’t active is an understatement. Many people simply do not need the extra boost of sugar and salts and it’s just going to get pissed out anyway.
The reason I am a bit vocal about this is that 1. People should actually eat a decent diet just to get these basic salts and 2. Electrolyte supplements are awesome, extremely basic but extremely overused. They are extremely important, but not in the way marketing departments say they are.
- Comment on Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower. 1 week ago:
Sodium chloride is not the only electrolyte the body needs. It’s fairly important to keep a healthy balance: medlineplus.gov/fluidandelectrolytebalance.html
- Comment on Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower. 1 week ago:
Horses, generally, really like apples.
- Comment on Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower. 1 week ago:
- Comment on How do abortions work exactly? I get you lose the kid or whatever. My ex rapist used to tell me if I ever got pregnant he would RU486 me. Wouldn't a person rather go to a doc instead of a pill? 2 weeks ago:
You are not a 40 year old traveling nurse? I find it hard to believe that a nurse wouldn’t know this.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Her wallet probably feels fine though.
- Comment on Someone made it a meme, it's got to be true. 2 weeks ago:
Most of TNG painted a picture of a perfect utopian Starfleet and how humans had grown up, like you say . (Obviously, humanity is never perfect but the messaging is fairly clear: They try.)
I can chime in more about VOY and ENT though…
VOY is my favorite and also when you start to see a little more of humanity in Starfleet. We learned a few things like: The Prime Directive/Temporal Prime Directives were always just suggestions, murder could actually be justified, you will never get promoted past ensign if you play the clarinet and chemical addiction is still a key driver in human decisions and behavior.
ENT is just the human transition out of a military focused race to a race focused on exploration. (I am not sure why Archer always seems to have serious case of constipation, but it is what it is.)
- Comment on There is the face of a cat in this picture. Can you find it? 3 weeks ago:
Magnets, maybe.
- Comment on The ultimate goatse shitpost 5 weeks ago:
Moab, I think.
- Comment on If you (a regular American citizen) had actionable, insider knowledge about the US Federal Government/Military and felt the public should know, how would you tell everyone? 5 weeks ago:
It’s always been broken, disjointed and tribal. You can tell everyone, but many have already known this. Hell, most of humanity is like this naturally.
Almost every large organization is this way, really. Most of it is just covered up by goverment or corporate propaganda or some weird sense of duty people have to jobs or organizations.
This ain’t anything new, is my point.
- Comment on Getting told by Lemmy to stop taking drugs 1 month ago:
Yeah, its a hell of an experience many people should have. (Many people probably also shouldn’t.) At the core of it all, I believe that being able to view problems through a very different lense is a big part of how psychedelics work when used for deep therapy. In many cases, I could see and interact with my emotions and feelings like they were an independent thing. I could almost visualize and touch my own emotions. Being able to see through my problems and get closure for issues that were supposed to be long in my past was a very beautiful thing. Trippy stuff, quite literally.
Also, (and this is really for others that are reading this) I am not really joking with my personification of a mushroom. I used to think that was just some crazy burned-out hippy talk, but there is so much more to it than that. Yes. A mushroom talking is absolutely a hallucination. That isn’t what that literally is though…
It’s more of a very primal, internal dialogue. It’s like the voice that we choose not to listen to when we have a “gut feeling” about something and can’t vocalize the concern. It’s the voice in your head that always knows the right decisions to make even if we brush it off through a normal day. That is the mushroom talking and it’s got a really powerful voice if you ever choose to follow Alice down that rabbit hole far enough.
- Comment on Getting told by Lemmy to stop taking drugs 1 month ago:
I attribute mushrooms to finally breaking my years long journey as a fairly committed alcoholic.
The decisions or realizations people can have during an intense trip tend to be really sticky for a very long time regardless if it’s a good trip or a bad one. It’s the nature of the beast.
But mushrooms be like you described sometimes. I won’t go near the dosages I was taking when I was kicking booze. 1-2 grams every once in a while is just fine for me.
After my last power trip (+5 grams) I saw what I needed to see and probably will never go in that range again. It was a life changing trip and thankfully not a bad one. However, when the mushrooms speak to you like that, you listen. They told me I was done and I was ready to heal on my own.
- Comment on Getting told by Lemmy to stop taking drugs 1 month ago:
LPT, keep a stopwatch going for psychedelics. I’ll start a timer on my phone when I drop and it helps snap me out of any kind of time related disorientation as I peak. For your average time dilation stuff, it’s awesome. If I can’t see my phone, then time probably is the last thing on my mind.
- Comment on Anthropic’s new AI tool has implications for us all – whether we want it or not 1 month ago:
Most of this is just marketing crap from Anthropic.
Finding vulnerabilities in code and generating complex, multistep exploits with publicly available models is possible now. This biggest hurdles now is setting correct context and actually knowing what to look for. Any “guardrails” for this behavior are easily bypassed by framing the detection and exploit generation as a valid dev style question in the most difficult of situations.
They likely just trained a model without guardrails in this case.
What they are doing here is over-hyping a problem and framing it like they are the only ones with a solution. LLM security issues are more in-focus now that companies have dumped a ton of resources into building AI systems they don’t really understand.
- Comment on Schrodinger's Precious 2 months ago:
Not if they are both wrong.
- Comment on I hate how true this is. 2 months ago:
It’s probably just a rogue hemorrhoid that will just add more stress. Sorry.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Companies these days do what is right for their shareholders and if Claude makes money, or appears to make money, then the shareholders are happy.
- Comment on WMD 3 months ago:
Japan seems to be having more success: futura-sciences.com/…/this-new-japanese-weapon-ca…
Still, the technical challenges are exactly the same. While I can’t find many more details, it being ship mounted is a significant step forward and it seems to imply that some of the more serious issues have been solved. (A demonstration is just a demonstration and anything other than it being able to hit a target ship is just speculation.)
- Comment on How does one country prepare to fight the other? With out spies? Like Iran is fortifying against a US strike. But how do they know what we will strike with and vice versa all thru history? 3 months ago:
The art of war is extremely complex and there is no way to cover everything in one Lemmy comment.
However, I can summarize: An attacker or defender simply needs to prevent the opposing side from being able to support a war.
While there are thousands of different things that can support war, it usually boils down to raw manpower, food/supplies, weapons, energy, logistics and communications. Failing to defend, or not having the capability to replenish/repair those things is usually a quick game-over as those items are highly dependent on the other. Anything that supports those key items is a target of the enemy, so those are the things that are stockpiled, fortified or should be rebuilt quickly.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 4 months ago:
Air, water, AIO, whatever. If it cools well, use it. I just prefer AIOs and there really isn’t any maintenance, was my main point. There are always tradeoffs between AIO, air or a proper water rig, so there is that. (Fans are crazy quiet these days, but when I made the switch, it was mainly for noise. I always run an overclock, so my fans were always hauling ass which probably isn’t needed now.)
Ultimately, I prefer AIOs for the way airflow is managed. It’s not better or worse than air in many instances, but I like working with a radiator rather than a chonky heatsink.
I cannot disagree though: zero maintenance is better than maybe-maintenance. Like I said, it’s about tradeoffs.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 4 months ago:
I have been exclusively using AIOs for years now. Generally, by the time they need maintenance, its already time for a major hardware update and rebuild anyway. That is, of course, if it is serviceable. This depends on the quality of the AIO you buy, TBH. I had a first-gen Corsair AIO start to get audible air bubbles on startup, but it’s long since been recycled.
I am sure other people have some kind of horror story about an AIO leaking or something, but in general, they don’t really need to be maintained if it actually is a sealed system.
- Comment on Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine? 5 months ago:
The ones I have been in do. Dunno if it is a standard feature though.
- Comment on The Lioness does not... 5 months ago:
I have one highschool GPA.
- Comment on Why aren't tall people also wider? 5 months ago:
1.03672557568?
- Comment on Contadont deny it. 5 months ago:
I wanna give him a beret
- Comment on 🤏🤏🤏 5 months ago:
That card doesn’t give me much hope for AI designed PCBs. At least there isn’t a shortage of PCIe 1x pins though…
- Comment on hl shirt 5 months ago:
Sick! That would be a fun show. I was able to catch (probably) one of the last Sasha and Digweed shows that are probably ever going to happen and it was a good throwback to younger times.
Seeing artists now that I listened to during the birth of the rave music scene, now that I can afford it, is amazing. Unfortunately, it reminds me of how old I am. The last Sasha and Digweed show was packed full of people my age and it was exactly like an old-school wearhouse party. (The after-party even went to 6-7AM.)
(I didn’t take them) But we even had random people basically just shoving free pills (supposedly molly) at us too. Chances are it wasn’t malicious, bit more of a “spread the love” vibe.
- Comment on hl shirt 5 months ago:
It’s the logo for Aphex Twin, an iconic electronic music producer.
- Comment on The ugly side of corn 5 months ago:
Corn smut (Ustilago maydis), on the other hand, is supposed to be tasty.
