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The skeleton is economical:

Repair pays off only when the skeleton is used -- we can invest in repair because we know the animal is active/foraging and we will get paid back on the investment.

Low loading is a sign that we should cut back on maintenance -- the animal is sick, injured, starving etc and it's better to conserve energy.

The optimal amount of exercise is what tells your body to invest in repair, without acquiring repair debt. Sedentary life is the misleading signal, because it tells the body you're declining when you aren't.

Interesting problems are not the ones which are useful, but the ones which are difficult, which allow you to show what you can do.

Soon enough instead of Millennium Prize Problems we will have a list of problem AI has not been able to solve, with even bigger reputational reward for humans

HN is not one of them https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombina...

The last Fields Medal has been awarded.

Me asking ChatGPT what values of x satisfy 0/x = 0. ChatGPT insists it has no solutions.

This was my conversation with ChatGPT 4 years ago: https://i.imgur.com/WPaWgzZ.png

Where will we be in another 4 years? What a time to be alive!

Insulin -- the fat storing hormone. The opposite hormones -- cortisol and adrenaline mobilize fat tissue for burning. Chronic cortisol leads to fat gain because cortisol receptors become desensitized. Spiking cortisol in short bursts is better than long bouts of elevated cortisol.

I was in my 20's when I realized Bill and William are the same name

Never been to London, 3 out of 9 correct.

I can't phantom they haven't made an app for Android TV yet

Win 11 has not changed much since June -- https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...

What's wrong with Win 11 exactly?

Unless each iteration is 90% faster

It should have been semicolon from the start

Does this include US population?

If not white, what are they?

So, where is it?

I was able to create a vbs script (MsgBox "Test"), but it keeps opening in Notepad...

I agree. Let's have some kind of distinction between work and labor

The goal of every civilization is to abolish work. I don't see the problem.

53% of all Windows PCs https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...

NPC's better be using AI (ran locally)

"I must confess that I was very slow on appreciating LISP’s merits. My first introduction was via a paper that defined the semantics of LISP in terms of LISP, I did not see how that could make sense, I rejected the paper and LISP with it."

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EWD128...

He also hated Lisp

Matlab, Fortran, Julia, R, SAS, SPSS, Mathematica, and the whole field of mathematics. F*ck off all mathematicians, what do they know about counting?

Another idiot confusing continuous measure (time) with counting discrete units

If it helps: you have one whole array element only if one year has passed

What are you trying to do: do you want to know where each element starts, or do you want to measure the total sum/accumulated amount?

Array elements are not a continuous measure. Level of water, for example, is.

The mark on your measure tape corresponds to the total sum/amount.

If you count from zero, number of elements no longer corresponds to the size/length. So already here you deviate away from your tape principle.

You have one whole element when your tape measure shows 1, not zero.

All of Tarkovsky is on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3hBLv-HLEc

I have a recurring dream where I'm trying to type something on my phone, and it never comes out right, I delete and try again and again, can't hit the right buttons

Have you ever noticed than even after using screens/computers/phones for 12 hours a day, they almost never appear in your dreams when you sleep?

It guessed right, but it does not go by the accent, but by pronunciation of certain consonants. You can fake/simulate the former, but not the latter.