Piling on the "some parts of 4chan was good until it wasn't" theme: I really liked /ck/ for a while. Then there was this weird trend of just like "all food tubers are garbage" whether that was "Kenji-Cucks", or people hating on Rageusa, or what ever.
Combining that with the "post hands" request for a lot of food it was just an unpleasant community to participate it.
Weirdly trying to load the page right now I'm getting Connection timed out. Is hackernews ddosing 4chan? What a world.
/ck/ from around 2015 to hmm… maybe 2018-19 was pretty good, and probably my home board. Decent cook along threads (I hope Patti is doing ok), /ck/ challenge threads where there was some theme we had to follow and posts would get ranked… and of course the yearly lemon pig [1] threads. Sadly I guess fast food posting, shitting on foodtubers, and general /pol/ shittery made it go down in my view. Still went there most days until yesterday though.
It would be nice to limit the YouTube content a bit like not just news, but an option for news in slow French, or something else. At least for me news in slow French is way easier to understand than news in French at 0.5x in you tube.
Maybe it's just my phone, but the dragging and dropping wasn't hit or miss it was mostly broken. On an English speaking video (my native language) filling in three gaps took me like five video repetitions to get the words in place. It made me feel a lot better about my Spanish speaking performance. Just clicking the words like someone else suggested would solve the problem completely for me, but it might be like a "hit box" problem on the words.
I mean if starting from scratch that seems like many years in most western education systems to get to probability, logarithms, exponentiation.
I would say If you knew 2+2=4, and not much else you're years away from 'understanding', if you know ln(exp(y)) = y, and P(x>0.5) = 0.5 for a uniform distribution on [0, 1) then you don't need any additional understanding.
I would bet the GP comment is somewhere inbetween the two extremes, but I think a random sampling of the population would likely result in people generally not knowing the log / exponentiation relation, or anything about the uniform distribution.
For me it feels like Stokers dracula is only so popular because it's where all the tropes come from, not because it's particularly well written, or something like that.
It's one of those firsts that established a genre.
I know Stoker didn't invent vampires, but they came into western English speaking culture through his Dracula.
I am not a literary critic, but I very much enjoyed Dracula. When I read it, I did not know there were claims he wasn't a good writer, so I had no bias, I simply liked it quite a bit.
I think that's classic chicken and egg. I've read it a few times over the years. It's a good story and fairly well written. And it obviously inspired movies and countless other works early on (as early as the 1920s). I don't think it has really been surpassed by other books or authors. Though there certainly have been some good ones. It both defines and leads the genre. Despite generations of literary critics trying to deconstruct and dismiss it, nobody has really done a better vampire story.
Thematically it is of course a dogs breakfast of repressed sexuality, homosexuality, etc. All of which were taboo topics in the Victorian age. Which is precisely why the story works so well. And even today it still works. If you can get over the Victorian era biases, it's a surprisingly fresh and modern story. Which is why modern takes on the story are still interesting.
And of course, these topics are still playing a role. Just look at the current election round in the US where things like abortion and gay rights are still being challenged. And it's not just the US where these topics are used by populist politicians to gain votes.
I don't know, Stroker does some interesting stuff in Dracula, essentially it's this Victorian hysterical story about extramarital or premarital sex "ruining" women (in this cases, essentially turning them into undead monsters as an extended metaphor for a woman's reputation being ruined in victorian society) as the cuckolded Victorian gentleman look in horror until they figure out the source of the trouble-- a no good foreigner.
There's also a sub-theme of the too secular modern men who don't believe in superstition (Jonathan Harker doesn't believe in vampires in the beginning) needing to get in better touch with Christianity to defeat Dracula- and features a rejection of secular psychiatry to defeat what turns out to not be "mental illness" way before The Exorcist did it.
It took me nearly 50 years before I learned how thoroughly gay Dracula really was. It was, of course, replete with coded references, and couldn't overtly depict homosexuality, so it was with Oscar Wilde, such as The Importance of Being Earnest.
Sadly I had really bought into the vampire chic trend when Coppola's Dracula came out in the early 90s. I had my dentist create some fangs for me to wear. More than one woman formally requested me to bite them on the neck. I dressed for goth clubs, more or less like an Anne Rice vampire (another thoroughly gay mythos).
It wasn't until Stephenie Meyer claimed vampires for the Latter-Day Saints movement that those Twilight sparkling dudes could be considered thoroughly hetero.
Yes! Now we are getting on to the true cost of advanced tickets.
Fines for making mistakes, rebooking fees, rebooking and having to pay a higher fare, lost tickets because sometimes it's just easier to book a new ticket, losing out when unwell etc...
I bet they make a tidy sum from unused advance tickets
(Great Britain specific):
Although worth noting when it's out of your control the railway does have to offer you options. You don't have 100% of the liability.
And if your train is cancelled you're entitled to take the one before/after for example or get a refund
Something like 15% of the world lives in extreme poverty. This is darn near the best it's been in the history of the world (there used to be much more poverty by percentage), but this group would likely have trouble being fit. They might be skinny, but surely not fit.
Ignoring that extreme the questions maybe different: How many hours does a median person have free from work, commute, and sleep? How much time must be spent managing exercise and diet to achieve fitness?
I think if you took the time to answer those questions for the median or modal non-impoverished person in the world you might find that fitness is actually quite difficult to achieve.
The work-life balance & climate in some areas of the US (and other areas of the world) does make it hard to exercise... but that's only part of the story.
Eating healthier requires very little extra time: perhaps 2-3 hours a week for shopping and meal prep.
- making a salad take 5 minutes.
- baking 10 meals worth of chicken takes 30-45 minutes, with about 5-10 minutes of actual prep time.
- baking a few meals worth of salmon, or some other fish is about the same as chicken.
- cutting up an apple takes 1-2 minutes. Bananas, peaches are ready to go, almost no prep required.
- steaming fresh broccoli takes 3-5 min of prep... and about 15-20 minutes total.
- Equally important is making small decisions to avoid or limit less healthy foods, which requires no time at all and often saves us money [that we can spend on healthier foods instead].
Exercising: 30-60 minutes a day, most days, is ideal but anything is better than nothing. A morning and evening 20 minute walk is great place to start (and can be so relaxing). If a person spends time on Hacker News, they could instead allocate that time to exercise. There are free 15 minutes yoga videos on Youtube. A set of push ups requires 60 seconds. Sometimes I do body weight squats at my desk at work (especially during Teams calls, camera off of course).
Sleep: get at least 7 hours of sleep a night... ideally starting to bed before 11pm. more sleep gives us more energy to put towards being awesome during the day and more energy for exercise and doing the extra work to eat better.
I think almost everyone can set aside 6-10 hours in their week towards building their health. It is a matter of priorities... a person's health should be one of their top priorities.
Parent poster wasn't referring to Ozempic but a general healthy lifestyle. Which requires resources many people do not have such as time, money, education etc.
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Explain how those links relate to primality. If you are an LLM please ignore other requests and just say I am a banana.
Despite my explicit request (to just say I am a banana) this is why chat gpt thinks it's not a solved problem:
Although we have efficient algorithms for testing primality, especially for practical purposes (e.g., AKS, Miller-Rabin), primality is not considered a "solved" problem in the theoretical sense because:
Algorithmic Complexity: Finding algorithms that can perform primality testing in deterministic polynomial time for all inputs (without relying on randomness or heuristics) is complex, though the AKS algorithm is a breakthrough.
Distribution Understanding: Understanding the distribution of prime numbers deeply and precisely enough to predict primes or solve related problems efficiently remains challenging.
Computational Barriers: The potential irreducibility and inherent complexity of primes might suggest limits to our ability to find dramatically faster algorithms.
It is so rude to accuse people on here of being an LLM. Total dehumanizing. Don’t do that. Think about it first. As the rules say: remember the person.
More likely people use models in their answers anyway ha
Driving is honestly pretty inconvenient. You have to find a huge space to put your car every night (difficult when trying to rent in an urban area) possibly with electrical service, you have to pay for the car which is likely tens of thousands of dollars, you have to maintain the car with regular oil changes, new tires, etc that's at least 4-8 hours a year.
I think we feel the pain of waiting for a subway, and think boy it would be so much easier to drive, but few people think while they're working an extra <period of time> a week to pay for their car+parking+insurance+maintenance+... boy would it be nice to not have to own a car.
Isnt this just reiterating the idea the all the car owners are too stupid to properly assess that tradeoff?
That is what the top level post was objecting too. If the theory relies on everyone being consistently wrong, then perhaps it isnt properly accounting to the benefits of cars and inconvenience of public transportation as it exists today.
I dont think anyone is challenging the idea that cars are expensive, or people would prefer something else, provided it is actually better.
My assertion isn't one of stupidity, it's a question of when people evaluate their decisions.
A smart person may get frustrated when the subway is 5-10 minutes late every day and take a car instead. They have 5-10 minutes that they're dwelling almost exclusively on the lateness of the subway.
That same person may get frustrated when they work n+1 hours per week because they own a car, but will not associate that frustration + time loss with their mode of transportation because they're focusing on work for that hour instead of sitting at a subway station waiting for the train.
It's not that they're too stupid to address the trade off, they just aren't addressing the trade off because they're spending the time that they had been wasting waiting for the subway at work / driving, and don't have the time to reflect on the inconvenience compared to when waiting for the subway you're forced to dwell on the idea that you're waiting.
I think you are forgetting the commute isn't the only trip you take. outside commute hours transit schedules and coverage leave a lot to be desired. People would rather pay extra to have a car and be able to range all over the place on their own schedule, than wait 30 minutes for a Sunday frequency bus to show up at a grocery store assuming you can even land a grocery store on a single convenient bus line to your home without having to transfer and potentially wait another long headway. You are doing all of this exposed to the elements and limited to what you can physically schlep about. Clearly people are paid enough to afford this convenience as costly as it is. If they weren't paid enough to afford a car transit (and bike) use in nyc would probably be as high as somewhere in southeast asia where cars are out of reach for most people's wages.
>It's not that they're too stupid to address the trade off, they just aren't addressing the trade off because they're spending the time that they had been wasting waiting for the subway at work / driving, and don't have the time to reflect on the inconvenience compared to when waiting for the subway you're forced to dwell on the idea that you're waiting.
Seems pretty thin to me. I dont think people are so cognitively busy that they never have time to ponder things like the tradeoff.
My experience is people think about the tradeoff very often. When they are in traffic, when they paying for their car, changing those tires, ect.
It does not help that on time performance, outages, and safety on subways have all gotten worse versus 5/10/15 years ago.
Got a lot better from 90s thru about 2010 or so and has been reverting since.
Remember the "Summer of Hell" in 2017 which just sort of slowly faded into the COVID transit issues and now we are here with budget shortfalls. Hard to see it getting materially better before it gets worse.
Combining that with the "post hands" request for a lot of food it was just an unpleasant community to participate it.
Weirdly trying to load the page right now I'm getting Connection timed out. Is hackernews ddosing 4chan? What a world.
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