Karl Schudt

The unexamined life is not worth living, and the examined life includes deadlifts. Great Books seminars and strength coaching. Get strong and wise! DMs open.

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I could never know enough to be an atheist.

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@SteveSkojec pessimism.

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@SteveSkojec @MTSPodcastOnX @kalezelden I believe he said "pain is bad because it hurts", as if that wasn't tautological.

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@michaelkruse I read it like Charlie ate the Wonka Bar. Bit by bit.

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@Itsfoss Olimarchs.

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I am VINDiCATEd

[Dr. Rhonda Patrick @foundmyfitness]

People who drank more coffee had less body fat, less visceral fat, and more lean mass than less-frequent or non-drinkers.

The biggest benefit was seen at 5 or more cups per day.

And for men, every extra cup per day was associated with a ~10 ng/dL higher total testosterone. Higher coffee intake was also associated with better glucose and insulin regulation in men.

This was an observational study, but mechanistic and experimental evidence actually supports coffee's benefits on metabolic and hormonal health. I'm willing to believe there's a real link here rather than draw a conclusion such as "coffee drinkers live healthier lives in general."

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@BakerBarbell When I program the top set I say DON'T MISS. Better to undershoot.

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@AvantAITech They write back and maintain it for me.

Often I say "ELI5 why we did X?" It's very helpful.

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Use agents to help you manage your hardware stack!
I keep one private git repo, ~/system-tweaks, cloned onto every machine I own. It is a log of what is true of each computer. Agents (Grok, Claude, Codex) are pointed at it and have to read it before changing a machine setting and write in it afterward.

Three layers:

• Host card (hosts/<hostname>.md). One file per machine. It names the OS, the hardware quirks, and which setups are on, off, or not decided here, with the reason. The card is the gate. A recipe is not permission to install, and another machine's card is never applied. The distro line decides whether pacman, apt, or neither is allowed.
• Recipe (recipes/). A standing procedure that could apply on more than one box (Tailscale, library mirror, mail). The durable part is the want. Install commands are split by OS family and left empty rather than guessed.
• Episode. A dated note plus a row in log.md for what actually changed, on which host, how to undo it, and why. Cards and recipes are the index. History is not replayed to learn what is true now.

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@OmarchyMac m5 macbook pro is waiting for you. I can't give up my tiling wm or keyboard shortcuts.

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@MichaelGannotti yes bought a cheap potato to run it and take to coffee shops.

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@TheGreatB00ks Humanity is easy to love. It doesn't demand anything of you. Loving Todd or Bill, on the other hand, means dealing with a lot of personal annoyances.

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@deybhayden Especially hard on the older folks. Interface changes are default bad, even when they are good, because of the cost to the user of changing.

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"Blue Scholar Jobs". Rather than blue-collar jobs. I like it. One must remember that Socrates was in the trades.

Rescue the classics from the academics!

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The weirdest thing about the bible is the incarnation. The second weirdest thing is the usury prohibition.

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@SiliconForested Very cool. now I want to run haiku-marchy.

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@TeddyRookBook Like the generation of leaves are the lives of mortal men.

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@TeddyRookBook Congratulations!

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@jon3k There's a secret step where the demons are summoned.

(There are certainly stupid and evil uses of 'AI', but the math itself is just math.)

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@TeddyRookBook In the end, Achilles just goes to work. During his aristeia, you don't even get the names of the ones he kills. Sometimes, even in Homer, it's just butchery.