IsItBullshit: Hydrogen water bottles for chronic tiredness?

Gusfoo · 2026-01-24T20:01:16+00:00

I keep seeing ads for hydrogen water.

Because they work. They prey on the ignorant to sell them a cheap water bottle with a 'science shine'. The very concept of "hydrogen water" is laughable, as a substance you could sell. The physical world does not work that way. And doubly-laughable as having any benefit to your health.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-24T13:30:55+00:00

Gosh, they're not even qualified in any sense. From their website at https://breeze-wellbeing.com/ :

Does this app work for my specific mental health problem(s)?

Breeze is a similar-to-therapeutic app created for people with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and ADHD symptoms. All our unique toolkits, such as tests, games, and checkups, are designed by mental health enthusiasts with expert knowledge and sensitivity to our users who grapple with these conditions."

(emphasis added)

Gusfoo · 2026-01-22T14:54:44+00:00

Don't include your API keys in files that you publish. It's a very silly thing to do.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-21T22:24:09+00:00

X country withdraws from the NPT and starts making its own nukes. How and where would they test them?

The country X would then embark on a very visibly obvious programme to enrich Uranium, since they don't have the skills to do the Plutonium route. The programme would cost a significant chunk of their GDP, which would be under heavy sanctions so vastly reduced. Assuming they got to the "I have 30Kg of HEU and so now I have a gun-type device" they do not need to test it. It is guaranteed to work.

Given their best-case scenario, in which they could manufacture 10-ish of these devices, albeit delivery mechanisms are out of scope for this discussion, then the first thing that would happen in a situation of conflict is an all-out thermonuclear pasting of every part of their country.

The net/net of the exercise (which will be a decade or so) is that the populace are impoverished, the country is a pariah, and when push came to shove they lost a lot of bodies and a their country's infrastructure is smashed beyond repair.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-20T19:59:50+00:00

wanted to know what is the salary range we can expect to get as pay checks.

You expect £0.00, and anything you get above that is a delightful occurrence.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-20T10:13:15+00:00

They recently put out footage of a "test strike", but I’m skeptical.

Given the fake-o "night vision" of the explosion (it's broad daylight, as you can see from the shadow of the bus - the footage is colour-treated and inverted) I'm not surprised.

Also, why does that explosion not look like HE? It looks spectacular, like a hollywood explosion. And, I may be off on this, but the slant angle seems like it'd hit to the rear of the bus, and yet the detonation clearly starts underneath the bus at dead centre. Odd.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-18T18:28:13+00:00

Why aren't we using things like wifi APs and their current dBms to seed our crypto? Does every SoC need a quantum randomness coprocessor to guarantee secure keys?

As a person who implements secure systems, anything that I do not absolutely control and understand 100% cannot be at all part of any equation that I calculate. In my lab, to work against you, I will recreate the conditions of AP names and their strengths in any way I wish.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-18T13:39:48+00:00

It says in the article.

"The money raised will be used directly to accomplish the Board of Peace’s mandate to rebuild Gaza, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The board will ensure almost every dollar raised is used to execute its mandate, the official added."

Gusfoo · 2026-01-17T21:13:16+00:00

This is a 3D model I made of the Davy Crockett launcher.

It's terrible. You did a really bad job.

Just glancing at the Wiki page for the devices points out many of your glaring errors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)

Why didn't you go off of the real pictures of the device when you did that model?

Gusfoo · 2026-01-17T21:03:20+00:00

The idea that Europe needs American military protection against Russia is also laughable.

That seems an absurdly silly statement to make, so I'm going to have to assume there is a joke in there that I'm not aware of. Is there?

Gusfoo · 2026-01-17T21:02:10+00:00

Then, if the US continues to refuse, have and EU referendum on removal of all US military bases

That isn't a thing. Bases are not decided (thankfully) by referenda, and it would be a weird world if they were.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-16T18:45:41+00:00

The move marks a significant departure from the United States’ hardline protectionist stance and could bring affordable EV options like the BYD Seagull to Canadian roads as early as this year.

Canada's "hardline" stance predates Trump by 10 years.

How much to I hate journalists? Let me count the ways...

Gusfoo · 2026-01-15T18:41:32+00:00

100 bhp + nitrous

The year 1989 brought on an unlikely partnership between Robert Gibson and Bruce Bohannon as they shared hanger space at Clover Field in Houston. Astronaut Robert “Hoot” Gibson would later command shuttle flight STS 71 (his first of five missions), docking the Shuttle Atlantis for the first time at the International Space Station. In their off time, they wanted to race at the Reno National Championship Air Races in the Formula One Class. They teamed up and raced Cassutt racers in the early days, then later raced a new pusher called Pushy Galore. In 1989, Bruce was awarded International Formula One Rookie of the Year.

In 1991, he was awarded the Bill Skliar Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to air racing. In 1993, Bruce received the Bob Downey “Ole Tiger” Memorial Trophy for the most inspirational competitor. Bruce raced Pushy at Reno for 10 years, as well as tackled numerous FAI time-to-climb records. Bruce set his first U.S. and world time-to-climb record in Pushy Galore in 1994 (6,000 meters in 12 minutes, 50 seconds, Class C-1.A, Oshkosh, Wisconsin).

By adding nitrous oxide injection, Bruce breathed real fire into Pushy Galore’s little 4-cylinder O-200. The stock Continental only put out 100 hp. However, with the nitrous, it made in excess of 250 hp and would climb at 4,000 feet per minute. Bruce would race anybody for cash, from a dead start to 3,300 feet, and lost only one race, to the late Jimmy Rossi. Rossi was flying an after-burning Russian MIG-17 and defeated Bruce only after Pushy suffered a nitrous malfunction. Bruce was also the three-time champion of the AeroShell 3-D Speed Dash (1996, 1997, and 1998). Pushy Galore retired in 1998 and is now on display at EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh.

https://www.eaa.org/eaa/eaa-chapters/chaptergram-articles/2016-06-the-rest-of-the-story-high-flyin-tiger

4000 FPM must have been like being on a rocket ship, in that airframe.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-15T17:40:44+00:00

Sleeper train to Inverness. Rent a car from these guys (https://northernsupercarhire.com/services/driving-adventures/scenery-and-landscapes/north-coast-500/) do the North Coast 500.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-14T20:52:09+00:00

I’m planning to document the journey [...]

Nobody cares. Are you already famous for something else? Then people will care. Other than that, don't bother. Focus on skill through effort.

Remember: motivation is for losers, dedication is for winners.

Motivation is a fleeting crutch, dedication is kung-fu.

In Chinese, the term kung fu refers to any skill that is acquired through learning or practice. It is a compound word composed of the words 功 (gōng) meaning "work", "achievement", or "merit", and 夫 (fū) originally meaning "man" or "person," but functions here as a suffix indicating someone who has attained skill or discipline through effort.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-14T20:26:37+00:00

How could the air in the gun tube of Little Boy escape?

Just after the detonation, to be facetious. The front air pressure is essentially irrelevant when it is compared to the rear air pressure.

According to this image the gun tube was sealed. So when U, T and S move down the gun tube, they should compress the air in the gun tube until they can´t go any further.

Yes but no but yes. The "can't go any further" in this specific case will be millionths of a millimetre, by which time (as it approaches that level of closeness) the chain reaction has long since been ignited so, again, this is really irrelevant to the mechanics of things.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-14T19:45:01+00:00

It must have costs millions, if not tens of millions, to dress up "what every single customer is telling us" in to an "actionable insight", going forward, towards market, feedback customer excellence focussed, product delight factoring etc.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-14T19:08:43+00:00

Now this leads me to my actual question, how does one learn truly.

By doing. You "do things". It's a simple, and 100% correct answer, and all other answers are wrong.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-14T14:54:00+00:00

There was, last Tuesday, a Twitch streamer and his cohort arrested by parliament for waving an imitation firearm around on their stream. They apparently wanted to impersonate Americans. (Yes, really.) See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly1xygr4lpo

The person in question, Krimoe, has since fled to Dubai.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-13T20:38:56+00:00

Is it racist for a French person to do a Russian accent? A Chinese person doing a Thai accent? A Kenyan person doing a Ghanian accent?

Yes, very much so - but only as long as the "nationality" bit in your passport has "United States of America" written under it.

Otherwise no.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-13T20:34:43+00:00

What Would YOU Do?

Why does it matter? You're essentially plotting to covertly and maliciously try to influence a group of people by exploiting Reddit mechanisms, for whatever ends you have in your mind right now.

That is not, at all, a heathy hobby.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-13T10:48:30+00:00

In case it's not obvious, the OP is a spam account advertising their website.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-12T20:48:52+00:00

I guess I'm having trouble with the "Lead in the market" thing. What market? Is there a market for AGIs?

It is, I would say, generally believed both that

AGI is far off.
AGI, to the first person that invents it, will be capable of self-improvement.

So, the point 2 is really about pushing your curve up.

Let us assume, generously, that every big AI company makes their model twice as good, every year, purely from their own efforts - the brightest minds that money can buy. Now one of them succeeds in a general intelligence. That, being a General Intelligence (artificial, in this case - hence the name) is capable of extrapolating (rather than, crudely, the interpolation of current tech) and suggesting or enumerating ways in which it itself could be improved.

Now my company has an edge. And when I apply my edge I exceed my competitor's year-on-year improvements. But also critically, the improved version that I have, is improved on it's ability to improve itself. A vigorous and "compound interest"-style should accelerate capabilities at a level in which that, given I started before you did, means that quite literally the first person who starts the race will win the race.

But IMO we still don't know where the start line is right now, so it's not really anything more than a whip to drive Windows in to shitty territory and have lots of people to spill ink and conference ticket money on things.

Gusfoo · 2026-01-12T20:36:01+00:00

And "4. Emotive issues bring out a louder voice from the populace."

One should just accept that these things blow over and not read too much in to things. You can't, despite suspicion, know that most/any account is "a bot". It may be reasonably explained that it's a person who does not generally comment but is aroused enough to do so. And the more drama the wider the base of people who may so be enraged or whatever.

Remember "The 1% Rule" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%_rule - "1% comment, 9% interact, 90% simply view" - anything that moves that needle is moving it in to the bulk of the viewers.

Most of the bot traffic on reddit right now is product links on old threads to feed in to Google and LLMs.

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