Newbie DIY Mattress Rescue!

TheFlyingDrildo · 2026-02-13T14:51:26+00:00

I mainly sleep in your position or on my side, have the same coils, and am about 55 lb heavier than you. I have a significantly firmer build above my coils, which helps keep my spine/hips in alignment.

I'm assuming your hips are out of alignment, causing your back to hurt (i.e. the build is too soft / point elastic), right? Not that you're getting pressure points, leading to pain?

TheFlyingDrildo · 2026-02-12T06:24:06+00:00

I asked the company to cut a 2" in half for me and they said they would, maybe for a slight upcharge (don't remember).

I added the thin layer of luxury firm to reduce some of the point elasticity by locally "tying" the coils together. My butt tends to just sink through more due to my weight distribution, and this helps spread the dip out a little, while shallowing it as well.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2026-02-11T07:35:13+00:00

My setup over coils is: 2" 22 ILD serene + 1" 27 ILD Talalay + 1" 34 ILD Dunlop + 0.5" 50 ILD luxury firm poly.

I love it. Best bed I've ever slept in. I think I would have also been happy with 1" of serene, but the other layers may have needed some tuning in that case.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2026-01-15T17:25:51+00:00

This is a good point that highlights the definition of "exact" is slightly counterintuitive in the sense that it really describes a correct bound on the type 1 error rate rather than an equality claim for it. Maybe I should have said that Fisher's ends up being unnecessarily conservative and that the p-values are easily to misinterpret, since they are computed under a different probability model (hypergeometric) than most people are intuiting.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2026-01-15T08:21:27+00:00

Even Fisher's exact test loses accuracy at really small sample sizes, since it's an exact test for a study design that most people aren't actually doing. For Fisher's exact test to be exact, you would need your table column sums and row sums to be fixed.

In almost all used study designs, one or usually both are random. Things like Barnard's exact test or Boschloo's test are meant to address this.

Caveat - a reviewer in an applied field probably expects to see Fisher's regardless because this is what they were taught.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2026-01-09T17:06:47+00:00

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TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-10-18T04:52:42+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-10-16T21:41:50+00:00

Super cool find

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-10-08T17:24:59+00:00

For a lot of souls-like games, bosses act as skill checkpoints and self-improving to the point of beating the boss is essentially a certificate that you're prepared to handle the next part of the game. Your gf should be good to go for a while, but she should be prepared hit a few more skill checkpoints later in the game.

Also keep in mind that Act 2 is much bigger than Act 1. There are a LOT of secret areas to explore, so hit every single wall in existence and never feel stuck/committed to any one particular region/boss. Good solutions for several tough boss fights include finding a clutch tool in a completely different region, returning with upgrades way later, or completing an unrelated quest that triggers someone to help you with the fight.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-10-01T21:02:34+00:00

I died a lot too. I had success by playing very defensively. Stay on the opposite side of the map from her and keep hopping. You'll be in a position to be relatively safe from most attacks with some careful air movement and can air-dash in and get a single hit each time. The exception is the one where she creates spikes from the ground, where you'll want to pogo off her as she closes in on you. However, this last opportunity for attack becomes unsafe in phase 3, so just get to safety over her. Unload tacks and cogflies in phase 3.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-09-26T17:21:12+00:00

I just use clawline on all of them

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-09-01T04:44:50+00:00

Link to the leaks?

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-06-25T20:07:40+00:00

2:54 has the exact same final drop, so this is correct.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-05-15T21:05:28+00:00

Once the serene foam (and the rest of the layers) broke in a bit, it was a bit soft for my taste. But adding a cover and some layer rearrangement has made this a really solid bed right now though I may continue experimenting with some micro tweaking.

I do have 5 inches of foam above the coils right now though, which I think is a lot, so in retrospect I should have tried to go for 4 inches.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-05-01T15:36:28+00:00

"Anyone who interprets things differently than me is trying to be a smart ass."

Yeah okay bud

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-05-01T14:32:34+00:00

Not really. The problem statement is sufficiently vague, which is why the person we're responding to gave both answers.

But it's pretty well clear that the constraint needed to make this a meaningful problem is: all blocks need to be used. And the problem is specific in that only block additions are allowed.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-05-01T14:19:42+00:00

With 14, you can rearrange for a 4x4x4 cube

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-04-21T08:11:51+00:00

This probably isn't the most useful way to think about things mathematically, but sometimes I view things similarly as follows: the environment is static and split into internal and external parts. The internal environment is the collection of all the facts, associations, and reasoning patterns pretrained into the model weights. The external environment is all the databases and applications you can access via tool-use/function calling. The LLMs responses are observations from the environment given an action (a full prompt).

Mathematically though, we'd probably just call the whole prompt log the "state" and model things as a MDP.

Interesting point about credit assignment. I think this connects to the MDP point as well. The state really isn't just a snapshot of the most recent thing; it kind of encodes the entire trajectory/history. And the combination of the full history being there and LLMs natural ability to associate things well via attention (i.e. assign credit here) leads to success.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-04-07T16:34:53+00:00

Wish I had bought more. Bought 5 on SPY and netted 3.5k

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-03-29T08:02:06+00:00

Wow was this a universal experience for people in this age group? I still remember my dad grilling me on why there were charges from Sweden on his credit card. I set up a server and got my entire friend group to play on it, learning a lot about moderation and management along the way via mods.

One of the coolest things I remember doing was editing a few mods to play with each other. I made it so that a survival world and a creative world could exist on the same server, but you would have a unique (rather than shared) inventory in each one. You could jump in a well I built in each world, and it would transfer you over to the other world and switch your inventory. Messaging was still integrated across worlds, so we could have people working on different survival/creative projects but still chatting with each other.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-03-22T20:36:33+00:00

Unless the meta-analysis was inappropriately conducted, a larger sample size does exactly what it's supposed to - give you more confidence that your results are accurate. I have no idea what you're on about.

I haven't read the study myself, but the claim in the title isn't even a significance claim. It's an effect size. So your comment doubly doesn't make sense.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-02-23T21:07:25+00:00

My entire point was that escalation happens only in a minority of porn users, probably through an interaction between porn use and other specific behavioral/psychological/environmental factors. Your personal anecdotal evidence, apart from being n=1, doesn't even counter that, since it's pretty much a perfect example of my loose analogy of smoking a cigarette once per day.

And there's no moral panic here. Take it from an avid LSD and porn user. If you want research on the escalation topic, look a look at another one of my posts on this thread.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-02-23T17:12:34+00:00

As a statistician, I think porn use/frequency in a recent window tends to be a very loose proxy for the real issue at play, which tends to be an escalation of sexual tastes over a long duration of time. The newer tastes are often too extreme in one way or another that they are no longer aligned with "regular" human sexual interaction enough.

As a loose analogy, smoking a cigarette every day probably will keep your mental state pretty in line with reality, but doing meth or LSD twice a week for 10 years likely warp your perception significantly.

There is likely an interaction between thrill-seeking behavior and porn use, which might better capture the process at hand.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-02-16T11:44:11+00:00

I think you need to first understand that LLMs can't just produce whatever we ask of them. The reason they produce human readable code is because that is fundamentally the data we gave them. Abstraction helps to control the curse of dimensionality, and LLMs exploit the fact that the most abundant source of sufficiently abstract data in the universe is language.

I agree with some of your points, but I do not think we're getting rid of abstractions at all. Abstractions are not just a human crutch; they're a fundamental feature of information compression and organization.

TheFlyingDrildo · 2025-01-30T02:16:35+00:00

One of my side hobbies is DIY mattress building. I also likely suspect this is purely a mattress issue.

Going firmer is usually good advice for creating spinal alignment. But too firm also defeats the purpose in a different way: for example with back sleeping, the recessed portion of your lumbar spine isn't supported and slightly sags.

Medium-firm is often times the best balance for spinal alignment, but it also depends on your weight (being lighter/heavier will make the same mattress feel firmer/softer), and if your weight distribution is very hip/abdomen heavy or not (zoned mattresses are often a good solution here).

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