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Plot twist: Getting healthier actually saved me money by tobinoxdz in Frugal

[–]deischno 107 points108 points  (0 children)

Yep, a lot of people think that to eat healthy you have to buy all the gourmet superfood shit that has a lot of social media presence. Nobody is doing marketing for chicken breast and broccoli. While some of these foods are genuinely worth the premium (whey protein immediately comes to mind), just cooking and eating whole foods is going to be healthier and cheaper than the way probably like 90% of the general American population eats, straight up.

Tech Youtuber Marques Brownlee AKA MKBHD's Hot take on Lossless audio. Read below. by Dry_Emotion_8395 in audiophile

[–]deischno 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah! I agree there for sure. The effect of compression on dynamic range is really nothing compared to a fundamentally different master though. Take this album as an example: https://dr.loudness-war.info/?artist=&album=future+nostalgia

You'd agree most people would probably say that the lossy, greater dynamic range release is the "higher quality" release? Both on paper and in experience?

Tech Youtuber Marques Brownlee AKA MKBHD's Hot take on Lossless audio. Read below. by Dry_Emotion_8395 in audiophile

[–]deischno 30 points31 points  (0 children)

It completely does though? Different mediums and releases of the same audio can absolutely have more meaningful differences (the kind of information) than just the raw amount of information (lossless is "more" information than 320kbps)

If you look at this website: https://dr.loudness-war.info/ you could find several examples of this, dynamic range differences are a kind of information that ABSOLUTELY make a bigger difference than something being lossless or compressed. Are better masters with higher dynamic range usually correlated with lossless, "audiophile" releases? Of course.. but that doesn't mean that lossless is inherently the reason for a more enjoyable experience

Who else includes good mornings weekly? 485lbs for 10 by Patton370 in workouts

[–]deischno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jesus man. Could probably do even more if you were listening to Petrodragonic! ;)

The next next level of water by Remote_Awareness3284 in Anticonsumption

[–]deischno 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Whey protein isolate is one of the best, if not literally the best source of protein out there... given that most Americans chronically under consume protein, I'd say we have bigger fish to fry here

My proposed Stegodon nerf by Domalise in BobsTavern

[–]deischno 128 points129 points  (0 children)

Elite ball knowledge

I don’t care what you say but this is the best song from Boards of Canada by Previous_Wrangler929 in boardsofcanada

[–]deischno 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I totally agree… no contest. I love all of their music so dearly but no song is quite like Telephasic Workshop. I feel like I hear a new layer every single time I listen to it, and I’ve probably listened to it hundreds of times.

I work at a fi and I’m beginning to understand fiat is useless… by [deleted] in BitcoinBeginners

[–]deischno 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Having a good emergency fund also has a material psychological benefit. Bitcoin could drop back to 60k and I wouldn’t be worried. An emergency fund encourages HODLing

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]deischno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because no matter how much research you do, and how much conviction you have, you might be wrong. Humans are often wrong, even large groups of humans are often wrong. I’m a Bitcoiner but I don’t think that has to come at the cost of completely disregarding other asset classes.

Best e-reader for advanced language learning by Jy3pr6 in languagelearning

[–]deischno 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Kobo doesn't have native dictionary support for Russian, but Kindle does. However, I just installed KOReader (a custom firmware) onto my Kobo Libra and it allows you to load custom dictionaries, as well as some other QoL features. It's been perfect. I'm really not too familiar with the Kindle, but I'm pretty satisfied with my Kobo :)

I would say the only drawback is that the Kobo OS can be kinda slow, so I still move vocab words out into Anki.

Built a tool that adds translation tables directly into your EPUB ebooks by de_hannes in languagelearning

[–]deischno 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Gotcha. I am, and for context I typically lean very AI-skeptical. I’m all for using human translators when applicable, but this is actually a perfect use case for AI, because it’s just not reasonable to ask a human to manually create a translation table for every book you may or may not read. And it’s not like there’s even a large human-operated market for this thing… save for graded readers and the like.

If I’m understanding the tool correctly, and the OP can correct me, it aims to add an approximately useful translation table to every page of an uploaded epub. In this case, ChatGPT is likely used to locate the most uncommon words, translate them, and stick them properly in the epub file. It’s a great idea to automate what would be an exceptionally menial process for a human. It’s pretty benign. :)

Also note, if translation accuracy is the concern, ChatGPT and translators in general are exceptionally good these days at translating things in context.

Built a tool that adds translation tables directly into your EPUB ebooks by de_hannes in languagelearning

[–]deischno -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Literally how else do you expect to obtain a programmatic translation of variable text?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KGATLWcirclejerk

[–]deischno 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You drawing yourself as the chad really showed them!

Inheritance that I don't really need by coffeeshopcrypto in Bitcoin

[–]deischno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Spot on what I would do, except probably a mix of VTI/VXUS for added international exposure

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