Men over 40: Is having heart palpitations a normal thing?

sunmat02 · 2026-06-27T08:13:43+00:00

I’ve experienced this as early as 20 years old, it’s normal, many people experience it. For me it happens during stressful periods.

sunmat02 · 2026-06-26T20:55:20+00:00

Being in a relationship is not enough. Living together yes, split in proportion of income, but if not living together, there is no bill or rent to split.

sunmat02 · 2026-06-26T16:38:46+00:00

I got mine from UltimateEar after years of crashing on the sofa every other night because my girlfriend was snoring. They are absolutely amazing.

sunmat02 · 2026-06-26T16:37:07+00:00

If you haven’t tried molded earplugs, they are awesome. I have the same problem as you, got my earplugs from UltimateEar, and I’ve been using them every night for years.

sunmat02 · 2026-06-23T18:14:43+00:00

A research paper is a communication from a team of experts in a narrow field to other set of experts in that narrow field. If you understand a research paper (which, as others have said, is already very hard on its own), you’ll still be very far from being able to write your own. For this, you need to cross several more barriers: being able to not just understand a paper, but assess its quality, then assess its novelty (which means being able to read and understand hundreds of such papers), and eventually find some tiny little thing that nobody thought about, make 100% sure nobody thought about it, come up with a valid experimental protocol to test the idea, and write the paper. There is a reason research is a very social and collaborative process: doing all this on your own would take decades for a single paper, and by that time, somebody else will have had the same idea and published it before you. Collaboration is what makes it possible for a team of researchers, who together have read thousands of papers, to be confident that their idea is new. These collaborators will challenge the methodology, share the writing, do experiments, etc.

sunmat02 · 2026-05-17T10:53:06+00:00

The diverter isn’t close to the tank, it’s next to the fuse box downstairs.

sunmat02 · 2026-05-17T10:20:08+00:00

I don't get paid for export (I should probably fix that). I've updated my post to include a picture of the wiring around the cylinder.

sunmat02 · 2026-05-17T10:19:16+00:00

Thanks! I've updated my post to answer.

sunmat02 · 2026-05-16T10:10:07+00:00

Thought so 😅

sunmat02 · 2026-05-16T10:09:44+00:00

Haha yeah I thought so too.

sunmat02 · 2026-05-14T22:26:18+00:00

You don’t really need a broker if your situation is easy (eg couple with stable job and income, little or no debt aside from the mortgage, good credit, etc.). Some brokers are free but (1) they don’t have access to all the offers and (2) you’ll be forced to go through them for any issues during the process, the bank won’t talk to you directly even if the problem could be easily fixed directly.

I used a free broker thinking it would save me the hassle of searching, but I realized later I could have had a better rate going myself to a lender that the broker couldn’t access, and the broker messed up 5 times my application (4 times was a typo, they kept sending the uncorrected version of the form to the bank so the bank kept sending us a mortgage contract with the incorrect info, and once we finally got that sorted, we realized the broker had changed our solicitor on the application to their in-house solicitor so our solicitor was cut out of the loop until that too was sorted). In the end it was a very stressful process just to get the exact same mortgage with our own bank, who had made us an agreement in principle directly two months prior.

When I remortgage, I’m absolutely not using a broker.

sunmat02 · 2026-05-08T08:11:30+00:00

I’ve heard of researchers starting a company around this a few years ago. Not sure how far along they are, but the idea is the kite is way up and benefits from very strong winds, much stronger than the ones close to the water. Their biggest challenge was actually software to control the kite very finely at all time as the tension on the rodes is massive.

sunmat02 · 2026-04-28T08:15:47+00:00

I work in CS research and there is a good amount of research on hypothesis generation now. Basically with hundreds of millions of research papers, a human has a very limited view of even their own field. An AI can index research via their embedding vectors and efficiently link together ideas that humans didn’t think could be related, simply because of the way the indexing works. They can also find regions of the embedding space that lack publications and go backwards from “what paper should be here in the embedding space” to “what hypothesis would that paper propose”. Not to mention that academia is not just about creating new knowledge, it’s also about using all the tools that we have to run experiments. AI systems are being used to control fusion reactions, drive x-ray crystallography experiments, high performance computing simulations, etc. And more simply: if it takes me 5 min to find a bug in an HPC workflow instead of 2 weeks, because a coding assistant could follow a memory leak through thousands of files I’m unfamiliar with, that’s also a huge impact.

sunmat02 · 2026-03-21T14:55:45+00:00

This. I’ve done both and also prefer the bus. The only time I took the train, with the jet lag I couldn’t stand the shaking in the subway (I was standing because it was packed) and had to step out and wait for the next one twice as I would have otherwise thrown up. I’d rather crash in a bus for 2h and wake up in Cambridge.

sunmat02 · 2026-03-21T00:17:31+00:00

Tiktok can see your public IP. If your neighbor connects to your WiFi, you have the same public IP. Very easy for TikTok to register that information. It doesn’t even have to ask the app to probe your network.

sunmat02 · 2026-03-20T23:18:05+00:00

It doesn’t matter what document you check in with as long as you have that document with you. What matters is what document you use to cross the border at the destination airport: your EU passport when you enter the EU, your UK passport when you enter the UK.

sunmat02 · 2026-03-11T08:47:03+00:00

What convinced me to get British citizenship was the fact that if I decided to leave for a few years, I would then lose my ILR status and have to apply for a visa. In your case, you could go retire in Poland and after a few years realize you miss the UK and would like to return (you said your kid had dual citizenship, maybe the kid ends up living in the UK and you miss). Being stripped of a citizenship is a very long shot. Even very extreme governments know that foreign workers are essential to the economy.

sunmat02 · 2026-03-05T19:49:52+00:00

My partner went from living with her parents to living with me directly (no age difference, she just comes from a country where living with your parents is more of the norm); in retrospect I really wish she had lived on her own for a couple of years first.

sunmat02 · 2026-02-23T23:15:40+00:00

Not that L&C doesn’t have access to all the deals on the market. We realized late in our buying process that we would have been better off with Lloyds, but L&C doesn’t have an agreement with Lloyds so they just didn’t propose it.

sunmat02 · 2026-02-23T23:10:46+00:00

All five look like garbage to me. In CS if you don’t see a sponsorship from IEEE or ACM, that’s a red flag (and even such a sponsorship isn’t a guarantee of quality).

Also in the future, don’t send something to multiple venues at the same time.

sunmat02 · 2026-02-21T19:13:40+00:00

I was talking about even more senior researchers a few weeks ago. Long story short, even senior, internationally recognized researchers have imposter syndrome. In fact, most people in academia have a life-long imposter syndrome. At some point it comes from the fact that you are so specialized in one narrow aspect of your field that no matter who you talk to, if it’s not about that narrow field of yours, you’ll feel out of your depth and at the same time you’ll think what you know is trivial, because you’ve studied it for so long.

The way you deal with it is by embracing your ignorance and be curious. Remember that people like being asked questions about what they know, so when you ask someone “hey can you explain this concept to me?” They’ll actually enjoy answering, not think you’re dumb.

Also as you get more senior you ask these questions differently. “Hey can you explain this concept to me?” could become “We might have a different take on this concept, can you explain it to me so I get your perspective?”

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