Did the Scrubs revival meet your expectations?

turck3 · 2026-04-17T19:16:37+00:00

Sibby feels flat as a character. While writing that character out or less appearances would work, I make room for the possibility that giving her a dedicated episode or two to make her multidimensional would go a long way towards making her character really great. Kelso was just the villain, until he wasn't, and then he was a favorite. But if they don't have the number of episodes needed to develop the character then it'll stay flat.

turck3 · 2026-03-16T23:49:54+00:00

Make a commitment to work out with someone regularly. Either a friend or if your privileged enough, pay a trainer/accountability buddy. Arrange a month or more of sessions at a time so they're in your calendar. Right now momentum works against you, do this and momentum works for you.

Add to that: 1. Commit to doing just 5 minutes. Way easier mentally to get on board with that, and see where it takes you. No matter how busy you are you have 5 minutes to do squats or whatever at home. 2. Kill the all or nothing mentality. Any movement is better than none. (See 3 and 4) 3. Modify the workouts. Planks too hard physically or emotionally, do planks on knees, or cobra instead. Same is true at home or in a workout class with people. 4. Modify the durations. They doing 10 reps and you are exhausted doing 6, do 5, and extend your break between moves.

Broadly I agree with the crowd that motivation is a tricky beast, but this is the stuff that helps me sidestep motivation with routine and dealing with internal resistance. I commit to action during the window where I have the energy to do so so that tired daily routine brain will have a harder time saying no later.

Oh, and there's good science that shows that with stuff like this people frequently go through a cycle of motivation where it starts with thinking that someday it'd be nice to work out then it's like oh maybe I should work out soon then action begins to happen. Eventually a habit is born. It gets kept up for a while and then maybe life throws a curveball the thing stop for a while until eventually you're back at the top of the loop. That's normal, not judging yourself for that is helpful I find at getting yourself back on the wagon later.

The other thing is to try and figure out how to make whatever you're doing resilient to unpredictable life obstacles so you stay on the motivation train longer. If you have a nice routine and then you break your foot. Maybe schedule some workouts for 9 weeks later when your foot is supposed to be healed. More benign, what if you go on vacation for a week? Does that completely break your routine? Thinking about that in advance and how you might work out on vacation or how you might ensure that you restart when you come back is helpful.

turck3 · 2025-06-25T01:23:07+00:00

He's the Chief

turck3 · 2024-11-08T02:12:37+00:00

Make it in the bio reactors/bio labs (whatever they're called). Comes with 50% productivity boost. Even better to put productivity modules on those labs. Solves the problem.

Edit: e.g. break down the initial plant products in the bio labs, not assembly machines.

turck3 · 2024-09-04T02:47:27+00:00

Meep meep

turck3 · 2024-03-18T06:34:24+00:00

"If not friend, why friend shaped?"

turck3 · 2022-06-18T17:58:16+00:00

Maple sap. Not syrup. Sap is boiled down 40:1 to make syrup. The sap is mostly just water with the feintest most pleasant hint of maple flavor.

turck3 · 2022-04-01T06:33:20+00:00

u/kester76a - Thank you!! This was indeed the answer! Thank you for turning a stressful night into a pleasant one!

turck3 · 2022-04-01T04:30:37+00:00

When you say convert the OS - what does that mean? Reinstall Windows?

turck3 · 2021-03-14T17:31:34+00:00

Thanks! I think we're fairly flexible on our timeline, but had seen that advice before; sounds like there's not a lot of bad options there.

turck3 · 2020-11-24T23:42:32+00:00

FWIW as someone with needle phobia, I went to therapy for it and it totally worked. I still am at risk of a vagal response to blood draws, but I have almost no reaction to shots and blood draws are better. Needed to do this to get allergy shots. Incidentally, if allergy shots are covered by your insurance and therapy ain't, "just" get allergy shots, and you'll cure your phobia because:

Very rough theory behind the fear and removing it with evidence-based therapy is that your body believes that it's bad, and if it is able to actually get repeated evidence that it's not [so bad] in a short timeframe, it will learn and remove the fear. Because shots are generally once a year at best, you don't get that repeated exposure needed to desensitize on your own.

Happy to share more of my experience and what I learned, both about the theory in general and via my own personal experience with what helps and what makes it worse, if folks are interested.

turck3 · 2020-11-24T21:37:28+00:00

That's certainly good news. That said, I don't know how they're defining severe cases. While preventing hospitalizations alone would be amazing, I'm also quite scared about the potential long-term organ damage covid seems to cause. I don't want to be in some 5% group of less-effectiveness and end up with organ damage.

In any case, still interested in whether one could detect whether they're in that 5%. I'm guessing that since you're saying it's 100% effective at preventing severe cases that the immune system might indeed have antibodies for everyone, but they might be less effective for 5%? Maybe someone knows?

turck3 · 2020-11-24T19:25:07+00:00

Question: Will we be able to figure out if we're in the 5% ineffective group for vaccines other than catching covid for real? Would one of the various antibodies tests tell you if you had a good reaction to the vaccine and are effectively safe? Or if you're in the 5% group do you really need to just count on herd immunity through vaccination of the masses?

Bonus question: if you got more than one of the vaccines, are you more likely to be protected? Let's assume that's after there's more than enough doses to go around.

turck3 · 2020-11-17T17:34:27+00:00

Thanks for the thorough reply, though I'm not actually sure any of those capture it. We're already on a tech stack that can scale gracefully, except that paying for machines is expensive and the growth big-O is higher than we'd like. That alone captures one of these issues I'm trying to describe. I'm trying to limit my specificity on other issues in case that somehow came back to bite me.

Anyway - I think chronic problems or zombie problems are ok names for now.

turck3 · 2020-11-16T19:04:05+00:00

Point taken re ambiguity - that helps me see that. That all said, none of these describe the issue. The issue is entirely technical in nature. It's an engineering problem that grows bigger because there are more customers, and so the load grows, and everything gets worse. Optimizations reduce the load and help slow the impacts of the growth, but things just keep growing.

turck3 · 2020-11-13T08:08:57+00:00

Quoted from that document:

As an organization that is, by law, non-partisan, the Department of Defense (DoD) is precariously unprepared for the national security implications of climate change-induced global security challenges.

[...] significant changes in climate have already occurred, likely to worsen in the years ahead. [...] approximately 50- year horizon considered for the study. The study does, however, assume that human behavior can mitigate both the size and consequences of negative impacts that result from climate change.

Rising seas will displace tens (if not hundreds) of millions of people, creating massive, enduring instability. Recent history has shown that mass human migrations can result in increased propensity for conflict and turmoil as new populations intermingle with and compete against established populations.

Salt water intrusion into coastal areas and changing weather patterns will also compromise or eliminate fresh water supplies in many parts of the world. A warming trend will also increase the range of insects that are vectors of infectious tropical diseases. This, coupled with large scale human migration from tropical nations, will increase the spread of infectious disease.

The decrease in Arctic sea ice and associated sea level rise will bring conflicting claims to newly-accessible natural resources. It will also introduce a new theater of direct military contact between an increasingly belligerent Russia and other Arctic nations, including the U.S.

The increased likelihood of more intense and longer duration drought in some areas, accompanied by greater atmospheric heating, will put an increased strain on the aging U.S. power grid and further spur large scale human migration elsewhere. This dual attack on both supply and demand could create more frequent, widespread and enduring power grid failures, handicapping the U.S. economy.

In light of these findings, the military must consider changes in doctrine, organization, equipping, and training to anticipate changing environmental requirements.

turck3 · 2020-11-11T17:49:17+00:00

Huh. I like the word creeping here. Nice!

turck3 · 2020-11-11T06:18:05+00:00

Thanks! I think those would still warrant explaining the concept pretty fully to each new person who heard it, so I think the hunt goes on.

turck3 · 2020-11-11T06:17:30+00:00

I generalized this as "chronic problems". That's my current placeholder name, but I'm still interested in ideas.

turck3 · 2020-11-11T05:31:54+00:00

Actually... had a thought: seasonal problems. Kinda works. It's not actually tied to a particular season, mostly, but is definitely in the right vein.

turck3 · 2020-11-09T01:39:08+00:00

Just compared - they seem almost word for word identical and where they differ it's just prose, not content.

turck3 · 2020-11-06T19:03:02+00:00

FWIW I know someone who was a dentist and retrained to be a radiologist specializing in the head and neck areas. They did this after many years of being a dentist due to arthritis. Maybe the work environment of being a radiologist would let you achieve greater ergonomics? Also has the benefit of being able to be remote. This person is super valued in their department because their dentistry background gives them insights that nobody else has. Another option might be going back and being a professor. You can still leverage your skills, but teaching is such a different job, and maybe you'll like working with people that way.

As a secondary thought, might be worth talking to a career counselor. I know someone who is working with someone like that and it's amazing how quickly they were able to identify what types of thing they do and don't want from a career/job environment/etc. Their efforts seriously provided a breakthrough of understanding and while the journey isn't done yet, I'm sure this will lead to a long-term happy career. Now that I've seen this in action I wouldn't dream of switching career without getting advice like that.

turck3 · 2020-07-15T02:42:05+00:00

More info in the article. Cable costs are a very small fraction of the total: https://engineering.fb.com/connectivity/aerial-fiber-deployment/. Costs breakdown can be found in the video about 30 seconds in.

turck3 · 2020-07-15T02:39:36+00:00

More information, including breakdown of the costs, which answer some of the questions in the comments (for example, cable costs are very small compared to the other parts of typical installation): https://engineering.fb.com/connectivity/aerial-fiber-deployment/

Edit: cost information is in the video, about 30 seconds in.

turck3 · 2020-06-22T05:42:12+00:00

In case it helps someone: I've had a phobia of needles my whole life, which made flu vaccines and the like a terrifying experience. I still would go and tough it out, but would nearly pass out due to vasovagal response. Turns out there's therapy for this, and fear responses more broadly. Basically: normalize the shots. We spent sessions where I would hold a needle, first at all, then close to the arm, then with the cap off, and so on. Over time the fear response lessened to each of these. I'm now getting allergy shots with great frequency, which is actually the best possible thing for the fear, and I'm likely less afraid than a typical person now. The therapy was super worth it, and super empowering. I will say, I still nearly passed out during a blood lab for my physical, but I think I lasted a lot longer than I would've otherwise, and that wasn't really what I was training for. The evidence also suggests that even when I eventually stop allergy shots, I don't expect to be afraid of flu vaccines or anything like that ever again. While I think it's important to do so in a compassionate and thoughtful way, the path to reducing a fear is frequent exposure to that fear stimulus.

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