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Jean wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 22, 2025 7:25 am

@jacob
One could socially pressure them into gathering every week to say thank you together.

Sounds like a nightmare...

Exactly. So it begs the question of whether some of Maslow's lower level needs MUST remain somewhat UNsatisfied to reach higher.


As an adventure traveler, where traveling somewhere to figure out how to find housing, where to find food, or even engaging in slightly risky situations, is part of ...

I should have said "one currently has". A metaphor would be reading the instrument panel of the sensory, emotional, and thinking components of the mind-body.

(One thing I didn't mention is that it is apparently also [very] normal to experience a separation between the mind and the body---often ...

The biggest problem with talking about the mind is that it is yet not possible to get an objective understanding of the subjective. For example, I take "mindfulness" to describe a state of being aware of what feelings, thoughts, and sensations that one has. If this is [the correct definition] it ...

Amazon, ebay, etc. charges sales tax according to where the goods are delivered (shipping address). So if you live in Oregon (no sales tax) and buy a gift for your aunt in Illinois (sales tax 10.75%), amazon would charge you 10.75% and then remit that to the state of Illinois. (And this is the ...

More books to give away for the cost of shipping:

I'll ship mediamail to anyone in the US who paypals me the shipping cost. The books are free. Note that media shipping rates follow an y=ax+b cost where y is the price, x is the weight in lbs, b is around $4-5, and a is around $0.5-1/lbs. So it pays ...

Week 14:

The city had its annual day of free electronic "recycling", so we walked over to the park with the cardboard box that's been acting as a temporary holding place for this kind of waste for years and years. They took it all. The hosting politician was impressed that we walked there(!)

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I prefer to think of it as Dan Harris framed it: 10% Happier. Meditation is not some panacea that will have a drastic impact on your life, but it will provide a meaningful ROI on time spent and is therefore “worth doing.”


Meditation (and probably many other state of well-being measures and ...

Is there some particular reason you must do that in a group? The cost of waiting seems higher than what you would save in materials by mailing them around. You could've been making chips by now!


Eventually, I'll get tired of waiting and just make it myself, but I was going for an MMG style ...

Should be fixed now. Try again.

I just tried sending a message to all interested but got info that I tried to send a message to 'too many members'. I will try to find out if there is something I don't know about group messaging.


The maximum number of recipients allowed is 15. The exact number is arbitrary but the intention ...

@ffj - I've made "ghetto-routers" like that. Drill a hole through the middle of a 2x4 (two hand widths long) at 40-50 degrees and then hammer a chisel through the hole (bevel down). The hole needs to be about the right size to hold it solid. This works so well that I got rid of my hand router.

I ...

Are your blades sourced from a special vendor? How do you maintain their sharpness?


I just "borrowed" the irons from my Lie Nielsens. As far as I know, they're just O1 or A2 tool steel, no magic. If this works out, my plan is to just buy a lot of random old irons on eBay. It's also possible to ...

7Wannabe5 wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 16, 2025 8:02 am

3) Holding Your Breath

That could definitely be a competition during the annual bake sale at the senior center.

Woodworking books are often written in a way that makes plane making sound like some kind of arcane art that has been perfected over many centuries. As such, I've avoided trying to make my own until now. I spent the past week or so making a jack plane and a block plane. Now, before anyone starts ...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674

Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
Cameron R. Jones, Benjamin K. Bergen

We evaluated 4 systems (ELIZA, GPT-4o, LLaMa-3.1-405B, and GPT-4.5) in two randomised, controlled, and pre-registered Turing tests on independent populations. Participants had 5 minute ...

Yeah, I get that, but isn't it the case that your strength does somewhat determine the limits to the different ways you can exhibit the work capacity as in the examples you gave previously in that section of the book. For example, if the goal was to lift 4000 lbs overhead in 10 minutes, and I was ...

Are you thinking of a "clean"? The way to incorporate overhead would then be "clean & press".


I did all my "runs" with either clean&push press (2x53lbs KB) or the clubbell "swipe" (2x25lbs). W/o having tried it, I think splitting it into 5mins of cleans followed by 5mins of PPs would waste the ...

Build a CNC router, mill, laser, or printer. Make things. The cost expended in the things would be much lower than taking classes, plus no commute. And you get to keep the things.


So can I count you in? This never got off the ground ... https://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?t ...

I know we've had this discussion before, but I don't remember the result. If the male ratio of deadlift to overhead press is 1.5 to 1.25 (not very different), but the female ratio of deadlift to overhead press is 3 to 1, how would Jacob's recommended standard of 5000 lbs from ground to overhead in ...