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I usually skim/scan before reading anything. I used to do this to get a gist of what to expect, but now I do it to look for telltale signs of AI slop (and run through Pangram if I’m suspicious) before committing to reading

This has more to do with Voice Activity Detection (VAD) than the latency described in the article

Thanks for WebRTC for the Curious and for Pion! Not using the latter directly, but have used both to better understand WebRTC

This is one of the coolest hacks I've seen recently. Having done some much less involved MacOS hacking, I can't help but wonder if we may finally see momentum behind some flavor of agent-friendly Linux/Android if Apple doesn't give us more ways to let agents interact with our machines.

To my understanding, while sweating is important to heat adaptation and blood plasma volume adaptations, thermal load and cardiovascular strain are likely bigger factors (and more important for the health benefits mentioned in this study). Overall thermal load is still higher in a hotter dry sauna than in a steam room

Potentially, but likely much less effective and less studied, and you likely need longer sessions for effective dosage.

Most of the studies I've seen on improvements in blood plasma volume from passive heat are usually done with sessions in saunas with temperatures > 150 degrees F (60 C). Steam rooms usually only get up to 120F (~49C) even though the humidity probably makes it feel warmer.

Copying and pasting some of my reply to another comment above

FWIW, most of the studies on improvements in blood plasma volume from passive heat are usually done on saunas with temperatures > 150 degrees F (60 C). Steam rooms usually only get up to 120F (~49C) even though the humidity probably makes it feel warmer.

Thanks for trying it, and keen eye! Fixing (with Claude code) but also taking time to try to learn a bit about the canvas drawing/pixel art, which I'm not super familiar with.

Ah yea, I got an uncommon dragon instead of the rare duck. Did you get your legendary?

This is awesome! Working on a desktop pet so the buddy caught my attention. Looking forward to making friends with my Rare Duck buddy tomorrow. Wish it was a snarky duck instead of a patient one though.

Do you think LLMs make this process of starting the engine easier or harder? They make getting started much easier, but it might be harder to feel a sense of momentum since our expectations of speed have changed, and the learning moments have changed as well.

Author here. The FaceTime is a reference to the J Cole lyric in the footnotes.

I actually dug up a video from a class project when I was 20 and created a voice clone in ElevenLabs (and also gave it current voice samples with prompts to make it sound younger), but hearing it didn’t add anything to my introspective experience, so I stopped before creating a video clone in Tavus/HeyGen/Simli to do a call via Pipecat/Daily.