Nobody really has. Apple comes the closest but they keep rug pulling it in weird ways.
Windows and Mac in the 90s had very consistent GUIs with such consistency in things like keyboard shortcuts that apps could easily be learned. The term “intuitive” was king in the realm of UI design.
The Apple Silicon in the MacBook Neo is effectively a slimmed down version of M4, which is already out and has a very similar NPU (similar TFLOPS rating). It's worth noting however that the TFLOPS rating for Apple Neural Engine is somewhat artificial, since e.g. the "38 TFLOPS" in the M4 ANE are really 19 TFLOPS for FP16-only operation.
Still there are studies that regular sauna does decrease testosterone production. It's not hard to counter though, ice packs applied to testicles ( not direct ice, ice in a cloth) during sauna are effective for that purpose.
And maybe Finns don't go to sauna when they plan to conceive? Does Finland have a lower rate of unwanted pregnancies?
Finland's fertility rate drove off a cliff in the 60's like in so many other countries. If sauna has an overall effect we wouldn't know as we've nothing to compare with -- going to sauna is rather universal and the tradition is ancient.
Yes, if by hot bath you mean submerging yourself to neck level in 40ºC or above water for 20-30 minutes. There's no reason to believe any "heat therapy" modality is superior to another as long as you suffer equal heat stress.
For the record, if you're not acclimated, intense heat exposure is a lot more agonising than 30 minutes of exercise for less benefit. If you haven't experienced a properly tuned sauna in your life you are in for a ride. What's being studied in the literature is nothing like your standard hotel experience.
How are you suffering equal heat stress from being submerged in moderately warm water and breathing very hot air? I could imagine quite different effects on airways and skin, for example. "Exactly the same effect" seems like the unexpected outcome here.
> intense heat exposure is a lot more agonising than 30 minutes of exercise for less benefit
Having to do absolutely nothing other than not leaving is quite different from pushing through a physical activity that can also easily be causing all kinds of discomfort.
It's all about raising your core temperature, water transfers heat to the body much more efficiently than air, so water at 104F ends up raising your body core temperature as much as a dry sauna at 170F. I did some experimentation on this, I have access to a dry sauna at my gym and I track my HR and exertion levels, I did the same with the hot tub at home making sure the water temperature doesn't go below 104F and im fully submerged to the neck, 30 mins session in both cases. The graphs look pretty much identical, same HR uptrends. So as far as cardio effects and heat shock proteins I do believe they are the same, not sure if there could be any benefit to breathing dry hot air for the lungs, but so far most benefits from sauna come from raising core temp
Too lazy to find it, but Dr Rhonda Patrick (a longtime advocate for saunas for their health benefits) reported that hot tubs can provide the same results as saunas -- and they are much more pleasant to use.
Not to beat my own dead horse but at the heat stress needed to cause an adaptation there’s nothing pleasant about the experience. If it’s not causing nausea and palpitations, it’s not hot enough.
> If it’s not causing nausea and palpitations, it’s not hot enough.
This is just so wrong. I use a 110C sauna pretty much daily, and I've done very hot onsens before, and I've never got nausea. The closest I've come is feeling lightheaded, but that's only when I combine it with ice baths. If you're feeling nauseous, you probably have a poor diet or an electrolyte imbalance
Let me guess that when it comes to exercise you think that you have to experience pain or almost pass out to get optimal adaptations? I guarantee that pushing your body to that level is highly counterproductive
> How are you suffering equal heat stress from being submerged in moderately warm water
by the rules of this universe, you can't survive being submerged in 40C water for a prolonged period of time (even 37C would kill you as well), because humans produce heat and if you can't dispose of it you'll overheat and be dead soon enough
Have you tried submerging yourself in moderately hot water, I wonder? And have you spent some time pondering the difference in heat transfer between convection and conduction?
The standard hotel experience is sitting wrapped in a towel and longing for my winter coat! Actually I would probably feel similarly in this study, 73°c is really cold for sauna. 90°c-100°c is the sweet spot
It might not do the exact same, but it will have some effect. A lot of the benefit comes from the raised heart rate and opening of the blood vessels that the sauna produces, and I can expect that a warm bath would also have a similar effect. I think both are also known to reduce stress, which can help to lower blood pressure.
The US 2024 election saw the election of a whole regime of very male chauvinistic types, and that’s being as neutral and charitable as I can be.
In the EU there’s a number of fairly far right parties with adjacent views polling well with a chance to win significant representation in future elections.
Asia is very heavily male led, probably more than the West. Same with the Middle East.
Around the world most state and corporate heads and high level bureaucrats are male.
There has been, in the West, a push for more female representation and it has made some headway but the world’s capitols and board rooms are still very much a sausage party.
We need to distinguish between "representation" in the sense of belonging to the group vs advocating for the group.
For example, most politicians in the West are White. However, zero of them dare to openly advocate for White interests. Many of them openly champion the interests of other racial groups, often to the detriment of Whites.
Likewise, most politicians in the West are men. However, zero of them advocate for men. Many of them openly advocate for and prioritise the interests of women. They are quick to condemn any of their peers who might actually represent men's interests.
So, yes, a lot of politicians are White men like me. However, I genuinely feel as if I have zero political representation. Zero. And they take every opportunity at press conferences and photo ops to rub it in my face.
I’ll do the forbidden on the Internet thing and give a nuanced answer.
There are some “woke” policies that might harm groups they’re not designed to help, and some that just do nothing but make people feel good… like the social reform equivalent of trying to save the ocean by banning plastic straws.
Then there are some that do work well and don’t harm anyone else. Every policy is different and has to be evaluated on its merit, which is a big reason I don’t like hyper partisanship. It’s rotting everyone’s brains.
What I said is that the blanket statement “men have no representation” is obviously false, as is the idea that all politicians only try to appeal to women and minorities. I certainly don’t see that in the USA. Don’t know where you are from.
But you said something else: that it feels this way to you. I could see that, but I have to ask: are you sure the people telling you this aren’t full of crap? Or are they telling you this to sell you their own agenda? All media is biased. No exceptions. These days all media tends to be selling something.
I also think what you feel might have less to do with gender or culture war stuff and more to do with the general impoverishment of our societies by a mixture of kleptocracy and incompetence. This harms everyone regardless of gender, race, religion, politics, or a sexuality.
The corrupt and incompetent politicians though… they want us all to blame each other instead of them. So on the right they feed male resentment and on the left they feed female resentment (“femcel” ideology is a thing too). They fan racial and cultural resentments. Anything to keep you from blaming them for the fact that you can’t afford a house and prices keep rising and, at least if you are in the US, your leadership just decided to piss away another heap of money on another war in the Middle East.
Get everyone arguing while you rob them is an old scam.
As a thought experiment could you have a publicly traded company with zero revenue and zero assets. It’s literally paper. What would stop its stock from “mooning” if the Keynesian beauty contest or the global stock casino decided it should?
What mechanism pushes the other way? Nobody pays dividends anymore.
The Italian futurists went fascist. There were also Russian Cosmists who were IMO more interesting and didn’t seem fascist. They seemed more intellectual and heavily influenced science fiction. The Italian futurists were just on speed I think.
On the fringe right today there’s people who invoke Russian Cosmism and fascism, which I don’t get because historically they were distinct movements. But the fringe right is extremely incoherent. Fascism itself is also ideologically incoherent, and in that case it’s because fascism tends to be explicitly anti-rational.
There’s multiple corporations. When you have state level central planning there’s no adversarial check or feedback mechanism. Nothing challenges it to see if it’s actually doing a good job.
Of course this is also a strong argument for antitrust. In some markets today there is basically one corporation or a few that seem more interlocked than competing. That starts to be indistinguishable from Soviet bureaus.
It’s a nice LLM because it seems fairly decent and it loads instantly and uses the CPU neural engine. The GPU is faster but when I run bigger LLMs on the GPU the normally very cool M series Mac becomes a lap roaster.
It’s a small LLM though. Seems decent but it’s also been safety trained to a somewhat comical degree. It will balk over safety at requests that are in fact quite banal.
I could imagine the belters in The Expanse just throwing on suits and venting. Of course that only works if you have a bunch of canned air or something that makes it by cracking minerals on board.
Windows and Mac in the 90s had very consistent GUIs with such consistency in things like keyboard shortcuts that apps could easily be learned. The term “intuitive” was king in the realm of UI design.
Then the web hit and all that died.
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