I genuinely do not understand what the benefit of this tool is, over having Claude Code/Codex running on a VPS or your home machine and accessible over Tailscale.

If you want to be able to interact with the CLI via common messaging platforms, that's a dozen-line integration & an API token away?...

I signed the OCA in 2021 as part of some contributions to GraalVM.

The process was much more involved than anything I'd previously signed, and it was slow, but in my case eventually got approved.

It mostly involved some emails with an actual human and PDF's to be docu-signed.

I think it's difficult to have a serious discussion about consciousness online because it's such a mushy thing to define.

If you follow the line of thinking that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon, arising out of complexity, it doesn't seem far-fetched to me to believe that someday in the future, a silicon-based computing machine (rather than a biological, carbon-based computing machine) might be "conscious" -- whatever that means.

> I think it's difficult to have a serious discussion about consciousness online because it's such a mushy thing to define.

It’s circular and self-referential. In defining consciousness we, to phrase it in the least nuanced way, are trying to define a thing through which we define things. The best definition we have reduces to something along the lines of “what we, humans, experience”. By its very nature it makes us unable to fathom or even recognize a hypothetical consciousness if it is entirely unlike ours and/or operates on radically different scales; anything we call “conscious” is implied to be human-like.

I've been taking 20,000iu of Vit D daily for years, split into 10k AM/PM

Regularly have my Vit D levels checked and they are always within the upper bounds of healthy reference range

Emerging research clearly refutes this:

  > "The anabolic response to protein ingestion during recovery from exercise has no upper limit in magnitude and duration in vivo in humans"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266637912...

Your link references a single study of 18 research participants who were male, exercised exactly once or twice per week, and were between the ages of 18 and 40.

It's an interesting result, but it hardly "refutes" the hundreds of larger studies that show the opposite result.

The most likely thing is that this paper is just a complete anomaly though. It'll be interesting to see if anyone else ever replicates this result, or does so in a more representative participant population.

Unfortunately, none of these data are usable because (in the US, at least) there is no oversight on labeling accuracy for nutritional supplements.

That means I can dump woodchips into capsules and sell them as Multivitamins with 12 vitamins & minerals, and nobody would be the wiser.

There is more rigorous testing being done in underground steroid + peptide communities than in legal nutritional supplements.

Crazy world where you can trust vialed peptides from China more than something you bought on Amazon...

That's true. US is a wild wild west in that regard. However, I am working next to clearly label which supplements have COA vs which are unverified.

Sort've related, but here in Australia pet food manufactures are not required to list the nutritional content of their foods, whereas in the US as I understand it they do.

They do but the nutritional information guides you to feeding your dog 20,000kcal a day. The suggested serving size on every brand I've seen is about 5 cups for a 70lb dog, whereas my dog gains weight on more than one cup.

At least the "grain free" labels appear to be accurate.

Supplements should at least be regulated like food. List of ingredients and tests that contains ingredients and doesn't contain anything harmful.

Tangential question:

I've never owned a home and would like to try to buy one in the next year or two. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of API's/software tools that let you analyze historical data and prices of listings in specific areas.

How can I get my hands on the right information to make sure I don't get ripped off?

Others mentioned county data. If you can get that, you can build something like I did for DC -- https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Kep_9j_PN_SxX85PYHE...

In the US at least, your county should have an assessor that's responsible for tracking property values for tax purposes. How accessible the data is probably going to vary from county to county, and there's no common API for that, but it's a start.

Not sure, maybe check on reddit in one of the real estate subs.

  > I can't wait to be downvoted for sharing something useful, which pretty much is par for the course on this site, i.e. altogether shallow people voting only on the basis of what they already believe in.

I think you're getting downvoted more on the basis of making claims without providing credible evidence.

If you really wanted to fend off the downvotes, I probably would have linked at least a handful of well-designed studies with outcomes supporting your claims.

Also, Occam's Razor would suggest that if it truly worked, surely the very smart people trying to solve this problem would have known about + adopted it.

> Also, Occam's Razor would suggest that if it truly worked, surely the very smart people trying to solve this problem would have known about + adopted it.

Please save me from such nonsense. Only naive people believe that. Informed people know that nothing is pursued by big corporations if there isn't big money in it. And there isn't since it's a cheap common product produced around the world.

As a further example, mRNA tech was intentionally rejected, ignored, and not developed for decades. Meanwhile, the false beta-amyloid theory of Alzheimers was purused for over a decade even though it was very clear informed people that it's a dumb theory. People are not as smart as you think they are, not even close.

As for the studies, PMID 27980600 and DOI 10.1016/j.hermed.2024.100875 are a fair start, although the latter is paywalled.