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> I believe the science is pretty clear that in principle these beat gas phase change systems.

Do you know by how much?


Gas phase change systems in practice are up to about 60% efficiency (relative to an idealized carnot cycle), magnetocaloric systems in labs have been something like 70%, and elastocaloric 80%.

Edit: And just for reference peltier devices are usually 10-15% efficiency on this scale. So I suppose this new one is somewhere in the 20-30% range.


Probably very applicable, this video from Ben

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfmrvxB154w


Some people will sleep through alarms, turning them off without remembering it.

But more importantly, if your sleep schedule is shifted you might not actually be able to fall asleep when you need to, even if you haven't had enough sleep. After a few days you will be exhausted, fall asleep in the afternoon and take a nice 4 hour nap, leaving you unable to fall asleep until very late, after which the cycle continues.


Can you expand? What's actionable about it?


It isn't, and it especially isn't for people with ADHD. "Just do it" is like "Don't be sad"


> Go to bed early

Why? You have 24 hours in a day no matter when you sleep. How did it help?


I used to sleep like 2AM-10AM, and something I realized towards the end of that phase of my life was that it was easier to be productive at 9AM than it was at 12AM. And coming downstairs and encountering people who have been awake for 3 hours and are in the "middle" of their day, having done productive things already, was fairly demotivating.


> the only way to do things you don’t want to do is to do them

Do you have anything that's not tautological?


Ha, I mean that’s not the only line I wrote, but a lot of people give themselves the option of not actually doing the thing, or doing something else in hopes that they’ll somehow develop motivation. Anyway there’s lots of other advice here you can take if you’re looking for it.


> Trains are self-driving. Europe already has the better self-driving system.

Well, I'm in Europe and it ain't here. Waymo can't get here fast enough.


On the other hand, I would not have learned to play the guitar without the high-speed internet.


> I bet if we all wait a year, the back and forth will die down and we'll be left with a game that gets similar acclaim to Hollow Knight.

Sounds great, because I think it doesn't get much better than that.


> Sold up. Put everything on 00 and gave the wheel a spin.

Wait, what?


I eat whatever I want, don't really exercise and I'm not fat. I guess I just have awesome willpower.


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