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“Our societies have not previously tolerated spaces that are beyond the reach of law enforcement [mass surveillance]” seems like a more complete statement. But can you imagine the Orwellian dystopia we’d live in if the statement was true?
— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) April 21, 2024
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Intermittent fasting, aka time-restricted eating, can help people lose weight—but the reason why may not be complicated hypotheses about changes from fasting metabolism or diurnal circadian rhythms. It may just be because restricting eating time means people eat fewer calories overall.
No shit Sherlock. As always the article is boring and I won't post any of it here. Let's go 
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I think people find the "calories in vs calories out" rhetoric reductive is because it implies a simplicity that doesn't fit many people's lived experiences. Not everyone will absorb the same amount of calories after eating the same sandwich, or store the same quantity of calories in adipose, and not everyone will expend the same amount of calories when they jog for a particular distance of length of time. A person's microbiota influences caloric absorption. Hormones, epigenetics and genetics also play a role in metabolism. At rest, not all bodies use energy at the same rate. If we deprive the body of calories, not all bodies scale back the same expenditures at the same rate to conserve energy. So yes, calories in vs calories out is true, but not all true statements are helpful statements.
Yes, and what this study proves is that while it's always as simple as “fewer calories means less weight”, how the “fewer calories” happens isn't always “just eat less”.
Often the “eat less move more” is used incorrectly because of course it's technically true but most people when discussing diet are trying to talk about a method to eat less, move more.
It's always frustrating when talking about a technique of how to do X, only to have a bunch of people yelling “just do X!”.
Just eat less.
Also "most people when discussing diet are trying to talk about a method to eat less, move more" is bullshit. Most people when discussing diets are looking for some magical food that will cause them to lose weight. No one on a diet discusses how they should move more.
As the arrticle says, this does seem obvious (esp since Ive tried it myself) but as a (non-nutrition) scientist it would have been exciting had they found something unexpected. Sigh. But good work regardless.
BTW while calories in/calories out is absolutely true it's not automatically obvious how many calories you get from eating X. The rating on the box comes from burning food in a calorimeter! Meanwhile your body can extract calories more easily from a small piece of doughnut than from a large, fibrous chunk of broccoli, even if they have the same number of calories on the label. To say otherwise is like saying, “well all chemistry is quantum mechanics” — completely true, but mainly in-useful.
Thanks for that, scientist.
I do time-restricted eating, but that's because I have acid reflux. Don't want tp be slamming a double cheeseburger, fries, and a coke 1/2 hour before bed.
Acid reflux is the only thing stopping this guy from slamming a double cheeseburger, fries, and a coke 1/2 hour before bed. I wonder why he has acid reflux?
So very much this. The whole “CICO”/“it's just physics!” crowd is infuriating.
Like, yes, of course the key to losing weight is to consume less than you burn. But that is by itself not a sufficiently useful strategy for addressing a population-wide obesity crisis.
Preaching sexual abstinence doesn't solve unwanted pregnancy, and preaching food abstinence doesn't solve obesity. You want people to overcome their most basic biological drives, they need more than a Nike slogan.
"Noo we have to account for the fact that everyone is incredibly dumb"
I tried the whole "eat a big breakfast so you won't need such a big lunch" thing. Doesn't work for me. I just wind up with three big meals a day instead of two, if I do that.
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orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40107370
related drama: https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/262545/marseychudindian-marseyautism-cannot-stop-seething-about
Eelco Dolstra is the creator of Nix and CppNix, […]. However, he exhibits several corrosive social behaviours that have created a culture that directly led to today's governance problems, which are an existential risk to the continued viability of the project as a going concern — especially the years-long pattern of unforced errors by the NixOS Foundation.
The signatories of this document intend to switch to, as well as actively support, any fork efforts for the entire Nix community unless something significantly changes soon. If there is no satisfying progress in action on Eelco's resignation from positions of authority in all parts of the Nix project by Wednesday May 1, 2024, we intend to ensure this letter reaches a wide audience.
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Which company looks like X at 10pm on a Saturday night? #Xdeveloperchallenge pic.twitter.com/BWUmCiCkqS
— John Ji (@johnji_) April 21, 2024
cracker foids: ❌
American Citizens: ❌
non-autists: ❌
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Elon won
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As I've mentioned 100 times before, the powerusers of StackOverflow are completely detached from the core goals of the site and instead prefer to bicker amongst themselves in the Meta forum.
A poweruser named "M--" (profile: "Engineer by day, G*mer by night. Always in the process of learning something new.") says:
I raised an NAA [Not An Answer] flag on this answer Answer to: Blank space appearing at bottom of all webpages in Google Chrome on iOS [closed] which got declined.
Powerusers don't like having their flags declined because it goes on their permanent record, and god forbid one poweruser disagree with another.
The original question has now been blatted from existence, because just like /r/subredditdrama then whenever a post is linked into Meta then it's guaranteed to be brigaded into an unusable mess, even in cases like this where the question is perfectly valid and the complaint is about one single answer.
Now what is the answer that so annoyed this poweruser?:
THANK YOU! Disabling smooth scrolling took care of this problem on my iPhone 14 Pro on iOS 17.2.1.
Note that this answer includes the exact steps taken to solve the issue and the version on which it works. M-- just dislikes it because it starts with "THANK YOU!".
The rest of this Meta page totals over 5000 words of comments and arguments.
Some people just seem to love getting into involved debates of how should a particular turd be classified and how to correctly dispose of it, instead of, you know, just getting rid of it. Meanwhile dozens more are deposited around them... Someone spends ten seconds mashing the keyboard, and then bunch of other people take few man-hours figuring out what to do with it
comments one user with no self-awareness whatsoever.
Another user writes an essay explaining the workflow for handling answers and discussing the intricacies of:
You are the latest victim of a problem Stack Overflow has had for years; there are conflicting rules about how NAA and VLQ flags are supposed to work.
I'll let anyone else who wants to read through all of the answers and comments for pure 
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AIs are now capable of hypnotizing humans
— AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ (@AISafetyMemes) April 20, 2024
Why this matters: soon, AGIs may be able to mind control us
This isn’t sci-fi, this already happens!
EXAMPLE #1: Did you know chicken brains have an “off button“? We hypnotize them… because we’re smarter!
And it’s not just chickens… https://t.co/YzWYEP8kbz pic.twitter.com/HEx8nls101
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I like Debian a lot since it looks cool but i found it really shit when running web servers because of dependency shit, at least with Vichan. I actually like systemd / systemctl shit to start stuff. Ubuntu I like enough but I can't ever not think of it as jewbuntu. For webserver shit is using debian all good if I run stuff in docker and use some modified specific shit? IDK I'm a tard and haven't used docker on anything but my local system since i like fricking up my incognet vps's.
For desktop I unironically like Manjaro
Network mines it's 840,000th block and reaches its 4th halving 
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I hope no one here is a groomercord user 
The admin of this archive is a kiwicel 
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In the OpenAI blog post they mentioned "Albania using OpenAI tools to speed up its EU accession" but I didn't realize how insane this was -- they are apparently going to rewrite old laws wholesale with GPT-4 to align with EU rules https://t.co/7RZLwBYosK
— sophia (the deuteronomist) (@cis_female) March 6, 2024
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You gotta understand though, they've only got 160 million per year to spend, you have to prioritize.
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I was writing a python script today to scrap reddit and generate a list of transexuals and hamas simps for me to block and it was nothing but pain.
Why you ask?
Because python does nothing to warn you what error your code can throw or even if it can throw an error. In D (the far superior langue) you can tag your code @nothrow and if your code can throw any error you've not handled the compiler will throw an error. This allows for good, safe, trustworthy code the likes of which you will never get from gaython
No instead you'll write a try except for every case you can think of just to have it throw one you didn't, give up and use pokemon exception like a jr!
The case for @nogc is even simpler, my code is short lived enough that it simply doesn't need garbage collect. Instead I the almighty dev should be allowed to manually managed the memory thus ensuring I get the maximum amount of perforce.
I can't tell you how useful nogc is in D.
!codecels embrace the D, it's the future
PS: rust and go are gay.
cannot stop seething about "woke" 
culture on his blog- gets banned from 
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I've been reading some Effective Altruist writings and learned that even if AI had moral goals it could be very dangerous .
Like imagine an AI whos goal was to maximize the number of mosquito nets given to Africa, sounds great right? 
NO! Because the AI would be willing to do anything in order to achieve it's goals it might do something like commit one of the largest acts of fraud in history to get the money for more mosquito nets! 
Hmm... what does this remind me of? 
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TELEGRAM FOUNDER: THE U.S. TRIED TO HIRE MY EMPLOYEE TO HELP THEM SPY ON USERS
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 17, 2024
Tucker:
"The US government tried to secretly hire your engineer?"
Doruv:
"That's what he told me. They wanted him to code open-source tools into the app that would serve as backdoors."
Tucker:… https://t.co/ClERJeTG7R pic.twitter.com/6WWCcmZsd3
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smokin' grass 
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Trump Media shares close down more than 14%, company says Truth Social to launch TV streaming
Earlier Tuesday, Trump Media in a press release said it “has finished the research and development phase of its new live TV streaming platform and will begin scaling up its own content delivery network.”
The company said it will roll out streaming content in three phases, the first of which will introduce Truth Social's content delivery network for streaming live TV to the app for Android, iOS and web.
Phase two will release stand-alone Truth Social streaming apps for phones, tablets and other devices, while phase three will release such apps for home television, Trump Media said.
“The streaming content is expected to focus on live TV including news networks, religious channels, family-friendly content including films and documentaries; and other content that has been cancelled, is at risk of cancellation, or is being suppressed on other platforms and services,” Trump Media said in its release.
I'm sure the company that took 2 years to spin up a Mastodon fork fully will definitely be able to smoothly run a streaming service
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Current and former Google employees held sit-ins this week at company offices to protest the tech giant's work with the Israeli military, part of the @NoTechApartheid campaign.
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) April 17, 2024
We speak with three workers speaking out against Big Tech's "complicity with the Israeli occupation." pic.twitter.com/ObwCBrbgGM
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