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Power lifting training easily smashes just over 1k cals a day for me.

If I don't lift, I'll get fat. It definitely has significant effects on metabolism, body fat % and building muscle.

I imagine that most peoples 'exercise' doesn't come close to 1k calories burned though.

Your physical labour people probably consume more calories than they use.
Completely. It’s also about the psychological impact. Building physical strength up through exercise has mental health benefits too which are added to the feedback loop of trying to fix your head, which is the real issue.

I can run a 5k now. Now that has some calorific consequences.
As someone who lost 30 kg of excess weight and kept it off for many years, I second this comment. I have a few acquaintances ("friends" as Americans like to call them) who have gone through literally dozens of fad diets over the years, and either never lost a single pound, or gained it all back after they stopped "dieting". Not a single long term success story among them.

When they ask me how I managed to keep the weight off for such a long time, I simply answer "eating what I always have, and calorie counting". Nobody likes to hear that for some reason.
Stimulants and appetite supressants work for some people. Side effects are pretty bad though.

Also smoking is effective for some. Again, bad side effects.
I only really use macOS these days, so they've clearly improved or borrowed features since I last looked, but I guess the point is that those features were implemented long ago.

The ability to implement file access the way is obviously possible on any OS, but on the Mac it's consistently implemented that way in applications, except for a couple of bad actors. On other OSes it's much more mixed. The same can be said for many other small features. There's a just a lot better consistency overall on macOS.
This is a stupid road though. Sorry but it is.
Indonesia is a highly diverse Muslim majority country, with a political system inspired by Indian secularist values, and it has seen much less conflict than India has in recent years. All of your assertions fall flat. To give an example from the Muslim side, Jewish refugees escaping from Spanish repression in the 1550s-1600s escaped to the Ottoman Empire, where they were welcomed and shepherded into the bureaucracy.

Hinduism and it's openness may have been responsible for letting people live in harmony for close to 3 millennia, but what we see is not the Hinduism of those times, but a rabid bastardization of it, akin to Islamic radicalization we see in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Decent apartments can be had for as low as ~ $ 700-800 (companies housing is often subsidized even further), however they are typically quite small. A decent house in the less swanky areas of Tokyo's 23 districts runs about $ 0.5 M IIRC.

Food costs about the same - a ramen is about ~400-500 円 (~ a Chipotle burrito ?), and food at restaurants would cost about the same as the US. Groceries, and Electronics cost slightly higher. Finding Vegan/Vegetarian food is like coming across an Oasis in a desert.

Nevertheless, Japan is a far more interesting place.
Of course it does. Or I should say it can. It's burning calories. If calories in are less than calories used, you lose weight. What is true is that it's very easy to eat more calories than you can practically hope to burn off by exercise. The people doing physical labor for 10 hours a day who are still fat are probably eating Big Macs, Fries, and 48oz cokes for lunch and having 3-6 beers after work.
Worth remembering Penn Jillette used to be a champion for obesity and not taking responsibility for yourself - I'm thinking particularly of the "Bullshit" episode where he attempted to corral science into justifying his own condition, undermining the whole premise of the series.

Perhaps he has issued a mea culpa.

As he himself says though, this is not a man to follow on this subject.

Best wishes to the author here though; moderation and discipline over the long term will be key.
They have both. GraalJS itself is just a JS runtime, but they've also made a separate package that reimplements the Node stdlib (but doesn't work on Windows yet, for example)
> . No salt / olive oil on the potatoes is off base too, there's no reason the diet needs to be that boring.

I think that is the idea. If it's boring you don't over eat that much.

Also if you eat different things people can eat more. Can't eat any more fries? Most people can fit in some ice cream.
I could indeed be considered someone with means and talent, and if I follow my colleagues I'll definitely lead a very luxurious lifestyle after moving to SV or a tech hub in the US. However I have also witnessed enough suffering in not just India but also in the US to not buy into the "safest wealthiest longest life expectancy" era. Averages can lie and here I think they lie real bad indeed. I don't believe that The majority of the people today in India and Us are better off today than they were say in the eighties. If you include all other countries sure the average might look positive; but my working hypothesis is that this just a metric that's lagging behind trigger events that have already been set in motion. With the erosion of fact-based argumentation and the invasion of climate change induced instability I don't think the world is rosy by any measure compared to what my parents grew up in.

Given that I am not someone who can't make a difference, my argument is that I should try my level best to make a difference, which is what you are sounding like you are suggesting as well.
Hmm, yes I'd agree to that extent, I guess I can't comment on how widespread discrimination based on that stuff is.

I mean, I went to a private school (for a year, and then they kicked me out) with people whose parents specially sent to them to a primary school that deliberately taught its own distinct accent[1], so I would imagine there's areas of Christchurch social life and/or commerce that are contingent on that.

But then I know there's already discrimination based on which school old boy/girl tie you wear (if any) in those same circles, and there were plenty of "bro Rangi" and "farmer Jim" at that school with me who ended up with that tie, and likewise ended up doing well in their professional life in firms filled with people from that same school.

So maybe the accent doesn't matter so much in those 'elite' circles so much as the money and the people you know. We don't really have an old money / new money divide in NZ, unless you take members of the First Four Ships Association seriously (pro-tip, only members of the FFSA take them seriously).

[1]: https://www.medbury.school.nz
Like enkimute said, your options re translation are exactly the same with matrices and with geometric algebra: either carry a vector offset with you, or move to projective space (homogeneous coordinates).
No, I don't. Why should I?
"This guy is stupid for trying something that works for him. Instead he should do what worked for me." - this entire thread.
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Whenever you see pointless licensing it's usually a symptom of union or cartel like behavior used to limit supply by limiting access to the old boys club. If I were part of a union I would want to limit access to that union so that the supply stays low and my salary stays high. So you can think of what's going on in japan as a sort of recruiting union formed to keep out the rif raff and keep wages artificially high.

Licensing does have a very good side however and that side is that it guarantees that the holder of a license jumped through the right educational hoops to get that license. For example nobody wants to get treated by an unlicensed quack doctor... so it's a case by case situation whether or not something should be regulated.

Doctors are also a good example of the other side of the coin when regulation starts to produce a cartel where doctor supply is throttled. There's no other country that makes MD licensing harder to achieve than the US and by sheer coincidence doctors in the US are also one of the highest paid in the world. Also ask any doctor, they will tell you that 4 years of unrelated undergrad that includes all chemistry up to organic chemistry is all useless to the actual job along with the majority of stuff they learn in med school as well.

Sorry for the unrelated rant on doctors but it's actually a very common phenomenon and is basically exactly what is happening here for recruitment in japan.
Agree - which is why I use Sentry, which has sensible default and configurable PII filters [0] for staging/production.

For debugging, eh, why not - but I've not previously had the need to enable this, let's say, application-wide (where I see the most advantage compared to just adding dumps of locals() per stack).

[0] https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/python/configuration/option...
> All the water tanks in the world don't add up to a trillion km³. Not by many orders of magnitude.

You're missing my point: that hoarding water is at the expense of anyone else who needs water. One milliliter, one gigaliter, doesn't matter; that's still less for everyone else unless and until it is released, and during that time the mere storage of that water externalizes an opportunity cost on everyone else needing that water.

> The sun does that for free, and has done for billions of years.

Right, because the sun magically drops all precipitation into lakes and rivers, and not a drop of it into the oceans. I'm sure the sun has some sort of tracking system that realizes which molecules of water come from where and puts them right back whence they came, right?
How else would you lose stored fat if you don't burn it?
Blind logging of all variables (as the writeup implies) is definitely a nightmare. You can end up with things like passwords, credit card details etc in the logs. If you're running a log concentrator, now they're in the concentrator - and did you remember to set ACLs on who can read from the concentrator (assuming the servers have good ACLs already for reading logs directly from prod servers)?

In dev, sure (assuming local disk only). In prod, not in the form documented.
Glad he stocked some sweet potatoes, too. At least a tiny change in flavour compared to common potatoes.

I have to admit I'd rather stick with normal diet. Just recude the intake or increase the consumption.
Have you thought about cutting down your expenses, living frugally to build up your investments?

I find it hard to imagine someone making an engineer’s salary can not afford a house, even in LA.
Lol you clearly are mistaken about how human emotions and happiness works
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If I search for something ,visit a link (e.g medium.com/xyc-blah) and mark it as "useless",it should not come up in my search again.Or there should be some indication so that I don't have visit the same useless link again.
If that's not possible,it should show a warning or redirect to some page if I click that useless link (e.g medium.com should be allowed. But medium.com/xyc-blah should not be )

Is there such an extension for this problem ?
Blocking a particular URL or something like that?
How do you keep track of useless URLs/
To further what neetrain said, there is also some cool unexpected stuff to come out of it as a result.

The Dreamcast had a ROM-based arcade equivalent, the Atomiswave. A dreamcast-talk forum member, "megavolt85", has started to convert the Atomiswave games over to the Dreamcast optical drive emulators (like the MODE, which is a drive emulator for both the Saturn and Dreamcast).

https://www.retrorgb.com/atomiswave-dreamcast-arcade-ports.h...
In addition, many vitamins are fat-soluble (A, D, E, K), eliminating oil completely is not as great as it sounds.
Ah yes, that is an important part. I certainly often fell into the trap of looking at the material, feeling it was comfortingly familiar and thus believed that I knew it. And then of course struggled to recall it when I needed it.
That's naive and unexperienced view on life values and true achievements.

These days, money isn't impressive. What you actually do in your life is. For some of it, some amount of money is important, and if you have plenty its easier to achieve. But that's about it. I live in place swarming with rich folks, both old rich and new rich, while being neither. Most of them live such boring lives it would be sad if I cared for them. Never once met one of them that I would want to swap my adventurous life with. Had to go through a bit of hardship to get where I am obviously but not that much.

What I want to say - striving to get rich from the start is a stupid strategy of a clueless person. Be good at something you do, and more importantly be good at living a great life, being a good kind person. Being rich becomes just a gimmick, whether it happens or not.
> I suspect if Windows had been unix based like Mac OS, Linux would not have become quite so popular.

I fully agree with you. Microsoft's biggest mistake was not giving the POSIX subsystem the same level of relevance than Win32 and just carrying it around to fill check boxes.

Had they been serious about it, it would have been more than enough for UNIX like workflows.
Won't Apple silicon eradicate hackintoshes eventually? I mean, you won't be able to just buy Apple's components and assemble a computer. If you were, it's really just a Mac, isn't it? I imagine they'll support x86_64 based systems for a few more years, but there won't be new drivers or support for new cpus, etc.

I wonder if it occurred to someone at Apple, if it's somewhat an added benefit to them.
> I don't care if you're convinced of anything by me. You're obviously convinced of whatever ignorant beliefs you have about the US, already. That alone disqualifies you to talk about the origins of my country. Now, run along and spread your mistaken beliefs to someone who cares. I don't care what you think about the US, because I live here, an, you, apparently don't. You have authority to speak about the history of my country, or what its become, until you've lived it.

I never claimed to know anything about your history or your country. What I've noticed was the usual perversion of history through the modern lens which does happen in my country in exactly the same manner. I can quite clearly recognise it.

As for "authority". I don't have to ask for your permission and I am glad that obviously annoys you considering your high handedness with me. It is quite funny that an American is soo against people speaking their mind.

> Oh, I'd consider brushing up on your reading skills, too. You clearly comprehend nothing that's going on in this thread, so stop pushing your distorted, delusional narrative. It doesn't play well here among actual Americans. Maybe there's a reason for that.

I know exactly what going on here thankyou. People having differing view points is the spice of life and why people like to converse. Marking those that don't agree with you as "distorted, delusional" won't play well in the long run.
I’d wait for Nvidia to produce a similar CPU for Windows and expect it to be open enough, meanwhile using amd64 on desktop
If there was truly a safe and effective pharmaceutical remedy for weight loss whoever made it would be the biggest company in the world right now.
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Aah, thi.ng! The creative coding framework I've been meaning to check out for years but never have! But the things (hah) made in it have always amazed me!

So one bit of feedback on the site: it's fantastic as a portfolio site. However, while it's great for getting an impression for everything made with this framework and how large the framework is, what is missing is a big "START HERE" button.

I get why that might feel like something you don't need: th.ing is set up differently than Processing, p5.js, OpenFrameworks or any game-loop based creative coding framework. So there is no real centralized starting point. Which is fine, but then that has to be clearly communicated too, and it isn't. It's mentioned in very thin fine print under the How? section, which is hidden under a "read more" link when viewing the website on mobile (also, I do get that thi.ng/umbrella is kind of emphasized as an implicit suggested starting point, but it's still a bit confusing).

So basically, the discoverability for how people should get into the framework could use a lot of improvement. It could use a bit more awareness of expectations of your visitors and how you either meet or break those.
This diet is stupid. Objectively. But honestly... I feel like many people (myself included) who eventually ended up with healthy eating patterns actually started out with something stupid.

I really do think some people can mentally handle an "extreme" diet more easily than a moderate adjustment. It's just more exciting I guess. And the weirdness of it makes it feel like you've discovered some secret that nobody else knows. In the end, just realizing that you can in fact change your bodyweight is a huge mental win. And as long as you transition into something less stupid after a month or two, I think the net benefit can actually be very positive.

...but seriously; of the three macronutrients, carbs are the only one you don't need to stay alive. It's fine for a while, but I just don't get why if you're going to cut calories to below 1k per day you wouln't instead eat some fats and protein. When you realize that a good part of your weight loss is muscle mass disappearing the whole thing gets a lot less exciting.
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It has carbs and it is usually recommended to consume before strength training workout to fuel the body.

I've fasted for 35 days and lost 15 kilos in 2 weeks, I think I know how to lose weight effectively.

Here is my data

https://i.ibb.co/rydPXDR/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-3-07-52-P...
It's just for two weeks though.
Studies seem to indicate that the Southland accent is strengthening and spreading, which is interesting.

Perhaps people cling to the local in the face of the global?
Yes, or he will quit and go back to his old diet.
Eating potatoes for two weeks is not going to seriously unbalance him (any more than he already is at 330lbs). For someone who is a habitual overeater, a varied balanced healthy diet may have too many opportunities to cheat. Sometimes you need an extreme change to snap out of old habits.
I'm the same. I rarely feel thirsty and can happily go all day without drinking any water. Even when dehydrated, I don't feel thirsty. Remembering to drink is a constant chore.
There’s no credible way to precisely define this, especially because success of investing is not purely based on returns of a half year horizon or so.
This x100. I known plenty of people who spend the day on their feet lifting heavy things, and are classed as overweight. I sit at a desk all day and I'm skinny AF.

I really watch what I eat.

Never heard of this potato diet before... Human metabolism is complex!
They merely said other platforms have issues too, not that linux doesn't have any. It's funny you mention Stockolm syndrome, then continuing on with an anecdote how Windows always works for you. I had win8 installs that would search for updates for hours on end with no result, weird error codes from windows update, windows 10 updates that left the system unbootable, broken .NET installs that couldnt be fixed without a windows reinstall. So where does that leave us? Exactly the "Linux meme" mentioned a few comments up.
It is the same experience as UNIX though, including the fact that each flavour has its own way of doing stuff.
I think one relevant difference is between discrete/constrained/physical targets/results (a new material, a medical image classifier, etc.) and continuous/unconstrained/incremental targets/results (nlp at large, advertising, etc.)? The former would need an explanation to satisfy a peer-review, the latter are more than happy with a black box that just works and beats the competition?
Yes, too low a temperature also messes with electrical properties. And makes everything very brittle, too.
Here's an article[0] in Esquire by the son, William Burroughs JR., about his parents and specifically his time living with his Dad in Tangiers. The son died of alcoholism at 33. It's worth the time to read all of it.

[0] - https://classic.esquire.com/article/1971/9/1/life-with-fathe...
So thi.ng is a collection of open-source libraries for writing software? What am I missing?
Google pays ~ 20M TC for L4; I think the compensation at Indeed/Amazon/MSFT is about the same.
Great work! I wish we were in an alternate reality where websites were still blazing fast and KISS. Just like Wikipedia and Craigslist.
Penn Jillette is a remarkable guy… three quick stories…

One of my friends used to work backstage in Las Vegas, and got invited to Jilette’s mansion for a party. Besides being obese (at the time), he is also very tall, 6’6”. According to my friend, the entire mansion is built to his scale —- every light switch is 6” higher than you expect. Every counter is high. Every chair is a little too tall. It has the effect of making folks feel a bit crazy.

He wrote a pulp mystery novel called Sock. It is told from he perspective of a detective’s plush sock monkey. The last sentence of every paragraph is a line from a classic rock tune.

He used to write a tech/humor column for PC/Computing magazine back in the nineties. In one column, he described a practical joke wherein one could write an autoexec.bat file that would print a countdown to detonation for airport security dudes who snooped in laptops to find.

(As for the efficacy of this “diet,” most of you are overlooking the fact that, like everything Jillette does, it’s a trick. Some folks just need a bit of psychology to get on the track, that’s fine.)
The equation is pretty simple, you need to burn more than you consume. So decrease your input or increase your exercise - or both. There's no shortcuts. Speak to a specialist, they tend to know what they are doing.

A few additional points to consider:

* First weight you lose will be water (it's why most of these diet programs make big claims in just a few weeks)

* As you burn fat, you'll need to drink more water and you'll flush out your electrolytes - take supplements

* If you don't workout and eat a certain-ish amount of protein (not too much or less) you'll lose muscle mass instead of fat

* Fasting helps you burn fat rather than food intake

* It's better to consume fats than carbs - if you can get your body into ketosis then you'll burn almost exclusively fats

* Don't underestimate the importance of exercise, even walking (for a heavy person, you're burning a lot more to move the additional mass around)
In his video for the course, he explains that he tried python and R but found students grasped the concepts better with Matlab/Octave. If I recall, it is in the video for the first lecture.

I agree with a sibling comment that it was python and R were well established at the time.

Also makes you think about how comprehension is closely tied to expression even for ostensibly similar languages.
No, not even slightly.
Well, PC clones only happened thanks to Compaq.

Personally I would have been happier with Atari or Amiga instead, targeted mobile dev back in the J2ME/Symbian days, I did had access to console devkits for a while, so for what I care everything is good as it is.
Worth mentioning: Twitter legacy, which does not require Javascript, will be shutting down in 15 days.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25088561