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> As humans, we don't have researchers who are so talented that if you ask them to answer nutritional questions, they will consistently and independently come to the same conclusions. This isn't because nutritionists are dumb, this is because nutrition is hard. However, it makes it much harder to suss out dumb nutritionists when the smart ones disagree.

AFAICT, that's not true, and only appears true because of the vast amount of attention one side is able to get, despite being an incredibly small minority.

From what I understand (I'm not in the field and not an expert), except for the few researchers in this article, basically every scientist working in nutrition will say that the energy balance model is correct, and that there's nothing special about carbs.

The media loves to amplify the contrarian and minority voices (see also things like climate change). But they really are outliers, and there really is a consensus, at least on this one big question.
That's just hyperbole, using some existing element in CDE or LXDE or whatever isn't like using KDE - you still get the interface that CDE or LXDE provides. I do not see how you'd make that conclusion.

And i don't know what sort of experiences you had but at least personally i never had any issues with desktops made out of separate components. I mean, consider that Raspberry Pi OS' default desktop is basically a modified LXDE which is made up of a bunch of independent pieces.

Also TBH what you describe with "doesn't work half the time because some random component is using the wrong set of X atoms or the wrong X resources or the wrong Dbus interface or whatever" doesn't make sense. If an application used the wrong X atoms or wrong X resources or wrong Dbus interfaces it wouldn't work at all regardless of which DE it is used with.
Think about it from the other side:

Dealing with the infrastructure is your job. You know the ins and outs. It doesn't seem complicated to you.

For someone who is dealing with the application logic, having to context switch to infrastructure is painful. I have no idea how you have set things up. When I read your documentation I'm just baffled at the sheer amount of complexity. I don't want to deal with it. It's not my full time job. I have other things to worry about. I have no mental space to deal with this headache. I will just ask you so I can move on to do my actual job - which is already taking up over 90% of my mental capacity.

When I setup my own infrastructure, I make it as simple and stupid as possible, precisely because I have no mental slack to deal with all the complexity that I see devops people deal with on a daily basis.

At most jobs I've been to, the complexity I've seen in infrastructure is mind boggling. My intuition is that this complexity is not actually needed if you remove all the cruft and think from first principles about what the actual problem is you are trying to solve.

However, people in devops seem to enjoy building and maintaining this kind of complexity, and even take pride in how everything is orchestrated.

To me it's just a headache.
I don't know, but seems like you're bending over backwards to explain that CDE's weaker rendering is a good thing. Maybe it suits you, but I think it's a clear fact that the reason it's weaker is because they haven't developed it, not because they were able to but made a conscious decision not to.

If CDE could render better but let you opt out that'd be great... but it can't render more accurately in the first place. It's not choosing to be worse.
Customer since 2010. No email :(
This is how the whole internet uses based
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> I've never forgiven RPM-based distros for all the time I lost to RPM hell over the years, and for going so long with worse CLI tools than apt.

apt and dpkg are way behind dnf and rpm these days, both in terms of the structure of packages and the interfaces of the high-level CLI tools

What do you like best about Homebrew?
>"So I got to watch hours and hours of incredibly boring TV shows because there was nothing good on"

I grew up in USSR where TV was for the most part quite pathetic but I did not really dwell on it. There were always books that I was reading in insane amounts and all those long talks with the friends along with some vodka ;)

I am in Canada now. Still do not have TV, still read a lot of books but also do heavy "pulling" from online sources. No so called "social media" though unless HN counts as one.
>Maximum employment and productivity are the highest economic policy goals.

I am so sick of this simplistic MBA style of thought. It ignores literally, figuratively, and morally the needs of humans who are under the rule of politicians, managers, and investors that simplify things into statments like this.

Most people are so detatched from the actual needs. Do you think if people that drink could socially use meth would be better off while they have paid sex with a legal prostitute high on meth and go back to with the next day to pay their morgage ?

Maybe if we were noy over taxes and living in precarious times .. People would beli3ve they have a future from their effort.
I'm just a dumb American, but are torch hikes something only Nazis do? I've never heard of them.
We moved from having a few new clothes a year to having new clothes as often as we want. We have also exponentially grown our population.

An Earth with let's say 2 billion people at 2 set of clothes a year has considerably less environment impact that an Earth with 8 billion people averaging let's say 10 set of clothes a year.

The scale of deforestation to produce coton, and the boom of the plastic fiber industry are sizable phenomenons with huge visible consequences. Whole industries exist now in Bangladesh and Vietnam for instance that didn't exist 20 years ago. Factories, supply chains, large yearly resources consumption, etc.

These changes are visible anywhere from the shops of wealthy nation cities, to Google Earth timeline where you see entire forests disappear every year now (rate is exponentially accelerating)
I'm not speaking about Rogan or anyone in particular. I'm only commenting on "vetting" not meaning "I only want to hear what I want to hear."
Trains are so wonderful. I don't know what it is about them but I cherish every long train ride. Unfortunately being in Canada I don't get to ride on trains very much but whenever I visit Europe I always try to get around by a train rather than flying. I'm especially fond of the old style Eastern European compartments with six or eight seats to them. It's cozy and you instantly connect with the other passengers through the small talk. It's worth the extra time versus high speed rail. And the tickets are usually cheaper too.

Airplanes and airports however, have the exact opposite effect on me and I'm not scared of flying. It's really the airport experience that I despise so much although the loudness of a plane is not very nice either.
Wow, I got the right offset for the other mode! Not bad for a 30-year impressionistic memory!
Note token.
I'm knee deep building a feature/tool to model stitches and I have nightmares about it, so I deeply appreciate all the work you have put on this.
It was normal, for a time, for eBooks to be more expensive than their physical counterparts. A "convenience fee", if you like.

Whilst that can still happen, it is no longer the _norm_.
> The tech lead started out by complaining about how he has to do an untested unplanned release today because another team made some urgent changes.

They broke it they have to fix it. You need the light shining on that team, not strive to fix it yourself.
https://archive.md/8hR8A
Apropos of nothing, I'll share one of the reasons why I've been a loyal customer since 2010. In 2013 I booted up a dormant 2006 Macbook to prep for lending to a friend. Shortly thereafter I received the following email:

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An interesting contrast: for as long as I can remember (I've been at Amazon for 5 years) we've had burner AWS accounts available for testing/prototyping stuff that get auto-closed after a week. Many devs, myself included, also have a personal long-lived AWS account for infra stacks of the services we're working on. These accounts get billed directly to the team's fleet budget. As long as you're using them for work-related things (i.e. not mining crypto or hosting a minecraft server) and not racking up massive bills without a good reason then it's fine.
Thanks! Expanded:

The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10616989 - Nov 2015 (126 comments)

Nginx design details - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4211480 - July 2012 (29 comments)
I think the lack of development of Wayland is more due to its corporate sponsors. Nvidia has been really slow to embrace it which hindered adoption. RedHat is putting a lot of effort in but desktop is not their main game so it doesn't have priority. And Ubuntu has been trying to play the "Not Invented Here" game for a long time and trying to get their own intellectual property on the map which didn't really have any discerning feature from Wayland other than being their own. But it did fragment the attention it received.

But this is mainly a corporate game, not one played by independent developers. Remember, also X11 itself was a corporate invention. It came from DEC, MIT and IBM. I don't think it's fair to blame the users for its lack of progress.

But I still think choice is good. I don't want to be forced to use Gnome, I don't agree with their UI ideas (in particular the opinionated software paradigm). Having multiple desktop options is a great thing to have, and it lead to new ideas like tiling WMs such as i3. Personally I use KDE.

I don't think "Linux on the Desktop" should ever be a mainstream thing anyway. It would suffer from the drawbacks of the other options, such as too much corporate control. For something like Wayland it doesn't matter as it's just in the background doing its thing. But for a desktop environment it matters a lot. If Linux had only one option it would be just one of the other not-ideal options around. Just like ChromeOS has become, for that matter.

Also, it's not really realistic to expect all Linux users to 'get with the program' and use the biggest option available to strengthen Linux as a whole. Most of them use it because they want something different. Not because they want to promote Linux.
> Something that is illegal, is by definition a social taboo. The removal of that taboo implies more acceptance.

They're correlated, but it's not a causative relationship. It's not illegal for a dominatrix to step on your genitals and make you call her mommy. That's taboo, and legal. On the other hand, jaywalking is illegal - and not a taboo.

> The only question is by how much will usage increase?

That is the question, but I think we should be open to the answer being zero or even negative - just as we are open to the answer being positive. How much drug addiction and usage is furthered by throwing addicts into prison where the only escape is more drugs?

How about the folks who make it out of prison but cannot get jobs because of their felony possession charges, who then lose their friends and family, and once again escape into drugs?

This is a multifaceted challenge.
True Scotsman Processed is still relatively wholesome.
>Maximum employment and productivity are the highest economic policy goals

No they're not. Or at least they shouldn't be.

High employment is good because it means that everyone's getting some money to spend on things they want, productivity is good because it means we're making lots of things people want. At the end of the day, the entire economy is about making people's lives better, and things like "inefficiency" are referring to things that make us worse at making stuff people want.

If people want recreational drugs, and restricting access to them makes their lives worse, then restricting access to them is bad (ceteris paribus). Likewise for prostitution. Of course in both cases there are labour concerns, but in general not arresting people for doing non-violent work is a good start to worker enfranchisement.

I also strongly question at best reductive view, at worse highly sexist, view of personal relationships that your comment indicates.
I am pretty sure I have not taken that tone with anyone as an adult, and this is not even a candid moment. This is his business, one where the very thing he is selling is his communication with others. And he is not a newbie, this is a relatively recent recording after decades in the show business.
There are some old studies on opioid (prescription type meds) use in rest homes.

They found that most patients did not want to increase their dose of the opioid. They just didn't want to be cut off the meds they were given. It makes so much sence.

I'm to lazy to look it up.

I don't understand this all, or nothing mentality when it comes to drugs.

I truly feel the American Opioid crisis could have been less devastating if government provided patients/addicts with with access to the medication with limits.

Actually, bupenorpine would probally be the better drug to make available to anyone that wanted it.
Agree with everything you said, but to me one key piece of the minecraft ecosystem rules it out as a meta verse contender - every one of those permutations you mentioned drops players into their own isolated environment which does not interact with any others. At best you can pop a few hundred people into a server specially configured for that, or use a discord/irc shim to bridge chat across a few instances.

I get the sense something more integrated at the user experience level is being suggested here as ‘metaverse’. I guess part of my read on that is cynical - if true it suggests a winner takes operator all at the centre with some kind of app/content ecosystem alongside. Perhaps I’m reading the roblox comparisons too literally.
I was just thinking, I should make a tool to make these on the fly, I have ADHD and constantly forget where I was in a process. I also have many projects running at any one time, it would be great to be able to leave them open and pick up where I left off.
Catmull-Clark subdivision surface.
> Despite maybe seeming like a useless middleman, the reason market makers can exist is because they provide a valuable service to the buyer and the seller.

Well, and also because it's illegal in some states to buy directly from a car manufacturer, so you're forced to go to a dealership whether they provide value or not.

Would eBay and Amazon be considered market makers, as they pair up buyers and sellers?
I think you at least get the vision, however I believe the current web standards is what is preventing forward progress. What you describe could be achieved much easier by moving sandboxing into the OS and using containers. I'd much rather see a modern markup format for describing content and data than what we have today. Not 1000x bloated frameworks to do simple things. I believe it we are ever going to make the metaverse a reality we have to really reenvision our current technology not on what we have today by trying to incorporate next gen solutions into a failing model but create something new and expandable that is easy to get started.
There is no deliberate washing of anything happening anywhere.

Try reading a book, it works.
I think the point that version_five was trying to make is that the decision makers have no visibility on how usable a system is in advance - they only see the checkboxes. At best, decision makers if they're curious, will learn how unusable and inefficient the system is years after they're locked in to their multi-million dollar commitment to implementing and training people on the system. And upon this discovery the vendors are of course there to say, that the hospital just need some more customizations, user training, or a new expensive module. Which just furthers the hospital's lock-in. The lather-rinse-repeat of enterprise software.
How is that different than making things like head cheese? You boil bones and connective tissue and make a loaf out of the congealed proteins. It's been done for centuries. Or were our ancestors eating "ultra highly process foods" too?
> EBM is just begging the question. You gain weight when you have a positive energy balance, and you have a positive energy if you eat more than burn. It's trivially true, otherwise you are violating laws of conservation of energy. Therefore, it has no real explanatory power.

That's not true. You can see it's not true by the fact that so many people do in fact dispute consequences of this claim, despite it both being trivially true and proven multiple times in studies with actual humans.

If you eat at a calaoric defict, no matter what you are eating, you will lose weight. That is both undeniable and widely denied, and has lots of explanatory power, because at the end of the day, a correct question to ask about the world is "why are people eating more calories?".

There are certainly other factors which matter, depending on why you are asking the question: if it's for personal weight loss reasons, a good question to ask is "what kind of diet will allow me to eat less calories in the easiest way". If it's to explain the obesity epidemic, the answers are "why are people in general consuming more calories now than they were in the past".

But if you discard the base mechanism by which people are gaining weight, you don't even know what questions to ask.
ya pretty similar progression for me -- I remember leaning attacks being pretty eye-opening
Also you can discount the fiber portion of the total carbohydrates, since it’s indigestible, and with that it has 3x the protein vs carbs. Meat has zero carbs, though.
Yeah I get it. And had my share of it too. While working through college I had a manager working in a warehouse that was eventually fired and brought up on charges for assault. I’ve quit jobs too because of poor working conditions. But a lot of them also complain about being trapped in retail/service industry level jobs. My point was that they should get out of there. Those are low skill jobs that will be soon replaced by automation anyway. There’s better out there, and it just takes a willingness and a good work ethic to escape it.
I hear you brother! It's both a blessing and a curse to be good at something. You ace things others don't and you don't even understand why others don't understand instantly! Math was always easy for me at school. No need to study, instant A or B. Good enough. Language? Easy too! Just grammar, pronunciation and spelling. Easy peasey! Interpreting what that author meant? What do you mean there's hidden meaning? Why would anyone do that? Makes no sense to me!

This only changes once university came around. Finally I got rid of the interpreting Shakespeare parts and there were problems in math and computer science that I actually had to spend brain cycles on to stay on As and Bs! Definitely a "learning curve". One of the first classes at university I got F (by 1 point). I had to redo the test. I actually went and studied that time around. Got an A.

Do I need any of that stuff now? Well I can't remember the last time I really needed a bin packing algorithm to be honest. But I do agree it's valuable to know that thing exists. I was in a study group with a bunch of really smart guys that aced those things like I did high school. They work at the Teslas, Googles and Facebooks (actually all three of those for real, lol) of this world now and I work somewhere else. That's totally OK. They still ace Tesla. I ace my job.
Here’s more context then, looks like it’s from 3 years ago?

https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/kv5nv5/joe_yells_...
> Loop tracks your cursor position in real time. That’s the current state of the metaverse for you right there. Nothing says I’m present and active in a meeting like moving your cursor around, after all.

Great, can't wait to automate my cursor to look awake in meetings while being resting away from the computer.
> Fascist actions to me are things like admitting the government regularly bans people they don't like from social media.

Didn't really have a way to effectively do that, but tried to get laws changed so social media platforms that people had to opportunity to speak out against him on were shut down. That was a pretty common theme during his term.

> Ignoring supreme court rulings.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/15/891563635/trump-administratio...

> Demanding the federal government have full control of all elections.

Not federal, but: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/politics/trump-raffens...

> Trying to shutdown opposition news organizations. Spying on opposition news organizations.

He actively went after every news org except for Fox and orgs further to the right of Fox. And nearing the end of his term, he started going after Fox as well.

There was the whole "throw protestors (and people near protests) in cars and drive them to undisclosed locations" thing that happened in Portland. There was the whole "can we invoke the Insurrection Act" stuff too.

You also miss the race stuff that definition of Fascism you linked to mentions. Stephan Miller's general existence should be enough to convince anyone of that.

Other characteristics of Fascism: punishing political opponents. Remember "Lock Her Up"? What about Democrats stealing the election and how they should be punished? One party system, right?

Then there was that tiny infiltration of the capital that he may or may not have had a large hand in.

He was very good at pushing as far as he thought he could, but no further. I admit, he didn't open fun down people in the streets. You're right, not a fascist.
It was doomed because you couldn't mix gmail and waves. That meant any real conversations couldn't be had. Waves ended up being just horsing around with your colleagues.

"This is neat!"

"Yeah!"

"Wave!"

"That was cool."

"Yeah."

"K. Bye."
Almost anybody who took MDMA that they bought at a rave or club or whatever in the 90s or early 2000s probably had one with methamphetamine in it, knowingly or unknowingly.