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Calories in calories out (CICO) is the what, not the why. If you saw someone who spent $1000 on jewelry every month and didn't pay their electricity bills, would you tell them to learn to budget? Heck no, you'd tell them they need therapy to fix much deeper root causes. So why are we telling obese people they need to "budget" by saying that CICO is the one and only solution?

CICO is great if you want to lose a few pounds, and if an obese person sticks to it, they will lose weight. But while CICO is a great tool, followers of CICO as the one and only way frustrate me, as they turn weight loss into a moral struggle solely about willpower. To them, the only reason someone is fat is because they are weak willed and any desire for an "easy way" out through anything other than CICO is viewed as laziness. Yet, while most of these "easy ways" out are indeed fake, we do know that in several specific cases there is a root cause separate from willpower, such as thyroid disorders and PCOS.

In these cases, it is not simply a matter of the affected person having less willpower, but rather that they need greater willpower to use CICO to overcome their obesity than their non-obese counterparts. Note that in these cases CICO does still work, but once you shift the perspective from "these people have less willpower" to "something is requiring these people to have greater willpower to do the same thing" then a new question immediately arises: "what is that something?"

Considering we know such root causes are possible, is it so unreasonable that rather than 1/3 of the population having bad willpower, that instead they have some sort of invisible disorder that is the root cause? Before 1982, gastritis and peptic ulcers had unknown causes and were attributed to stress. These days, we understand there is a bacteria H Pylori that is the root cause that we can give antibiotics for and "magically" cure. My personal belief is that within 100 years we will find some sort of similar root cause for obesity and if we are lucky, we may similarly be able to find a "magic cure" for it too.

Meanwhile, as someone who is obese and is working on it, I absolutely do recommend CICO as the best tool we currently have. But it's strikingly similar to trying to get a homeless person to budget in that there are likely other things that need to be fixed first, we just don't know what they are.
This would be an immediate positive in my book. Most the bug reports I upstream to vendors go nowhere. Getting in contact with someone who can actually fix the problem, instead of just papering over it? Completely negates any downside from the original problem, in my book.
>All those biometric information could be leaked, sold by corrupt civil servants or exchanged with other countries so random passwords generated by a password manager protects me more than biometric information. Am I wrong?

I know of zero biometric implementations where your biometric data is uploaded to the server for verification. All the biometric implementations I've seen (windows hello, icloud passkey) perform biometric checking on device and send cryptograms to the server, which would be as secure as random passwords.
If only you could make everyone think as you do and do what you order them to do, this civil war could be averted. That there exists humans who are different from you is a great tragedy and blight on civilization.
Social justice is not an innocent word. It is charged with a political agenda.
I'm Australian and have worked for a variety of companies and its been over a year since someone internal at the company sent me a non broadcast newsletter email. Email is much like SMS these days, you use it to arrange job interviews or talk occasionally between businesses but you would never email someone you know directly.
OK, I'll stop. Do all the other people sending them tips all read HackerNews too?
Sure, I was talking about software. I think lots of other things are attackable from first principles. But sure, some aren't.
Disney used to have an official Crap Sequels Division: DisneyToons. Wikipedia has a list of their direct-to-DVD movies, which could usually found at the bargain bin near the checkout counter.[1] When Disney acquired Pixar in 2006, somehow John Lassiter ended up in charge of Disneytoons. He didn't like running the crap sequels business. After a decade of cancellations and missteps, DisneyToons was shut down in 2018 and the animators were laid off.

Disneytoons movies only cost about $15M to make and usually made over $100M.

Dumbo (2019) was not a Disneytoons movie. It cost $170 million to make. The problem Disney now faces is that classic low-end animation won't sell, and photorealistic with live action is very expensive to produce. So they now lack a low-end product line.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneytoon_Studios
It could be turned around by MAGA insurrectionists being held accountable and prosecuted. No liberal is threatening violence, only conservatives
There are still hundreds of people at a testing facility - and many of those would likely be civilian contractors, so not even under the military's direct control.
> My #1 blocker is that I am no longer 15 and have things to do other than just poke about until I master a new text editor.

100% this. Once upon the time my attitude would have been a bratty "you just don't want to do the work to master your tools!" My response to that now is "no the fuck I do NOT, I want problem number 8131 solved yesterday so I can move on to problem number 8132 which btw requires entirely different tooling."
Any proof for Garmin sensors being more precise?

TheQuantifiedScientist on his YouTube channel has great tests for many wearable devices and their sensors. His assessment has been very favorable for AW Ultra on HR, location and sleep when compared to Garmin devices: for sleep tracking Garmin is very inaccurate, for HR and location Fenix 7 and Ultra are identical. Fenix 6 and older are poor.

Blood oxygen and temperature seems to be quite inaccurate on both.
> I don’t see any ambiguity in “next Monday”. It literally is saying the next day which is Monday.

But when communicating with other people, it matters what they understand. And I've come across enough people who don't use "next Monday" like that to understand the word "next" means trouble.
Finally the market is settling in to the reality of Brexit! Looking forward to continued fall of the sterling as the united kingdom loses its unity. Will Northern Ireland or Scotland be first to go?
This is my understanding as well, and that this was likely the American & Australian intelligence (Kerr's communications with the CIA about the internal politics of his party, revealed by Chelsea Manning/Cablegate, provides circumstantial evidence which corroborates this, but of course we may never know for sure), but I do think it should be a sobering reminder that when people say, "don't worry about that power structure, it's merely ceremonial," we shouldn't take comfort in that. It is ceremonial until it isn't. Recall that recently in the United States, the Trump administration attempted to abuse the "ceremonial" role of Vice President to preside over the certification of the election in order to perpetrate a coup. If you leave power structures and veto rules hanging around, that no longer serve a functional purpose, it's a hazard; they're handles that a bad actor can grasp for.

Imagine leaving a backdoor lying around in a piece of software because it's been there for so long that it's nostalgic, and everyone pinky promises not to abuse it.

A more relevant example to the queen is Queen's Consent, which the royal family has used to influence legislation and further enrich themselves: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/series/queens-consent

Returning to the royal family, it seems to me that even if they were "ceremonial", royal families are a monarchy hazard; letting them hold onto their status as a "royal family" invites the possibility of a monarchist revolution to reinstate them. You say they're just ordinary citizens who happen to be billionaires with gorgeous hats? Fine, let's make it official.

You might say that's ridiculous, that there is no monarchist revolution on the horizon; I don't see any reason to believe there is either. But if we let them stay royalty for the next hundred years - what probability would you assign it? It's not zero, right? Personally I'd say between 1% and 5% (that's of course a number I made up based on my intuition), and I don't see that as a good risk/reward.
Policies like this one is what makes people write their passwords on post it notes. It's hard to create new memorable passwords every month or two so people will either keep using a pattern or be forced to write it down on paper. MFA is the way to go.
The transition to remote working and the Great Resignation has allowed corporations to cut costs on unprecedented levels. Both operational, overhead costs such as utilities and maintenance for facilities, as well as capital costs for renting offices, purchasing furniture and appliances for them, and outfitting employee spaces.

The corporations are now able to invisibly offload those costs onto their workers like never before. Remote workers love sitting at our kitchen counter with a laptop, and being able to go pick up the kids or do laundry in-between shifts with no commute, but in reality, we're now paying for the plumbing, to keep the lights on, to push bits through our Internet connections, and we're the ones purchasing office chairs and webcams.

Employers now get a free ride on all such outlays, and they're going to be quite unwilling to set up equitable expense accounts or arrangements whereby they resume paying for this stuff themselves. Remote workers need jobs and so we're going to reluctantly pick up the tab.

Unfortunately, business-class accommodations have advantages of quality, stability, and maintenance that will be unmatched by consumer-grade equivalents. Your Internet connection is designed to watch Netflix and play video games. You're technically not allowed to conduct business or commerce on it, that's against your TOS. Your ISP doesn't care if your connection goes down, but your employer does. Good luck lighting a fire under your ISP's Tier 1; you don't have the clout or the SLAs to complain about outages.
> It is done because the medical community broadly recommends it due to its health benefits: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/cdc-encourages-circum...

Only recommended in the US. Which indicates that it’s still cultural.
Honestly this sounds like a "if your computer weighs less than 5 tons and can fit on a desk, it's not a real computer" argument someone would have made 30 years ago.

Reality is people use multiple different and mobile devices, roam across connections, and intermittently go offline. Building software and protocols that are designed around this is beneficial to every use case - even those using whatever you consider a non-"terrible computer" to be.
You are misrepresenting my point. MAGA conservatives are threatening violence and seeking to overturn election results they don't agree with.

I don't give a damn what people think. When they start threatening my safety because they're not getting their way, that's when it's a problem.
I have found the senior tag to be a bit inconsistent. Some roles it meant more experienced, more challenging work and more architectural input was expected. In other roles it meant less software and more soft skills were expected, talking to clients, being a defacto project manager for a particular project team etc.

My unsolicited advice to anyone applying for a senior role is to ask what they mean by senior, because the job descriptions often look identical, but actual expectations differ.
Sterling collapses as investors fly into dollars
Qt is one of the most decent frameworks for developing quality Desktop GUIs. It probably is due to legacy or PM issues. That said, if I needed to develop a Desktop app nowadays, I'd probably give Flutter a try (https://flutter.dev/multi-platform/desktop).
There are services that will take your film, and get you a pile of images back.
I did that some years ago, as my folks had hundreds of slides.
https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/252301/1/El%2520Know%2520from%25...

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.98...
Also a cross platform mobile dev, couldn't agree more. Feels like I'm in a different OS when I have Android Studio full screen. There are some things I like about it but if I could stick 100% to iOS strictly from a devex point of view I would.
If the company is forcing password rotations every couple of months they’re too broken to successfully handle this anyway.
You’re doing the caricature attack thing. It’s a safe bet Kahneman is aware both that people sometimes change their minds on everything and that we often change their minds on small things.
Election mechanics aside, much of the problem stems from so many being willing to blow up minor issues into huge issues with only black or white views on them. Sadly the way this gets reset is by lots of people getting hurt and many killed. It becomes much more clear what one's priorities should be and what are things that don't need to be screeched about like it's the end of the world, once food becomes scarce and there are people shooting at you that can't be stopped with a phone call to the local police.
> who isn't a member of a group? We're all members of a number of groups.

Not everyone is brainwashed to accept group think no matter in what cirles they have to evolve in.

There are individuals and then there are the parrots who mindlessly repeat what the group says.
Location on Fenix 5 is quite inaccurate compared to Fenix 7 or Ultra - especially with tree cover.
> You also wouldn't need to add any additional infrastructure as opposed to ideas like vac-trains or MAGLEV in general.

You still need one of the most expensive parts of that infrastructure which is the rights of way, stations/highway interchanges and a transport corridor from the city to an airport (which can't be as close as a conventional airport due to 5x the flight volume, louder engines and sonic booms).

The 900km of a rail corridor in the low population regions doesn't cost as much as that 30km of highway or metro tunnel directly under the CBD and 70km of arterials, onramps and interchanges.
Lucky. When I was in Engineering school, the Mechanical Engineering department had one catalog. We couldn't get any more - something about limited numbers printed (though, I'll confess I never tried to get my own). It was passed around among the students in Machine Design as if it were some sacred scroll.
I was very confused when Ben Krasnow pronounced McMaster with a "mick" at the beginning. For 10+ years of my English education nobody bothered to explain that Mc is "mack", but sometimes it's pronounced "mick".

I was aware something is going on when Tyler McVicker introduced himself with "mick".

English teachers usually have a typical repertoire of their pet details like schwa and so on, but seems there's a blind spot here.
I think of it as having these meanings:

1. Your freedom can cause problems to me an to society as a whole

2. We pay much in blood and treasure to maintain our freedom

3. There are unintended consequences and knock-on effects to most all rules regarding freedom.

Or to generalize: "Freedom isn't free"
The most important thing I learned from my graduate advisor: anyone can have a worthwhile idea.

I watched him for years coming into weekly colloquia and seeming to tune out reading papers. But, occasionally there would be a speaker that was less than credible, and you could feel the entire hall close off. But, my advisor would hear a tidbit of a good idea (even amongst loads of bunk), and look up from his journals and ask a genuinely curious clarifying question. This would often lead to new lines of research in our labs.

In the end, many of these speakers were on the wrong overall track, but they definitely had insights that were incredibly valuable. Those who dismissed them entirely missed out, while my advisor had a knack for finding the signal in the noise and moving forward with that without missing it due to judgement.
Sounds like how many democrats reacted to the results of the 2016 election also.
> Housing first policies don't work

What I meant was build good houses and condos for working people. That will make overall housing cheaper.

> I get the vibe from your comments you've only actually passed through these towns and not actually spent real time there

Sort of, I spent a few days here and there. Parts of it I saw confederate flags all over. Soneone there also told me which parts are hardcore right wing.
Yep, once you are chief commander of society, you can neutralize those nasty people and never have to think about anyone different than you ever again. Should be interesting to see how that turns out for you.
It's not not a crisis either, though. Crisis doesn't really have a formal definition, it's just an extreme devaluation. I agree that what's happened so far is not quite yet a "crisis", but it certainly seems like Krugman was attempting to predict that not-this would happen.
You're note names are buggy. I'm guessing it's to do with open strings not being labeled. C major is visualizing a G on the b string first fret but it should be a C. This is in horizontal mode at least
You wouldn't say the power to collect from that trust is a significant power which they have and you do not?
Philadelphia’s diatom archive is a way, way, wayback machine
I cannot consistently qualify for majors, I have never been paid to run, and I’ve never entered a race that I had the intention of winning, and I have a normal job and social life. Perhaps you could qualify it by saying I’m a casual _endurance_ runner. But I am very much a casual. My lifestyle might be vastly different from a sedentary lifestyle, but it’s not so different from that of all the other casual marathon runners out there.
There's no real formal definition of crisis, but being fair to him it's not yet a crisis. It is however a sharp devaluation, and appears to be the opposite of what he was predicting.
Write amplification is a concern on flash memory. The other secret is that just like flash didn't eliminate the cost of seeks, RAM isn't as fast for random access as sequential. All modern systems benefit from data locality, to varying degrees.

A CPU has layers of caches in front of memory, which then has its own caches on front of NVMe, which has its own controller usually with an SLC cache in front of MLC, which often times is being used as a cache on front of the network or slower storage.

For many problems modern hardware is fast enough, but if your problem is attempting to make use of all modern hardware offers, you need to optimize for it. Meaningfully saturating a 100gbps network connection, for example, is hard to do without considering data locality.
I don't see what makes the second less tied to the Earth than the day. The SI system is for scientific purposes, it doesn't have units important for civil purposes like liters. If you were to completely redefine civil timekeeping (good luck!), the day feels like a better unit to focus on.
> My point is: no one knows what is a great e-commerce website

I disagree. I know what is a great e-commerce website -- in the sense the article is talking about.

- loads fast
- makes items easy to find quickly
- has a simple, efficient shopping cart mechanism
- gets me in, order placed, and out in the shortest time possible
- is run by a company with great customer service

Yeah, there's probably an item or two I've forgotten from that list, and yeah, other people likely to order from a site might have a slightly different list.
But I have no doubt that I would recognize the same qualities on other websites that I and many (probably most) people would recognize as great -- or at the very minimum, as websites that don't suck.
The author made a post about it: https://kau.sh/blog/jekyll-footnote-tufte-sidenote/
As I understand this is mostly because mortgages in the US are usually 30 year fixed rate. Why buy a house today with 6%+ interest, when in the past couple of years, although prices were higher, you could have got a mortgage with 3% or even 2%? Plus everyone is expecting a crash, nobody wants to be the sucker who bought at the peak in 2007, better to wait it out and see.

In Europe it's the opposite where almost all mortgages track the 6 month Euribor (or equivalent central bank rate). In my country the maximum fixed term you can get is 5 years, after which it reverts back to variable rate. I'm in the process of buying a house now, and although prices may drop a little and the interest rate may get higher in the short term, in the grand scheme of things that doesn't really affect it much - the monthly payments on a mortgage are still much cheaper than what you would pay to rent.
Sugar decreased? I can't eat any US bakery just because it has enormous amount of sugar and gluten. Unbearable. If this is decreased... what was before?
Just like "You can't be just a little bit pregnant", some industrial processes require non-interruptible heating. You can't just ration gas by shutting off those processes for an hour or so without destroying a lots of equipment and resources. (Think of molten plastic solidifying in tens or hundreds of metres of piping and valves.)
Anecdotal but I worked for a non tech company over a decade ago that had a monthly password change policy. When I started at the company my desk wasn't ready the first day so I was seated on the workstation of another employee who was in vacation. First thing I saw was his password on a post it under the keyboard.
I thought it was Ted Cruz
Greece was more fragile and indebted for sure...
While the majority of Christians meet on Sunday and consider it the “new” Sabbath or the fulfillment of the Sabbath, in commemoration of Jesus’s resurrection, how does that relate to restructuring the week so Sunday is the last day? The Bible is clear that Jesus was resurrected on the first day of the week, the day after the Sabbath.

Matthew 28:1 (NIV): “After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.”

Mark 16:1–2 (NIV): “When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. 2 Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb…”

Luke 24:1 (NIV): “On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.”

John 20:1 (NIV): “Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb…”
I’ve spent a ton of time playing with codecs and colorspaces while developing PhotoStructure.

These artifacts aren’t where I’ve seen them before. Normally you’d see this sort of posterization and clamping around global highlights and shadows, especially if the incorrect colorspace profile was applied, but this seems like the affected border is around a localized area, possibly due to a buggy pseudo-HDR implementation (what you see when you move the “pop” adjustment slider, which increases localized contrast ranges). Google+ images had a mild pop adjustment applied automatically.
The cause is a direct response to the government announcing their ~budget~ "fiscal event", which is to cut taxes, particularly on the rich, and increase spending
>They actually are, at least for pension contributions.

No. The government exempts taxpayer funded pensions from laws about calculating pension liabilities, and so they use discount rates far above what non taxpayer funded pension funds are required to use. And even these liberally calculated costs are not even funded properly, because there is nothing stopping the politician from not kicking the can down the road.
It is a crisis when you already have an inflation crisis. People already can’t afford to keep warm this winter. Therefore, the government is capping energy bills, if there is a currency devaluation the government has to borrow more to maintain the cap...