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Another thing to note that what's required to lose weight is a calorie deficit, not just eating less. This is important, because the body will compensate for a reduced calorie intake by reducing energy expenditure in various subtle ways. Experientially this can feel like having no energy.
None of this changes the basic thermodynamics and reality that to lose weight a calorie deficit is absolutely necessary and that calorie intake is by far the more significant lever available (compared to expenditure), of course -- but again, I personally basically never see anyone dispute this, whereas I regularly see people in the "just eat less, fatty" camp gloss over or misconstrue these nuances as though acknowledging them constitutes a denial of CICO in the strict sense.
I've seen GLP drugs recommended for up to a year after the target weight has been reached, but generally not for life if taken specifically for weight loss. Diabetes is another matter.
I generally agree with you, but I do want to point out that while we often talk about losing
weight, what we really want to lose is
fat, and exercise absolutely can help with that. Past a certain point I've personally found it very hard to sustainably eat less, but easy to put on significant muscle at the same calorie budget, so while my weight has been stable for years, my body fat % has significantly decreased.
Exercise can also absolutely increase base metabolic rate leading to weight loss; you still have to put up with a calorie deficit, which is the hardest part of losing weight, but you won't need to change your actual eating habits as much, which can make the social aspect easier.
I will counter-pushback. I don't think I have encountered a single person in the past 15+ years who denied or was unaware of the basic thermodynamics of "calories in, calories out". What I do see time and time again is people with manageable appetites pushing "just eat less" with keyword "just", acting as though people's failure to do so secretly reveals a preference to be overweight.
People who do keto, paleo, eliminating sugar, vegan or whatnot do this as a strategy for eating less, through a variety of mechanisms, generally some combination of attempting to stabilize blood sugar to forestay cravings, eating fewer meals, or eating less calorie dense foods (you have to eat a lot of vegetables to get fat!)
Bad technology for heating a house? Absolutely. Bad technology for emotional comfort? Certainly not. There's nothing quite like a fireplace.
Show HN: I write books and stuff and have a juicy clickbait hook
Good for you, mate! Less good for those nuclear secrets you may or may not have stolen and those antelopes you may or may not have sex trafficked
Yes, with the caveat that it's the distinct dialect of Headlinese
What is your point? Prospective whataboutism?
Because somebody needs to grow your crops, sew your clothes, lay your fiber optic cable, synthesize your medication and cut your hair?
And how big are your dating apps?
Your transphobia hardly makes you look unbiased, shill
AI posters may or may not have to be horrible, but they absolutely must include [ icon | icon | icon | icon ], apparently
The lizard brain, not because it resembles the brain of a lizard, but because it's made up of a trillion tiny lizards
> nobody in Europe seems to mind
It's maybe not part of the public discourse so much, but I regularly hear ordinary people express their concern about this
> the war is really not in the public conversation
We must live in very different Europes...
Whenever I see a menu like this I can only imagine how grotesque the actual food must be if this is preferable to a picture of it!
This seems rather silly, but I admire the audacity, it's a statement in itself.
I personally generally agree, but I actually quite like the very most recently constructed buildings in my area (southwest Paris), which are still clearly modern but more generous with ornamentation and featuring more organic shapes and often incorporating greenery.
I feel similar positive about new buildings in my native Netherlands, which seem to be getting less flat and with smaller, more reasonably sized windows (if you know, you know!)
For my household I built my own cartoonishly big 200×80×4cm oak desk. The oak was €350 at the hardware store and only needed finishing. The height adjustable legs add some extra cost, but the whole was maybe €700 tops and a day of work.
The boots are metaphorical, obviously
Wait until you learn what the A in CIA stands for and what the stuff they dropped on Vietnam was called
Bro is fully mask off now. Creep ass.
A Godwin so pure it wants to be framed!
I feel like the thing eroding away in this case is a blocker, a friction. Think of a river cutting a path through the mountains.
I imagine they are only buying one copy of each book, thus only significantly affecting the supply of books that were already unfathomably rare. That may still be bad, but doesn't really support the "scan every book you can get your hands on before they are gone" narrative.
That doesn't mean I'm against that narrative; I'm a big supporter of shadow libraries and scanning every unscanned book. But connecting to the LLM narrative here seems opportunistic and populistic.
As someone above entry level but with an atypical employment history, it's very rough out there. Went through the whole interview process with a company, was told in both the technical and culture fit interviews that I was "the strongest technical candidate", CEO ended final interview with "I hope to see you soon".
Got the standard rejection template email, on my birthday no less. My fiancé and I keep good spirits and have cut our expenses enough so that our debt is at least not growing, but we are definitely living paycheck-to-paycheck.
For an exhaustive search, if you can explain to me:
- how to exhaustively list the cases that need to be checked, and why that method is exhaustive
- how to check each case, and why that works
and then conclude with "we've had a computer do this exhaustive search, and the result came up as X", for me that satisfies completely understanding the proof.
Ptuh, call me back when Bloomberg implements spacebar heating!
Going from an 80% to a 90% failure rate means the success rate halved; that's a pretty big change in my book.