CydeWeys

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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Everyone who's obese has been prescribed exercise and a better diet. It's the quintessential doctor cliche, and yet it indeed hasn't worked for them. GLP1 agonists do.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> The fact of the matter is that despite the risks and downsides of obesity being well known in America, 42% of American adults are obese. It's down to 40% and dropping now, thanks essentially solely to GLP1 agonists! This will, no
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> its supposed to make you feel full longer (as I understand it, someone feel free to correct me on that). It's complicated. This is commonly reported by people taking it, but it's not the only mechanism. Also commonly report
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Some things simply are negative, sure. I think we can all agree that murder is negative on the whole, for example. But you are making a HUGE leap here in assuming that GLP1 agonists "simply are negative". You have not remotely s
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Crutch (n) a : a support typically fitting under the armpit for use by the disabled in walking b : a source or means of support or assistance that is relied on heavily or excessively Use a is a neutral, non-judgmental, lit
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
This is clearly the prototype. The final production model (if it ever happens) will have more ground clearance, for obvious reasons of practicality.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
The problem is that calling it a "crutch" is already presupposing a negative judgment of it. Use a neutral word; e.g. it is a weight loss aid.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> A bus with no windows, no steering wheel and no ground clearance, so a tram. It's absolutely not a tram; it's a large passenger van (not big enough to be called a bus). Trams run on rails.
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Is the .io top level domain headed for extinction?(computerworld.com)
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Parents are spending like 2X of their time on their children now than they did decades ago, so your overall thesis is exactly backwards. Parenting is perceived as a much more intensive activity now, which is so many people are having fewer
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
To be fair, and I can't believe I am even defending Jared Kushner of all people, but that $2.5M donation was made in 1998. That was a very high donation for the time. The price of tuition and academic donations has absolutely rockete
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
If someone pays $10M for their kid to get into the school, that's not a legacy admission; that's dynamic pricing. Legacy admissions are where the person getting in pays no more than the normal rate of tuition.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Same with people fleeing from school systems that were still locked down to ones that had since reopened. I don't think this is about wokeness per se though, just people literally leaving institutions that are closed in favor of ones t
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Weird, and TIL. I haven't blocked on reddit in years and haven't felt the need to, and also can't say I've noticed anyone who's blocked me. BTW, you can block users that have blocked you: https://www.red
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
It literally doesn't work. You need to be logged into Twitter to see basically anything. Twitter logged out experience is basically just a login page.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Private browsing doesn't work because Twitter basically requires users to be logged in to see anything. So it really requires having a separate burner Twitter account you'd use to follow people who've blocked you on your mai
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
I block people on Twitter all the time, but I can't even remember the last time I had to block anyone on reddit (it was years ago). This speaks to the different models between the two -- on reddit I'm only interacting on specific
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> So trigger some kind of process to cause the batteries to overheat Where are you getting this part from? There's no evidence that the batteries were triggered to overheat; indeed doing so would be counter-productive, as it would
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
It's war. Much worse things have been happening in this war already (e.g. Hezbollah explicitly targeting Israeli residential areas and killing civilians). By contrast this action seems much more targeted and justifiable. If your bar
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
You're forgetting that tens of thousands of Israelis from the north of Israel have been homeless and internally displaced since shortly after October 7th when Hezbollah started indiscriminately targeting Israeli residential neighborhoo
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
I think the simplest explanation here is that pagers are small and light and don't have that much free space inside them, and it's hard to fit enough explosive into them to reliably kill people. The figures I saw was only a few g
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
You underestimate how many members Hezbollah has, and also, how unreliable these kinds of initial reports tend to be.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Yeah I mean it's basically just like mass-sending a spam text, no? All they need to know is the phone numbers of the pagers. Or even just the number range from which the pager numbers were assigned, and then spam the entire range. S
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
I mean they probably did hack to some degree the default software/hardware in the pager to get it to do something nonstandard. I doubt they have access to the full source code and build stack of the OG pager, so even just modifying th
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
It's a very minimal amount of pressure it can withstand, is the point. Certainly nowhere close to lethal explosive pressure. It's not a pressure vessel in the sense of the kind of pressure vessel it takes to make an effective bo
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Batteries aren't pressure vessels though. Pressure vessels are generally decently large; how are you going to get one with significant capacity inside something as small and lightweight as a pager? Just putting in some plain explosiv
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
This wouldn't work for me because I don't listen to anything when I'm working. You're making the assumption that everyone is just constantly listening to music, but I focus best with silence and with my ears unencumbere
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
As a random line manager of a small team, you can't meaningfully push back against a company-wide mandate. Hell, even directors can't do that. That decision is being made by the CEO. You either enforce it or suffer the conseque
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> This could all be fixed within 1 day if government would mandate companies to pay you for the duration you're away from home for work (including travel time). Be careful what you wish for. The most likely result of this would be c
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
I don't know about Cloud, but I saw lots of L8/L9s get laid off in CorpEng. Basically, anyone at those levels who didn't have a significant level of scope (i.e. enough FTEs under them), and even some who did, got laid off.

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