SamPatt

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by SamPatt 4y ago
I have a family. I could do meal prep for only me and eat separately, but I value eating the same meal with everyone. And I'm not doing meal prep for our entire family. I do this sometimes for lunches, which we eat separately anyway. B
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I'm a former "fat folk" and I tend to agree this is more about willpower than many people are willing to admit. I'm not insulted by anyone who discounts the effort I put into getting fit though. Weight and genetics and w
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I support anyone experimenting with their diet to see what works for them, but I wouldn't be so confident about extreme diets like carnivore working for everyone. Nothing from a plant is healthy? That sort of absolute statement flies i
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Counting calories correctly is really hard. I've lost 90 lbs, achieved a healthy body weight, and kept it off for years, but I keep trying to lose just 10 more pounds. I only make progress when I'm religious about calorie counting
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What exactly would you prefer helium to be used for other than quiet, efficient heat pumps? Banning the sale of helium is foolish. The market is already responding to less supply, as it always does. We don't need people running around
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>Ehrlich, it's worth noting, is somewhat of an overpopulation and mass extinction icon. He published "The Population Bomb," one of the first modern books on the dangers of excess human development and population growth, ba
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Good question, I'm in the same boat. Working on some simple AI projects to add to my portfolio as a start. OpenAI APIs are pretty easy to use.
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Do you know that social media was the actual cause of their unhappiness? Plenty of people are in long term relationships they can't stand for way too long, or careers, etc. I'm sure social media often plays a role but some relatio
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Alcohol senior engineer who ended up homeless? In my experience that's always a dude. Women have their lives fall apart in different ways. I'm willing to make a gendered assumption occasionally.
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I hope you (yes you, the person reading this right now) have a very merry Christmas, and a happy new year!
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The problem is that religion perpetuates itself by adherence to a set of shared beliefs, so it cannot survive a significant proportion of followers saying "these beliefs aren't literally true but the benefits of community and belo
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Nice work man. Merry Christmas.
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Haven't taken LSD but I have done writing on weed. I think it reduces inhibitions, which has tradeoffs. There's a lot of crap, but there's also a lot more than I'd usually write, and sometimes it's stuff I'd ne
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Does ChatGPT have an API yet?
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Probably because they had fun doing it?
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Fascinating stuff. One of the samples had vocals. Could the approach be used to create solely vocals? Could it be used for speech? If so, could the speech be directed or would it be random?
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Exercise is not solely about living longer, though an additional four years on average isn't exactly trivial. The anecdotes abound about the positive impacts. Dismiss them in favor of scientific studies at your own peril. My own anecdo
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It is simple. It's just not easy. I think the original comment was pointing out that our discussion of diet and nutrition is overly complicated. Not that it's easy to make the right choices, but that it is easy knowing what those
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Our body is breaking down constantly, but it's also rebuilding itself. It's not an inanimate object which wears down until it breaks. I view exercise as giving your body, and brain, proof that the rebuilding is still needed, and i
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Quoting from his (Jim Fixx) wiki article: In 1986 exercise physiologist Kenneth Cooper published an inventory of the risk factors that might have contributed to Fixx's death.[6] Granted access to his medical records and autopsy, and af
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World population has never been higher. From a species' perspective, you are fantastically wrong.
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I got married at 20 and had my first child at 22. I'll likely be a grandparent in my 40s. From a selfish perspective, I was too young to really understand what I was taking on, and it's been difficult at times. I missed out on man
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I feel the same about people who favor their romantic partners. Maybe when they're new to the game or a new relationship, go a little easy. Ok. But any longer and that's lame.
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The stereotype of nerds looking a certain way probably has a slight basis in truth. I've heard wearing eyeglasses is correlated to intelligence (though I assume weakly).
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If you read that article and came away with the idea that you should hate or be violent towards trans people, then you are searching for hatred where it doesn't exist. A woman expressing her opinion that "chest-feeding" and &
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You are making the determination by declaring that this article is intolerant. It's a woman's opinion about how language is changing in ways she disagrees with. It isn't her advocating for hatred or violence.
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Society isn't designed. It emerges spontaneously over time due to the beliefs and behaviors of everyone, and it's literally impossible to "design society to accommodate everyone." I'm 6'3" and I wish plane
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>doesn't deserve an audience Why do you get to make that determination? I can see the author's perspective. You don't have to agree with everything you read for it to "deserve an audience."
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Other than natural sugars in fruit, my diet has effectively no sugar or sweeteners. It's not that hard after several years of changing your eating habits slowly. It helps that I've always preferred drinking water.
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I'm not really bothered by a handful of elite universities which are only attended by wealthy and connected people. Why is this a problem? Other schools exist which are accessible to people without wealth and connections. The colleges

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