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by lkey 5y ago
The person that quit the project (and possibly the internet at large) wasn't a microsoft employee. In my mind, there are two asymmetries. * Microsoft v. Users and * Casey's network v. a 3-4 man open source team within microsoft I
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by lkey 5y ago
Taking responsibility (which the developers later did by the way, even in this thread) and enduring abuse (which is also well documented here and elsewhere) should not be put on the same level. More broadly, I'd much rather endure a
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by lkey 5y ago
Yes, the open source volunteers and random employees deserve it. They are responsible for all of microsoft's many sins, and we should find them online and tell them they are trash tier developers until they learn their lesson, right?
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by lkey 5y ago
Casey is in fact perpetually annoyed with and disdainful of microsoft. Anyone who is familiar with him knows this. He's been like this for years , and that's fine when you are hanging out with you buddies over a beer, but now Cas
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by lkey 5y ago
As with all of these forays, I applaud the author for learning new things, but these benchmarks are primarily testing reading from stdin and format printing to stdout, followed by testing bignum impls as mentioned elsewhere. For this reason
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by lkey 5y ago
Pithy, but I can't think of anything more pointless than seeking out a solipsist and trying to convince them I exist. Seeking contrary opinions for their own sake is not virtuous. Seeking out "heterodox opinions" from people
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by lkey 5y ago
'Were variolation trials not so legally problematic' It's not like they weren't going to study this, but studying it in a way that doesn't violate the core tenants of medical ethics took longer than vaccine developm
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by lkey 5y ago
If I recall correctly, this is the same man who said: 'I’m not a medical professional, so I can’t speak much to medical solutions.' and in spite of this, proceeded to suggest we intentionally infect people at the outset of the c
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by lkey 5y ago
You misunderstand me: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989512/ After 6 years, 41.0±31.3 kg of the lost weight was regained (p=0.0002) while RMR was 704±427 kcal/d below baseline (p<0.0001
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by lkey 5y ago
I wrote and thought better of a too long response to this. Instead of trying to stay under the TL;DR word limit, I think instead you should focus on answering why you believe this: "I might still wonder that this is still wrapped up in
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by lkey 5y ago
You were right to scoff. Heathers was a movie also about an abusive sociopathic male engineering the deaths of his classmates in an act of petty rebellion against his abusive sociopathic father who killed his mother. Anyone that tells you t
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by lkey 5y ago
Agreed, hardware drives computer behavior; this fact horrifies some "people"; Raspberry pis are computers and, so, raspberry pi picos are computers. Raspberry pis, and picos especially, are obsessed with computation related to hob
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by lkey 5y ago
You seem to be aware that you are just navel gazing here. You've based your analysis on a comedy you saw in the 2000s that in turn based itself on the experiences of white affluent American teenagers. The second leg of your analysis is
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by lkey 5y ago
I apologize, I didn't divide that number by 9, so it's a bit less than a lb a year, but that was meant to illustrate what you ended up pointing out. BMR is variable. It's why when we talk about deficits and surpluses we are a
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by lkey 5y ago
You might prefer the study itself. https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aj... Judging from the reactions here, he meandered too much and made his point badly with the majority of the
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by lkey 5y ago
Believe it or not, fat people receive this kind of anecdotal lecture unprompted throughout their lives. It is precisely these attitudes that the article addresses directly. If you assume the problem is simple and easy to solve, then anyone
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by lkey 5y ago
Not all CI are stored as fat. Not all CO are burned from fat. Obesity specifically, is about excess fat, not bioavailable calories. Imagine, as the article mentions, a person that has a daily calorie excess of exactly 10kcal per day from a
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by lkey 5y ago
"I'm guessing the reason nobody runs these studies is that it's solved science?" One of the article's main points is that the obsession with the calorie-only model (with the assumption that it's solved) has sty
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by lkey 5y ago
This too is a lot of words to say that you either didn't read or didn't comprehend the thesis of the article. Points for acknowledging you've created a straw-man however.
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by lkey 5y ago
A living body can be quite clever, it can change your BMR (what you assumed was a deficit is now a surplus) perform muscle catabolism, or burn glycogen stores (more than one kind of fuel) during starvation. All the while taking pains to st
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by lkey 5y ago
I feel like you might have just skimmed the article, as the points you make here were addressed directly, yet you don't take the points made head on. Quoting: 'Similarly "[Obesity] is an energy imbalance between calories cons
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by lkey 5y ago
Where is it that we can go in a free-wheeling conversation that amounts to 'what do you think about obesity in America?'. Hacker News talking about technology is usually able to engage with a topic or article with some manner of
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by lkey 5y ago
Edit: "If you're calling 1500 a day a crash diet, making up numbers, and think education is a pointless endeavor, then I can't continue this conversation." I said previously, I don't care about your personal diet,
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by lkey 5y ago
"That's so far from reality that it's irresponsible." I think your "larger male that can still safely run every week" perspective is skewing your understanding of this problem. It is perfectly reasonable to exp
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by lkey 5y ago
"Given up" is an interesting way of putting it. Given up on what or whom? Do fat people want me to save and educate them? You're acting like I should be doing something personally about other people being fat. I think it s
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by lkey 5y ago
Every top comment here tries to distill the problem into this or that based on hunches or links to books or blog posts. "It's cities" "It's society" "It's portions" "It's plastics"
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by lkey 5y ago
Knowing calories matter doesn't solve a thing. You pointing it out like it's a revelation indicates you don't understand the difficulty of what you expect. Let's say you are now 120 lbs over weight. You know CICO. How l
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by lkey 5y ago
I have worked in this space, and I think at present this benefit is and will remain primarily aspirational. Here's MathJax in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GSgTjorewQ It's semi-respectable for a comput
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by lkey 5y ago
I will quote the venerable Andrew S. Tanenbaum. "XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files."
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by lkey 5y ago
I don't recommend drawing too much of a conclusion from these tests, about anything other than printing in <your language>. Once the algorithm is somewhat optimized, the benchmark is completely dominated by printing to stdout,

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