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by medler 2y ago
The great thing about bluesky is that there are no “algorithms” by default. You see posts from people you follow in the order they were posted. There’s no feed pushing toxic posts in your face, and since there’s no monetary incentive for en
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by medler 2y ago
Milk pricing in the US is enormously complicated, but as I understand it, there is effectively a floor on the price of drinkable milk. This keeps some milk producers in business who would otherwise exit the market. As you may know, price fl
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by medler 2y ago
It doesn’t happen for everyone, but most people on a high-saturated-fat diet will see higher measured cholesterol levels. This has been established in many studies. And anecdotally, it happened to me when I was on a low-carb diet
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by medler 2y ago
We can pick apart studies all day long, but the link between saturated fat and cholesterol is hard to deny. Were I you I would get my ApoB checked. If it’s low, then great! Keep doing what you’re doing! But don’t give yourself a heart attac
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by medler 2y ago
Here are a couple of studies: https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/popular-keto-diet-may-be-linked-... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10121782/
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by medler 2y ago
Usually when you increase exercise, your body decreases its non-exercise calorie burn (NEAT), so your total calorie needs don’t change much. As a result, exercise is usually a wash for weight loss, unless you’re working hard to maintain you
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by medler 2y ago
My problem with keto is that most people on it eat so much saturated fat that their cholesterol goes through the roof, and that’s really bad for cardiovascular health. (Keto communities deal with this by preaching an anti-science, cholester
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by medler 2y ago
There’s strong evidence that it’s causation.
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by medler 2y ago
It’s quackery. There is a ton of scientific evidence showing that diets high in saturated fats cause high cholesterol, and high cholesterol is strongly associated with heart disease.
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by medler 2y ago
> Per Ray, the changes Google has been making seem to have most affected global websites with lots of inline ads and affiliate revenue links for e-commerce, because those are indicated as being more spammy This part sounds good to me. I’
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by medler 2y ago
> One contestant . . . had to consume an 800-calorie-per-day diet to maintain his weight. This is wrong. The linked source says he “now has to eat 800 calories a day less than a typical man his size.” That’s very different.
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by medler 2y ago
> That's INSANE that 6 years later the bodies metabolism had not adjusted back!!? Hard to believe! The paper argues it’s because they continued to have high levels of physical activity, which kept their resting metabolic rate low. T
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by medler 2y ago
This article links to this paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/oby.23308 It’s short and interesting, but the most interesting tidbit in there for me was that physically active hunter-gathe
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by medler 3y ago
He wasn’t offered a plea deal: https://www.axios.com/2023/10/03/sam-bankman-fried-trial-ftx...
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by medler 3y ago
I didn’t quite understand the context so I looked into the Timedoctor software they mention. Timedoctor can be configured to periodically take a screenshot of your user’s (/employee’s) screen, so the boss can look back at what they wer
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by medler 3y ago
This is from 2011 or possibly earlier. Since that was around the same time ThreadSanitizer came out, I wonder how similar the two approaches are? I know lots of people use TSan nowadays but I haven’t heard of anyone using Relacy
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by medler 3y ago
Your comment isn’t wrong. It’s irrelevant. Of course Glassdoor is subject to laws like any other company. But there’s a lot of distance between complying with the law and divulging users’ private information willy-nilly. In the past they wo
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by medler 3y ago
From previous discussion, I think the fantastic claims in this article are highly suspect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3170067
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by medler 3y ago
Seems you’re right. They say each zone is a separate failure domain but you kind of have to trust their word on that.
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by medler 3y ago
> customers would beat us up over pricing compared to GCP blob storage, but the comparison was unfair because Google would store your data in the same building I don’t think this is true. Per the Google Cloud Storage docs, data is replic
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by medler 3y ago
Sounds like Richistan by Robert Frank
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by medler 3y ago
For me, audiobooks present good analogues for both these cases. I never skip lines in a book, but I might increase my reading speed if something is getting repetitive. Audiobooks also let you increase speed, and I often go to 2.5x or even
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by medler 3y ago
Any recommendations of technical audiobooks you’ve liked?
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by medler 3y ago
Not really that close, since the most important thing about the title is that it’s talking about cradling [babies]. This is a good example of how ChatGPT often gives answers that seem plausible but are incorrect.
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by medler 3y ago
Recently made some chord flashcards in an experiment to see if it will improve my sight reading on piano. I originally planned to write a python script to generate Lilypond code for all the different chords I wanted, but found that Frescoba
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by medler 3y ago
There used to be TV commercials for a piece of fitness equipment called the Ab Doer. It was supposedly created by John Abdo. I’m still not sure but as far as I can tell he was a real guy and that was his real name.
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by medler 3y ago
What’s the advice?
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by medler 3y ago
This is a common pattern in history: - Person 1 makes an observation that they assert is true - Person 2 refers to this observation as “Person 1’s Law” for convenience when discussing the observation and whether or not it is true. There’s n
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by medler 3y ago
Apparently not, since many aircraft have them hardwired to always be on
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by medler 3y ago
> The biggest culprit of foodbourne illness is sick cooks with poor hygiene This study suggests ways to prevent those cooks from becoming sick

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