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mirceal
8y ago
hahaha. that’s not healthy for you /s seriously, as someone that has done extended fasting at times (think weeks) my advice is not to jump into the deep end of the pool. Try eating all your food in an 8 hour window for starters and aft
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8y ago
^ this.
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mirceal
8y ago
yes. even corporations that sell breakfast cereal agree. you see you need to start your metabolism. think of your metabolism as a fire that you need to light up in the morning /s
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8y ago
another interesting point is that fasting and intermittent fasting is not a diet. IMHO all diets fail. If you attack it as a problem, you find a solution, do that, it works and you considered it solved you’re gonna fallback to your own habb
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8y ago
lol. sorry but that’s not true. calories are important but they’re not all that matters (another way of saying this is if you overeat you will get heavier). i can tell you that when you eat matters a lot. i can also tell you that a calorie
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8y ago
it’s a blend of 5/2 and ADF (alternate day fasting) most people undestand eating all your food for the day in a certain time window (8 hours) to be IF. The 8 hours eat + 16 hours fast is labeled 16:8. but you know what, you can call it
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8y ago
For people that come into this and think: “wtf is wrong with someone that they want to starve themselves” there is more to this than meets the eye. There is more than one type of fasting (more than one protocol - thowing this here: IF with
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8y ago
you can do a water fast for weeks and you’ll mostly be fine. your body has evolved to tolerate the absence of food and actually has mechanisms to deal with it. all that fat that you’ve been storing? gonna be converted to energy through keto
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8y ago
2 things to consider: 1) any additional latency is on the 1st request and after that the response is cached for the duration if the record’s ttl 2) because it’s blocking all the crap you have more bw so overall in my experience it actually
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8y ago
you can configure what dns servers to use for the “upstream”. you can choose between a series of ones included by default (gooogle, etc) or specify your own
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8y ago
that’s true, but only if you know there is such thing as direction
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8y ago
I am very weary of people that describe/brand themselves as productive. There is something about getting a lot of things done that is appealing to all of us, but in the words of a classic “it does not matter how fast you drive if you’r
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8y ago
yes, your current experience is heavily influenced by your past experiences.
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8y ago
if you want to fly anything other than a small plain you’re doing it wrong. think about it! we could get a new pilot and have them fly this in no time. it’s simple and can do this 2 tricks really well. everything is fluff and not for profes
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8y ago
the message is that meditation has a dark side and some previous imbalances may land you in deep trouble. people don’t really acknowledge this and put an = between meditation and calm/transcendence. same thing as with certain types of
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8y ago
yeah. totally agree. i call bullshit on being available 24/7/365 when you're the only person doing the job. even if you ignore the implications this has on you, this is a terrible idea if only from the redundancy/keeping
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8y ago
i did not see the clause that excluded people that did not grew in India. Every time you take one label and you apply it to a large group of people that have something in common you have the potential to be labeled yourself as racist. IMHO
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8y ago
depending on how you define race (if you look at it in the broader trrm of ethnicity) you can definitely talk about racism.
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8y ago
if you reread my comment was that the parent was offensive. saying that you’re from X does not give you a free pass to talk shit about people from X.
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dude (not an indian btw), you can be racist no matter what you are. identifying as an indian does not make what you’re saying less offensive
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8y ago
hahahahaha. this is a typical mistake of melting the person and the advice/writing/work. it’s a big mistake imho. a lot of people that did do questionable things (not sure that Peter is one of them though) produced great works of
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8y ago
over-engineering is real and is slowing things to a grind around you everyday. my conclusion is that people don’t really like simple things and they believe that complex=good and it’s a sign of how good/smart you are. so people are suc
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8y ago
this ^ i am having a hard time seeing myself using anything that google puts out. i have been burned way to many times. the biggest ones? google reader, code and inbox (happening now). sorry but it’s really hard to bet the farm on otherwise
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8y ago
what if jira bring the grasshopper plugin? grasshopper? field? grass? hopper? you’re kind of f’d
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8y ago
not only UX. programmers can actually learn a lot about building software if they see the meta in the book (replace door w/ interface. think about the mental model your library user is going to build for your library. make things easy
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8y ago
this sounds like big brothers + homeless people. while the intention might be noble I don’t see it working. and i have to wonder how else are we going to try to tackle this issue next. maybe microchip all the homeless and detect them wirele
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8y ago
depends. 3000 is a lot of money in Romania
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yes. people don’t normally see it as getting better at eating. it’s a problem they’re solving.
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8y ago
stop being a dog :| unless it's in another context where dog-like qualities are appreciated ;)
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8y ago
sorry. it's meant to be motivating. it's telling you in compressed form what you need to do to be successful
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