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by tptacek 1mo ago
This seems wrong. There's a lot of diversity in Arabic, there has been modernization in Arabic, and the Quran does not declare Arabic a perfected language. Arabic has changed already. I'm not saying this project will be successful
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by tptacek 1mo ago
I think we're talking past each other. There's no uncertainty about how DNSSEC works between servers. Any recursive lookup can validate a signature chain. The question is how DNSSEC breaks down in the last mile, where recursive lo
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by tptacek 1mo ago
I do not understand what difference you think that makes but I'm also not that invested in this debate. I don't even like yogurt.
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by tptacek 1mo ago
You have two recursers (or recurser-capable systems, in the case of a forwarder), an upstream that you tentatively trust and a downstream one you trust completely (because end systems use stub resolvers and have to blindly trust a recursive
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by tptacek 1mo ago
You've lost me completely, sorry. I'm backing out now. The only reason we were talking was that you seemed to be asserting that it wasn't possible to do a non-UPF sweetened yogurt product, which, obviously no.
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by tptacek 1mo ago
I did a little research, it's not clear what you mean.
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by tptacek 1mo ago
I'm exclusively commenting here about how the label "UPF" is problematic. Pasteurization doesn't make something ultra-processed, despite its stabilizing effect.
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by tptacek 1mo ago
You're not confused. You're right. That's my point. "UPF" is not a useful health labeling system. Whether or not something qualifies as a UPF doesn't tell you whether it's a healthy choice. The most unheal
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by tptacek 1mo ago
No. Pasteurization isn't a UPF technique. See the problem?
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by tptacek 1mo ago
It's a poor analogy because mechanical watches and quartz watches aren't perfect substitutes and aren't purchased for the same reasons. Everybody's phone keeps better time than a watch; absolute accuracy isn't the e
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by tptacek 1mo ago
Here's another. This is not a UPF, and it's overtly dessert yogurt. https://www.lafermiere.us/yogurts (The fruit-at-the-bottom variants are presumably UPFs).
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by tptacek 1mo ago
Put two identically sized servings of yogurt side by side, equal in all aspects except that one is 100kcal and the other, because of added sugar, is 170kcal. The 170kcal serving is less healthful; the other is a UPF.
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by tptacek 1mo ago
Dunno! The thought of sweetened yogurt grosses me out. In fact, all yogurt does, largely because of the name "yo-gurt". I can eat skyr if I mix it into other things or make labneh out of it. (Following up on your edit) Because it&
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by tptacek 1mo ago
I'm sorry, but I think I can very easily refute this argument: https://kalonasupernatural.com/products/organic-whole-milk-h... There you go, a ( major-label ) sweetened yogurt product, not a UPF, no stabilizers. S
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by tptacek 1mo ago
Maybe you can answer the question then. Is it "having performance judged by output rather than by process or satisfaction"?
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by tptacek 1mo ago
What a weirdly hostile and offensive response. I'm always struck by people who think they can namedrop my employers to shut down an argument, like we're just going to believe and profess whatever keeps people on message boards fro
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by tptacek 1mo ago
Well, a meme is contagious, but it doesn't do the same work a virus can at altering the structure of its host.
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by tptacek 1mo ago
They're specifically not using the term "virus" pejoratively, but rather distinguishing the social mechanism LLMs seem to have from something as simple as a "meme".
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by tptacek 1mo ago
What "pain" are you talking about? You keep trying to smuggle this framing in. I don't accept the premise.
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by tptacek 1mo ago
You haven't established anybody being treated poorly, only that they're being treated like professionals and not artisans.
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by tptacek 1mo ago
It tastes better to you . Good for you. White bread continues to exist as a category because it's hyperpalatable; in fact, it's one of the canonical HPFs.
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by tptacek 1mo ago
This is like the Mexican coke argument all over again. Everybody wants there to be an industrial bogeyman to blame for American nutritional health problems. Wouldn't it be awesome if we could fix problems for people simply by replacing
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by tptacek 1mo ago
That's the point. The ultra-processing of shelf-stable unsweetened yogurt food products has nothing to do with engineering it for palatability. And yet they're UPFs, and you could easily ship a highly sweetened dessert yogurt prod
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by tptacek 1mo ago
No. And the way you're wrong about this is important. Any plain whole milk yogurt thickened or stabilized with starches or pectin is a UPF; Kroger's Plain Whole Milk, for instance, is a UPF and it isn't sweetened. (For what i
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by tptacek 1mo ago
I think it literally is the claim the article is trying to make, but "UPF" is the on-trend term, despite the fact that most UPFs aren't engineered for hyperpalatability. It's a problem!
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by tptacek 1mo ago
> “About 60% of the calories in Americans’ diets are from ultra-processed foods,” says Schmidt, who spoke at a UC Berkeley event in May. “In the mid-’80s, when we see ultra-processed foods starting to scale up in the American food supply
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by tptacek 1mo ago
What do you mean, "advocating for better treatment"? They're not describing an abuse of tradespeople and professionals. They're adults doing a job.
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by tptacek 1mo ago
It's a snarky way of suggesting that programmers are complaining about being treated the way professionals and tradespeople always have.
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by tptacek 1mo ago
Not so much, the grey market is pretty well structured.
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by tptacek 1mo ago
DNSSEC and DoH provide different security services. But to get the benefit of DNSSEC, you need to resolve recursively. DoH works for stub resolvers. That's all I'm saying.

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