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by vlod 3y ago
Not how I would phrase it. :) However, most gym machines (e.g. treadmills) have a setting that says 'fat burn', so I can see why the average population could incorrectly think that.
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by vlod 3y ago
>When you're at a caloric deficit your body will begin to burn fat. It doesn't make a difference what kind of calories you're intaking Of course it matters. Here's an experiment. Drink only 12 cans of soda (~140 cals
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by vlod 3y ago
I think 'snacking' is the general problem that people need to stop. I suspect most people don't snack on nuts, but carb rich sugary-salty snacks, which keeps your insulin levels high. High insulin levels means you can't
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by vlod 3y ago
What does food-insecure mean? >afford healthier options. cheap unprocessed brown rice, dried beans, frozen branded grocery store veg is not that expensive. (some spices help as well). Lots of poor students live on that. Of course, it can
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by vlod 3y ago
Maybe learn to cook simple meals is another tip. Rice/beans/vegetables and protein is cheap and a lot of the world (outside of the US) live on that for decades.
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by vlod 3y ago
>it's not even really supported by mmalmi's personal experience. Phenomenal. Notwithstanding this correct observation, it's still probably still a good idea for the majority of the population who aren't as analytical
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by vlod 3y ago
I use terminal, vscode and firefox, docker to do development. Linux (specifically popos) works well for that and a lot of other stuff. For that I use a Thinkpad X1 Carbon.
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by vlod 3y ago
I use userscripts/violent-monkey for my stuff and I don't have to deal with any of them. I grant you, it's harder for people to use my stuff.
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by vlod 3y ago
Wondering how this affects Apple employees. Back in the day, working for Apple seemed cool. (Pirate flags on building etc). Previously MSFT used to be (maybe they've turned that around?) the most hated tech company (becz of their very
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by vlod 3y ago
To read pg essays. [0] [0] https://paulgraham.com/articles.html
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by vlod 3y ago
For those that are interested in 'age' see previous hn thread [0] That thread suggests (I'm not an expert) there seems to be a problem (with 'age') of overwriting files if you have the public key. [0]: https:/
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by vlod 3y ago
Would be great if you have suggestions. I'm sure there are others interested.
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by vlod 3y ago
One of the things I find interesting is that it won't necessarily be tied just to popos. I believe other distros are looking into it. (Can't find references now) If anyone is interested in the 'why', here's an old (
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by vlod 3y ago
I'm hopeful that everyone here that loves rust will have an outlet to start creating GUI apps for linux (that isn't gnome).
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by vlod 3y ago
>When there are multiple useless mailing lists, notifications sent in email Never understood why people don't use filters to move these email into their own folders (or label them) and get them out of the inbox. It's really not
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by vlod 3y ago
>In a video posted on X, formerly Twitter, Carlson said he wanted to do the interview because "Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they are implicated in". For some reason no link to the video [0]. [0]: htt
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by vlod 3y ago
TELL Employers: Stop using LLMs/AI to filter job applications. I'm convinced that 99% of my applications are not getting through to a human.
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by vlod 3y ago
A good term to search for, is 'Prompt engineering'. Here's OpenAI's docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering Google's: https://cloud.google.com/blog
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by vlod 3y ago
Standard html is a pita, might be worth looking at astro [0] if you want a static seo-friendly site. [0]: https://astro.build
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by vlod 3y ago
Time to seriously use Signal for everything (I've not heard it's been broken).
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by vlod 3y ago
Good use of ChatGPT (to reword it).
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by vlod 3y ago
Jeff Atwood (cofounder of Stackoverflow) Law [0] “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.” [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Atwood#cite_note-5
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by vlod 3y ago
FYI: I just got a 400 when trying to sign up via google: "400. That’s an error. The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried."
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by vlod 3y ago
PopOS is here and there are traditional choc-chip cookies still available. They are also in the process of ditching GNOME and moving to Rust [0]. (For those that get exciting about that sort of thing). [0] https://blog.system76.c
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by vlod 3y ago
https://archive.is/z3xGl
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by vlod 3y ago
Not sure how this will work in reality. How are the prices going to be communicated? If I want to take an uber to the airport, I can see whether it's going to be $15 or $28 (including surge), before I commit. If I want to head downtown
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by vlod 3y ago
A quick search "Jane Street returns compared s&p500" lead me to this: https://hedgefollow.com/funds/Jane+Street+Group/Performance-... Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but from the graph it'
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by vlod 3y ago
https://archive.is/5wHFg
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by vlod 3y ago
I just watched this video: "HTMX For React Developers in 10 Minutes" [0] that you might like as an intro. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0XBULqzsT0
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by vlod 3y ago
Previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32156009

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