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"Revealed: group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry" -- The Guardian[1] [1] - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutr...

Muscle requires protein, yes. Unfortunately, we don't get to keep unnecessary muscle just by eating protein. The body requires a lot less muscle to lug around 200 pounds than it di…

You are correct. It's per decade. Although some days it feels like I only have 16% left.

Oh thank God! You are correct. It's per decade.

> operating on land, in the air, in space, on, or under water Thunderbirds are Go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_mBUaPsX6o

The side effect of drastic muscle loss isn't quickly reversible though. Because muscle is about 3x as expensive to maintain as fat, unless you are on some major strength training t…

I can speak only for myself. But when I was overweight, the heels of my feet would crack into such deep fissures that I could remove skin like thick pieces of jerky. I lost 90 poun…

It puts a finger on the scale. Which unfortunately lasts as long as the person takes the drug. What happens when they stop taking it, unless they were on some serious strength trai…

This research already exists though. Obesity and being overweight increases the risk of sleep apnea, strokes, heart disease, diabetes, mental health problems, etc. etc

If the original larger bar contained more calories as well as higher quality ingredients requiring more time to digest, then the older bar may actually have been the healthier opti…

Like everything in life, it depends. Due to ingredients, the old larger Mars may well have a lower glycemic index than the smaller newer bars. I'm not saying that eating the old ba…

> It feels exactly like if all the emacs users in the world tried to force all vim users to use emacs. That's why emacs has a vim mode[1]. [1] - https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

> We cannot possibly expect all parents to take proper care of their kids. This has never been the case and never will. That's why we have schools and other institutions that overs…

A reason is different performance metrics. One bonus depends on "make number go up". The other realizes that making "number go up" degrades the experience for the product as a whol…

> Code is just detailed specifications on how things should operate. The spec defines how things should operate. Code defines how things operate. The problem being that if there is…

When "using an LLM", means the human has to substantially alter the output of the LLM for the work to be eligible for copyright. Agreed. But this makes the LLM tool different to ot…

When you create a work using a tool, you own the copyright. When you create a work using an LLM, there is no copyright. So then isn't an LLM less than a tool?

In my head "make" implies copyright. If you make it then copyright belongs to you unless you sign that away. You prompted, the LLM made. The output of the LLM is not eligible for c…

Not to be an arse, but didn't you have access to Stack Overflow with all questions/answers prior to LLMs?

FYI; In South Africa, the 5 1/4 inch is a "floppy". The 3 1/2 inch is a "stiffy". I don't understand why this isn't so everywhere.

Uh oh. You could be genetically predisposed to have to listen to everyone's problems.

They know, because in their personal capacity, they hate interacting with AI customer service agents from other companies. But their bonus depends on driving down costs in their co…

In aerospace related industries there is a culture of writing and reading of requirements. I system engineered for a major US satellite TV provider, and just the specification that…

I used to work in Burbank and lived approximately 34 miles away, across Los Angeles. It could take almost three hours for me to drive home on a Friday afternoon on the freeway. Thi…

Costco? [Edit] -- And I've frequented several independent coffee shops that are cashless.