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Please tell us how you do the walking meditation. It sounds great and I’d love to try it.

I started IF about two years ago. I gradually, over a very long period worked down to one meal a day. It wasn’t hard, because it was gradual. I didn’t lose weight (but I wasn’t ove…

I am a scientist and I have to read sometimes hundreds of pages of dense scientific literature in a given week while doing other things that my job requires. I also find reading lo…

* Consume less. Do something good for the planet. * Rekindle my career now that I’m done having kids. Start a new research project, submit ~5 good papers. * Help my husband with hi…

I do agree with you about the title!

I doubt it. Using O_DIRECT is essentially bypassing the buffer cache. Similar to the “cold” experiments where the file is not cached. Mmap is still faster. I have also done experim…