- krisroadruckYou simply cannot cram enough cooling and power into a laptop to have it equal a desktop high end desktop CPU of the same generation. There is physically not enough room. Just about the only way to even approach that would be to have liquid cooling loop ports out the back that you had to plug into an under-desk cooling loop and I don't think anyone is doing that because at that point just get a frickin desktop computer + all the other conveniences that come with it (discrete peripherals, multiple monitors, et cetera). I honestly do not understand why so many devs seem to insist on doing work on a laptop. My best guess is this is mostly the apple crowd because apple "desktops" are for the most part - just the same hardware in a larger box instead of being actually a different class of machine. A little better on the thermals, but not the drastic jump you see between laptops and desktops from AMD and Intel.
- That's a common perspective, but it oversimplifies a complex biological reality many people face.
The body has sophisticated signaling pathways that regulate hunger and defend fat stores. In some people, dysregulation in pathways like mTORC1 essentially keeps their "hunger volume" turned up regardless of their actual energy needs, increasing hunger-promoting neuropeptides (NPY, AgRP) while decreasing satiety signals (POMC, CART).
When someone with this dysregulation tries to lose weight, the body deploys additional defenses: reduced non-exercise activity thermogenesis (less fidgeting, less spontaneous movement), increased energy efficiency, and even induced lethargy after intentional exercise to preserve fat stores. This isn't laziness - it's sophisticated biological adaptation.
This creates a crucial matrix that determines weight outcomes:
* High willpower + Low hunger signaling: Naturally fit with minimal effort
* Low willpower + Low hunger signaling: Generally maintains healthy weight without struggle
* High willpower + High hunger signaling: Might maintain weight with constant effort
* Low willpower + High hunger signaling: Almost inevitably leads to obesity
Keep in mind willpower itself has significant genetic and epigenetic components - it's not simply a matter of character. Variations in dopamine and serotonin regulation genes directly affect impulse control and reward processing.
GLP-1/GIP medications work by intervening in these pathways. They activate receptors in the hypothalamus that can override or bypass the defective mTORC1 signaling. They directly inhibit AgRP/NPY neurons while activating POMC neurons, essentially normalizing the hunger signals. They also slow gastric emptying and modulate the brain's reward system to reduce food's hedonic value. In other words, they take willpower out of the equation. If you aren't hungry, you don't have to fight the urge to eat.
I'm not just speaking to the science here - I have direct experience. Despite years of disciplined efforts with trainers, various diets, calorie counting I went from 150lbs in my 20s to 315lbs by my 40s. With Zepbound, I've lost 55 pounds in six months without the constant battle. I will have to take this medication for the rest of my life, but I will probably live much longer as a result, and I'm already reaping the rewards in terms of energy, focus, sleep quality, et cetera.
These medications do have side effects worth considering, but they need to be weighed against the severe health consequences of obesity. Obesity significantly increases risk of heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, certain cancers, and premature death. For men specifically, obesity increases sex hormone-binding globulin which reduces free testosterone levels, leading to fatigue, reduced muscle mass, decreased libido, and even depression. The most common side effects of GLP-1 medications (nausea, constipation, diarrhea) are typically mild, manageable, and often diminish over time. While there are theoretical concerns about more serious effects like pancreatitis based on animal studies, clinical data in humans hasn't supported these concerns. Regardless, these potential risks must be balanced against the near-certainty of health complications from remaining morbidly obese.
For people with dysregulated hunger signaling, these medications aren't just cosmetic interventions—they're addressing a fundamental biological dysfunction that otherwise creates persistent obstacles to maintaining a healthy weight. The risk-benefit analysis strongly favors treatment for those who need it. They make sustainable lifestyle changes possible by removing the constant neurobiological opposition to weight loss.
- AlphaGo got better by playing against itself. I wonder if the pathway forward here is to essentially do the same with coding. Feed it some arbitrary SRS documents - have it attempt to develop them including full code coverage testing. Have it also take on roles of QA, stakeholders, red-team security researchers, and users who are all aggressively trying to find edge cases and point out everything wrong with the application. Have it keep iterating and learn from the findings. Keep feeding it new novel SRSs until the number off attempts/iterations necessary to get a quality product out the other side drops to some acceptable number.
- Found out I had been worried about my blood pressure for no reason for close to 4 years. When I moved I brought it up to my new doctor and he said "what color was the cuff". Turns out they were using one entirely too small for my arm, which wouldn't you know it gives false-high readings. Turns out my blood pressure is frickin perfect.
- Honestly I think the only reason you guys shipped as many units as you did was blocking other voice assistants from interacting with Audible. I've had an Alexa/Echo since the early beta and it has literally always been worse than other options like google home. It's gotten progressively worse over time as well. Not just comparatively but vs it's own experience several years ago.
- As far as I am aware I haven't made any other calls at all. This one wasn't exactly hard to predict given their treatment of scotch.io
Both were marketing/seo plays and long term there was never any incentive for them to keep the brands independent and operating at full cost.
TL;DR if you want your publication to live on well after you sell it, sell it to a publisher business, don't sell it to a product/service business.
- I basically called this the day the acquisition was announced:
- I wonder how much longer this will remain true. Audiobooks and translations seem like near-term target for AI.
- That's the alternative
- I ultimately ended up getting an nvidia shield, but at that point it solved my biggest gripe with plex so I just switched back to plex and have been happy with it.
- Weight lifting done properly IS stretching. Full range of motion is a big deal for hypertrophy.
Static stretching is essentially worthless, and can actually be detrimental to performance: https://journals.lww.com/acsm-csmr/Fulltext/2014/05000/The_E....
The thing to do for weight lifting is do some light warm up cardio (5-10 minutes on your favorite hamster wheel variant - elliptical, treadmill, bike) to get your core temp up, then do a few warm up sets before big compound movements to improve blood flow to the target muscles and lubricate the joints.
Before doing your working sets on bench/squat/deadlift, do a few sets at a much lower weight. Like this:
Warm-up set 1: Start with the empty bar and warm up for a few reps there.
Warm-Up Set 2: 40-50% of your first set x 5 reps (if the empty bar falls into this percentage- skip this step).
Warm-Up Set 3: 60-65% of your first set x 3-5 reps
Warm-Up Set 4: 70-80% of your first set x 3 reps
Warm-up set 5: 85-90% of your first set x 1-3 reps
Warm-Up Set 6: 90-95% of your first set x 1-3 reps
Now do your working sets.
If you aren't lifting that much weight (bench press for example) you can skip a few of these and start at say 60-65% of your working weight.
- Two options:
-- Accountability Coach
-- Personal trainer
Of the 2, personal trainer is probably better if you are new to the gym (been lifting 0-2 years) because they will also help you nail technique/form so you don't get yourself injured swinging around ego lifts.
You don't have to pay a lot for this either - don't get the $120/hr folks at big 24 hour gyms, find a private gym where one trainer might be working with about 6-8 folks at any one time. They will queue up each set of exercises for you, check your form and then do the same for someone else while you are doing the bulk of the work.
The place I go to charges $45 per 90 minute session for this and it's great. I don't need to figure out my workout, track my weights/reps for progressive overload or anything. They take care of all of that. I just show up, do the work and get on with my day.
- Every time I've asked them about an app for Samsung or LG tvs - the two most popular brands they've pushed back "we're volunteers, we don't use those TVs, it's not on our to-do list but feel free to code it yourself". They aren't open to being paid to develop it either.
- Sigh... I don't know how the internet has convinced people this shit requires some magic incantation to cook eggs. I promise you I can cook eggs in any brand new lodge pan you hand me without issue. In fact if you sand blast the factory seasoning off it first and give it to me shiny I can still do it. And so can you. It requires the exact same skills as cooking with stainless steel which won't take a season no matter how hard you try. Step 1: Bring it up to temp (confirm by tossing some flecks of water in it, if they bead, it's up to temp). Step 2, throw a knob of butter in it and coat the damn pan. Fat is your friend, don't be shy with it. Step 3: Cook the eggs. If a little bit sticks that's fine. You probably should have used more butter - but no worries - just go wash it off in the sink the same way you'd wash anything else. It's a giant piece of iron - you aren't going to hurt it with a little soap, water and elbow grease. When you are done dry it off on the stove and hit it with a little grease/oil/fat to keep it from rusting. If you forget and it rusts... still no big deal - scrub off the rust, give it a little grease and bobs your uncle. This shit is only hard if you decide it is.
Source: Been cooking exclusively on carbon steel, cast iron and stainless for years.
- Literally just cook with it. The main thing with everything except for teflon pans is you need to bring them up to temp before cooking, and you need to use some fat of some kind (olive oil, butter, whatever). The oil itself will provide the "non stick" until it's seasoned, and it'll also do the seasoning. You can waste a bunch of time doing seasoning as a separate step (light coating of oil, bring up to smoke point, let cool, repeat) but this is mostly just a giant waste of time. Just cook on the dang thing, and don't be afraid to toss in a chunk of butter or some oil. It won't kill ya :-)
- I mean they did say they were going to the moon to stay... maybe they meant it more literally than we're reading it ;-)
- I made the mistake of moving for a role back in 2018. Money was super good but it was to a location I wouldn't want to be if the role wasn't there. Literally 45 days after we completed the move they decided to eliminate the role entirely. Between the move out and the move back the cost was something like $25K and they didn't provide anything to offset it. Never again.
- Their SEO must be foaming at the mouth that it didn't result in a link lol
- I wonder how seasonal energy prices are. Seems intuitive that as winter abates and heating demand drops, energy prices would fall.
- I've lived all over the country (35ish moves in 41 years). There are a lot of things you can do to make other areas more appealing vs California (or the west coast in genera), but one thing you can't really fix is the weather. A lot of people really hate super cold winters or super hot humid summers, and for them there is no replacement for the rather unique climate conditions that exist along the west coast.
Here is a map of the world which shows where that relatively mild west coast climate exists - it exceedingly rare:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate#/media/F...
