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- Comment on hows keto working out for you 23 hours ago:
An example with an oversimplified diet to illustrate the point I think you’re trying to make: You have a diet that’s exclusively cake and you’ve determined that you need 2000 Calories of cake to maintain your weight. That 2000 Calories figure is an estimate and we don’t know exactly how much of it we’re actually absorbing. In reality, it’s actually more like 1800 Calories. Now all of a sudden, you switch your diet to eating exclusively cookies. You measure out exactly 2000 Calories of cookies and eat the same thing every day. But your Calorie estimate is wrong and you’re actually eating 2100 Calories of cookies per day. Now you gain weight on this supposed 2000 Calorie diet.
I argue that this doesn’t matter either. If you see that you’re gaining weight, then it means you’re eating too much. Reduce your Calorie target and you’ll be back on track. In a real world scenario, you’re going to have a much more varied diet than only cake or only cookies, and each item will come with their own measurement errors. But for most people, their diets are varied in a fairly consistent way, so these errors are also consistent on average. If you ever make changes in your diet (e.g. completely cut out McDonald’s), you’ll change both your estimated Calorie intake and target like in the example above. Adjust your numbers accordingly based on how your bodyweight moves and you’re good.
Of course, other ways of dieting are also effective. It depends mostly on what you can adhere to and your goals.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 1 day ago:
We’ve had at least two of these in the recent past: that Ukrainian power plant that was under attack, and also Iran’s nuclear facilities getting bombed.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 1 day ago:
As would building a fence to keep in a bird.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 1 day ago:
None of that actually matters when it comes to weight control. What matters is that the linear relationship is retained in your proxy measure of Calories. Meaning that if you eat two pieces of cake, you’ve doubled your Calorie intake compared to eating one piece.
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 2 days ago:
Couldn’t you achieve the same thing using a ceramic bowl with a lid?
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 2 days ago:
An air fryer is a convection oven. But not every convection oven is an air fryer.
- Comment on itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!? 2 days ago:
If you’re able to give precise instructions on what to do to resolve the issue, then couldn’t you also automate it and make it seamless from the user’s perspective?
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 3 days ago:
industrial hardcore
What are some of your favourites in this category? Spotify hasn’t been giving me any good recommendations on this front either.
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 4 days ago:
I would argue that this is the entire value proposition of Spotify. I may not own the music, but I have all the artist and song names. I can always re-acquire them at any time.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 4 days ago:
That’s two items. The second one costs extra.
- Comment on Why doesn't Hamas or Israel just meet at a predetrmined place and time and just have out or kill the crap out of each other? Instead of involving civs who don't have anything to do with war? 1 week ago:
I don’t know if it would be correct to say that the civilians have nothing to do with the war. As far as I’m aware, the IDF’s intended target is all Palestinians, civilians included.
- Comment on Ethical artificial intelligence ? 1 week ago:
It may be worth editing your post to specify that you’re talking about LLMs. There’s no indication that this is your intent without reading your responses in the comment section.
Ethical meaning : “private”, "anonymous, “not training with your data”, “no censured”, “open source”…
Private, anonymous, and uncensored. Those are easy. There’s plenty of pre-trained LLMs out there that you can download and use however you like.
Not training with your data, not possible as far as I’m aware. LLMs rely on the availability of a huge quantity and diversity of data. There isn’t enough of that available that also come with consent of the creator for this usage.
Open source isn’t well defined for machine learning models. Lots of models have their code and weights available, so if that qualifies for you, that’s also easy to find. Huggingface hosts most of them.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 1 week ago:
We can have static HTML websites, but that basically limits you to sharing static information (which, by the way, still have “bugs” in the form of typos). There’s already lots of great resources for that. Wikipedia, personal blogs, books (physical and electronic). That’s not usually what we’re on the internet for though. We’re here for interactivity. We want to connect with other people (e.g. Lemmy), and we want tools to help us with various problems we have (e.g. any portable software that just needs a browser to run). Avoiding JS would hinder that goal. If you just want to read, go to your local library, take out a book, and start reading. Or get an e-reader and download some e-books.
You also point out the problem of online privacy. While JS does empower the tracking, it also does way more than that. The solution shouldn’t be to throw out the baby with the bath water.
- Comment on What do ambulances do with patients cars? 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure you can have medical emergencies unrelated to driving.
- Comment on Covers the bases 2 weeks ago:
Also the realization that you just generally feel so much better when training regularly.
- Comment on Steady 3 weeks ago:
Hold my piss jug, I’m… uh… I feel like something’s missing.
- Comment on Kinky 3 weeks ago:
The one that eats too much protein, definitely.
- Comment on Kinky 3 weeks ago:
Basically the equivalent of dogs sniffing each other’s butts if you think about it.
- Comment on Not proud of myself. But I do it all the time 3 weeks ago:
Me with a book and my phone 😆
I don’t think it worked though
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 4 weeks ago:
What people do in that case is look at pictures of people with various hairstyles online, trying to find one where they feel like “this looks good, I want to try that one”
I don’t know what problems OP is facing, but in my case, this is basically what the hairdresser recommended that I do and also what I tried doing. Except it didn’t help because nothing was appealing to me (I’m rather change adverse). I really needed to maintain a particular style for a while to get used to it before I could decide if I liked it or not. After a while, I couldn’t tell if I disliked it because it was grown out too much or if I just didn’t like that cut, or if it was some other reason.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 4 weeks ago:
This is kind of a tautological answer. Of course it’s as often as I want, but what do I want? I had that question when I started making my own decisions on my hair. I was never fully happy with how things looked and haven’t figured out how to style it the way I like. What part of it was I unhappy with? I couldn’t tell. Would more frequent hair cuts help? Or less frequent so it spends more time in that slightly grown out state and I have more consistent hair to work with? And so many other questions.
If you know that most people get their hair cut after X weeks, then that gives you a starting point to experiment with instead of going into it completely blind.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 4 weeks ago:
Why would you want to stop yourself from smiling? Getting a fresh haircut and seeing it take shape sounds like a very good reason to smile.
- Comment on Is this still on the ace spectrum or what? 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like demisexual, which is a subset of asexuality.
Everyone else is already covering the topic of the usefulness of labels, so I’m not going to bother getting into that.
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 4 weeks ago:
I remember when this Streisanded hard on Digg. Good times.
- Comment on The iPhone 17 square selfie camera is a bigger deal than you think 4 weeks ago:
But… why? Just give me the full image.
- Comment on Brad buys a house 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Brad buys a house 5 weeks ago:
Write name, but sloppily. My brain will always be lazy in the same way, so the signature just ends up looking approximately the same every time. So basically, lots of squigglies too, but I’ll get the ascenders and descenders.
- Comment on Are fossil fuels vegan? 5 weeks ago:
They’re pretty much all made of plant matter, but that’s irrelevant. What makes it vegan or not is whether you cause harm to the fauna by using it and creating demand for it.
- Comment on OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly. 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure whatever voice system you’re using is just translating things to text and feeding it into an LLM, so it wouldn’t actually have that audio data. I’m not aware of any audio equivalent of LLMs existing.
- Comment on Mandatory self-reflection hours 5 weeks ago:
Notion does that too