MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Is it even possible to drop 20 lbs in a month? Are there any diets for people who want to go to the extreme? Kind of like celebs do for roles? 2 weeks ago:
Everyone here talking calories and forgetting water weight. Boxers etc. will drop carbs entirely to make a weight cut-off. Two aspects to consider here, glycogen and inflammation, both of which store water. If you are not fat adapted and stop carbs your glycogen will deplete (~500g glycogen + 4x that in water, 2.5kg = 5+lbs), also called hitting the wall in endurance sports.
If you have systemic inflammation your fat cells will carry a bunch of extra water (you know when your ankle swells up after twisting, that’s water from inflammation), so removing inflammatory stimuli, foods, environment can cause that to get peed out. Depending how many fat cells, the amount will vary, but could easily be 5kg if obese.
This is how people lose dramatic amounts of weight in the first few weeks of diet. Actually removing fat is a lot harder, but it starts in the kitchen.
- Comment on What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians? 3 weeks ago:
Both are mass murder.
The difference is the State claims the (legal) right to lethal force. It’s still murder. Terrorists (or freedom fighters, depending on outlook) that kill people are murderers. They probably also claim the right to lethal force, which is still murder.
- Comment on Vape packaging and flavouring face restrictions under UK plans to reduce appeal to children 3 weeks ago:
How about requiring reusability? There is zero reason for disposables to exist and they’re a huge toxic trash issue.
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 3 weeks ago:
You’ll love what they tried next: Fencing them in (stupid long fences) and when that didn’t work, biological warfare (Myxomatosis) which actually worked pretty well for a while. Enjoy your future.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Sure, just install paru or yay and proceed as normal.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I don’t envision anything Purge style, but a C.E. (look it up, 1859) would be really bad and I expect significantly longer than 2-3 years, Means of Production (tractors, industrial equipment, semiconductor factories, transport) would all be fried too. Can’t see us avoiding mass starvation in even 2 years.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Depends what causes it.
Nasty worm, no biggie, people will be confident it can be fixed quickly.
Carrington Event (think worldwide EMP), instant collapse, planes falling out of the sky, computers fried, cars since 1990 (guess) dead, hospitals destroyed and on and on.
- Comment on Glad they're looking out for me 5 weeks ago:
I have altered the deal. Pray I don’t alter it further.
- Comment on What's a word for "I actively endorse it for others even though I dislike it”? 5 weeks ago:
Agreed.
- Comment on What's a word for "I actively endorse it for others even though I dislike it”? 5 weeks ago:
Hmm, you suggesting KDE and Gnome (and other DEs) are religions, or defended with religious fervor? Might be something to that, but likely not what OP wants.
- Comment on Google Quietly Unlocks Big Audio Upgrade for Eligible Pixels in Android 17 5 weeks ago:
I’ve already got LDAC on mine anyway, and have devices that can use it.
- Comment on Doctor Who and Star Trek showrunners discussed possible crossover 5 weeks ago:
call out something like space whales and you’ll be good.
Already done, The Beast Below
- Comment on The Financial Review’s Inaccurate Preference Analysis 1 month ago:
Anthony Green, National Treasure. So nice to have an independent (I’d dare to say objective), statistically savvy voice amongst the shitshow of mainstream media political reporting (propagandizing).
- Comment on Which browser do you recommend for a low-resource PC? 1 month ago:
I assumed Linux given the specs and that Chrome works at all.
Vote for firefox as you should be anyway. Another trick to try is an explicit tab unloader extension (for fine control of unloading) and/or the built in about:unloads .
All browser seem to accumulate memory (and cpu usage) over time, sometimes you just have to shut it down and restart. (AKA have you tried turning it off and on :)
- Comment on Seems very topical with the rise of One Nation 1 month ago:
defective
+1
- Comment on Seems very topical with the rise of One Nation 1 month ago:
Tiny airplane, to complement her morals.
- Comment on Evolution Factsberg 1 month ago:
It could explain why some people suffer emotional distress while under antibiotics
Or just that nuking gut bacteria messes with the gut brain axis…
- Comment on Evolution Factsberg 1 month ago:
And provides fertile ground for evolution by providing space for gene duplication and divergence. Likely also for miRNA control systems.
- Comment on Anon plays Arkham City 1 month ago:
and polluters / fossil fuels, and tax avoiders and…
hmm, looks like
capitalistsoligarchs, oh my. - Comment on Australia sanctions Israeli extremists in response to violence in Palestine 1 month ago:
It does say Australia in the headline.
A fair number of EU politicians have been pretty vocal.
Australia is also doing the extremism thing (see ‘Between the river and the sea’ in QLD, protests in NSW, Vic). I see that more as a part of an ongoing campaign against protests in general happening widely across the world.
- Comment on Australia sanctions Israeli extremists in response to violence in Palestine 1 month ago:
At a guess, Europe beginning to normalize speaking up as they distance themselves from the US hegemony. Early days, and we’re unfortunately pretty damned locked in to the US militarily ourselves, which makes for a precarious position what with Trumps whims, but one (bloody) hopes wheels are starting to slowly turn on that.
- Comment on Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips 2 months ago:
Fuck SamA, no Mobo prices will not fall because it’s all supply on demand, stepping aroundfailed concepts like ‘competition’.
- Comment on Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys 3 months ago:
Not the Onion??
- Comment on Possibility of translating the messages of dogs, cats, and other pets 3 months ago:
To indulge the thought I think you could get a fair way using LLMs and vision models (for body language) by looking at the vector space differences between human languages (and idiomatic [e.g. two fingers in different cultures] and intrinsic [e.g. smiles] gestures), a large set of annotated animal vocalizations and gestures, plugging it into a really hot cup of tea and burning a small forest.
More seriously, I think Cetaceans would be a more tractable problem, and perhaps from there other animals. Wouldn’t surprise me if it was already underway, while LLMs aren’t good for a lot of things techbros want them to be good at, they are good at modelling languages.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 3 months ago:
I don’t have a good source, but my instinct is that ‘society at large’ in many (probably most) places is at least in majority ‘okay with human euthanasia’, and has been for quite a while. It’s the laws that need to catch up, but don’t due to lack of political will and a vocal minority.
- Comment on how things become science 3 months ago:
Valid use case, still a significant problem.
- Comment on I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off 3 months ago:
Fair cop, shall look at pipepipe, wait, that’s a phone app, I like my vidja on a larger screen, You do you, I’m good :)
- Comment on agagaga 3 months ago:
Hmfh, usually the long repeats are CGs (or ATs)
- Comment on I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off 3 months ago:
Kudos to you then I guess. Nice offsite backup you’re not paying for, love it.
- Comment on I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off 3 months ago:
Solid. I seem to have a ~90% overlap, copying both this and the movies to my obsidian, shall do some diff / grepping later… There’s gems in there, thanks.
Sympathy for the no adblocker (moron?, but with taste), must burn.