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I don't remember the source so, someone please correct me if I'm wrong but, I read that no EV battery can be made for less than $50K. So, either BYD is cutting some serious corners (possibly) or they are being heavily subsidized (probably). If either are true, I can see how that would be damaging to us.

I just watched Oh, God! again. She played that role perfectly. Like, "I'm sure my husband is crazy but I love him and, well, I guess we'll see where this goes."

Thanks for the clarification.

I think the food manufacturers are culpable here, and "manufacturer" is really the best word to use. They're more like chemists cobbling together edible compounds than farmers growing things that provide nutrition.

You're getting downvoted here but I think there is precedent behind your statement. History is littered with weight loss drugs that had to be pulled because the shoe eventually dropped. Usually that was addiction or death which, admittedly, neither have been shown in the GLP-1's but, given the history of weight loss drugs, it's not unreasonable in my opinion to be cautious.

I'm speaking out of turn here since I'm not a React Native developer but, it seems to me that it suffers from the penalty of having to use the JS bridge that neither Flutter nor web use.

I'm also an Apple Vision Pro owner. I don't see it as a flop and here's why:

The first Macintosh was, inflation adjusted, double the price of the Apple Vision Pro, and they shipped about the same number of units in their first years respectively.

People only see it as a flop because Apple is a gargantuan company now compared to then and they expect to see gargantuan sales of new products from Apple now. Apple is playing a different game this time around.

I personally don't think it's reasonable for a publication to suggest Apple is outright discontinuing a product in the headline, only to reveal that, no, they're actually just making a strategy shift with the product line.

That's newsworthy all by itself. No clickbait needed.

I’m 51 and I’m healthier than I was 20 years ago because I improved my nutrition and started moving my body on a regular basis. I go to the doctor about once a year for a physical and I actually had a provider tell me recently that she rarely sees someone my age as healthy as I am.

In truth, it's usually the opposite when our bodies are fueled properly.

This is why good quality nutrition is so important. It's like giving all of our cells--not just T cells--extra batteries.

I love what Scott Hanselman said about this:

So, Amazon wants everyone to return to the office. Does that mean they also want us to return to the mall and supporting small local businesses?

https://x.com/shanselman/status/1836140762075210102

One of my co-workers is trying to use one of Microsoft's low/no code platforms to do something with CRM and it's taking her months. I could've built something with code in significantly less time.

As far as I'm concerned, these platforms are borderline snake oil.

It's 1999 all over again.

When I first started, I was rarely hungry in the classical sense. Instead, I knew I was hungry because I would suddenly get tired. When I ate, my energy almost immediately returned.

Also, sometimes when we think we're hungry, we're actually dehydrated.

So, I would argue that nobody needs to ignore hunger pangs. First, drink some water and wait a few minutes. Still hungry? Then eat something[1]. It's ok.

1: See my earlier post about what to eat. If you want to keep being hungry an hour after eating, eat food from the Standard American Diet.

Personally, I find telling people to eat less doesn't work. In part because the food manufacturers are such masters at making people addicted to their garbage.

Eating healthy fats and protein is so satiating that one doesn't need to try to eat less, they just naturally do. Yes, there are exceptions to that but, for most people that is true.

I did keto but people don't need to do that if they eat good quality nutrient-dense foods. Preferably organic and locally-grown, and prioritizing healthy fats, proteins, and complex carbs and avoiding at all costs processed food. I can't stress enough how much modern food manufacturers are poisoning us.

I started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at 44. I was about 40-50lbs overweight and had never been athletic except for a few seasons of soccer and baseball as a young kid.

I was amazed at how my body responded. It helps that I immediately fell in love with the sport.

However, I found the most important change I made was in my nutrition, which I changed at the same time I started BJJ. Not only did my body really respond to that, I saw dramatic improvements in my mental and emotional health as well.

I'm 51 now and I've easily kept that 40lbs off the whole time.

"some professors can be downright mean to their students"

I've had far too many teachers like this. They should be weeded out, fired immediately, and never allowed in the profession again.

Several people here are saying something like "Life is too short to be miserable. Get out and be happy."

I tried that. In the span of a month we had a newborn, I lost my job, the market went into the worst recession since the Great Depression. Later I lost another job and we had to short-sell our house.

We got a divorce and it wasn't because of any of those things (though, they did influence it). It was because my default was to run away from my problems.

Funny thing; the divorce didn't eliminate the stress. It just moved it around in my body and mind and led to near constant anger, anxiety, and panic spasms. I went to see a therapist who taught me to be present with what I'm feeling. (He practiced Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, for anyone interested) I did that in earnest and one day about six months after starting therapy I realized what a mistake I had made in giving up on my marriage.

I reached out and we were able to repair the relationship and we've been back together for over ten years now, thankfully. We're closer than ever. I don't recommend that particular method of repairing a relationship, by the way. ;)

It hasn't always been easy since we got back together but, it has been worth it. We were talking the other day--we talk a lot, important!--and we both agreed that at the start of our relationship, our feelings for each other were very intense. Now that we've been together for over twenty years (with a short "We were on a break!" in the middle) we find that the intensity of our love for each other isn't the same but it is so much deeper than it was at the start and only grows more so the more we're together. We realized that you can only get that if you stay and work on the relationship.

I’m curious what you don’t like about Dart? I thought I wouldn’t like it but I’ve found it surprisingly nice.

I would add ultra-processed foods to this as well.

I firmly believe that, decades from now, we will look back in horror at what food manufacturers have done to us.

Can't speak for OP but, in '96 Netscape had just had a wildly successful IPO and talk of the Internet and World Wide Web was everywhere. It was kind-of obvious to anyone who paid attention where it was going, especially e-commerce, but, the technology wasn't quite there yet and a critical mass of users hadn't yet been reached.

Over the next 4-5 years, investors threw massive amounts of money at any company with ".com" in their name, regardless of whether they had a single customer. Companies who were offering little more than a single feature were raising VC funding.

It was a fun time to be in tech but the bubble bursting around 2000 was painful.

Hard to believe ham-handedly shoving AI into everything they see, whether it needs it or not, whether it works or not, isn't working out for them.

I don't disagree and I would be fine with the law requiring companies to gain your explicit consent to the collection of data. If I give consent then they must pay me 50% of the gross price of the data. Processing fees and overhead comes out of their share, not mine. And it must be in cash only. No in-kind trades. I want them to have to really want it badly if they want to profit on my information.

It may be the same article, I'm not sure, but I remember reading something similar where researchers also showed that the more anonymized the data, the less useful (and thus valuable) it becomes. Maybe there's a balance to be found but, ultimately, it seems like "anonymized" is a pipe dream.

Here's what I would like to see: A law that says that if any company sells any data associated with me then they must share 50% of the sale of that data with me in cash.

Maybe it's overly simplistic and definitely unrealistic but, there it is.

Also what their debit card pin is or what their email and bank account passwords are.

When people say, “I have nothing to hide.” I remind them that they have a door on their bathroom and curtains over their windows for perfectly innocent yet no less valid reasons.

The funny thing is, this likely wasn't due to any nefarious machinations by Microsoft but rather the total and complete incompetence which has been at their core since their founding.