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> If you can't lose weight with how you are eating

The problem is people find it difficult to change how they eat.

This is largely an environmental problem - observe that obesity rates vary over time and location.

I’m hungry right now. I should be working, but all I want to do is to eat. I have already eaten more than enough today, and I would like to lose weight.

I could take more caffeine to reduce my desire for food, but it is already too close to bedtime. I could try to focus on work (I am) but I keep getting intrusive thoughts about the fact that I could just get ice cream/cookies/chicken fingers/burrito/quesadilla/insert food here in just a few moments.

I wish I could take these drugs, unfortunately I cannot. Terrible side effects.

Strangely, after visiting Japan I found it quite easy to eat a healthy low calorie diet for about two weeks. Now I’m back to constant food noise, despite trying to stick to a Japanese-style diet (lots of fish and vegetables and fermented foods).

The people who say “just eat less” don’t understand what the actual problem is.

Lots of hate for coursera and udemy, but what about competitors? Are folks having good results elsewhere?

I enjoyed a course I took last summer on EdX; not a super polished experience, but the content was good and the projects were challenging.

I’ve enjoyed pluralsight in the past, but it is hit or miss whether it will have content you’re interested in.

I’m on mathacademy but that is text only and a very focused niche.

What’s the hip/trendy mooc these days? Who will eat courserudemy’s lunch?

The use of the cartographer to generate separate designs and the technology used to render/deliver those designs are two entirely separate concerns.

His original map provider offers both vector and raster tile services: https://www.thunderforest.com/maps/outdoors/

A common pattern is to use a vector tile service + style definition directly or to generate raster tiles if those are desired.

Very clearly AI written, but more seriously, I think the take is off base.

Winforms is still popular enough, but I think it did get seriously displaced by WPF. And WPF is modern enough to handle things like dark mode and High DPI relatively well. Visual Studio and other professional software in its class tends to use it (if using windows-native tech at all).

Maybe smaller business apps are still using winforms, but the XAML designer is also good so even if you want to just drag and drop controls WPF is the better choice IMO.

> Worse at the thing it most needed to be good at, which was surviving Microsoft's own framework churn. WPF's stack has no equivalent of Win32's thirty-year compatibility guarantee, because no such guarantee was ever offered. WinForms inherited Win32's compatibility guarantee for free.

I don’t get this. Ancient WPF software is just as compatible as it ever was and it’s getting on to 20 years old.

5,000 units can also be built alongside entirely too much office space and ground floor retail, which is mixed use.

I’m not sure if you’ve ever been to Portland but the predominant problem is still too much office and retail space (much of it empty) and not enough residential space; every apartment I have lived in and almost every apartment building I walk by day to day has vacant ground floor retail.

In context, when they said, “that mall is rad, I hope they block it there’s a campaign to stop the demolition” made it pretty close to unambiguous.

Why are people assuming that the kitchen coworkers are reasonable and that I am somehow making assumptions? I was there, I heard the conversation, HN replies did not. Portlanders are notorious for this sort of tradeoff-ignoring woo woo bullshit anyway, frankly it isn’t an extraordinary claim.

What do you think density means? A mixed use neighborhood of apartments, condos, retail, and office is density.

The only other categories are heavy manufacturing (which is harder to argue for) and single family homes, which are not dense by definition.

If you say you support density but that support withers away at the slightest hint of nostalgia or trade off, or because some old ladies walk in the dead mall sometimes (that was the cited reason), then you don’t really support density.

NIMBYs are usually not against new stuff in their backyard, they really just don’t want to lose the historic parking structures and culturally relevant SFHs already there.

Perhaps you are harboring NIMBY views you refuse to acknowledge and you are feeling defensive? Are you holding onto the corpse of Lloyd center?

You can want trains while simultaneously detesting all of the conditions that make trains viable. Just like you can want to drive to work every day and also want to never be in traffic. NIMBYism has nothing to do with being averse to working downtown or tearing down a mall (a radically YIMBY position regarding dead malls).

I was busy. What is the assumption I’m accused of making?

I heard people in the kitchen at work whining about the loss of Lloyd center (dead mall) which is set to be replaced by 5,000 housing units.

I got strep from a dude coughing on MAX without a mask. Of course the one day I forget mine.

You need density for trains, but Portlanders think it is a war crime to ask you to work from an office or tear down a dead mall to build housing, so…

Would this insulin response be detectable with a CGM?

The answer is no - sucralose, saccharin, aspartame; it doesn’t matter, diet soda and artificial sweetener does not affect blood sugar in any detectable way, at least for me. It was one of the first things I checked when I got my CGM.

“It will crash your blood sugar” and “it will spike your blood sugar despite not having carbohydrates” are myths.

I lost a lot of weight using diet soda in the evenings as an alternative to snacking.

It turns out, drinking a lot of what is essentially just water, is actually pretty healthy.

If you’re concerned with aspartame, why wouldn’t you be concerned about sucralose and acesulfame potassium?

Wouldn’t it be more effective to ban non-chronological feeds? TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook would be transformed into useful tools overnight.

I think the satellite connectivity is a pretty big deal and iPhone led with that. Also camera control literally changed how I use the phone.

Can you explain how Seattle is an example? They’re opening new lines, Link is packed often, seems like a well used reliable service, but I only visit once or twice a year.

In the context of hotel buffet food service waste, it definitely is.

And if what you’re really trying to say is that you like intermittent fasting (which can have eating windows at any part of the day even if the meme is to start eating at traditional lunch hours) the first meal, that meal which breaks your fast, is, by definition, breakfast. This could be your only meal if taking intermittent fasting to its extreme - further evidence for it being most important.

The other way in which breakfast is most important, IMO, is that it sets the tone for the rest of the day. To be more specific, the first meal that gets you onto the blood sugar/insulin rollercoaster will keep you on the rollercoaster all day until you fast again - so the quality of your meals (aka not starting your day with sugar bombs) is highly important.

Regardless, “important” is purely an opinion/values statement; the only error is claiming that a sincerely held opinion is an “error”.

Edit: after some recent travel experiences, I found that starting my day with a high quality salad (little dressing, whole fish, variety of vegetables, small portion) was transformative in keeping my blood sugar under control, maintaining stable energy level, and promoting healthy digestion.

My lived experience. Maybe bloated isn’t the right word, but attention to performance just isn’t there. Try using any swift UI app on iPhone or Mac. Try resizing a swift UI app window on Mac.

It goes back pretty far. Nowadays the controversy is electron vs native (where most windows devs would consider WPF/.NET a native option).

But if you read books from the 2000s, there was much discussion about the performance overhead of a VM and garbage collected language; something like WinForms was considered the bloated lazy option.

I’m sure in a few years computers will catch up (IMO they did a while ago actually) and Electron will be normal and some new alternative will be the the bloated option - maybe LLMs generating the UI on the fly à la the abomination Google was showing off recently?

FWIW Apple has made a similar transition recently from the relatively efficient AppKit/UIKit to the bloated dog that is SwiftUI.

Or you could ask your friends who borrow your car not to be dipshits who run red lights. If you get a ticket for your teen running a red light, you can have your teen pay for it. Might be a good learning lesson.

Is there realistically a path to the west learning any of these lessons without going through WW3?

It’s not like any of this is news. My newspaper of choice has been telling me about how fast china moves, in vivid detail, since at least 2018 - others probably knew much earlier than I did. I watched a graphic documentary on YouTube about Shenzhen in 2019 that gave me all of the same information in this tweet, minus the accomplishments that have happened since then.

My own eyes have seen how their consumer goods have transformed in a very short time. Maybe other Americans don’t notice because the key categories (tech, cars) have so much protectionism. I’m not sure about the Europeans.

The west is better at coming up with excuses and red tape than actually solving problems, it seems.

How does this compare to the built-in agent mode debugging that just shipped in VS Code?

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_110#_agent-debug-pa...

There’s no way preschool for all is broadly popular.

It soaks the “rich” with an income threshold that isn’t indexed to inflation and kicks in at an income level where preschool is still a major affordability challenge.

And then you pay PFA and don’t get preschool for your kid because we’re still years away from having enough seats for everyone.

So it is preschool for some (multco paying for seats in existing preschool, aka kicking your kid out of their preschool spot) paid for by the broad middle class.

Even Kotek was ragging on it.

2020’s 125k/200k thresholds should be today’s 150/250 thresholds. They are not.

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/26/kotek-multnomah-count...

There were voters who could do part of it. Long term, having a US President that doesn’t cancel wind projects, tear up EV subsidies, and promote coal would probably be a difference maker for US emissions.

And if the voters were just a bit smarter and not bought into the “China bad” narrative, we might even get proper, nice, affordable EVs in the US.

I appreciate the sentiment of voting with your wallet and supporting alternatives.

Unfortunately the major vendors are in a race to the bottom and the alternatives aren’t much better. Linux might be better in some ways, but I expect there will be enough minor frustrations that on net it will be a downgrade, especially considering hardware. Some of it is just needing to learn the right way for the given system - people (perhaps rightly) tolerate needing to learn to use Linux but don’t tolerate needing to learn to use Mac. Obviously the basics should be intuitive, but power user workflows need to be learned on any system - installing yt-dlp is a power user workflow.

I see loads of essentially disinformation about Mac on here, mostly about things that could be solved by Googling (I prefer Kagi) or opening the help documentation.

Both install and reversion to stock OS are incredibly easy. Just back up first.