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Weight regain...

If you change your lifestyle temporarily, the effects are temporary.

If you change your lifestyle permanently, the effects are permanent.

> Of course, that assumes your goal is to actually help the fatties

I don't believe that's possible. They have to choose a healthier lifestyle by themselves.

It's not that people are fat because no one told them to eat healthy and exercise sometimes. They're fat because they have ignored that advice for a long time.

They aren't missing information about diet and exercise, they're missing diet and exercise.

Your analogy is false.

If you opt for it, then yes of course, abstinence-only sex education is a sure way to stop ten pregnancy.

Similarly, if you opt to change your lifestyle and start living healthier, and follow through, it will work.

If someone tries to force you, of course it will fail (in both of these cases). There is no way to stop someone else from being fat. We can only change ourselves.

Long enough in this case meaning forever.

Behavioural changes work, the issue is that most people don't actually change their behaviour.

Why do they gain the weight back though? I'd hazard a guess they stop the calorie restriction and go back to their old habits.

Short term "diets" are nonsense. The solution is permanent lifestyle changes.

> Purely behavioral lifestyle interventions have the lowest long term success rates of all available treatments for obesity.

What? Surely changing one's behaviour - particularly the parts of behaviour that caused the obesity in the first place - is a sure way to stop being obese.

> Once he stopped at the cafe to pick up his newspaper!

The horrors!

> There is really _never_ a time when a CAPTCHA will require you to execute code on your machine.

I think the concern is the user not knowing they're executing code on their machine.

And as a counterexample: some captchas require you to compute something expensive to prove you're not a llm scraper or whatever. It's normal for captchas to require you to execute code on your machine, it's just usually done within the browser's sandbox.

And anyway, these things are completely incomprehensible to non-technical users.

Offtopic, but the hinting of the body font is absolutely atrocious. Eg the lowercase `u` reaches way higher than the other lowercase letters.

But also good medical advice has a high potential to have far-reaching positive consequences. Telling people not to forget to hydrate shouldn't be controversial. Shouldn't we be on the side of good advice rather than on the side of no legal or medical advice?

> if I give someone inaccurate medical advice, that is not only false, it is false and harmful

I don't understand what's so special about legal and medical advice that it's so singled out in certain parts of the world. All kinds of advice people give can be harmful, such as eg cooking and dietary advice. Yet it's ok to tell people how to cook, but for whatever reason it's not ok to tell people to make sure they stay well-hydrated when they have a cold.

[Edit:] But gee does the rest of the article hit hard. The "missing mood" in particular.

Maybe we should not have forced AI companies to shred rare books so they can use them for training?

I dunno about proving, but 20% income tax + 20% vat + property taxes + estate tax + the various extra taxed thing like gas etc, and you're easily over half.

Perhaps you just didn't push it far enough: I took a 90% pay cut and am happy with it :)

Pi is not "some mayfly LLM third-tier coding agent" - in the brief research I've done, it's the best positioned to survive: it's small and the creator has shown good taste (something that can't be said about the creators of Claude Code).

Huh. The person you're replying to specifically mentioned they connect to the same tmux session from different computers. Niri is great, but how's it relevant here?

Likewise you haven't disproven my thesis that China is not closed to immigrants.

A good friend of mine (white European) was approached by a Chinese company and now works in China. I'll ask him how hard the paperwork was the next time I meet him, but I have a feeling his employer did the bulk of it.

> It's like bragging that you took 10,000 steps to reach the store by walking in circles when you could have taken 500 steps if you just walked straight. The end result is the same.

The case is different with LoC though: the more the worse. I'd much maintain the thing written in 500 lines than the one written in 10,000 lines.

> China is not very immigration friendly to non-han folks

What do you mean? I've never been to China, but know quite a few non-han white Europeans who lived there for both shorter and longer periods of time. Some studied, others worked there.

What's up with the dercuano, derctuo, and dernocua naming? Are there just these three? Does the naming follow some pattern?

FYI the name is Mario Zechner[0]. I'm also grumpy and old and also use Pi for the same reasons as you. I also use an OpenAI subscription (the models aren't entirely bad), but am ready to jump ship to OpenCode Go or GLM Coding Plan any minute. And I've been watching the Claude Code shitshow with glee!

[0]: https://mariozechner.at/

> Why would anyone be using Fable, Opus or even Sonnet for that type of work? You don’t need an advanced reasoning model for that at all.

Don't leave me hanging: how do you frob a qux a certain number of radians?

I almost fell off my chair! Elm is easily my favourite language, and I didn't think it'd ever get another update. Thanks Evan!

It looks slightly worse to me. Slightly worse and not even ubiquitous?

[Edit:] There's h1 and h2, who'd ever need h3? You gotta be kidding me!

I agree with you that it's a long term problem. I won't stop until London is under a mile-high glacier!

> it will take millennia for the climate to return to normal

No. There is no such thing as "normal" climate. It's ever changing. We're just making the change a whole lot faster.

No idea, but the five tibetan rites were also recommended to me with 21 repetitions. Perhaps it's an Eastern thing.

A shame indeed. Perhaps you should report it to the creators of Pangram? And perhaps you should stop shilling for bullshit AI detectors that don't (and can't) work?

Thank you for the explanation!

> If RedHat doesn't choose to

You still don't get it: Canonical didn't choose to include a newer version in their 24.04 release.