Ah, yes, the kink-shaming of… being wheelchair bound? What? This has to be one of the weirdest straw man fallacies I’ve ever heard. Care to give that another try?

Which happens to be where Matt Inman (the artist) lives.

Absolutely don’t kink shame. But when a person’s political affiliation actively kink shames and marginalizes all people not cis heteronormative, the gloves are off.

I have a minor hand washing compulsion, but it’s not a germophobia thing. While I would prefer everyone wash their hands after using the bathroom, it doesn’t gross me out like some other things, like nose-picking.

Lots of excreta aerosolize or otherwise get everywhere. While hand washing is a low bar to improving hygiene, shit is literally everywhere. Want to see something scary (depending on your squeamishness)? Get a 350nm UV flashlight and check out your home. Hell, try it right after you do a deep clean.

My guess it’s even older than that. My bullshitspiration is that peristalsis enabled more complex digestion when our quadruped ancestors needed more nutrition options.

I feel like this says more about neuroscience than it does about LLMs. :D

But seriously, my teams’ and individual experiences with LLMs have been mixed, at best. Even with advanced prompt training, the tools are just not there yet for our work.

He made a step, perhaps a bit too long in a mistaken direction, but understanding didn’t and won’t stop with him. How everyone reacted to his theory was also part of the fault.

These are excellent points and spot on. We’re all looking for the silver bullet and elevator pitch, even those of us who know better. “Oh, just stop eating fatty meat, eggs, and salt!” Except it’s way more complex than that. To Keys’ credit, he also highlighted the importance of weight management/obesity, cardiovascular health, and “regular” exercise. The definition of “regular” of course keeps getting modified.

Too much fat is still bad.

Agreed, although too much of anything is bad. “The toxicity is in the dose.” Keys pushed replacing saturated fats with PUFAs, which became a whole different problem with industrial PUFAs becoming the norm. Industrial PUFAs are high in Omega-6 EFA while being low in Omega-3 EFA. Humans don’t actually need any digestible carbohydrates to survive, but we very much need fats and protein to live. Nutritional research has merely been negotiating on where the borders are.

But it doesn’t make the harm of cholesterol moot. Or do you now want to ignore the other data yourself?

We worry too much about exogenous cholesterol, when endogenous cholesterol is the real problem. Cholesterol is a lot like that joke about the guy looking for his keys in the middle of the street. “Did you lose your keys around here?” “No, but this is where the light is.” Cholesterol, especially back when nutrition policy was being set, was what we could easily measure, and that was a correlation that science pursued. Epidemiological studies are notoriously tricky, sometimes just a step above anecdote. And to discuss these things in any serious detail requires a couple book-feet of text, most of it being contextual qualification.

Regarding the importance of cholesterol as a risk indicator: What’s probably closer to the truth is balance of HDL to LDL and cholesterol to HDL, with triglycerides being a case-by-case basis. If I recall correctly >500mg/dL being the absolute level for concern and interventions, with >200mg/dL being considered abnormally high.

I think in the end, we all have to find what works for us at our given point in life. Because no silver bullet and there’s no way to discuss these things simply and quickly.

But ya know what has been proven to contribute to heart disease, atherosclerosis, dyslipidemia, NAFLD, hyperinsulimia/Type 2 diabetes, and chronic inflammation? Refined carbohydrates (Taubes, Lustig, et al).

I kinda understand the downvotes because we’ve had 50+ years of saturated fat fearmongering. But when you start digging into this long running, test-in-production experiment on human diet and health, it’s hard to avoid conspiratorial thinking.

Ancel Keys established a spurious link between cholesterol and heart disease. His Seven Countries Study was an early application of regression analysis. What is very rarely mentioned was that Keys omitted 5 countries (more? Can’t exactly recall) that didn’t fit the regression he wanted to show. (Ref: “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” Gary Taubes)

Keys’ contributions to lipid hypothesis fucked the metabolic health of millions for decades.

Regarding Keys’ centenarian expiration, go find a pic of what that dude looked like for the last few decades of his life. I’ll pass on the longevity and his diet plan.

And if you’re interested in how nutritionally screwed we are in the US:

• “Hacking of the American Mind” and “Sugar” by Robert Lustig, a Harvard endocrinologist
• “The Dorito Effect” by Mark Schatzker There are lots more to choose from, but that’s a pretty big starting point

Source: I made it up

Lies! Try to cover up the truth all you want, but these facts were documented in Battlezone. (https://retroonline.net/Windows/Battlezone) :D

• The American industrialized food chain
• Glyphosate
• Modern technology-centric lifestyles
• Dark patterns
• Most social media

I’m on the second Ian Cormac novel, “Line of Polity,” about which I learned from this community!

Those are calrod elements. The resistive coil is inside that tube. The bolts hold the steel shell. The affixing nuts hold the outer casing and are not conducting electricity.

The insulation can fail and the inner coil will touch the shell, although I’ve only seen it happen once. Blew a hole in the bottom of a pot in dramatic fashion.

Edit to add: I am a huge fan of “Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics” by Stan Gibilisco, which is now in its 7th edition. Back in the 90s, I got my start with the 2nd edition. Here’s the 4th for free on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/teachyourselfele00stan

This is the correct answer right here. The process is called “chip binning.” https://www.techspot.com/article/2039-chip-binning/

But maybe I’m just using it so much I don’t recognize the sharp edges as much anymore.

Nah. I used to think that GUI git clients were The Way. But they all fall short, especially when the ***slightest ***thing goes sideways. Once you get your head around the paradigm, the git CLI is how you get real shit done and quickly. If anything, the GUI clients are all sharp edges and half-measures; the only reason I pull out a GUI client is to get a visual on all the branches in progress/already merged.

I’ll have some fever-dream solving a problem that has had me stumped

That’s happened to me enough to almost turn me to the woo side. :D “Answers Come In Dreams.”

I’ve had this run in both directions. Going through the repos a day later: “Holy hell, this solution is [utter shit || truly inspired || elegant AF || written by someone who should probably be fired]. Who wrote this? Me?! I don’t remember any of this.”

The compartmentalization/fugue state is real.

Alec’s call to action was refreshing amid so many other outlets smoothing over current events.

The first section though… I’m all in on renewable energy and have been for 15 years. What blew me away was how much I internalized the “challenges” to solar. Propaganda is a hell of a drug. Even as aware and informed as I like to think I am, I still managed to drink the wrong Kool-Aid. The numbers in favor of solar were surprising, even for this true believer.

Me, before I read the article: this is nothing unusual, and I don’t see what the problem is. My employers have paid for some pretty advanced training over the years. In return, they asked me to agree to stay for six months. NBD…

Me, after the article: HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

This shift has also opened the door to a new industrial complex of employer-run, for-profit training sites and academies, which many workers are steered into when they’re hired for a job. Critics say employers now use these job training programs to force workers into debt and suppress wages, courtesy of TRAP contracts.

This is heading into Company Town territory. Seriously predatory shit.