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my lathe also came wrapped in cosmoline and shrink-wrap

I can't believe so many people think these wearables are "accurate"; then they wonder why they aren't losing or gaining weight when they go by the expenditure estimates on these.

A 2020 systematic review by Fuller et al. found that consumer wearables often perform poorly at estimating energy expenditure, even when they measure steps and heart rate reasonably well. Across brands like Apple, Garmin, Polar, and Withings, calorie burn estimates frequently showed substantial error, often in the 15–40% range and sometimes exceeding 50%. Wearables can still be useful for tracking trends, but not for precise calorie calculations.

protip: if you actually want to do better, look into "adaptive TDEE".

people don't die from lack of excess calorie.

Same for diet and exercise.

They'll use flawed research to claim diet and exercise don't work for obesity, then the general public uses that research and claims, "Diet doesn't work for fat people."

Soon, everyone is convinced every guy with a trivial amount of weight to lose needs to be on GLP-1s.

do u know the have a deal with openai?

subreddit specific mods can't ban you directly site wide, but they have tools through which they can report your second account for ban evasion, and if the automated system runs a check and finds you had an old banned account on the same sub, your new one is perma banned too.

I believe AI has already solved being underweight, or obese, or skinny fat, or simply fat, yet people are paying for scam solutions.

This is one of the biggest quality of life boosts provided by AI, yet many everyday people are completely unaware of this.

The price of an AI solution is $0, and within 2-3 weeks you'll know if it works for you or not.

Compare this to any fitness coaching, or dietician, or any other method, or even GLP-1s, the cost is not zero.

Many people who do not even need GLP-1s are using GLP-1s to lose a trivial amount of weight, even though their appetite regulation is not a problem!

The thing is, they are refusing to believe that it's even possible.

There are many people using steroids and peptides, if you put a starving person in famine affected sub Saharan Africa on steroids, can you have them return to normal weight without providing them additional food? But many "foolishly" believe this is possible with steroids and peptides without giving them more food.

Here's a thing

Users spend tokens on DeepSeek, Claude, and others -> generate variations of projects uploaded to GitHub -> Microsoft (GitHub's owner) -> trains LLMs on this -> ends up with better models.

No matter what model a user may use at any price point, microsoft can distill it.

It's distillation at a higher level

most good programmers aren't going to commit garbage solutions; they'll push it to a git remote once they see it actually solves a problem they are trying to solve, and since the git commits and their messages are also AI generated, you've good visibility into the user's intention and resulting edits to the codebase.

They want to capture it all.

Reddit is going the same way.

I know many people who have got banned and never managed to get back on Reddit because Reddit is using some very invasive and persistent banned user detection techniques.

Thing is, they use AI to ban people; over time, many false positives accumulate and not everyone has the time and energy to appeal bans.

Slowly, more and more user accounts get banned, and even technical people I know fail to make a new account which lasts more than 3-4 days.

But the Reddit management is seeing this as a "win," not able to see the consequence of doing this.

Until journalists can be paid under the table to mislead the public, the problem will persist. Almost anyone can be bought on a Friday night for the price of a few drinks and benefits.

I just use Go and Rust for everything; most of my mobile apps are in Flutter. I don't see any point in using anything else.

for me it's over for python

i was running into random crashes with fusion360

Meanwhile calorie deficit works for vast majority of people.