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I don't think that the comment above was speaking in hard and fast rules. They were more making the point that men and women may generally have different interests and that those interests will impact career choices. There wasn't any value judgement about women getting into IT being weird, but more a statement that a 50/50 split may not be feasible if the incoming pipeline is 70/30 due to the interests of those respective individuals.

If you have people telling you that you're weird for your interests, then they're likely either self-conscious or an ass. That goes for most generalizations that evaluate skill or ideas based on the attributes of the person vs. the merit of the idea itself... but that is a different discussion :)

Not to undercut your point too much, but no one comes out of university learning about the latest and greatest tech unless they went to a graduate program where they did research in tech. They may have played around with it more on their own time, but most universities aren't teaching cutting edge stuff.

This is like saying that access to newspapers is a privilege and not a right. What use is free speech if there is no common medium on which to distribute it? This is another case of people blaming the tool instead of the people that are doing bad things.

This is really cool! I hope that you can rise above the comments of the "this isn't good enough" or "zero carbon or bust" crowd. This type of innovation is what we need to move the needle in a realistic manner and that helps to build on the infrastructure that we already have in place.

I'm excited to see what comes of this in the coming years!

You can build user defined functions in Excel with VBA as well as with Python through something like xlwings. One of the issues that I ran into with xlwings (or any third party integration into the Office suite) is portability between users.

The ubiquity of Excel is both a blessing and a curse in that everyone has it, so everyone uses it, regardless of whether or not it is the best tool for the job.

This is really good advice. With all the different places you can play the same note on guitar, it makes it a little more difficult to visualize. The one note to one key ratio can help to make things like chord structures and inversions make a lot more sense.

Keurig and DPSG already did this. There isn't any reason to block this...

Thermal properties of the chip and any issues arising from those are pieces that the engineers should have sussed out in the beginning though. If I don't put a heatsink and fan on my desktop CPU, then is that Intel's fault? Of course not.

Hopefully the firmware can take care of the issue for those impacted.

That isn't in the cards for most people considering you can buy laptops for a fraction of the price and also that most people are getting Windows PC's from their employer

Price elasticity of demand IIRC.

Demand functions aren't generally straight like the illustrative graphs used in intro classes. What you end up with is easy replacement with similar goods. Being able to differentiate goods in food-service seems like a very difficult proposition without some sort of brand recognition. Because of that, if someone can purchase some food that is equal or close enough to equal at a significant (significance as defined by the consumer utility) then they will go with the cheaper option.

While raising prices seems like the simple solution to this issue, the reality is likely that they would quickly - if not immediately - price themselves out of the market.

I've seen some studies on this, but I (personally) haven't run across many that show a significant difference in isocaloric diets where carbohydrates are replaced calorie for calorie with fats.

If it is swapped with a mix of protein and carbs, then you have some confounding variables of the thermic effect of the protein to account for.

From what I have seen, keto diets work due to two things: 1) Reduced caloric intake due to chopping out carbs - a major swath of foods 2) Increased adherence due to stabilizing blood sugar levels and thereby increasing satiety (the whole "stay full longer" thing)

If you have other studies that have been shown significant in an isocaloric state, I'd love to see them. I just haven't run across any that have shown good control around these areas. I personally like keto (and bacon) so I'm always looking for another excuse to do it, but I don't think that there is a ton of evidence for it doing any hormonal magic in healthy populations at the moment.

This is why we were given cheesecake :)

I've seen keto work great for a lot of people. Generally, they have been those that tended to overeat on carbs and junk foods like chips, soda, pizza, etc.

The mechanism at the end of the day is still caloric restriction that leads to weight loss. Keto is just a means to that end.

> The biggest factor is nutrition

Yes!

> The point of these is body positivity basically. You are fat and it isn't your fault.

I didn't see this at all in there. If anything, this is written to people who think they can outwork a bad diet, which is rarely the case for anyone over 16. Nothing in there was about body positivity or anything. It just showed that even when we run and "burn 300 calories" that you are possibly holding that back somewhere else to stay at caloric balance.

It does a good enough job at modeling reality that we can make decent predictions with it. While the details of CICO may be more complicated, for someone who is obviously out of shape, the advice of "Eat some extra protein and make sure you are consuming below maintenance calories" works 9/10 times.