FriedrichN

I have a tendency to be heavier rather than lighter, for me exercise absolutely helps, how much I eat with moderate exercise is about the same as without. Once I go above the moderate range I start being more hungry and only applies to cardiovascular conditioning, weight training does not have that effect on me.

The problem with losing weight can't be reduced to calories in versus calories out, that's the outcome, not the method. What you need to control is hunger, which can be very difficult for one person and very easy for another. Hormones play a huge role in this (ghrelin and leptin are big players) and that differs from person to person. Combine that with the fact that certain people unconsciously dial down their energy expenditure (fidgeting, bouncing, posture, etc.) when they reduce their calorie intake.

You can do a lot with conscious decisions like getting your step count up, doing regular cardio, eating more things that fill you up like vegetables, fruit, potatoes, anything high in fibre. But that only gets you so far until you hit that certain point at which it becomes too hard and that point is different for every person. If you have a tendency to be overweight, you'll never walk around with a permanent sixpack. It's better to weigh 100kg than to weigh 120kg even if it would be better to weigh 80kg, there's no point in losing a lot of weight if you can't maintain it.

I second this. After all these years of programming it's become something I do for work with the exception of the occasional Arduino project (something mentioned more than once in this thread). As a matter of fact, I don't use computers all that much in my free time, that includes smartphones. I prefer to go swimming, cycling, lift weights, bird watching, have a drink down the pub, hang out with friends, than to stare at a screen in my free time.

It's OK to be a programmer for 40 hours a week and be anything else in the remaining hours.

Ironically I needed to enable JavaScript in order to view any checkbox. Terrible.

Very simple, I wouldn't.

If they don't want to hear from me by phone, e-mail, or in person, they'll never hear from me. Maybe that's the advantage of working in an area with a permanent labour shortage, but I simply refuse to jump through hoops before getting paid. I will not fill out a huge questionnaire which will leak my data, I will not record a video, I will not do a little dance and show my tushie (without getting paid, that is). They can go fuck themselves.

I guess this would comport with his concept of slave morality that states that the collective is more important than the individual and tends to trend towards the lowest common denominator.

Because humans are social beings, we need to signal to the others that we belong to the group and are doing our part. Our loyalty is prized more than our effectiveness or efficiency. It doesn't matter how productive you are, the feelings of the group are more important.

You can see this in many places in our society. The security theater in airports don't make air travel that much safer, but it does send a signal to the group "look, we're doing something about it!". Same goes for the war on drugs, notoriously ineffective and seemingly only makes things worse. The hunt for benefits fraud is often not quite effective, hurts the ones that actually need the benefits, but the fear of the freeloader is big enough one must be seen to be tough on fraudsters. Or school, where doing what you're told is much more important than any learning you might do along the way. Or the way China is now burying itself with Xi's everlasting reign.

If you think humans are meant to be effective and efficient, you are very much mistaken. Everything we manage do, we do in spite of it.

One would think think detaining a million Uyghurs would equate to incarceration. I certainly do think so.

But on the other hand, if you need to compare yourself to countries such as China and Russia and have your defense be "well at least we don't have concentration camps", you know you have work to do. Maybe the US doesn't have the highest incarceration rate, be it per capita or absolute, but it does have the highest rate of incarceration of any modern 'free' society. And that is a shame.

All my tools that have a possible destructive outcome use either a interactive stdin prompt or a --live option. I like the idea of dry running by default.

This seems rather biased towards women, men are just as likely to make out with strangers in the club. And while men are not getting surgery to enlarge their boobs, they do get hair implants and steroids/SARMs are more prevalent than ever. I think the constant barrage of certain images on social media cause both men and women to be ever more insecure about the way they look.

Stuff like this is really cool. But the problem is that certain clients (as in clients that pay your bills) can't even get public keys to work and we end up allowing password logins. So I don't know how I could make this work in the real world.

That's where security ends, when 'it just has to work' because 'they're the ones paying/in charge'.

Obvious diversion from the core issue. Israel must either grant the occupied lands true sovereignty and have their ethnostate or end the occupation and grant them equal civilian rights. Either way they must end their occupation of both Gaza and the West Bank.

You start off saying that it's 'disgusting' to call Israel a racist state and then conclude by saying that it was always intended to be a 'Jewish state' and not a 'melting pot'. That's highly contradictory and defending a very racist policy, which is indeed, disgusting.

And juvenile programming language tribalism. You could compile hundreds of pages of ranting about any language and their ecosystem if you wanted to. Some people need to learn that just because you prefer one thing over the other it doesn't mean all the other things suck.

I also suspect a lot of the people complaining about X language/platform/ecosystem are not even using them in production environments judging by their very idealized view on building software.

If you hang around long enough you'll end up with code you once wrote that was maybe a quick fix, maybe you thought it was brilliant, but now appears to you as a steaming pile of crap.

Sometimes it may however still be the best solution but your future self was unable to figure out why because your former self was too lazy to properly document the code.

It depends on your routine. If you skip a meal when you usually have that meal, you might experience some discomfort. You could eat one meal a day and be fine if that's what you're used to. It's the breaking of the routine that causes you trouble.

In the short term, yes. But if customers have a consistent bad experience with the products or services of a company they will stop doing business with them. I routinely buy products from one place where I know the service is better (delivery, returns, helpdesk) than somewhere else where it might be cheaper.

I don't think that if you want to be in business for a long time, aiming to frustrate your customers is a good idea, assuming you don't have some monopoly position.

It may trigger a depression or push you deeper in depression but it certainly isn't the sole cause of depression.

edit: and depressed people are also great procrastinators, if getting out of bed seems a chore, then you're not going to be productive.

When it's not mentioned I just assume it's US only. Which is usually the case.

Or the one in Tibet, Myanmar, Sudan, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Iraq & Syria, Yemen, Kashmir, and others I forgot. Only sometimes when certain interests align 'the world' suddenly cares.

I wonder how much of the shitty code bases have more to do with the popularity of PHP (for web based applications) than anything else. I've seen plenty of shitty code bases fin just about any language. If there's more of something, there will be more of it that's of low quality.

Not denying your point though. There is some real awful stuff out there that could make a grown man cry.

That's indeed a case where it fails, but in all my years I have maybe ran into that problem once. But it's trivial to implement a more strict form of array if you wish. And if I remember correctly there are some standard extensions that have classes to do just that.

And for the record, it's not Stockholm syndrome, I use plenty of other languages and I know the benefits and drawbacks of each of those.

My absolute favorite thing about PHP is the arrays and the ease of working with them. Whenever I find myself working in another language dealing with loads of data I'm immediately thinking of how easy it would be to accomplish it in PHP.

And I've been loving all the new additions to PHP over the last few years as well. Version 5 was rather limited but since 7 it has grown into an actual programming language for which I feel I don't have to apologize for.

I also like how they stomp on the ground to trick worms to come up and eat them. It never fails to amuse me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N93bKtWB6w

Is there a good resource for people who are used to non-systemd systems (something like a gotcha list)? I keep on running into weird situations where I end up finding out systemd is somehow responsible for my woes. Last time that happened was when I changed /etc/fstab but somehow old mounts kept on being remounted, I wasted an hour before I found out I had to reload some systemd service.

Very interesting. Also quite different from a lot of other birds, like seagulls, who are not that into sharing food.

I wonder if the same could be done with Corvidae.

Another problem is that these overly complex systems are often very fragile when something changes. In a very theoretical situation there could be a case where someone with an overengineered client consumes your JSON API and their client breaks when you add a field to a certain service response. Something that should have been no problem suddenly causes total breakage of your software and then you'll have to alter that very complex piece of software. Something that could've been prevented if you kept things simple and robust and simple chose to ignore extra fields or headers you weren't using anyway.

Spotify seems to be hit too.

Absolutely. And let's not forget innocent people do get convicted and even if there is a 99% accuracy the state still kills innocent people. You can't get years behind bars back, but at least you're still alive if your conviction gets overturned.

Not on Earth according to the data that we have. We seem to be quite unique when it comes to our ability to impact our surroundings.

I can tell that we're very different people. Society to me is not about efficiency at all. I like a bit of randomness to my life and not live an absolutely regimented and organised existence. But I guess that's not for everyone.