Congrats, your metabolism (FAO, gluconeogenesis, insulin sensitivity, …) works well. Don’t assume that’s the case for everyone, because it’s well researched that this is highly individual.
You know nothing about my metabolism.
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AaronAPU commented on Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them bbc.com/news/articles/cn9... · Posted by u/neom
How can you say that with any certainty, though? How do you know that hunger hits you in the exact same way it does another person? That overcoming it requires the exact same amount of willpower in all people?
My hunger feels 8 trillion times worse than an obese person’s. Since I am making the claim, everyone else has to affirm it now.
AaronAPU commented on Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them bbc.com/news/articles/cn9... · Posted by u/neom
Other medications become lifelong medications but without this level of scrutiny. I am 100% in favor of finding a more permanent treatment, but switching blood pressure meds, and cholesterol meds, and other daily meds for a single once a week med is a massive improvement, especially since the all source mortality data keeps rolling in showing the efficacy here is orders of magnitude better than all the other medications out there. A constant issue here is that we keep calling this a 'weight loss drug' and society views being fat as a moral failing ant that you 'just don't have the will power' to overcome. We need to stop. If this is a lifelong drug it is worth it compared to the relatively ineffective, and just as lifelong, alternatives out there.
But it is factually true that it’s a matter of willpower, no amount of reframing it is going to change that.
It’s not like others like myself, currently on a cut cycle, don’t experience hunger. The idea that we are just “lucky” ignores all the willpower and discipline we fight through to do it ourselves.
I’ve eaten about 800 calories today and it is 4pm. Just finished 90 minutes on the indoor bike. My stomach feels hungry. I experience that and just sit with it. That is the difference.
AaronAPU commented on Reasons not to become famous (2020) tim.blog/2020/02/02/reaso... · Posted by u/Tomte
Interesting read. In modern life almost everyone experiences at least a brief if perhaps isolated/niche version of fame. We are just so heavily connected in so many different networks, it just statistically is likely to happen at some point.
It is a mixed bag for sure, but in terms of risk/reward it is best to have an accurate understanding of both sides so you can make damn sure you are optimizing for the right thing.
AaronAPU commented on Wall Street sees AI bubble coming and is betting on what pops it bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/simonpure
Just knowing that the bubble will pop at some point in the future isn't enough to trade on. You'll get trounced if this is the only piece of information you have. To a first approximation, everybody knows the bubble will pop. The question is: when and how?
Not a single person “knows” the bubble will pop.
Many think it will.
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AaronAPU commented on Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem bharath.sh/writing/claude... · Posted by u/lnbharath
> In a monorepo, just loading the project consumes ~20k tokens
I don't work on a monorepo, and as an example, what I would consider a mid-size service in my mid-size company is 7M tokens.
I can't but ask: do all people who are so enthusiastic about AI for coding only work on trivial projects?
I think the agent mode stuff only works well on trivial projects. But the top tier models can be very productive with carefully constructed prompts and manually curated contexts for large mono repos.
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AaronAPU commented on Why more American seniors are getting high economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
AaronAPU commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84
This is a sob story from someone who got wealthy from building an engine to finance crime.
There are paths towards redemption - the author could begin by donating every ill-gotten cent to a worthy charity.
What's that? Crickets? Thought so.
Theres this pattern where you make your wealth off dubious means, then one day become born again and start a new life where you gain more popularity and influence by speaking out against the reason you have a megaphone at all. These people interestingly never give away that naughty wealth they now regret so much.