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CWIZO commented on Intermittent fasting correlated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease   bbc.com/news/articles/c0l... · Posted by u/6LLvveMx2koXfwn
esseph · 6 days ago
> evolution doesn't work over a span of a few generations.

Yes it can

> Over the past two decades, it has become clear that evolutionary change can be fast enough to be observed in present-day populations (Hendry and Kinnison 1999; Kinnison and Hendry 2001; Hendry et al. 2008; Gingerich 2009) and that it can directly affect the dynamics of populations and communities (Hairston et al. 2005; Saccheri and Hanski 2006; Kinnison and Hairston 2007; Pelletier et al. 2009). Much recent interest has focused on the possibility that so-called rapid or contemporary evolution leads to ‘evolutionary rescue’, whereby threatened populations avoid extinction by adapting to an altered environment (Barrett and Hendry 2012; Gonzalez et al. 2013).

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3894905/

CWIZO · 6 days ago
It'd be surprising if that applies in this context. In the case of the individuals OP mentions, their parents would not have been exposed to ultra processed food (or barely, perhaps only after they've reproduced), so ehatever gens they passed on would not have been adapted. There's simply not enough generations in this case. Especially not for such significant changes.

In any case, it's moot as by and large the westeren diet is not good for the population, exceptions are simply that.

CWIZO commented on Intermittent fasting correlated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease   bbc.com/news/articles/c0l... · Posted by u/6LLvveMx2koXfwn
lokrian · 6 days ago
Some people seem to not just survive, but actually thrive on terrible, junk food diets, like the current president, or Warren Buffett (who eats ice cream and mcdonald's for breakfast and 2 liters of cherry coke every day, and is still alive at 95) https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-diet-2017-10

Diet really does seem to be one of those highly individualistic things, and I'm guessing humanity is in an evolutionary transition from paleolithic type diets to mcdonalds 3 times day, with different people having the genes to thrive on different things. You just have to see what works for you.

CWIZO · 6 days ago
Evolution doesn't work over a span of few generations. If humans are evolving to adapt to the modern weetern diet then we won't see that for a very very very long time.

You're just cherry picking examples while ignoring a mountain of literature that shows exactly the opposite of what you're saying.

CWIZO commented on I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors   habr.com/en/articles/9058... · Posted by u/sochix
__jonas · 4 months ago
I'm not really sure what you mean, I'm also coming back to using Slack for some contracting work after a similar period of time and it seems identical to how it always was to me, definitely feels nicer to me than Teams.

Could you point out what has changed? I guess calls are called "huddles" now for some reason, that's a bit weird but doesn't really bother me.

CWIZO · 4 months ago
Ine big thing for me is the removal of the reactions & mentions sidebar.

I now have to constantly manually check in a special tab to see if someone ACKed my message.

CWIZO commented on Why does JSON have commas?   simonsafar.com/2025/json_... · Posted by u/Tomte
CWIZO · 5 months ago
> Coming from this direction, the addition of commas feels like an evil plan to have more syntax errors, with no obvious benefit

It helps to learn your history before you criticise something and claim it is useless.

JSON is the way it is mainly because it is just JavaScript and that meant that every browser in the world already supported it before JSON was even invented. It is THE reason why it is as popular as it is.

CWIZO commented on Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news   app.fluentsubs.com/exerci... · Posted by u/ph4evers
CWIZO · 5 months ago
Great idea. However, the clip I got was spoken so fast that if I was able to actually understand any of it I think I wouldn't be learning Spanish as I'd have already mastered it.

Is there a beginner mode?

CWIZO commented on Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen   github.com/Rukenshia/pomo... · Posted by u/rukenshia
rukenshia · 5 months ago
great questions!

- knob: yeah, if I were to redesign that part I would move it to the top. I had a total schedule of 4 weeks for this project, and I didn't feel confident enough to rebuild (and print prototypes) of the case when I encountered the weight problem, but that would definitely make it better

- I did fillet/chamfer (almost) every edge I believe, I also printed the final case with fuzzy skin to make it feel higher quality

- The knob was originally meant to also allow you to change the timer, so having a dial felt like the right thing to do. Didn't turn out that way, so yes three buttons might be the better UX for the menus I ended up with (and would make the device smaller)

- The shroud actually started out as a way to prevent light leaking (and then I re-printed it in white so that it would boost the LED diffusion a bit together with the diffusion plastic film), but I like your idea of having an LED strip around the edges of the screen - didn't think of that!

- I am usually more of a Blender guy, so I followed a tutorial for doing knurling in onshape. The tool really doesn't like that much geometry and is laggy to work with, but feel free to check out the onshape file (linked in the README)

CWIZO · 5 months ago
If you put the knob in a different parts studio then you'd probably have a lot less lag.
CWIZO commented on How the U.K. broke its own economy   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/speckx
tsimionescu · 6 months ago
They also raised about 110,000,000 birds that otherwise would never have been born. This is completely irrelevant to wind turbines or any other power generation tech - the impact on wild birds is what is of concern, because, by definition, we're not able to raise any number of wild birds we'd like to have.
CWIZO · 6 months ago
While indeed irrelevant for the original point. I would encourage you to educate[1] yourself on the life these birds have before you make claims we're doing them a favour by bringing them into existence.

[1] https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch

CWIZO commented on Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow   cnbc.com/2025/01/18/tech-... · Posted by u/thm
Etheryte · 7 months ago
Unless you're already minted beyond measure, selling anything at any time for $1.8B is a great deal, you and everyone you ever cared about are set for life.
CWIZO · 7 months ago
OP was refering to SO being on a massive decline since then.
CWIZO commented on Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs. AI (2024)   harimus.github.io//2024/0... · Posted by u/wallflower
CWIZO · 8 months ago
> Robots are probably amazed by our ability to keep a food tray steady, the same way we are amazed by spider-senses (from spiderman movie)

Funnily, Toby Maguire actually did that tray catching stunt for real. So robots have an even further way to go.

https://screenrant.com/spiderman-sam-raimi-peter-parker-tray...

CWIZO commented on Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app   ftwa.mathix.dev/... · Posted by u/mathix
usr1106 · a year ago
Since Mozilla has started to provide an official Debian-style repository there is no reason to use snap on Ubuntu any more. Well, except if some users don't know or don't care to switch.
CWIZO · a year ago
Do you have a good summary of why snap is bad?

u/CWIZO

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