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HiPhish commented on Volkswagen gates a new vehicle's full horsepower behind monthly subscription   dexerto.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/taubek
HiPhish · 8 days ago
I think this is a great move from Volkswagen. I'm sure this has happened to all of us at some point: you buy something, and then a few days later you think "if only I had paid a little bit extra and gotten the big version", but by that time you are already stuck with the small version.

Well, no more. Now Volkswagen is willing to sell you the big machine for the price of the small machine. And they are willing to gamble on taking a financial loss if you do not change your mind after all and don't make up for the difference. What a great company! Either that, or they are selling you the big version whether you want it or not, and then trying to double-dip. But they would never do that, that's just a crazy conspiracy theory. R-right?

HiPhish commented on Why Nim?   undefined.pyfy.ch/why-nim... · Posted by u/TheWiggles
efilife · 9 days ago
Significant whitespace is a dealbreaker for me. I never tried Nim for this reason
HiPhish · 9 days ago
I could never understand why people care this much about significant whitespace of all things. This seems like such a non-issue, it should be a minor annoyance at worst. Then again my favorite language is Lisp, so maybe I'm just too much beyond caring about syntax. The only annoying thing about significant whitespace is having to escape a new line sometimes.

But significant whitespace has always made sense to me. You are going to indent your code anyway, so you might as well give the indentation some meaning. I write Python, JavaScript and Lua most of the time, and I never waste any thought on whitespace VS braces VS keyword delimiters.

HiPhish commented on Pfeilstorch   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfe... · Posted by u/gyomu
xdennis · 10 days ago
The draft/promaja. In Eastern Europe people genuinely think that if you leave two windows open you'll get various diseases like cold/flu/headache/ear pain/etc.

I've tried to understand this belief. So if you stand outside and it's windy, that's perfectly fine. But if you're inside, and you open two windows, that's deadly, even if there's no draft to be felt. I think some people think it's even more deadly if you can't feel it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/1csstle/draft_myth...

HiPhish · 9 days ago
Oh yeah, I remember The Draft, killer of Man, slayer of the innocent and bane of humanity since the dawn of time. I have been suffering from migraine attacks since childhood, and every time I complained about headaches it was attributed to draft. I knew that I had not been hit by draft, but that did not matter. It even made me afraid of The Draft for a time until I noticed that draft had no negative effects on me. And it wasn't regular headache either because regular headache medication like Aspirin had no effect on me. It took until early adulthood to finally get diagnosed as having migraines. (for those who wonder how the diagnostic process works, you get a questionnaire and if you answer three out of five questions correctly the doctor is like "congratulations, you have migraine, here are your triptans")

Thinking back, there was a lot of other bullshit I was told as a child that adults believed, but that seemed wrong to me:

- Tongue map, the idea that certain tastes can only be felt on certain regions of the tongue, even got taught that one in school in 5th grade. I never experienced that sensation, it always felt like every region of my tongue can sense any taste. The teacher went as far having us apply different tasting substances to different regions to "experience and confirm" the lesson. I still could not feel it, which makes it really scary to think how indoctrination can override what one's own sense tell you. Either everyone else was just going along with the BS, or they successfully had gaslighted themselves into believing the lesson.

- The idea that people on Columbus's time thought the earth was flat. How could he ever have gotten enough funding and personnel for what would have been seen as a suicide mission?

- The Great Wall of China being visible from space. Sure, it's really long, but it's quite narrow. So why would this structure specifically be the only man-made structure visible from space? I guess it depends on one's definition of "space", but then it is not the only mman-made structure visible from "space", and as such nothing special in that regard.

There is probably more stuff that I can't think of right now.

HiPhish commented on PYX: The next step in Python packaging   astral.sh/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko
Muromec · 13 days ago
The word "left" is now very charged too, maybe even more than "viral".
HiPhish · 13 days ago
Every word is charged now, so you might as well use it. "Copyleft" is a fine pun on "copyright".
HiPhish commented on Maintaining weight loss   macrofactorapp.com/mainta... · Posted by u/MattSayar
neilk · a month ago
How long ago was "formerly"?

Signed, a formerly formerly fat person.

HiPhish · a month ago
Seven or eight years. I did have the occasional lapse when I was under high negative stress and would just let myself go, but I just had to drop the bad habits I was falling back into. The initial wakeup call was when I was diagnosed with a non-alcoholic fatty liver in my late 20s.
HiPhish commented on Maintaining weight loss   macrofactorapp.com/mainta... · Posted by u/MattSayar
HiPhish · a month ago
Formerly fat person here. That article is just an overblown list of common sense advice to sell you some crap you don't need. Losing and maintaining your weight is actually really simple. Here is what worked for me (I am not a doctor):

- First of all, drop sugar. Right now. Even if you are not fat, you should not eat it. It's not just extra calories, it's poison. Don't be like "oh, I'll just finish this stuff I still have around", throw it out. If your are only going to follow one point from this list, then let it be this one.

- Forget about calories, a calorie is not a calorie. You cannot "work off" that cake your have eaten, your are not an oven. Calories are an upper limit (you cannot break thermodynamics), but the human metabolism is much more complicated than just balancing an equation.

- Exercise is necessary, but not sufficient. That means you should exercise to get your metabolism going, but exercising itself will not let your lose weight. And when I mean exercising I don't mean you need to get a gym membership. Just going for a walk for half an hour or an hour is good enough for starters.

- Fat won't make you fat. I grew up under low-fat propaganda, yet I kept getting fatter. Then when I increase my fat consumption I started losing weight. By fat I mean real animal fat from meat, not seed oils or other processed fats.

- Eat real food. If you cannot tell what it's made from by looking at it, then it's not real food.

- Processed fruits and vegetables are still processed food, and thus not real food. Don't be fooled by marketing, stuff like fruit juice is not healthy, no matter how many vitamin labels the manufacturer keeps putting on the packaging.

- Caloric restriction works in the short term, but will drive you crazy in the long term. This is why people lapse eventually and regain all their weight.

It is important to understand that obesity is not a "surplus of energy", it's a medical disorder brought about by disruption of your metabolism. I was able to keep eating and eating without ever feeling satiated. It is pure torture to be hungry with a full stomach. It was my body telling me "stop feeding me this garbage, give me real food". I have since been able to keep my weight and never feel hungry. It's only when I find myself unable to eat real food and lapse back into old habits that I start gaining weight again.

HiPhish commented on Mill: A better build tool for Java, Scala, and Kotlin   mill-build.org/mill/index... · Posted by u/lihaoyi
HiPhish · a month ago
Is it bootstrappable? I mean really bootstrappable, not "the bootstrap script will download a binary from some server". This is where both Maven and Gradle fail (at least the last time I checked). Kotlin and Scala also have the problem that their compilers themselves are not bootstrappable either.

u/HiPhish

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