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Readit NewsWhat a load of crock! People have agency. Free will. So what if McDonalds puts out a cool new toy in their adult happy meal or some special sauce loaded with glutamates. Fuck em! Say that to them right now, in your head or out loud: fuck em!
You can stop this addiction right now by merely doing nothing and not eating "UPFs". You have the power. When you get stressed and want to burn time and energy eating because it's at least eating, how about doing a different thing? Each one of us is powered by a soul that can defy these behavior loops with some self-reflection.
A lot of these UPFs are targeted at young people who don't have the same ability to think of long term consequences. If you start young, it's a much harder habit to break later in life.
And in many places UPFs are cheaper and more widely available than unprocessed food. If you're worried about paying rent, you're not questioning cheap calories for your family.
Even if we can agree that people should exercise more willpower, isn't there something wrong with companies weaponizing science to make food as addictive as possible?
ImPleadThe5th commented on Banning Things for Other People Is Easy dogdogfish.com/blog/2026/... · Posted by u/matthewsharpe3
I feel like if the conclusion is "ban it for everyone too" I'm okay with it?
But the argument seems to get a little lost along the way.
Yes, adults are susceptible to the same vices as children. However (as the author writes) children have poorer impulse control. They are also less inclined to or unable to consider the repercussions of their actions.
You wouldn't try to get a toddler to stop smoking by telling them it'll put them at a high risk for cancer at old age.
Speaking of smoking, anti-smoking campaigns in the US in the 90s led to a vast reduction in teen use and adult use alike.
So there is notable lasting benefit in protecting children while they lack the foresight.
ImPleadThe5th commented on Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024) cloudamqp.com/blog/messag... · Posted by u/byt3h3ad
After spending most of my career hacking on these systems, I feel like queues very quickly become a hammer and every entity quickly becomes a nail.
Just because you can keep two systems in complete sync doesn't mean you should. If you ever find yourself with more-or-less identical tables in two services you may have gone too far.
Eventually you find yourself backfilling downstream services due to minor domain or business logic changes and scaling is a problem again.
Total touch grass moment.
There's more to education than just trivia and there's more to travel than just learning about the place you're in.
The only way to learn about the human condition is by meeting other humans.
Meeting someone from a vastly different culture and finding similarities is far more education than simply eading about how they are different.
Experiencing the flow of life _now_ and feeling the influence of history can only enrich the book knowledge of a place.
Sounds like this person could use some travel to teach them about empathy and patience for others. Their books don't seem to be sufficient.
Good advice. Doesn't work in bad culture.
I once was told "we cannot promote you because the work you've done checks the boxes for 2 rolls above you and does not check the boxes for your next roll"
I'd worry about sprained ankles on a false step or a slippery leaf-rock trap. Is there a technical approach to running in these conditions?
I've heard it's actually beneficial for your ankles long term to get some tilt/pan on them. It reduces your chances of injury by strengthening the twitch muscles in your ankle and legs.
Important to note the point is "trail running" not "alpine running", gravel and dirt vs, steep inclines and big rocks.
Anecdotally, just adjust your pace/length until you're comfortable. I've always done mixed asphalt/dirt-trail and there is a notable difference in my knee fatigue when there is a bigger ratio of one or the other, would always prefer a nice gravel or dirt over the road.
ImPleadThe5th commented on Web development is fun again ma.ttias.be/web-developme... · Posted by u/Mojah
I enjoy when:
Things are simple.
Things are a complicated, but I can learn something useful.
I do not enjoy when: Things are arbitrarily complicated. Things are a complicated, but I'm just using AI to blindly get something done instead of learning. Things are arbitrarily complicated and not incentivized to improve because now "everyone can just use AI"
It feels like instead of all stepping back and saying "we need to simplify things" we've doubled down on abstraction _again_
ImPleadThe5th commented on Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017) hillelwayne.com/post/what... · Posted by u/zahrevsky
I really do not like working with uncle bob hardliners
There have been so many times where I have commented _why_ I think some uncle bob-ism made the code unclear and the response is always:
> *Sends link to Clean Code, maybe you don't know about this?
No, I do, and I am allowed to disagree with it. To which they always clutch their pearls "How do you think you know better than uncle bob!?", this is a Well Established Pattern TM.
I don't think I know better than Uncle Bob, but I don't think Uncle Bob works on this codebase nearly as much as you or I.
Have we a outsourced all accountability for the crimes of humans to AI now?
Those boys absolutely should be held accountable. But I also don't think that Grok should be able to quickly and easily generate fake revenge porn for minors.
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