Llamamoe (u/Llamamoe)

Llamamoe commented on Microbial metabolite repairs liver injury by restoring hepatic lipid metabolism journals.asm.org/doi/10.1... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

hinkley · 3 days ago

We’ve mostly studied gut health. Something about modern diets is messing that up substantially. Some think it may be Roundup, others dish detergent, others some microbe we can’t culture on Petri dishes.

Llamamoe · 3 days ago

Why assume it's the diets rather than antibiotics? Your gut microbiome develops during the first ~3y of life(including partial heritability from your mother), after which the total set of microbes in it remains approximately constant throughout your life, with only the relative proportions of them shifting with diet changes.

In contrast, antibiotics often kill a strain of a few off completely, while suppressing everything else except for a few strains that resist the antibiotic, which also creates a massive opportunity for new bacteria to colonize. And these deficits are partially heritable.

Llamamoe commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

curiousgal · 5 days ago

It's so funny to me that they think that forcing power users to cave in is going to bring in more money. Heck I will stop paying for Google Workspace and move my shit to Apple rather than pay for YouTube premium or watch YouTube ads.

Llamamoe · 5 days ago

I don't think it's about money anymore. These last few years we've seen governments, corporations, lobby groups, and the rich really starting to clamp down on authoritarian measures primarily centering around eliminating digital freedoms.

I think we might be past the stage of capitalism where the evil was merely incidental to the pursuit of profit.

Llamamoe commented on Writing with LLM is not a shame reflexions.florianernotte... · Posted by u/flornt

sinuhe69 · 6 days ago

My natural reaction when I detect a writing of AI is now turning away. We have too much to read and too little time to waste on mimicry and not really what people thought or believed.

Llamamoe · 6 days ago

Yeah. Even when it appears and feels thoughtful, there's still no real intent underlying it, and frankly even if there was, the problem with AI output is that it ultimately gravitates towards similar outputs in a way that real human thoughts don't.

Llamamoe commented on Privately-Owned Rail Cars amtrak.com/privately-owne... · Posted by u/jasoncartwright

bombcar · 9 days ago

It’s also called “hotel” power and is provided by the locomotive, but separate from “needed to run” power. A train can run with just air and the physical connection, hotel comes with the big “other cable” connected.

Some private cars do NOT use it and instead have their own generator. In theory you could have one with no lights, etc at all.

I’ve been on an Amtrak where it lost hotel power; nothing but emergency lighting until they got to a station where they could swap the locomotive.

But the train kept running, and the conductor had to walk the entire train announcing stops verbally; with no PA system.

Llamamoe · 9 days ago

Why can't the locomotive pull it from the wires? It's not like it maintains a constant draw with all the speed changes and such.

Llamamoe commented on Privately-Owned Rail Cars amtrak.com/privately-owne... · Posted by u/jasoncartwright

ethan_smith · 9 days ago

Head End Power (HEP) is the electrical power supplied from the locomotive to the passenger cars for lighting, heating, air conditioning and other amenities - essentially the "hotel load" that keeps your private car functioning while attached to the train.

Llamamoe · 9 days ago

Why is it so much? I can't imagine a few lighting and heating fixtures using several thousands worth of electricity.

Llamamoe commented on AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally blog.google/products/sear... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

DataDaemon · 10 days ago

Goodbye small blogs, forums, it was nice to read you.

Llamamoe · 10 days ago

I just wonder what the cost of the enshittification of the web to humanity is.

There was a time where I could type a loose query about anything I didn't know, and get its Wikipedia page, forums and blogs full of knowledgeable people, scientific articles and academia pages, where all knowledge was a few seconds of typing away.

Now... I don't even bother to Google things anymore. It's all SEO spam, AI slop, and ghostwritten articles whose content is secondary to the business they advertise.

Llamamoe commented on The new geography of stolen goods economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/tlb

gruez · 11 days ago

>This makes it sound like a hit piece to sell mass surveillance laws like ChatControl

Encrypted chat apps get mentioned in literally one sentence out of a ~1900 word article, and somehow that's "a hit piece to sell mass surveillance laws"? Get a grip.

Llamamoe · 11 days ago

It's not a sentence you say by accident, nor is it a sentence that makes sense to say unless you have an agenda to push.

Llamamoe commented on The new geography of stolen goods economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/tlb

culebron21 · 12 days ago

> Encrypted communications have enabled criminal gangs to operate and co-operate more freely than ever before, and establish global supply chains.

Is this the payload message of the article?

Many cars have GPS installed. Everybody has a smartphone, and even if it's offline, it's possible to see who went offline when the car was stolen. Customs offices have never ending databases of the containers that passed them.

How is it impossible to track down a thief? I guess, because there's just too much data to automatically track many cases. How on Earth will banning cryptograhpy and adding more data to the sea, help track the thieves?

Llamamoe · 12 days ago

> Is this the payload message of the article?

This makes it sound like a hit piece to sell mass surveillance laws like ChatControl. Even if encryption was illegal and everything scanned 24/7, all it takes is speaking in code to be uncatchable. It's what criminals have done for all of history.

This is just disgusting.

Llamamoe commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

TrackerFF · 16 days ago

I'm on Ritalin - which works for me. Where I'm from (Norway), getting a diagnosis is no walk in the park. Very extensive process, if you're adult.

At least the doctors I've seen, have all been very precautious in prescribing anything other than the basics. If Ritalin doesn't work for you, they'll obviously try something other...but my doctor told be straight up that it is a red flag when some patients will ask specifically for Adderall, as the potential for misuse is much higher. And for him, it was a last resort.

Llamamoe · 15 days ago

> is a red flag when some patients will ask specifically for Adderall, as the potential for misuse is much higher. And for him, it was a last resort.

This is so stupid. It's so much better of a medication, the potential for addiction and abuse at therapeutic doses is minimal to none, and yet healthcare systems around the globe are continuing to avoid prescribing it. Ugh.

Llamamoe commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

fossuser · 16 days ago

My hypothesis about this for a long time has been stimulants help everyone be more productive (with some tradeoffs) and ADHD is kind of a weakly differentiated diagnosis that could apply to most people.

Probably something like this was lost when people stopped smoking, obviously beneficial for health - but a huge amount of the public was taking stimulants regularly via nicotine until relatively recently.

Llamamoe · 15 days ago

> and ADHD is kind of a weakly differentiated diagnosis that could apply to most people.

It's not, the problem is that it sounds like it because ~everyone faces some (way) lesser version of the struggles ADHD people face literally every day, many of whom probably do have some subclinical degree of executive dysfunction.

My personal thumb rule is that somebody is capable of finishing school, autonomously managing their living conditions, finding and keeping a job, and having at least a modicum of social life at the same time, they're high-functioning enough that they almost definitely don't have ADHD, or only some ultra-light version of it.