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amonon commented on Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss nature.com/articles/s4158... · Posted by u/paulpauper

e40 · 4 months ago

For me, sugar was the reason I couldn't lose weight. I got a CGM (continuous glucose monitor) and got my blood sugar under control, and with very little effort I lost a lot of weight.

I use 90% cacao Lindt to control my sweet tooth. 1/2 the bar has 4g of sugar, and I consume it over hours. It also has the side effect of reducing my hunger. If you eat much of 90% chocolate, it makes you feel nausea. The trick is to put a small chip in your mouth and let it melt. It's quite delicious and I've not had any sweets in 80+ days.

amonon · 4 months ago

This also speaks to another point, when trying to lose weight: you must find new things to enjoy.

amonon commented on Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app recipeninja.ai... · Posted by u/tomblomfield

croon · 5 months ago

Seriouseats, Epicurious, Bonappetit, or anything with Kenji Lopez-Alt (for always going the distance in methodically and empirically testing all variations of whatever he is evaluating/developing).

If you want something in the short form video era, I do appreciate Andy Hearnden (andycooks) as he is both concise, consistent and always posts the full recipe in the video descriptions (all too rare).

amonon · 5 months ago

+1 for Serious Eats. I also like NYT cooking. I do not like Bon Appetit, I find most of their recipes to not turn out well.

amonon commented on Ask HN: Do programmers generally enjoy some amount of complexity? · Posted by u/keepamovin

austin-cheney · 5 months ago

No. Consciousness is the waking self, the ability to perceive at all in a sober and non-dreaming fashion. With regard to consciousness the ability to perceive at all is sufficient regardless of whether that perceptive ability is limited to yourself, a narrow subject, or details around you. The oppose is unconsciousness, which is typically thought of as the sleeping mind.

Conscientiousness is more distinct, a subset. It is the fine detail by which a person can perceive dates, times, and schedules. Other facets of conscientiousness include social intelligence, empathy, organizational capacity, cleanliness/orderliness, details about nature, comparisons and measures, and more.

Low conscientious people struggle to think beyond themselves and struggle to find the energy to perform tasks not considered immediately pleasurable or self-rewarding. That is what makes the costs of abstract task completion so very expensive, because the effort required is beyond consideration. For example a simple task like cleaning your room or waking early without an alarm clock is an impossibility for some people and for others it is as effortless as getting dressed. For people who struggle with these they appear more comfortable with complexity or disorderly, which is a false conclusion. These disordered result may be very stressful and perhaps over stimulating, but the effort to correct for it is too expensive to resolve. That is why some programmers can seem to build anything and refactor large applications in a few hours while other developers struggle to merely formulate a starting idea in that time and an equivalent refactor would take weeks to accomplish.

Extremely low conscientiousness is linked to a variety of mental and behavioral health disorders because it is so completely detrimental to standards of living and real world performance. Extremely high conscientiousness is linked to perfectionism, OCD, and anxiety in a world of disordered imperfections.

amonon · 5 months ago

I consider myself to be on the lower conscientiousness side of the spectrum. For others who are like me, what has worked best to improve myself in this area are these two things:

1) develop empathy and compassion for yourself. celebrate wins, and analyze losses.

2) make small, concrete steps to simplify your environment. as the above commentor mentioned, task completion is expensive. however, some things decrease the cost of task completion or increase your available energy. among these are: habits, good sleep, consistent exercise, a decluttered environment, proper nutrition.

together these form a virtious cycle, improving your capacity to make meaningful decisions by either increasing the energy you have available to you, or by decreasing energy drain from other areas.

finally, remember that some things are not worth thinking too much about.

amonon commented on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer? civileats.com/2025/02/18/... · Posted by u/greenie_beans

Workaccount2 · 6 months ago

To be fair, food was very difficult to come upon historically. Killing an animal and not eating it was equivalent to burning money for fun.

Vegetarianism (voluntary) didn't become more than an edge case until food was heavily commoditized and readily available.

amonon · 6 months ago

This rings more true for me. Food simply used to be a lot more expensive.

"Between 1960 and 2000, the average share of Americans’ disposable personal income (DPI) spent on food fell from 17.0 percent to 9.9 percent." [1]

I am not going to look for a source right now but I would venture that since the 1960's were part of the industrial era that food was even more expensive before the creation of the Haber process and gas powered farm tools.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2020/november/average-s...

amonon commented on GPT4 level intelligence fell 1000x in 18 months twitter.com/swyx/status/1... · Posted by u/stevekrouse

amonon · 6 months ago

(Cost of)

amonon commented on Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration cea.fr/english/Pages/News... · Posted by u/mpweiher

janalsncm · 6 months ago

> This was a 25% improvement on the previous record time achieved with EAST, in China, a few weeks previously

I applaud this nuclear arms race. 22 minutes is really impressive for a technology that’s always been “20 years away”. I think I will do a deep dive on the technical challenges of fusion.

amonon · 6 months ago

I'm a layman, and so can't comment too specificaly. I found this Construction Physics article interesting, which was posted here some months back: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/will-we-ever-get-fusi...

amonon commented on Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout tracker github.com/wger-project/w... · Posted by u/freemh

AiAi · 7 months ago

I tried to use it but I found the UI/UX confusing, with many exercises lacking images too. I support the idea but the workflow was not for me.

I settled with Iron for iOS, which is also free software despite the platform it runs. Still looking for an equivalent on Android, the LiftLog app seems to have potential, but I think the UI is not that great.

amonon · 7 months ago

I like Liftosaur, which appears to have an Android version on the Play store.

amonon commented on The year I didn't survive bessstillman.substack.com... · Posted by u/LaurenSerino

DFHippie · 7 months ago

I sympathize. I won't offer platitudes. I find those don't lessen grief.

My son took his own life on February 1st, 2023. I feel like someone took a huge melon baller and scooped out the middle of my chest. My wife and I had been trying to get him back on his feet for two years at that point. He died quietly about 10 feet from me. The family cat kept trying to get me to open his bedroom door. I kept trying to respect his privacy. I finally took her hint.

He was the best person I knew. I imagined vicariously living a much better life through him. I still feel like a fragment of my former self. He was a sometime contributor here, by the way, under jwmhjwmh.

Anyway, I give my love to everyone here sharing stories of their losses. I find sharing memories of these loved ones is more comforting than platitudes, and certainly more healing than pretending nothing happened.

amonon · 7 months ago

>I sympathize. I won't offer platitudes. I find those don't lessen grief.

The most meaningful thing someone ever said to me, after my daughter was stillborn full term, was: "There is nothing to say."

amonon commented on Rwandan scientists develop local yeast for banana wine-makers phys.org/news/2025-01-rwa... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

jrflowers · 7 months ago

Different yeasts have different temperature and alcohol tolerance. For example a bread yeast may not continue making alcohol beyond 5-6%, or another yeast may only be productive in a narrow temperature range that’s too warm or too cool for a given application.

amonon · 7 months ago

To add on, different yeasts also vary in their ability to metabolize carbohydrates. In general, a wine yeast will be less able to metabolize complicated carbohydrates than a beer yeast. Beer yeast tends to be more sensitive than wine to alcohol levels. More importantly, it's possible Rwanda lacks any serious brewer's yeast industry that is suitable. Kveik may be able to ferment at both 37C and up to 16% ABV but that's definitely an unusual trait in a yeast and I would not be surprised if they resulting wine was... funky.

amonon commented on Signs Of Life In A Desert noemamag.com/signs-of-lif... · Posted by u/mindingnever

adrian_b · 7 months ago

For many ancient people, water and fire were associated as opposites that nonetheless had some shared properties, and they were usually both objects of respect, with various associated deities.

An interesting example is how in the Ancient Rome the most severe punishment except death, was named the "interdiction of water and fire", which meant banishment, because one could not live in a place without having access to water and fire.

amonon · 7 months ago

Some death poems from Zen tradition mention 'water from fire'.

  Three and seventy years
  I've drawn pure water from the fire--
  Now I become a tiny bug
  With a touch of my body
  I shatter all worlds

By Ingo, died 1281

  A drop of water freezes instantly--
  My seven years and seventy.
  All changes at a blow
  Springs of water welling from fire

By Kaso Sodon, died 1428.

From "Japanese Death Poems" by Yoel Hoffman. I recommend this book as a good memento mori.