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b212 commented on Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it   nytimes.com/2025/12/08/he... · Posted by u/brandonb
adventured · 20 days ago
It's from a dramatic rise in inactive lifestyles by younger people and a lot of sitting, with the predictable consequences. Behavior which would have been far less common before mass adoption of video games and personal computing in the home, and then everybody sitting/laying around their homes with their smartphones. Young people go out less, they have a lot less sex, they're far less social in-person. It all goes together.

These people under 50 were the first generation to sit around at home for long periods of time playing video games. The NES came out in 1985-86 in the US and home video gaming has been mass adopted since. From there add on the full adoption of sitting down at a computer for work in offices across the 1980s and 1990s. Then throw in the full adoption of home computing in the 1990s with Win3 & Win95 + GUI. And for the past 20 years, throw in the smartphone.

It's the sitting primarily, hours and hours of it every day.

b212 · 19 days ago
I don’t drink, I never smoked, I eat clean, I run, I swim, I go to the gym. But I’m also at my desk for 13 hours a day on average and I think it will kill me one day. Trying to stand as much as possible but it’s not always possible,
b212 commented on McDonald's is losing its low-income customers   latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
tzs · a month ago
Yeah, the McD app is ridiculous. For some items it gives me an add to order dialog and then an add to bag dialog (I might have the order of those two swapped). I'm not sure what the distinction is between adding to the order and adding to the bag.

It also has some ridiculous restrictions. Nearly every week I take advantage of their in-app deal for free medium fries on Friday if you spend at least $1 on other stuff. I make a sandwich at home, order a couple cookies plus the free fries in the app, then go pick them at the McD that is about half a mile from my home.

Occasionally though instead of making a sandwich I decide I'd like to use my McD reward points to get a free burger. But you can't get both a rewards points item and a deal item on the same order.

I end up doing a rewards points order for a free burger, picking that up at the drive through, parking, then doing a cookies plus free fries deal order, and going through the drive through again to get that.

What's the point of not allowing both a rewards item and a deal item on the same order? If the rule was you could only use one reward or deal per day, then it would make some sense.

b212 · a month ago
Loved that story!
b212 commented on OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/ColinWright
tonyhart7 · 7 months ago
wait they didn't do that before???
b212 · 7 months ago
Im sure they pretended they did not.

Now they can’t pretend anymore.

Although keeping deleted chats is evil.

b212 commented on Apple Debuts iPhone 16e   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/dm
b212 · 10 months ago
Great, another phone for giants. I’ll keep replacing battery in my 13 Mini, hoping for the best…
b212 commented on Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks   scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
b212 · 10 months ago
I battled PF for ages, tried literally everything, and when nothing worked, my feet were in pain I decided to do the dumbest thing in the world and try to only thing I was told I shouldn’t do - run.

I picked a day when my plantar fascia was not too painful and did the first training from c25k plan (roughly 8 minutes of jogging if I remember correctly).

It actually helped me. Don’t try it at home, I think I got lucky because my PF was really not a PF anymore. But I would never found out if I did not run that day. I’ve been running daily ever since, no issues whatsoever.

b212 commented on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI   reuters.com/markets/deals... · Posted by u/jdoliner
polotics · a year ago
wow I had no idea the level of discourse on that x website was so low, has it always been like this?
b212 · a year ago
Do not check out Kanye West on x unless you want to see what no censorship means (spoiler alert: a guy with 33m followers posting porn and glorifying nazism).
b212 commented on Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer   twitter.com/TechEmails/st... · Posted by u/raviisoccupied
LeoPanthera · a year ago
This should be the URL in the post, Twitter requires a login, Bluesky doesn't.
b212 · a year ago
As much as I hate Twitter I was unable to read this @ Bluesky at my iPhone 13 Mini because left/right arrows covered words, this is a mobile design straight from the mid 00s. So bad.
b212 commented on Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN   abc.net.au/news/2025-01-2... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd
b212 · a year ago
Just mix and match two last digits of the year your parents/siblings were born and you’re golden.

Side note; I’m surprised 6969 is not more popular :)

b212 commented on Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?    · Posted by u/dondraper36
babyent · a year ago
I use node-ts. Why? I have access to every library I will need from any provider or for any task like phone number validation.

Node is fast enough, easy to develop, deploy, and scale. Anything that is slow can be ported to Go.

It is easy to find solutions to my immediate problems using LLMs.

I’m just using express and my data layer consists of neo4j and qdrant. All code is single responsibility and I use layered architecture. Easy to test and feed in to AI.

I used to work in rails, mostly to port existing code to Go or node. I found it way too messy and complicated, and our codebase was awful. I am in the minority though as I know many love rails.

b212 · a year ago
Interesting as I currently work with 15 year old RoR database and a 2 years old Node project and every time I jump into the later I want to kill myself.

And I’m a mainly JS dev. Node is extremely easy to f up, so is the frontend. And with all the generated code today… it’s gonna get only worse.

b212 commented on Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?    · Posted by u/dondraper36
theonething · a year ago
Changing production code on the fly? So testing/qa is done on production? Uh, no thank you.
b212 · a year ago
It’s the real joy. Especially when you do those things on Friday’s evening.

u/b212

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