If remember correctly, Rust.
Yeah. It's using AI agents to rewrite C/C++ to Rust.
https://x.com/gounares/status/2003543050698809544
Readit Newsdavey48016 commented on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft theverge.com/tech/865689/... · Posted by u/Anon84
Trade deficit is a good thing. It means foreigners are keeping capital in the US as investment on their trades rather than exporting it out to balance it out.
My understanding is that while politicians generally focus on trade deficits being the result of unfair trade practices or high US labor costs, the majority of economists think that foreigners preference to invest in US financial markets is the main driver.
Why is TikTok always singled out in these social media addiction lawsuits? Instagram and YouTube are just as guilty, if not more so.
They are also defendants in the same lawsuit, but they have not settled.
Nah, you'll just be on it for the rest of your life. Drug companies prefer chronic illnesses since they cannot be cured, and recipients take the drug for life. All these hormones (GLP, testosterones, hrt) will need to be taken forever. Very few people come off GLP-1 and keep weight off.
But how many of those people would have ever lost the weight in the first place without GLP-1?
davey48016 commented on Ozempic Melted Away Weight–and the Idea of 'Body Positivity' wsj.com/opinion/ozempic-m... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
You can’t outwork a bad diet.
Exercise all you want, but for most people, if you eat garbage food in large quantities, you will be overweight.
I am exactly the same, btw. Most of my family was overweight when I was growing up. I was a fat kid, all the way through high school. Since then, I have been exercising consistently for 40+ years. Lifting weights, bicycling, walking every day, etc. But I still need to not just eat everything I want or I will gain weight. I try to avoid junk food, fast food, eating out, MOST days. Personally, I do one “cheat day” per week (see Tim Ferris’ Slow Carb diet for roughly the idea, although I’m not militant about the foods he says are ok, etc.).
I’m around 20% bodyfat at 5’10” in my early 60s, so I could use to drop 5-10 pounds of fat. What boggles my mind is that everyone says I’m crazy to think I need to lose ANY weight. I’ve got clearly visible fat around my middle and other areas, even if I’m not “technically obese”. I don’t look great in most clothes. But compared to the typical person (my age or not), people think I’m in great shape.
I wouldn’t say what I do is incredibly hard. But it’s also not just “do whatever you want all the time”.
> You can’t outwork a bad diet.
I completely agree.
> I wouldn’t say what I do is incredibly hard. But it’s also not just “do whatever you want all the time”.
I think the difficulty varies from person to person a lot more than people realize. We all end up making decisions between what we want to eat and what we think we should eat, but the level of deprivation people feel when they forego the tasty option for the healthy option seems to vary.
I think we eat similarly, and it's not incredibly hard for me, but I think it's much harder for some people.
davey48016 commented on Ozempic Melted Away Weight–and the Idea of 'Body Positivity' wsj.com/opinion/ozempic-m... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
I don't minmax life for the same reason I don't minmax games. We had healthy people before the recent weight lifting craze; my strength training is rock climbing.
Rock climbing is probably going to be just as good at weight lifting. My understanding of the mental model here is:
Up until around age 60, your body adjusts your muscle mass based on usage. Somewhere around 60, you start losing muscle mass. If you have just enough muscle for day to day activities in a sedentary life at that point, then over time daily tasks like carrying groceries or standing up out of a chair are going to become prohibitively difficult. You need to do something that encourages your body to grow more muscle than you need for day to day life so that you can afford to lose some of it.
davey48016 commented on Ozempic Melted Away Weight–and the Idea of 'Body Positivity' wsj.com/opinion/ozempic-m... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
Ozempic is another quick fix. You're going to be thin, but if you don't put in the work lifting weights and eating protien you're just a younger old person with advanced sarcopenia. One fall and your hip shatters. It won't address any other inactivity related illnesses and comes with its own issues. Ex. Bladder not being able to handle bile etc. I get it for advance stage diabetics who have enough nerve issues to be at risk for sepsis and amputation, I don't think it's great for average joe who just wants an easy way to lose weight.
Even if you're active, body fat is still a contest between food drive and will power, which vary widely between people based on genetics and upbringing. Realistically, people with very high food drive and easy access to junk food are going to struggle to maintain a healthy level of body fat even with an active lifestyle.
I know several people who lift weights three times a week, run for at least thirty minutes three times a week, and were still consistently 20-40 pounds overweight before Ozempic and similar drugs.
davey48016 commented on Ozempic Melted Away Weight–and the Idea of 'Body Positivity' wsj.com/opinion/ozempic-m... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
There's a valid point buried in there, though; that being skinny won't make you fit / healthy by itself. You don't have to lift weights, but you do have to be a little active in some way.
There's more and more research that says you do need to do some sort of resistance/strength training to minimize morbidity and mortality. It doesn't have to be weight lifting, but if you're only doing cardio you're missing something.
davey48016 commented on Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw
there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of LLM tool, who deposits giant, untested PRs on their coworkers—or open source maintainers—and expects the “code review” process to handle the rest.
Is anyone else seeing this in their orgs? I'm not...
A friend of mine has a junior engineer who does this and then responds to questions like "Why did you do X?" with "I didn't, Claude did, I don't know why".
davey48016 commented on Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price finance.yahoo.com/news/or... · Posted by u/pera
Java is in the best shape it's ever been in. Jdk development and performance are through the roof and the developer experiences gets better with every release.
Java's in great shape now, but the period between when Oracle bought Sun (~2010) and about 2017 wasn't great, and there was a lot of concern about Java's future. I think most people who moved away from Java then haven't looked back.