dorfsmay (u/dorfsmay)

dorfsmay commented on Ask HN: What projects do you donate to? · Posted by u/xeonmc

dmoy · 3 months ago

Yea this. I don't think I've donated to anything that wasn't either food banks or food distribution networks (the layer on top of the food banks) in like a decade+. If you don't count occasional neighbor/friend cancer-charity-run things.

There's a lot of hungry people in the US. I grew up going to elementary school with a lot of kids who didn't eat much at home (free breakfast and lunch at school), and the results aren't pretty.

Once we can reliably feed our poorest as a society, then maybe I'll donate to something else.

dorfsmay · 3 months ago

One doesn't prevent the other. I intentionally split (not equally) my donations between local/international help to basic human needs, so local shelters and food banks but also Amnesty, normal local politics and targetted philosophical (local provincial party, EFF), some techs that have a huge impact to many people, Thunderbird, Signal etc..

dorfsmay commented on Plain Vanilla Web plainvanillaweb.com/index... · Posted by u/andrewrn

lolinder · 4 months ago

I think that this comment is a great example of the total disconnect these conversations always have.

On the one hand we have lots of people on here who are building full-featured web apps, not websites, on teams of 30+. These people look at frameworkless options and immediately have a dozen different questions about how your frameworkless design handles a dozen different features that their use case absolutely requires, and the answer is that it doesn't handle those features because it doesn't require them because it's a blog.

Meanwhile there are also a lot of people on here who have never worked on a large-scale web app and wonder why frameworks even exist when it's so obviously easy to build a blog without them.

It would be nice if we could just agree that the web hosts an enormous spectrum of different kinds of software and make it clear what kind of software we're talking about when we were opining about frameworks—whether for or against.

In this case: this is a WordPress blog.

dorfsmay · 4 months ago

On the third hand, some people use React and some framework to write static web page...

dorfsmay commented on Canadians give Liberals 4th mandate as Carney leads party to minority win ctvnews.ca/politics/artic... · Posted by u/pseudolus

lesuorac · 4 months ago

Give it time.

The amount of Canadians that think they have a first amendment right to free speech is growing. The only way to avoid this is going to be actually doing a good job of lowering income equality and lowering living costs (as % of income).

(Take your pick as what counts as the 1st Canadian amendment but it's not free speech [1])

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amendments_to_the_Constitution...

dorfsmay · 4 months ago

Typo? Did you mean lowering income inequality?

dorfsmay commented on Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature herecomesthemoon.net/2025... · Posted by u/Mond_

billdueber · 4 months ago

If you add in a call to “.lazy“ it won’t create all the intermediate arrays. There since at least 2.7. https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.7.0/Enumerator/Lazy.html

dorfsmay · 4 months ago

I do the same with Python, replacing multilevel comprehensions with intermediary steps of generator expressions, which are lazy and therefore do not impact performance and memory usage.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0289/

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

Cthulhu_ · 4 months ago

Sure; it's a layered system, each one taking more effort or thinking than the other.

Easy diets: drink this shake 3x a day. Don't eat $food_category. Limit calory intake to $amount / day.

More complex: The above, plus macronutrients.

More complex: The above, plus micronutrients.

Add dimensions like lifestyle choices (vegetarianism, veganism etc) or food sensitivities (celiac, lactose intolerance).

I'm no diet expert and need to lose some weight myself but the main advice I'd give is to get stable first. Plan your meals, eat regular meals at regular intervals, keep excess / luxuries / "rewards" to a minimum. Only when you have reached a stable and sustainable pattern should you start to make adjustments. The problem with diets or major lifestyle changes is that they're hard to keep up, simply because they are so different from your usual. The shake diets generally don't work long term because people suffer and go back to their old habits, if not overcompensate because their body signals a deprivation of some kind.

dorfsmay · 4 months ago

Shakes don't provide satiety, most people will hate this and start eating something else within a few days.

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

squeedles · 4 months ago

Quite so, and I think he does address that, but those are all second level factors, along with activity level, exercise, and their effect on your caloric requirements. He puts together a bunch of excel spreadsheets for tracking many factors, but I have found the simple discipline of accounting for what I eat in a little txt file on my phone sufficient to align my choices with my desired outcome.

dorfsmay · 4 months ago

Exercise and activity are contributing to calories (calories out). These days there are apps that make it easy to track calories, macro and nutrients.

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

squeedles · 4 months ago

As this article shows, there are incredibly complex feedback mechanisms around weight and metabolism, but thermodynamics are still fundamentally a thing.

After he died last year, I ran across this engineering and accounting approach to weight maintenance and loss written up by John Walker (one of the Autodesk founders). It worked very well for him and changed the way I thought about weight and eating. It is interesting reading because he is "one of us"

    https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

Basically, he uses a first level approximation of the body as a control system with a feedback loop, and tries to pin down some techniques to bring the system to a known good state (target weight) and manage that loop for long term stability.

dorfsmay · 4 months ago

The problem with diets based only on calories is that they don't take satiety into account, nor health.

Calories is what makes you gain/lose weight, it's basic physics. Satiety is what makes you want to eat more/less. Nutrients are what is making you healthy.

Fiber and protein tends to make you feel full. Lack of them allow you to eat large amount of calories without feeling full. You need to keep track of micro and macro nutrient to stay healthy.

dorfsmay commented on I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/HieronymusBosch

Aurornis · 5 months ago

> by the time I read that it needs to use their website for some functions.

> you cannot use all the functions without creating an account on their website and have them run those functions for you.

Which functions?

This is a really confusing post without knowing what those functions are.

dorfsmay · 5 months ago

On my model "deep cleaning" of the dishwasher, some other functions I think, but that I didn't care for.

dorfsmay commented on I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/HieronymusBosch

onewheeltom · 5 months ago

My relatively new Bosch dishwasher has real buttons and an LED display. No wifi required

dorfsmay · 5 months ago

I have button and LEDs, and it works fine without wifi for "basic functions", but for "advanced functions" like washer deep cleaning I would need to use their website.

dorfsmay commented on I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/HieronymusBosch

consp · 5 months ago

> I specifically told the salesperson I didn't want wifi, and they told me it's only if you want it to operate from your phone.

Don't know where you are but in most countries that would be a valid reason to return it at any time you found it out. They lied to get your money, willfully is almost never a requirement.

dorfsmay · 5 months ago

Bought from a dealership. I don't think he lied, I think he just didn't know about "advanced functions".

I never got the "no need for wifi" in written form.