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lonelyasacloud commented on Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level uni-bonn.de/en/news/017-2... · Posted by u/brandonb

laurencerowe · 10 days ago

I much prefer the texture of porridge made in a pan on the stove to that made in the microwave. The stirring releases the starches from the oats.

I use rolled oats and cook with just salt and water which avoids the risk of the milk burning if you are inattentive, then add milk or yoghurt (and raw brown sugar) to my bowl.

lonelyasacloud · 10 days ago

Go all in and invest in a Spurtle.

lonelyasacloud commented on Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level uni-bonn.de/en/news/017-2... · Posted by u/brandonb

jimnotgym · 10 days ago

I suppose I should acknowledge there is a big world out there. If I asked for porridge in the UK I would get oat porridge. The product I bought this morning to make it was called 'porridge oats'.I suspect the Asian version comes from the age of empire with British troops applying their home terms to their rations? 'This gloopy river thing looks like Porridge'.

A porridge made of rice in the UK is not a thing as far as I am aware (I'm not in hipster London though), I suspect it would be what we call Rice Pudding?

lonelyasacloud · 10 days ago

> A porridge made of rice in the UK is not a thing.

No, for that we've adopted the name "rice pudding"

lonelyasacloud commented on Prism openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

Rperry2174 · 13 days ago

This keeps repeating in different domains: we lower the cost of producing artifacts and the real bottleneck is evaluating them.

For developers, academics, editors, etc... in any review driven system the scarcity is around good human judgement not text volume. Ai doesn't remove that constraint and arguably puts more of a spotlight on the ability to separate the shit from the quality.

Unless review itself becomes cheaper or better, this just shifts work further downstream and disguising the change as "efficiency"

lonelyasacloud · 12 days ago

> Unless review itself becomes cheaper or better, this just shifts work further downstream and disguising the change as "efficiency"

Or the providers of the models are capable of providing accepted/certified guarantees as to the quality of the output that their models and systems produce.

lonelyasacloud commented on ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions asml.com/en/news/press-re... · Posted by u/dep_b

joe_mamba · 12 days ago

> Within a couple of years the Philips people were able to transform the company to be very management/top heavy until nothing worked anymore

You see the same pattern with Siemens and a lot of their spinoffs: Continental(VDO), Infineon, Qimonda, Gigaset, Healthineers (yes, that's a real name that somebody got paid to come up with), etc

THe ones without some major moat like trains or energy, got slowly run into the ground becoming irrelevant or stagnant, or ended up being shuffled between various foreign PE groups as they couldn't make them profitable.

Bizarrely, even Healthineers which should be booming due to healthcare being a super profitable industry with a massive regulatory moat, has hit a 5 year low in its stock price.

Remember how Siemens used to make mobile phones? Yeah, well ironically, Apple's in-house modems are the former cellular modem division of Siemens-Infineon that Intel bought and then sold to Apple.

There's something with the management from these massive German conglomerates that just lacks any sort of vision, and over time end up producing bloat, inefficiency, bureaucracy and stagnation while the same staff ends up flourishing and producing top notch tech when under a US company like Apple. Wondering if it's what they teach in business schools over there or if it's the culture, or both.

lonelyasacloud · 12 days ago

> There's something with the management from these massive German conglomerates that just lacks any sort of vision.

It's a universally hard tendency to resist as enterprises grow into big organisations.

Company starts small and lean; people involved in making product also do most of everything else. Over time specialist HR, Finance, Legal, Marketing etc functions are added. All try to do their best but all with their own non-product agenda. All usually hired and sitting at or close to the same top table decision making process, all diluting and distracting from the vision/mission of what was important to the organisation in the first place. Eventually, the company's top-level decisions becomes more about that than the product.

lonelyasacloud commented on Gut micro-organisms associated with health, nutrition and dietary intervention nature.com/articles/s4158... · Posted by u/lonelyasacloud

lonelyasacloud · 23 days ago

... developed a ranking of species most favourably and unfavourably associated with human health markers, called the ‘ZOE Microbiome Health Ranking 2025’. This system showed strong and reproducible associations between the ranking of microbial species and both body mass index and host disease conditions on more than 7,800 additional public samples. ....

lonelyasacloud commented on Banning Things for Other People Is Easy dogdogfish.com/blog/2026/... · Posted by u/matthewsharpe3

lonelyasacloud · 25 days ago

The core point - that it's politically convenient to ban things for "other people", especially if they cannot vote you out - is well taken. And I share the scepticism about whether "do something" politics leads to good legislation. However, it is most definitely not hypocritical to have different rules for children and adults; the bodies and minds of children are not fully developed and there are many instances where research indicates they are both more prone to damage and unable to make effective judgement as to their own actions.

As to a social media ban making sense for children: should not the precautionary principle apply? To this end, who has the vested interests and deeper pockets to fund research backing the status quo? And yet where is the research indicating social media is good news for children?

lonelyasacloud commented on Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse irishtimes.com/ireland/20... · Posted by u/mooreds

uyzstvqs · a month ago

This is a good way to regulate this. Criminalize people who abuse AI tools to cause harm. Don't try to impose censorship or mass-surveillance on AI tools. I oppose all pornography, but censoring nudity from a model both compromises the model's quality (example: SD3) and stops legitimate artistic value.

Though the framing on Grok is highly duplicitous. It is against the ToS, and it's about a few abusers among millions of legitimate users. Meanwhile there are actual "nudification" services which advertise themselves entirely to enable this kind of abuse.

lonelyasacloud · a month ago

> This is a good way to regulate this. Criminalize people who abuse AI tools to cause harm.

In same way as is done so successfully with guns, speeding automobiles, etc?

These things are capable of inferring photorealistic av deepfakes; with a well drafted law they're more than capable of inferring if what they are being asked to is illegal.

It makes zero sense to wait for the poop to hit the fan and then waste taxes investigating the illegality, punishing criminals, and dealing with impact on victims when it can stopped at source.

lonelyasacloud commented on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icon... · Posted by u/lylejantzi3rd

michaelbuckbee · a month ago

The only "real" justification is that this is a long term play to figure out a UI and interaction shift that will work for general augmented reality devices (aka whatever device Apple releases five years and two iterations from now based on the Vision Pro.)

lonelyasacloud · a month ago

That will be part of it. The main driver though that they've been working on for years is trying to figure out how to add just enough desktop to UIKit to allow them to kill off AppKit as a separate thing.

lonelyasacloud commented on AI agents are starting to eat SaaS martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/jnord

jwr · 2 months ago

I am the founder of a niche SaaS (https://partsbox.com/ — software for managing electronic parts inventory and production). While I am somewhat worried about AI capabilities, I'm not losing too much sleep over it.

The worry is that customers who do not realize the full depth of the problem will implement their own app using AI. But that happens today, too: people use spreadsheets to manage their electronic parts (please don't) and BOMs (bills of materials). The spreadsheet is my biggest competitor.

I've been designing and building the software for 10 years now and most of the difficulty and complexity is not in the code. Coding is the last part, and the easiest one. The real value is in understanding the world (the processes involved) and modeling it in a way that cuts a good compromise between ease of use and complexity.

Sadly, as I found out, once you spend a lot of time thinking and come up with a model, copycats will clone that (as well as they can, but superficially it will look similar).

lonelyasacloud · 2 months ago

Coding agents like Claude are just one line of AI making inroads. There are lot of nearly tasks that can be almost, but not quite, implemented effectivly with existing tools like Excel and Word. As they seek a return on their investments, are MS likely to target those nearly cases with AI in their Access, Excel, Word etc product lines?