Readit NewsMimi: "If you close your eyes."
This thread is not about the differences in the taste between the real cola and diet cola. Many many healthy people with no health problems have the diet version!
So if you look at the participants in the study, it's 40,000 people between 40 to 60.
The only thing we know about them is some of them drink some artificially sweetened drinks. We don't know anything else about their diet or their lifestyle age 20-40.
So first, people who don't have a problem with sugar or their health, they don't drink artificially sweetened drinks.
People who are 40 years old and they drink diet soda, a great deal of them, not all, do it because they already have a problem.
Nobody drinks artificially sweetened soda unless they have a problem because it just tastes bad. A healthy person would just pick soda sweetened by sugar.
And health councious people don't even drink soda because they've never built an addiction to that type of drink in first place - mind that this study is not in the US.
So the fact that this group is more likely to end up with diabetes, there might be a million factors that lead to that result.
Maybe because drinking diet soda already makes a chunk of them preselected to be more likely to develop some kind of metabolic disease.
Again, I don't generalize this study returns some kibd of arithmetic average. You only need 10% of participants to be off limits and you get very different result vs. general population. Because if you look at diabetes 2 rates, out of 40k people maybe 4k max gets it (edit. 1.7k in the study) that's a sample that can show wild variation.
Edit. people seem to have problem with the verbiage. "Nobody drinks artific..." ok that's a way to make a point what I wanted to say "you're more likely to pick diet soda if you already habe a problem" especially for 40-60 demographic who probably includes 100% of people ordered to drink diet soda by their doctor. Also yes people drink soda outside the US. But not people 40-60 where a chunk of them comes from generation that weren't subject to heavy advertising by american sugar soda companies. This is Europe New Zeland and just do a wuick search on the demographics of diet soda consumers in the Europe - it's 25-44 age group.
What a bogus claim! Plenty of people drink artificially sweetened drinks because they don't want to enjoy a soda but not add calories to their daily consumption! Which world do you live in? Have you even been to cinema lately? I bet every other person orders a diet soda before entering the theatre. I know because I see it happen all the time all around me!
A terminal program should follow the terminal standard by all means. But a web service advertising one Content-Type but delivering another Content-Type is a violation of the web standards.
Link to the original study:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL10...
Drift of Earth's Pole Confirms Groundwater Depletion as a Significant Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise 1993–2010Any chance the original link can be replaced with this? This is definitely way more informative than the clickbait article.
That's exactly my point. You can't do that.
$ curl --head -s wttr.in/London | grep Content-Type
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
But you've got a fair point. So thanks!
curl wttr.in/London > london.txt
open -a TextEdit london.txt
IMHO you should not emit ANSII escape sequences until you at least call isatty, preferably also consult termcap. But also IMHO we should bury the terminals, and build better REPLs and lightweight GUI toolkits.
How exactly do you propose that wttr.in, which is not actually a process running on your machine (but a remote server), call isatty() on your machine?
Or are you suggesting that curl should check isatty() and strip out the control codes? But that would be overstepping curl's responsibilities, wouldn't it? Its job is to faithfully output the response, garbage or not.
When I ask for the weather, I want to know exactly what the Met Office says the weather is. Not what an LLM guesses the Met Office might have said, with a non-zero chance of introducing a hallucination.
This habit of inserting LLMs into otherwise deterministic tasks is frustrating. Why take something that can be solved accurately and deterministically (like parsing the Met Office's data) and make it probabilistic, error-prone, and unpredictable with an LLM?
LLMs are appropriate for problems we cannot solve deterministically and accurately. They are not appropriate for problems we can already solve deterministically and accurately.
You need not be a connoisseur to notice that they're not _exactly_ the same.
> This thread is not about the differences in the taste between the real cola and diet cola.
Yea, my message, it's a quote from the musical "Rent." Was this whimsy worth your rudeness?