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How about https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.... ?

but I think eventually we'll have even more specialized ASIC like machines with models burned into them

This has already happened and is very interesting.

https://www.anuragk.com/blog/posts/Taalas.html

You'll be able to jump ship any time you want.

Famous last words...

Depending on your level of DIY-ness and willingness to handle powders, you could make some Super Goop. I've heard good things about it but haven't yet had enough bed adhesion issues to make it yet.

https://github.com/MakerBogans/docs/wiki/Printer-goop

An outlier in historical terms (i.e. the last 20 years)

https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list

I've been looking at Linux phones for a while, and now the latest 'sideloading' lockdown from Google has pushed me to seriously consider getting off Android. What phones do you use or recommend for someone who has a little Linux experience?

Obligatory XKCD:https://xkcd.com/927/

I fail to see what a new protocol would bring to the equation. I see it more as a human behaviour issue, network effect, worse is better etc etc.

My grandma uses Facebook because someone taught her how, she doesn't have the capability to explore technology on her own. That honestly goes for most people, they treat their computer as necessary for getting along in modern society and nothing more.

Facebook is the internet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240222200132/https://sheafific...

The Journal of the American College of Cardiology has a good paper stating that saturated fat is not linked with CVD or mortality.

https://www.jacc.org/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.05.077

If you're willing to make the jump before GabeN makes it easy for all of us, I can recommend CachyOS with KDE Plasma.

I've recently made the jump and it seems to have stuck. This is at least the fifth time I've tried to switch over the last 20 years and it's the first time it even moderately feels like most things have just worked.

I'm not entirely sure that these fall specifically under the 'donation' and 'digital initiative' categories that OP specified, but these are the institutions and pieces of software that offer their wares for free which I use often enough to give money to/purchase from.

- Octoprint

- Grayjay/Futo

- Internet Archive

- Opensubtitles

- The Guardian

I used to donate to Wikipedia, but for various reasons switched that donation to IA.

I agree with every point here, and they all make a lot of sense... yet most alcoholic beverages are shipped to the consumer in glass bottles, including even the cheapest beers.

I have seen some drinks shipped in plastic, so it is possible to do, I wonder if glass packaging is a 'premium' thing. Though, if they can do it for cheap beer, then I'm sure they can do it for non-alcoholic drinks on scale.

I didn't mean 'requires no insulin at all,' I know T1D requires some insulin to regulate blood sugar and to perform other functions in the body.

What I meant was that, for example in the OP article, a 60g bolus of carbs brings blood sugar from the bottom of healthy range all the way to the top of the healthy range in one go.

It just seems like an unnecessarily large and (for most) difficult to control jump in blood sugar. A lower-carb diet, say under 50g total carbs per day, should reduce blood sugar swings and increase their controllability, letting patients be in the healthy range of blood sugar for a higher percentage of the day.

I still haven't found a tactful way to bring this up, but have you considered a low- or zero-carb diet?

As far as I underdstand it, if you don't eat carbohydrates, you don't require insulin to deal with the spikes, and apart from a few grams in the bloodstream, humans require extremely little to no exogenous carbs.

I'd love to hear your thoughts if you've looked into this already.

if it “just didn’t track” a large swath would no longer exist.

You say this like it's a bad thing...

tl;dr: Anki helps you remember stuff.

https://apps.ankiweb.net/

A lower carbohydrate diet is key to improving mental and physical health. More fat, less sugar. Read Big Fat Surprise [0].

Social interaction also seems to be key to healthy longevity, frailty can be a barrier to socialisation, as can be hearing loss.

However, your parents are their own people. You won't be able to force them to do anything they don't want to do, but you still need to love them even if they won't listen.

[0] https://ninateicholz.com/about/the-big-fat-surprise/

Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38954189

Also see the link at the bottom of the page for an English translation by Fredrik Andersson [PDF]

https://nablaman.com/relay/download/Z4.pdf

I cannot believe this showed up on HN front page. I was thinking about anarchy and secession on the way home, and remembered Hutt River, then bam, there it was.

Hutt River has been a media curiosity for decades in Australia, Prince Leonard would get trotted out every couple of years on a slow news week. Sad to learn of his passing.

I was slack and didn't read your links last night, sorry.

From what I can gather, infection with adenovirus-36 basically improves glycemic control... ostensibly a good thing? I couldn't find whether adenovirus-36 was a persistent infection, or whether it only affected patients for a short time, but then they failed to lose weight after the infection had cleared.

This author states that the reason for obesity is eating too much sugar and refined carbohydrates. Why is there a distinction between refined and unrefined carbohydrates? There's no explanation for this, it's treated as given. It's the same chemical makeup, all that changes is the glycemic index. In other words, it's the same poison, it just takes longer to absorb.

The linked study backs this up, but makes no sense from a glycemic load point of view. I notice that vegetables are lumped in one category. Potatoes are not the same as celery. As are fruits, yet blueberries and mangoes have a vastly different sugar content. To add insult to injury, this is a meta-analysis of observational studies, which are notoriously unreliable.

Let me back all this up with a different meta-analysis of interventional trials which treats all carbohydrates the same.

Ketogenic Diet Benefits to Weight Loss, Glycemic Control, and Lipid Profiles in Overweight Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trails

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9408028/

Thanks for the discussion :)

In some cases it may be the root cause, but... is 42% of the US population infected by adenovirus? I think it's unlikely.

In my opinion, it's mostly the excess carbohydrates now compared to what we ate 100 years ago. Occam's razor and all that.

Just be sure you're supplementing enough. If you've been vegan for 4 years, you're starting to enter the danger zone for running out of certain vitamins that your body stores.

B12 is the big obvious one, but you should also check out vitamins K2 and A (beta-carotene is only converted by about 70% of people), as well as carnitine, zinc, iron and iodine.

They may be citizens by naturalisation, or refugees.

I would be very interested to see if the same effect holds in those athletes who maintain a low carbohydrate diet.

Maybe if the body is adapted to use fat as the primary energy source from the get-go, it would not go looking for energy in such a seemingly strange place.

It depends where you live. In Australia outside of the capitals, public transport is nonexistent or terrible.

If you're situated more than 5km from the nearest town, car ownership is practically mandatory.

I think the point here is that animals raised for meat should not be conflated with burning fossil fuels. Cattle, chickens etc. are part of the carbon cycle.

Modern high-intensity farming practices such as feedlots and cage chickens - where the majority of the feed is grain and harvested hay - are probably where the conflation enters. There is just as much a need to raise healthy, minimally carbon intensive animals as there is to reduce eating meat. There are farming methods to do this, but change is slow.

The first rule of fight club...

https://archive.li/bkodO

I would love some more information on this if you have it, my search results are bombarded by all the news outlets copypasting this article.