There are many contexts for a calorie deficit, if you are too fat already, a calorie deficit is bringing you back to optimal.

In this context, it’s important to recognize your body is an amazing homeostasis machine, it wants to stay at optimal.

If you don’t eat processed foods, anything that comes in a box. If you eat a very low carb diet, such as carnivore or keto plant based diet. You’re managing your insulin levels to normal, optimal ranges, which allows the entire body to operate its homeostasis magic. And even though you’re in a calorie deficit, you don’t feel hungry. Your body will want to maintain a calorie deficit, till it’s back to normal.

The important key here, is to eat whole foods. Basically anything people ate before 1900, you can eat, and you will feel full with the right time, and you will be in a calorie deficit if you need to lose weight.

The big problem with processed food, sugar foods, the carb rich environment people find themselves in nowadays… These diets tend to spike glucose, maintain highly insulin levels all the time, reduce ghrelin production. Processed food specifically is designed to not satiate, to encourage continual hunger. Doritos are famous for engineering the perfect constant craving, through food science.

If you’re always having elevated insulin levels, your body is always trying to be in an anabolic state, it’s hard to burn fat. Your body only stores fat, all of your energy reserves are in fat. With a few exceptions in the muscles and a tiny amount of glycation in the liver. Since your body cannot meaningfully store sugar, or carbs, only the amount in the bloodstream remains, so you’re always hungry because you’re running out of energy… I believe only 5 g of sugar can be in the bloodstream at any one time. You burn through that pretty quickly, in a hour or two, and hungry again.

In short, this is the food addiction cycle.

If you want to lose 1 lb in a month, or gain 1 lb, you need to consume or burn 3,500 calories. Or 116 calories a day. Or 38 calories per meal… Easy right? … In the US, calorie estimates are allowed to be off by as much as 25%, and that’s just packaged food, forget any restaurant or line cook being exactly precise with portions… So for 2,500 average daily diet, over three meals, the margin of error is 208 calories. Your target is 38 calories. You’re trying to do something within the margin of error of all of your estimates. Calorie counting is a very difficult game to do! The deck is stacked against you. This is why it’s important to allow the homeostasis machinery in your body to handle all of this through satiation. It’s going to do the right thing if you let it

Burying a body with friends isn’t hard, or even uncommon. Getting them to never talk about it … that’s hard

Just from a game theory perspective, a distributed group of people who are unorganized are unable to get their concerns addressed properly when it comes time to writing tax laws.

The rich and powerful, by virtue of being rich and powerful, have a voice in writing the tax laws. The distributed poor, do not. So it’s much easier to satisfy income goals by taxing the group who has no feedback loop to the politicians

Heat soak. A laptop may be expected to run 24/7. The larger bricks can dissipate the heat. A GaN charger can do it as well, but most of them have a heat soak point where they stop delivering full power

Really well written. The USB power delivery specification allows devices to negotiate different voltages. That’s why if you have a device of multiple ports, and you plug in a new device to charge, all of the devices stopped charging for a moment will they negotiate again.

I’ll add, a lot of the phone chargers cannot sustain their maximum power output all day. They’re going to soak in heat, the large bricks are also a function of heat dissipation anticipating 24/7 usage

The general topic was about self-hosting. IPv6 is very useful for self-hosting,… connections.

I’ll admit there is a critical mass problem with torrenting clients, but if you’re trying to set up a wire guard tunnel with your friends, IPv6 is a absolute banger

In most environments ipv6 bypasses cgnat (because, why would you need a nat with ipv6).

Wonko the sane nods in agreement

At work I keep a 2L bottle of water on my desk, sometimes I also have a hot tea/black coffee as well.

I didn’t mind their crazy half-baked idea communities, but they never committed to the bit. Plus with their whole federation issue, when people did comment there to try to make something happen, there was no response…

• meat delivery service. Organic butcher sends me meat everyweek

Immediately and constantly apply updates.

Very, very, rarely have I ever had to roll anything back. Newpipe I rolled back once.

— After some thinking

• MacOS - Minor changes Number.minor I update ASAP, Major Changes Number+1.1… I wait until Number+1.3… Apple has a history of breaking the ecosystem on major changes, give them a month or two to sort it out

Just have a work calendar for your working hours, don’t put anything personal on it.

Most calendar systems let you maintain multiple calendars, and share them independently, but you still get to see them all at once on your interface.

Using voyager, I never see anything from someone I blocked. Ever.

Water is not actually touching my skin, due to the nuclear forces…

My body is interacting with the water through magnetic fields

100% this, plus it’s very easy to measure.

For individuals the tg/HDL ratio is promising as a great marker for insulin resistance (lower is better). But it requires a blood test, for academic purposes it’s also good because most checkup blood tests have these two markers recorded.

That’s why I mix it with the ground beef. I honestly can’t tell I’m eating any liver at all

Wind protection, the wind can really whip intensely between buildings

Good, non-slip, ice-friendly shoes. They might clean the streets daily, but all of the ice gets packed onto the sides, crossing the street can be treacherous. Ice puddles, slush. Sidewalks are not cleaned very diligently after a snow / ice storm. So you have to be mindful of your footing

Have layers, so that you can go from the icy outside, to the burning hot inside of buildings quickly.

What kind of person am I if I decide to stay in a job, even if my supervisors work against me?

Employed. You’re an employed person.

Dumbass here gets it!