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2 years ago
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on: Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?
In France in conforama stores salesman use a ascii terminal GUI connected to AIX shells. Fast as hell to take your order. I’m always amazed at how marketing BS lead us to vastly sub optimal solution.
elenaferrantes
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2 years ago
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on: 916 Days of Emacs
You get the vi bindings and modal behaviour which I find better _plus_ all emacs functions and most of the emacs bindings. I’m often mixing the 2 modes while editing.
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: How to do hard things
What helps me doing something I don’t like on a daily basis (pull up for example) is thinking : I don’t have the choice. That way I consume much less willpower
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: Fascination with AWK
I always use it in pipelines to extract columns. I often use it for summations of numbers. Sometimes for more complex tasks. Get the job done.
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What is the best advice you got on any aspect of life?
Agreed. But you can have sexual fantasies and still be friend, no ?
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: 1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics (2016)
That’s my point. Regarding people that maintain the same weight, I highly doubt they eat on average the _exact_ amount needed. There must be physiological adjustments that are broken in some people.
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3 years ago
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on: 1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics (2016)
CICO while thermodynamically true, is not _that_ useful because no one really control CI nor CO …
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3 years ago
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on: 1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics (2016)
How do one manage to eat exactly the amount of calories one consumes ? Based on the calories in/out weight gain theory a little error of 50 calories/day would lead to 50*365=18250 extra calories/year ie 18250/9000=~2kg of fat. 20kg in 10 years !
Eat an apple a day and you’ll be massively obese in few years.
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: Cruel optimism and lazy pessimism
There is a similar idea in the book "atomic habits" by James clear : focus on process not outcome. that’s one of the best advice I ever read.
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: Mandatory helmet laws make cyclists less safe
No worries, I have my helmet ;-)
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: Mandatory helmet laws make cyclists less safe
Next : mandatory helmet for pedestrians. You never know, it could save your life. It’s not the end of the world to wear one.
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: If PHP Were British (2011)
Seems there are some words seen as high level that a French would immediately recognise whereas the relaxed counterpart make no sense for him. Example : "facilitate". I’m French, this word sounds like horrible "franglais" for me but may look classy for an English (?).
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: Being fatter than Homer Simpson
Hi, I’m obese and struggling for 25 years. What I mean is life long normal weight people don’t do any effort. An obese who tries to loose or maintain weight make great efforts and is doomed to fail because no one can sustain it on the long run. We have to find a way to do it without effort. The first step is to avoid setting goals and don’t be in "warrior" mindset. Weight is not something to conquer, but a lagging result of your habits. Better to focus on strategies to avoid overeating each day. I’m trying this since few months. Keep the faith guys :-)
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: Being fatter than Homer Simpson
The complexity is not in the math. The complexity is how normal people eat _just the right amount_ of calories to maintain the same weight.
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: Being fatter than Homer Simpson
Problem is people want it all : health _and_ do whatever comes to my mind. Sometime reality is stronger than will. My advice : do not focus on a weight but on eating normally. If you can stop _gaining_ weight it’s the first step to health. Eventually and _very_ gradually your weight will decrease and in a very distant future it’ll be normal.
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: Being fatter than Homer Simpson
"I will be a health(ier) weight, if I continue to put the effort in. And who knows?" Fit and normal people don’t put any effort. As long as you’ll see this as an effort/reward thing you will fail. My advice : focus on eating normally every day. 3 meals / day. Don’t focus on long term goals.
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: Harvard mandates the bivalent Omicron-specific Covid-19 booster
I wonder when this madness will end.
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: Harvard mandates the bivalent Omicron-specific Covid-19 booster
There’s no death and severity for healthy young people. Only mild symptoms.
elenaferrantes
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3 years ago
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on: NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC's fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay
Comparing polio and Covid is ridiculous
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3 years ago
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on: Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you–and almost everyone else
Yeah, sure. Like the song says : "do what I say, don’t do wha t I do" :-)
