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@JBert said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Recently found in a Twitter post, still need to read it:
The tl;dr version: Obesity is the last medical problem where shame is thought to be an effective treatment. It is not, and it is very counterproductive. The problem is that we misidentify weight as an indicator of health (see some of the quoted sections below). It is not well correlated with detrimental medical conditions. Diets do not work because calorie intake is not the primary cause of suffering.
The actual solution starts with the following:
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Make it easier to get quality, healthy food (less fats, oils, and sugars), regardless of calorie count. Due to economic factors (productions costs, government subsidies, etc.), it is much more expensive in time and money to eat in a healthy way.
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Reduce the stigma and shame that other people heap on fat people. Shame causes people to not see their doctors and the stigma causes doctors to ignore all other problems except weight. Shame also induces other problems like eating disorders (like anorexia, bulimia, and stress eating) as well as cardiac and other problems brought on by stress.
Some highlights from the article.:
For 60 years, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or even saved, millions of lives. The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolism—a body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.
The second big lesson the medical establishment has learned and rejected over and over again is that weight and health are not perfect synonyms. Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages: Studies have found that anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol. Meanwhile, about a quarter of non-overweight people are what epidemiologists call “the lean unhealthy.” A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people. Habits, no matter your size, are what really matter. Dozens of indicators, from vegetable consumption to regular exercise to grip strength, provide a better snapshot of someone’s health than looking at her from across a room.
Doctors have shorter appointments with fat patients and show less emotional rapport in the minutes they do have. Negative words—“noncompliant,” “overindulgent,” “weak willed”—pop up in their medical histories with higher frequency. In one study, researchers presented doctors with case histories of patients suffering from migraines. With everything else being equal, the doctors reported that the patients who were also classified as fat had a worse attitude and were less likely to follow their advice. And that’s when they see fat patients at all: In 2011, the Sun-Sentinel polled OB-GYNs in South Florida and discovered that 14 percent had barred all new patients weighing more than 200 pounds.
In 2017, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the expert panel that decides which treatments should be offered for free under Obamacare, found that the decisive factor in obesity care was not the diet patients went on, but how much attention and support they received while they were on it. Participants who got more than 12 sessions with a dietician saw significant reductions in their rates of prediabetes and cardiovascular risk. Those who got less personalized care showed almost no improvement at all.
Some bullshit that doesn't help anyone:
In an incendiary case of good intentions gone bad, about a dozen states now send children home with “BMI report cards,” an intervention unlikely to have any effect on their weight but almost certain to increase bullying from the people closest to them.
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@pie_flavor said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I read it. tl;dr in some cases, weight isn't associated with unhealthiness, and in some cases, people feel ashamed about themselves and overeat, therefore every single social stigma against being fat is wrong and stupid.
Also most doctors are useless in helping.
I've found this to be true as well. I've had one doctor tell me to eat less than 1000 calories a day. I told her that would be impossible.
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@Karla said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@pie_flavor said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I read it. tl;dr in some cases, weight isn't associated with unhealthiness, and in some cases, people feel ashamed about themselves and overeat, therefore every single social stigma against being fat is wrong and stupid.
Also most doctors are useless in helping.
I've found this to be true as well. I've had one doctor tell me to eat less than 1000 calories a day. I told her that would be impossible.
Impossible? Probably not. Unhealthy? Absolutely. Moronic? Certainly.
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@Karla said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
eat less than 1000 calories a day. I told her that would be impossible.
Cilantro has only 0.9 Calories/serving.
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@HardwareGeek said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Karla said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
eat less than 1000 calories a day. I told her that would be impossible.
Cilantro has only 0.9 Calories/serving.
And bulimia has its own health problems.
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@JBert Penn and Teller Bullshit! did a great episode on obesity, talking about how "overweight" (according to government standards) doesn't mean "unhealthy".
The demo at the end was they got a guy who you'd normally think of as quite overweight and chubby, not like a football player type, but who had generally good health habits, and had him run a race against a skinny guy with bad health habits-- he beat him easily.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Impossible?
It's not impossible, but unless you're in Stalingrad in 1942 entirely surrounded by Nazi troops, it's really a thing anybody should be doing. And for a doctor to suggest it is ridiculous.
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@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Impossible?
It's not impossible, but unless you're in Stalingrad in 1942 entirely surrounded by Nazi troops, it's really a thing anybody should be doing. And for a doctor to suggest it is ridiculous.
Oh absolutely. I was just being . I've seen people try, though. Doesn't work well.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Impossible?
It's not impossible, but unless you're in Stalingrad in 1942 entirely surrounded by Nazi troops, it's really a thing anybody should be doing. And for a doctor to suggest it is ridiculous.
Oh absolutely. I was just being . I've seen people try, though. Doesn't work well.
I knew it was impossible enough for me and made sure she knew it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@pie_flavor said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Yes, Ben? Care to explain?
No idea. Sorry.
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@Tsaukpaetra Someone went to the effort of using
mem::swap
to take a smallVec<String>
out of a struct, to avoid the single extra allocation thatclone()
would create.
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@izzion said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@boomzilla
WHO THE F DOESN'T TAKE THEIR FLAG DOWN BEFORE A MUDDA FUKKIN HURRICANE?Those pressed for time enough to recognize the limitations on the value of symbolism?
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@Gribnit said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@izzion said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@boomzilla
WHO THE F DOESN'T TAKE THEIR FLAG DOWN BEFORE A MUDDA FUKKIN HURRICANE?Those pressed for time enough to recognize the limitations on the value of symbolism?
HOLY CRAP! A POST BY @Gribnit MAKING SENSE!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Man, is that a small cup of coffee or is it just me?
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Physically Based Rendering describes both the mathematical theory behind a modern photorealistic rendering system as well as its practical implementation
The author team of Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys, and Pat Hanrahan garnered a 2014 Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences based on the knowledge shared in the first and second editions of the book this book. The Academy called the book a “widely adopted practical roadmap for most physically based shading and lighting systems used in film production.”
Of the book, Donald Knuth wrote “This book has deservedly won an Academy Award. I believe it should also be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.”
As of October 15, 2018, the full contents of the third edition of the book are freely available online.
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@boomzilla
The related link I got was better:
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@izzion As I heard a wise person once say:
The related link I got was better:
I'll just link directly to the video:
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"…Airlines complain that they are losing money because so many flights are nearly empty. At the same time passengers complain that flying is miserable because planes are too full. They could both be right. When a flight is nearly empty, only a few passengers enjoy the extra space. But when a flight is full, many passengers feel the crunch. Once you notice the inspection paradox, you see it everywhere."
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@bb36e that would explain why you hear that people change jobs regularly but I always seem to work with people who have been with the company for 10 years or more
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Don't Get Distracted 16 November 2017
I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people.
But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time.
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@bb36e
I read the text in the embed.
Then I read the text in the embed's image.
Then I read the text you quoted.
Then I clicked the link and I read the first two paragraphs on the page.
Then I scrolled past the video and the plugs for other stuff, and I read the next two paragraphs.Then I got distracted and went to do something else.
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@pie_flavor said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
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@Tsaukpaetra http://terralang.org/ is a much better link. Nothing there
deservingdemanding encryption, much less broken encryption.Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language
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@dkf said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Zecc quoted in 🔗 Quick links thread:
meta-programmed by Lua
Oh dear.
Honestly, looking at it, it's not a lot worse than other models. Generics, macros, templates, conditional compilation, etc., are all replaced by metaprogramming. Check out the intro.
Bias alert: I like Lua. Still, though.
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@bb36e I had forgotten what this website was called and had given up hope of finding it again. Thank you.
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Baffin, Unorganized is part of a larger census division known as the Baffin Region by Statistics Canada…
Population (2016): 62
Population change (2011-2016): 1,140.0%
Private dwellings: 21
Area: 988,299.55 km2 (381,584.59 sq mi)
Density: 0.0001/km² (0.0002/sq mi)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@ben_lubar said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
This statement is false?
No. The only way it would be false would be if you owned more people than there are people who have been to Russia.
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@tharpa said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@ben_lubar said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
This statement is false?
No. The only way it would be false would be if you owned more people than there are people who have been to Russia.
Ownership is so subjective though...
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It looks a little bit early to present the "word of the year" while the year's still going, but here it is:
Filed under: I'm not spoilering the onebox
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Hey @blakeyrat, you know your constant 'I should be able to embed random shit in my code files' rant?
And you know how whenever I bring up IntelliJ you shit on it because everything written in Java is automatically complete trash to you?
Get fucked.
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@pie_flavor said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Hey @blakeyrat, you know your constant 'I should be able to embed random shit in my code files' rant?
And you know how whenever I bring up IntelliJ you shit on it because everything written in Java is automatically complete trash to you?
Get fucked.
I dare you to read the actual textual source under that as SCM sees it sometime...
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@Gribnit I'd love to have tables in my code (and qubes and tesseract s). The ease of showing all options are accounted for. Mhm...
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@swayde It looks really cool. Probably fun to work with. I do not predict that resolving a merge conflict at the command line would be something I would want to do.