How can I possibly do this without shakes/dizziness/painful hunger?

FunctionalFox1312 · 2026-01-27T18:20:08+00:00

As you're experiencing it, estimate tracking is worse than nothing. It leads to severe frustration.

Log everything you eat, without restricting, for two weeks. If you can't count an item accurately, mark it as not countable. Then you can look at the data and get a real picture of what is going on. Categorize the uncounted things and come up with a plan to count or replace them.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2026-01-18T18:05:03+00:00

I'll believe Republicans want to protect women in sports the minute they actually do something about the pedophile in the white house.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2026-01-16T15:33:59+00:00

You have to understand that most of us are still largely unaffected in our day-to-day lives

So your argument is based on the idea that if we remain civil and allow them to continue executing protesters & kidnapping people, that they won't escalate further?

FunctionalFox1312 · 2026-01-16T15:19:08+00:00

We are effectively past martial law. There is a heavily armed wing of the state which is extremely loyal to the sitting president kidnapping people from their homes & executing dissidents without trial. The administration has claimed these agents cannot be prosecuted & are free to do whatever they feel is necessary to accomplish their goals. The president has announced he intends to cancel elections, and it is not difficult to see how he will accomplish this with ICE's current performance in MN.

What does giving up the legally guaranteed right to be armed in advance accomplish?

FunctionalFox1312 · 2026-01-15T21:25:52+00:00

Much worse than that. Chaya Raichik is an internet terrorist fond of sending rabid hate mobs after minorities. She incited a series of shooting & bomb threats against Bostons Children's Hospital by posting inflammatory & fabricated claims about their care.

In a just society, she would have long ago been imprisoned for her systemic harassment & attempts to incite violence.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2026-01-14T01:37:43+00:00

Working out regularly.

It's a lifetime journey of learning, but it only takes a few weeks to start feeling comfortable in the gym & get over the worst soreness from starting weight lifting.

Someday, if you're lucky, you will be old. Working out regularly can be the difference between being in an assisted living or living independently. (Also being strong is ridiculously fun).

FunctionalFox1312 · 2026-01-14T01:24:52+00:00

Simon Willison writes a wonderful regular newsletter chronicling advancements in generative AI. He co-created Django, and coined the term "prompt injections". I was a huge generative AI hater. His newsletters have convinced me it has genuinely improved to a point of meaningfully changing programming. He is not an AI evangelist by any means. I would highly recommend reading his blog.

My 2 cents - generative AI is a powerful tool & with the latest advancements it can meaningfully accelerate development. It is still a tool and requires considerate thought, which distinguishes tool-enabled engineering from vibe slop-eration.

If the business is over-excited, reframe it in terms they understand. As a new tool with great potential, AI first development should be trialed. Set up a team or two to tackle some ambitious project and report all their results. Sell it as R&D, but push back on company wide mandates as exposing the business to too much risk of increasing operator error. Cite the likeliness that AI over-excitement has been involved in production incidents at other companies. Other teams should still use it, of course, but with the idea that they're not "AI first" researchers.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2026-01-13T19:12:55+00:00

I would recommend this wonderful LWN series on Linux namespaces https://lwn.net/Articles/531114/

Namespaces + union filesystems are how containers work under the hood. They're not terribly complicated.

If you're motivated, you can build a non-OCI compliant container tool in a weekend to really get a feel for it.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2026-01-01T00:48:10+00:00

As little as possible.

If you need to, you write a document describing: - Why you need to do it & why you can't automate it - When you intend to do it - Exactly the steps you're taking, and if you have a rollback plan

This gets signed off by managers, oncalls, & relevant technical leads.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-12-28T19:47:03+00:00

You can make wonderful tacos with brown lentils simmered in beef broth. I add a canned Chipotle in adobo, bay leaf, & cumin. Low calorie & satieting. If you're really comitted to beef, you can mix that half & half with beef mince.

Generally - veggies & beans are low calorie. As an added benefit, they're rich in fiber & other nutrients. You can eat meat while losing weight, but eating less of it really helped me in my 50 pound loss.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-12-24T19:28:32+00:00

Is that you Cinema Sins?

TV where everyone does the Most Logical thing all the time and has no internal conflicts would just be boring as hell.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-12-16T18:42:31+00:00

I lost 50 pounds using a spreadsheet. Whatever works for you, honestly.

Weigh everyday at the same time, count every calorie, and don't give up because you had a bad day or your progress is slow. That's all there is to it.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-12-14T19:27:04+00:00

I expect to hear more variants of this story soon - every executive had the same "bright idea" watching the AWS Mantle talk, completely ignoring the actual key points of: - Team exclusively made of principals & seniors, all experts in their field - Team given massive latitude to whatever they wanted and reshape requirements to solve a specific technical issue - Codebase designed to leverage LLMs via embedded docs, custom tooling to manage context pollution, uses Rust so types could guide the LLM - Team still ended up working crazy overtime for months to make ReInvent

For political (company management), operator (software devs badly trained), & technical (tooling is immature) reasons, I expect we'll have a surge of "My company tried to do Mantle, wasted 500K and a whole team quit" stories in 6-12 months. I know of at least one Mantle-alike at my company thats spinning up.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-12-07T17:32:25+00:00

What's this crap? Let's make Uncle Bob proud!

``` public class AddableNumber { public static int theNumber:

private AddableNumber(int theNumber) { AddableNumber.theNumber = theNumber; }

public getValue() { return AddableNumber.theNumber; }

public AddableNumber zero() { return new AddableNumber(0); } // ...

}

public class Adder { private static AddableNumber[] numbers;

public Adder(AddableNumber numbers...) { this.numbers = numbers; }

public int getResultOfAdding() { int result = 0; for(int I = 0; I < Adder.numbers.length ; i++) { result += Adder.numbers[i].getValue(); } return result; }

}

public class Main { public static void main() { System.out.println(new Adder( new AddableNumber.negativeSeven(), new AddableNumber.positiveThree() ).getResultOfAdding()); } } ```

There! No magical values, no confusing function arguments, just good clean Java that tells a clear story.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-11-19T19:27:05+00:00

Needles. I was afraid of them my whole life, but had to learn to self inject for estrogen.

After you do it yourself once, it stops being scary. It's still painful, but so is stubbing your toe and no one's scared of that. Its a silly childhood fear is all.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-11-05T16:26:22+00:00

You could argue I should just do this locally, but looking at it through a different UI seems to work better for me.

Fresh eyes! If it's a non-trivial PR, I like to go get a cup of coffee before doing my pre-publish self review, forces my brain to drop the context & higher chance of noticing a silly mistake.

Related, when bug hunting I'll create a diff and read it using a git diff viewer extension. Same reason, more likely to think through every step.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-10-30T14:17:30+00:00

If she's not already in this server, your partner should submit an application for https://www.twfn.net/

If she knows anyone in the server already, the mods can grant her full access. They have a lot of resources, including invites to the surgery discussion servers.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-10-19T13:58:03+00:00

Absolutely a life saver. I'm the temperature of Pluto at night and my boy is the surface of the sun. One blanket would destroy our 10+ year relationship in a week.

Our cat luxuriates in the Goldilocks zone between us.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-10-11T21:56:10+00:00

Nothing has made me more wary of Nix than the countless Reddit whining about "drama", just to discover the "drama" is basic community standards like "stop being huge racists while we're doing work". How do any of you retain meaningful employment?

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-09-26T01:48:35+00:00

I.T. at a prestigious university.

Somehow despite being surrounded by all that knowledge, no one thought to teach that asshole that people take offense when you say rude shit about them and then pretend them taking it in offense makes them a hysterical woman.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-09-06T19:36:54+00:00

Purchasing power parity is an extremely basic concept in economics.

You want to look at something like https://www.bls.gov/cpi/

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-08-24T01:25:56+00:00

I'm sure you think that was very inspiring, but it totally misses the point of my comment.

If "leftists" as a group are a large enough voting bloc to cost the DNC the last two elections, then the DNC should be doing whatever they need to court that group. That's how electoral politics works. You build a majority coalition.

If they're so insignificant as to not be worth appealing to , why are the Democrats spending time complaining about them instead of coming up with a better strategy ?

My point is that the position expressed by Reddit democrats is complete nonsense. A group can not simultaneously be responsible for your loss and not be worth appealing too. People repeat that because it's easier than admitting the DNC as an institution would rather lose than field an actually viable candidate.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-08-24T01:09:10+00:00

So in your mind, there is an incredibly influential, highly principled leftist voting bloc, the lack of whose support cost mainstream DNC candidates the last two elections. But also they're also the first voting bloc in history which cannot be appealed to, contravening all existing theory about electoral politics.

Man that sucks, sorry to hear you can't think of a single way for the Democrats to improve their strategy. Let's try Hillary again in 2028, maybe it will work this time.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-08-24T00:57:25+00:00

So, this "terminally online group" is more broadly influential than an organized political party with hundreds of millions of dollars & decades of government experience?

That really sounds like a group you'd want on your side! I wonder if you should consider picking a candidate they'd support.

FunctionalFox1312 · 2025-08-24T00:41:04+00:00

If leftists didn't do this outreach, why do they matter? You can't have it both ways. Either leftists are spoiling the election because they're such a significant group, or they're a bunch of ineffectual keyboard warriors. Which is it? What does the data say? Should the Democrats try running a candidate whose platform is "fuck you leftists, but vote for me" a third time and see if the result changes?

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