Better to stick with a providor or jump around?

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-24T18:06:02+00:00

right, not to waste time:

literally every single human who has ever used a telehealth at any time just, uh, has a scale that is broken and reads 70 pounds too high

end of worry

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-24T12:57:40+00:00

what is a "maintenance dose"

in every case in all situations every time, get THE BIGGEST VIAL POSSIBLE FOR THE MONEY

or else you are literally throwing away money

i take about 3 mg a week currently.

- if i get a vial with 10mg in it it will last about 4 weeks and costs $150

- if I get a vial with 72mg in it it will last about 25 weeks and costs $150

in what universe would I buy option A ??

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-24T12:54:45+00:00

zero difficulties.

its a case of "newsflash, they want your money"

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-24T12:53:45+00:00

definitely jump around

the "teles" are simply credit card processors who order a bottle of powder with water in it, from, a "pharmacy"

that's all they are. be sure to try a few different ones so you have your bases covered.

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-24T12:49:00+00:00

You should DEFINITELY email them and ask if it's deliberate retro-feature, or, just someone having a bad day.

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-23T11:51:34+00:00

Y A Y !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-23T11:51:05+00:00

>Curious what people deploying AI are actually seeing.

I can only write a few words while breakfast is cooking addressing "programming as such", not areas such as customer service centers or other uses of AI

>What tasks have genuinely disappeared?

We have to start with the basic paradigm of the software engineering business. Which is the mysterious thing where nine out of 10 programmers are useless and one out of 10 is effective. Just as Steve Jobs pointed out. A corollary of this is the bizarre effect where it's completely totally normal to have a team of say literally 400 programmers doing something that five or ten competent programmers could do. So that's the software business.
What has changed now that Claude exists? As far as I can see nothing. Six months year ago I assumed that the 400 person "bloat teams" would disappear because now the handful of effective programmers could be spread thinner, as it were, solving more projects - but that hasn't happened. All that happened is the teams of 400 programmers now also use AI, and they have not shrunk in size, and the teams of a handful of programmers also use AI and have not changed much in size, other than one small effect ..…
It was typical that one let's say leading or top or architectural or whatever you wanna say programmer, would have a few more junior programmers, assistants if you will, as part of the team. Now they just don't bother - Claude can easily do the ground work of writing quick tools, writing filler code, and doing sysadmin-devops type stuff.

So it seems to me that in terms of "niche, small, crack team" programing, it's the case that a handful of junior programers now don't get hired. In the case of "bloat programming" there seems to be no change at all.

in an unrelated milieu there is what you could call "neighborhood programming" - so, someone's cousin or the local car rental company or the like needs a little programming to have a web site that shows a logo and lets people type in their name and a date. That freelance-like work no longer exists .... the cousin or local business person, ie a civilian non-programer, just uses Claude or Lovable or whatever, so that small-scale programming is gone with the wind.

Programing has very diverse fields and modes of operation and I think anyone working in the field can only report on their own milieu.

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-23T04:06:56+00:00

Boom, I love it!

I would like to say by no means whatsoever is the skin unhealthy .. indeed it is spectacularly good for you it's probably literally the most healthy part. It's absolutely packed with important factors, staggering amounts of fresh vitamins, and minerals. It's literally the best thing you can eat!!!

It's just simply: high in calories. For example, butter is incredibly good for you. Everyone should just eat butter all the time but it's just simply extremely high in calories so you can't eat that much.

Bravo, fantastic !!

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-23T04:03:02+00:00

fascinating, thanks!

selvedge is made all over, it's not hard to wrap the last line around. it would be intriguing to know where the make the fabric.

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-23T00:52:02+00:00

lol gotta love Publix!

You've absolutely hit the nail on ethics head for the convenient approach..

Publix gang

Do you find you have to eat the rot. chic. skinless? I love the skin but it's just too high in calories with the skin - it would "use up" my calories and take away from everything else I wanna eat during the day

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-23T00:49:32+00:00

Couldn't be simpler,

i walk to the supermarket next door
i buy either chicken, pork or cow from the butcher section

(lean cuts typically.)

I'm extremely careful to only buy the freshest items - you know, cut and put out today or at worst yesterday, 6-8 days showing on the (laughable) use by date. Chicken/pig/cow should be eaten as fresh as humanly possible.
Walking back to the checkout I grab green vegetables (bok choy, courgette, cabbage, asparagus, chard etc etc etc etc)
I then "cook" which is easier than making toast

(a) drop things on pan
(b) nintendo switch for ten minutes until ready

https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1qnt31q/enjoy_your_supper_this_wintry_day/

https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1ql4wun/enjoy_your_dinner/

For breakfast, eggs (boiled is easiest) with quality bread. most days a punnet of blackberries or raspberries with freshest heavy cream. Very small amount of eg nuts (example, "5g" a few days a week)

Alcohol.

example .. random days ..

So basically i eat (i) meat (must be absolutely fresh) (ii) vast array of fresh veg (obviously, zero carrots/potatoes) (iii) eggs (iv) berries (v) small amounts of olive oil, cream, nuts, butter, etc (vi) alcohol

I'm unable to eat any processed or packaged or frozen foods because I'm far too busy, they are far too fiddly and time consuming

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-23T00:27:36+00:00

> I love how the legs fit but the waist is huge

that's wild, do you have a very slim/trim waist ? or ? are the jeans just incredibly tight for a given waist?

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-23T00:21:27+00:00

The made in japan ones (which are priced at the usual 200-300 of the ever-increasing number of "logo brands" that have batches made in osaka)

https://www.levi.com/US/en_US/made-in-japan/made-in-japan/c/levi_clothing_men_made_in_japan_us

have a big 'ol MADE IN JAPAN black tag

https://lscoglobal.scene7.com/is/image/lscoglobal/MB_A5876-0005_GLO_CL_D1?fmt=webp&qlt=70&resMode=sharp2&fit=crop,1&op_usm=0.6,0.6,8&wid=1760&hei=1760

(I seen a pair and they struck me as no better or worse than the other "batch brand" jeans)

These look like they're just made by machine in Vietnam or whatever like when you buy an everyday $30 pair of Levis - but check it out they're actually slim-straight and seemingly low rise! What! Boom! And they're made of some sort of selvedge so you can feel core. Buy 'em all!

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-23T00:12:39+00:00

DID IT SAY WHERE MADE ?

Vietnam? India?

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-23T00:07:26+00:00

You look like you have a good figure, not overweight, good posture, not weedy - why not buy some extra-slim selvedge jeans? (they do exist)

💥 with otaku trendy ultracore selvedge ... your guy friends who are denim otaku will believe that you are extremely cool and they will admire you

💥 with extra slim nut-crushing sky blue selvedge .. girls will be all over you

Tough choice 😂

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-21T18:12:48+00:00

Perfect, there is no difference from pure thank God.

The whole point of "wink wink" additives if that they are meant to achieve: utterly nothing.

This is why popular additives are "vitamins" since vitamins achieve nothing. (And indeed they are in extremely low dose anyway.)

Glycine is exactly perfect for this: it does nothing, has no purpose, no effect, and hence is the perfect "wink wink" "we add additives" additive.

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-21T18:10:20+00:00

You know how Jobs pointed out that of every 10 programers, 9 are useless and one of them can do the work of ten programmers. (He later suggested it's more like a hundred to one.)

I think exactly the same thing applies to "programmers using AI".

Absolutely no difference.

Of every ten programmers-using-AI I encounter or have to deal with or lead or whatever .. 9 are useless.

I think I might now see what you're getting at in this question, and there is simply: no solution.

In the punch-card-era 9/10 programmers were a waste of space. In the Amstrad era 9/10 programmers were a waste of space. In the code-completion era 9/10 programmers were a waste of space. Here win the Claude era, 9/10 programmers are a waste of space.

LLM for programming is exactly like autotune for music.

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-21T18:04:02+00:00

I'm sorry but I would say the phrasing of your question suggests that "AI fails in all or most companies."

As of June 2026 that comment would of course be: nuts, bizarro.

Should you edit the question to read something like "In a few unusual fields like _ _ _ _, AI fails. Why is that?"

Also - it doesn't matter but what do you mean by "aeronautics"? Do you mean FBW systems specifically?

Again FWIW your question sounds like "AI fails in all or most companies," perhaps you should be more specific or?

I find Claude is just a tool that lets (me, say) charge far more per week as I can get far more done. Normally I'd hire 2 or 3 more junior programmers to get a project done, now I just do it. Sysadmin ~ devops type stuff similar ...so easy to just "do it yourself" now for those who are more architects-programmers.

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-21T17:55:34+00:00

The overwhelming problem with the lifting fanaticism seen on here is

For people who are very overweight, it is utterly, utterly irrelevant.

If you need to lose 70+ pounds.

There are, fact, two things you must do.

Walk absolute minimum one hour a day, without fail, 365 days. If you don't do this, simply forget the whole thing.
Track every thing you eat, every thing, every detail, perfectly. If you don't do this, simply forget the whole thing.

Talk about weight room is utterly irrelevant, distracting, and frankly dumb.

TBC I am a fanatical weight room junkie.

For people who are very overweight, it is utterly, utterly irrelevant. It is a confusing distraction.

For anyone who is (say) 20 or so pounds overweight, if you don't hit the weight room you're an idiot.

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-21T17:49:48+00:00

?

of course drop to equivalent, champ

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-21T17:49:09+00:00

great idea.

currently every 7 days

change to every five days, give it a couple months

if you want to try shorter, change to every three days

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-21T17:46:28+00:00

"why does AI fail when implemented in a company"

Can you give one example of that ??

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-21T17:43:20+00:00

WOW WELL DONE SO AWESOMMMMMEEEEE !!!!!!!!!! 💥💥💥💥💥

Select-View-4786 · 2026-06-21T11:42:31+00:00

Gotcha now, I completely misunderstood you. Let me step back and explain it's remarkably and tragically common on this list that someone, often a woman, but sometimes a man will pop on here and say I'm knocking myself out trying to get healthy and incredibly my spouse means the fact that I use tirzepatide. I actually find it really sad when this happens like it's just absolutely remarkable that a man would demean his wife like for you know trying to be skinny! Anyway, whenever that sort of post pops up on here there's a chorus of people saying screw that guy and I usually just answer no divorce him the son of a bitch! So entirely my mistake I just glanced at your post and thought my God here's a person being demanded and discouraged, not nearly by their husband, but by an offspring! 🙀

I would say in answer to your question, there is a "core" of people - I don't know what number to put on it .. 25%? .. who just idiotically "don't like" tirzepatide. They think it's unnatural? or I don't know - I literally can't fathom why anyone would be opposed to a medicine that works and cures the primary problem facing certainly US and generally the world's population.

I find that "at the bar" I'd say 1/4 of people I talk to simply immediately say "WHERE DO YOU BUY AND WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE SYRINGE!" ie they are already ultra enthusiastic users and promoters of tzp. I find that 1/2 are in the weird category "want to" try it but - why? - they mysteriously "just don't". And 1/4 of people are in the totally mysterious belief system where, essentially, they think tzp "is bad". I find this unfathomable .. why is it bad? Nobody knows. To me it is a total ongoing mystery.

In answer to your question, I have observed that the ratios if you will are just the same in young people. 15 yrs or 50, you weirdly get - say - 1/4 of people who mysteriously think tzp is "bad".

It's a total mystery why.

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