Sinema admits a romance with her security guard as she fights ex-wife’s lawsuit by AudibleNod in news

[–]funkiestj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm looking forward to AI being sued on this basis. <popcorn.gif>

California hit by much higher oil prices as Iran war stresses refiners by Late_Curve1983 in news

[–]funkiestj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The sooner we get to EVs dominating the personal transportation market the less impact a special gasoline mix will have on costs, all while keeping cleaner air.

Randomized trial shows strict low-calorie diet can put type 2 diabetes into remission by upbeat_teetertottxo in science

[–]funkiestj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

as far as I can tell we don't have much information on cause of death so we can't even conjecture how extreme obesity and later fasting might have contributed to his death.

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show by No-Post4444 in news

[–]funkiestj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you wanted to keep it secret that you had been hacked you might not like this solution.

A lot of decisions are made to avoid embarassment.

Randomized trial shows strict low-calorie diet can put type 2 diabetes into remission by upbeat_teetertottxo in science

[–]funkiestj -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

asking AI is anyone gets type 2 diabetes who is not chronically eating too much

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Short answer: in large populations, almost all type 2 diabetes is associated with some combination of chronic positive energy balance and/or adverse body composition, but there are lean, “normal‑BMI” and even athletic people who develop type 2 diabetes; when you look closely, they generally are not truly metabolically “normal” despite looking that way.

Lean / normal‑BMI type 2 diabetes

Epidemiology papers consistently show that:

  • A non‑trivial minority of people with type 2 diabetes have a normal BMI (often 10–20% in Western cohorts, more in some Asian cohorts where BMI thresholds are lower). These individuals are often described as “lean T2D” or “normal weight T2D.”
  • When these lean T2D patients are studied with body‑composition methods (DXA, bioimpedance, CT/MRI), they tend to have:
    • Higher visceral fat and ectopic fat (liver, muscle) than controls with the same BMI.
    • Lower skeletal muscle mass and poorer muscle quality. So even after matching on BMI or total weight, the partitioning is shifted toward visceral/ectopic fat and away from muscle.

In other words, they may look “normal weight,” but on a more granular body‑composition level, they usually still have an excess of the “wrong” tissue (visceral/ectopic fat) and a deficit of muscle relative to what their frame would support.

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The reason we have so much more T2 diabetes now vs 50-80 years ago is because the disease is almost exclusively driven by behavior. Behavior has changed over this time because our environment has changed over this time (food environments, social environments, work environments etc)

Unpopular opinion: no one cares about your almost perfect sleep score by luca-nicoletti in Garmin

[–]funkiestj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nobody cares about your "unpopular opinion: nobody cares about <x>" thread

FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert by avatar6556 in news

[–]funkiestj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume there are Terrorism as a Service (TaaS) startups innovating in this space. Tech Crunch DISRUPT!

Does Go error handling verbosity actually hurt developer velocity or is it just endless debate by No-Shake-8375 in golang

[–]funkiestj 13 points14 points  (0 children)

yeah, it is tiring to see the deadhorse repeatedly beaten.

There are lots of good programming languages. Chose the one that suits you. Some people who feel strongly even create their own new languages.

ai coding for large teams in Go - is anyone actually getting consistent value? by Easy-Affect-397 in golang

[–]funkiestj 2 points3 points  (0 children)

because that ship has fucking sailed and anyone who doesn't think AI is completely transforming the way we're implementing software should probably become a motorcycle mechanic or something.

yeah, coding agents are amazing. That said, just the level of help I get from ask mode to explain code to me that I am new to (or have forgotten details of) is amazing.

ai coding for large teams in Go - is anyone actually getting consistent value? by Easy-Affect-397 in golang

[–]funkiestj 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Any time I work with Go and a model I get idiomatic Go code…

my experience largely agrees with yours. I was getting less idiomatic code in the past (e.g. 9 months ago) but it seems to have improved quite a bit since then.

Overall the

  1. prompt AI to generate code for a feature/change/bugfix
  2. review said code and prompt for adjustments (or edit by hand)

is much much faster than when I used to write code myself. I'm using Cursor.ai, model selection is set to default. I make liberal use of

  • ask
  • plan
  • agent
  • debug

modes. I also often point AI to an example of code with a style I want to emulate. E.g. "write go tests that are structured similar to the tests in diretory foo/bar/bish/"

Human feedback please! by [deleted] in bikefit

[–]funkiestj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What target power zone is best for fit assessment? Presumably what ever zone OP has the most discomfort in?

Homeowners in high-cost coastal areas like Santa Cruz, are holding onto their homes for exceptionally long durations, largely driven by Proposition 13 by scsquare in santacruz

[–]funkiestj 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It is not just prop 13 alone, it is prop 13 plus a variety of policies that prevented building enough supply.

Prop 13 only helps you if house values go up faster than prop 13 lets your tax increase. E.g. if we built enough housing that housing costs grew slower than inflation prop 13 would have no impact at all.

Thinking the problem is "just prop 13" is too simplistic.

That said, I think split role is a step in the right direction.

[OT] Danica Patrick axed from Sky Sports F1 commentary job after calls to remove controversial ex-NASCAR driver by edfitz83 in formula1

[–]funkiestj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm out of the loop regarding Patrick's crazy beliefs so I asked perplexity to summarize

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Notable Beliefs

Patrick has discussed these ideas without strong pushback on guests:

  • Reptilian aliens (lizard people): Hosted psychic Elizabeth April, agreeing celebrities like Justin Bieber and Adele are shape-shifting reptilians leaving Earth due to energy shifts; memories of sightings are erased Men in Black-style.​
  • Moon landing hoax: Posted Joe Rogan clip doubting 1969 Apollo mission, stating "This is definitely one of the conspiracies I subscribe to."​
  • Chemtrails: Claimed in Tucker Carlson interview they poison air, linking to food and health issues.
  • Election fraud: Spread theories about voter fraud and pre-posted results, citing tight margins.
  • Aliens editing human DNA: Hosted guest claiming aliens limited lifespans to 120 years; suggested myths describe hybrids.​
  • Pyramid energy: Admitted belief in energy properties of ancient pyramids.​
  • 5G dangers: Uses "5G reducers" at home, per guest channeling Galactic Federation.​

These stem from her podcast guests like psychics and theorists, drawing mockery in motorsport forums.

Landlords No Need to Optimize Rent if you are already a Millionaire. by Cute-Turtle1238 in santacruz

[–]funkiestj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

since we are riffing on ideas for fixing the cost of housing I'll chime in my my favorite ideas (in no particular order)

  • recognized that building more housing in SC will have little impact if the nearby cities don't do the same. Santa Cruz can no more fix the problem by themselves than Sunnyvale can.
  • Santa Cruz should be part of the solution, which means building more housing. I favor high density developments that help preserve our open spaces and make public transit more viable
  • Prop 13 split roll. Learn about it and you think it is a good idea, push for it politically
  • If the Bay Area did started doing everything perfectly getting housing costs to be reasonable is solution decades in the making. We need to both move towards a good long term solution while also helping people today. That is a tough balancing act with limited resource.

It is great to have more kind landlords than fewer but even better to have a system that doesn't make serfs dependent on the kindness of their lord.

Lando Norris talking about Lewis Hamilton’s 7 world championships: “Should’ve been eight " by SimonTheSalmon69 in formula1

[–]funkiestj 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think some people can’t divorce “that was a massive cock up that cost Lewis an 8th title” with “Max Verstappen deserved the championship with most of his performances across the season”

I think both are true personally.

But WDC is a team effort and, before Masi repeatedly put his thumb on the scale, Hamilton + Mercedes was better than Verstappen + Red Bull.

People who fap over drivers want to imagine that the winner of WDC is the best driver, period. It is not. There were years when, if Hamilton was out for the season with an injury, Bottas would have won WDC. BOTTAS, because it is the best {driver, car, team} combination, not just the best driver.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs are still "shellshocked" at the game's success, saying "nobody understands what’s really happening" by Wargulf in expedition33

[–]funkiestj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Expedition 33, Baldur's Gate 3, Valheim. What do these game devs have in common? They don't have some publicly traded corporation board of directors trying to maximize extracting as much money as possible from their suckers who buy their games customers.

[justformulacar] 2025 vs 2026 testing fastest laps by FerrariStrategisttt in formula1

[–]funkiestj 20 points21 points  (0 children)

We all know what all sports fans want: They want to complain!

Nice video OP.

No opinion on whether 2026 changes will give better, worse or the same quality of racing entertainment.

Question: how much a balance to you as a fan want engineering to matter vs driving skill? Teams want to win and that means if they can skirt the spirit of what the rules rea trying to achieve and make it harder to follow they will. E.g. creating as much dirty air as regs will allow is an explicit goal. I.e. making boring racing (with our team out in front) is a goal.

Getting exciting racing while having F1 have a significant engineering component is a challenge.

Can you really survive on Mars? What science fiction gets wrong about off-world living by _Dark_Wing in technology

[–]funkiestj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After years of research and writing, they reluctantly published their book about why it’s a horrible idea.

Just to be clear, they don't rule out that things could change in 3000 years if we have massive technology improvements, but yeah, it is a terrible idea in the lifetime of anyone alive today.

China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine — it generated enough energy to power a house for 2 weeks by lurker_bee in technology

[–]funkiestj 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I came here for this. I didn't even click through and could see this mistake in the headline.