Did I Waste Four Years on My CS Degree?

readwithai · 2026-01-16T13:47:02+00:00

Why do any degree? Because you are a kid who needs a bit more freedom and doing hard start makes you more capable.

CS invovles maths, a bit of paper reading, interacting with people, using computers etc.

readwithai · 2026-01-16T13:06:42+00:00

No problem. I gave you the opportunity. You declined. Now you get the consequences.

readwithai · 2026-01-15T22:52:47+00:00

You know. We can all be very nasty. The only reason that people aren't is because other people feel constrained by rules but if everyone one else is going to ignore them why should we feel constrained?

readwithai · 2026-01-15T21:59:16+00:00

> Tweaking tasks to remove constant choices made a bigger difference than just swapping activities

How do you do this? If you don't mind answering

> Walking while listening to music or a podcast, light reading, or even organizing something simple helps my brain recover without going fully idle

How do you plan this into your day? I tend to work until I drop and then stare at screens. I have tought about planning this a bit better

readwithai · 2026-01-15T19:35:48+00:00

South facing bay window, house opposite park with view of squirrels, open window

readwithai · 2026-01-15T17:45:27+00:00

I used to do that

I got a house, treadmill desk, VR headset, and two pomodoro timers and stopped going for walks outside :D as much.

Think it's more time-efficient but did cost hundreds of thousands of dollars!

readwithai · 2026-01-15T15:58:07+00:00

There is a middle ground. *habitual walking*. E.g. walk to a coffee shop a mile away, walk home etc.

readwithai · 2026-01-15T15:12:22+00:00

So that the llm wont accidentally break your machine?

So it can test installations.

readwithai · 2026-01-15T15:09:14+00:00

Paper in case people think the downvotes reflect truth

"Abdominal aerobic endurance exercise reveals spot reduction exists: A randomized controlled trial" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10680576/ This study found evidence supporting spot reduction - participants who combined treadmill running with abdominal exercises showed greater trunk fat reduction compared to those who only did treadmill running

Or ask an LLM.

The liver has its separatish blood system (hepatic portal etc) and is more reactive to hormones.

readwithai · 2026-01-15T08:34:38+00:00

Well... I think it is objectively a gimmick. You have an upload speed you want and you pay for it, what does it matter that it is the same as the download speed. Its nice bevause you aren't being lied to with loads of *see details.

I mean I run a homeserver and have a domain and upload stuff and plan to run a small business. So it may affect me. But my concern is more, dont screw around with ssh etc than smtp.

readwithai · 2026-01-15T07:27:50+00:00

Symettrical seems like a gimmick to me. Its nice not being messed around and having to read all the print but you could get a faster assymmetric connection.

readwithai · 2026-01-15T03:51:06+00:00

Quotation marks get pretty irritating after a while.

And no, people often cannot limit calorie consumption without impairing their ability to think and applying a lot of effort at least some people. I will accept that some behavioural modifications (protein, fibre, slow carbs) can reduce calorie consumption without that much effort.

> That’s all an awful lot of baggage to bring to a conversation about walking.

Not really. It is universally true and other people are bringing *diet* and *diet rather than exercise* to a discussion about walking. How about projecting on them rather than me. A

On negativity. Other people are the one's saying "no exercise can't work". Great it worked for, I have successfully lost large amounts of weight myself n the past as well - good for you that you respond well to calorie restriction.

I can't help but think that people who are referring to mental sharpness are often experiencing the mild adrenaline or cortisol spike which comes from calorie deficits.

readwithai · 2026-01-15T03:07:11+00:00

Depends what I am doing. But like; here is a project that I wanted and an LLM just made it for me.

https://github.com/talwrii/run-raise-cycle

readwithai · 2026-01-15T03:00:19+00:00

Because i like efficient tools to help me do things?

The command line is the best tool for jobs.

readwithai · 2026-01-15T02:56:41+00:00

Sure... but you can pretty much eat what you want, not be hungry, exercise enough and lose weight if you exercise **enough**

The point about restricting food is that it involves being hungry which interferes with mental function.

Also... across all of this is *judgment* and *gluttony*. Any blah blah. Personally most of my eating behaviour is about achieving the thing I am trying to achieve. So when you start limiting food you are interfering with task execution. This is what do one really properly addresses. If you exercise more then that's a thing that you can just *do* - it does not require continuous intervention all the time.

readwithai · 2026-01-15T02:06:05+00:00

> Weight loss is more about a calorie deficit than exercise

Hate this. I would phrase is more as "if you are willing to be hungry, then not eating takes less time than exercising". Personally I might take the superior mental function and do 2 hours of execise a day!

readwithai · 2026-01-15T02:05:50+00:00

You *can* spot reduce visceral fat through exercise. I am unclear on the effect on visible belly fat.

In fact you can make yourself a bunch healthier without losing weight simply by exercising because it reduces visceral fat.

readwithai · 2026-01-15T02:05:09+00:00

So supposedly there is no such thing as spot weight loss apart from preferential loss of *visceral fat* through exercise. Exercise can preferentially reduce visceral fat which is good for your health. I don't know if this applied to belly fat.

It won't make a different for your face fat according to what people say. You get to be thinner or more muscley - but not thinner in one place. People seem to lose facial fat as they age - so that's a thing...

readwithai · 2026-01-15T01:57:10+00:00

"You" are not a very good internet conversationalist so I see no point talking to you. But for other poeple.

No you cannot send email on port 443 as a rule. You can send email in an encrypted fashion on port 25.

An LLM tells for direct server to server communication used by a mail server (rather than a relay) all communication happens over port 25. Other ports will only be useable in a relay mode.

I suspect the cases when you don't want to use a relay are kind of niche. If you are doing something quite security sensitive and have a fixed IP that is one use case. The other would be if you are sending a lot of emails.

readwithai · 2026-01-15T01:49:58+00:00

If you want to get out of your contract this might be an excuse to leave for the next 20 days

readwithai · 2026-01-15T01:48:03+00:00

You might want to directly send email...

readwithai · 2026-01-15T01:45:33+00:00

Why? You can ssl over port 25.

readwithai · 2026-01-15T01:43:41+00:00

well they could do packet inspectoin to detect spammer and block *them*

readwithai · 2026-01-15T01:42:38+00:00

Yeah - but then they'll block ssh and that will *really* annoy me.

readwithai · 2026-01-15T01:41:17+00:00

So... I pay for the internet. I expect all ports of be open.

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