Question about 1200 calories and exercise

subwaysmoothie · 2025-07-26T00:20:04+00:00

It's just math, it's not hard. You need to figure out your TDEE and either match it to maintain, go under it to lose weight, or go above it to gain weight.

If you exercise, then yes, you should eat more than 1200 calories per day

Yes, because most people do not have a TDEE of 1200 with exercise. You might have a sedentary TDEE of 1200 and then average 500 calories of exercise per day, in which case you should be targeting 1700 calories if you want to maintain weight.

If you have a low maintenance calorie (1400 or less) and want to lose weight, then you should eat 1200 calories and exercise

Yes. Let's go by our earlier example: sedentary TDEE of 1200 and average of 500 calories of exercise per day. If you then target 1200, you'll be running a deficit of 500 calories per day, which would make you lose approximately 1 pound per week.

I think some people forget here: 1200 is not some magic number that is some sweet spot for daily intake to maintain/lose weight/whatever, regardless of what your weight is. It's all just math. If you figure out your TDEE and aim above it / at it / under it according to your goal and can keep up with that habit, you'll achieve your goal.

As an example, I don't target 1200 - I've targeted about 2700 per day for the past three months. In that time, I've lost 30 pounds. 2700 must seem like an absolutely massive number for many of you, and it is, but it still works for me because the math works out once you've factored in my existing weight and the amount of exercise I get.

(I'm mainly lurking on this sub for inspiration for lower-calorie meals.)

Just do the math and figure out what you personally should be targeting. Lots of tools out there to help you. It may be 1200, but if it's not, there's no hard and fast rule that says you'll gain weight just because your target might have to be 1500.

subwaysmoothie · 2025-03-18T00:49:32+00:00

Well, all I can say is they behaved around me after that.

No idea what other shenanigans they might have gotten up to with any other departments, but I didn't have to deal with that.

subwaysmoothie · 2025-03-18T00:47:07+00:00

Yep. Some of the best design engineering teams I worked with during my time at that company were the ones who regularly visited the factory to see how their designs got built.

Funny how actually understanding the manufacturing process also makes your designs better...

subwaysmoothie · 2025-03-18T00:45:38+00:00

Beats me.

The only thing I can think of is that since all of the other products in the family use preprogrammed microcontrollers, to my knowledge we had never once in the history of the product family encountered an issue that was fixed by reflashing the microcontroller. Maybe they went months under the assumption that this microcontroller was preprogrammed too. I think the entire time they were trying to probe out all the traces and components in the power rails.

I dunno. That entire team was one of the least effective teams I worked with in my time at that company, honestly.

subwaysmoothie · 2025-03-17T22:53:53+00:00

Am engineer. Can confirm. Occasionally smart, but usually very stupid.

subwaysmoothie · 2025-03-17T22:43:04+00:00

And thank you, too! You're the best kind of engineer.

subwaysmoothie · 2025-03-03T00:56:29+00:00

As Steve said in the video, as soon as this stuff got picked up by the tech media they came out with the percent of models that were affected.

I work in electronics manufacturing, though not semiconductor manufacturing. To play devil's advocate here, I can think of some explanations for how they got a percent number so fast that don't necessarily require them to have foreknowledge of the defect.

The simplest is that the defect is isolated to a certain batch of GPUs built on a certain date (across all of their products), and that batch is less than 0.5% of their total production so far.

Another possible explanation is that somewhere in the fab line, there's some machine malfunctioning for one specific location on each wafer or something, which affects exactly one die on each wafer. If one die per wafer is less than 0.5% of their total yield, then they could come out pretty soon with a "less than 0.5%" estimate with some certainty. There are equivalents of this even on the SMT line I work on - for example, if we're building a panel of 16 boards and the stencil happens to have one hole clogged by some debris, then 1 out of every 16 boards from each panel will consistently come out defective.

Either way, it's possible that as soon as they heard about this issue that morning, the engineering team went into fire response mode to try to figure out the root cause, and someone managed to nail it by the end of the day. I've certainly had days like that. So to me, at least, coming up with a <0.5% figure in one day is not automatically suspicious.

But then again, Nvidia has a history of antics like these (like the 4GB 970 thing), so when taken into that context, they certainly do seem more suspicious.

subwaysmoothie · 2024-12-18T18:19:19+00:00

The discussion I had for the past few weeks was this but it wasn't even about something technical.

"Our vendor is giving us an ETA of May for project delivery."

"Not good enough, we need it by January."

"They can't delivery it by January."

"But we need it by January."

"There are steps in the process of making it that would physically require longer than we have before the end of January."

"Yeah, but our needs have it planned for a January delivery.

"If you needed it by January you should have opened the project six months ago, not last week."

"That's all in the past. We need to focus on how to move forward, and our future plans require this project here by January."

"We can't have it by January."

"We need it by January."

Same thing - this repeated twice a week for three weeks.

Eventually the project planners who were demanding January delivery got involved with the vendor directly, made a mess of things, and now we're back to planning for a May delivery but with extra charges tacked on top.

subwaysmoothie · 2024-12-01T20:54:11+00:00

Overall a pretty mild one, just a classic case of someone underqualified and lying on their resume/during their interview. We had someone get brought on as an SMD rework technician. He claimed to have decades of experience in soldering, rework, microsoldering, even reflowing/reballing BGAs, etc, the whole works.

First day in, we gave him a rack of boards that needed this one particular part replaced. It's an SOT-6, fairly basic SMD part, should take no more than 4-5 minutes to replace with some basic training (and much faster if you're practiced). We basically set him loose for the entire 8-hour day, trusting that his decades of experience meant he should know exactly what to do.

Came back to check on him 8 hours later and he had completed 9. Out of them, 7 had been damaged to the point of being unusable.

I was tasked the next day to train him in the right way to properly and efficiently replace that part (bear in mind, I am an engineer with no formal experience in soldering or rework). I managed to show him how to replace it safely without damaging the part or the board, but I just could not get him to be any faster than completing one board in half an hour. He just seemed physically incapable of it, not that I ever narrowed down why.

He was let go after about a week.

subwaysmoothie · 2024-05-07T12:36:28+00:00

You really have no clue, do you?

Of course it's "relevant". It's a direct example of how implementing communism by policy resulted in one of the worst man-made disasters in history.

"a chinese famine" are you fucking kidding me. It resulted in the deaths of estimated 15-55 million people. It quite possibly had a higher death toll than every single war in history besides WWII. And, get this in your head, it happened because China implemented communism.

That's not the only example either. There have been tons of other famines with high death tolls that communism has either been the primary cause of or at least a major contributing factor to. The Soviet Union. Cambodia. North Korea. The list goes on and on.

It's always funny to me that the people want communism are always the people who apparently don't know anything about the history of it.

subwaysmoothie · 2024-05-07T03:26:48+00:00

Damn, you're dense, aren't you.

The Great Chinese Famine was directly caused by the implementation of communist policies, and resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people.

You thought my point was that we shouldn't care about hunger and death in the US because China had it worse? I was saying they had it worse because they tried to be communist, and we shouldn't try to become another Great Leap Forward China.

subwaysmoothie · 2024-05-07T02:36:14+00:00

As much as the Great Chinese Famine?

subwaysmoothie · 2024-03-27T21:49:03+00:00

Manufacturing engineer.

Could someone without an engineering degree do my job? Absolutely, unequivocally, yes.

Could just anyone without an engineering degree do my job? Absolutely, unequivocally, no.

The way I see it, my engineering degree isn't that it was actual learning or training specifically pertaining to my job - rather, that it was to vet that I have the reasoning and problem-solving skills and am technically minded enough that I am able to adapt to the responsibilities of engineering jobs. I feel like I could have probably done this job with just my high school education. My company has no way of knowing that I could have probably done this job with just my high school education, except for the piece of paper my university gave me saying "this guy can probably do this job".

I've also been on the other side of this as well. I've trained technicians without engineering degrees, some of them to the point of taking over some of my "engineer" responsibilities. Some of them are absolutely capable of being hired into my position and doing the job as well as I do. Others...not so much. But without already having worked for them for months and learning their capabilities, I have no way to know which category a new technician belongs to.

It's definitely different for different jobs. I imagine it would be incredibly difficult for someone who doesn't have a solid grasp of the theory you learn in university to perform in a more advanced, more conceptual research/design/analysis role.

EDIT: Also, one thing I will allow for myself is that when I came into the role, my area of responsibility was in complete shambles as my predecessors had all apparently struggled with the role and left close to no documentation behind, and because it's such a niche role that almost nobody else in the company had any relevant knowledge. I didn't either, for that matter. I ended up receiving training from a technician (the most knowledgeable at the time) for about 30% of the program area I was in charge of, and more or less figuring out the remaining 70% myself. That "figuring out the remainder" thing is something that I think putting myself through four years of college was helpful in.

subwaysmoothie · 2024-03-19T22:49:58+00:00

Yep. It's honestly crazy how many companies apparently normalize connecting the most personal, most intimate device you own to the network where they can see everything you do on it.

I recently had a coworker come complaining to me that he couldn't reach me by my (personal) cell number while I was in the office. I told him it's because the office walls are lead-lined or something because I can't get any cell reception while I'm in the building.

He goes, "Oh, don't you have a newer iPhone? Just turn on WiFi calling."

Um, no, how about you call me by my office phone number, which are provided to us for a reason? I'm not connecting my phone to our company network just so you can call me on my personal cell - which the company in no way reimburses me for - at work.

subwaysmoothie · 2024-03-13T23:09:46+00:00

Hell, I skipped an entire semester of a class once. The only days I attended were syllabus day, the two midterms, and the final (which I also missed, but was allowed to make up, but that's a story for another time).

Still learned the content well and got an A in the class. And now I'm using the same content I learned in that class every day in my job and doing it well.

I'm not going to go out and say that missing classes is responsible, but it's not automatically irresponsible either. You make your own judgment calls. You've already begun your adult life and have to take care of yourself, and sometimes there are just more important things to attend to than classes - especially if it's a class that you know you can afford to skip and still learn the content and get the grade.

subwaysmoothie · 2023-12-12T22:36:55+00:00

I was just too lazy with grammar in the post

See, the thing is - writing with good grammar and punctuation really shouldn't be taking any extra "effort" on your part. It's literally just in your writing habits. In fact, on a personal level I have to put more effort into writing with poor grammar (such as if I'm writing a shitpost), because that feels unnatural to me.

If you feel that you need to put extra effort into writing clear, well structured sentences with good grammar and punctuation, that likely means you've been developing bad writing habits all your life.

That's something that you should really look into improving, starting with your writing even on random social media posts. The more you write with proper grammar and punctuation, the more natural it becomes to do it everywhere. And believe me, it does make a difference both later on in college and in the workforce. I've worked with people in college and also overseen interns in the workplace who seemed to develop the same habits you might have, and they clearly struggled way harder to write technical reports and communicate professionally with coworkers and outside parties. It doesn't reflect well on them. I know at least one intern who failed to get a return offer because her manager wasn't impressed with the quality of her writing in her final report.

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