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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • At this point, we can boil down everything to a nutrient paste with no flavor to be healthy. But very few people would be able to endure that.

    This is a terrible advice to not eat fruits when trying to lose weight. The diet fatigue is real, and eating an apple can at least take off the edge when its getting harder in the later weeks. I know it did for me when I wanted to eat junk food.

    And the goal is also to develop healthy habits, and having fruits add to the variety of available food.

    I mean, you are technically correct, but it won’t help anyone trying to change their lifestyle.



  • Look up the YouTube series on that very topic from Renaissance Periodization. It helped me loss 30 pounds and keep them off for more than 6 months now.

    Extreme low calorie diet are not sustainable for long, especially if you are starting out.

    First thing first, count your calories for a week or two to get the baseline calorie consumption for your current weight. Try to not change your normal food consumption while taking your first baseline calories because it will make the first weight loss cycle more difficult than it needs to be.

    Then, start by removing 250 calories from your diet and burn 250 calories every day for 6 to 9 weeks.

    Then, go into maintenance where you slowly add a bit more food and stabilize your weight. If you see that you are gaining weight during the maintenance, just cut back a little bit and keep that calorie intake as your maintenance intake. That will become your calorie baseline for the next cycle.

    Repeat until your goals are met. Don’t hesitate to take a longer maintenance break if you feel like it.

    That will give you a sustainable way to lose weight and you will also learn to count calories without weighing everything you eat.

    If you can easily cut 250 calories without any problem, try to cut more calories the next cycle, and see how it goes. If it’s too hard, then go back to 250/250 calories cut.

    As for the food, I don’t know where you live, but nutritional yeast is a cheap way to add protein to any meals and add a cheesy flavor to the meal.

    As for fat, cheap nuts or neutral oil can help meet your needs.

    And for carbs, seasonal fruits and vegetables are usually cheaper, so go with that.

    The only thing you should take from this post is that slow and steady is the name of the game. You are fighting millions of years of evolution, so it won’t be easy.

    TLDR: slow and steady. Cut 250 cal from your diet and burn 250 calories from activity for 6-9 weeks. Maintain for the same amount of time. Repeat.








  • I’m not a game dev, so I am asking naively this: why is networking code for games not standardized?

    It’s crazy to me that so many companies develop their own netcode instead of pooling resources to create a library once and for all for netcode.

    It is a non-trivial thing to develop, so everyone would gain from having a framework and library ready to use that works well and can be implemented into any game.

    In the end, the information exchange is done between the client and the server and the application layer can have any packets it needs.




  • Pretty much all of google products do that. I have to work with gsuite, and when you go to chat, you click on the person you want to talk to, start typing as you see the box, but then, for whatever reason, it switches to a search on the right, or bring you back to the chat home page.

    On YouTube, you see a video, you click on it and then for whatever fucking reason, the video moves right and you click on a dumb ad or a video you don’t want to watch. Go back once and the video isn’t there anymore.

    It’s a shit show