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  • Berries like raspberries blackberries blueberries and even strawberries don’t have lots of sugar, maybe 5g per 100g. That’s one level teaspoon.

    The lactose in milk is almost all consumed in the fermentation process, so maybe a few more grams per 100.

    The rest of the sugar in those glasses is just sugar manufacturers include to make their product more appealing.

    One of the problems with sugar is that it represents empty calories.

    Given my age, weight, and activity levels maybe I need x calories per day, any more and I’ll gain weight. I also need protein and fibre and micronutrients. As you get older (like me) you get less good at extracting nutrients.

    The challenge is, getting enough nutrients in few enough calories to avoid gaining weight.

    In this context sugar is just dead weight.








  • Just several years ago I was shocked to learn that you do CPR if someone doesn’t have a pulse, not a defibrillator.

    It’s a very, very common misconception.

    Since then those portable defibrillator units have shown up in public places, which has led me to morbidly wonder two things:

    Firstly, how often are they used incorrectly?

    And secondly, how do you know when you’re supposed to use it? I suspect the answer to this one is “the EMT on the phone will tell you to” but… IDK it would seem unlikely that most people could do something like that in an emergency.




  • Automation is always incremental.

    I’m an accountant. Components of the job have been being automated or systemised for many decades. Most of the tasks that occupied a graduate when I was one 20 years ago don’t exist anymore.

    Not because AI is doing those tasks but just because everything became more integrated, we configure and manage the flow of data rather than making the data, you might say.

    If you had to hire 100 professional programmers in the past, but then AI makes programmers 10% more efficient than previously, then you can do the same work with 91 programmers.

    That doesn’t mean that 9 people were doing something that an LLM can do, it just means that more work is being completed with fewer programmers.


  • This is just plain untrue.

    In all cases you need to drive to the conditions. Observe your circumstances and adapt your behavior accordingly.

    3s is a good yard stick, but there’s plenty of situations in which it is not the ideal safe distance.

    At 110km/h that’s about 90 metres. Every idiot around is going to try to move around you to take up that spot. Being overtaken by idiots is unsafe. This is just one example, there’s plenty of others.


  • It depends.

    On a well developed well maintained “freeway” with multiple lanes, shoulders for break downs, gentle curves, et cetera it’s common. 3 car lengths is more common here I think.

    That said, on a “highway” (interstate?) without everything listed above I aim for 2 seconds, which is about 60 metres at highway speed.





  • I don’t think I’m really making any of those points in isolation, but I think probably the first.

    It’s possible to acknowledge that I don’t agree with the views of the devs while using their software, but it does create a kind of tension that I would avoid if a viable alternative existed.

    The views of devs are relevant to my decision whether or not to use whatever software, but they’re not solely determinant.

    Similarly, I prefer open source software and will always seek it out and when comparing alternatives I heavily weight open source as an advantage. That said, I do still use some microsoft software (notably microsoft teams) for a variety of reasons.



  • I don’t think hate is the right word. Vitriol maybe.

    I don’t hate the project or the devs.

    It’s just that when someone suggests this might one day be a competitive browser engine, everyone feels obligated to point out, sometimes a little too emphatically, the many challenges the project must overcome.

    Perhaps part of it is borne of frustrations around mozilla. They’re our last best chance, and yet we’re all very frustrated at their constant mismanagement and errors of judgement. The suggestion that several people can build an independent competitor in their spare time is… unbearable.

    With all that said, if they ever achieve anything approaching Firefox’s compatibility and reliability, I will be their most ardent supporter. Until then I’ll be here in these threads calling idiots naive.