constantokra @ constantokra @lemmy.one

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There's a nuclear test site in Georgia where the us government did preliminary tests for a nuclear powered airplane. It was bat shit insane. It seems the idea was not to shield the reactor, but to only shield the crew, and rely on distance and speed to not irradiate basically everything else.

To that end, they built a nuclear reactor that could be hoisted in and out of a hole in the ground so that it could be run unshielded above ground. They tested the effects on all sorts of materials, and a huge swath of surrounding woods, including all the creatures there, which promptly died.

It's now a recreational area, and considered generally safe, except for a few small, fenced off areas.

So my point is, watch what you wish for.

I ordinarily don't eat lunch. Or breakfast. I eat a large dinner. If you eat less carbohydrates your body won't feel bad when it runs out, which might be why you feel bad after eating, if it's a while after.

Today, i'm eating lunch, and it's some pasta with olive oil, dill, and some canned tuna. Most of the time I eat the pasta right out of the fridge without heating it. You don't even need olive oil if you use tuna packed in olive oil.

Other times, I'll eat some raw vegetables and a can of some sort of meat, or I'll eat leftovers. Usually cold.

I've been intermittent fasting for quite some time, and it kind of makes you reevaluate your relationship with food. A meal can certainly be a luxurious experience, or it can just be fuel to get you through your day. I actually prefer eating one large meal a day, but it does tend to increase your cortisol levels, so when i'm already very stressed I tend to eat some lunch.

It's more evil than you think. There are all sorts of ways to protect assets from Medicaid. Of course, it's only worth doing when there are considerable assets. So basically if you have nothing, Medicaid costs nothing. If you have a little, Medicaid takes it all. If you have a lot, Medicaid will likely take a tiny fraction of your assets. And if you're caught off guard, it takes everything.

You should look into putting it in a trust. When someone dies and leaves you an asset the tax basis resets. In other words, if you sell it afterwards, you only pay tax in the increase in value after the death. If you're already part owner, the tax basis on the part you owned starts when you became part owner. Having a lawyer set up the appropriate trust is cheaper than you'd probably think.

Just FYI, koofr has a lifetime deal with 1tb costing $120. At about $4 a month for storj, you're looking at a cost savings in just under 3 years. So if you intend to keep the storage, and assume koofr will still be there in 3 years, that's another good way to go.

If it's not true there's no way the story's better. It's also pretty low stakes to be wrong about. I'm going to join you.

Exactly. Even if you plan on eating, just the ability to stretch that for a couple more hours till everyone else isn't hungry at the same time is huge. Even if people have no plans or reason to fast for health, as long as they can do it safely they should try, just for their own peace of mind.

I was shocked when my doctor suggested intermittent fasting, but having done one meal a day for a while it was only a tiny bit more difficult when I did my 5 day fast. It's just so freeing to realize that I can go for days without eating with basically no ill effects. It really does reinforce that, if you're a bit overweight like I am, 3 meals a day, even if they're healthy, is a luxury I don't need. To day nothing of the horribly unhealthy food i'd like to be eating.

Even more, it's helped my relationship with food. I used to worry about the 'healthy' option that would still fill me up. In a restaurant that just doesn't exist. Well, if there isn't one, I just won't eat. Or I'll sit down to a 3000 calorie meal with zero guilt because i've either not eaten for long enough that it's a reasonable intake, or I can just not eat later. It's really taken a lot of food related stress out of my life. Of course, I see how that could be bad for people with certain types of relationships with food, but it's helped me immensely.

I wish I had started fasting sooner. When you got for a few days without food it really puts that grouchy kind of afternoon hunger into perspective. I used to feel anxious about where and when I was going to eat, whether or not I was hungry. Now that i'm comfortable with going without food for days i'm just totally unconcerned about it.

Doctors will recommend fasting, or at least intermittent fasting, for a variety of conditions. Particulaly it helps you deal with insulin resistance, which isn't just diabetes. It could be why you're carrying a lot of weight, and it could also have to do with anxiety.

'Diet' and exercise don't always work for everyone, or for all problems, and insisting that it does really damages the people who have legitimately put a lot of effort into both those things without seeing meaningful results. Not only do they not see benefits from their hard work, they also start to feel like they're just not doing enough even if they are.

You should really look into some of the actual science behind fasting, and also behind caloric reduction and exercise before you criticize it so dismissively.

It really isn't a big deal. You do think of food, but after the second day it's not like you're hungry. If you start by intermittent fasting, eating one meal a day, or reducing carbs it makes it a bit easier. Honestly, I find scheduling fasts around family gatherings, etc. much more difficult than being hungry.

I'm certainly not an expert, but my understanding is that the effect from restricting calories can last longer than the restriction. But it can increase again, and there are many other factors that affect the metabolism. Just like slowing if you don't have many calories it can increase if you have more.

There's a lot of data that shows that restricting calories causes your metabolism to lower. Fasting basically causes your body to shift to using fat stores, so it still does have adequate fuel # and your metabolism doesn't fall the same way. It also changes your insulin response, and insulin resistance is one of the reasons you put on weight to begin with. If you're interested, Dr. Jason Fung has written a couple good books on.the subject. He's also put out a bunch of YouTube videos on it.

I've beef doing intermittent fasting for a while, and you do drop a good amount of weight very quickly. Most of it does stay off, but the idea is that you continue to fast periodically for weight management, typically limiting food intake to only a few hours daily.

I should probably figure out discord one of these days. Thanks for letting me know that's where to go for this project.

Wow, I asked the right person. Thanks for the info!

I'm getting a bit concerned with logseq. It's just kind of backwards to have a web app packaged as a desktop/android app that can be hosted on a server, but you can't store your files there. I get that they want to monetize sync, but they're kind of bending over backwards here to not have what's inherently a pretty reasonable feature in a web based app, and it makes me concerned about what they're going to do with the project in the future.

Is there a way to embed portions of one page into another page, such that if you edit it on either the change shows up on both, like in logseq?

The documentation is actually pretty good, but i've not been able to find that feature, if it exists. That's probably the last thing keeping me on logseq.

The way they handle port forwarding is particulalry good, as compared with pia, that assigns a random port every time you bring up a connection, so you have to have a script to update your port in your client.

I think people can hide lots of things in code, especially when people don't generally look at it. And I know people don't look at it when they talk about how convenient the aur is. It's at best marginally more convenient than installing from source.

I'm not at all suggesting that people should place more trust in large companies. I'm suggesting that packages in the aur with lots and lots of users should be trusted more, specifically because some of them will be checking out the pkgbuild, and the source, and presumably some of them would notice if the software did something it wasn't supposed to do. Obviously the larger the software the harder that all is to check, and correspondingly you'd want to see many more users using it before you'd extend it any trust.

My point being, i've not seen these discussions taking place. Maybe I've just missed them. But I feel like it's appropriate to bring it up when I see people talking about just how.convenient the aur is. It's really not that convenient if you're using it in a way that i'd consider reasonable.

Yes. It is possible to verify what's going on. That's what I did when I used the aur. Do you think most people do that, or even look at see how many users are using the software? Or do you imagine they just install it blindly?

If you ever see a help video or article that suggests installing something from source, or run some script people generally tell the reader that they shouldn't just run random code without looking at it. I've never once seen anything that suggested people should check the pkgbuild. I don't have a problem with the aur. I just think it's not nearly as trustworthy as it's generally made out to be, and I don't think people generally understand that it might even be a concern, or that you can check the validity of the package yourself.

Right, and that's a good reason why you should feel reasonably comfortable installing very popular software from the aur, once it's been there for a while. That's not why people like the aur.

People like that you can get even unpopular stuff in the aur, and that's the stuff you need to be suspicious of. If you're getting some niche y2k era packet radio software from the aur, you should be checking how it's packaged and what is actually being packaged. And if you have the knowledge to do that you might as well get the source and install it yourself. I'll admit that i'm getting old, and I don't know if that's something people aren't willing or able to do these days.

Maybe i'm just cranky about arch, but it just seems really stupid to me to go through manually installing and setting up your system just to either install some random crap from the aur, or have to manually review it all because the official repos are pretty bare.