While Dorsey is rather extreme, his lifestyle is a lot healthier than the average American’s or most everyone’s in the developed world. Eating junk food around the clock is really bad for you. Note that Dorsey isn’t fat and diabetic like so many people these days.
cnahr, it's the average American that is extreme in the opposite direction. You can be extremely healthy following some basic and well tested advices (the HN crowd have contributed to great threads on this) without eating iridescent Himalayan thunder berries juice every full moon like Dorsey could sooner or later recommend.
Okay, now tell me what’s wrong about not being fat and diabetic. Note I certainly don’t endorse veganism where you’re missing out on essential fats and proteins.
They may have seen battle but if so as commanders from the rear where visibility to the troops was paramount. If they had seen actual close combat those elaborate decorations probably would not have survived. Also, there were many plainer helmets at the exhibition. I think a samurai expecting real combat would have chosen one of those.
That was the first and only one I had seen, too. I suppose there may be a few more but they certainly seem to be rare. This exhibition had no other examples. The helmet with a flame-engulfed dragon that was shown mounted on an armor suit comes closest.
Armor 1 and Armor 3 both feature heavy use of a light bluish thread for decoration. In China a similar blue, made from kingfisher feathers, would be an imperial symbol -- do you know if there's any relationship / what the significance in Japan was?
I’m not aware of any such relationship in Japan. The exhibition didn’t mention it, and I haven’t heard of it elsewhere either. I think it’s just decorative here.
This is honestly a very inconsequential release as far as the project is concerned. But after JavaFX got split off from the general Java SE distribution following Java 11, it’s simply no longer acceptable for some small GUI application like the demo suite here to require JavaFX. Require tens of MB from a third-party site to run the demo app, or rewrite in Swing? Unfortunately, despite Swing’s relative inferiority the choice is clear.
Completely missing the point. Of course calorie reduction works as long as it is followed. But people have a very strong desire to regularly eat their fill. With intermittent fasting this is part of the diet by design. With daily calorie restriction it’s impossible. Compliance with daily calorie restriction always lapses over time for this reason, so people return to their former fatness. Intermittent fasting is possible to maintain for the rest of your life, daily calorie restriction usually is not.
Do they have numbers for intermittent fasting? These numbers seem very similar to other ingrained habits, and are kinda depressing. Honestly, it makes me doubt the effectiveness of willpower in general.
Appealing to "willpower" to cut off further inquiry is basically the equivalent of saying that disease is caused by evil spirits.
Until you can explain the mechanism that causes some people to comply with a diet plan and some people to not comply with the same diet plan, or that causes a person to comply with one diet plan but not another diet plan, you don't actually understand the phenomenon.
And this is why dietary science fails often. Because of the insistence that dieting is a matter of willpower whatever that means.
Lots of real research needs to be done on why people eat unhealthy even though logically they know it's bad for them.
And unless you're someone who's lots a significant amount of weight, changed your eating habits over a long time person and have maintained that you don't really have any standing to make such statements.
I've lost over 120 pounds (290-170) over the course of 1.5 years simply by intermittent fasting. I changed nothing about what I ate, just ate less of it.
I still get cravings. But I control myself.
I think I have plenty of standing. When I was fat, I had no willpower and ate constantly. Now, its all about controlling myself.
that's pretty amazing... I've been trying to do IF but got off it for a few weeks... I also do keto on top of that though... I've lost 65 pounds since September, but that puts me at 450, my goal is 50 more by the end of January when my 2nd child is born and to be under 400.... (first time since before I was 15 - I'm 39 now).
My highest weight was 690, I had VSG surgery, so it's a little easier once I get into keto to keep going, as long as I don't stray into sugar land I don't usually have desire for food... I can easily eat 500 calories/day when intermittent fasting and feel like that's plenty... I've also been doing Crossfit 3-4 times per week.
I like IF because I only have to prepare one meal, and forget about food the rest of the day and just worry about my workout, and my day job.
I was for a couple weeks... I had no hunger... had to add protein drinks during the day to get my protein in (at least 60g/daily). I'm trying to get back into it..lately.. I've been just trying to eat between 2/8 and not really care what I eat just try small portions and only till I'm 3/4th full.
Sunday, I started keto again though... and hopefully my appetite diminishes again... got a little lax around my birthday/thanksgiving.
In addition to this, some studies have shown intermittent fasting increases muscle mass (or in some cases, has less muscle loss than other diets), focusing on weight instead of BMI (or some other measure of body fat %) is a huuuge mistake. If a person gains 10 pounds of muscle but loses only 5 pounds of fat, it could be spun as a bad thing if you only focus on weight.
This is arguably not a good idea, and feeds bad habits. If you restrict your calories for a while (say 1-6 weeks), your appetite and hunger will adjust. Once you get used to it, you might be surprised how little you need to stay full. This is healthy. People lapse because of unhealthy cultural habits to binge. IF is basically a harm reduction strategy around that. You could argue that the best idea is to abstain, and rarely overeat.
I just saw the update notice myself (on Windows) but the numbering was bizarre and I couldn't find any official announcement or download, so I just killed and deleted the Java Update Scheduler instead. Useless as of JDK 11 anyway due to changed licensing. Did Oracle get hacked?
I've had serious reliability issues with every Dell or Alienware product I've bought. Yes, the specifications look great and they seem to work fine at first, but quality is simply ridiculously bad for such expensive products.
Indeed, I only use UML for documentation of existing code. Having a standard allows for consistent reverse-engineering, and a class diagram is still the best way to visualize an OOP class hierarchy.
Keeping them up to date with the code is an issue, as with all documentation. I actually wrote my own Java class diagrammer [1] for that purpose so I can just re-run a project file to create updated diagrams of the current code base, with little or no editing required.
