Strong diasgree on that. I’ve had great results from uploading my schema, uploading a query to optimize (multiple joins, multiple subqueries, etc., that kind of thing), describing the output set I want and letting it come up with a query.

I would actually say I’ve had the _best_ luck with SQL.

Yeah, that's what's worked for me in maintenance. I no longer weigh myself every day but I do at least several times a week. If I get too high, I know to slam on the brakes for a couple of days (at least).

My wife, OTOH, she can't do that. Seeing her weight every day emotionally impacts her, and she eats emotionally.

I couldn't agree more. It's a real struggle to avoid crap at grocery stores. If you stick the produce section and the meat sections, you're in good shape. Once you start hitting the prepared foods, the frozen dinners, the candy aisle, the soda aisle, the chips and crackers aisle, it is really very hard to eat healthily.

I read through the rest of the comments under this article and I saw your name pop up frequently. I'm sorry you're having such bad weight and health problems, and I hope you're able to make some progress.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucagon-like_peptide-1

NIH https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4119845/

Beyond the scientific facts, if you read anything that people who take these drugs say, you'll find that turning off the "food noise" is perhaps the most central theme. So yeah, GLP-1 drugs do suppress appetite.

I'm not arguing against exercise, but with GLP-1 drugs, you literally do not need to exercise to lose weight.

In my late 20s, I lost about 60 lbs of weight, almost entirely through a small number of dietary changes--zero beverages other than water and unsweetened coffee, zero french fries, zero bagged snack foods, zero going out to eat for lunch. I also practiced intermittent fasting, sporadically, for 24 hours. I didn't change my exercising at all.

Now, since I lost the weight, I've taken up more exercise (bike, jog, lift) and I've maintained a steady weight for almost 15 years now.

Bodybuilders say "abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym." They've got a point.

Cheaper, but not easier.

I'm a "Calories In, Calories out" type guy, but it does seem accurate to say that there is a large percentage of the human population--worldwide--that cannot adapt to modern lifestyle, work types, and food availability. It galls me to say it, but keeping a percentage of the population on appetite suppresants may be the most cost-effective way to control obesity worldwide.

Obesity is skyrocketing around the world. In France, traditionally considered a healthy country, in 2020, 47% of adults have a BMI greater than 25. As of 2014, 24% of French adults have an obese BMI of 30+. (https://www.thelocal.fr/20250527/how-serious-is-frances-obesity-problem / https://www.ameli.fr/paris/assure/sante/themes/surpoids-obesite-adulte/definition-causes-risques / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_France). France today is similar to the United States of maybe 20-30 years ago. Let's hope the trendline changes!

Obesity is surging in India, China, even Africa.

Another factor of obesity, particular in the United States, is that it's strongly correlated with race. Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans are all more than twice as likely to be obese as whites, and east Asians have very low obesity rates (though this too is changing). Again, if medicine can help narrow some of the health disparities and improve eating patterns, IMHO, it's probably a good thing.

Given how much of your time you seem to spend here posting about LLMs and the repetitive nature of your posts, I'm starting to think you're one of them!

You're not missing something. Much like Disney's "Snow White" was called a "success" despite bombing both at the box office and on streaming, the corporate media stooges will blithely state the complete opposite in an attempt to hide abject failure. Ubisoft is no different.

AC fans waited years to get a game with samurai's based in feudal Japan. What they got is a "samurai" game with no actual Japanese samurai protagonist. Ubisoft's reason for this is painfully obvious to everyone. This is why Japanese consumers have largely rejected it and has a lot to do with why sales have tanked overall.

There's a saying for this that ends with "go broke." It's slipping my mind at the moment, but I'm sure it'll come to me eventually.

If more companies would not only put a monetary bounty on these crooks but also specify "dead or alive," perhaps it would start to put a dent in their activities. They're already operating from countries that either look the other way or actively assist them in their activities. Putting a death mark on them ups the stakes considerably and allows the use of...ahem...alternate actors...ahem...that can operate beyond the law to get actual results.

It's on the tip of my tongue here, did the word start with a C or an A or an F

Except when we say no for whatever bs political reasons, like getting the grift.

Absolutely. Every news item I read about OpenAI the more I think they they only know how to write code and math, and don't think any other skills are needed. This isn't just tough to get working on a machine. Humans are complicated, we don't even fully understand ourselves and we frequently fail at being parents. What makes anybody think they can adequately program an AI that's going to be only a benefit to society (or maybe they aren't actually going for that, which is worse)?

IDK people blowing smoke up my rear always raise my suspicions. Even ChatGPT doing it makes me a little disgusted.

It is a common tactic of con artists, narcissists and other anti-social types. Agree that the problem isn't "mental health" per se, IMO it's more emotional intelligence; not having experience/training enough to recognize when someone's being sincere, and to have a good defense mechanism. However having mental health issues can go along with that lack of experience/training. I think it's because someone can be so occupied dealing with their issue, they don't have a lot of time for learning self-defense against the psychological Dark Arts, or their mental state can drift into being particularly suggestible, for example.

BWAHAHAHA, try just setting it to stop filtering out your OWN EMAILS to me as spam, Microsoft.