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Comment Re: It really does not matter ... (Score 2) 69

Iâ(TM)ve been working with Cursor for the last six months now and paying for it. Itâ(TM)s certainly not going to replace a coder anytime soon, generating code from the chat prompt is marvelously boilerplate. Has it been a time saver? Absolutely yes!

What I love most about Cursor is writing a comment on what the code should do next and the AI provides a suggestion. I find that these suggestions are really helpful for articulating the solution. Sometimes it just spits out a complete solution, obviously a problem others have already encountered.

When coding in a new context, exploring new algorithms, Cursor can get annoying, suggestions are less helpful, mostly repetitive and can break the thread of my thoughts. In those scenarios I disable the AI. Afterwards, I let the AI review my code and it has been surprisingly good in catching corner cases and incomplete conditionals.

My personal opinion is favorable, my work is greatly helped coding with Cursor, in Python3 and C++.

Comment Re:Sugar gets a free pass once again (Score 1) 85

I like natural cane sugar, I admit I consume more than I should; but I actively avoid substitutes since history has shown they are never better for you and every one eventually proves worse than the natural sugar it replaces.

Not to blindly defend erthyritol, we should definitely look at it closer. But "less bad" doesn't mean good. Sugar is still very unhealthy.

As far as history: let me give you an extremely quick rundown. Diabetes was known to the ancients, but was extremely rare until the 18th century, when British sugar plantations made it affordable. (The slave labor involved wasn't very healthy, either). That's when diabetes, obesity, and extreme amounts of tooth decay reached the British working class.

Sugar was a very popular trading commodity for native populations. And they were even less equipped to deal with it: tooth loss, diabetes, obesity and cancer skyrocketed in these populations soon after Western diets were introduced (British Empire medical records are a great source for this).

Maybe we are back to that 'over processed foods' problem. None of the sugar replacements can be made in your kitchen because they need to be 'refined' way more than cane sugar.

Sugar is a massively processed food, and it's subsidized to make it artificially cheaper. It's really easy to spot new threats, but we it's hard to recognize the dangerous things we do every day.

Comment Re:It's better to cut back on "sweet" (Score 1) 85

Given that the obese population in the US has tripled in the last 60 years though https://usafacts.org/articles/... clearly there's something wrong at the individual levels as well.

I'm sorry, but that's a complete non sequitir. Look at housing prices, inflation or anything else that's gone up in the last 60 years. The amount of change is completely orthogonal to personal choices.

The obesity crisis is the flip side of smoking cessation. People didn't just decide to stop smoking: doctors/government agencies/NGOs ran a decades-long pressure campaign designed to highlight the risks.

Starting in the 70's, many of the same well-meaning people started demonizing fat and protein. The USDA, doctors (who are really good at medicine and surgery, but not at dietary advice) started recommending less and less fat and protein. Bad pop science associated dietary cholesterol with heart problems.

Something had to fill that dietary gap: cheap (and government-subsidized) carbs from corn and wheat. That's just about all poor people eat, because it's all they can afford. And guess who suffers the most from diabetes, obesity, heart attacks etc? The poor. Are you still so sure it's a choice?

Comment Re:It's better to cut back on "sweet" (Score 0) 85

Obesity is caused by eating too much of everything and moving too little. You can't blame it only on sugar(s).

Portraying obesity/metabolic diseases as a personal failure instead of a health crisis that affects the MAJORITY of Americans is a very Republican move. Are you sure you're not voting for Trump?

Comment Sugar gets a free pass once again (Score 0) 85

> “The amount in sugar substitutes is thousands of folds higher than what is made in our bodies, so to call it ‘natural,’ it’s not,” he [study author Dr. Stanley Hazen] said.

And what is the amount of sugar in the diet of a typical American? If we compare that to the amount of sugar in the human diet since the beginning of time, would we consider that "natural"? What about those "natural" fruits? Most are giant sugar globes, deliberately engineered to increase sweetness and reduce fiber.

Based on the article description, this study does nothing but implicitly back the Standard American Diet. You know, the one packed with modern strains of corn, sugar, and wheat? Before we freak out about some new sweetener, maybe we should start asking ourselves why the MAJORITY of Americans have metabolic diseases. It ain't from eating a few grams of sugar alcohols.

As it is, this article is like freaking out about a purse snatcher when your entire government is run by the mob.

Comment Re: You need three to get a direction: (Score 1) 10

Can you clarify your remark, are we talking detectors as in a site or detectors as in beams?These three sites each have two beams, so with good enough time keeping between them only two sites would be needed for determining direction.

In addition, I had the pleasure of talking with the project lead on the Einstein telescope (next gen gravitational wave detector), who mentioned that the nature of gravitational waves is such that the equilateral triangle design of the Einstein telescope can pinpoint the source.

Submission + - Netherlands approves building of new nuclear reactor for medical isotopes

boner writes: The Dutch Government today approved the construction license for the PALLAS reactor, a new nuclear reactor to create medical isotopes. The PALLAS reactor will replace the 60 year old reactor in Petten which produces about one third of all the medical isotopes used globally. Receiving the building permit is a major milestone as highlighted here.

Comment Hyperspecific tasks in a pristine environment (Score 2) 143

Hyperspecific tasks hint at how they prepare the quantum computer for the calculation. Pristine environment hints at all the effort they are making to keep the quantum computer stable enough to complete that task.

How long will it take before we have enough error correction stability that we can load a task on demand into a quantum computer and get a result before that error correction is overwhelmed? It already takes time today to load a stating state into a computer for most calculations, how is a quantum computer different?

Comment Re:Jesus F. Christ is this outdated! (Score 1) 154

Amen to that! The American way isn't "stop doing the harmful thing," it's "I can do whatever I want, then take a pill/have surgery/use technology to fix it." Ignoring the massive amount of wasted resources, preventable illness, that entails.

Unfortunately, food is a political issue. Healthy eating threatens the agribusiness giants, farmers who live off subsidies, expensive drugs/medical interventions etc. That's why we're mostly fat and sick in this country.

Comment Re:It's a company... (Score 1) 70

>> The thing about capitalism and free markets is, it tells you exactly how much you are worth to your fellow humans and under what circumstances.

"The problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor." - Martin Luther King Jr.

If free markets are such a good thing, why does the ruling class avoid them at all costs?

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