In general, "damping pleasure" is not most people's experience with GLP-1 agonists. What it does is more like separate pleasurable experiences from having an urgent need to continue doing them.

I'd believe the Iceland numbers. I had a doctor once who wanted to get me on antidepressants, and got mad when I didn't want to, and completely ignored my pleadings of "But I'm not depressed", "I enjoy life", "I'm probably the least depressed person you'll meet", etc. He just really liked his patients to be on it. The Icelandic medical system is very into anything that "medicates symptoms" rather than treating diseases. For example, during COVID, it was essentially impossible to get drugs like paxlovid, but they made parkodín (tylenol with codeine) over-the-counter.

In most modern societies medication is usually a last resort.

I'm going to take a wager that if I were to open your medicine cabinet right now, there would be painkillers in it, which you take as will when you get headaches, body aches, etc.

Yes, different people have different baseline hunger levels. This is well accepted in the scientific community.

So a common way to make your resume stand out as a programmer is to contribute to open source projects. It's one of the ways open source projects get contributors in the first place. The problem here is you've got people doing AI slop trying to get their names on lists so they can apply for jobs.

So for years and years there was a shortage of technology workers and we didn't need a union to bargain for higher wages. We got Big heads because of that. What's more because people are so incredibly stupid around computers we tend to get really really big heads. That makes us want to avoid collective bargaining because we want to see ourselves as amazing rugged individuals who don't need no help.

So you have a combination of a period of time that has long past when we genuinely didn't need unions and the arrogance that comes from having a skill that for some reason the public at large has a tough time with.

To be fair video game programmers and artists are much higher up on the totem pole than code monkeys and project managers but they also suffer from the problem of being artists and artists really just want to do their art. They're pretty unhealthily obsessed with it.

Decades and decades of outsourcing

Please read: Cooked bean variety.

The "beans in your pantry" data you're looking at are probably per serving. Here, let me grab the beans in *my* pantry. Roland BLACK BEANS Habichuelas Negras Supreme Calidad. Net weight 15.5 OZ / 439g. Serving size: 130g. Calories per serving: 180.

There's 453,6 grams per pound, so that's 0,968 pounds. 439/130 = 3,15 servings, times 180 calories = 567. In 0,968 pounds, that's 586 calories.

Or look online. "172 grams of black beans (cooked, boiled, unsalted) contains 227 Calories." Do the math.

I'm not sure exactly how you expect something that is 70% carbs (of which are 36% fibre) and 26% protein to be low-cal. Do you think it has the moisture content of celery or something?

They are running at the absolute bare Bones possible to be a functional industry at this point. They're just isn't anyone else they can fire without not being companies anymore. This means that if you're looking to unionize they can't really credibly threaten to fire people because they are isn't anyone left to fire.

Not everywhere, but for most software, yes. And it is even worse: If you look at the flood of security alerts for security software, firewalls, IDs, etc. you find that not even software that is intended to improve security is written competently and securely. (For a really crass example, refer to how CrowdStrike messed up....)

It can be done. But my guess is that regulation, fines that hurt and the occasional CEO in prison will be needed to make it happen. The EU has started with that because the damage is becoming unsustainable. For example, in Germany in 2024, the damage from cyber attacks was around 178.6 EUR billion. That is around 4.1% of the GDP lost. For reference, all other damage from organized crime was around 1.5% from that. There is no reason to believe Germany is any worse than others here.

Yes. We can only hope that the attackers get burnout from so much opportunities to use.

As I already mentioned.

This is probably the same location data that the US government buys to track people. I would say this problem should make it obvious how problematic collecting this data is in the first place, but I think the ones responsible are not smart enough to understand this nice demonstration.

You know what I hear here? Somebody that cannot perform without LLMs (or with them, but then it is harder to spot) aggressively defending his deeply defective crutch.

Yes. These are people not even understanding the very basics of what production code needs to look like. Reminds me of people that bought a hammer and chisel in a hardware store and now think they can perform brain surgery. And, technically, they can. But with about as much chance as vibe "coders" have of creating production quality code.

Probably just catastrophic frustration with the sheer stupidity he was confronted with.

Yep, they do. Those are the same 10x engineers that make sure LLMs are 10x profitable already and that they are indeed the second coming.