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What should they use instead ? And why are they better ? Edit: bing sucks except for us.


Personally, I’ve switched to kagi. I’m not sure it’s objectively better, but the weird spam results seem to be gone, and I found them so painful I’ve never been tempted to retry an unsatisfactory result from kagi in google.


Sunshine is one really fine piece of film. Beautiful.


One of the best series of science fiction ever.


That's very categorical. Full stop :)

Must be really good.-


I read them all in the last year and have since been searching dejectedly for something that comes close.

Indeed, it's excellent. Banks created something singular with the Culture, and he brings it to life with wit, energy and impressive imagination.


The polity novels by Neal Asher scratch a similar itch - the polity is much less utopian than the culture, but the world building is quite similar. I would recommend the Transformation arc as a good starting point!


What order would you recommend reading the polity novels? I'm thinking about starting them


I have to second GP in saying it is, by far, the best scifi I've ever read.


Does that mean you do good by your brain when you do a hard burn exercise once in a while ? After all those substances are a byproduct of burning fat instead of glucose by your liver. Or do i need a fat rich feast ?


Your body starts producing ketons when you stop eating. Typically it starts 12 to 24 hrs.

It'll start faster if you don't eat carbs / sugar and instead use protein because the body start producing ketons when it runs out of glycogen stores. Sugar and carbs add glucose to your blood. The less of it you have, the faster the body will start producing ketons.

Exercise also helps because it uses glucose faster. Of course assuming you'll not just start eating carbs / sugar after exercise. That includes all drinks that include sugar.

But really you'll get most benefit of exercise just from a walk after meal.

Why after meal? Because that's when glucose spikes and a walk uses glucose faster.


You have it backwards. Your liver can convert protein into glucose in a process called gluconeogenesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis


Don’t you produce ketones any time you can’t get enough energy from carbohydrates?


Your body usually stores 1-2 days worth of “glucose” energy in the form of glycogen in muscle tissue and the liver


eat as much fat as you want, just leave out the carbs and sugar


This. It is hard overeat if your diet consists of fish, nuts, seeds, and olive oil.


Nuts, seeds and olive oil are all extremely high in calories.


It is not intuitive, but a diet high in fat will make you less fat than a diet of sugar and carbs. The calories in nuts are not all absorbed.


Thus they are very filling if you eat a reasonable amount and not a can of them. I eat them at meal time and not as snacks, it’s easy to forget how many times you’ve grabbed a pinch of them if you “snack” on them throughout the day. Nuts are very nutritive as well, unlike pretty much any other snack heavy in sugar/fat


Good fats. Stay away from human manufactured fats like transfats like it’s your religion.


"The dose makes the poison"


True.

But contrary to fats (or proteins or fibers), sugar is also addictive, doesn’t satiate your body, and ultimately generates hypoglycemia some hours later for you to eat more sugar.

So yes, the dose makes the poison but sugar is the only one poison your body accepts to absorb in immense quantities.


Or just take a ketone supplement and eat normal food.


Has any research been done on what happens when the body is in a state of high glucose and ketones at the same time?


Not that I’m aware of but a number of professional cycling teams have been using them for a few years so there may be something in the works.


Ketoacidosis.


You have a source for that? It’s my understanding that ketoacidosis is pretty hard to achieve unless you’re diabetic or some other serious medical condition. It is not the same as ketosis.


Ketoacidosis would be easy to achieve by just taking too many exogenous ketones too quickly. Ketones are acidic, the body doesn't like to have unbalanced blood pH.

It is rare without ketone supplementation, because unless you're fasting, eating a ketogenic diet, or are diabetic, the body doesn't usually have a high concentration of circulating endogenous ketones.

Diabetics can become so insulin resistant that their cells no longer uptake glucose, so they must fall back to burning ketones for energy, even while blood sugar is very elevated and food intake is normal. This is why DKA is so dangerous and (relatively) common.

Nothing about ketoacidosis is limited to diabetics - its just not common in non-diabetics, because how would you get such high concentrations of ketones? ...


I don't think elite cycling teams would be taking these supps if it caused that, do you?


I frankly don’t care what you believe, but I do care about the ability of the general population to understand reasoning and logic. To that end, please understand that what you’re arguing is not a counter-example like you seem to think it is. It’s an argumentum ad populum - you’re saying this must be true because elite cycling teams are doing it. This is not a proof. It’s not even evidence, you’re not even citing something specific enough to call it that.

Again, believe what you want just make sure you understand that you’re not making a sound argument.


You should probably look into the supplements I’m referring to before launching into a diatribe.


You seem to think that would affect my statement. Pay attention to what I’m actually saying. I have no opinion on the supplement. It’s still invalid reasoning regardless of whether the supplement is effective.


The dose makes the poison.


Also, have you heard of Lance Armstrong? Do you think elite cycling teams worry more about health or performance?

It's a sliding scale from no harm to performance benefits to death. Clearly they are intelligent and educated and those teams expend effort to stay to the left of death...


@sgonz That state results in ketoacidosis, which is fatal.


> Does that mean you do good by your brain when you do a hard burn exercise once in a while ?

There's a whole bunch of stuff happening in your body post strenuous exercise so it'd be hard to isolate ketones specifically from that.


But yes, exercise is very good for the brain.


Thx for that. Hate those low carb videos.


There are 365 degree cameras in every larger populated area. The people operating them report to a central database. I once saw a fireball going to the supermarket at night. It was in the database a couple hours later. It is like winning the powerball lottery if you would find a meteor not seen by anyone.


Those are impressive cameras!

But that's not what we're talking about here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39790272


As a cube you could do some star wars like display. Though i dont know what we would gain since it would be pretty rough compared to a rotational display.


Writing the code for a open source project demands a lot more perfection than people realize. It is a lot more work than getting a programm just to work nicely.


Up to a point, I agree. For larger changes, it would require community outreach, internal communication with other devs, testing, feedback, etc.

But there are also a lot of small "easy wins" that require none of that to be a good addition to the code.


Although it is pretty agressive there is a 'no thanks' option .. then you can just read the article.


I don’t know what I would do without reader mode


Waste more time clicking useless buttons


In hannover we have daily bike counters at certain bike lanes. The numbers go up and down depending on temperature and rain. Guess it depends on the options one has. If you still have a car you will not use the bike in the rain.


I have a car, it's use doesn't depend on the weather, but distance & stuff to carry (no cargo bike)


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