My mental model of bodyweight is that my body can adapt to use less energy to some degree, probably a few thousand kJ at most. If I exercise or drop my caloric intake and it's still within that range, I won't have to dig into fat reserves much. If I do more than that, I absolutely will.
As you say, doing low to moderate intensity exercise for a long time -- like walking 20km a day for a week, which is double what the Hadza walk -- is enough to cause me to lose weight unless I'm eating more to make up for it.
Yeah, everyone’s different. My intake is around 10k kcal when cycling throughout the day, and it’s like nothing. How much I climb matters though, by a lot (at least 2 000 m). Strangely enough, hiking doesn’t cut it for me, it doesn’t go down much even after 50 km/day, which is wild (I still do it though).
I counter-disagree. It is so easy in life to have fun. There's so much fun everywhere. If you're so starved for fun then this won't do it for you either. The higher the scale the more likely your easter egg becomes not an easter egg.
I also think the supermajority of engineers prefer fun entirely outside of work, hence why open source can feel so lonely and without corporate funding would probably shrink to a pathetic size. Hence why personal websites are so culturally irrelevant. Or why there's such a lack of artistic experimentation in apps or web. Or why there's so few non-corporate meetups nowadays in CA or NY.
Oh, definitely hard disagree with this! I am an engineer because I love it and because it brings me joy, and I love love LOVE things that involve humor and fun within the realm of what is oftentimes just work. It delights me when people can find ways to be creative and tongue-in-cheek and not take things so seriously all the time. It is one way in which we can have fun in our work. For me, the idea of keeping all my fun separated from my work sounds like a dystopian nightmare!
So many things in the IT world started as non-professional things by non-professional engineers. If you're a professional who lives off one of these things you should be glad that someone wanted to have fun at some point.
"I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already."
Counter-counter-disagree. This is the ultimate way to make sure the joke is preserved for the future generations while keeping implications absolutely miniscule.
As long as you are just going between two cities with a direct train line it's trivial. The problem is if you are trying to take a train between two cities without a direct train line, like if you wanted to go from Berlin to for example Lisbon instead of Vienna.
While we're at it, I drove a small amount of Normandy Camembert through the Northern part of Alsace today, but it was strictly for personal consumption only and legally obtained from Carrefour.
Mystery how folks could spend GBP 11 for 250 g of Cheddar !?
I’d argue emotinal intelligence is at least as important. The most successful people in business I’ve met are exceptionally good in empathy and highly social. Hard IQ is just a piece of the puzzle.
Yea, like I'd rather have a doctor who actually listens to what I'm saying than one who got top marks in medical school, and honestly network engineers I've worked with who strike me as "higher IQ" often fall into the pitfall described by the adage "the perfect is the enemy of the good" (which I empathize with, because I am also a high-IQ person with this kind of bias, but it's actually quite counterproductive at times)
I would agree, but about 1/5th of CEOs are psycopaths, as opposed to the 1/100 in the general population[0]. While emotional intelligence may help in some fields, such as employee retention, it’s not universally related to success. Additionally, EI doesn’t map well to psychopaths and similar disorders due to EI being a measure of how well you conform rather than a measure of what you truly feel[1].
I think that statistic is a good indicator that we have significant broken incentives in the way liability can be shunted away from the people with decisionmaking power in businesses. The "corporate veil" for example is a deep loophole in the whole concept of rule of law, and I for one would prefer it not to exist
