I don't like to make a constant huge deal of it because the world concentrates too much on numbers and the baggage around them, and constant running totals are probably bad all up, but this morning I hit a 30kg weight loss.
Left, September 2023. Right, today. Also yes I am fifty something and my mother bought me a bun hoodie.
@bobthomson70 Gods, yes. I think hitting 51and starting to hurt all over was what prompted me to start, and I immediately cut my food intake down. Barely dropped any weight for the next eighteen months, but getting older, hitting 52 and feeling way better than the year before helped me keep at it. Then it all began to pay off at the beginning of this year.
I move through space in a completely different way not hurting, and that's the biggie.
@marksibly If it helps, I dropped 2kg to a plateau when I began in July 2022, and then sat there until Jan 2024. It took that long to just swan-dive down.
I felt better in general before then, but at the point the kgs came off my knees added to the feel-good bits :)
@RL_Dane@joncruz I lament the constant erosion of true system-wide drag & drop. When you could drop almost any object from one app to another; lines of text to browser or image to chat window, or chart from a PDF into a spreadsheet - then the next generation comes along and sees drag and drop as nothing more than filesystem window to filesystem window.
It comes back, then goes away again, then back, and disappears. Always rediscovering why, with clumsy breaks in between.
What are some numbers in your field that anyone else in the field would identify without even thinking about it, but folk outside may have no idea. Just the numbers, no explanations. Yet.
@MLE_online There's something about the texture of all hand-made things that rests my eyes so comfortably, but this one so much more than most. The outer scrapes, and those ordered/disordered chaffs around the base... goodness it's nice.
Has anyone written about how textual generative AI feels strangely close to toxic masculinity in some respects? The absolute confidence in everything stated, the lack of understanding of the consequences of getting that confidence wrong for important questions, the semi-gaslighty feeling when it “corrects” itself when you call it out on something. It so often feels like talking to someone one would despise and avoid in “real life.” I’m curious if anyone did some writing on this.
@mwichary Gods yes! I was telling a friend only in the last month it sounds like a sales guy I used to know who would overconfidently state a wrong thing and I'd just have to bring in that one fact that showed it up "oh! of course of course yes, sorry about that, anyway <another wrong thing>"