Anecdata here but a few months ago I started eating "one meal every other day" (a massive ribeye with butter and eggs. i have no idea what the calories or protein or whatever are.). I had been strength training for a while without dietary control.
I'm severely obese. Significantly less so than I was when I started fasting, but still over 35 BMI.
I think I've gained a small amount of muscle? It's definitely slowed down since before I was fasting, but lifts are progressing still. It may just be skill progression but these are simple lifts that I'm pretty familiar with (overhead press and deadlift), and I feel like I'm still gaining real strength.
I don't know how to judge muscle size really, especially since I'm losing body fat which is obviously making them look more pronounced.
I do take one "testosterone-boosting 'supplement'" (the main one). I've been running a test level of around 900.
I don't even know the rules of Go, but I am a long-time chess enthusiast, and I have a decent, but not top-level, understanding of chess (I am a FIDE master and I also play correspondence chess (which is human+engine) and have an interest in computer chess heavily).
I can absolute guarantee you that a human (who is an expert in computer chess, someone like Larry Kaufman) + engines will beat a single engine over the long run. With current tech and computing power, this is ONLY because we have brute force (with alpha-beta pruning) and ML engines that are at near-equal strength, and have strengths and weaknesses in different types of positions, and that those strengths and weaknesses are understandable.
If we did not have AlphaZero, I don't think the human would be able to add anything at all currently.
It's much more difficult than it used to be, but I think there is still some value to human guidance, more as a "referee" than anything else.
Right now we have essentially two top tier engines -- traditional brute force with alpha beta pruning (stockfish), and ML (leela). Both alone are incredibly strong, but they are strongest and weakest in different types of positions. A computer chess expert, who knows what kind of positions favor stockfish and what kind favor leela, could act as a "referee" between the two engines when they disagree, and when they are unanimous, simply accept the move.
Ten years ago, a grandmaster driving a single engine could typically beat an equal strength engine. I don't think that's the case anymore.
But I think if you have someone who is an expert at computer chess -- not so much a chess grandmaster, and you gave them Leela AND SF, and let them pick which one to use when in the case of conflicts -- they would score positive against either leela or stockfish in isolation.
Larry Kaufman designed his new opening repertoire book by doing exactly this -- running Leela on 2 cores + GPU, and stockfish on 6 cores, and doing the conflict resolution with his own judgement.
The human can certainly no longer pull his own moves out of thin air, though.
> Also, if the position is highly sought-after - isn't it a bit weird that a signing bonus is offered?
In today's job market, in software engineering, it's the applicants that are highly sought after. So the signing bonus is used to make the offer more appealing in order to compete better for talent.
In a weaker market, signing bonuses could also be used as a consolation for a lower salary offer.
30 kcal per minute would be very difficult to sustain except for a very short burst of time (like 2-5 minutes) in a peak performance scenario (such as an end-of-season race that the athlete is very well tapered and rested for).
My personal numbers for my regular training runs are about 11-12 kcal per minute. I can exceed 15 kcal per minute for very hard workouts or racing but I cannot train appropriately while doing that regularly. I'm a relatively seasoned runner but I don't focus on 800m-1500m which is where it might be possible to see numbers exceeding 20 kcal per minute.
In order for this to make sense for the purposes of lifestyle modification, you also have to subtract the calories that you would have burned had you not been exercising. IE if you had not run for that 30 minutes, you would still have been burning calories, either completely sedentary BMR or some other NEAT. This makes it even a worse deal to exercise for the sake of burning calories.
Personally I don't feel like the "hiding from the listener" use case discussed in the other response is very critical. What I think _pmf_ is getting at is an "only authorized devices may install my software, or view the RPMs".
You could accomplish this having a keypair on your field/embedded devices, and then having the RPM distribution system pull each devices public key from the keyserver, build the RPM with encryption specifically for this device, and then push it out. Or maybe you choose to have a generic keypair for a class of devices.
This could be used in cases where you have internal secrets in the RPMs you are building, or in the case of things like proprietary software and software licensing. I don't see how this applies to open source OS updates which is what I think the other sub-thread seems to be fixated on for some reason.
Whether this belongs in the RPM system itself or in a wrapper format, I'm not so sure of.
I thought _pmf_ was describing packages that he authored, and certainly if the contents of them are confidential, they would be in a private repository.
I don't think that the RPMs that I have created in my internal repository and deploy to my field systems are a 'known information' to anyone outside of my organization. If they are, I'm in serious trouble.
I think a more realistic use case for package-level encryption is deploying RPMs that have secrets in them (either keys/creds in configuration or trade secrets in application logic). Ideally of course we should encapsulate these such that they aren't deployed to field/embedded devices but in embedded there certainly may be some use-cases and requirements that those of us used to working in data center and cloud computing aren't immediately thinking of.
As someone who looked into a job at Chick-Fil-A but ultimately decided that it was not the right place to work for me, this sounds awesome and has cleared up a lot of things.
Perhaps you could help me understand how to reconcile this culture of compassion and mission statement (specifically the part about having a positive influence to all) with the fact that Chick-Fil-A is consistently scored at zero on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index.
Is there any movement to get this fixed? If your corporate purpose is truly to have a positive influence to all, then why not put sexual orientation in your non-discrimination policy?
Have you tried 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python'? It strives to be exactly this -- a guide on installation, configuration, and usage of the Python runtime and development toolchain.
IMO, the downvotes are a big problem with reddit, unfortunately.
If people actually followed reddiquette (downvoting posts that do not add to the discussion) the system would work great. However, a large majority of people will just downvote what they disagree with. There is no way to keep this behavior in check.
What happens is that counterpoints that do not align with the majority 'party line' are rarely seen on reddit, and although the hive mind is often agreeable to me personally, I need to see dissenting viewpoints in order to get a nuanced understanding of any complex or opinionated issue.
I've pretty much eliminated reddit from my life in favor of HN (this is my first post, actually) and Metafilter and I couldn't be happier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMGbZFEZOM8
you can ride with a club/friends at any time of day, any season of the year, anywhere in the world.
still not a perfect solution, since startup costs are required, but if you've got a bike and can swing a smart trainer, it's pretty awesome.