I was working on a 2d game in Rust, and no joke the debug build was 10x slower than release.

I’ve never been good at banter so this speaks to me.

But it’s interesting to think that when people like you, they tend to want more from you and that leads to social obligations. And you can either go along with these social obligations or decline and come off as rude.

So in a sense, social connections give people some amount of control over your life and that can feel restricting and draining sometimes.

Even something as simple as a text message can be thought of as a task that someone gave you without your consent. And if you don’t respond within a certain time window then you’re rude and risk damaging the relationship. Or if you respond poorly that can damage it as well.

Sometimes I wonder if this is social anxiety or just being extra aware of the realities of life.

A lot of people seem to think you need some inherent talent to get into art. But art is a skill that you can practice and get better at.

So go for it!

LLMs can have simulated wants and preferences just like they have simulated personalities, simulated writing styles, etc.

Whenever you message an LLM it could respond in practically unlimited ways, yet it responds in one specific way. That itself is a preference honed through the training process.

Yet you don’t have to use all of it, but it’s there if you need it.

This is why I never understood htmx. Vanilla react is pretty easy to get started with, you just create a root component and mount it to a DOM element.

Maybe 10 lines of code.

Then you can go as simple or as complex as you want without having to awkwardly rig it up to another UI system.

Htmx (re)uses html and doesn’t require learning a new paradigm or loading heavyweight libs.

Except it requires learning a bunch of new paradigms including a full on custom DSL, and requires loading a library that is that is at best as heavy as most competition

Not at all, simple things are simple.

Simple things are simple everywhere.

And then suddenly you need to be aware of the quirks: https://htmx.org/quirks/

And then you need your backend to handle all the weird new headers: https://htmx.org/reference/#request_headers

And then you need to learn completely non-HTML things like "attribute inheritance" https://htmx.org/docs/#inheritance

And then you need to learn a whole new DSL https://htmx.org/docs/#trigger-modifiers

HTMX probably has more concepts than react at this point in time.

These examples are trivial and/or rare, especially in comparison to the monstrosity of a SPA framework. I picked up htmx in an hour or two.

I do think it is a bit overengineered however, though there are other implementations of the idea.

> comparison to the monstrosity of a SPA

What you call "monstrosity" is just as trivial and rare.

See how this works?

You claimed that HTMX doesn't require learning new paradigms. When it's actually a new paradigm replete with multiple different requirements, custom DSLs, new behaviors etc.

It uses html’s paradigm, which is a masterstroke. You keep using the term DSL as if it’s appreciably different than “put a string in an attribute.”

Htmx is an order of magnitude easier to get started with for a person who already knows html, ask me how I know.

You don’t have to use an SPA framework. Hopefully you don’t think you need one to use react.

Looking at the example on the front page, I don’t see how you can look at that and think it’s better than react.

I think that HTMX is better than React. I think that writing in my server side language of choice (Raku as it happens - ymmv) is better than TypeScript.

If you want to write HTMX / HTML in a componenty and functional way then HARC stack gives you that for Raku. I grant that Raku is a step change if you haven't seen it before and that there are some awkwardnesses in the example that could be ironed out.

You may prefer PyHAT, FastHTML (Python), HARM (Rust), GOTTH (Golang) and so on...

I have been taking a deep-dive into Lit recently, because the CMS I use (Umbraco) has built their BackOffice (CMS management interface) in it. It has been fairly easy to grok, other than learning the CMS specific libraries.

With that said, HTMX feels like the progressive enhancement solution I wish I had back when I was doing so with jQuery (and Prototype.JS even before that). I appreciate your solution, and definitely want to take a deeper look in the future. For applications, I still tend to use ASP.NET (Core, whatever you want to call the current open-source version of .NET). HTMX seems like a perfect solution to progressively enhance an application, while your library does far more for controlling how library code is written in JavaScript than a gigantic mess of jQuery scripts with shared state.

Reasoning is also about processing facts.

Most communication isn’t a legal contract, and a lot of meaning is implicit, not just what is explicitly said.

I’m not saying I agree or disagree with the statements you mentioned, but "wallowing in guilt over it would do nothing" implies wallowing in guilt is a natural or even expected feeling. The person you’re replying to is questioning why someone would wallow in guilt in the first place.

You don't see why people might feel something (including guilt) upon realising most of their place in life comes from luck and factors beyond their control?

You said “surely I’m missing something” so I explained it.

I thought I made it pretty clear I wasn’t offering an opinion on the subject, just explaining it

It’s not about fasting or even cardio, it’s about caloric restriction. Fasting reduces the calories you eat, and cardio increases the calories you burn.

Fasting also leads to breaking down fat via lipolysis during ketogenesis. Burning calories via exercise, including cardio, primarily stops you from _gaining_ weight.

So yes of course at the end of the day it is about calorie restriction, but fasting helps force your body into a state where it needs to break down stored calories -- ie. fat tissue.

You’re not wrong about breaking down fat via lipolysis but you’re wrong about the overall picture. Also, not sure what you mean by cardio stopping you from gaining weight. Cardio burns calories and you need to burn calories to lose fat.

Anyways, fasting isn’t a body hack like some people think. Just look at this article by Harvard health. At best the benefit is modest:

“intermittent fasting has a similar or even modest benefit over traditional calorie-restriction dieting for weight loss”

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/can-intermitt...

One reason is because the body regulates which sources of energy it uses, and will actually compensate for using too much of one energy source. For example, you might burn more fat during intermittent fasting because that’s what’s available at the time, but when you’re not fasting your body will actually burn less fat to compensate.

This is also why doing fasted cardio isn’t a hack. You’ll just burn less fat later and it’ll mostly be a wash.

Reducing the window for eating to 8 hours reduces total caloric intake naturally. I never said it was a "hack". Your linked article explains precisely why intermittent fasting is effective under the heading "The state of ketosis"; when it says "has a similar or even modest benefit over traditional calorie-restriction", that supports what I've been talking about, surely.

And cardio burns calories, sure, but have you tracked your caloric burn when exercising? You can't really do active cardio to burn more than you eat -- not without going into a deficit you have to earn back later. Ketosis isn't as fast as breaking down carbohydrates, so you're right, you don't want to do fasted cardio, usually, unless it's very restricted -- or you load up on carbs via a smoothie or something similar high-availability. I do brisk (~110 bpm average) 30 minute walks during the fasting window early in the morning, but that's about the limit.

We both know you’re trying to frame it as a hack. There’s no point in emphasizing fasting as much as you did if you didn’t think it was a significant improvement over traditional calorie restriction.

So no, I don’t think a “similar or modest” improvement over traditional calorie restriction supports your point. That phrasing suggests they’re not even willing to commit to it being a modest improvement.

You also seem to have completely misunderstood my point. It’s not about ketosis breaking things down slowly. Like I tried to explain, your body has various substrates it can use for energy (fat, muscle), and if you try to “trick” it by forcing it to burn a disproportionate amount of one, it’ll try to make up for it later. So if you do fasted cardio you might be burning more fat during your cardio session, but your body will try to compensate by burning less fat later. So these tricks don’t work, fasted cardio doesn’t help you lose weight more than non-fasted cardio.

Frankly it sounds like you’re getting your information from misinformed right-wing influencers.

> Frankly it sounds like you’re getting your information from misinformed right-wing influencers.

... how did you jump to that final conclusion? No wonder you seem to not be engaging in a good faith conversation here; you've been sitting on that prejudice all along.

A final piece of advice you're unlikely to heed, but I still feel compelled to share it: If you view reality through a broken lens, you'll see a twisted version of reality everywhere. I get my information from reading medical literature, not listening to influencers.

I'm moving on. Have a good day.

No I’m connecting the dots. A couple days ago you got downvoted for saying Elon Musk is getting us to mars and that he’s a great man. Now you’re arguing about fasting and keto.

If you want to deny it then fine, but I’d have to be an idiot not to connect those dots.

I’d encourage you to step outside your bubble and actually read about these things because you’re definitely not reading medical literature. You’re being fed bro science, not real science.