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Zarobi

@ Zarobi @aussie.zone

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  • What do your daily meals look like each day?

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  • Yep ensure was the one. I wasn't sure if it was available internationally so I didn't put name brand in there.

    hyper tension, fatty liver, visceral obesity, excess adiposity, snoring

    Yeah I have all those problems lol. I actually did use a CGM and the most concerning thing noted was I was going into high 2's and low 3's blood sugar. Normal range is 4–7 so I was hypoglycemic for a big part of every day.

    It turns out I was massively undereating for a long time and slowly starving to death, somehow without losing weight as well. When I brought it up in the past doctors were like, well you're not massively losing weight so you're fine. But I was measuring my calories and only getting 800–1400 on a good day, when my maintenance was meant to be 2400.

    My doctor told me to stop starving to death as a top priority, but due to various other medical issues I physically can't eat enough food per day. It got really confusing so now I'm using Ensure even though it's not ideal for prediabetes (I can see it on the graph). All the doctors I've seen have mostly just been confused and not really sure how to help me. My disability makes it impossible to exercise enough per day.

    My body seems mostly ok with my current diet of whole meal stuff, but any sugar or refined carbs really fucked me up and made me very unwell. So I'm definitely avoiding all sugar like the plague. I did keto for a while but it wasn't sustainable for me long term. So wholemeal is my compromise.

    Overall a shitty situation, not much can be done to help me it seems.

  • The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models

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  • Open Weight vs Low Cost. Are these models cheap because they are open weight and having hundreds or people stress test running them on different hardware helped to lower the cost? Or is it that they are being provided as loss leaders to drive the prices down?

    I wouldn't be surprised if the A.I. in China is heavily subsided so that people use them. Not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, but I'm not sure it's sustainable long term, or a fair way to compare A.I. models. We need to compare the true computational and financial cost of each token internally, not whatever is being charged for it externally, otherwise you're just saying "stuff made in China is generally cheaper" which we've known for decades. This might be a complicated question to answer though.

  • What do your daily meals look like each day?

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  • Reading the comments mine might be the weirdest...

    • bowl of all bran and special k with cow milk
    • "adult formula" blended with almond milk. It's like feeding tube stuff as a dry powder. I struggle to eat enough calories per day without it so my doctor prescribed it, it's "nutritionally complete"
    • electrolytes potion. Magnesium and vitamin C effervescent with a pinch of salt in coconut water
    • small cup of Turkish coffee
    • two squares of dark chocolate

    • sliced strawberries and banana with cream
    • low GI crunchy bread (Bürgen) with hummus

    One of:

    • vegetable and meat stew
    • wholemeal spaghetti with nooch and olive oil and feta cheese
    • chicken thigh with wild rice and cucumber salad
    • salmon with wild rice and cucumber salad
    • whatever leftovers are gifted to me (as long as it doesn't have sugar or loads of simple carbs)

    I have prediabetes along with a dozen other health conditions lol

  • Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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  • No I mean I think there was a miscommunication or something, I genuinely agree with everything you said except that 1 part lol. I'm not very good at explaining things, sorry

  • Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says

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  • Believe it or not my first paragraph was working on medical software lol. It was good though, I liked the feeling of helping doctors help people, making the world a better place.

  • Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says

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  • Unemployed / disability lol. But if I could still move around I'd probably get into something outdoorsy. Park ranger or the like. Keeping a candle lit though, in case one day I miraculously recover or medical science advances or something.

    Edit: actually it's the reason I did software engineering in the first place. But actually this industry is now hostile to people with disability. Can I work from home because leaving the house is hard? No, everyone must be in office chained to your desk 9/9/6. Can I be neurodivergent? No, everyone must have constant in person meetings and work in open plan offices.

  • Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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  • Sorry I don't really know anything about North American indigenous, I live in Australia and our mobs are very different. I think actually we're in full agreement, apart from the detail of whether it's "intelligent design" or not :)

  • Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says

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  • Most of my career I was allowed to write code how I wanted. I made it beautiful and nice to read. It was genuinely fun to find the best way to implement each feature.

    My final job, I was forced to add semicolons on new lines for each if else statement, even for early returns, remove hyphens from my comments because they were "improper grammar", put a useless giant copy pasted comment at the start of each file so you can't even see any code without scrolling, one separate file for each class even if it's an internal helper class used nowhere else, and use interfaces and MVVM for literally everything, even when it was severely over-engineering (or should I say overengineering). It just felt soul crushing to make this ugly ass code that took forever to write, just because the style guide said so.

    Then A.I. happened and I quit being a software engineer completely. Telling an A.I. to do my work for me is just depressing. What's even the point anymore? I still code for fun but I'm done with the industry.

  • OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions

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  • Man, logging issues are like baby's first engineering problem... That's just embarrassing

  • Solutions to all the world's problems [ahoyuniverse]

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  • I remember that, like GPT 3.5 era. When I asked it how it would rule the world I thought it had pretty good ideas, if I didn't know it was an A.I. I'd vote for it anyway. Not anymore though lol

  • Advanced AI models suffer a near-total collapse on classic psychology test as cognitive demands increase

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  • Even just like, needing competition and attention for fulfillment seems strange to me. But maybe I'm the weird one.

  • Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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  • Yeah maybe. But I'm not really talking about nomadic ancestral living though. Plenty of villages in the country today are functionally communist, I've lived in one.

    What I mean is it seems hard to have a system that has all the stuff we have today, without capitalism appearing at some point. Electricity, computers, trains, huge populations, cities, etc.

    I'm trying to say that it's easy to implement, it seems obvious, and it benifits those in power. But it's inefficient and horrible long term and leads to problems. I think all the current laws and policy protecting capitalism were put in place to prop up a dying system. So rather than it being deliberate, I believe it's just a series of reactionary patch jobs that "fix" problems as they come up rather than anyone actually sitting down and designing a good system.

  • Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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  • I didn't meant that there are no rules. I meant that if you dumped a group of people on another planet, in 1000 years they'd probably have capitalism again. It's just one of the the path of least resistance systems that seems obvious at scale. Nobody sat down and designed capitalism. It just kind of happened.

  • The job search

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  • Damn, that's really lame

  • Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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  • The current system is kind of just the default system that nobody really planned out or thought about carefully. Unemployment, suffering, homelessness, inequality, billionaires, etc, are all baked into how it works. But it kind of mostly sorta works good enough that nobody is motivated enough to do anything about it, plus it directly benefits anyone who could do anything about it.

    It's rapidly reaching it's limit, though, especially with A.I. and most people's jobs being bullshit. I'm curious what the replacement will be, and I'm hoping the transition isn't too... painful.

  • Advanced AI models suffer a near-total collapse on classic psychology test as cognitive demands increase

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  • Those incentives and motivations suck ass, no offence. Get better incentives.

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  • I used an app called Plus 500 to buy $100 test amount of stocks. The stock market value went down by 1 cent and they took my money and sold my stocks for me automatically. Fuckin crooks, I'm pretty sure stock trading isn't meant to work like that lol. Never again

  • A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentient

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  • That kind of sucks ngl

  • The job search

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  • Nothing feels more dehumanising than applying for a job in 2026 with a big company*

  • The job search

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  • I wonder if the grocery store could just hire you directly and cut out the middle man? Like just approach the boss and be like. I need a job. You need worker. Gimme a contract and I'll start tomorrow