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    Weight Loss Thread

    I was just going to suggest one of these. I had the same concerns; the price had me worried about the build quality but with my back, I can't do anything for more than 3-5 min, so my walking range is super limited. We also don't have sidewalks in my neighborhood as it was built in the 1960s. I...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Dude, I worked out with guys juiced to gills in the 80s, guys going to the league and your physique rocks. Lots of folks with vitamin S would struggle to get there. You have vascularity in your traps, ffs. My skin has never been that thin, ever. Congrats on winning the genetics lottery...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    My Apocalypse Warlock was a surprise fun build for me, in an overall great Season 13. I had a lot of fun with S13: Itemization curve was so much better (rares still relevant at 70? fantastic) Everything seemed great, there were powerful builds for every class, story narrative was so much...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    The more I explain, the less I am believed or appreciated, so yes, but the original context for that statement was a range of approx 1500-2000 calories. My endo said that due to combination of genetics, activity, and meds, that can sometimes be the case; it wasn't necessarily fair. I provided...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    I haven't, but will get some today. It's something I have struggled with in a minor way forever as one of my migraine meds has it as a side effect (verapamil?). Bad things happen if I don't drink enough water <shiver>, I have tried adding more natural fibre via foods to my diet (green beans...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    I have seen a Dr just yesterday for the Mounjaro/GLP-1 constipation and asked about the weight loss number; she didn't have any issue with my diet plan or the weight loss. I have been through a short burst of ketoacidosis previously when the insulins were R and N-mix; the long-lasting shots...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    This caloric math works with folks with a normal metabolic rates and no outside influences. I was taking a lot of insulin, which was storing fat at an outsized rate. What happens when someone on a steroid cycle stops taking test or one of the more exotic flavors? How quickly do they lose...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    This isn't a long-term plan; its the short term plan to get to my goal/get closer to my goal. It's extreme, I understand, relative to a normal state. Once I reach my target weight goal, which for me over my life and frame has always been 200ish (205-215) lbs on my super broad 5'10" frame. Once...
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    Marathon - Bungie Extraction Shooter

    It's a been a full decade. Every major IP from the Blockbuster Era on: Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, DC, Dr Who, LOTR, is a smoldering ruin because of DEI/Woke casting and hiring, as well Activist/Ideological Messaging and Plotting in lieu of story telling. They can't make a Blade movie...
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    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    That was such an amazing launch. It was the coolest game I can remember ever being a part of. Old Bungie always had that quality about it. So many of their old games: Myth:TFL, Oni, Original Marathon, etc, had these mysterious lore hooks that were so great. Halo had them also. It's not just...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    If only you knew how true this was on a number of occasions, and how it has saved us a few times. In my context no one "pulls anything out" but finding a copy of that database in a dev environment with enough prod data, or somewhere they were shipping logs they had forgetten that let us rebuild...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    You can still buy a landline and a pager but no one does that any more because it sucks. You can still buy physical servers and host them yourself but no one does that any more either because it sucks: Maintaining and hosting physical hardware sucks, as much as I love it, because while you are...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    I am this person. I have moved from refusing to use it to building multiple agents to prepare first drafts of work products normally crafted in PowerBI tools as a launch pad to completely replacing those PowerBI tools one day. Well-crafted AI, in some form, will become the interface at some...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    So, do answer this with a substantive answer or with the kneejerk answer? My first reaction after reading this: Virtualization was going to make it easier to migrate from hardware to hardware, and guess what? IT IS. VMware has saved everyone thousands and thousands of hours moving guests...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    What is this magic intended purpose? I have been working with virtualized servers for more than two decades now: How have we been led astray? Edit: That's just the terminology of the industry. Doctors have terminology. Geologists have terminology. Architects have terminology. IT...