I'm overweight. I'd love to lose 30lb. I exercise quite a bit (as much as life allows) and watch my diet. However, my weight is biased towards drifting up.

I tried a version of this (eatable, not injectable) for 6 months before giving up. Here is why.

My eating is not and has never been because of hunger. It is 100% triggered by stress. I eat for comfort when things pile up. Not an uncommon experience among fat people.

The drug did suppress my appetite, to the point where I no longer felt any sort of hunger whatsoever. If anything, due to the secondary symptoms, I did not feel like eating anything for most of the day.

However, it did nothing to control my stress eating! During the evenings, after a tough day at work or dealing with the kids, I'd vacuum up everything in the fridge even though I felt no hunger and in fact was difficult to eat! The seratonin hit due to food going into the belly overcame all these inhibitors. I lost no weight during the 6 months I was on this thing.

Other symptoms:
1) Constant, low-grade nausea
2) Feeling of tiredness and mild depression
3) Constipation

For those whom these drug helps: you have my best wishes and envy.

Andor is absolutely fantastic.

I've been using KDE for nearly 20 years. I love it (except for the brief misadventure with KDE4).

I love its customizability, its powerful file manager, the ease with which I can get things done, how they have done a fantastic job of integrating the GUI experience with the unix CLI. Integrating the terminal with the console so that you can hit F4, type a command and go back to the screen is brilliant.

However, I do wish they would fix the long-standing, super-annoying and grating bugs. The two that are top of mind for me are:
1) Search is completely broken. For some reason, baloo is flaky and its indices get corrupted easily. Even otherwise, the search interface supported by Dolphin is clunky and very basic, something at odds with the rest of the KDE philosophy. The unreliable search makes it very annoying to use in modern workflows. I need to resort to "Recoll" and integrate it into my workflow to get anything meaningful done.

2) The integration with Wayland is still not great... even on AMD. Random tearing, Panel disappearing, some applications still not working correctly.

Pat Gelzinger drove VMware into the ground during his tenure there. Every single strategic direction he pursued turned out to be wrong. He missed all the major `buses' that took off during his tenure even when VMware was ideally poised to take advantage. He was not able to lay down the law to the squabbling business units who tried to compete with each other instead of trying to grow their markets. His major assets are a fantastic personality and an aw-shucks attitude that endeared him to the rank and file at the expense of the company's stock price.

How about a "Manchurian Candidate" scenario? Perhaps he did it (or was influenced to do it) to help some other Republican who has been extinguished by Trump. If the Ex-prez had been gravely wounded or worse, the right would have coalesced around some other (possibly even more extreme) candidate like Ron DeSantis, or Ramaswami. There would also have been plenty of time to get the candidate qualified in the primary and for fund-raising.

As if we don't have enough worries. The next generation of humans will be Barbies and Kens.

Every single `factory owner' is salivating at the mouth at the thought of being free from dependence on large numbers of unpredictable, costly humans and throwing billions of dollars at. You are dreaming if you think a few protests can reverse the trend.

I have 2 50" TVs in my house... an approximately 22 year old Panasonic Plasma, which was somewhat high end for the time, and a 3 Year old Toshiba LED (nowhere near high end). The Plasma image quality is so superior to the LEDs that it is not even a contest. My friends have far more recent OLED/QLED TVs that cost >$3000, and I have been searching for reasons to buy one of these, but at least to my eyes the image quality of my Plasma is still far superior to these newer TVs. Dark scenes and high contrast scenes look far better on the Panasonic, and the colors just seem more natural and pleasing. Even TVs with HDRs don't seem to have a natural feel, even on those TVs that were supposedly "professionally tuned" at installation time.

So am I just being blinded by Plasma bias and nostalgia like the vinyl boys with their audio? Have OLED TVs objectively caught up in terms of quality?

Absolutely correct. The fact of the matter is that AI's capabilities are on an upswing along the lines of CPU speed increases from 1970-2000 with no end in sight. In fact, per theory we are at a stage where we can get substantial further gains by simply throwing hardware at the problem and building larger networks, and this accounts for the arms race that is going on. This is not just due to fast hardware, but a fundamental change in Neural Network architecture in 2017 that appears to abstract away much of the complexity required in earlier implementations.

I recommend all Slashdotters to get a rudimentary understanding of what is going on so that you can at the very least separate the hype from reality. There are tons of free resources on Youtube and courses from various universities. There is no way to succeed in future as a high-end tech engineer without a reasonable understanding of the capabilities and limitations of AI. Without this you will be relegated quickly to the lower ends of the profession and ultimately automated away.

You can thank Elon Musk for this.

Protected from the consequences of his actions by armies of fanboys, he has legitimized the wholesale hollowing-out and demonization of the engineer class to the cheers of investors. There has been much grumbling and anger building up among large investors on how the engineers have too much power, but they did not know how to go about tackling it. Reasonable executives were reluctant to cut staff in good times in order to avoid damage to their own reputations.

Now, however, for the first time in my memory, companies are resorting to large scale layoffs while soaking in large profits, and bragging about it, to the resounding cheers of the Bill Ackmans of the world.

Many useful applications are not packaged for anything but Ubuntu. For some reason certain developers are aggressive Ubuntu supporters and appear to be against producing other packages on principle. And the choice of libraries that will work with the application are so restricted that they will not compile against updated Fedora etc. So no choice but to ship older libraries.

This is the case in theory. In practice, most apps ship with different runtimes.

For example, I have 3 flatpak applications (Whatsie, Xnview MP and Vidcutter) installed on my Fedora. flatpak list shows 3 different copies of org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default, two of org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia, multiple versions of freedesktop platform.

And yes, I have got rid of unused dependencies using flatpak uninstall --unused

I hear from my friends at Google that the core search division is not something that good engineers want to work on any more. Everyone who has a choice is flocking to Waymo/Google Brain or other AI-heavy product lines. Even corporate Google does not seem to be interested in search any more, there were deep cuts in that division recently and even engineers were affected.

Question: how is your video playing experience?

On the latest Fedora F39, on Wayland, VLC cannot show the video at all while SMplayer is buggy as hell.

I am using an nvidia graphics card, but surely basic video does not need any advanced capabilities?

Unfortunately this is true. LA is even harsher on jaywalkers. My family of 4 got tickets of $450 each(!!!) because we walked across a completely empty street. The motorcycle cop showed up out of nowhere (he had been hiding behind a trash bin for this very purpose).