Iâ(TM)ve been working with Cursor for the last six months now and paying for it. Itâ(TM)s certainly not going to replace a coder anytime soon, generating code from the chat prompt is marvelously boilerplate. Has it been a time saver? Absolutely yes!

What I love most about Cursor is writing a comment on what the code should do next and the AI provides a suggestion. I find that these suggestions are really helpful for articulating the solution. Sometimes it just spits out a complete solution, obviously a problem others have already encountered.

When coding in a new context, exploring new algorithms, Cursor can get annoying, suggestions are less helpful, mostly repetitive and can break the thread of my thoughts. In those scenarios I disable the AI. Afterwards, I let the AI review my code and it has been surprisingly good in catching corner cases and incomplete conditionals.

My personal opinion is favorable, my work is greatly helped coding with Cursor, in Python3 and C++.

Not to blindly defend erthyritol, we should definitely look at it closer. But "less bad" doesn't mean good. Sugar is still very unhealthy.

As far as history: let me give you an extremely quick rundown. Diabetes was known to the ancients, but was extremely rare until the 18th century, when British sugar plantations made it affordable. (The slave labor involved wasn't very healthy, either). That's when diabetes, obesity, and extreme amounts of tooth decay reached the British working class.

Sugar was a very popular trading commodity for native populations. And they were even less equipped to deal with it: tooth loss, diabetes, obesity and cancer skyrocketed in these populations soon after Western diets were introduced (British Empire medical records are a great source for this).

Maybe we are back to that 'over processed foods' problem. None of the sugar replacements can be made in your kitchen because they need to be 'refined' way more than cane sugar.

Sugar is a massively processed food, and it's subsidized to make it artificially cheaper. It's really easy to spot new threats, but we it's hard to recognize the dangerous things we do every day.

I'm sorry, but that's a complete non sequitir. Look at housing prices, inflation or anything else that's gone up in the last 60 years. The amount of change is completely orthogonal to personal choices.

The obesity crisis is the flip side of smoking cessation. People didn't just decide to stop smoking: doctors/government agencies/NGOs ran a decades-long pressure campaign designed to highlight the risks.

Starting in the 70's, many of the same well-meaning people started demonizing fat and protein. The USDA, doctors (who are really good at medicine and surgery, but not at dietary advice) started recommending less and less fat and protein. Bad pop science associated dietary cholesterol with heart problems.

Something had to fill that dietary gap: cheap (and government-subsidized) carbs from corn and wheat. That's just about all poor people eat, because it's all they can afford. And guess who suffers the most from diabetes, obesity, heart attacks etc? The poor. Are you still so sure it's a choice?

Portraying obesity/metabolic diseases as a personal failure instead of a health crisis that affects the MAJORITY of Americans is a very Republican move. Are you sure you're not voting for Trump?

> “The amount in sugar substitutes is thousands of folds higher than what is made in our bodies, so to call it ‘natural,’ it’s not,” he [study author Dr. Stanley Hazen] said.

And what is the amount of sugar in the diet of a typical American? If we compare that to the amount of sugar in the human diet since the beginning of time, would we consider that "natural"? What about those "natural" fruits? Most are giant sugar globes, deliberately engineered to increase sweetness and reduce fiber.

Based on the article description, this study does nothing but implicitly back the Standard American Diet. You know, the one packed with modern strains of corn, sugar, and wheat? Before we freak out about some new sweetener, maybe we should start asking ourselves why the MAJORITY of Americans have metabolic diseases. It ain't from eating a few grams of sugar alcohols.

As it is, this article is like freaking out about a purse snatcher when your entire government is run by the mob.

This is as dark a pattern as they come... Meta is becoming a true 'Hotel California'

Can you clarify your remark, are we talking detectors as in a site or detectors as in beams?These three sites each have two beams, so with good enough time keeping between them only two sites would be needed for determining direction.

In addition, I had the pleasure of talking with the project lead on the Einstein telescope (next gen gravitational wave detector), who mentioned that the nature of gravitational waves is such that the equilateral triangle design of the Einstein telescope can pinpoint the source.

Rail and Air do not compete on even terms, airlines still benefit from tax-breaks that are unavailable to road and rail. As soon as we fix the difference in tax pressures, airlines will be in a world of hurtâ¦

So what are you proposing? You have shared what you are against, so what are you for? What outcome do you seek?

Iâ(TM)ll be waiting with baited breath on Amnesty Internationalâ(TM)s opinion if this is or is not a war crime.

Does using a nuclear reactor as shield differ from using humans? The downstream effects seem terrible in both casesâ¦

Hyperspecific tasks hint at how they prepare the quantum computer for the calculation. Pristine environment hints at all the effort they are making to keep the quantum computer stable enough to complete that task.

How long will it take before we have enough error correction stability that we can load a task on demand into a quantum computer and get a result before that error correction is overwhelmed? It already takes time today to load a stating state into a computer for most calculations, how is a quantum computer different?

Amen to that! The American way isn't "stop doing the harmful thing," it's "I can do whatever I want, then take a pill/have surgery/use technology to fix it." Ignoring the massive amount of wasted resources, preventable illness, that entails.

Unfortunately, food is a political issue. Healthy eating threatens the agribusiness giants, farmers who live off subsidies, expensive drugs/medical interventions etc. That's why we're mostly fat and sick in this country.

>> The thing about capitalism and free markets is, it tells you exactly how much you are worth to your fellow humans and under what circumstances.

"The problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor." - Martin Luther King Jr.

If free markets are such a good thing, why does the ruling class avoid them at all costs?

>> it was a bit much to ask for Americans to elect a Socialist.

The voters disagree. Hilary Clinton wouldn't have won the nomination without superdelegates (well-connected Democratic party operatives whose primary votes count ~10,000x more than your vote). When the (extremely undemocratic) Democratic party decided to put their thumbs on the scale for Hilary, all those working-class white voters who went for Obama moved to Trump (search for "Obama/Trump voters" if you don't believe me). Hilary was a historically terrible choice, but the Democratic Party apparatus would rather blame Russia than admit they don't know what they're doing.

>> basically no cheating in the next primary (just a little shenanigans in Iowa and if you're as politically astute as you seem to be you should know Iowa isn't really that big a deal) and Sanders still lost by 30 points

Here's the story of the 2020 primary: Corporate interests dug up the mummy Joe Biden, because they were terrified of a President Sanders or Warren. All the moderates all dropped out at the same time, while Liz Warren (who said she'd never take PAC money) took PAC money to prop up her campaign, just long enough to split the progressive vote.

>> We want US hegemony so that we can have cheap oil because we all depend on it to get to work.

If by "we" you mean the ruling class, sure. Polling shows that the majority of Americans want action on climate change, they support the Green New Deal, etc.

>>Instead the left wants to vote for shit candidates like Nina Turner who tell Democrats in a Democrat primary election that they're all a bowl of shit because they like how she "tells it like it is". That's the Trump playbook, and it doesn't work without the racism.

Maybe you should look into how many MILLIONS were dumped into that primary by AIPAC and corporate interests to oppose Nina Turner. Tell me that "the left" is the problem. Hell, take the last 40 years of corporate Democrat neoliberal policy. Is life better or worse the average American? If it's worse, what is the corporate Dem playbook for things to get better? It's not stuff that 70% of Democratic voters want (Medicare for All, Green New Deal, etc), so what is it?

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