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Maintenance of lost weight and long-term management of obesity

nih.gov

1. Loveman E, Frampton GK, Shepherd J, et al. The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of long-term...
1. Loveman E, Frampton GK, Shepherd J, et al. The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of long-term weight management schemes for adults: a systematic review. Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) 2011;15(2):1–182. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]2. Wing RR, Phelan S. Long-term weig...
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Show HN: Data Bonsai: a Python package to clean your data with LLMs

github.com
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Making a Flute-Controlled Mouse

0110.be
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Could humans alter the moon's orbit significantly with current technology?

stackexchange.com
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Yes, It's Okay to Throw Away a Book

thewalrus.ca

It’s rare that a week goes by without a new book finding its way onto my...
It’s rare that a week goes by without a new book finding its way onto my overcrowded shelves. This is partly an occupational hazard, as someone who reads and reviews books professionally; they often come to me unbidden, mailed by publicists and publishers. But I’ll admit that it’s also a personal vice. Plucking a bo...
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I traded in my MacBook and now I'm a desktop convert

theverge.com

When the M3 MacBook Airs came out last month, I did a good ol’ double facepalm...
When the M3 MacBook Airs came out last month, I did a good ol’ double facepalm that Captain Picard would be proud of. The wedge shape was no more (kinda). My M2 MacBook Air 15 was slightly too big, too heavy, and no matter what certain people say, 8GB of RAM was not cutting it. Analyzing the various MacBook Air and ...
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Using an E-Ink Monitor

matthewbilyeu.com

Written by Matt Bilyeu on April 26, 2024 I recently bought an e-ink monitor: Dasung’s 2019...
Written by Matt Bilyeu on April 26, 2024 I recently bought an e-ink monitor: Dasung’s 2019 13.3” Paperlike HD-F. This post covers my knee-jerk reactions after having used it for a few days. There are other more in-depth reviews of it online. I typically spend about six to twelve hours a day using my laptop, a MacBoo...
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.test

wikipedia.org

Reserved domain name .test .test is a reserved top-level domain intended for usage in software testing....
Reserved domain name .test .test is a reserved top-level domain intended for usage in software testing. It is guaranteed to never be registered into the Internet.[1][2] Along with .test, there are 11 other reserved test domains: .测试, .परीक्षा, .испытание, .테스트, .טעסט, .測試, .آزمایشی, .பரிட்சை, .δοκιμή, .إختبار, and ....
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Arcan (alternative to X11, Wayland)

arcan-fe.com

Arcan is a powerful development framework for creating virtually anything between user interfaces for specialised embedded...
Arcan is a powerful development framework for creating virtually anything between user interfaces for specialised embedded applications all the way to full-blown standalone desktop environments. Boot splash screen? no problem. Custom Interface for your Home Automation Project? sure thing. Stream media processing? Of...
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Creatine improves cognitive performance during sleep deprivation

nature.com
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Multi Key Term: Map different keyboards to different terminals on same screen

sadiqpk.org

gtk4 keyboard terminal vte
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Show HN: Is_ready – Wait for many services to become available – 0 Dependencies

github.com
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Why I Don't Invest in Real Estate

tomaspueyo.com

Real estate has been a great investment for so long that people think it always will...
Real estate has been a great investment for so long that people think it always will be. This is a mistake. I don’t think it will. Powerful forces have been raising housing prices for decades. But they are now petering out, even reversing. As time passes, housing prices might shrink.To understand this, we need a ver...
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Boy, 13, finds 'holy grail' Lego octopus piece from sea spillage in 1997

sky.com

A rare Lego piece that fell into the sea in 1997 has been found by a...
A rare Lego piece that fell into the sea in 1997 has been found by a 13-year-old boy in Cornwall.Liutauras Cemolonskas had been hoping to find a "holy grail" plastic octopus for two years in his hunt for pieces of Lego that famously fell into the sea in 1997 when a cargo ship encountered a storm. Among the Lego piec...
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Antimatter Dimensions

ivark.github.io
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"Kawaii" tech logos by Sawaratsuki

github.com
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RFC 7282 – On Consensus and Humming in the IETF (2014)

ietf.org
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Philosophus Autodidactus

wikipedia.org

Arabic philosophical novel and allegorical tale written by Ibn Tufail This article needs additional citations for...
Arabic philosophical novel and allegorical tale written by Ibn Tufail This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Hayy ibn Yaqdhan" – news · newspapers · books · sch...
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How to improve the RISC-V specification

alastairreid.github.io

My main project is to create an executable spec of the Intel Architecture but, every now...
My main project is to create an executable spec of the Intel Architecture but, every now and then, I get to take a broader look at ISA specifications and think about the strengths and weaknesses of other ISA specs: what makes them work well; and what techniques they could borrow from other specifications. Earlier th...
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Hashi Corp to be acquired by IBM

prnewswire.com

ibm
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Mixing water and oil: no surfactants needed

physicsworld.com

Mixing it up: Using polymerizable oil makes it possible to create new materials of extreme purity...
Mixing it up: Using polymerizable oil makes it possible to create new materials of extreme purity without using any solvent or surfactant. This electron microscope image of an acrylated soybean vegetable oil, for example, shows a collection of multicore globules. (Courtesy: J Bibette) Oil and water famously don’t mi...
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Why I Am Now Relaxed About Releasing Buggy Software

wordpress.com

I am a perfectionist by nature. Releasing software in to the wild that has imperfections annoys...
I am a perfectionist by nature. Releasing software in to the wild that has imperfections annoys me. For that matter, doing anything that is imperfect annoys me. Thankfully, there is this little thing called reality that I sometimes get smacked around by and learn from. One of my more recent smacking and learning epi...
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EyeEm will license users' photos to train AI if they don't delete them

techcrunch.com

EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt,...
EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users’ photos to train AI models. Earlier this month, the company informed users via email that it was adding a new clause to its Terms & Conditions that would grant it the righ...
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Google layoffs hit Flutter team

reddit.com

flutterdev
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