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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • Everyone here talking calories and forgetting water weight. Boxers etc. will drop carbs entirely to make a weight cut-off. Two aspects to consider here, glycogen and inflammation, both of which store water. If you are not fat adapted and stop carbs your glycogen will deplete (~500g glycogen + 4x that in water, 2.5kg = 5+lbs), also called hitting the wall in endurance sports.

    If you have systemic inflammation your fat cells will carry a bunch of extra water (you know when your ankle swells up after twisting, that’s water from inflammation), so removing inflammatory stimuli, foods, environment can cause that to get peed out. Depending how many fat cells, the amount will vary, but could easily be 5kg if obese.

    This is how people lose dramatic amounts of weight in the first few weeks of diet. Actually removing fat is a lot harder, but it starts in the kitchen.








  • Just because it’s not your use case (and maybe you’d find a use if it was available), doesn’t mean it’s not a common one. Market opportunities get missed all the time. People have been making do with offline HDDs, which is a waste of their potential, and they’re now victim to the RAMpocalypse price hike too.

    Just as an example, people would probably take a lot more video with their oh so capable phones if there was somewhere to put TBs of it cheaply.


  • Honestly, the world is crying out for a new consumer offline backup media, hasn’t been anything since BluRay. Even just whacking a USB3 onto LTO5/6 and not having it cost the earth for drive or media would sell like hot cakes.

    Something a lot nicer is cooking in China (Microsoft has been sitting on it as Project Silica for years now). That looks to be a 360TB CD sized disc good for 10000+ years cold storage, currently $30K writer and $6K reader, but that was the case with CDs too once.

    I can see why our corpo lords and masters wouldn’t want us having a device that let us fit all of Netflix in the palm of our hands, but whoever mass produced it and brought the price down to reasonable would make an absolute fortune. Here’s hoping the latter greed wins out, it doesn’t seem like the drives are made with any sort of unobtianium. A new era of CD burners would be highly welcome.