Maybe I'm just searching for different things but I've not noticed any changes in the past few decades. I search for things and I find them same as ever.
Not noticed any changes? Not even the one where in many searches sponsored results take up the whole initial screen and the actual results begin under the fold?
I'd love to know what magic you are adding to queries so I can achieve the same results.
Search has been getting worse from the SEO arms race for at least two decades. In the last few years this has accelerated due to machines producing more convincing slop.
Searches absolutely have not been surfacing the same quality of content as they did when Google first developed PageRank.
I don't. The blogosphere, writings and blogs from various professionals basically disappeared from results. And especially the best ones - people who write once in a while when they have good content. Google would not return me articles I literally knew the name of and could quote portions of.
Moreover, beyond that, it used to be that I could find what I was looking for easily, the google search is now noticeably worst.
The few doctors I've seen react to these news all seem to share the same opinion, which is: Duh, if you're prescribed GLP-1 for a medical reason, you're expected to keep taking it basically for life, it's the safe way to proceed. It's not a diet pill.
And the problem with that is what, exactly? These drugs not only optimize weight, but make it easier to avoid all sorts of useless dopamine spam activities. People report drinking a lot less on them too
I read the OP's observation to be "they need to take it for life - and not treat it as a short term fix" but people talk about it as a short term fix.
Some medication, like Tylenol, is short term. You take it for a headache, and then move on. Other medication, like Adderall, you take for life. Everyday, you take it to manage ADD.
OP is arguing that appetite suppressor are a "take everyday for life, and stop talking about it as though it is a short term fix"
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For my part, I know 3 people on appetite suppressors. 1 person lost a lot of weight, and then stopped recently - it is too soon to know if she "relapsed". 1 person lost a lot and will "stop taking it in 2 months". 1 person recently started taking it.
In my experience, people do talk about it like a short term fix. Should they take it for life? I'm not equipped to have an opinion just yet.
I'm about to start taking it, with plans for it to only be temporary.
I used to be fit and healthy, but then some things happened, and now I need a jumpstart to get to a lower weight to where I can resume doing physical activities and resume a healthy diet and lifestyle.
I think it’s an awareness problem as much as anything. Folks going on these medications aren’t aware it may well be a lifelong commitment. And particularly in the US any lifetime medication comes with financial implications.
I'll second this, the medical opinion that I've seen is "You should take the drug as prescribed, if you tolerate it well it's safe to take indefinitely".
Now this does get a bit more complex when you consider the nontrivial financial cost to someone without insurance or who's insurance does not cover their intended use.
"people who come off statins have higher cholesterol levels than people who lowered cholesterol with diet and exercise."
That's obviously stupid, so why are we treating GLP-1s differently?
I also hear people say things like "GLP-1s shouldn't exist because you'll gain weight when you go off them" which is as nonsensical (to me) as saying "you shouldn't exercise because the benefits of exercise will stop if you don't continue exercising."
It's only GLP-1s that have this "moralizing" associated with them.
"people who come off vaccinations still don't get sick, compared to those who continue taking vaccines"
You have a strong bias towards thinking GLP-1 behaves like a statin rather than a personality altering drug (or a vaccine, or nicotine patches.) Please provide a basis for this bias.
We're not treating GLP-1 different because it's a different thing. We're treating it differently, because we don't know if it's an analogous thing without this type of study.
But the article isn't saying it's surprising that you gain weight when you stop the treatment, the surprise is how fast you regain it compared to other treatments.
The conclusion isn't at all obvious so there's no "duh" moment. Why would you gain back the weight that much faster if you lost it with this pill vs. that pill?
I'm not saying they're equivalent. I'm saying that the latter is better, especially in the context of reviewing LLM output.
With the former, I need to cross-reference two different stacks (HTML and CSS) and construct a mental model every time I move between components. With the latter, I can simply look at one output (HTML) and move on with my life, knowing that the chances of conflicts/issues/etc are fairly limited.
You guys are advocating for keeping the semantic separation that we originally aimed for with HTML/CSS, but in an LLM world this is yet another distinction that probably "does not matter".
>publishers live on the outsize success of very few of their books, and the rest of them are losses.
That is true of many industries, including films, vc software startups, games and books. As the Internet increases competition and opportunity, it is likely to become more true.
For similar reasons, I ended up sticking to a bullet journal (ish) format after I tried it ~10 years ago. I don't do long-term planning with it, but I have 1-2 weeks laid out in advance, and years of stuff logged.
It keeps a record of things done and lived. In terms of planning and task keeping, the paper format also forces me to let things fall off the list if they won't get done after all.
I also joke that I'll be the person who can actually answer if one day an investigator asks me "What were you doing on the night of November 22nd, 2019?"
I'd take a better Siri if it can happen on-device (for speed and privacy). They've been over-promising on Siri's capabilities for a decade at this point.
They resisted (most of the) LLM boosterism and kept decent focus on SLMs that can run on-device.
I think the decision is first a self-serving one that's in line with how they want their devices and services to operate, but it also happens to be (in my opinion) the future-proof way of integrating consumer AI.
I live up North (capital N) from you, where we have ~4 months of calcium spread on our roads to manage the accumulating ice every winter. A well-maintained car has the chance to live long enough to succumb to rust from that.
Rustproofing is still a good treatment to get done to delay and minimize damage, but it's a thorough and slightly expensive job.
People who have a hobby car usually retire it in a garage from November to April-May instead.
(My partner and I are building one for our daughter)
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