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matheusmoreira
28,281karma·11,399submissions·October 4, 2016
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Brazilian hobbyist programmer. I mostly do my own thing but I've contributed to some free and open source projects.
I created the lone programming language, a lisp for Linux:
https://github.com/lone-lang/lone
The projects I've published are on GitHub:
https://github.com/matheusmoreira/
I can be reached via email:
hn@matheusmoreira.com
I also have my own website:
https://www.matheusmoreira.com/
If you like my work, consider sponsoring me:
https://github.com/sponsors/matheusmoreira
No pressure though. I do this because I enjoy it.
recent activity (11,399 total)
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> we should put them in a sterile room and study them We have. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319339 > Body adapts significantly over time when subjected to weight loss.…
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> But those who stick with regime, it works 100% No. Even nearly a decade of intensive behavioral treatment has highly variable results. Here's what the numbers tend to look like in practice: …
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> diagnosing GP was talking about screening though, not diagnosis. Coronary angiography are specialized, expensive and require intravenous constrast. Doctors aren't going to order them for eve…
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> We can only change ourselves. Being fit and maintaining the normal weight is not the same thing as reaching a BMI of 50 kg/m² then losing it. I've seen fitness influencers take up that …
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> I don't believe that's possible. You believe incorrectly. > They're fat because they have ignored that advice for a long time. Ah yes, the medical equivalent of "works on m…
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> If you change your lifestyle temporarily, the effects are temporary. Not quite. If the lifestyle deteriorates, then weight regain is expected. However, people might regain only a fraction of the …
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Brazilian portuguese has cu de ferro , which literally translates to iron ass , something one must of course have in order to apply themselves to scholarly activities.
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I'm the one who wrote the sentence you are quoting, and I most definitely meant it in the sense of "declarative language, where you say what you want and the runtime figures out how to do it…
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Lifestyle changes are essentially standard medical advice. There is nothing wrong with proposing diet and exercise. It's just that you should probably suggest other treatments in addition to …
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Weight regain is common, especially after isolated lifestyle changes. Most people lose weight but do not keep it off over time.
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https://github.com/lone-lang/lone Sent a PR to breck7/pldb and it got merged in less than two minutes.…
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How do I make it into the list? :)
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> highly effective Purely behavioral lifestyle interventions have the lowest long term success rates of all available treatments for obesity. It's especially unreliable if you have weight loss…
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Even if we use an all-encompassing definition of censorship, this still doesn't quite qualify. It's just preventing the recommendation algorithms from working on the politician accounts. The…
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Cancelling an election has "this is not the result I wanted, do it again" undertones.
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> Instead of applying the law, the supreme court decided to legislate ... Actual quote from an actual laywer I knew, one of my professors, around 10 years ago. My legal medicine professor, who was…
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> It is not the job of the judiciary to determine whether a law should or shouldn't exist The brazilian judiciary legislates on a daily basis.
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Censorship targets subversion. Censors seek to prevent the spread of antiestablishment information and ideas. So one can hardly claim that a universal ban on algorithmic recommendation for all candi…
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Not particularly moved by this. Either AI advances to the point we achieve a post scarcity society, or 99% of humanity becomes economically irrelevant and dies a slow death either way. I'd rather…
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I miss his feuds with the supreme court. Trump actually got the judges sanctioned under Magnitsky too, then dropped the sanctions not too long after. No clue if Elon helped with that.
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That would be a fair argument, were it not for the fact that every candidate is being excluded from algorithmic recommendations. Were it just one or two candidates, then it would indeed be a form of…
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I think it's a fair limit. Preventing social media companies from invisibly favoring any candidate seems sensible to me. Censorship is deletion of the candidate's social media presence.…
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Brazilian electoral law tries to ensure all candidates have equitable access to media air time prior to the election. This filtering apparently exists to prevent distortions like X itself pushing cand…
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> Official candidates are not suspended, and their content will remain available on their profiles. Sounds good to me. Filtering all recommendations is fair, and they are not censoring the profiles…
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Mozilla has 300+ million dollars in the bank.
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I've tried everything from relying on uBlock Origin's anti-sabotage injections to literally reverse engineering websites and directly using all the internal APIs their own javascripts consum…
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Yeah, if that's true then there's little point to Manifest V3... That completely invalidates the argument that it increases security by denying private page access. Maybe I misunderstood Man…
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Yes, which is why it is important to lock such things down.
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"Declare" means the extension tells the browser what they want to filter and then the browser does it internally without ever allowing the extension to read and write private information. Th…