In France in conforama stores salesman use a ascii terminal GUI connected to AIX shells. Fast as hell to take your order. I’m always amazed at how marketing BS lead us to vastly sub optimal solution.

You get the vi bindings and modal behaviour which I find better _plus_ all emacs functions and most of the emacs bindings. I’m often mixing the 2 modes while editing.

What helps me doing something I don’t like on a daily basis (pull up for example) is thinking : I don’t have the choice. That way I consume much less willpower

How does one make oneself think that?

It always remains circular. Doing X to compel you to do Y just shifts the problem from Y to X. There is no “bottom” that is guaranteed to work.

Personally I think of lifting weights like brushing teeth. It needs to be done for health, there is no choice in the matter

I always use it in pipelines to extract columns. I often use it for summations of numbers. Sometimes for more complex tasks. Get the job done.

Agreed. But you can have sexual fantasies and still be friend, no ?

Not if you're married

CICO while thermodynamically true, is not _that_ useful because no one really control CI nor CO …

How do one manage to eat exactly the amount of calories one consumes ? Based on the calories in/out weight gain theory a little error of 50 calories/day would lead to 50*365=18250 extra calories/year ie 18250/9000=~2kg of fat. 20kg in 10 years ! Eat an apple a day and you’ll be massively obese in few years.

It just has to average out in the long term.

No one eats the exact same thing everyday.

And you can eat less or more throughout the year.

You've never had a holiday feast?

That’s my point. Regarding people that maintain the same weight, I highly doubt they eat on average the _exact_ amount needed. There must be physiological adjustments that are broken in some people.

That's not necessary at all.

People who maintain the same weight simply eat their maintenance calories on average over the long term.

That's just how averages work.

I feel like you have some kinda fundamental misunderstanding of something to not understand this, but I don't know what it could be.

Just use a sensible buffer or add in some extra cardio.

There is a similar idea in the book "atomic habits" by James clear : focus on process not outcome. that’s one of the best advice I ever read.

Next : mandatory helmet for pedestrians. You never know, it could save your life. It’s not the end of the world to wear one.

Better yet - stay at home. Don't leave unless really necessary. Have everything delivered, preferably by autonomous electric drones. WFH. Exercise indoors. Have a super-insulated home, but don't naturally ventilate it.

You two comments (the one I'm replying to and the previous one) fell of the slippery hope, near the deep end.

Slippery slope, perhaps? Then yeah... I guess so.

No worries, I have my helmet ;-)

Seems there are some words seen as high level that a French would immediately recognise whereas the relaxed counterpart make no sense for him. Example : "facilitate". I’m French, this word sounds like horrible "franglais" for me but may look classy for an English (?).