This is exciting! Everyone should have easy turn key access to their essential biometrics

there is zero evidence that continually measuring ketones would be useful in any sense. That's different from the purported use of CGMs, which is to monitor for glucose spikes in response to specific foods (and even then, the evidence that monitoring glucose spikes in healthy people has any benefits is really thin).

If someone really wanted to measure their ketone levels there are simple urine tests that do it - there is no need to measure it continuously for healthy people.

It's nice to see know it all bias exists on hackernews too. This person clearly hasn't heard of the gki

A whole article on scientific evidence and no mention of the evidence pyramid, no discussion of observational epidemiology and its strength in predicting causal relationships? Seems like very preliminary article.

it's important to realize bread and candy are the same thing.

Baked goods are also carbohydrate delivery vehicles. As far as your body is concerned they all raise blood glucose the same (candy, bread).

Reconcile that people who go ketogenic / zero carb tend to resolve their hypertension.... so maybe the benefit isn't the elevated blood pressure itself, but adequate blood flow at all?

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10821-z

Genetic background sets the trajectory of experimental cancer evolution.... In inbred mice exposed to cancer causing drugs eating 55% carb diet, with 10% from industrial soybean oil.

Just finished this little book - sir Pratchetts "shaking hands with death" a speech he gave

The man is trying to get you not to use VLANs!

Can i interest you in a plastic baggie of dubiously sourced sfp modules?

Don't worry about backing up that stuff, everyone else is already, so in a data loss event you can always get it again from the internet.

there is no scientific consensus on the topic

Agreed. That is why we are here speculating.

when it began and why it happened

This is what makes it a super interesting topic!

ThinkPads have to be the gold standard for Linux laptops, so id be surprised if battery management wasn't something they could control (i.e. stay 80% charged)

Though, why keep the spicy pillow at all? Take the battery out and just make it a normal computer attached to your nas. In a power outage your Nas won't have power anyway, and if you have a ups it could also run the laptop... A spicy pillow always powered on is just a consumable you have to manage

It's coincidental with the human adoption of farming. We changed the food source people have, and that impacted brain and body development. We absolutely see this modern day with malnutrition.

Chicken feet, spiced or pickled.

Then in 2023 DeSilva revised his argument in (link above, in the description), extending the date back, still not giving anwers about the shrinkage observed since 100.000 years ago.

yeah, from the last 3,000 to within the last 10,000 years, with the sharp decline ~5,000 years ago... which does line up with widespread adoption of agriculture still.

via https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.742639

brain size has remained steady in H. sapiens until a rapid and dramatic change point only 3,000 years ago

and if we estimate farming was 10,000 years ago, we can't rule out one influenced the other.

Yeah, that is fair.

Circling back to the top post of this thread - people have earnestly reported resolving seasonal allergies by eating zero carb. There could be lots of reasons for it :

1. They could be lying
2. They could be deluded/placebo effect
3. They had a sensitivity to some food they were eating and removed it
4. They had a sensitivity to a toxin/chemical/pollutant that was on the food they were eating, and removed it.

In the 3/4 scenario something they were eating in today's food environment was causing them to be sensitive to pollen. Our food environment is hugely different then even 100 years ago, so it's hard to say what exactly is the cause, but we have reports that people eliminating many variables can resolve their issue. For the OP of this entire post that is useful information for them to have.

People have always eaten plants. A lot of plants.

No doubt, but was it 85% of their energy like it is today? Or just opportunistic in season? Regardless it's off topic, the topic is allergies.

I’d link to some some scientific papers but fuck Elsevier.

If you have actually read a paper cover to cover, and are willing to discuss it indepth - I'd be happy to read it too and have a conversation.

::: spoiler i like reading papers :::

In addition to what other people have said, don't sleep on Intel gpus, they're great and they have great Linux compatibility. Even as vgpus for VMs.

Get more RAM than you think you need, I know it's expensive, get more than you need.

I do everything through virtual machines, so I have a Linux gaming virtual machine that gets the GPU passed through to it directly, and I have a Windows gaming virtual machine that gets the same GPU passed through to it. Both work fine, some things work better on one than the other. Anti-cheat is annoying especially in a VM. There's a ways to get around it, but if you can't or you don't want to, you can dual boot the machine directly into Windows. To make that easy simply have a full nvme drive just for Windows or Linux gaming if you want, and then boot directly into it when you need to go bare metal.

That covers all my gaming use cases, so Linux gaming VM most of the time, Windows gaming VM sometimes, and bare metal windows on occasion.

The benefit to using VMs, you can snapshot them easily, you can roll things back, you can limit the damage of bad games or mods you don't trust, you can have multiple things running on your computer at the same time. If you're running a game that doesn't need all of your CPU all of your RAM, they can be doing productive work as VMs, or when your not gaming the GPU can be doing stuff like jellyfin transcoding.

Its the diet humans ate before agriculture, so its got some longevity to it. However, it doesn't cure anything, it just removes everything that could be causing problems - the diet didn't fix it, removing the problem fixed it.

no wonder you think eating meat cures hay-fever.

If you read my comment, i was clear meat doesn't cure anything, its the removal of the foods that do sensitize some people to allergens that "cures" it.

Way to hear only what you want to hear from my argument

You didn't make a cogent argument that zero carb is a fad, we both established that humans have eaten zero carb for a very long time - so we agree the eating pattern is not new.