One can always find positive and negative outcomes related to any intervention to a biological system. Fasting is no exception.
The question is when and where is it beneficial, and what are the trade-offs. I'm sure if one has a clean, healthy diet, and consistent sleep and routine, it likely does not matter in the long run at what time one decides to eat or not eat. If the effect size were noticeable we'd have seen it already in smaller samples.
If one is overeating, or eating garbage all the time, then I'd hypothesize fasting to be beneficial by giving the biological system a break to try and bring itself back to a better steady-state without so much forced external input.
My roommate as a postfix was a guy finishing his graduate work in fluids simulations. He was also a former competitive swimmer. He's the first to tell me about fast and score pools.
According to him the answer is no.
Which makes sense, really. The generated surface waves alone are impossible to simulate, never mind the turbulent wake.
But he explained that shallow pools can be also be fast for fluid reasons, and not for psychological ones (better coupling of the arms for propulsion by using by viscous coupling to the floor?)
Nice. Love vim too, but letting go of org mode is too much of a negative to justify a switch.
I know I could use Emacs just for org mode, and vim for everything else, but that seems like even more overhead.
I appreciate that people are looking into this, and I think more research of this kind should be funded.
However, one needs to be cautious when claiming an "impairment" in fear regulating regions from a measure of cortical thickness with MRI. For once, there is no evidence that a slightly thinner or larger cortical thickness means better or worse regulation of any kind.
Second, morphology studies are susceptible to many sources of biases which are not really addressed in this study. For example, anything that affects hydration levels or causes a redistribution of blood and cerebral spinal fluid volume can lead to significant changes in measures of cortical thickness, since they will change the contrast between gray and white matter that drive cortical thickness measurements.
Changes in thickness have been found even when comparing people scanned in the morning and in the evening [1]. Any drug intervention could be expected to cause physiological changes that could act as confounds.
Also, in the discussion one reads: "Interestingly, no lasting effects of combined oral contraceptives (COCs) use were detected when comparing the four groups."
This suggests that the changes could be driven by physiological changes instead of permanent changes in brain circuitry.
It would be great to see a follow up study controlling for potential confounding effects (for example, measuring baseline perfusion, blood pressure and controlling for time of day effects and usage of other drugs), and expanding the study with functional tests that involve fear regulation.
Pretty much everything you'll read online says that it was because of the high risk of injury, but in my opinion that's only a small part of the story.
Not denying that risk was part of it, but it was the first move where a gymnast stood on the bar. I think a lot of gymnastics folks felt that it disrupted the overall flow of the routine, and it basically just wasn't what uneven bar routines were supposed to be about.
Things like this happen from time-to-time in gymnastics: someone finds something that is a bit "outside the lines", and then it gets banned. E.g. several years ago a gymnast did a floor routine wearing "cat-like" makeup (Maybe her music was from Cats? Can't remember) and then subsequently the FIG banned "theatrical makeup" in routines.
Because we can safely assume that under normal atmospheric conditions and within the distances we are talking about, light travels in straight lines and the SUV is too high thus blocking some of it from reaching the drivers eyes. I can't pull the sources now, but there was a study discussed here on HN a couple months ago showing an analysis of how this plays out.
Name your frames and the problem is solved. I for instance love the model because I no longer have to be tracking down millions of filenames - just one for each project.
As a developer, I don't "name" anything on Figma. The UX designer might. I have to work with what I get. I agree with OP that in general it promotes placing a lot of components side by side on a huge surface and you have to keep zooming out and in, scrolling, etc.
It's a terrible experience.
In my last job designers would put “in progress” in the title. But occasionally would make minor updates on final designs that would need to be communicated.
"Get some weights. Pick up the weights. Put down the weights. Eat healthy food."
There is no real secret. No need for a gym to do those.
But now more seriously - I'd suggest just getting a pull up bar.
You can then do pull-ups in addition to push-ups, squats and some core work, and that'll hit all of the main muscle groups. You can do that at home.
A finger board is also great if you are interested in rockclimbing. I’ve got one installed just above my kitchen door and I have to pay the “Troll Toll” to enter the kitchen ;)
You may not see any progress, but that doesn't mean there isn't any.
You are perfecting the moves you are making, and strengthening your bones, ligaments and tendons, which just don't develop nearly as fast as muscles.
Staying at a plateau for a while is sometimes great to avoid injury.
If one is overeating, or eating garbage all the time, then I'd hypothesize fasting to be beneficial by giving the biological system a break to try and bring itself back to a better steady-state without so much forced external input.