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byfgouget
2025 @04:41PM
(#65810749)
Attached to: AI Nutrition Tracking Stinks
I've got my own app for food tracking. Took my about 3 months of spare evenings to churn out all the code
I have one too and it did not require 3 months of coding. Plus every improvement I make helps thousands. That's the power of open-source...
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byfgouget
2025 @04:37PM
(#65810733)
Attached to: AI Nutrition Tracking Stinks
How accurate are the food labels?
They'd better be otherwise the company leaves itself open to a lawsuit for false advertising. Beware of the line between a healthy amount of skepticism and nihilism.
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byfgouget
2025 @04:33PM
(#65810721)
Attached to: AI Nutrition Tracking Stinks
Then they would have gotten the down low on all the food!
Just kidding. Still, here comes the shameless plug for OpenFoodFacts:
OpenFoodFacts is the international, crowd-sourced, open-source food database with ingredients, additives, allergens, nutrition facts (macro and micro nutrients), packaging and every bit of data one can find on the packaging. It has over 4 million products and you can use this data to compute anything you want from nutrition aspects like Nutriscore, ultra-transformation level (Nova), to environmental impact or more. Using the app you can get this data on most products with a barcode. And if none of these scores are to your liking you cant roll out your own algorithm with the criterion you care about. Besides the obvious individual use, OpenFoodFacts is also used by nutrition research institutes to help their cohorts track what they eat and thus help figure out the health impact of each ingredient / additive.
The obvious easy way to contribute is to install the app and add data for all the products you buy, particularly for regional products that not everyone can contribute to. You can also improve the data through the Hunger Games (add ingredients, nutrition facts, hunt nutrition labels). But if you're a developer your help would also be very welcome.
And there's also Pet, Beauty and Products variants if food is not your thing.
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byfgouget
2025 @02:28PM
(#65796094)
Attached to: The Economic Impact of Brexit
Destroying USAID is going to cause a lot of deaths in developing countries, from various diseases like AIDS to famine to giving free reign to dictators. Do you think the next president can roll that back? Trump and his henchmen are actively spreading lies about the dangers of vaccines. Do you really think people will change their mind and vaccinate just because there's a new president? (hint: Wakefield invented the link between MMR and autism to make money, the link was debunked over 20 years ago, Wakefield was struck off the medical register for "serious professional misconduct" 15 years ago, and people still believe his lies!) Trump is actively inciting hate of immigrants, trans people, democrats, anyone who does not worship him really. Do you really believe these tensions will suddenly vanish when a Trump opponent "steals the election"?
It's easy to destroy things in an instant. Rebuilding is much much longer. Given the extent of the damage it will take at least decades. But it's just as likely that Trump's presidency will be remembered as what triggered the fall of the USA.
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byfgouget
2025 @05:10PM
(#65688798)
Attached to: California Now Has 68% More EV Chargers Than Gas Nozzles, Continues Green Energy Push
I don't see a lot of apartments that have chargers and the ones I do see are recent and luxury and expensive.
In France every renter has the right to have an EV charger: if the building lacks the infrastructure the renter picks a charge point provider, that company provides a plan to equip the building, that plan is submitted to the owner who has three months to come up with a darned good reason to refuse it (one good reason is that the infrastructure is already present). After the 3 months delay the installation can proceed. There are also providers that will do the installation for free in order to get the first mover advantage. Of course it means the installation cost is baked into the contract prices but it means anyone can afford it.
That your country cannot do something similar is entirely on its citizens.
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byfgouget
2025 @03:04AM
(#65640350)
Attached to: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev Says Investing For a Living Could Replace Labor in a Post-AI World
Combine AI with unbridled capitalism and the result is inevitably the first half of Manna. Unfortunately it's the realistic part of Manna, unlike the second part which is a utopic dystopia.
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byfgouget
03, 2025 @11:50AM
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Attached to: Water Menus Gain Traction as Restaurants Seek Non-Alcoholic Revenue Streams
A cat can't teach a dog to bark.
Of course not. For that you need to ask a cork oak!
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byfgouget
2025 @11:51AM
(#65159299)
Attached to: Trump Orders Treasury Secretary To Stop Minting Pennies
And you still don't get it. If your price is $1.00, but sales tax is 6%, your final price is $1.06, and you still need the penny.
And of course when a product costs 1€ the total price is 1€ because in sane countries the sales tax is already included! Problem solved!
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byfgouget
5, 2025 @07:00AM
(#65143173)
Attached to: Trump Orders Creation of US Sovereign Wealth Fund, Says It Could Buy TikTok
The law says the owners of TikTok (technically not the Chinese government, but whatever) must sell to a USentity or shut down.
Why "US" entity? What would be wrong with selling it to a Canadian or European entity for instance?
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byfgouget
2025 @04:38AM
(#65124355)
Attached to: Heat Pumps Are Now Outselling Gas Furnaces In America
You two are talking about slightly different things. According to wikipedia, Oslo has:
●* 6.4C as the maximum temperature at any time in January of a given year then averaged over 1991-2020.
●* 0.1C as the maximum average daily temperature for any day in January of a given year then averaged over 1991-2020.
●* -4.7C as the minimum average daily temperature for any day in January of a given year then averaged over 1991-2020.
●* -13.8C as the minimum temperature at any time in January of a given year then averaged over 1991-2020.
For comparison, Minneapolis (north of Chicago) has:
●* 5.8C as the maximum temperature at any time in January of a given year then averaged over 1991-2020.
●* -4.7C as the maximum average daily temperature for any day in January of a given year then averaged over 1991-2020.
●* -12.9C as the minimum average daily temperature for any day in January of a given year then averaged over 1991-2020.
●* -25.9C as the minimum temperature at any time in January of a given year then averaged over 1991-2020.
So the north of the USA does seem to have a colder climate than the south of Norway (Oslo). That definitely does not hold true for other parts of the USA like southern California so your mileage may vary.
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byfgouget
0, 2024 @11:20AM
(#64959915)
Attached to: London Bus Crashes Are the Result of an Unsafe Model
Also the climate in the UK isn't ideal for bikes in a lot of places,
That's strange because, based on their numbers, the weather is ideal for bikes in Cambridge. I did not know there could be such a big weather difference in two cities so close to each other!
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byfgouget
2024 @11:27AM
(#64753478)
Attached to: 'Is It Ethical to Have Children in the Face of Climate Change?'
The population will top out at around 9 billion if we are lucky. Then it will decline.
You should work on your memory: The World's Population Is Projected To Peak At 10.3 Billion In the 2080s.
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byfgouget
2024 @06:10AM
(#64752982)
Attached to: Long Covid Knocked a Million Americans Off Their Career Paths
It is entirely possible, but the bigger the social circle, the less likely it becomes.
Let me count my social circle who I encounter frequently enough to notice reduced functioning:
[...]
Totals: 36+adults of all ages, 21+ children.
How many of them are vaccinated? Per the article vaccination reduces the likelihood of long covid rendering your example meaningless.
the supermarket checkout clerks,
As if you would notice if one of them dropped out because any sort of illness.
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byfgouget
24 @04:16AM
(#64748182)
Attached to: EU Investigating Telegram Over User Numbers
Free speech isn't compatible with hate speech laws. So, if your country has those, you're a authoritarian country with no free speech.
By that measure the USA does not have and never had free speech either: Three former Backpage executives were sentenced to prison for promoting prostitution.
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byfgouget
2024 @08:28AM
(#64746026)
Attached to: Telegram CEO Released By Police, Transferred To Court For Possible Indictment
In USA we have free speech enshrined in the highest law of the land, and that seems almost enough to make it real.
And then: Three former Backpage executives were sentenced to prison for promoting prostitution while disguising their activities as a legitimate classified business.
So the EU does not have free speech because it goes after CEOs of companies enabling pedophiles and drug trafficking, whereas the US guarantees free speech even as it goes after CEOs of companies where people advertise their business. Talk about double standards.
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