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New comment by fintech_eng in "The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work"

fintech_eng — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:26:05 +0000

Same!

Keeping a small stock of these has helped me a lot with that:

https://fairlife.com/core-power/chocolate-protein-shake-42g/

New comment by fintech_eng in "The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work"

fintech_eng — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:25:12 +0000

Yeah, I think I got a little lost with mention of the side dishes in my comment. Point is, I'm on these medications and when a 12 oz ribeye comes out from a restaurant, I don't feel any need to eat all of it. I often eat less than half or split it with my spouse

I know a stomach ache is coming if I do.

New comment by fintech_eng in "The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work"

fintech_eng — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:50:22 +0000

Absolutely nothing, if you only eat a few ounces. But a lot of places will server you a 12 oz ribeye steak which has 900 calories all by itself. Add on a side of french fries and a sugary beverage and you get a days worth of calories in a single sitting.

When you are on a GLP medication, commonly your digestion slows and will make you really prone to constipation and acid reflux. I've learned to eat just 3-6 ozs when I do steak, and generally opt for the veggies instead of the potatoes now. Feel much better in the morning.

New comment by fintech_eng in "Ask HN: How are you preparing for interviews nowadays?"

fintech_eng — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:37:16 +0000

Indeed, there are even SaaS companies that will set it all up for you! I recently went through rounds that had a pretty blatant basic IQ test. I pushed back many times but the recruiter insisted it was required. I eventually complied, but it felt weird. I worry now my IQ score is in some database forever attached to recruiter's candidate profiling systems.

New comment by fintech_eng in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

fintech_eng — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:36:23 +0000

its also very easy to reproduce. i have more findings than i know what to do with

New comment by fintech_eng in "The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M"

fintech_eng — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:52:56 +0000

They’re not really meant to go up in value.

The main use is just having something dollar-like that you can move around easily. That’s useful outside the US, but also for plenty of people inside the US depending on what they’re doing; especially businesses that have a hard time getting or keeping normal banking (cough gambling, porn, weed cough).

They’re handy inside crypto since you can move in/out of other assets without touching a bank. And sometimes you can earn yield on them, which is part of the appeal (with the usual “this can blow up” caveats).

Also, there’s a reason every company wants to launch one: if you control the stablecoin, you get the float and the rails. That’s a pretty nice business if people actually use it.

If you already have solid access to USD and don’t care about that flexibility, they’re less compelling.

But yeah, not risk-free at all (depegs, issuer risk, etc). And honestly there probably isn’t much real need for dozens of slightly different stables beyond the business incentives.