Taywee

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by Taywee 3y ago
Specifically for weight control. If you're already in the middle of the healthy BMI range and not having trouble keeping a healthy weight, I don't think there's been a demonstrated harm.
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by Taywee 3y ago
That's a ridiculous analogy. What about suger-free sodas, or sparkling water without even artificial sweeteners? What about people who drink soda, but still don't go over the daily recommended sugar intake, and otherwise have he
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by Taywee 3y ago
Medical use of plactic is a minuscule minority of plastic use. The vast majority of disposable, single-use plastic is not actually necessary. I'd be shocked if less than 90% of single-use disposable plastic was from food containers.
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by Taywee 3y ago
They do these kinds of studies on mice because mice have a high homology with humans, and a huge number of the findings extrapolate to humans.
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by Taywee 3y ago
Both of those things are straight-up improvements, even if they're not perfect. You can nit-pick every single thing all you want, but better is better.
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by Taywee 3y ago
"dearth" means "lack" or "scarcity". I think it's the opposite of what you meant.
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by Taywee 3y ago
Analgesic isn't a British word, though. It's used plenty in American medicine.
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by Taywee 3y ago
I just want reliable conversions. In my situation (duct taping a very old service to a newer one), I needed to read structured files with UTF-16 fields, and process them into an eventual UTF-8 file written to a different location. The hos
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by Taywee 3y ago
It sort of did, but in a completely different place past the critique section: > But, rather than using them and needing to praying to the heaven’s the internal Multibyte C Encoding is UTF-8 (like with the aforementioned wcrtomb -> mb
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by Taywee 3y ago
I don't think that's what the complaint is. The complaint is that "multibyte" is not necessarily UTF-8. You can't just blindly convert to multibyte assuming that it's UTF-8, because it might not be. You can&
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by Taywee 3y ago
It's not a link, it's the image name that you'd directly use from docker or podman. And yes, that's the same one. One of the things I found so confusing about docker at first was how much information you could leave out
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by Taywee 3y ago
> It took them years to permit uploading of vp9/opus webms Did they finally do that? I left permanently a couple years ago (after being there regularly since 2006) because the small "these kinds of threads are why I still hang
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by Taywee 3y ago
> I don't think there's a truly safe programming language. This is correct, technically, but you can achieve really high assurances of safety. "safe" is not a binary, but a spectrum. The rest of the comment is patent
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by Taywee 3y ago
Not a counterexample of the type system of Rust itself, but this one with LLVM following C and C++ definitions of "side-effects" is interesting: https://counterexamples.org/eventually-nothing.html
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by Taywee 3y ago
Good. I can't believe the Google argument for removal, being in effect "it's only slightly better in every single way than all the other formats we support, and not enough people jumped though the hoops to manually opt into
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by Taywee 3y ago
$250 is the same amount of money regardless of what the laptop cost or what you're doing with it.
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by Taywee 3y ago
Mostly by looking at the level of functionality and comparing to other software, cross referenced against my career as a programmer. Somehow, I constantly come across lifelong programmers who insist on working for free. They get software fo
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by Taywee 3y ago
Yeah, and you could argue that ARM and RISC-V Windows and Linux wouldn't be PCs, but I don't really see the value in using the terminology for such a dated use. It's not really useful anymore since none of the same software
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by Taywee 3y ago
That's an insultingly uncharitable read, and is loaded with some pretty unfair assumptions. I am a programmer, and I contribute plenty of FOSS code. Very often, I find a solution with some issues and submit PRs. I'm not arrogant
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by Taywee 3y ago
I'll gladly play Apple processor prices for an Apple processor, but I'm not going to pay Apple PC prices for an Apple PC when all I really want is the CPU.
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by Taywee 3y ago
They'll do free replacements if it's a known defect, and especially if it's widely experienced. Even Nintendo does that if they sniff a potential class action and want to avoid it.
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by Taywee 3y ago
Oh yeah, I remember they did a free out of warranty replacement on one of my MacBooks a bit back, but there was a potential battery explosion issue on that one.
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by Taywee 3y ago
Apple marketing made "Mac vs PC" to try to differentiate themselves, and I refuse to adopt their marketing terms as if they are facts. Most people who work with computers will call a Mac a Mac, but won't use the "PC&quot
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by Taywee 3y ago
Macs are PCs. And looking at the Framework laptop shop right now, I see a 16GB DDR4 DIMM for $60, and you can throw in a standard M.2 storage module. Maybe Framework is just singularly better, but that's still a reason to not buy Apple
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by Taywee 3y ago
How cheap is "pretty cheap"? They wanted $300 to replace the trackpad that suddenly stopped working on its own on my 2019 one. Looking at the price estimator, battery service is like $250. That's not cheap.
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by Taywee 3y ago
It's hard to find a UI worse than that of your average Smart TV. They're in a league of their own when it comes to spectacularly terrible UIs.
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by Taywee 3y ago
I like having a real package manager, good native containerization and virtualization, being able to develop on the same OS that the deployment target is, and a large handful of things that are simply more pleasant on Linux (like the assump
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by Taywee 3y ago
It's the combination of OS and price. When Apple is very often double or more the price for competitive products, charges exorbitant prices for modest upgrades (currently $200 difference between 8 and 16 GB RAM. Over $400 for 1 TB SSD
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by Taywee 3y ago
They excel at a lot of workloads I do a lot of, and I'm really keen to experiment with non x86 desktop processors.
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by Taywee 3y ago
What are the affordable substitutes for the M2 Ultra?

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