tjader

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by tjader 1y ago
> Because I assume that you agree that eating 100 calories of Pop-Tarts per hour for 18 hours for 30 days, would give you a different result than eating 3 days worth of Pop-Tarts in a few hours once every 3 days for a month. I agree that
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by tjader 1y ago
Yes it can affect what you do. That's the calories out part of the equation. Nobody claims that the quality of what you eat has no effect on you, but every study shows that if you maintain the same calorie intake and expenditure it d
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by tjader 1y ago
It is only thermodynamically impossible if you assume 100% efficiency in energy extraction from food, but in practice we only extract a very small amount of energy from matter. Thermodynamically you could extract ~10^12 kcal from a Pop Ta
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by tjader 1y ago
To me it looks like the same font, but with letter spacing reduced so the letters don't flow into each other nicely but overlap a bit. Edit: here's the same effect made on inkscape: https://i.postimg.cc/TYV6K6bt&#x
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by tjader 1y ago
> And OK, we'll draw a tile with all the buttons with greyed out status for that half second and then refresh to show the real status. Did that really make things better, or did it make it worse? Clearly better. Most of the buttons
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by tjader 1y ago
But is this cache trustworthy or will it eventually lead you to click in the wrong place because the situation changed and now there's a new button making everything change place? And even if every information takes a bit to figure out
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by tjader 1y ago
That's the point. It's so bloated that an entirely local operation that should be instantaneous takes over 1 second.
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by tjader 1y ago
I just clicked on the network icon next to the clock on a Windows 11 laptop. A gray box appeared immediately, about one second later all the buttons for wifi, bluetooth, etc appeared. Windows is full of situations like this, that require no
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by tjader 1y ago
It needs to rerender everything whenever you change any setting that affects typesetting. This used to be quite annoying when trying out fonts or find the best value for some setting, but recently they implemented a better way so that it fi
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by tjader 1y ago
KOReader typesets the whole book at once. It is needed in order to get page counts right, for example.
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by tjader 2y ago
I don't think it's just people who have willpower and discipline, it seems to me that for most people it doesn't take as much willpower and discipline to stay at a reasonable weight. These arguments make it sound as if every
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by tjader 3y ago
If you need PIN or password, why are people so scared of giving out account numbers?
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by tjader 3y ago
It is implemented in most of the world outside of the US. It is scary that the info you need to deposit funds into an account in the US also allows you to withdraw funds from it.
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by tjader 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0elNU0iOMY
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by tjader 4y ago
'certainly not "best"' implies they are worse than at least one other country.
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by tjader 4y ago
"used to" alone is correct in many situations, "didn't used to" is considered wrong by prescriptivists. Including the "didn't" in the search shows that it's still close though: https:/&#x2F
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by tjader 4y ago
Is it more unethical than any other entity selling consulting for CentOS and Red Hat support?
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by tjader 4y ago
The two subclauses of "when we" are joined by an "or", so only one of them has to be true to fulfill the "when" condition.
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by tjader 4y ago
> We access your private content only when we [...] are required to by law.
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by tjader 4y ago
https://youtu.be/13Eefjvd1A4?t=2269 Here's an example of a pronunciation with a more open first vowel. Wiktionary says that's usual in UK, /ˈhɒ.və(ɹ)/ vs /ˈhʌ.vɚ/ in the US.
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by tjader 4y ago
> It's only connection to fiat is stable coins. This is simply wrong. There are several exchanges that trade Bitcoin directly with fiat, even USD. It may not be a majority of volume, but it is significant.
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by tjader 4y ago
Can't you schedule a meeting at a time that works for both of you when necessary, instead of forcing the whole team to be synchronous by default?
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by tjader 4y ago
I think it's better to think of it not as a complete rejection of reality, but recognizing the limitations of empirical methods. Mainstream economics today is arguably too focused on indicators, just collecting a bunch of data and find
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by tjader 4y ago
> A pyramid scheme means that you use money from new investors to pay previous investors. That's a Ponzi scheme. A pyramid scheme is when you have to pay to your superiors and recruit subordinates, in a way that the main way of reco
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by tjader 4y ago
If one believes it is useful as a currency, but the world has not yet fully realized that and when it does it will stabilize in a much higher price than today, would you say it makes sense as an investment now? I find odd that people alread
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by tjader 4y ago
> wouldn't harnessing some more useful proveable activity tied to a lottery system be better ? Can you devise such a provable activity that has a difficulty that can be adjusted to the levels Bitcoin requires and is dependent on the
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by tjader 4y ago
There's one place where I think this may become useful: international trade. Inside a country with an functioning economy people are willing to trust the government and companies to handle their transactions. When you move to the scale
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by tjader 4y ago
You can filter for that on https://lineageosdevices.com/
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by tjader 4y ago
I run my own homeserver and bridges for IRC, WhatsApp, Telegram, Google Chat and Discord, so that I can access all my chats in a single place instead of several separate apps/browser tabs.
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by tjader 4y ago
Sure, tell me the reasons I have for doing something I didn't even do and how they are bad.

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