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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…

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…

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 sin…

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.

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.

"dearth" means "lack" or "scarcity". I think it's the opposite of what you meant.

Analgesic isn't a British word, though. It's used plenty in American medicine.

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 ev…

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 Encodin…

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, becaus…

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 h…

> 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 smal…

> 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 spectru…

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/eventua…

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 j…

$250 is the same amount of money regardless of what the laptop cost or what you're doing with it.

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 prog…

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 use…

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 w…

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.

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.…

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.

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…

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 singul…

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 li…