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> 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 i…

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 …

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. The…

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…

> 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…

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? …

That's the point. It's so bloated that an entirely local operation that should be instantaneous takes over 1 second.

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 appear…

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 setti…

KOReader typesets the whole book at once. It is needed in order to get page counts right, for example.

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 weigh…

If you need PIN or password, why are people so scared of giving out account numbers?

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0elNU0iOMY

'certainly not "best"' implies they are worse than at least one other country.

"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: htt…

Is it more unethical than any other entity selling consulting for CentOS and Red Hat support?

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.

> We access your private content only when we [...] are required to by law.

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.

> 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 volum…

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?

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 …

> 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 recr…

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 mak…