tjader

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 you would feel very differently in those situations and it's likely you wouldn't spend the same amount of energy unless you really make an effort to do it.

I don't agree that if you do make an effort to spend the same amount of energy you would have different results with regards to weight loss.

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 doesn't really matter how you consume the calories or how you expend it.

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 Tart if you converted its mass into energy.

Not that I agree that for a human metabolism meal timing makes much of a difference in energy extraction, but it wouldn't be thermodynamically impossible.

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/taylorswift.png

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 should also work instantly, most of the information should also be available instantly. The button layout is rendered instantly, so I can already figure out where I want to click without having to wait one second even if the button is not enabled yet, and by the time my mouse reaches it it will probably be enabled.

And remember, we're comparing this to just rendering a volume slider which still took a similar or worse amount of time and offered far less features.

I've never seen the volume slider in Windows 98 take one second to render. Not even the start menu, which is much more complex, and which in Windows 11 often takes a second, and search results also show up after a random amount of time and shuffle the results around a few times, leading to many misclicks.

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, it doesn't excuse taking a second to even draw the UI. If checking bluetooth takes a second, then draw the button immediately but disable interaction and show a loading icon, and when you get the blutooth information update the button, and so on for everything else.

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 appeared. Windows is full of situations like this, that require no network calls, but still take over one second to render.

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 first renders the current fragment (usually a chapter), releases the UI so that you can read, and renders the rest in the background. Page counts and some other stuff are broken in this meantime.

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 weight. These arguments make it sound as if everyone who is at a reasonable weight is there through large amounts of willpower and discipline, but most people I know don't need to exercise X times per week and constantly watch what they eat to keep that weight.

It's much easier when you can trust your body feedback and rely on your regular hunger signals, but for most people who benefit from Ozempic for weight loss if they just trust their bodies they will get fat.

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: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=d...

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 volume, but it is significant.

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 on indicators, just collecting a bunch of data and finding correlations, then jumping to causation from that.

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 recouping your investment is by bringing more subordinates, so that it's only profitable to those in the first few levels of the pyramid.

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 already have final judgements about bitcoin's success after little more than a decade of existence, when even its issuance schedule is over a century long. Does it really make sense to expect an entirely novel currency/asset/whatever you wanna call it to find its definitive price in one decade?

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 last block's hash?

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 of countries trading, sometimes there's no one "above" that can be trusted.

Currently this is "solved" by just using the USD and trusting the US to not go crazy with it. The US and their allies are of course very happy with that and won't move away from it willingly, but some other countries are not.

Between countries that can't trust each other's economic policies it's harder to find a way to trade other than barter, and that's not very convenient. Look at Iran or Venezuela, for example, or countries that wish to trade with Russia currently but don't want to keep large reserves of Rubles. I could see some of these eventually trying out using Bitcoin to trade. And if it works well for that case, it may start to spread. Maybe countries that aren't too close to the US will start to think that maybe Bitcoin is a better option than being "subject" to another nation's economic policy.

You can filter for that on https://lineageosdevices.com/

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.

Sure, tell me the reasons I have for doing something I didn't even do and how they are bad.