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Comment Re:Running into this right now, sort of (Score 1) 58

I'll record everything in 15-60 second clips and host it on TikTok. That or build it in Minecraft. Make them dig to locate the information!

"The service hung when Mojang updated a redstone bug that we were using to implement direct RAM interactions. Downgrading to Minecraft 1.21.10 solved the issue."

Comment Re:Just why? (Score 3, Insightful) 37

I have a piece of furniture named Samantha. It is easier to say something like, "it's on Samantha" than "it's on the brown thing next to the front door."

I have two pieces of luggage named Big Green and Little Green. It's easier to say something like, "Hey kid, slide Little Green over here" than "Hey Kid, slide the small green luggage over here".

Names are convenient.

Which operating system is newer: Focal Fossa or Sequoia? Gingerbread or Wheezy? Calendar versioning is pretty useful for some things. Major/minor revision versioning is useful for others. Codenames worked for Ubuntu during the first alphabetical run, but they started out non-alphabetical with WW, then HH, then BB, then DD-ZZ,AA-QQ, and now the second RR. The third WW will happen before the second CC. Codename versioning can work within one product line to denote relative age, but only if done properly. They're mostly marketing. When 'nix-heads chat about Ubuntu or Debian, they mention Ubuntu's calendar version or Debian's major version. Mac-heads, while numbered versioning exists, focus on the names and get confused about the relative ages of anything other than current. Naming discreet things like servers not in a cluster which don't need to have relative comparison to one another? Sure, ST:TNG up your rack space. But software is a different matter.

Comment Re:So I drink diet soda (Score 1) 116

Diet soda is undrinkably nasty to me. I can't drink that nasty shit. I'll take water of it any day.

Of course, what I WANT is Dr Pepper. The regular stuff, not that nasty diet shit.

When I made my switch, I was the same. I started by weening myself off sugar by mixing diet with regular in ever increasing proportions. Diet sweeteners taste very sweet to me now, and sugar is very strong, almost undrinkable.

Comment Re:So I drink diet soda (Score 1) 116

Because I got used to it and once you used to diet soda it's substantially thinner than full sugar soda so that full sugar soda just tastes awful now.

Yeah, full-sugar soda tastes like drinking cake frosting now that I'm a diet drinker.

But neither is good for you in terms of weight loss or gain.

Surprisingly for me, the switch to diet caused a gradual and permanent drop of 10% of my weight, increased density, and without change in other parts of my diet or exercise. I did drink a *lot* of soda though, so I can see how those calories were tipping the balance.

Comment Climate change is shaping what you eat (Score 2) 116

No. Warmer temperatures might change how much you eat and drink of the (cold) foods and beverages you already eat and drink, but it doesn't make you want more sugar. It makes you want more [cold thing], which happens to contain sugar. People drinking diet sodas aren't getting more sugar. They probably are getting less calcium as the sodas bind to the calcium in their food, but that's not sugar.
This is a food industry problem, not a warming problem.

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