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New comment by Ashanmaril in "Adult Obesity Facts"

Ashanmaril — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:46:24 +0000

And also if you're gonna be tracking your calories, be liberal with the caloric value of what you're eating. There's some really messed up entries for caloric value of things in MyFitnessPal that extremely underestimate how many calories are in certain foods. Like an entry for a full-sized cinnamon bun that says it's 150 calories (just making up an example, but I've seen things that absurd)

Too many people complain about tracking calories not working for them, and I guarantee it's that they weren't tracking properly.

Edit: Oh another thing: with stuff like protein powder measuring itself in scoops, they tend to be way off in how many grams are in a scoop. I don't know how they get away with it, but if you measure with a scale how many grams are in a scoop, it can be like 25% more than what it says on the tub

New comment by Ashanmaril in "My Tungsten Cube (2019)"

Ashanmaril — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:17:57 +0000

I want to buy one but looking at the Amazon Canada listing, it's gonna rack up to $250 + tax

New comment by Ashanmaril in "Canistilluse.com"

Ashanmaril — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:01:17 +0000

Does "approved for chrome" mean it's going to be implemented, or just that there's enough people in favor on the Chrome side that they think it's worth submitting for standardization approval?

New comment by Ashanmaril in "The history of Google messaging apps"

Ashanmaril — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 14:29:46 +0000

>One of my favorite ideas that was kicked around by Brett Lider during these days was the ability to double like something, and perhaps even let people give as many likes as they wanted!

Makes me think of the claps on Medium articles

New comment by Ashanmaril in "Roblox faces criticism for 'exploiting' young game developers"

Ashanmaril — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:00:46 +0000

It sounds like Roblox does want there to be dedicated Roblox developers. I saw a clip from one of their conventions with someone, possibly the CEO, saying they envision companies of 100 people doing Roblox development

New comment by Ashanmaril in "Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims of ‘hash collisions’"

Ashanmaril — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:18:24 +0000

If you're gonna go through that much effort, you might as well just text someone an actually illegal image from something other than an iPhone

You're already attempting to frame someone for a crime, might as well commit another crime while you're at it

New comment by Ashanmaril in "Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims of ‘hash collisions’"

Ashanmaril — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 20:54:45 +0000

> I'm pretty sure pedophiles can figure out what a watermark or a gaussian blur in paint net is, or it's imprecise and actually detects things which is the very thing that makes it dangerous to the public

Or better yet, they can just not store their stuff on an iPhone. While meanwhile, millions of innocent people are have their photos scanned and risking being reported as a pedophile.

New comment by Ashanmaril in "Elementary OS 6 Odin"

Ashanmaril — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:25:02 +0000

When I'm on my Mac I don't really use a minimize button ever. I organize all my windows between virtual desktops. One for calendar/notes, one for browsers and maybe the downloads folder open, one for IDE and terminal, one for chat apps, etc.

New comment by Ashanmaril in "Snaprecovery: Recover old Snaps that have “disappeared” from Snapchat"

Ashanmaril — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 21:05:27 +0000

Doesn't seem much better on iOS. I just checked and I've got Twitter with 2.59GB, Instagram with 1.27GB, TikTok with 1.21GB, etc.

New comment by Ashanmaril in "Novice Programming Mistakes (2016)"

Ashanmaril — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 20:34:34 +0000

I'm surprised mismatching parenthesis was a common mistake in 2016 given the ubiquity of IDEs and text editors that should catch a syntax error like that.

== vs .equals() is pretty understandable considering that it's Java specific, and would be valid in most(?) other languages

New comment by Ashanmaril in "Why the McFlurry machine company just got hit with a restraining order"

Ashanmaril — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:43:03 +0000

I thought I read from a McDonald's employee at some point that most of the time you go at night and they say the ice cream machine isn't working, it's actually some automatic cleaning process that the machine performs on itself every night.

New comment by Ashanmaril in "Discord Launches Threads"

Ashanmaril — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 17:48:02 +0000

This seems nice. I'm not a huge Discord user but one thing that always bugs me when I'm occasionally using it is when there's 2 topics of conversation going on at once. It especially happens a lot in help threads, where 2 people are needing help at the same time and people have to keep replying to the previous message in that conversation.

Though at the same time, it seems a bit weird that it's almost like a sub-channel? Does that mean in this scenario you'd have a whole list of threads down the side underneath the channel for every question?

I see people complaining about Slack threads but I personally find them perfect for what it needs to do. Creating a short thread from a message doesn't seem as big of a deal as what this looks to be doing.

New comment by Ashanmaril in "Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies"

Ashanmaril — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:39:20 +0000

That sounds like a fairly big ethical dilemma that Disney will happily ignore if making a puppet show out of people's corpses earns them a few extra bucks

New comment by Ashanmaril in "Git-blame-someone-else"

Ashanmaril — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 20:10:45 +0000

We recently converted our monolith codebase at work from windows-1252 encoding to UTF-8 and now the entire project looks like it was written by 1 guy

New comment by Ashanmaril in "“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)"

Ashanmaril — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 03:01:54 +0000

I know, I'm just saying the M1 MBP isn't an indicator because it's not a new design.

New comment by Ashanmaril in "“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)"

Ashanmaril — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 03:01:19 +0000

I'm aware of the leaks/rumors, but I'm saying the M1 MBP isn't any indication. It's not an entirely newly designed body, just the old base model with a new processor (and I think the new non-butterfly keyboard?)

New comment by Ashanmaril in "“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)"

Ashanmaril — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 20:24:18 +0000

That was mostly based off the base-model 13" MacBook Pro from before which didn't have a touchbar.

New comment by Ashanmaril in "“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)"

Ashanmaril — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 20:22:34 +0000

That's the rumor, but nothing official has been shown off yet

New comment by Ashanmaril in "Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop"

Ashanmaril — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:17:49 +0000

> I've resorted to relying exclusively on search now

I'm surprised you're even able to make use of the search because that's also horrible and loves to swap out the result you wanted last second so you open up something else random. It's also incredibly slow and tries to hamfist bing search results and stupid suggestions to install apps instead of just searching your computer.

Now I use Everything (voidtools). And I put it as the first pinned item in my taskbar so I can do Win+1 to access it quickly.

New comment by Ashanmaril in "Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop"

Ashanmaril — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 21:32:22 +0000

I don't buy that "good-bad-good-bad" pattern that everyone references. It's a mildly funny observation, but it's hard to say that Windows 10 is really that good. It's more usable than Windows 8, but the bar was so low, that's not a very useful metric.