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New comment by Detrytus in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

Detrytus — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 04:27:54 +0000

The problem is: average person is bad at counting calories. They overestimate number of calories burnt, and severely underestimate number of calories consumed. Once you get your math right and get into real, not imaginary calorie deficit you'll start losing weight. Rule of thumb: whatever you think the amount of calories is in your current meal, double your estimate.

New comment by Detrytus in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

Detrytus — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:16:37 +0000

The main thing they should correct for is "how much China and Russia want them dead, and can they make it look like a suicide"?

New comment by Detrytus in "Zluda 6 release (run unmodified CUDA applications on non-Nvidia GPUs)"

Detrytus — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:41:38 +0000

Isn't this tool directly violating NVIDIA license terms? I thought they disallow running CUDA on non-NVIDIA hardware. Or is it just because there's no money for NVIDIA in suing poor, Eastern European programmer?

New comment by Detrytus in "Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to federal regulatory structure"

Detrytus — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:50:18 +0000

> 4. Congress may regulate money in politics;

This one is completely useless. Congress may regulate, but why would they? They directly benefit from more money in politics.

If anything this should be more direct, and read: "Political donations may only come from individual US citizens, and cannot exceed the amount of monthly minimum wage per person, per year".

Or maybe just add a field in the tax return form where anyone can name a party to receive some fixed amount donation, subtracted from person's taxes.

New comment by Detrytus in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

Detrytus — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:12:20 +0000

Everyone seems to miss it but the article also says that M5 Ultra Mac Studio is coming out later this year. Yay!

I wonder how much the rumored 768GB RAM version will cost.

New comment by Detrytus in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

Detrytus — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:31:56 +0000

Taller players do great in soccer, to a point. I mean, goalkeepers are the tallest, typically, about 6'4, 6'5. For field players, they usually max out around 6'3, but that's only for certain specialized positions like a striker, or central defender. Above that and you are too big and too slow, smaller players will quite literally run circles around you. I think overall average height of soccer player is below 6 feet.

Lionel Messi, the greatest soccer player of all time is only 5'7 - that should tell you something.

New comment by Detrytus in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

Detrytus — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:42:36 +0000

Well, nfl/nba are focused on big guys, 6’3 and above. In soccer your height/mass doesn’t matter much so the talent pools don’t overlap. And baseball is the old man’s game that does not require any athleticism at all.

New comment by Detrytus in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

Detrytus — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:04:05 +0000

> We have a good example with incandescent light bulbs. I don’t know anyone who has attempted to violate the ban on home incandescent light bulbs.

Funny, because I remember that when this ban was first introduced in my country there actually was a black market for incandescent light bulbs. Some stores would keep selling them as “special purpose” or “vibration-resistant”. It only ended when LED bulbs appeared on the market, because they are strictly superior product (not like fluorescent ones EU tried to promote earlier)

New comment by Detrytus in "Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar"

Detrytus — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:22:32 +0000

Well, I can give you Russian oligarchs - they came to their wealth during time of chaos, and mostly through stealing. But Texan oil billionaires? They won their wealth fair and square, if not for anything else then for just recognizing an opportunity and acting on it. Believe me, there are many people in this world who would blew it in stupid ways.

New comment by Detrytus in "Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar"

Detrytus — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:44:23 +0000

Yes, and the contributions from those parents were so valuable that the society still owes them, even long after their death. That's why we pay our dues to their children and grandchildren.

New comment by Detrytus in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

Detrytus — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:09:03 +0000

>If a child is "folded in half" by someone looking at their phone, no one accepts that as "good enough"

But of course we do. Yes, we punish the individual driver that did it, but we still allow humans to drive cars. We accept the fact that driving a car carries sone risks, but we value the convenience of getting to our destination easily more than we value lives of those kids that will get killed from time to time.

New comment by Detrytus in "Nvidia commits $90B to AI deals"

Detrytus — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:56:18 +0000

So they are going to buy their own products to boost sales? Shouldn’t that be illegal or something?

New comment by Detrytus in "Japan Team Successfully Test Engine for Mach 5 Aircraft, Eyeing 2HR Trip to US"

Detrytus — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:30:03 +0000

Airplane cost to operate is fuel consumption, and, by the laws of physic, aerodynamic resistance scales as a square of speed, so you can’t really work around it unless you invent some new laws of physics.

New comment by Detrytus in "Japan Team Successfully Test Engine for Mach 5 Aircraft, Eyeing 2HR Trip to US"

Detrytus — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:19:05 +0000

Building supersonic passenger planes was never a technical problem (see Concorde), the problem is: they are too expensive to operate to be profitable. I bet this thing will never see any commercial use.

New comment by Detrytus in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

Detrytus — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:04:27 +0000

Well, we have to remember that the mankind natural state is slavery, a 200-year period of democracy was an anomaly that is now self-correcting.

New comment by Detrytus in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

Detrytus — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:44:27 +0000

Let's not allow this to distract us from Epstein files :)

New comment by Detrytus in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

Detrytus — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:45:07 +0000

Common market is overrated, and the negative impact of EU-imposed taxes and stupid regulations is real. As I said: Polish GDP grew faster before joining EU.

I would be first to vote "leave" if it ever comes to it.

New comment by Detrytus in "Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal"

Detrytus — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:10:42 +0000

I actually owned quite a bit of Intel stock bought at $19, but was forced to sell it. Then I bough some for $45 last year, and sold couple weeks ago for $60, just a day or two before it took off. Lucky me....

New comment by Detrytus in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"

Detrytus — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:16:28 +0000

Well, it seems to me that the liberal left agenda was kind of hijacked by big corporations. It used to be that Democrats cared about things like equal pay, labor conditions, education costs. Now it is all about abstract things that don’t matter in the real world: animal rights and carbon emissions.

The “long term thinking” you allude to is just a mind trick to keep you at bay.

New comment by Detrytus in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"

Detrytus — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:05:45 +0000

Funny that you say that, because LNG exports from Persian gulf being blocked will result in fertilizer shortages and potentially a famine.