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New comment by yourusername in "Don't feel like exercising? Maybe it's the wrong time of day for you"

yourusername — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:38:34 +0000

In excercise science many of the studies are based on 20-30 college aged male athletes. 134 is a bigger sample than many.

New comment by yourusername in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

yourusername — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:52:45 +0000

The screen is also much worse. 60% SRGB coverage 1920x1200 300 nits vs 97% 2408x1506 500 nits. I'd pick the macbook neo for $99 extra.

New comment by yourusername in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

yourusername — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:43:26 +0000

This used to be the case but looking at Macbooks now they are not much more expensive than a Windows laptop you would actually want to buy. And since they will still have some residual value 5 years from now i think it's about even.

New comment by yourusername in "Honda is killing its EVs"

yourusername — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:17:48 +0000

Cars with (double) DIN units are ok. When the built in GPS is missing half the roads in your area or Carplay/android auto stops working you can just buy a new headunit for a few hundred dollars. But cars with everything "integrated" aren't ageing as gracefully and it's not easy to upgrade the built in systems. 20 years old is fine, 10 years maybe not.

New comment by yourusername in "Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc"

yourusername — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:41:49 +0000

That's Video CD. It existed before DVD but survived alongside it (mainly in Asia) as a cheaper alternative.

New comment by yourusername in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

yourusername — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:40:09 +0000

Over here track bikes are not road legal and people who can legit hit 30 mph for any amount of time is maybe 1/1000. Any 12 year old kid that can convince their parents to buy them a $1000 Chinese e-bike can hit 30mph with no effort. In no way are sports cyclists as bad a problem.

New comment by yourusername in "Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout"

yourusername — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:19:53 +0000

4 cups of coffee is considered a lot?

New comment by yourusername in "Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout"

yourusername — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:15:33 +0000

If you're taking your coffee hot wouldn't that denaturate the creatine?

New comment by yourusername in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

yourusername — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:08:56 +0000

Often the software itself is fine but it makes it possible for the IT department to configure performance killing behaviours. SHA hash every file you open, execute specific actions if the a opened file or process matches specific heuristics, log everything.

New comment by yourusername in "America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws"

yourusername — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:35:28 +0000

But does anyone actually make minimum wage in the US? Statistics i can find suggest it is around 1% with Japan closer to 20%.

New comment by yourusername in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

yourusername — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:13:50 +0000

You can't out excercise a bad diet. You can hit the weights for 2 hours straight every day and eat those calories back with a single bad dietary choice (like a handful of peanuts or a single large cookie).

New comment by yourusername in "Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files"

yourusername — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:59:17 +0000

Additionally if you don't save on Onedrive autosave is disabled. Autosave worked decades ago before we even had cloud storage, but apparently in 2026 we just can't have feature parity with Word 97 without cloud storage.

New comment by yourusername in "Paris court finds 10 guilty of cyberbullying France's first lady Brigitte Macron"

yourusername — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:30:07 +0000

US is the exception when it comes to freedom of speech. In many countries you can be convicted for defamatory speech even if it is true.

New comment by yourusername in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"

yourusername — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:57:49 +0000

A common point of failure is the belt that drives the mechanism, it will deteriorate with time. You can buy the belts off aliexpress for a few cents.

New comment by yourusername in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"

yourusername — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:53:43 +0000

>but it is really hard to make a good sounding cassette, particularly if you dont know what you are doing (like me).

All these modern cassette players use the same super basic mechanism. To make a good sounding tape you would need vintage hardware with Dolby noise reduction and less wow/flutter.

New comment by yourusername in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

yourusername — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:34:55 +0000

After GPU crypto mining became unprofitable Chinese manufacturers took "mining only" cards, desoldered the GPU and built new graphics cards using the chips. So at least the lower end stuff (RTX6000) could be repurposed like that.

New comment by yourusername in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

yourusername — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:24:14 +0000

And if someone could make a chat program not use 1 GB of RAM that would be great.

New comment by yourusername in "The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop"

yourusername — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:45:23 +0000

When standalone GPS units for $500 were popular the big car manufacturers were still trying to sell GPS as a $2000 option. We've seen time and time again car companies will charge whatever they can get away with. So i'm very skeptical that maps actually cost $150 for the companies that charged me $800 to enable bluetooth calling.

New comment by yourusername in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

yourusername — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:50:56 +0000

There's probably a point where that stops scaling. Is there any proof a city of 40 million uses less resources per capita than a city of 1 million? 40 cities of 1 million seems preferable because then you can actually get outside the city once in a while without it being 2+ hours of travel.

New comment by yourusername in "Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub"

yourusername — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:54:41 +0000

I don't think that's right. They make one of the many machines you need for semiconductor manufacturing. The NXP fab in Nijmegen makes simple components on a outdated 140nm+ process with 200mm wafers. Unless there is another fab that is making actual modern chips?