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The issue with maximizing protein, is that only carbs or fat makes you feel full so you stop eating. When you maximize protein, you eat more. Yes, it is that simple.

Serving sizes are a scam to manipulate nutritional labels. What we need is what Europe has - what percent of food is what. They have that by making the nutritional label for 100g.

Another thing that would be helpful, is not putting raw calories on there, but putting metabolized calories on there. Looking at a nutritional label for dietary fiber makes a person think they're eating a bunch of empty calories, when they get pretty much zero. Why is the nutritional label showing how many calories are released if I burn the food in a fire? Our digestive system is not a BBQ grill.

First, I'll admit I did not read the whole thing. I read a page, then gave up since the first page was bs, and I'm not interested in reading BS.

The example he gives is on English lettter caps. AÃnother language goes above EÊnglish caps. You want the base letter the same height though. You also have high things ̿̿ like this and low things ͓͓ . This all needs to stay in that box.

Since the author seems to not realize a font is more than English [[:alnum:]], I saw no point in reading further.

As have we, and much longer than that. It is only fairly recently that GPS broadcasts an accurate signal on non-military bands.

The military eventually gave up the idea of having people pay for satellites they can't actually use. Mainly because capitalism decided to give up, call the taxpayer investment wasted and stolen from the people, and just build a location network on the ground that's more accurate than GPS. The military now uses $450 hammers and toilet seats to steal from the people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS

They do not get "passed on to the workers." That's not how that works - not how any of that works.

A business needs a certain number of workers for a certain output. Those workers need to be paid a market amount for their skillset, for the amount of output. If the company does not have the funds to pay them - due to fines or competition or any other reason, the company lays off workers and reduces output and revenue - giving those sales to competitors, or goes out of business.

Yes, if the solution to "we broke printers" is to refund every single affected sale, the company will lay off workers, reduce output, and close down if that happens enough. Their competition will increase output to fill the unmet demand, and hire workers.

That literally is the point of the fine, and is a good thing, not a bad thing.

I have an 8core xeon laptop from work. it's thin, it's insanely fast, it has 128GB of RAM. I can set the profile to quiet, and the CPU doesn't boost and the fans never come on.

Here's what I can do, that a MBP cannot do - run a whole bunch of crap that doesn't run on ARM - most vendor tools that aren't browser based.

The MBP is a laptop, it's fast, but it's not a "pro" laptop. Pro means I can plug it in with a brick-sized power brick, draw 200 watts, and with lots of loud fans get some major work done. And when I don't run a heavy-hitter script? easily 9 hours of battery life.

M1 is not that much more faster than intel - it just has a lot of precompiled procedures in hardware. The reason no one else did what apple did? Because normal companies design their computer for what it needs to run. Apple designs their computer and says - world, you now have to build all your software for this computer. Well, that's why pretty much nothing I use runs on macs.

Honest question - has anyone here, ever, learned anything deep or useful from training videos? I've worked for many large vendors, many large companies. Training videos are less useful and much longer than just reading the product guide followed by the admin guide for a product. And a good way to start, is a google image search.

Every single training video I've encountered in almost 30 years of work falls into 2 categories: spend an hour on very basic things that are repeated over and over, then insert a couple of very technical, very useless deep dive topics. At the end, you open up the product guide and read it.

The other category is usually a guy recording himself and his screen, doing very technical very useful stuff, and you watch him type commands and do something. This is completely useless - you can't copy/paste into your notes, the commands he types is forgotten in 5 minutes, and at the end, you open the admin guide and read it.

There are some things to be trained on for which the video format was not designed. Things like coding, things like running different commands to deploy something. Why is video training so popular? No one I know learns jack from videos.

This is actually why a lot of people say the left and the right are the same and just give up - I'm one of those people. They're different in different ways, and crazy about different issues, and lie about different things, however the methods are the same.

CEO salaries are actually not that high. All these claims of the high salaries lie by calling total compensation "salary." Some of that is options, some of that is stock. Bernie is great at that, making inflamatory tweets designed to make people angry - like claiming trillions were made by the top 1% during covid. And this angers people. What he doesn't say is that he's lying. Some stocks went up. Heck, the value of my used car during covid went up. Did I make money? Heck no.

What we're talking about here, is taxing unrealized capital gains. What the left does, is lie to a bunch of financially-a-doorknob cashiers, teenagers, and poor people to make them angry and violent. Well guess what, after some of these stocks went up during covid, they crashed. So are we giving back billions in tax refunds after taxing those unrealized cap gains? Bernie seems to be suspiciously quiet about that. Instead he's now yelling how oil companies are making record profits.

Of course when the left says "record profits" that means they're comparing them to some other periods of profits - and they are. They are comparing them to the profits oil companies made during covid lockdowns, when an oil barrel had negative cost because no one was driving or flying.

There are huge compensation difference between the average worker and CEO. The reason CEOs are given huge stock options, is because their income then depends directly on the company value, so it's in their interest to drive it up. The compensation of a cashier does not depend on company value, so he doesn't get those options - he gets minimum wage.

Then the left goes "you can't live on minimum wage" - and they're right. And the cashier doesn't have to. He's a 16yo kid who lives with his parents. People under 25 - school and college, make up half of minimum wage earners. Of those, only 5% of teenagers made minimum wage, and only 1% of people over 25 do. Keep in mind, minimum wage federally, is a lower bound - it's what you get in a small town in iowa where rent is $400 for a studio. In other places where it costs more to live, local minimum wage laws make it higher - like $15.

But that's not how it's presented. It's presented like minimum wage earners are supporting families, and make $7.50/hr in NYC. This is a lie.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2020/home.htm

But let's say it's not. Why is it up to a corporation to make sure people make enough to support themselves? Why is it up to a corporation to pay for a mother's time off when she has a kid? What in the world does a company making gaskets have to do with Wendy having a baby?

These tasks are up to society, which needs to redistribute money so no one is in dire need, and no one is left behind. Taxes need to go up - not just on the rich CEOs, but on the middle class and especially the corporations. And the corporations need to be left alone to pay employees their market rate - even if it's $3/hr. Our issue is, we are assigning social support tasks to corporations making gaskets, and social support is not a company's responsibility. Neither is making sure the CEO compensation is closer to the average worker's. They're a private entity, they can do whatever they want. The gov shouldn't dictate to a company who should get paid what. They need to tax that company, put the money into a pool, and distribute it back to the people to make sure we are all well.

here's the thing with wireless charing - and this may not apply to your use case. when you're plugged in, you're running on the cable. my laptop for example, which I set to charge to 80% and stop, is pretty much always plugged in unless I'm carrying it between rooms. my phone - an android phone - has always been plugged in to charge. the battery acts as a surge protector.

now what happens when you wireless charge. your device is running on your battery, 24/7, charging and discharging while you sleep.

Here I am with a phone that's over 10 years old, flashed with the latest android, that I use for email and sites like this or youtube about 3 hours per day, and infrequent navigation. maybe an hour of call time, about 5 hours of screen time per day.

over a decade later, my battery lasts several days w/o a charge. my wife is probably more like you and I get her a new iphone every 3 years. she wireless charges - always. her battery life after 3 years of this, is absolute crap, because mine is discharging 5 hours/day, and hers is discharging 24 hours per day.

what is bizarre is when people think plugging a cable into a reversible port is some kind of a task or inconvenience compared to placing it aligned on a round circle. please share your thought about the insurmountable inconvenience of having to press the pump on the soap dispenser instead, or having to turn the knob on a door.

The start menu was not released 10 years ago. the start menu was released when windows 11 was released. Yes, it's still called the start menu. No, it is not the same application, nor does it share any code with previous applications.

Now, my new TV has an interface where if press the favorites list button and don't touch anything, it times out and closes. The problem is, if I keep scrolling through the favorite channels, it still closes after this timeout. How long has the Favorite Channels menu been around on TVs - 40 years? I can't believe they still can't get it right.

That my friend, is the logic you are using.

Just like in Linux, you have your choice of a bunch of different start menus made by all kinds of people and companies. Always had - even in the win3.0 days you could replace the shell variable in win.ini with whatever exe you wanted. Heck, you can make windows look like a mac interface if you want.

There are features and choices microsoft makes as a default, and they don't fit yours or my requirements. They do however fit the requirements of an edgy teen who does most his computing on a cell phone, a soccer mom who thinks deleting a webmail email will get rid of the out of space message on her PC, and the priests who only know how to launch a browser for looking up underage gay porn.

Microsoft did not make the start menu for you, they made if for the largest portion of their target market. Because people like you can easily change it, and people like them would have trouble using a computer at all otherwise.

yes, big arrays (symmetrix, shark) have battery backed everything - enough to take all the cache and dump it to disk when power is lost. terabytes of RAM. they also often use use a flash cache behind the RAM - that was the primary use for Optane. The reason for this, is sustained writes instead of peaks. If you let more and more sit in cache, eventually you have write folding. That results in less write IO on the backend, and you're able to have a higher sustained peak.

smaller cheaper arrays (unity, pure, isilon) and HCI (nutanix, vxrail) that don't have terabytes of RAM - they have gigabytes, and pretty much always use flash as a write cache. In fact, I cannot name one that doesn't.

No one in enterprise storage cares about the indurance of flash. All that means is that twice a year, a vendor engineer comes out to replace a few flash drives under your support contract.

And flash has been used as a write cache behind a smaller RAM cache, for two decades, by all major storage vendors.

wait till you see your Cisco bill

I give up. Enjoy doubling down Pooty, and take your own advice. Look up what a crime is (this is illegal) and look up what a tort is. There is a reason we have civil and criminal courts.

cool. so I have a few thousand VMs of various OSs and hypervisors, a few hundred home-built applications with an average of 10 components each, some mainframe, some ibm-i, a bunch of linux, solaris, aix, and HP-UX server, and I'm using mysql, sql server, postgres, oracle, and a couple of DB2. there may be an informix DB or two somewhere - I don't know, I manage storage. about ten different volume managers, about 30 different filesystems - and some raw disks of course. 10PB total space, it needs to be metro cluster replicated ten miles away for active/active, and async in a different state can be about a minute behind max.

So, write me some software that's going to make all that work and make the storage highly available. make sure it works for everything.

you're exposed to solutions that make that work, daily. when you swipe your credit card buying condoms - you have no idea how much happens so your transaction doesn't get lost, corrupted, or errored out.

are you familiar with the lower middle-class rednecks who form the republican party, and elect people who at every turn scam them, screw them, and try to take away their medical benefits and social security? yes, they do want to be oppressed - but by their own people. not by your people.

my wife is a chinese xpat who got her master's here and stayed. when we go to visit her old parents who have a picture of mao on the wall, half the sites she visits are blocked. She can't get to the things she spends half her free time on. But it's "good that youtube is blocked, there's bad stuff on it."

Most of that country is like that. The millions you see protesting on the street - there's over a billion who are against them and love their firewall which keeps out western propaganda. and when they get their door nailed shut from outside and die of starvation? we don't talk about that, that didn't happen, gramma just died of old age.

i have friends who live in moscow. lots of people - way over half, support the war. when their son gets drafted, given a non-working rifle with no bullets, and shot, and they don't get paid as promised - they get mad at putin for a day. they next day though, they blame the Ukrainians and support the ugly little bald troll even more.

trust me - you are very wrong. probably not in your local social circle - but that has a huge selection bias. go to the DMV, sit there for an hour, and just listen to people talking.

being under the boot is safe, you don't have to make decisions, you don't have to thing as your opinions are provided - as is at whom you should be angry. it's paradise for many a housecat.

I am sorry to have to say this, as it detracts from discussion. you really need to read the full text of things to which you are replying, before replying. you are wrong, and your exact point was already explained. yes - criminal law is the only source of illegality. that is literally the definition of the word.

that's like complaining a bentley is too expensive and not good at moving your piano.

when you get fined $1mil/min by the SEC for downtime, and data loss or corruption can cost you in the hundreds of millions, or someone dying at a hospital, enterprise gear is cheap. reliability is the key and for what you are paying. now yes, there may be a specific consumer drive more reliable than a specific enterprise drive. so which do you buy? well the enterprise array vendor tested the crap out of everything in every combination and workload and environment, and picked one for you, and it comes with full support and SLAs that you can use to meet gov regulations.

performance for an enterprise drive is not something you usually consider, at all. in fact, did you know that when I quote a storage array, I can't even specify the drive type of vendor, and who knows what will get shipped? Ionly specify drive size.

your performance comes from all your workloads clumped together, spread over a thousand of these drives connected with infiniband, with dedupe and compression on the backend, and hundreds of terabytes of RAM. the perf of an individual drive is not relevant.

but yes, sticking it into an AMD server you bought on newegg when they had a sale is not its purpose, and is a very bad deal.

now when we talk about wise sysadmins, we're talking about guys who know their stuff, and do "important big stuff." not a guy at a small business ordering from newegg. and that guy - he shouldn't be coming up with any storage policies because he lacks the needed large-scale experience.

I sold a 1PB usable-effective (after 3x dedupe/compression) space storage array last year. It was $2mil, after a 65% discount. If one time in its 5year lifecycle the "enterprisey" stuff on that array prevents about 10 seconds of downtime, it paid for itself.

Umm sorry, no. I'm a storage engineer with one of the leading enterprise vendors. SSDs are already "short-stroked." They have much more space available internally than you can see through the controller externally. The more "enterprisey" the drive, the more of that hidden space there is.

A wise sysadmin buys a drive with more of that hidden internal space, instead of getting a larger drive with less hidden space. The logic inside the drive is much better at zeroing/out and background trim on that internal hidden space, than host-addressable blocks that are currently unused. That's because the drive has no idea if you're about to use them, while the hidden space is guaranteed to be always free.

In fact - a fun fact. Flash has been used as a Write buffer on storage arrays for a couple of decades.

"contracts" is civil law. to be illegal it would have to be criminal law. defamation is legal. it's a tort, you can get sued for it and lose. in civil court.

there is contract law, but breaking contract law is not illegal. a tort for example, is a tort, not a crime.

What you suggest is impossible, because you are attacking a wrench on the head problem with a coding solution. You can always get a dish and connect to your choice of orbital provider, if your ISP - which is regulated - is blocked. The problem is, guys with guns will come to your door, beat you with a wrench, and put you in jail.

Now if we solve for the real issue - lack of freedom because of a ruling class, the technical issue goes away. There's nothing to solve if you can't be oppressed, and if the ruler has no way to oppress, they'd have no way to block your ISP in the first place.

The reason for the oppression is, a large portion of every country actually wants to be oppressed. Even in a democracy, the oppression of you can simply come from a majority (EU citizens have no freedom of speech) or large minority (magats prosecuting women and doctors for murder because of a life-threatening abortion).

There is no answer, because many people want to control and silence others who don't agree - or to compensate for lack of control of their crap lives by controlling other lives. Take a look at this site, and most social media sites. Tiny-dick big-belly mods shadowbanning, the other users downvoting, making comments gray so you can't read them.

Most people are bootlickers. Most people want the type of power structure that ends up with the internet blocked. They don't want freedom - they want to be on the side doing the oppressing.

lol I don't need a piece of text to tell me which sections are good contrast and which are bad. my eyes do that all on their own.

but yours do not?

yes, i'm convinced that an article that talks about good and bad contrast, gives examples of varying contrast. because, again - eyes.

Well, the reason it shows "low contrast" on the page, is because the purpose of the page is to illustrate the low contrast problem. There are many sections that show the contrasting example of good contrast. What you're doing is running two virus scanners, and the second one finds the quarantine folder of the first one. You then claim the first antivirus is a virus. Nope.

This was not a website designed for mobile - that's why it doesn't look appropriate on mobile. Not every website is designed for mobile - in fact there are usually two completely different websites for mobile and desktop. This one is only for desktop. This complaint is like renting a sports car and complaining it's not doing a good job at transporting your piano.

There is one actually valid issue with the website though, which you do not bring up. It singles out websites for some reason, when the issue has zero to do with websites. Windows itself - all over the place - has ridiculous light gray on white, or light gray on dark gray (in dark theme). It's literally not readable half the time. Android has the same - now with more empty space, and page scrolling through 2 lines of tiny text and a toggle that changes description on toggle, so you don't know what it's doing. Heck, the service tag printed on the bottom of my silver dell laptop, is gray.

then we have things like expensive custom license plates with nature pictures and a tiny font. that all the drug dealers buy. and lastly - faces. the only way to tell a nose from a cheek from afar, is light-tan vs dark-tan (in the shadow). And with some people, the only way you can find them at night at all, is if they smile at your joke.

cool. so take the 2000 kids in that school, they probably belong to 700 families. life360 knows what kids belong to what families I'm guessing?

what about families without children? what about a couple of old people?

for your little area where everyone knows what it is, there are 330million more people, half of whom empty their webmail folder when windows gives them an out of space message. you really think 1 in 5 families nationwide know of this niche thing? that literally makes zero sense.

what makes even less sense, the claim from this company is not only do 1 in 5 families know about it - they own one.

here's my theory: the scammers defined family as "family tree" - and if your married second cousin you've met once has this airtag clone, they count it. but if your married but don't have kids, you're not counted at all.

fake numbers from a scammer, for a product that's not unique or first, or anything more functional than a simple app on a phone.

Not only is the information not available, it's not obtainable. They sell a little gadget. They do not know if the people buying them are a family, fratboys in a household, 3 people dating a triangle, or just randos on the street.

The reason for my "impetus" is when a claim is this riduculous, I don't need your information that's as easily verifiable as "horse dewormer cures covid."

the reflex to bs is to gag. your reflex is to blindly accept jesus into your life because he walked on water.

Pretty much every browser has a blacklist of websites, so no it's not google. The blacklists are a best-effort, and get a lot of false positives which end up pushing smaller websites not only off search results, but now "off the internet" for the majority of people who don't know better.

Of course technical people all turn this stuff off in the browser, but the issue is the browser's target audience is the woman selling tamales from a cart outside the DMV, and the 20-something who does his taxes on his phone.

Much like with email, we now have to jump through many hoops with these gatekeepers, if we want to be able to reach that tamale lady with our content. Unfortunately, the solution in place now is the only one I can think of. The other option is thousands of bad actors infecting millions of devices with botnets and stealing gramma's banking passwords.

>it's specifically against Chrome

I have not encountered any other browser that has a button like Chrome put in. Back in the day, a browser and email apps could set themselves as default, on their own. A long time ago.

This was bad. I don't want an app to be able to make itself default for something, and just magically trust that the app will ask me first. There is an OS control for that - I don't want apps to be able to do that on their own. So MS fixed it, and all was good, for a long time.

Chrome then somehow found a sneaky way to get that back. Truly a shameful tactic.

Well guess what "google" - you're not allowed to do that, and there's a reason the functionality was removed for all apps. You're just a browser app, I don't want you to screw with or even have access to screw my OS settings.

Microsoft fixed a security hole. Good on them. For now, they specifically fixed it for the malicious actor. Hopefully they'll fix it OS-wide eventually.

he, and his company, are blatantly lying. they are simple scammers - much like the emails you get about penis pills.

20% of US families haven't even heard of his service. heck, not even 2%, not even 2% of the families who work in tech. US-wide, Maybe 20% know what an airtag is.

go to walmart, ask anyone there if they've heard of.. well, I forgot what his service is called already. best leave it at that. something about a new cryptocoin I think it was.

>put a ton of thought into this problem

question: have you put any thought into the fact that you cannot fine Anyone, since you're not the government, and have zero authority to do so? "fine" lol. all you can do, is ban people from using your service and attempt to bully them by blatantly lying.

I especially hate all those private for-profit police scanner making companies like motorola that piggyback off the cops.

I'm sorry - you actually think the movies with a lot of shooting is an advertisement for guns, and when someone chugs pills out of the bottle is an ad for big pharma?

if I may ask - and this is very much on topic - who won the 2020 election, and do covid vaccines contain nanobots?

so you believe that the close to 50% of factory output that doesn't pass QA gets destroyed or fixed by a company in China, instead of selling it on ebay? oh my sweet summer child..

yes, it gets sold on the Chinese market as well. but we're talking about someone in the west buying the same component from China on ebay, that they would buy at a store in the west. It's the same component - it's just one that didn't pass QA to make it to the store here.

Yes, the "company" selling these products is committing fraud. welcome to china.