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  1. Re:Makes sense. on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Try a low carb, high fat diet instead, and give your muscles about 3 weeks to adapt.

    Tried it. Fat helps, but at some point, your body really really wants carbs.

  2. Re:Makes sense. on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I always wonder about comments like this. Have you ever been on a high-protein, low-carb diet? Ketosis doesn't feel good, and one of the byproducts is acetone. Have you ever urinated with the smell of acetone coming out of your body?

    It gets even worse if you exercise. Have you ever been on a low carb, high-protein diet and tried to run five miles? It feels awful. Fat helps a little bit, but your body really wants some carbohydrates.

  3. Re:Apple support is going down hill on APFS Is Not Optional (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I miss the days when Apple was filled with high-quality engineers from Next. Hard to find that kind of programmer these days. The quality pool has been diluted.

  4. Re:Horribly inefficient on Publishers Are Making More Video -- Whether You Want It or Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason everyone is making video content is because they want the video advertisers. I was working in online advertising a few years ago (than goodness I got out of that, what a waste), and everyone wanted to create video content, because advertisers pay so much more for video commercials than static commercials.

    Yet another reminder that you are the product, not the customer.

  5. No you moron, they make it up in advertising. How much did you pay to watch the world cup?

  6. Misery? Did you see any of the fight

    No. I'll be honest, I don't understand why anyone would pay $99 to see that. Basically every other sporting event is free......why do you have to pay to see this one?

  7. Re:Nice Warrent on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, Dianne Feinstein has been stalwart in her defense of surveillance. It's not really a partisan issue, there are those who support it and oppose in both parties.

  8. You don't think you can find something you want to watch on any of the major streaming services?

  9. Re:Officially Freaked Out on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    This technique is called stylometry, and it's been applied with mixed success elsewhere. For example, "a check of his method, applied to the works of James Joyce, gave the result that Ulysses, Joyce's multi-perspective, multi-style masterpiece, was written by five separate individuals; none of whom had any part in the crafting of Joyce's first novel." So it should be used skeptically.

    I had a classmate who did work in this field, including not just word frequency, but also including simple grammatical structures. I find it extremely unlikely that the NSA found anything with merely word frequency. If they really did this, then they probable invented techniques no one else has used before. Otherwise someone else should be able to repeat the results, too.

  10. It doesn't matter too much for this point though, almost any way you measure it, Java comes out on the top of the language popularity lists.

  11. Nah, just choose one, and subscribe to it for a while. It doesn't matter which one. When you get bored of it, cancel it and move on to the next one. Simple. If you subscribe to the same on twice, that's not a problem either.

  12. Also there is a huge logical fallacy in the articles argument, which is that you will subscribe full-time to these services instead of switching every few months.

    That's a really good point.

  13. Re:buzzwords on Could AI Transform Continuous Delivery Development? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    At first I was skeptical, but I read some online reviews of it, and it looks pretty good. All you need is some AI and everything is better.

  14. Re:Cord-cutting on Columnist Mocks The Case Against Cord-Cutting As 'Too Many Choices' (techhive.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's absolutely a viable option. There is more produced every day than you could ever hope to consume in a lifetime. "Cord cutting" is mainly a matter of getting over your current addiction, and acquiring a new one.

    Whatever it is that you 'want' to watch on cable, there's another option online that will entertain you just as much.

  15. I've had this idea for the longest time and only in the last few months worked out the details you're talking about.

    Well then, ok, how did you work them out?

  16. Re:We already have SourceForge... on A New Non-Money Oriented Crowdsourcing Platform Based On Code Contributions (crowdsourcer.io) · · Score: 1

    And that's exactly why I prefer source forge........to stay away from haters like you.

  17. What virtue am I signaling? I don't need virtue.

    The GPL is making a deal: you can get my work without money, by exchanging it for any additions you make. (If you want to pay for it, that's possible too).

  18. Nope. If I use GPL software, I return any changes I make back to the world. That is the agreement. With this project, you give them your code, and that's it.
    With kickstarter, you can donate a small amount, like $25. WIth code, $25 will buy you almost nothing.

  19. So I can write code for someone who has a startup, and then they get all the profits? No thanks, that's why (one reason why) I use the GPL.

  20. Re:Kentucky? on Ask Slashdot: How Did You Experience The Solar Eclipse? · · Score: 1

    My neighbor is certain that a large number of people who watched the eclipse got sick from it. Such an astral event cannot avoid having its effect on earthlings here below, and it's probably kundalini sickness with improper alkaline balance that makes you vulnerable to the cosmic rays.

    Anyway I don't know, that's just what she conversed while talking to her spirit animal or something.

  21. Re: Per port firewalls. on Who's Responsible For IoT Security? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    You want a Firewall, not NAT.

  22. Re:Why NOT based on mono? on Microsoft .NET Core 2.0 For Linux Released; Redhat Will Bundle Microsoft's .NET (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ASP.NET has been out of the picture for a long time now - it was closed source, yes, it still remains closed, but it's legacy tech. Microsoft essentially left it on life support, and moved on to ASP.NET MVC

    To the point that, when someones says "ASP.NET," I automatically assume they mean ASP.NET MVC.

  23. Someone made a cake on How Open Source Advocates Celebrated The 26th Anniversary of Linux (linux.com) · · Score: 0

    Someone made a cake, but some compiling needed.

  24. Re:"A federal court ruled..." on Selling Alterable Versions of Star Wars Is Still Infringement, Says Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Altering the performance is specifically legal. Some legislators wanted it, so got it in exchange for tougher copyright laws elsewhere.

  25. ALL the telecom oligopolies suck puss-filled maggots. Jail all the f#cking bastards!

    Wait, so you like telecoms? Or not.?....I'm not feeling you here. Please be more clear!