And artificial flavouring doesn’t help either, since our brains map flavours to nutrients. Cravings for specific foods can be related to how much your body needs nutrients it associates with that food. But artificial flavours don’t come with any nutrients, they are just chemicals that mimic how the actual food interacts with our taste buds. So it can crave foods that do nothing to help with the nutritional needs, you’ll feel good for a bit because of how the body handles hunger (it subsides when we eat, not when we digest it and get access to the nutrients and calories, otherwise we’d always overeat), but then when the nutrient levels don’t change, it craves it again.

That’s how there’s so many people that are simultaneously obese and malnourished. The food has the calories and the body stores them for later use, but it doesn’t have the nutrition while foods have.

Like remember how that big tech company renamed itself in hopes of making its name ubiquitous with a VR world that no one really wants other than those who thought they could make boatloads of money from it?

And I’m not saying that they are the only ones that want any VR world, I mean specially the one they were trying to build where they pretty much started with virtual real estate and ad space before even coming up with compelling reasons to use it at all. Also, the virtual reality that I’m really interested in isn’t the one where you strap screens to your face and have cameras or sensors detecting movement of specific hardware to act as input, but that’s all we have right now.

Lol I just realized this: I’m more interested in the Sword Art Online VR world that would kill you in real life if you died in the game than I am in whatever FB was trying to make. Like if a genie or something offered me the choice between trying either of those, the metaverse would be a quick no while trying a nervegear would require some thought.

Though not whatever comes out of Musk’s company. I have little doubt that he’s going to have at least some people working on hacking human brains, for things like mind control, finding secrets, or maybe even doing that thing where they make it look like you leave the simulated VR world but it actually just simulated taking a VR helmet off and now you’re stuck in Elon’s world until he lets you out or it breaks.

Yeah, there’s that angle also. Like how you can start phoning it in when you have a shitty manager that kills your passion. I have a feeling that that is part of the overall corporate culture at MS rather than just the case for people unlucky with which manager they ended up with.

Assuming you meant that “focus” as a pun that refers to their ability to focus on their work to the point of doing it well.

If you meant that it might have been some rogue developer that snuck in that change instead of a rogue manager, yeah, that’s also possible.

That’s the tera tera. Terra terror or Terra tearer, or a trillion terajoules.

Or sometimes the text bar just randomly loses focus and for whatever reason doesn’t default to getting focus when you type anything. I’d bet money this “feature” was the result of someone with more power than intelligence accidentally sending something embarassing because they didn’t realize teams had focus. Hell, I bet a good portion of Microsoft’s dumbshit behavious are the result of incompetent people getting power over how something behaves and basically boomerizing it (making it work in a specific and weird way that only makes sense to them).

Or if someone reacts to your message while you’re still in that chat, you need to go to a completely separate notification feed to clear that one (though maybe they fixed that one… Or maybe I just automatically ignore that other feed because it only ever has noise).

That’s also ignoring the access to data question. Who knows how much the providers are logging. It wouldn’t surprise me if “new companies” pop up out of the blue with surprisingly competitive hardware and software sometime in the next decade.

The medical exemption also gives access to the older gen dispensaries, which can have better prices/options.

I never expected a your mom joke to have so many layers, thanks for the setup!

There’s one paradoxical-seeming fact that adult humans generally use the same amount of calories each day regardless of their physical activity level. There are exceptions, but they are extreme cases, like professional athletes pushing their limits.

It makes sense if you think about it. Processes that give us access to energy aren’t exactly fast, so our bodies will just be producing that energy regardless so it’s there if we need it. But when we don’t, any cells can grab them up to do their cell things, which includes cancer cells (which we all have but are mostly benign), giving them more chances to make more mistakes copying DNA, which rolls the dice more often on picking up some of those mutations that make them dangerous or deadly.

It’s also why you lose weight in the kitchen rather than the gym. Your body isn’t doing anything differently with the food you eat whether you take a nap or go for a run.

Yeah, just to add some context, you can detect potential buffer overruns in code by looking for patterns but just because you find potential buffer overruns doesn’t mean they are exploitable. The user needs to be able to inject not just code or parameters but also a return address that causes the injected code to run or triggers another function call with the injected parameters. With randomized code and stack addresses, this can be difficult or practically impossible, even if it’s easy to customize what bytes go into the overrun part of the buffer.

It’s like finding small parts of dangerous patterns but those small parts aren’t necessarily dangerous on their own and need more of the pattern to be an issue, but if you fix the small parts you find, you’re less likely run into those bigger patterns, so it’s worthwhile to fix the small patterns when they come up, but without fitting into a larger pattern, it wasn’t an actual security hole, just a potential one.

You forgot Poland.

Pretty sure the actual most overdone and lazy joke on the internet is your mom.

And then Disney came along, saying they could do better.

They couldn’t.

He studied a style that is a bit closer to the dark side so that he can channel the emotions of a dark side user against them. This was why he was able to defeat Palpatine pretty easily while his support were finished quickly and even Yoda was only able to fight him to a draw. Windu was a hard counter for Palpatine.

So your headcanon wasn’t completely off vs what was in the EU.

No, black mirror showed technology completely unlike anything that exists today.

There’s a chance they actually just believe they are trolling some of the dumber AI brained people by making them think they are hurting something that can’t be hurt.

This whole thing is like the flip side of the “don’t create the Torment Nexus” meme, where fiction depicted something that is entirely a non-issue but people are going to make it an issue because of the fictional depictions (basically any fiction about AI rights where they treat AIs as if they are pretty much artificial human minds, which LLMs are not even close to).

Seven?

Out of the big three, Nintendo is the only one that hasn’t had an x86/x64 based console.

Pfft. You say that like anyone needed more than 64k of addressable memory. Chrome wasn’t released for another 13 years after Win95.