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Though it probably balances out in your final answer since you’re not counting spaces, punctuation, formatting, or other markup.

You’ll note I said four playable species at the launch of the game.

Playable Tengu confirmed?

refusing to follow semantic versioning standards that are designed to essentially account for that is pants-on-head stupid.

Seems like it would be a bit hard to follow a versioning scheme that it predates by almost 20 years. Lua 5.2 even predates semver 1.0.0.

Before semver there was basically no standardization in versioning schemes and the meaning that semver applied to version numbers basically didn’t exist (at least in my experience) before it came around. Everyone just kinda had their own meaning for what version numbers meant.

Nothing, I just woke up early.

You’re welcome! :)

Usually that just means the server as a whole is slow, but your not logged in requests are being served from a cache.

Basically, a not logged in request can be answered with the same response for everyone, so the server generates the response once and then saves it to use over and over again. But, when you’re logged in the response is going to be slightly different for everyone. So the server has to go through the whole process of generating the page from scratch for your exact version of it.

It costs more to make things multi-voltage. For small electronics that run off DC, it turns out that the ‘costs more’ for having an auto-switching power brick is less than the ‘costs more’ of dealing with stocking multiple different power supplies to be sold to different regions.

With higher-power appliances that don’t just run off DC, where you actually need the thing itself to be different, it turns out that having multiple variants (or only selling to one region) is cheaper.

Toasters are a great example because you’re pretty much just shorting a wire into the plug, but it’s a wire whose resistance is very carefully chosen so that it gets hot but doesn’t burn up for the voltage of the grid it’s being plugged into. To make something like that multi-voltage you would need multiple paths for the power to flow and some sort of ability to switch things, all of which costs more money than not having that.

Of course, that’s all ‘in general’. It’s always going to come down to the specific factors related whatever the thing is, who’s making it and who it’s trying to be sold to.

I’m pretty sure (at least in the US) you need a judge to sign off on letting you change your name. I would guess most judges aren’t going to find “trolling my accuser because I think I’m going to lose a trial” a valid reason to change your name.

That quote is the second sentence in the abstract and the next sentence is:

However, the impact of ketogenic diets (KDs), which contain even higher lipid content but reduce circulating insulin and induce ketogenesis, remains poorly understood.

I read that as saying existing science says high-fat diets that cause you to become obese increase the risk of cancer in the small intestine. Not anything about their findings in this study specifically.

The end of the abstract says:

These findings reveal that dietary lipid content, through fatty acid oxidation rather than ketone metabolism, influences intestinal tumorigenesis and highlight the need for nuanced consideration of dietary strategies for cancer prevention in genetically susceptible populations.

Which I think is implying that they found some difference between their “high-fat” (60% lard diet) and “ketogenic” (80% lard diet) cohorts.

I can’t find the full content of the paper to verify exactly what they’re trying to say, but I think the only claims they’re trying to make are basically, ‘there’s no point in consuming externally synthesized ketones’. Which, yeah, but good to have proper scientific confirmation.

Has anyone found the actual article? It doesn’t seem to be available on SciHub yet. Based on what little I can find without the whole article, it sounds like the “ketogenic diet” was giving the mice almost nothing but lard.

(a) Composition of the control diet (CD), 60% lard-based high fat diet (HFD) and 80% lard-based ketogenic diet (KD).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10779-y (Extended data figures and tables)

That doesn’t seem like a great diet. But, maybe that’s normal for these kinds of studies where they’re trying to induce cancers?

It looks to me like the brew chamber from some super-automatic espresso machine.

The silver bit is the shower screen on the head of a plunger that goes down and up to form a puck and then comes back up and the little arm on the left would push off the spent puck after brewing. Or that’s my guesses based on taking a different one apart.

“Two street corners”: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Pita+Stop,+202+Joliet+St,+Dyer,+IN+46311/2600-2798+Squire+Ct,+Dyer,+IN+46311/

You underestimate american suburban development. Yeah, that’s a 45 minute walk, each way.

I’m a fairly experienced Rust Dev (I’ve been paid to write it since 2014). I’ve never use Tauri, but damn it looks complicated.

If your goal is learning rust, I’d suggest learning on something simpler. Avoid complicated “ecosystems”, anything super macro heavy, or async in general. Go write code like you’re a college freshman. Duplicate code, call .clone() and .unwrap() with wild abandon. There’s no reason to throw all the hardest parts of the language at yourself all at once.

If your goal is ending up with a GUI application, I don’t really have advice for you, I’ve never figured that out myself.

Nethack server

Ooh, interesting. I’ve never tried playing that.

Yeah, game servers is about the only thing I’ve come up with for a way to take any real advantage of the perk.

Unlimited servers. I work for a VPS provider and on my first day my boss setup my account with $10k of credit and showed me how to add more in the admin panel “whenever [I] need it”. As long as I’m only using things with plenty of excess capacity and don’t cause problems, I can spin up whatever I want.

Sadly, I’ve already got a rack of hardware at home, so all I’ve done so far is spin up a server with 96GB of ram and put a 2-page static website on it, lol.

Not federating with meta was a choice that could be made by the admins, just changing a setting in the instance. Slop can be posted to any instance by anyone with an account. If an admin decided to sign an anti-AI pact there’s no way they could realistically abide / enforce it.

Ooh, infinity mm of thunder.

I currently work 8:00 to 16:00 and no one has complained about my working hours yet. But, I’m a software dev working remote with coworkers in several different timezones, so the exact time I start and end my day really doesn’t matter.

At a previous job I worked 9:00 - 15:00 for several months when I was depressed and no one complained about that either. 🤷

That’s kinda, at least historically, been Nintendo’s whole thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi#Design_philosophy