I had a suspicion when they called it the “Special Military Op Zone”. Classic colonizer verbiage.

I have found that some specific foods still give me a little heartburn, which I avoid. But yeah, I still don’t understand it. Especially the swallowing issues, but apparently not eating lets my body reset or something.

When I first started the diet it was 800-1500 calories per day, but now I snack while I’m cooking dinner, have double or triple portions, and have dessert right before the cutoff at 8:00. So probably about 2500.

There are still days where I only get 800-1000 calories, like if we’re at someone else’s house for dinner. After 8:00 my body just seems to accept its fate, so I’m not scrounging for food or hangry anymore.

I only eat from 5-8 PM. I started it for weight loss a few years ago, which worked alright. I lost 30 pounds, but have since gained a lot of it back. It turns out you can eat a lot in three hours once your stomach gets used to it.

However, before starting the diet I had chronic heartburn, acid reflux, and trouble swallowing sometimes. All three went away after a week on the diet, which is enough for me to keep going.

There are other minor benefits, like saving money/time from not eating so often. At this point I don’t feel hungry at all until 4:00, so I never shop hungry.

Unrelated to your question, but do you get cost estimates while setting up the VM? I tried setting one up a while back but, despite picking all the free settings, it still estimated a cost of $2 per month. It never asked for CC info, but it still felt off.

“I guess we learned not to do it again.”

Check your insulin sensitivity (homa-ir, or tg/HDL ratio, or fasting insulin) to see what type of ldl you have.

Unfortunately that’s not something measured by the company that my employer sells the data to. Or at least it isn’t a stat that’s revealed back to me.

Gonna have to remember this before my next semi-mandatory yearly biometric screening for work. My LDL is the only thing wrecking my score.

I think size is the biggest factor. OS ISOs are pretty big, so having a managed download is helpful. If the 100 GB triple-A games were open source I would certainly expect torrents. But the FOSS things I download directly are pretty small, and the vast majority are done through a package manager or docker compose. So there may be a Goldilocks zone in the middle where it’d be helpful, but in those cases I’d expect a small installer that downloads the bulk of it for you.

So not much benefit for the consumer, but what about the provider? Spreading the traffic would reduce load on the hosting server which is a positive. You’d still have to handle the bulk of the traffic until the seeders outpace the leechers, but on long enough timescales it’d be helpful. Except you can’t really update a torrent, which means each release needs to start fresh. This still works for OS creators because updates tend to be far apart, there is a large user base, and there is still some market for older versions. For regular programs you may only get one of those three, at which point adding torrents may be more hassle than it’s worth.

I’ve never understood this either. If someone is holding things in their arms it’s helpful, but if they have a cart then nothing is really gained. I can easily fill the conveyor belt by the time the person in front of me finishes paying. So getting started early feels like I am crowding them for no reason. Like flooring it between red lights; you’re just wasting energy to wait anyway.

Is it bad that I would legitimately laugh out loud if that did happen? Partly to avoid crying, but still.

This is the face I make when my boss asks if I feel energized after taking a three day weekend.

I wasn’t trying to correct you, I’m just an idiot who managed to spell it two different ways in the same post. It sounds like both spellings are valid, but I still shouldn’t mix-n-match.

I would argue it’s not only engrained in society, or even ingrained in the human psyche, it’s engrained in nature itself. Violence in nature is often rewarded with subordinance, and our evolutionary lineage has certainly continued it.

Overcoming that instinct globally is going to require a huge cultural shift, but we will be much better off if we do.

“Chat, is this real?”

Surely he just means that he left the church and is no longer a pastor at… 18!

Gotta stick to the grind.

Sick, I’ll have to check it out. MegaMan Legends was great at the time.

Now I’m curious if anyone offers insurance for it. There is already bail insurance taken out by bail loan companies to protect themselves, which is making it very difficult for me to determine if there is any direct-to-commiter insurance to cover your own bail.

But anyway, you should be adding up your normal bail amount per year, add 10% for inflation, put 1/12 of that into a recurring 4-week T-bill ladder every month, then reap that sweet 4% interest. When you get arrested use your phone call to have a loved one cancel the next renewal and you’re out of jail in 1-2 weeks while maximizing profits!

“Documenting the code base will be your first task for the next month to help show us how well you understand the codebase.”