Unfortunately people respond differently to hunger.

Someone I know is trying to lose weight. Problem is, if they go ~100 kcal below maintenance they turn into a stress eater. ~200 below and they are unable to stop themselves from eating 400 kcal worth of food straight or of the fridge at night. All that on top of being hangry all day.

So losing weight means balancing the diet very carefully because that's not much space between eating enough to maintain the weight and eating so little that hunger overrides reason and overcompensates.

For other people going below maintenance is just kinda uncomfortable but easily doable for a couple days. Advice like "just eat less" actually works for them without having to make a whole science out of it.

The sentence length is not the problem here. The problem is that the judge has established legal precedent for "upgrading" a crime to terrorism. Secretly at that, without informing the defense or jury.

So now any crime can get you punished under terrorism statutes at the judge's discretion and the judge can announce that after the jury has delivered a verdict. That's not how a justice system should work.

I hope that the defense will move for a mistrial and win. Not that I think the perpetrators should walk free; they certainly seem to be guilty. But they should be convicted under the correct statutes for their crimes.

He wanted to mess with the Borg. He designed a ship to mess with the Borg. They didn't show up in his part of the woods so he demonstrated what happens when someone has a ship designed to mess with the Borg.

In my case I wasn't paying enough attention to where water had pooled in the tracks cars had worn into the road. Gentle taps on the brake handles were enough to decouple my scooter's wheels from the road and give me a two kilometer braking distance. Yikes.

I am perfectly aware that these settings aren't very private and I usually run something a bit tighter. My point was that even a mostly vanilla setup couldn't get past hCaptcha.

"Hell" sound like an accurate description. I wouldn't want to live in such a place as an adult, much less a minor.

Getting hurt a little bit is very useful.

I've forgotten about plenty of situations where things could've gone wrong but didn't but I can still vividly remember accidentally hitting myself in the dick with my bike handle.

(Since I know someone will want to know: I misjudged my speed and the impact a wet wheel had on my braking power. When I noticed I was going too fast to take a corner I braked and the front brake locked the wheel immediately. Inertia did the rest.)

That and a (thankfully merely scary) run-in with aquaplaning a few years later taught me to be wary of wet driving conditions, especially of braking in them.

The problem is not that you lose that theoretical job, it's that they have one. Mind you, it's also a problem if they don't have one. In this socio-theoretical framework anything immigrants do or not do is a problem.

Companies, meanwhile, are only at fault for anything if they're foreign and not multinational corporations.

That is... a rather byzantine list of requirements to get a captcha service to work as opposed to just running a Firefox derivative with tracking protection on standard and a default-configuration uBO (which is the specific configuration that led to the 100 repetitions, not some kind of recommendation).

It's almost every time for me. Maybe they don't like my ad blocker or my browser's privacy settings but it's rare for hCaptcha to let me through after three or four repetitions.

Usually I give up after ten because of it won't let me in by then it won't let me in after a hundred. I tried.

Please not hCaptcha. It's basically guaranteed to generate infinite loops.

So while times are hard right now for home PC users, I’d expect there to be period in the near future of oversupply and cheap components.

From where? Data center equipment isn't really suitable for the home. A used SXM module on an adapter might give you reasonably affordable compute but is completely useless for graphics. Data center memory is often HBM, which you can't just transplant into your home PC. Getting an EDSFF SSD into your PC might work with an adapter but it's also going to take up a lot of space.

Plus, there have been cases in the past of companies buying up and destroying the inventory of closing data centers specifically so it doesn't end up on the market to compete with current products. That might very well repeat.

When the bubble bursts I expect to see a semi-decent supply of high-end hardware for specific use cases. If you have a space for a rack with noisy fans and a 3000 W power draw you'll be able to build a kick-ass AI inference rig for like 2000 bucks. Or a really fast file server. But I don't think there's going to be much in it for people who just want 60 FPS in current games and an SSD those games fit onto. That'll take another couple years.

I think it'll be 2030 at the earliest until we see actually interesting consumer hardware from the usual companies. Maybe China will swoop in and deliver something worthwhile in the meantime but I'm not holding my breath.