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This is certainly true in the beginning of a game. Players claim to do this to warm up. However, in a busy confrontation there is no reason to spam any actions that are not directly contributing towards your endeavor. If you spam useless actions during a fight, your opponent who does not will best you.

They added insult to injury to the 2.0 upgrade by releasing promo material (supposedly screenshots) [0] that looked exactly like what fans wanted from them. Turned out, those were fake and they quickly removed most of them and what they actually did was a bad AI upscale instead.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/warcraft3/comments/1gr3win/how_to_m... They had images like that on their website but removed them later.


According to an help article by Apple [1], if you activate wifi or bluetooth during airplane mode, it will remember that and not disable those when you use airplane mode again. I was also surprised reading your comment as for my phone wifi and bluetooth stay on during airplane mode. I must've activated them once and then it just stayed like that ever since.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-my/guide/iphone/iphb771143ee/io...


Although this is by far not the first landing of SpaceX boosters I've seen, this looked like scifi to me even in 2024.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine#Primordial_black_h...

Personally, I'm not very optimistic.

Regarding the primordial black hole: "Konstantin Batygin commented on this, saying while it is possible for Planet Nine to be a primordial black hole, there is currently not enough evidence to make this idea more plausible than any other alternative."

Regarding planet 9 in general: "Further skepticism about the Planet Nine hypothesis arose in 2020, based on results from the Outer Solar System Origins Survey and the Dark Energy Survey, with the OSSOS documenting over 800 trans-Neptunian objects and the DES discovering 316 new ones.[94] Both surveys adjusted for observational bias and concluded that of the objects observed there was no evidence for clustering.[95] The authors go further to explain that practically all objects' orbits can be explained by physical phenomena rather than a ninth planet as proposed by Brown and Batygin.[96] An author of one of the studies, Samantha Lawler, said the hypothesis of Planet Nine proposed by Brown and Batygin "does not hold up to detailed observations" pointing out the much larger sample size of 800 objects compared to the much smaller 14 and that conclusive studies based on said objects were "premature". She went further to explain the phenomenon of these extreme orbits could be due to gravitational occultation from Neptune when it migrated outwards earlier in the Solar System's history.[97]"


Also, the latest release is nearly a year old. Is this correct? There have been quite a few commits since then. However, the pipeline seems to be broken and no longer(?) produces binaries.


>- opening a file that does not work does nothing, you don't know what's happening, is the file corrupted, is the codec not supported ??

You could open the console to see errors. https://mpv.io/manual/master/#console

>- the no ui idea is nice for opening a single file, but then you go to the rabbithole of millions of settings / config to do anything more complicated, playlists? ( why can't I drag and drop on the window )

I cannot relate to that. "ad-hoc" playlists or even adding more files while some are already playing works fine for me on macOS. There's a chance the built-in UI differs between operating systems, not sure.

>- it's hard to compile, so it's up to you to find up to date version on your distro

I consider that hardly the fault of the mpv project. Other than that, there are usually third-party providers for mpv binaries.


Hold shift while dropping the file to enqueue it. At least on macOS that works.


I'm a T1 diabetic and get my blood glucose values through my phone, bluetooth even. So disabling bluetooth as mitigation is not an option and the phone is crucial. The vendor doesn't support another or even a secondary device. How am I supposed to "reacquire a bit of resilience" here?


Your life should not depend on your phone working, because it will fail sometimes — it's consumer grade electronics, not a pacemaker or milspec ruggedized device with a minimal attack service (i.e., no Bluetooth, but a safer alternative).

What do you do when your phone gets stolen or simply breaks? Complain loudly at the very least, and have a backup in place (but I'm sure you do).


(I'm also T1)When my phone (screen) broke, I contacted my hospital and got a separate device (reader), but it took a few weeks. Disabling phone access isn't okay or justifiable in public places. I'm not defending the existence of BT vulnerabilities but what the guy did on the train was dumb and antisocial.


Phones are ubiquitous in every country I've spent a reasonable amount of time so far. If my phone breaks I can just walk into a store and get a new one. The sensor will transfer its connection to the new phone within minutes. So that really is not that big of a deal. Some edgy liberation fighter DoS'ing my phone, however, is.

Also note that there are people that have such sensors and insulin pumps connected in a feedback loop. I don't personally but this exists. There also exists a small open source scene around that topic. Examples are https://openaps.org/ or https://nightscout.github.io/

> Your life should not depend on your phone working

My life as diabetic depends on many, many variables. Theoretically, all it needs is an incorrectly labeled meal to do serious harm. Or the delivery guy transporting my insulin didn't maintain cooling. I can only do so much and still live a life without constant fear. While this may sound dangerous to you, this way of measuring your blood glucose is extremely liberating for diabetics. The alternative is just so much worse.


People used to die before some life saving technologies were invented.

People can die these days if their technology fails. They might not have a better alternative because they can't afford it or it hasn't been invented

Teaching someone a lesson or educating society sounds like a line from a villain from a Bond movie. A sociopathic villain. You are making comments that a sociopath would make.


It's unfortunate naming similar to "fat". Most fruits are really not that high in fructose, compared to stuff like high-fructose corn syrup (well, it's in the name) that's widely added to beverages and other processed food.


The fructose-glucose ratio of a lot of apples is almost 2:1. HFCS is usually 45-55% fructose. Watermelon has a similar ratio. Lots of fruits have a higher fructose to glucose ratio.

HFCS is called high-fructose not because its some incredibly high level of fructose compared to most everything else, its because compared to regular corn syrup it is high. Regular corn syrup is nearly 100% glucose, so a mixture of 45% or 55% fructose is extremely high in that context. Table sugar is 1:1 fructose/glucose, but we don't call it high-fructose table sugar.


HFCS is available in ratios with up to 90% fructose. Granted, I don't know what the average is in the food industry. But like other commenters said, it's mostly about the absolute amount. You can't realistically eat enough apples to reach a fructose intake equivalent to that of a sugary drink. And even if you do, you also ate lots of fiber and other good nutrients.

Therefore, worrying about fruits because of fructose is unwarranted. Well unless you have fructose intolerance.


> Granted, I don't know what the average is in the food industry

The average is usually 45-55. By far the most common variety is HFCS-55.

I'm not disagreeing with the idea its easier to pound a lot of sugar drinking sweet beverages. I'm just disagreeing with the concept "fruits don't have much fructose" and people thinking HFCS means its generally way higher fructose content than other common sugars. An apple has more fructose than a serving of BWW Asian Zing sauce, as I pointed out in another comment. I'm not arguing wings are healthier than apples, I'm just pointing out the raw numbers of sugar. A cake made with sucrose will have a similar amount of fructose ratio as cake made with HFCS, assuming similar amounts of total sugar content.


Not a chemist here, so I'm wondering which is the higher energy state: fructose+glucose dissociated (into HFCS), or bound together into sucrose (white table sugar).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose

Why doesn't either HFCS want to crystallize into sucrose, or sucrose want to melt into 50% HFCS, given a bit of time, water, heat, or stirring?


I realize I never really answered your other question. Its tricky sticking the two sugars back together into sucrose, as heating it will generally carmelize it. After all, when you carmelize sucrose you're breaking that bond and oxidizing the glucose and fructose, so heating HFCS will ultimately yield the same thing in an oxygen environment. You'll generally need some kind of chemical process to link it together, it takes a bit of extra energy to join the two sugars back together.

Sucrose will hydrolize and break apart in water on its own, but it does take some time. Adding a little bit of acid will rapidly break it apart.


I don't doubt there's a lot of metabolic differences between sucrose and HFCS. Given they're free instead of bound I imagine it hits the body differently, and some studies do suggest this. Gastric acidity easily breaks the bond though, it rapidly converts to glucose and fructose in the gut. So I imagine most changes would be with our body's early detection in the eating process, such as the taste buds and other senses like that.


It's not the ratio that hurts you but the absolute dose you ingest.


They were probably talking ratio, not total amount.

> Most fruits are really not that high in fructose, compared to stuff like high-fructose corn syrup

An apple is going to have like 19g of sugar. So a little over 12g of fructose. A serving of Buffalo Wild Wings Asian Zing sauce (2tbs) has 19g of sugar. I don't know what variety of HFCS, so we'll assume HFCS 55. That's 10.45g fructose.

So an apple has more fructose (total) than a few buffalo wings with HFCS-based sauce.


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