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Programmer and maker and general tinkerer. https://bytes.zone

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Caffeine ingestion and fluid balance: a review - PubMed The most ecologically valid of the published studies offers no support for the suggestion that consumption of caffeine-containing beverages as part of a normal lifestyle leads to fluid loss in excess of the volume ingested or is associated with poor hydration status. Therefore, there would appear to …

Hey I wouldn't normally drop into someone's replies like this but… I think it might make you feel better to know! The body develops a tolerance to caffeine, removing even the mild diuretic effect from, say, a coffee. Here's a review; it's really well-studied. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19774754/

03.03.2026 21:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Heart grew two sizes? Cool, good, they'll make a movie about you even if you did steal all those presents.

Tendon grew two sizes? That's plantar fasciitis bro, now you've got a day brace AND a night brace.

02.03.2026 21:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(Playing hangman)

Me, relieved: yes that’s right, Tony Hawk. You know who that is then?

9yo: no, who’s that. Was he in the war???

25.02.2026 00:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

yesssssssss

23.02.2026 17:50 👍 246 🔁 53 💬 4 📌 1
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Sandwich Bill of Materials SBOM 1.0: A specification for sandwich supply chain transparency.

> Reproducible sandwich builds remain aspirational. A compliance level of “close enough” is acceptable for non-safety-critical sandwiches. Safety-critical sandwiches SHOULD target full reproducibility.

nesbitt.io/2026/02/08/s...

19.02.2026 15:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Microsoft AI CEO: 'Most, if not all' white-collar tasks can be replaced by AI within 12-18 months Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.

M&Ms CEO: 'most, if not all' meals can be replaced by M&Ms within 12-18 months

13.02.2026 19:49 👍 2690 🔁 511 💬 91 📌 96

So apparently we know what is in souls now? And… it is Markdown? Bad times, metaphysically.

13.02.2026 19:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash Flock off

Turns out public outrage matters.

13.02.2026 15:37 👍 115 🔁 24 💬 6 📌 3

still deeply weird to me to generate text with a graphics card. Like, I get it, but it just *feels* like the wrong tool for the job.

13.02.2026 15:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AI-upgraded Notepad now exposes Windows users to critical exploit A critical remote code execution vulnerability found in the AI-upgraded Windows 11 Notepad has fueled renewed criticism of Microsoft's forced AI feature creep.

love that hacking is now (checks notes) "tell a computer to rob a bank in a text file" cybernews.com/security/win...

11.02.2026 21:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every time the price of bitcoin drops again, you can ask yourself these two questions:

1) like rain, why doesn't it drop a little more
2) like a cat, how did it get up there in the first place

05.02.2026 20:02 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football What time is kickoff? The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. f...

Q: Why will football be featured during the Bad Bunny concert?*

A: The Bad Bunny concert is fantastic exposure for the NFL and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put the game of American football in front of fans of the biggest musical artist in the world.

05.02.2026 19:27 👍 432 🔁 135 💬 5 📌 15
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

02.02.2026 18:30 👍 26137 🔁 8237 💬 850 📌 1170

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.

CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?

DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.

C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?

DR: Now look

02.02.2026 03:58 👍 8727 🔁 1800 💬 1 📌 35

If you're a Ruby dev especially, go grab something! graceful.dev

30.01.2026 21:48 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Ah yes, Spain, famously English-speaking. 😆

30.01.2026 20:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One thing I wanted to do this year was find more community, and more joy in social stuff. So I joined a pinball league!

One thing I didn't plan for here was that I'm *really bad* at pinball. 😆

30.01.2026 19:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the japanese word for egg is tamago, which can be literally translated as Orb Child

28.01.2026 01:36 👍 44 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0

A reminder — there are *millions* of social sites on the internet, like Storygraph for your reading and Ravelry for your knitting, etc. It’s only the biggest, run by the extremist fascists, that do these terrible things. Don’t define the internet by a handful of apps run by 5 sociopaths.

28.01.2026 13:47 👍 555 🔁 105 💬 10 📌 19

80% of all nfl coaches / coaching candidates are named Mike McMacMikeMichael

26.01.2026 02:13 👍 1786 🔁 159 💬 30 📌 5

I wish this too would pass sooner

25.01.2026 23:02 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

I regret to inform you that you are now on a bus to Maryland

25.01.2026 20:57 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In a country THAT Catholic and West African syncretic, y'all gonna go out into the streets, protest *For* Bolsonaro, and get literally struck by Actual Lightning???

Change your life; change it right now.

25.01.2026 19:45 👍 88 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2

I don't want to live in a world where we forget how to be kind to each other and that seems to be the goal of those who want to control us.

25.01.2026 16:56 👍 232 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 2

I know it’s controversial but I will always side with “why should we change the idealistic symbols, they’re the ones who suck.”

25.01.2026 00:25 👍 2811 🔁 505 💬 9 📌 21

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

22.01.2026 17:00 👍 6333 🔁 2218 💬 22 📌 38

*frantically googling*

moral arc bent wrong how to fix

wikihow diy moral arc fix

moral arc technician near me

19.01.2026 20:38 👍 1994 🔁 492 💬 28 📌 16

Yes, collectively it's called the "Beasts of Burden Suite." It's six games. Donkey Kong is the flagship. Then Reindeer Kong. Hm? Yes, not actually a reindeer. Then Mule Kong, then Lllama Kong. Also monkeys, yes. Then Bactrian Camel Kong. That's correct, also monkey. Then Elephant Kong. Yes I'll hold

19.01.2026 04:04 👍 267 🔁 25 💬 11 📌 1

Tried gochujang for the first time today. Gonna be putting this on everything now tyvm

18.01.2026 02:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

15.01.2026 19:57 👍 10080 🔁 3404 💬 67 📌 73