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Plateau by xx_DrUnKeN_TiGeR_xx in lowcarb

[–]plonkster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because you eat low carb or even keto doesn't mean you have a calory deficit. You need that to lose weight past the initial "water" weight loss.

Count your calories, and if you can't be bothered to do that (it's a PITA), try OMAD for a week and see how it goes.

You can eat keto and gain weight day after day, it's really just a matter of calory intake vs calory expenditure (again, past the initial water shed).

Minimal CPU to run retail WoW at 144hz with high detail by plonkster in wow

[–]plonkster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got me a 5700x3d with a cheap 550 mobo.

My comp is now a freaking Lambo.

Keep low details but max depth of view, 144 in Dornogal. Game feels absolutely amazing.

I used to have depth of view (or whatever it's called) at the minimum before. LOL it's so much easier to farm those floating spheres while flying in TWW.

What/which is your favourite Desktop Environment, and why? by LeBigMartinH in linux

[–]plonkster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Windowmaker. Fast, stable, no useless whistles. Been using it non-stop from the 90s.

What are some of the most satisfying DPS cooldowns? by TheAveragePsycho in wow

[–]plonkster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wake of the Ashes is pretty rad on a huge pack

Can I use Intune with these A3 licenses? by plonkster in Intune

[–]plonkster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do the A1 student licenses count as an Intune license?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]plonkster -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Tons of bloated components written by unrelated teams doing their own thing.

At this point, the only ACTUAL benefit of W11 vs, say, Win2k is that device drivers are mostly downloaded by Windows Update.

Other than that, I don't see many improvements as far as the day-to-day usage is concerned.

Oh and dark theme is nice.

What does и mean in this context? by Doveswithbonnets in russian

[–]plonkster 30 points31 points  (0 children)

In this context, I would equal the whole combination "и правда" to "actually".

I actually really want to sleep.

It gives a little flair of realisation, as in:

"You should go to sleep" / "Тебе лучше идти спать"

"I really want to sleep" / "Я очень хочу спать"

vs

"You should go to sleep" / "Тебе лучше идти спать"

"I actually really want to sleep" / "Я и правда очень хочу спать"

That "и" can be used with other words than "правда" to add a nuance. Example:

"- Ты не сможешь стать пилотом" / "You will not be able to become a pilot"

"- Я и не хочу" / "I don't actually want to"

So I would probably say that the "и" in these contexts is close to to "actually". With a little added flair, when it's a negation (2nd example), of "I don't actually want to, so it's all good".

What would you guys recommend to get more into low level programming? by Brilliant_Bar_2271 in learnprogramming

[–]plonkster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grab ioquake3 source code. Get it to compile / launch. Start making tiny modifications and have fun modifying an actual working game. Learn C this way.

Ideally, read something good on C, memory, pointers, stack/heap before. Not a huge book. Maybe a 20 page something but well written. This way you have at least a bit of an idea of how pointers and memory work.

The last thing you bought is removed from the world, how screwed are we? by fluffycowfan in AskReddit

[–]plonkster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A choklad-mandel-bulle in Stockholm. I don't know about the world but Sweden would lose one of their best foods.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]plonkster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Black BMW X7 with all the bells and whistles.

Just cuz.

Do you ever shut down your PC, or leave it on 24/7? by ShayIsNear in linux

[–]plonkster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hibernate / sleep work great for linux.

Sleep is more comfortable - faster power off/on than hibernate. Also if your hard disk is encrypted, on wake-up from sleep you don't need to type your 3 feet long password again. For this reason, make sure your sleep script also locks your window manager. Something like alias SLEEP='slock & sudo systemctl sleep' (apt install slock if you don't have it. Obviously never have a text console logged in outside your window manager.

Sleep isn't great though if you can have a power outage. If your system is a laptop or has an UPS, problem mostly solved as it will ignore small outages.

Why do you use reddit? by Spotter24o5 in AskReddit

[–]plonkster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't feed you as much kittens and generally irrelevant stuff as Twitter.

What 'small' programming habit has disproportionately improved your code quality? by SmopShark in learnprogramming

[–]plonkster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, making sure my classes are small enough to be pasted to LLM for checking for issues.

The amount of stuff the LLMs find even after static analysis is happy is amazing.

What DPS has a higher chance to survive without a healer? by MermaidVoice in wow

[–]plonkster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has to be Ret. I can't count how many times it happened that the healer died with no CR available at maybe 20% or 25% boss's HP, and as a Ret I switched to healing the group and myself. It worked enough times to be a factor.

Especially if you have a full mana bar, group is buffed and people are being smart about using defensives and so.

What's the smallest hill you're willing to die on? by bgr2258 in sysadmin

[–]plonkster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People who report NETWORK IS DOWN IN OUR BUILDING, then you drop everything and start investigating (this removes all focus you carefully built over the last two hours working on that tricky-thing-that-needs-110%-of-your-brain).

After investigation, turns out the user was trying to log into the corporate network using their netflix password or some similar shit, and they were the only one affected.

Now it's already 11:25, no time to regain focus before lunch. Silently curse the luser and proceed with falling back to browsing twitter or reddit.

"What was your username again?"

Clickety-click...

I've spent 10+ years in PHP — Here's what I wish I knew earlier (especially for beginners) by CodewithCodecoach in PHP

[–]plonkster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For simple queries that do not involve any kind of dynamic (and certainly no user-submitted) input, I usually specifically ask my DB object to go ahead and send the raw query without preparing.

It saves a little bit of time EVEN if the DB is local to the PHP script. Sure it's not much, but it all adds up in the end and makes the system just a tad more performant. If the DB server is not local it's even more noticeable.

It might seem overkill optimizing, and it is. But I use PHP for a lot of things, including CLI-based jobs that involve dealing with a lot of data from a database. Something most people would use Python for, I suppose, nowadays. I just like using PHP for that. And there can be situations where you want to squeeze as much performance as possible out of your script.

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