“Git” is only really a word in British English which implicitly gives it lower worldwide cultural penetration than a general English term. For most non-British programmers (and honestly I would imagine many British ones given how ubiquitous Git VC is now), “Git” refers to the software first and the pejorative second, if they’ve even heard of the latter before.
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Respectfully, what on Earth are you talking about? OP has only indicated that they’re trying to be health-conscious by maintaining proper hydration - the weird “societal pressure” angle is being superimposed by you. As I alluded to in my previous comment, it’s easy to ignore mild dehydration and sometimes a conscious effort is needed to maintain optimal intake. “Drink when you’re thirsty” is fine in a vacuum, but to distill (no pun intended) hydration advice down to just that is to ignore how people work in real life.
I don’t know why you’re bringing up hyponatremia. Water toxicity is exceedingly rare and one would need to consume an inordinate amount of water in short time before it becomes “unsafe.” You’re unnecessarily fearmongering and pushing misinformation when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Also, there’s no “water-pushing” conspiracy at play here. It’s just a reality that most people don’t consume as much water as they ideally should, and as a result people sometimes draw attention to that reality as a means of improving the general health of society.
OP, please don’t listen to this person. Most of this is terrible advice.
To start, it’s still advisable to drink water through the day even if you’re getting some from your food intake. A typical diet will provide around 20% of the recommended daily amount - the rest needs to come from actual fluid intake. Even with a diet with a high proportion of fruits and vegetables, it doesn’t come close to meeting the ideal amount.
Coffee and beer are not the same as the equivalent amount of pure water. Caffeine and ethanol both function as diuretics - that is, they promote urine production which in turn reduces your overall hydration. Ethanol is worse in this category to the extent that alcoholic drinks can actually dehydrate you. Caffeine has a more mild effect and is overall hydrating, but a cup of coffee still isn’t equivalent to a cup of water.
Citrus fruits do help prevent kidney stone formation, but it’s primarily via a different mechanism involving the citrate found in those fruits/juices rather than the acidity itself. Not that this matters too much in practice, but I point this out due to the inclusion of “other acidic beverages” as an alternative.
Chronic mild dehydration (generally) won’t kill you, but it will prevent your body from functioning at its best and can potentially cause issues with electrolyte imbalances, blood pH, and plenty else. You should aim to stay optimally hydrated as much as possible for the benefit of your overall health.
“Drink when you’re thirsty” is the one solid piece of advice here. Your body has evolved cues like this over hundreds of millions in order to get you to take good care of it, and its best to listen to them as much as possible. That said: these cues only works when you’re cognizant of them, and it’s still important to be actively mindful and intermittently remind yourself to follow them, especially when you’re involved in tasks that would otherwise distract you from them.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Can the GNU/ Linux Foundation Fork Android and Maintain it?English
16·10 days agoThe second paragraph isn’t accurate - Android uses the Linux kernel. Hardware manufacturers typically ship their own proprietary modules, but in principle there’s nothing stopping you from running a mainline kernel image as long as support for the specific device or SoC is present. Granted, this isn’t the case for the majority of phones, but this isn’t a limitation of Android itself and you’d run into the same issue trying to run postmarketOS or really anything else on an unsupported device.
I also want to point out that there really aren’t any good alternatives to Android (and its derivatives) at the moment. Mobile Linux distributions are getting better, but at least in my personal experience and from what I’ve heard from others it’s still a pretty janky experience in comparison and arguably is only suitable for enthusiasts.
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Ask Science@lemmy.world•In space how does one tell what direction being no fixed point? Or how does one tell up from down and so on?English
1·2 months agoI just want to add that apart from time dilation, velocity also causes length contraction wherein an object will be measured as shorter when it’s moving relative to the observer versus from its own rest frame. I’ve always found it (and time dilation) to be very unintuitive to reason about with my monkey brain - relativity in general is just super weird.
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Ask Science@lemmy.world•What would a sunrise look like, you stood on the imaginative surface of a black hole?English
1·3 months agoNASA actually created an animation simulating what it would look like to fall into a black hole. In short, you’d see the outside universe warped into a circle directly opposite the direction of the singularity, with black all around it. This is ignoring the accretion disk that the other commenter pointed out, although that sits well outside the event horizon and I’m not sure off the top of my head how much of that light escapes inwards towards the black hole versus outwards.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•As a Nurse who works nation wide I have seen the effects of narcan on heroin,meth,acid and such. But what would happen to a person who is really really high on weed?English
16·4 months agoSomeone please correct me if I’m mistaken, but Narcan (naloxone) is not used for overdoses on non-opiod drugs like meth or LSD. As other commenters have pointed out it specifically binds to opioid receptors, so it’s not going to be useful for a drug that operates via a different primary mechanism. The same goes for THC, which binds to cannabinoid receptors instead. Frankly, I would expect a medical professional to just know this.
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Programming•Is there an equivalent to the "Alan Smithee" pseudonym for a developer?English
1·5 months agoThe closest thing I can think of is
@author unascribedsometimes seen in Javadoc comments, but I don’t think that’s used in quite the same way as what you’re asking.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What if you legitimately don't remember the alphabet that well during a field sobriety test because you never use it?English
2·5 months agoYou should verbally indicate that you don’t wish to answer questions rather than staying totally silent. That said, there are circumstances where cooperating can make your life easier if you’re able to easily and clearly dispel the officer’s suspicion, though this is highly dependent on situation and the specific cop you’re dealing with. If you are doing something wrong the best thing is always to stfu.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What if you legitimately don't remember the alphabet that well during a field sobriety test because you never use it?English
61·5 months agoAccording to the link you provided, every US state has implied consent laws which trigger an automatic DL suspension if you refuse a breathalyzer.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?English
3·5 months agoNot to interject, but when people talk about using “Linux” they’re generally referring to desktop Linux (usually GNU/Linux). ChromeOS and SteamOS are Linux distros of a sort under the hood, but they’re also highly curated experiences. Android technically uses the Linux kernel but architecturally it’s so drastically different from basically any other system using it that it’s quite misleading to call it “Linux” in the colloquial sense.
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Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•developer of game 'Rust' talks about anticheat on linuxEnglish
2·5 months agoThere was a native Linux build up until 2019. I also wouldn’t really class Rust as an FPS, but that’s beside the point.
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Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•developer of game 'Rust' talks about anticheat on linuxEnglish
461·5 months agoThat .01% number is out of line with the overall share of Steam users in 2018 by literally an order of magnitude. I can understand some deviation within a particular game, but that figure is so far off that I kind of suspect he just made it up on the spot.
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Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•developer of game 'Rust' talks about anticheat on linuxEnglish
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Programming•The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant programEnglish
6·6 months agoThis culture war shit is pathetic. “DEI” has become a dogwhistle (if one can even call it that at this point) for “I don’t like black people/brown people/women”, and they all shamelessly parrot it with their whole chest. Good on the PSF for doing the right thing and calling this garbage out for what it is.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•To the Korean Linux users: Which distro would you recommend?English
71·6 months agoThanks ChatGPT.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•am I the only one getting HTTP Error 403: Forbidden when executing yt-dlp from the terminal on debian?English
4·6 months agoThe article you linked is describing how to set a static internal IP address (i.e. the address your computer uses within your local network) whereas YouTube would be seeing your external IP address (which is typically assigned automatically by your ISP). I’m not sure what the parent comment is referring to with “changing” their address, but I would assume they’re probably using a VPN or something similar so that YouTube sees the address of the current VPN server instead.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Not promoting hate speech but what happened to all the slights/slurs/vulgarity from like the 20s and 40s. There were so many. Now it seems well I can only think of three?English
7·6 months agoFrom what I can find online, it seems like it’s unlikely that particular term was originally meant to refer to slave masters and it moreso referred to the head of household.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Not promoting hate speech but what happened to all the slights/slurs/vulgarity from like the 20s and 40s. There were so many. Now it seems well I can only think of three?English
11·6 months agoWow, this is my first time learning this. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it written so I assumed it was spelled “jipped” and never made the connection.
I can understand the desire to change it given that the current name is arguably a slur in some contexts, but this is a terrible new name. There was a fork awhile back with this same motivation called “Glimpse” - I really think they should have chosen a name with some continuity from the original, and certainly not what looks to be an initialism (I never would have come to “Wilbur” on my own).