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Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by Ciantic on Saturday August 13, 2022 @11:15AM (#32450640)
> It's not that much caffeine and it won't do anything to your teeth.

I'm sorry, but diet coke (and most sugar free drinks) causes dental erosion. It's not the sugar that causes it, but usually the citrus acid. Even some flavored sparkly waters have citrus acid in them.

Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by justin66 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @12:14PM (#32451209)
Ah! That’s interesting. I guess my only knowledge in this area (other than the big thing - sugar and corn syrup are really the enemy, I would have thought) is that the magic ingredient that differentiates Diet Coke and Coke Zero is citric acid. I never thought about the tooth decay angle of that.