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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox on Thursday May 30, 2019 @04:19PM (#20055502)
Do you use scaled resolution? It seems the bug is Retina + scaled resolution which is a default on some Macbooks.
Re:An Insulin Index of Foods (1994) on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @03:49PM (#19372207)
Capable, but it doesn't matter since your blood sugar level will spike higher and for longer with a single large meal even in a non-diabetic individual.
Re:An Insulin Index of Foods (1994) on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @01:52PM (#19370999)
Healthier is subjective. Diabetics are taught to eat multiple small meals a day to manage blood sugar levels better.
Re:New pill can deliver insulin on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:23PM (#19117731)
Re:Firefox 64 Released on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @02:22PM (#18657997)
If this release makes it actually usable on MacOS I would be so happy. Everyone says to use FireFox here, but they don't realize that it runs horribly on machines that a lot of people use to develop on.

Reading the release notes:

  Improved performance for Mac and Linux users, by enabling link time optimization (Clang LTO). (Clang LTO was enabled for Windows users in Firefox 63.)
Doesn't seem like this fixes the high CPU issue on MacOS.

Maybe in another few dozen releases they'll fix it. Doesn't Mozilla realize how many people develop on MacOS? Everyone I know develops on a Mac.

Re:Ask HN: What product/service would you be willing to pay for? on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @03:02PM (#16017579)
In my experience, laundromats do not have a ton of competition outside of a dense urban center. In a region where hundreds of thousands live, and in a town 40000, there are 2 laundromats, both very unkept and with old and gross laundry machines. Business is there to make money and squeeze as much out of every machine. Talking to these people, they rarely replace a machine if its dirty or doesn't do a good job, only if its broken/unfixable. I think your view comes from a very rosy world which rarely is replicated in practice.
Re:Ask HN: What product/service would you be willing to pay for? on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:46AM (#16015873)
I know they are trying to do vibrating dryers which don't become as gross, but washing machines are the main problem in terms of cleanliness, but I'm not sure if there are any new advances on that front.
Re:Ask HN: What product/service would you be willing to pay for? on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:44AM (#16015849)
Unfortunately laundry services also use machines of variable quality/cleanliness, so not help there for me at least.
Re:Ask HN: What product/service would you be willing to pay for? on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:43AM (#16015843)
They wouldn't use the service, I'm not sure what you are asking.
Re:Ask HN: What product/service would you be willing to pay for? on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:42AM (#16015832)
What do you think a laundromat is?
Re:Ask HN: What product/service would you be willing to pay for? on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @08:35AM (#16014639)
I live in apartment complex. I’d like to buy my own washer and dryer and be able to rent out a place with water/dryer hookups and pay a monthly and usage fees as to not use the gross common laundry machines. To my knowledge no such service exists.