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Buddahriffic

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  • I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me?

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  • Yeah, back when I still watched cable TV, Canadian Tire had a recurring character in their ads where some neighbours were talking about a problem and the Canadian Tire guy would pop in with how Canadian Tire had a product that could help with that very problem.

    Sounded like a normal kind of ad, but the guy came off as so smug and corporate, he was pretty much in the uncanny valley with his behaviour. Trying to play the ad off as a natural conversation just came off as so fake and I hated the ads to the point where I boycotted the windshield wipers despite them looking like exactly what I wanted.

    They weren't, I'd later learn after enough time had passed after they fired the guy (because turns out I wasn't the only one who couldn't stand him) and I decided they had learned their lesson. But the ads did more to drive me to other stores than help Canadian Tire's business, even though they were already one of the default options (for those who don't know them, they are a big box store that is like Home Depot plus car parts, outdoor sporting/camping/hunting, but minus a bunch of the hardware and any contractor focus).

  • Automation since centuries ago

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  • Except sometimes that self-driving mode decides it would rather drive on without you. And sometimes it activates itself randomly.

  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • Ah, that's efficiency of use and depends more on how familiar you are with the software as well as the design and task. Like editing an image or video is going to be a lot easier with a gui than a command line interface (other than generating slop I guess).

    When people talk about how efficient software is, it's usually referring more to the amount of resources it uses (including time) to run its processes.

    Eg an electron app is running a browser that is manipulating and rendering html elements running JavaScript (or other scripts/semi-compiled code). There is an interpreter that needs to process whatever code it is to do the manipulation and then an html renderer to turn that into an image to display on the screen. The interpreter and renderer run as machine code on the CPU, interacting with the window manager and the kernel.

    A native app doesn't bother with the interpreter and html renderer and itself runs as machine code on the CPU and interacts with the window manager and kernel. This saves a bunch of memory, since there isn't an intermediate html state that needs to be stored, and time by cutting out the interpreter and html render steps.

  • Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data

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  • Yeah, though getting useful information out of documentation is a skill on its own that not everyone possesses. But I agree that "it's in the manual" can be useful, especially these days with how common useless manuals are.

    Like I just bought a motherboard and the paper manual it came with was useless, like it didn't even differentiate between installing Intel or AMD coolers, so clearly didn't contain much specific information for that particular board.

    The online manual had more useful information, unless you want more info about uefi settings, where you'll be lucky if it has full information of uefi options for the release uefi, let alone the latest version.

  • ‘I took two bites and had to spit it out’: candy makers are phasing out real cocoa in chocolate

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  • It was a different commenter, though I also like snacking on dark chocolate chips. Baker's chocolate is also good, but the consistency of the squares isn't great for snacking.

    I just read it as a tip for how to get chocolate anyways, even if all the chocolate bar makers stop using it. The chocolate-like but cheaper stuff they are using instead of chocolate sounds more like the dustbowl/depression era tricks to enjoy food while you can't afford it.

    Though part of my perspective is from getting my cooking to a level where store bought prepared stuff is just the easy/convenient option, not the high quality one (for health or taste). I also love dark chocolate and prefer the high cocoa content ones over must chocolate bars.

  • ‘I took two bites and had to spit it out’: candy makers are phasing out real cocoa in chocolate

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  • And I'm confused about how you found anything in that comment dystopian. Though I'm assuming that name I didn't recognize is a brand name for an actual chocolate producer. Hopefully it isn't a brand name for something similar to chocolate but not lol.

  • ‘I took two bites and had to spit it out’: candy makers are phasing out real cocoa in chocolate

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  • Yeah, I think sucralose is the only one that doesn't taste awful to me. Like I've always been skeptical of the defense of aspartame because it tastes like something I shouldn't be eating. I was looking forward to stevia back when it got popular, but it also has that taste (I'm guessing from leftover solvent, since it's not water soluable like sugar).

    There's plenty of ways to make things taste great without relying so heavily on sweetness. I hate the western food industry's obsession with it along with the capitalist obsession with selling as much as possible, because it's resulted in the less sugar I've wanted to see instead meaning the sugar is replaced with other chemicals that taste sweet (and "chemically").

    And I doubt safety studies looked at anything beyond "does it so obviously cause issues that we'll be sued the moment we try to sell this?"

  • Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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  • Knowing apple, at that price point, performance is going to suuuuuck.

  • xkcd #3218: Subduction Retrieval

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  • If you do that, the volcanoes could start sucking the rocks back in, along with the people and animals, and we aren't well adapted to living in reversed volcanoes. Within a few generations, survival pressures will probably select for shorter posture (to more easily move around in tight spaces), stronger build (to be able to push rocks out of the way more easily), skills with mining and smithing (obviously), and beards on women (so they, too, can easily carry around small snacks for later).

    So yeah, carry on.

  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • Can you elaborate on that? I disagree but would like to understand why you think that. Maybe you're referring to something I wouldn't disagree with.

  • Has anyone actually figured out what they want when they do this?

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  • Yeah, I've had good results just going for the chest instead of the chest and belly. Then they can interact with their front paws or head if they want to, and you avoid getting raked with the rear claws if they suddenly decide petting was ok up to then but must stop immediately.

    Also don't go from 0 to 100 instantly, unless you know the cat well. Ramp up the intensity more slowly so the cat isn't jolted around unexpectedly or feels out of control. Same thing if you pick them up. If they instantly start squirming around, they aren't comfortable. Maybe it's nervousness about being dropped, maybe they just don't want to be carried.

  • love venn diagrams🫶

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  • Gonna need a bigger screen or a projector to draw a circle large enough for your mom.

  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • Yeah, for things that will likely be used, caching is good. I just have a problem with the "memory is free, so find more stuff to cache to fill it" or "we have gigabytes of RAM so it doesn't matter how memory-efficient any program I write is".

  • Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data

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  • It's like people who reply "rtfm", except these people actually think they are helping, while the rtfm replier just thinks the question asker isn't worthy of their knowledge (or wants to hide that they don't know while maintaining their "I am wise" persona).

  • I choose violence

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  • Not that I expect to see it ever happen, but English could benefit from an alphabet/writing revamp like Korea did.

    I don't know any Korean but understand that it's one of the easier languages to learn because of that.

    I do know that Japanese was pretty easy to read, at least before any Kanji are involved. Despite having two alphabets (think like if for bold text, we had different symbols instead of making the same ones heavier, though they have other uses in Japanese, too). It's because they are always pronounced the same, no contextual changes. It gave the impression that Japanese was easy to learn (until Kanji smashed that idea to pieces lol).

  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • I don't want my PC wasting resources trying to guess every possible next action I might take. Even I don't know for sure what games I'll play tonight.

  • Put the shoes on

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  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • Ib4 "uNusEd RAm iS wAStEd RaM!"

    No, unused RAM keeps my PC running fast. I remember the days where accidentally hitting the windows key while in a game meant waiting a minute for it to swap the desktop pages in, only to have to swap the game pages back when you immediately click back into it, expecting it to either crash your computer or probably disconnect from whatever server you were connected to. Fuck that shit.

  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • There isn't anything fundamentally slower about using a GUI vs just text in a console. There's more to draw but it scales linearly. The drawing things on the screen part isn't the slow bit for slow programs. Well, it can be if it's coded inefficiently, but there are plenty of programs with GUIs that are snappy... Like games, which generally draw even more complex things than your average GUI app.

    Slow apps are more likely because of an inefficient framework (like running in a web browser with heavy reliance on scripts rather than native code), inefficient algorithms that scale poorly, poor resource use, bad organization that results in doing the same operation more times than necessary, etc.