Don't just go by the price tag though, because some of the expensive shit is actually cheap but they figured they'd sell more if they give it a premium price (and maybe some chrome-finnished plastic parts to make it look more premium).
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I got a manscaped electric face razor to replace another cheap one that was dying. It was the first electric razor I got that didn't come with a tiny bottle of mineral oil for lube and even said in the manual that it didn't need lube.
I bet if I had listened to that BS, it would be dead already, especially because I have had it fail to start with full battery just from the friction of the blades (giving it a tap can get it going, adding lube makes it run noticeably better).
Fucking liars. Let's see if it lasts any longer than the other ones even with lube.
Thanks for taking the time to write that out, yyprum!
It sounds interesting. I switched to O launcher when Nova was sold and the writing was on the wall, but it was overly simplistic and I didn't continue using it when I got a pixel and moved to graphene, but I'm neutral on the default launcher it has. I'll check this one out when I have some time, it sounds compelling.
Can you elaborate a bit on what makes it hard to learn and what is so nice about it once you do? I didn't see much for details on the linked page.
It made me curious, like is the book intended to bring OP into the manosphere or red pill him or something? Here's the rules, most actually do sound good, but with some "is that really important?" and "oh that's about control" mixed in:
- "Stand up straight with your shoulders back."
- "Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping."
- "Make friends with people who want the best for you."
- "Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today."
- "Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them."
- "Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world."
- "Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)."
- "Tell the truth – or, at least, don't lie."
- "Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't."
- "Be precise in your speech."
- "Do not bother children when they are skateboarding."
- "Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street."[14]
Like 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 all sound like good advice. 1 is the take it or leave it one, 5 is about controlling your kids, 6 is about silencing potentially valid criticism (or letting perfection be the enemy of good).
That said, I just looked at the wikipedia page for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Rules_for_Life
Who knows what the actual text says for each rule, though. It's possible he's written some batshit interpretation for them all.
Yeah, that use of them makes sense, as a method to churn out hypotheses. But their wording suggests to me that they might not have been created for that purpose (Hanlon's uses the word "never") and I think the vast majority of the time I see people invoking them in discussions is to try to discredit another comment, not to explain why they are presenting a hypothesis (in fact, once you have the hypothesis, the brainstorming method used to get there isn't really relevant anymore, next step should be determining ways to support or oppose that hypothesis).
It's just frustrating seeing people quoting razors as if they are supporting evidence, and that is the pseudologic part.
I'll also point out that "pseudoscience" or "pseudologic" doesn't mean it's useless, just that it isn't as profound as many seem to believe it is.
Everything AI boom is likely a lie, and Nvidia bribing Trump to sell H200s to China, at 25% export tariff, is proof of incapacity or unwillingness of US industry to deploy them.
I'd love for you to be right (I'd like to see nvidia compete as an underdog since they are fairly anticompetitive in their dominant position) but think this reasoning is flawed.
Wanting to sell to China just means that demand isn't exceeding supply, or maybe even that they have access to more supply that they'd use if they could sell to China, which is a massive market. Or even if they don't have any excess supply, higher demand means they can set higher prices and still expect to sell all inventory.
Like the US car companies wanting to sell cars in China doesn't imply that they are unable to sell cars in the US, it just means they want to sell cars to China and the US.
I agree with the rest of your comment and think it was well said, sorry about this nitpick.
On the flip side, it takes longer to type the text than it does to say it, plus verbal communication can be two ways even when the talking is mostly on one side because you can add acknowledgements when you understand without interrupting or you can interrupt when something is said that you don't follow.
I do better with text myself, but communication is something where you need to meet in the middle, assuming you're open to communication in the first place. If you just don't want to communicate, then the easiest to blow off is the preferred method. Which actually is another reason I personally like text communication, because I can ignore it in the moment and get back to it later, but you can do this with calls by asking to schedule a call instead of taking it right then.
Yes. They just introduced a paradox to our logic, therefore everything is true.
But also no, because that contradiction also implies everything is false.
Yeah, Java's enforcement of everything must be a class put me off of the language right from the start. I was already used to C++ at that point and hated that I couldn't just write a quick little test function to check something, it needed a bunch of boilerplate to even get started.
I still think C++ has a great balance between object oriented and sequential programming. Not sure if it's the best, but I can't think of ways to improve on it, other than built in concurrency object stuff (like monitor classes that have built in locks that prevent more than one thread from accessing any of its functions at the same time, basically guaranteeing any code in it has mutual exclusion).
Sometimes tech presentations make me feel really bad for the person giving it. They are up there trying their best but clearly don't have the skills to do more than just communicate information but still try to make their presentation cool and fun and it just falls flat.
Anyone can be cool, but not everyone can be cool on demand or on stage.
Though on the other hand, just because a presenter can pull off the cool factor, it doesn't mean what they are presenting is actually cool. The coolness of a presentation has no correlation with the coolness of what is being presented, unless that coolness is just information about the product (though even then, they are probably skipping over the flaws and enshitification).
Battery tech has improved a lot since they came out and (at least for the other two systems mentioned, plus any other device I've replaced the battery for) you can often find batteries with better specs than the original for longer lasting (before recharge is required, can't say yet about total lifetime).
It's also not a bad idea to check if your batteries have become danger pillows, though the controller ones tend to be housed in hard plastic that makes it less obvious, but my wii u battery did feel like it had a bit of a bulge to it, leading to a nervous period where I had gotten rid of the old battery but was still waiting for the new one to be shipped lol.
Congrats, that's some great progress!
Yeah, the bit about working out was intended to be an exception to what I was saying, but I didn't communicate it very well.
Business logic would be transformations to the data. Like for a spreadsheet, the data layer would handle the reading/writing of files as well as the storage of each cell's content. The business logic layer would handle evaluating each of the formulas in the cells, and the presentation layer draws it on the screen.
I think the part where it gets confusing is that each of these layers are pretty tightly coupled. The end destination of the presentation layer might change, one might show it on a GUI, another might print it, and another might convert it to pdf or html, but each of those presentation layers needs to understand the data that it is presenting, so it's tightly coupled to the data layer. Same with the businesses logic layer, though it's tightly coupled on both the input and output sides. The design of the data layer constrains the possibilities of the other two, so it's hard to draw a clear boundary between the layers because they all need to know how to walk the same data.
My mental flow chart for this is more of a data layer in the middle instead of business logic, where business logic is to the side with arrows going both ways between it and data layer, then the presentation layer also accessing the data layer directly, which I suppose is a different permutation of what you described.
Though another way to look at it does make sense. For a website, think of the database as the data layer, the server scripts as the business logic layer, and the client side scripts/html/css as the presentation layer. That one also follows the layered approach where the presentation layer is talking with the business logic layer.
Yeah, well-designed abstraction can help enable more concurrency. That said, concurrency isn't easy at any point once there's shared data that needs to be written to during the process. Maybe it's not so bad if your language has good concurrency support (like monitor classes and such that handle most of the locking behind the scenes), but even then, there's subtle pitfalls that can add rare bugs or crashes to your program.
Though on the flip side, remember that however old you are right now, it's also the youngest you'll ever be going forward.
Feeling old in your 20s? Many people are active into their 60s, some keep going strong into their 90s.
Unless you're recovering from illness or injury, the current version of your body might be the best version you'll ever see again.
Though one suggestion that left my own body far more capable, if you're the skinny and weak type, do some proper workouts. Proper as in spend the time to learn proper form and also ensure you're getting enough energy and protein in your diet. You'll gain strength that will stay with you until you do get really old (assuming your body doesn't atrophy due to starvation or being bedridden before then).
Eg, when I first started working out, I couldn't curl 20 lbs, had to go down to 15. But I was curling 20 a week or two later and was pushing 40 lbs about a year or two later, then my workout habit dropped off and 8 years have passed and I can still curl over 30 lbs when I get curious in the dumbbell section of stores that carry them.
On the other hand, most of the games I've gotten for my PS5 are PS4 games, though tbf they are mostly from the used game bargain bin at EB Games, so I guess it says more about the cheap ps4 library vs ps5.
You can also find replacement batteries online, though hard to say how easy the replacement will be. Wasn't bad for ps3 or wii u controllers, but no idea how ms approached it.
Oh, that must be from the same devs (publisher?) as Satisfactory. They've got a Huntdown tape for the boombox, just like Sanctum. That one was cool, getting the two games randomly and then recognizing the music from Satisfactory.
Can't you update it all regardless of whether you're using it because the Linux file system leaves the old file intact and just writes a new file and updates the pointer so anything still using the old file carries on as if nothing happened and just gets the update the next time you run it?