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- Comment on We don't perceive prices logarithmically when selling things. 3 days ago:
If I understand you correctly, I think “people don’t easily comprehend the significance of increasing orders of magnitude” is a better way to frame it. To use iii’s examples, people perceive a coffee that costs 5 as being 1 unit more than a coffee costing 4. But when comparing two cars costing 40000 and 50000, the human brain tends to just latch on to the most significant digit, and starts to see it the same way: just one unit more.
Tangentially, given our brains’ difficulty processing large numbers, I wonder if this effect leads to money management skills being worse on average in economies with smaller base currency units, such as the Japanese Yen, Indian Rupee, South Korean Won, or for an extreme case study, the Iranian Rial, which currently exchanges at 49,313 IRR ≈ 1 EUR. When your haircut costs 1200000, a new phone costs 18700000, and a new car costs 1331400000, it’s hard to judge the weight of your decisions. When the slightly nicer car costs 1645200000, it’s near impossible to notice that you just spent your coffee money for an entire year (~5 days a week for 50 weeks) on a moonroof and Apple CarPlay. Not sure if that example is applicable to the average Iranian, but eh.
- Comment on We don't perceive prices logarithmically when selling things. 3 days ago:
125% times
…is the most cursed thing I’ve seen all day. Especially so when you realize that when you convert it to a decimal of 1.25, the sentence is completely correct. Bravo. 😅👏
- Comment on If autism is a spectrum, does that mean everyone is on the spectrum? 1 week ago:
Idk, I think that depends on the context in which the rainbow is viewed.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 3 weeks ago:
At least it’s your own brain exploiting you instead of some shadowy cabal of advertising execs?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
My vote is for a name that I just made up, Aarana. It’s the female form of Aaron, with all a’s. 😄
- Comment on Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration. 4 weeks ago:
And like yeah, both the wonderful (and foss!)
.json5and Microsoft’s semi-proprietary(?).jsoncexist, but most projects just use their language’s default JSON parser that doesn’t recognize them. What I would personally love to see is.json5support baked into the default JSON parsing libraries of Python, Go, etc. (Enabled by a flag, likely.) It’s a superset of regular JSON and fully ES2019 compatible, so there shouldn’t be any issues. - Comment on Mythological Plot Holes 🧜♀️🤔 5 weeks ago:
I have a relevant meme!
- Comment on introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server 1 month ago:
I would add PairDrop to your list to have bookmarked. It’s completely web-based so no download required and thus fully cross-platform. It also works across different networks (i.e. over the internet) by pairing devices or creating a room. Basically Apple AirDrop, but universal and on steroids.
- Comment on (Dark take) Ghibli filter trend is just people hiding how ugly they are 5 months ago:
Small but crucial correction:
Ghibli filter trend is just people hiding how ugly they feel.
I might also say trying to hide instead. It’s usually not hard to tell when it comes from insecurity.
- Comment on World Backup Day 5 months ago:
Eh, I’m not sure if the world can be picked backup, it’s been knocked down pretty hard. I’m always down for trying though.
/apr1
- Comment on California utilities scapegoat rooftop solar for high electricity rates 9 months ago:
That would require all (or at least a critical majority) of the manufacturers of such vehicles to implement a standardized form factor, which isn’t going to happen short of legislative action. (I mean sure, they’re almost entirely just 18650 cells at their core, but swapping individual cells is hardly practical or safe for average end users.)
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 11 months ago:
The not-Austin part?
