cravl

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Street racers are not criminals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll also add, besides the obvious public endangerment, street racers are just soooo fricking loud. Noise ordinances exist for a reason, but even where they don’t, nobody likes being woken up by a bunch of metal death boxes screeeaaaming past their window at 3am. (Near me, it’s a posse of motorbikes. I typed that as motorbiles at first. Heh.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't perceive prices logarithmically when selling things.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At least it’s your own brain exploiting you instead of some shadowy cabal of advertising execs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And like yeah, both the wonderful (and foss!) .json5 and Microsoft’s semi-proprietary(?) .jsonc exist, but most projects just use their language’s default JSON parser that doesn’t recognize them. What I would personally love to see is .json5 support 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 🧜‍♀️🤔⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a relevant meme!

  centaur-scale

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The not-Austin part?