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- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 11 hours ago:
Definitely. For the average home cook, that convenience is much more valuable than making your knives extra sharp.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 18 hours ago:
Do the diamond stones need any kind of maintenance? I’ve read that you need to regularly flatten the surface of your typical whetstone.
- Comment on I saw your face in a crowded place 1 day ago:
We have both of these things in Canada.
- Comment on A succulent meal 2 days ago:
There are parts of plants that aren’t edible. One definition of vegetable is the edible part of a plant.
- Comment on Most food animals are smarter than a baby. 6 days ago:
I don’t think lack of intelligence is the reason most people are fine with eating animal meat and not human babies. It’s usually that humans just value animal lives less than that of other humans.
- Comment on What should I NOT do in front of rich people? 6 days ago:
Play your cards right and one of them might pay you to pull on it.
- Comment on BASED? 6 days ago:
No idea. You should ask raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world about that.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 1 week ago:
So much tech support has moved to Discord. That’s worth keeping around.
- Comment on BASED? 1 week ago:
Why is it any more okay to create conflict with less secure people?
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 week ago:
Then you’d run into the same problem you have with insurance where they refuse to fix/replace your appliance because of “misuse” or something like that.
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 week ago:
Subscriptions are like insurance and gym memberships. They’re profitable only if they represent value that is never fully realized by the consumer.
Think of your monthly spending as a probability distribution. They provide value by reducing variance of that distribution at the cost of increasing the mean.
Consider at a more concrete example. You’re provided with two options:
- You get $100 a month guaranteed
- Flip a coin each month. On head, you get $200. On tail, you get nothing.
The expected value for both are the same, but option #1 is predictable. It’s the better option of the two unless you’re in a situation where getting $0 is effectively equivalent to getting $100. You would need to increase the amount you get in option #2 to make it worthwhile. Similarly, you can decrease the amount you get in option #1 and still have it be the better option.
By default, life is like option #2. The value proposition of insurance and the like is to give you option #1 with an amount lower than the expected value of #2, and in exchange, they get the difference as profit.
- Comment on There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport. 2 weeks ago:
I think they’re referring to random mutations. There’s no evolutionary pressure to get better at any of these skills, so at a population level, we’re unlikely to see any change. But at the individual level, it’s still possible through these mutations.
- Comment on Is it possible that the rich are so rich that they have created inflation? 2 weeks ago:
Not malicious in the sense that the intent isn’t to cause harm to us regular people. If buying those properties raised our prices and didn’t help them keep their money, they wouldn’t do it. If it didn’t raise our prices and helped them keep their money, they would still do it.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 2 weeks ago:
But does his boss have the authority to allow it?
- Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained 2 weeks ago:
You could say the same about people who used the early 2000s Google by entering full questions with natural language and clicking “I’m feeling lucky”. There are always going to be wrong ways to use a tool. But we’re discussing whether there exists a right way. And that right way includes verifying the information you receive, just like you would if you found it through a regular search engine.
The social and environmental costs are real. That’s not the criticism you gave and not what the responses are disagreeing with.
- Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained 2 weeks ago:
Willingness to look is a pretty important factor. LLMs reduce the personal cost incurred to look up information, similar to how search engines saved us from having to go to the library for every question we had.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 2 weeks ago:
We already had subreddit simulator for ages. This isn’t anything new.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 2 weeks ago:
The poll didn’t even ask a real question. “Yes or no to AI?” No context.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 2 weeks ago:
If that’s what you meant to say, then it would help to actually say that. Regardless, the argument doesn’t hold water. If Teams has poor support for older hardware and non-Windows operating systems when other apps don’t, then that’s a Teams problem. If it takes someone who specializes in Teams to be able to work with it effectively when other apps require minimal training, then that’s also a Teams problem.
- Comment on Is it normal that you feel very shaky as soon as you start to get hungry? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, that’s good to know. I’ve been experiencing this too and I know T1 diabetes runs in the family, but I ruled it out because I thought it wasn’t a symptom of diabetes. I should check with a doctor.
- Comment on Is it normal that you feel very shaky as soon as you start to get hungry? 2 weeks ago:
As far as I’m aware, diabetes will lead to hyperglycemia, not hypo. Taking insulin for diabetes in excess of what’s needed or not eating enough while on insulin will lead to hypoglycemia.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 2 weeks ago:
go into any business in Canada or the US with more than 200 employees
That’s like, 2% of businesses in Canada. Even if they all use Windows, it doesn’t prove the point that few businesses use MacOS.
- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! 3 weeks ago:
Might be a Boost bug, but the link doesn’t include anything past the hyphen.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps the U.S. could be named after gold
The United States of Aumerica
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 3 weeks ago:
I’d love to see it being used by enemies so they’re challenging without cheating, though.
Check out Sony’s work with GT Sophy
- Comment on How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC? 4 weeks ago:
So what you’re saying is that Andrew Yang should run again.
- Comment on Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down? 4 weeks ago:
Part of the reason Amazon works is because they sell high volumes of each product, allowing them to distribute products ahead of time across warehouses to match expected demand. You can’t do that if you only have exactly one of each item.
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 5 weeks ago:
Did Xi actually take offense to it? I thought it was just others being overly heavy-handed in their censorship, thus Streisanding the whole thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’ve always just done lots of water and waited it out. I see medication at the pharmacies labeled “cold medication”, but I never looked into what they do.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Meaning that it’s just marketed as cold medication without doing anything specifically for colds?