People who hunt said predators.

Looks like there’s also plenty of calligraphy involved.

If you’ve ever wondered what The Big Onion wants you to think and do, here’s your chance to find out.

When I’m docking my space ship in 3rd person view I really wish I had a better idea of how close I really am. A 2D display just doesn’t do a good job no matter how many pixels and fps I have. It’s not a 3 k€ problem, but a problem nonetheless.

Once I saw a bag of over roasted beans from a small roaster. They screwed up the process and ended up with a batch that tasted like smoke, ash and charcoal. Instead of throwing it away, they decided to sell it instead.

Sodium nitrite is toxic to humans, but it’s used as a food preservative. Ever wondered why?

If you want to take a look at the study, it’s right here. I took a quick look at it, and it seemed pretty good to me. Since I didn’t notice any obvious red flags, there could be something actually going on with xylitol.

However, I wonder if anyone has seen similar results in other studies. Having a single study about this is nice, but I think I need a few more before we jump to any conclusions.

Maybe you could use an LLM to filter out all the murder threats and curses while also adding all the necessary punctuation.

As opposed to the practices of which company?

Giving only a few years of support is not a great practice, but that’s the world we live in. If we had fully open source phones, then the community could provide the updates for much longer, but there’s still a pretty long way to go in that regard.

Oh that’s just great. Two similar place names like that, and they also happen to be relatively close to each other. I can see how that could cause some confusion.

Similarly, Kuhmo and Kuhmoinen (both in Finland) are about 446 km apart, but you can easily avoid the confusion as long as you know roughly which part of the country you’re talking about.

There’s also Helsingborg (town in Sweden) and Helsinfors (swedish name for the capital of Finland). What could go wrong.

OMG, that makes it so much worse. If someone tells you about a specific place, and you want to look it up later, you have absolutely zero chance of ever spelling it correctly. Good luck typing lester or woster in Wikipedia or Maps.

I can only think if Toron(t)o. Never really thought about other towns doing the same thing.

Lithosphere and mantle. Got it. 👍

A friend of mine switched from a dumb phone to a smart phone some time in around 2015. He said that the dumb phone was keeping him isolated from the rest of the world. He was unable to communicate with the with certain people because they were sending messages using whatsapp, facebook and all that modern spyware trash. It was too late to stick to a dumb phone back then, and now it’s even worse. If you want to isolate yourself from the people around you, a dumb phone has become an excellent tool to achieve that.

Even though the reasons for buying these products are different, the mechanics are surprisingly similar.

Here’s an example. A nicotine addict has to choose between keeping on smoking or going through the struggles of quitting. Someone driving a car has the choice of keeping the current job, or going through the trouble of finding a job that happens to be within cycling distance. People tend to pick the easier option, even though there are good reasons for going through all the trouble.

It’s because of price elasticity, people are going to keep on buying cigarettes even if the price keeps on increasing. If smoking becomes as expensive as renting an apartment or owning a car, that’s when we’re going to see some decrease in cigarette consumption. At the moment, people also complain about electricity and gasoline prices, but I suspect those prices could double without hurting sales that much. Increasing them about 10X would probably cross a line and people would start using those resources as sparingly as possible.

LOL. Those raid ads baked into the OS were just a cherry on top.

relevant xkcd

Unicycles are clearly more dangerous than skis.

Yes. It’s fakeception all the way.