in something that can get warm enough to possibly melt the glue.

The yellow/green color scheme almost always indicates a grounding wire. (And the ground symbol molded into the plastic behind it seems to confirm that.) Unless something has already gone terribly wrong, there shouldn’t be much power at all flowing through this wire, so it shouldn’t get hot.

Easier to sell pictures of it.

and who knows, maybe they go on to require all future devices to be locked down too.

Yep. This might very well be the pretext for banning any hardware that can run non-corporate software.

Doesn’t hurt as much when it gets hit by something.

The town is begging for young people to move in, okay … and what are they offering in return? Why would any young person want to live there?

Can you give me the exact locations of all lost civilizations?

Yes.

Goodbye.

Bullets

Repeatability is key in science.

“There is no way to do this.”

The ‘why or why not’ makes it 2 questions.

What is the full content of the Epstein files?

(Hope you don’t mind if I’m recording you while you give the answer…)

And I am fucking here for it.

Often, sure, that’s the reason many people buy high-end products. And luxury cars are a prime example because nobody really needs a luxury car.

But instead, say, let’s look at mountain bikes. A midrange mountain bike will be much better than a Walmart special ‘mountain bike’. And a high-end mountain bike will be slightly better than the midrange one. And it’s true, a lot of the people buying high-end mountain bikes don’t really need that extra 10% of performance and maybe aren’t even really capable of using it. A lot of them are buying it just to flex on the poors, or because they have more money than they know what to do with and feel like they just have to have ‘the best’. But there are real enthusiast mountain bikers out there who actually do ‘need’ that extra 10% performance – expert riders taking on some of the worst terrain possible, people stretching the limits of what’s possible, and competitive athletes for whom a 10% performance difference means the difference between first place and last place.

Or, say, look at a tool like a power drill. A midrange drill will be significantly better than some Harbor Freight discount garbage. (Though, actually, HF’s midrange stuff is fairly decent.) And a high-end drill will be only slightly better than the midrange one. Here, there’s even less of a chance of people buying an expensive drill just as a flex. Because who cares what kind of drill you have? The only people buying it who don’t need it are those idiots with more money than sense who have to have the best of everything. But these high-end drills still get sold in fair numbers, because there are professionals out there using them every day. People who use the tool frequently for work can really benefit from one that’s just a little bit more reliable, a little bit faster and more powerful, etc. It allows them to get their work done a bit faster and more reliably, and for someone using it that much, the extra cost of a high-end tool can pay for itself over time by making them able to get more work done in less time and make more money.

At least some high-end products actually do have a purpose beyond just conspicuous consumption.

Tradition and authenticity are good and important if your goal is to experience the culture.

If your goal is to just eat good food, then they’re not important at all.

For example, if you go to Italy and want to really experience Italian food culture, then you should be looking for tradition and authenticity. But if you go to Italy and you just want some good, tasty food … then you don’t need to worry so much about that.

Not just foods, either. Tons of products are like that.

The gap between an El Cheapo lowest-bidder product and the midrange product will be far, far more significant than the gap between a midrange product and the high-end stuff.

Holds true for almost every product in almost every industry. Clothes, cars, sporting goods, electronics, you name it.

Unless you just absolutely cannot afford it, then the midrange product is usually the best choice. The high-end stuff will be slightly better, sure, but unless you’re an extreme enthusiast with very specific needs, the upgrade to high-end stuff just isn’t worth the price premium you’ll pay for it.

You see, that’s why when I need to use Discord, I just use it in the browser anyway. No need to install an app that’s just going to be a browser tab in disguise.

Needing to run a full-fledged browser in the background in order to display your html/css frontend adds a lot more performance cost than necessary, making the app eat up far more RAM and CPU than necessary. It probably also introduces a lot more security vulnerability concerns that an otherwise simple app shouldn’t have to worry about. And then there’s the dependency chain you’re introducing – now your app needs to be updated every time the underlying browser gets an important update … and maybe needs to be tweaked/rewritten to accommodate that browser update if it changes the way the browser interacts with your app frontend.

There are plenty of other GUI frontend frameworks that are also expressive, simple, and well-known, without all of these potential problems associated with them.

My 2nd most hated trend in modern programming. (Behind AI forced into everything.)

Really torn between My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Pokemon.

you do know at some point the whole ‘hallucinations’ line is going to be as fresh as calling things ‘woke’, right?

The truth doesn’t care whether it’s “fresh” or not.

As long as AI still hallucinates, it will be useful for entertainment purposes only and never for anything as serious as healthcare.

your life with ai will look the same.

lol, tell that to every other business fad that has come and gone.

The AI bubble will pop, the economy will crash, and in the long run, that will be a good thing.