Yeah, one of the things I like about Claude (and Gemini 3 as opposed to 2.5) is that they really clamped down on the use of "Oh, now I've got it! This is absolutely the FINAL fix to the problem, we've totally solved it now! Here, let me write out FIX_FINAL_SOLVED.md" with some half-arse solution. And yep, the answer to going in circles is usually either "nuke the chat" or "switch models".
Yeah, when thinking of the typical air fryer market, think "working mom with kids who wants to serve something nicer than a microwave dinner, but doesn't have the time for much prep or waiting". You can get those mailard reactions that microwaving doesn't really get you, nice crisping and browning of the surface that you normally get from an oven, without having to wait for an oven to preheat. I don't think anyone disputes that an oven will do a better job, but the air fryer does a better job than a microwave, which is what it's really competing against. They're also marketed as easy-clean, which again is a nod to their target audience.
How costs build up is really staggering. I'm getting into the business of importing 3d filament. In Iceland, it currently sells for like $35/kg minimum. The actual value of the plastic is like $1. The factory's total cost, all costs included, is like $1,50. If it's not name brand, e.g. they're not dumping money on marketing, they sell it for $3 for the cheapest stuff. Sea freight adds another dollar or two. Taxes here add 24%. But you're still at like $5/kg. The rest is all middlemen, warehousing, air freight for secondary legs from intermediary hubs, and all the markup and taxes on those things.
With me importing direct from the factory, sea freight only, I can get rid of most of those costs. Warehousing is the biggest unavoidable cost. If I want to maintain an average inventory of like 700kg, it adds something like $5/kg to the cost. Scanning in goods and dispatching user orders (not counting shipping) together adds like $2,50. And then add 24% tax (minus the taxes on the imported goods). There's still good margin, but it's amazing how quickly costs inflate.
Your "junk" is someone else's "must-have".
Your "must-have" is someone else's "junk".
I mean, from a horticultural perspective, there is some potential to gain more of other nutrients, in that if you have more energy, you can develop a larger root system, or generally more effectively, better feed mycorrhizal associations (fungal hyphae are much finer than root hairs, so can get into smaller cracks, and fungi can "acid mine" nutrients out of mineral grains - as an example, here's a microscopic image showing what they did to a garnet)
That said, yeah, in general if you can provide more energy, you expect the storage of "calories" to grow much faster than the acquisition of other minerals. Also, it's important to note that while more CO2 is generally good for most plants, more heat, or greater periods of drought (land dries out faster, monsoon belts spread) and flooding (atmosphere holds more moisture, monsoon belts spread) are not. In regards to heat as well, there's a lot of details. First off, though we commonly don't think about it, heat management in plants is critical. Their proteins are designed for function within an optimal temperature range, and to maintain it, they have to cool themselves down with transpiration, creating more water stress. Also it's worth noting that C3 plants (most plants) fundamentally don't tolerate heat as well as C4 or CAM plants (there's work to engineer C4 into some common agricultural crops... it's frankly amazing to me that they're getting some success, as it's not a trivial change).
BTW, the reason that plants grow better with more CO2 isn't what most people might think. The TL/DR is that the protein that sequesters CO2 so that (using ATP and NADPH from photosynthesis) - RuBisCo (the most abundant protein on Earth, something that has been evolving for billions of years) frankly sucks at its job. Something like 20-25% of the time (at normal CO2 levels), instead of binding with CO2, it binds with O2 instead ("photorespiration"), which means not only does it not sequester a carbon, but the plant has to *give up a carbon* to regenerate the RuBisCo. This is disastrous in terms of energy efficiency. And as a side effect, you also have to keep the stomata open more, which means more water loss. But as you increase the CO2 levels, the ratio between binding CO2 and binding O2 improves, and photorespiration waste drops. C4 plants "fix" this problem by instead of having RuBisCo directly bind CO2, they first bind CO2 into malate (with high selectivity), then the malate transports into bundle sheath cells, the CO2 is re-released, and THEN - in a high-CO2 environment - RuBisCo takes it up. This reduces photorespiration, but also introduces some more wasteful chemical conversions. (CAM plants to even further by storing malate inside vacuules - at the cost of even more energy - so that they can store it up during the night, and then use it during the day, which - although even more wasteful - lets them keep their stomata closed during the day to conserve water)
(BTW, there are some microbes that have developed a more efficient RuBisCo, but it's proving challenging to engineer it into higher plants)
They're ovens that are faster to preheat. Which shortens the cooking time of meals that are mostly pre-prepared, which is what most people eat (if you're preparing a meal from scratch, usually prep work takes up the preheating time)
The point is that people who willingly contributed to the enshittification of the internet have no ground to stand no to complain about the enshittification of the internet.
Hi lovelies! Welcome back to my little corner of the comment section! I am so incredibly excited to share this comment with you today. It is a family favorite, passed down through generations of posters, and it is honestly a total game-changer for weeknight reading. But before we get to the actual text of my opinion on this article, I just have to share a little story about my journey with digital content.
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It was a crisp autumn morning in 1998. The leaves were turning that beautiful shade of red, and the sound of dial-up modems was in the air. My grandmother (rest in peace, Nana!) used to sit me on her knee and say, "Sweetie, one day you’re going to read an article about Artificial Intelligence scraping content, and you’re going to need the perfect text-based response to go with it." She was so right.
I remember the way the sunlight hit the CRT monitor—it’s an unforgettable memory for me. Just like the way the aroma of roasting garlic fills a kitchen, the warmth of a flame war fills the soul. My hubby, who is a huge tech enthusiast (and my biggest taste-tester!), always says that the key to a good comment is the texture. You want it to be crunchy on the outside but soft and savory on the inside.
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A lot of people think the secret to a good Slashdot post is the insight. But actually? It’s the SEO optimization. When I went to Tuscany last summer to study under a master poster, I learned that the old ways are the best. We hand-kneaded our sentences for hours. It was exhausting, but so rewarding. It really made me appreciate the artisanal nature of the internet before Google's AI started making "Frankenstein" summaries.
Speaking of Frankenstein, isn't it funny how Mary Shelley really understood the human condition? Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment that involved putting it together with different body parts. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath,[2] and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.
Shelley travelled through Europe in 1815, moving along the river Rhine in Germany, and stopping in Gernsheim, 17 kilometres (11 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where, about a century earlier, Johann Konrad Dippel, an alchemist, had engaged in experiments.[3][4][5] She then journeyed to the region of Geneva, Switzerland, where much of the story takes place. Galvanism and occult ideas were topics of conversation for her companions, particularly for her lover and future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley.
In 1816 —at the suggestion of Lord Byron— Mary, Percy, John Polidori and Byron himself, each agreed to try writing a ghost story.[6] After thinking for days, Shelley was inspired to write Frankenstein after imagining a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made.[7] The novel was first published anonymously in 1818, and in 1831, a revised edition was published under Mary Shelley's name. This version included significant stylistic revisions, a new preface describing the story's conception, and a more explicitly moral tone.[8]
Frankenstein is one of the best-known works of English literature. Infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement, it has had a considerable influence on literature and on popular culture, spawning a complete genre of horror stories, films, and plays. Since the publication of the novel, the name Frankenstein has often been used to refer to the monster.[9][10][11]
It reminds me of this one time I was trying to bake a sourdough loaf while simultaneously debugging a Python script...
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You can, but the result might be a little dry. I recommend sticking to the recipe!
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100% this. Recipe sites jumped hard on the SEO bandwagon, and became so hated for it that "having to scroll down 15 pages to actually find the recipe" became the butt of a joke.
This is how you get adult furies.
I thought you had to somehow resurrect the ghosts of the murdered to get furies. Am I remembering my Roman mythology wrong?
Their app updated and I could no longer use it without logging in. I do not want a Zillow account. Their app became irrelevant to me, and there's nothing special about their web site.
Yeah, Zillow and others basically act like paywalls to make it harder to find out information about available real estate and force you to do everything through agents who try to steer you to properties that give them a bigger commission.
The absolute worst is searching for land, because most of those sites don't want to give you the parcel numbers, which make the information almost completely useless. With a parcel number and five minutes of GIS searching, I can tell you if it is worth my time, all without ever having to visit the property. Instead, they'd like you to have an agent try to convince you that the sheer cliff is buildable as long as you use an advanced septic system. ROFL.
I've never understood why MLS wasn't more open. It has always been going against consumers' best interest to keep it as closed as it is, IMO.
AI racks are projected to reach 5,000 pounds
... spread over probably 24" x 48", or 8 square feet, for a total of 625 pounds per square foot.
Legacy data centers with raised floors typically max out at around 1,250 pounds per square foot for static loads.
Ignoring that the numbers above are probably less than half the static load limit, the static load limit is as low as it is because A. the raised floor has weight, and B. the raised floor likely has a much lower weight limit than the concrete slab under it.
Solution: Remove the raised floor.
... rack heights have grown from 6 feet to 9 feet over nearly two decades
Which means you can now run overhead cable trays above the height of your tallest employees. No need for the raised floors. Also, by ripping out the raised floors, you can have that extra height, so no need to rebuild the building.
... creating problems with doorframes and freight elevators in older buildings
Because people can't tip the racks up to get them through the doors, or lie them flat corner-to-corner in a freight elevator? This seems like a problem with movers not being creative enough when moving things, rather than a building problem.
This whole article reads like people looking for an excuse to spend more money and build monuments to themselves, rather than an actual problem. What am I missing?
Kids of the time were trained to shoot (at least the boys). The increase in fire rates is completely irrelevant.
The increase in fire rates is completely irrelevant for training, too. You can learn to shoot a rifle with any rifle. You'll need a little bit of training on how the mags load in different rifles and stuff, but not much. In terms of learning how to aim and stuff, kids can train on a single-shot rifle.
And again, citizens cannot form a militia if they do not have weapons and the knowledge of how to use them. Obviously, they should be stored in citizen's homes!
It's not obvious to me. I learned how to shoot rifles and handguns as a kid, and I've never had any kind of gun in my house other than a BB gun.
Do you think that the Minutemen rode into town to visit the local armory? No, they already had their weapons ready.
Governments at the time had a powder house that provided extra munitions and guns. Some militiamen at the time did have personal weapons in their homes. The minutemen were more trained than other militiamen, and presumably also screened for not being nuts. So yes, hand-picked elite soldiers all had weapons, but that's not an indication that everyone needs to — doubly so when you consider that the National Guard is the only remaining lawfully recognized militia in the U.S., and all others are markedly different from the militias at the time, which were organized by local governments, not by random people who like to shoot guns.
The whole point is that you have a gun, you know how to use it, and if the s-t hits the fan you can grab it and go.
The whole point is that we have that, and it's called the National Guard.
And let's not forget that modern "mass shootings" are a recent phenomenon that does not at all correlate with say, the invention of the AR-15, AK-47, the Thompson SMG, Henry Lever Action, semi-automatic pistol, revolver, six-shooter, or metal cartridges. Hell, Columbine happened in the midst of the "Assault Rifle Ban", perpetrated with pistols and shotguns.
Let's not forget that modern mass shootings still could not have happened without cartridged firearms. Let's not forget that there's a clear, direct correlation between the increase in assault rifle sales after that ban was overturned and the number of mass shooting deaths in the U.S. Let's not forget that mass shootings have been around since at least 1949, and probably longer — it's not a new phenomenon at all — and that the only thing that is clearly correlated with the number of mass shootings is the number of guns sold.
I'm not saying that we should get rid of guns, but blanketly saying that all gun laws are unconstitutional just isn't grounded in what the second amendment says, and burying our heads in the sand and ignoring the damage caused to our society by nutjobs getting guns isn't going to keep it from happening over and over.
Some common sense laws could cut the mass shooting to really close to zero, all without meaningfully preventing normal, sane people from owning firearms if they want to do so. Examples:
And so on. None of those policies violate my understanding of what the second amendment says, because they don't prevent a typical person from owning the sorts of firearms that are commonly used by individuals who are not active military. They don't prevent people who are active military, reserve, or guard (militia) from owning the firearms needed to protect the country, and they don't meaningfully impede our national defense, nor our police.
That may explain it. I have a Qrevo S, which is from 2024, while yours is from 2022. The only thing that it ever gets stuck at is one spot where, from under the couch, it can see out the ground-level window, and get stuck between the couch and window ledge (not actually stuck, just confused), because the LiDAR sees out the window. And I fixed that just by setting a small exclusion zone there. It never "gets lost" - maybe your house has some vast open spaces that it can't handle? But the LiDAR seems to see pretty far. The only other issues I've had are things like where I'll have a loose cord on the floor or some large piece of debris or whatnot, and even then, it's usually good at not getting stock on them. I'm also impressed with how well it deals with doors vs. a Roomba - my Roomba used to always get itself locked in rooms by accidentally closing doors after it entered, while the Roborock really tries to avoid ever touching them.
The Qrevo S has actually rotating mops, and they do a superb job with the floor. Spotless. My robot has the hardest mopping job in the world, too - it has to clean under my parrot's cage, and he poops off the edge onto a plastic mat under it
I've never had to contact support - hopefully I don't need to
I saw Google and Plus together and got momentarily excited.
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