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My favorite snack ever, since discontinued, are also covered by patent. Partially popped popcorn that used to be at Trader Joe's.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7579036B2/en


For comparison, BYD's are in the $10k range

https://electrek.co/2024/03/06/byd-launches-cheaper-seagull-...


Those 10K range cars are much lower quality/battery/finish/size/etc... and that's before any shipping, taxes and likely adding any safety features required to adhere to rules to US/EU market.


August last year the cheapest BYD was €30K in the Netherlands: https://www.autoweek.nl/autonieuws/artikel/byd-verlaagt-prij...

Given it's selling in NL it will meet EU safety standards, but granted, that's a far cry from €10K and still very far removed from affordable / budget.


Note that I think the BYD quote of 29 or 30k euros is including VAT [1] which is 21% in the Netherlands. On the other hand the quote given above as the starting price in the US for the Mach-E not include sales tax. In the Netherlands (trying to compare apples to apples), the Mach-E is being sold for €75200 [2]. Significant price gap in that market.

[1] https://www.beev.co/en/electric-cars/marques/byd/byd-dolphin... [2] https://ev-database.org/nl/auto/2038/Ford-Mustang-Mach-E-GT


You can get Mustang mach-e, basic for 46K (check ford.nl...), you are looking at the GT version there which is much much nicer compares to the 30k BYD.

You can gey hyundai kona starting from 37k with 65kwh battery as opposed to byd 44kwh for 30k. So more value for money.

Apples to Apples is Dacia Spring Extreme 44kwh for 23.5K with tax for same battery and features... much lower price then BYD


> quality

Hmm. Not sure I agree with you there. American cars aren’t particularly known for being high quality.


That BYD is equivalent to a 23.5K dacia spring extreme... so similar quality can be had cheaper.

American cars are much nicer (tesla?), or have better reputation then a recent foreign company with no accountability if they decide to pack up and leave customers stranded... Or if China decides to invade taiwan and get embargoed.


ACDSee old versions (2.6.1?) would preload the next image in memory while scrolling through a folder, making it extremely useful in the age of hard drives. It became bloated, but the only reasons to switch were for newer image formats, and sometimes .gifs would crash it.

FastStone Image Viewer is the performant, slick image viewer I use now.

IrfanView has some rough defaults like if you scroll to the end of a folder, a window pops up that you have to click away before you can scroll back. I use it all the time for simple editing, not viewing.


FreeFileSync

It's what you'd like if your idea of simplicity is dragging and dropping one folder to another, but want to more closely see what files have changed before the copy.


That's the final blow for me. The last use case was when esoteric discussion there would be one of the few search engine results.

I've already long ago edited out all my old posts and deleted the accounts. So sad to see sites grow to become gated advertiser-friendly communities.


As an aside, I get irritated as all heck by the old, previously useful reddit threads that now show up in search results but with the actually useful information deleted by someone in a fit of rage. This is frustrating, since the information is not necessarily easy to find somewhere else. Or at all.

If you find that you must do this, could you at least re-host your answers elsewhere and link to them?


Yes, this is incredibly frustrating.

I wonder if we've surpassed "peak publicly searchable discussion". It definitely seems harder to find quick answers to obscure topics than it used to be 2-3 years ago.

LLMs will gladly hallucinate something, but given that this stuff is literally the training data that could help ground them in truth, I wonder where we're going to go next.


Of course we have passed it. The moment LLM training happened was when everyone started locking down access to their data or increasing costs of developer API access - twitter/x have done similar things, and quora etc.

Now the corpus of user questions/answers, posts and so on has real value as machine learning training data it’s hardly surprising this is happening - no one wants to “give away the farm” to a rival LLM product bootstrapped on data that was too easy to scrape.

For older readers who remember the buzz about web2.0 in early 2000s and everything would be a public api or feed - the recent history of the web now has almost been the opposite. Examples of this are everywhere - RSS is essentially dead, news readers died, people are trying to put podcasts behind proprietary systems (Spotify) etc etc, more and more data is hidden behind account walls, app binaries on mobile often only arrive from a mandatory store…


Yeah all that discussion is now on non-searchable, ephemeral private discord servers


I mean yes, tons of discussion has moved to places like Discord to disappear forever.

But unlike the previous poster, who blames the information creator for revoking what they published, why are we not blaming the actual abusers? Every site that is build on growth, Facebook, Google, Reddit, et al eventually turns into an authoritarian capitalist nightmare dystopia. Gobble up, lock down, and extract wealth.


> tons of discussion has moved to places like Discord to disappear forever.

This is actually even worse than the new Reddit.

Every open source or other project that links to their Discord as a main place of providing support immediately loses a lot of respect from me: Chat is a horrible way of creating a searchable knowledge base.

Besides being opaque to search engines, it effectively signs up their users and contributors for either having to maintain parallel long-term-visible and searchable FAQs and other docs, or answering the same new user questions over and over again.

Having to publicly join a Discord (unlike Reddit there seems to be no way at all to browse anonymously) just to be able to see if anybody else has had my compile or setup error is completely unacceptable as well.


> deleted by someone in a fit of rage

It sounds like you are blaming the authors of the actually useful information here.

There used to be an ecosystem: real people share their knowledge and experience, driving users to Reddit, and in exchange, Reddit provides free storage and a convenient collaboration environment.

I admit, it's not easy to monetize real people's contributions. But, regardless, the fact is, that Reddit destroyed this ecosystem. I can no longer use Reddit conveniently. And as a mildly active OP on Reddit I don't see, why Reddit should keep benefiting from my contributions while I can no longer benefit from Reddit. I think it's fair.


You could try the PullPush archive, it may have the original comments prior to to deletion.

Main site:

https://pullpush.io

Frontends:

https://undelete.pullpush.io

https://search.pullpush.io

https://ihsoyct.github.io


That's the reason I haven't erased my Reddit content, so far. (If they go behind a login wall, that reason goes away.)


chances are the thread was crawled on something like archive.org


Are vegetarians perceived as being bigoted, especially by lower castes?


Not vegetarians in general. But there are certain largely vegetarian castes and communities, a majority of whose members have consistently shown bigoted and casteist behaviors towards the lower caste members, so much that those entire communities and castes are considered that way by the lower castes. Of course, exceptions are always there - it's likely that even a large majority of those castes aren't hostile to non-vegetarianism, but a small vocal minority is extremely hostile to compensate for that.

This reflects in other ways. For example, it's well known that in many cities, only certain castes are allowed to rent or buy apartments within certain housing societies and colonies, the excuse used being vegetarianism (and that non-veg cooking stinks, etc.). Many of my friends who are non-vegetarians have to stick to vegetarian food at home, and only eat non-vegetarian on the occasional outing.


Wireless mice are faster than wired mice*

*At least, LTT put out a video as such some years ago. Regardless, if you like wireless, BT is a bottom of the barrel solution.


That video is classic LTT; interesting idea terribly executed which leads to incorrect conclusions. The latency difference doesn’t matter to humans, but wired is faster.


How can they be? Assuming you're using a usb dongle, the interface is exactly the same. Only the wireless has an extra wireless path in the connection.

There's just no way it can be faster, only equal or slower.


>The law applies to websites in which more than one-third of the content "is sexual material harmful to minors."


How is “harmful to minors” defined here?


https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB01181H...

> (6) "Sexual material harmful to minors" includes any material that:

> (A) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, taking the material as a whole and with respect to minors, is designed to appeal to or pander to the prurient interest;

> (B) in a manner patently offensive with respect to minors, exploits, is devoted to, or principally consists of descriptions of actual, simulated, or animated display or depiction of:

> (i) a person's pubic hair, anus, or genitals or the nipple of the female breast;

> (ii) touching, caressing, or fondling of nipples, breasts, buttocks, anuses, or genitals; or

> (iii) sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation, excretory functions, exhibitions, or any other sexual act; and

> (C) taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.


> designed to appeal to or pander to the prurient interest

This is the part that really concerns me, to be honest. The main meaning of "prurient" is "characterized by an inordinate interest in sex."

The main reason this concerns me is because some people believe LGBTQ issues to be inherently sexual; and thus this law could be used to suppress general LGBTQ content as well as pornography. It depends on who enforces it and who interprets it, of course. But when you consider it in light of the hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills filed this year alone, it just worries me.


This is, obviously, garbage.

As with all "offensiveness" laws.


I don't use kagi. On WA, this search results in the answer with a prompt with the engine's assumptions, and includes a link to change the assumption to "math" from "word."

These prompts don't show on kagi? Seems like including them would be an avenue for improvement.


>they're using "angstroms" I kinda hoped once they hit 1 "nanometer" they'd stop using these fake units of length.


As a chem major, we used Angstroms for measuring bond distances and other small lengths.


I don't think they were decrying the use of Angstroms, but rather the continued use of size-based terminology that has become decoupled from the actual size of any physical features.


Angstrom is a very real unit of measurement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angstrom


I think they meant fake as in "doesn't relate to any size of the transistors", as the gate/metal pitch sizes are e.g. 40 nm and 54 nm respectively for Intel's "7nm" node [0], even the fin pitch is 34 nm, so almost 5 times bigger than the marketing term would like to imply.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_nm_process#Process_nodes_and...


Ah, yeah. I can see that. So what does that refer to then, the smallest size of any feature of the transistor?


It does not refer to the physical size of any element or feature of the chips.

It's the marketing department's claim about what you'd have had to do to achieve "equivalent performance" using geometries (and probably other things) that are no longer used. Or to put it another way it's completely untethered from reality in every way.


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