TIL water heaters and space heaters are commonly separate units in the US.

In Europe we space heat with hot water too, so this is a single unit.

We gotta start using ai;dr more.

Most people have learned by now, that “lines of code“ is a terrible metric for evaluating productivity. Why are we doing the exact same thing with AI tokens now?

For me it’s usually Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Shift+V

Seriously, why would anyone ever want to paste with formatting?!

Exactly. Why would anyone still use Arduino when alternatives are both better and cheaper?

When you order 9/11 from Wish.

Wait, the guy from Pomplamoose is the CEO of Patreon?!

I think what’s happening is that each individual company has a positive ROI on ads in the sense that they would lose more than a dollar in sales if they spent a dollar less on ads, but collectively the ROI is probably smaller than one: if all companies would cut their advertising budgets in half they would all be better off, as they would keep their sales roughly the same.

So adverting is less about sales volume (people don’t necessarily buy more things when they see more ads) but about market share (you get a bigger piece of the cake). Classic prisoner’s dilemma.

Where did air fryers come from all of a sudden by the way?

I don’t think I‘ve heard of air fryers or knew anyone that owned one for most of my life and suddenly they’re everywhere.

I’m a mathematician. My math brain shuts off when the units are in currency.

You guys, the truth is way more depressing. They are not even smart enough to be as evil as you're giving them credit for.

Exactly. If „conservatives“ were really conservative, fighting climate change would be their main topic.

Not defending bad parenting and child abuse but

"If you don't have a kid, then you don't have the right to speak on this situation,"

I think you are misunderstanding the argument. It’s not that non-parents don’t have the right to speak, but that they lack the experience to judge the situation.

Not saying this is a valid argument in the situations you described, those are clearly wrong and you don’t need kids to know this, but that’s where they’re coming from.

A milder example would be non-parents judging parents for letting their kids watch TV for extended periods of time, when they’ve don’t know the struggle of having to baby-sit a toddler 24/7.

I highly recommend this playlist where someone builds an 8-bit computer from scratch starting at digital logic circuits and ending at assembly (which is one layer below C). Beutifully explains every step of the way: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2565dvjafglHU

you don’t own my time.

That’s my point. If someone writes first and then calls they are wasting my time twice.

Even in a country with „free“ healthcare, if you are at fault for the accident, your car insurance will have to reimburse the other parties health insurance for their medical costs.

He cooked is good, he’s cooked is bad. You’re either holding the pan or you’re in it.

I took this picture just yesterday! What are the odds…

Don’t break the robots, they are useful. Break the system in which a machine doing work for you is a bad thing somehow.