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I’m in LA in a very high CoL area and my nearest Walmart has a 13oz Lays family sized bag for $4.77. I see $5.99 at the local high-ish end grocery store. Both on Instacart. My favo…

That’s measuring price discrimination on an impulse buy. You have to compare wholesale prices for any kind of shrinkflation comparison across one product. $7 sounds like what I’d p…

I’ve always been impartial to Sea++

Has anyone done the inflation adjusted math per gram, accounting for less cocoa or whatever? Viral stories generally don’t come with any maths at all.

Are smaller portions of solid blocks of sugar considered a bad thing?

> It's common, if not inevitable, for people who feel strongly about $topic to conclude that the system (or the community, or the mods, etc.) are biased against their side. One is …

Twenty years ago this would have been “I Wanted to Own My VIM config, Then [Insert IDE] Won”. The perennial question is, have you gotten any actual work done or are you now just co…

These are called highly conserved sequences [1] meaning that they reappear all over the evolutionary tree and studying how they mutate is how we got a lot of our most fundamental k…

Funnily enough, my experience is a combination of both yours and the GP’s. MSN Messenger vs AIM was what I perceived as the first big megacorp battle on the internet with ads every…

Maybe things have stabilized a bit? I worked on multiple projects modifying Chromium and V8 a decade ago, and the GP matches my experience exactly. Absolute mountains of dev time j…

And depending on the person it can also change depending on diet and mixing microbiomes. Back when I lived with roommates my frequency changed based on who I lived with to some ext…

It’s not a placebo. I’m not sure exactly which Chocrane review the GP is talking about but if it’s the one I’m thinking of, the headline is that stretching doesn’t help muscle sore…

Hollywood accounting rules are regular accounting rules (GAAP). The only reason “Hollywood accounting” is a thing is because of a bunch of actors who didn’t know the difference bet…

We don’t eat wild cows anymore because aurochs went extinct in the last few hundred years. People still eat junglefowl (ancestor of chickens) and wild boar (pig), but in the develo…

That’s $508 for two cartons for 400 cigarettes total, so $1.27 per cigarette. They’re not characterized like the peanut butter, they’re just manufactured to a specific QC standard.…

We have safeguards like honesty/integrity and the threat of legal punishment, and people still lie and cheat. The LLMs not only lack those incentives, but they’re full of contradic…

Fully interactive games where you can talk to every NPC by text or voice and have an LLM drive the story (with your own meta prompts to guide it, if you so wish). Maybe even have t…

One thing I’d recommend is somehow separating a la carte versus full meal type items if theres a way to separate them on the data side. You should see this in Texas where you might…

Especially since most of our automotive electrification is still ahead of us in most developed countries so there will be plenty of work that requires work across residential, comm…

> i especially like "you should do a breakthrough". each prompt is less than ~20 words. makes me really question the whole "prompt engineering" stuff. This is well past prompt engi…

> The way they do it, unfortunately, is by maintaining every previous version of the processing pipeline. A LOT of professional software does this. It’s one of the biggest moats th…

It’s mantissa out.