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If you own a Switch, I encourage you to drop whatever it is you're doing and go lick one of the cartridges. You need to experience this.
I just licked my $60 Super Mario Odyssey cart. I'm not tasting it :( I am so disappointed...
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Which parts do you think are doing poorly? The names of their products. How do you keep anything straight when the name of each product is UUID?
That's easy, UUIDs are unique, so it's easy to tell them apart, although it's hard to group them. Much better than deciding what the heck 'new iPad' means or if you want a new old 3ds or a used new 3ds, or if updating iOS means your phone or your router.
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> Do a gazillion things, many of them poorly What does Sony do poorly? Sony has the same dysfunction Apple has - everything has to be invented in house. If you told me that a company invented an high end camera that 20% more than the competitors and used proprietary connectors and memory cards, I wouldn't be surprised if that was Apple. > decades between the device side (that wants to make devices that are useful) an…
> Remember FairPlay? Was FairPlay the name of the rootkit they'd install if you tried to play one of their audio CDs in a Windows PC?
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While Mona is a disinfectant, it _is_ ethanol, only the production method differs, it's obtained through industrial processes (or so it was explained to my by someone who worked at some industrial alcohol synthesis factory) as opposed to fermentation and distillation. Drinking methanol will fucking blind or kill you, so... a bad idea overall. Interestingly a valid treatment for methanol poisoning is ethanol: https://…
If I remember it overloads the uptake of the methanol or something along those lines. Crazy stuff.
Also, "The preferred antidote is fomepizole, with ethanol used if this is not available."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_toxicity#Treatment
>Fomepizole is a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase, found in the liver. This enzyme plays a key role in the metabolism of ethylene glycol, and of methanol.
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I'm sorry for my ignorance, but could someone give more context on this? I don't understand what "denatured alcohol" is, how it relates to tax avoidance, or what illegal use people are finding for it?
You tax alcohol for consumption but not for cleaning products, like rubbing alcohol. Now you need to figure out a way to stop people from consuming cleaning products.
Yes. In the EU product "denatured alcohol" for most purposes is likewise treated with the same agent. This replaces the widespread use of methanol and similar products which are poisonous (yes even if you call the product "meths" it probably isn't methanol in the EU today). The rationale is that poisoning people is not an appropriate reaction to attempted tax avoidance. Alcohol is only "denatured" because booze is ta…
I'm sorry for my ignorance, but could someone give more context on this? I don't understand what "denatured alcohol" is, how it relates to tax avoidance, or what illegal use people are finding for it?
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Which parts do you think are doing poorly? The names of their products. How do you keep anything straight when the name of each product is UUID?
That's easy, UUIDs are unique, so it's easy to tell them apart, although it's hard to group them. Much better than deciding what the heck 'new iPad' means or if you want a new old 3ds or a used new 3ds, or if updating iOS means your phone or your router.
Q: Which iPhone do you have A: iPhone 12 Pro Max (I choose this one because it's one of the longer iPhone names)
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Q: Which Sony headphones do you have A: MX 4 or something like that. Let me check my Amazon order history. Oh yeah, here it is. The WH-1000XM4
I'd much prefer the iPhone naming convention to what Sony does, and Apple having screwed up the iPad naming doesn't really excuse Sony here.
The same bitterant has been used in anti-freeze for about a decade now to help prevent poisonings of children and animals. It is also used in air duster cans, which I've found annoying because it can go from your keyboard to your fingers.
Given my friend's dog licked up a bunch of antifreeze a couple months ago, I'd say it doesn't work very well.
No effect, tastes like nothing to me. This is because I am a non-taster.
I have notoriously blunt taste amongst my loved ones, sometimes they won't even waste good wine on me, ha!
Another example of not tasting bitter: I am rather fond of Jeppson's Malort, a meme liquor popular in Chicago for its extremely bitter taste. Personally, I think it tastes bad, but do not have the same reaction as many other people.