Quora was always that site where you’d search for something on Google, see it show up near the top of the results and you’d just instantly skip over it because you already knew whatever it said was a waste of time unless you were looking for a laugh. Half the time the answers would literally be people messing with the person asking the question, and the other half of the time the person asking the question would be the one joking around.

Not just profit but lack of a central authority to enforce it. Standards are great when everyone follows them, but establishing standards is an absolute nightmare. Even the humble UPC is surprisingly sketchy when you dig into it and it’s amazing every manufacturer managed to mostly follows the standard. Now for extra fun, UPCs are deprecated and everyone is supposed to be swapping to QR codes instead. I can’t wait to see what a complete and utter clusterfuck that’s going to turn into.

If you put everything in the center, so there’s airflow around the entire freezer [emphasis added]

This entire thing started by saying a freezer needs airflow, which you then countered by saying as long as it was frozen you don’t need airflow, and now you’re back peddling by saying you do need airflow. Good to see you actually agreed with every thing I said this whole time but inexplicably couldn’t communicate that.

You don’t understand how a freezer works, you need to look up the difference between convection and conduction. A freezer relies primarily on convection and without airflow you’re not getting that hence the coils at the back freeze while the food at the front thaws.

Freezer needs good airflow otherwise the coils will ice over. Same for the fridge only things have to get really bad there for ice to form.

I just had this happen. A package of mine showed up at a port a few hours drive from me, then it was shipped to the opposite coast, then on to Memphis where it’s been sitting for a couple days. Presumably at some point they’ll ship it back to my state where it started from to actually deliver it.

While that is true this news doesn’t actually have anything to do with gaming. This was Nvidia telling other corporations that they’re going to price gouge an extra 15% for server GPUs (ironically making cloud gaming potentially that much more expensive).

The math on that does seem to line up rather perfectly but that raises the question of if the ounces on the label are wrong or someone copied the wrong line item when filling in the per ounce price (not that they should be doing that manually, it should be derived automatically from the price and weight). I suppose they also could have copied the wrong weight as well so the label says 32 oz, but the item is listed in their DB as a 40 oz product.

I got curious and looked it up. I couldn’t find anywhere in the US that taxes sugary cereal only drinks, and even if they did the highest rate I found was 2 cents per ounce (tangent, it’s completely idiotic that they tax by weight instead of taxing by sugar content) which is significantly less than the markup in this case. It was a good theory, but unfortunately it doesn’t check out.

Even if you round up to 17 cents per ounce that’s still only $5.44 for 32 ounces. Doing the math backwards they’re charging a bit over 21 cents an ounce.

Edit: doing a bit more math they’ve inflated the cost a bit under 25%. At first I was thinking maybe they’re including taxes in the price or something (not that anywhere in the US regularly does that and certainly not Walmart), but I’m not aware of anywhere that has a 25% sales tax so it can’t be that. This is just straight up fraud/false advertising.

Yes English is a complete train wreck of a language for multiple reasons, not just in terms of spelling and grammar, but every single aspect of the language. I do appreciate that it’s mostly non-gendered, but that’s just about the only win it has. English should have done what a few other languages did back around the 1800s and completely revamped how every single word is spelled to make it all uniform (and achieve a truly phonetic alphabet), but it’s kind of too late for that now.

Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are…

Handy memory trick on that one, the one you want more of has more S’s in it.

It’s the exact same problem you run into on any open or semi-open market but the outcome for anything with a good user review system will be the same. Look at Steam where asset flips and low quality clones flooded the store but 99% of them barely get a handful of sales if any. Instead all the money goes towards the games with actual fun content. People recognize low quality and low effort slop and AI reeks of it.

The only thing flooding markets with slop does is it makes it harder for the small gems to get discovered. Some of them still will, they happen to catch the eye of just the right person and spread through word of mouth, and the big companies will just shovel heaps of money into advertising, but it makes life miserable for the little guy trying to make a name for themselves.

I mean it kind of already does this accidentally, just look for em dash and/or emojis sprinkled all over the document and you can be pretty certain that it was AI generated.

The other thing I’m seeing here is that this will only be effective for large chunks of text, if you’re dealing with small snippets interspersed with human generated content there will be enough statistical noise to make classification hard without introducing a bunch of false positives and negatives.