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Cake day: January 21st, 2021

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  • Here is the problem with crop quality:

    1. Most of the purchase decision is what is observable at the store.
      • Does it look good.
      • What is the price.
      • How is the smell, texture, weight…
    2. Some happens at home, and you might remember for next time.
      • How does it taste.
      • How long does it last.
      • Does it make you feel satisfied.
    3. It is basically impossible to know how good food was for you.
      • You eat a lot of food and the response is delayed.
      • Even if you have a response you probably don’t properly understand your body.
      • In the end most of the “health” of food is just your believes and marketing.

    So there is basically no business pressure to have crops be nutritious.


  • I’m not an expert on modern alarm systems but it seems that it is very common and fairly inexpensive to have cellular data backup. Not every system has it, but many do. In that case cutting the main connection will likely result in someone appearing on site fairly quickly.

    Many cameras also have some form of local buffering. So even if you are gone before someone does show up you still may find yourself recorded.

    But at the end of the day just put a bag over your head and you can be gone by the time anyone shows up without leaving a meaningful trace. Other than the very top-end system security systems just keep the honest people honest.





  • How exactly does Samsung police this? Surely the repair shop could just… not tattle?

    Well there is a contract in place and there would be consequences for not upholding the agreement. Sure, they could probably get away with it for quite a while. But it likely isn’t worth the risk, they would rather just out Samsung as being a piece of shit and go on their merry way.

    It would be pretty easy to catch this as well. Samsung can just occasionally submit a phone with a known third party part for repair and see if the expected report comes in.






  • I’m sure some people will demand it. But for 99.9% of the population you don’t need 1000Hz content. The main benefit is that whatever framerate your content is it will not have notable delay from the display refresh rate.

    For example if you are watching 60Hz video on a 100Hz monitor you will get bad frame pacing. But on a 1000Hz monitor even though it isn’t perfectly divisible. the 1/3ms delay isn’t perceptible.

    VRR can help a lot here, but can fall apart if you have different content at different frame rates. For example a notification pops up and a frame is rendered but then your game finishes its frame and needs to wait until the next refresh cycle. Ideally the compositor would have waited for the game frame before flushing the notification but it doesn’t really know how long the game will take to render the next frame.

    So really you just need your GPU to be able to composite at 1000Hz, you probably don’t need your game to render at 1000Hz. It isn’t really going to make much difference.

    Basically at this point faster refresh rates just improve frame pacing when multiple things are on screen. Much like VRR does for single sources.





  • I think we as a society need to be a bit less sensitive about gifts. I think it is fine to not like a gift. What matters is that they thought of you to get something. Sometimes it won’t land. It is better to admit that (if necessary) than hide it forever. It isn’t my responsibility to love and care for a give that you give me.

    I get you something I don’t want it wasting space in your house just because you are afraid I will be offended. That is like the worst outcome of a gift, I don’t want to be giving you a burden.

    So if the kid is no longer interested in the toy I think it is fine to give it away or otherwise get rid of it. If the person is offended they should chill the fuck out.