vel0city

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by vel0city 2mo ago
> I don't particularly care how the grocery store is arranged You're calling people subhuman because of the way grocery stores are arranged. That seems like the opposite of not caring. > You seem very upset that my point is
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by vel0city 2mo ago
Its not like all the ships hit by attacks in the Straight of Hormuz sank. A ship could potentially become critically damaged and become unable to operate the reactor and still be floating. Either way, "loss of nuclear material" is
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by vel0city 2mo ago
Would Iran be as likely to have hit one of these ships if the result was potentially a nuclear meltdown close to their shoreline? It would pretty radically change the costs to them for such an attack, wouldn't it?
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by vel0city 2mo ago
I really feel like if the US really wanted to support US shipbuilding (like what the Jones act was supposed to do) it would subsidize building a fleet of nuclear shipping boats. Lots of manufacturing projects, lots of related industries boo
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by vel0city 2mo ago
I've known many families around that age (+/- 5 years) with a stay at home spouse taking care of multiple kids. It really shapes their lifestyle in a lot of ways (smaller/older house, rarely eat out, rarely big family vacatio
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by vel0city 2mo ago
Isn't that need of post-secondary education "solved" by community colleges? Extremely cheap for locals, usually offering degree/certification programs especially relevant to employers in the area, extremely lax requireme
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by vel0city 2mo ago
> It also doesn't seem to work given where the US ranks globally in education. This is true because this isn't necessarily "the norm". Its very common to have this kind of life, but there are also a ton of kids who ar
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by vel0city 2mo ago
> The college athletes apparently picked business as a major because you have to pick something. I actually think it makes a lot of sense to go for some kind of basic business degree if you're angling to go into professional sport
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by vel0city 2mo ago
Me suggesting I probably wouldn't care too much if I sometimes got a "frozen dairy desert" instead of "ice cream" isn't a complete reversal from me saying I usually prefer basic ice cream. If I said I usually l
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by vel0city 2mo ago
You're confused the "Violi Mediterranean Blend Italian Sunflower & Extra Virgin Olive Oil" isn't purely olive oil? Really? To be honest though, I've never come across this. Apparently its sold at HEB. Its also k
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by vel0city 2mo ago
....got anything more than a text description of the product that happens to leave off any actual descriptions? Got a brand name? A variety name? What store sold it? No? Huh weird. Man they now make almost all olive oil from crude oil !
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by vel0city 2mo ago
I do agree there's tons of PE electrical engineers. I also think there's a massive number of job roles which relate to a BS/MS EE degrees where nobody really gives a shit if you have a stamp or not.
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by vel0city 2mo ago
> You seem very upset that I'm pointing out a slimy marketing tactic. I'm not the one calling people non-human and using terms like "the stupid shit" and assuming conspiracies that can easily be described with logical
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by vel0city 2mo ago
I definitely agree that the container can make a big difference on how we can perceive beverages, and I don't doubt it's a part of the experience fans of Mexican coke enjoy even if they don't realize that's playing a rol
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by vel0city 2mo ago
3.785L or 4.546L? Both are real gallons.
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by vel0city 2mo ago
I agree, and my point about "really shows where our priorities are" was meant halfway in jest. It is interesting to me though that we make such a big point to regulate even things like "ice cream" and "potato chip&q
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by vel0city 2mo ago
It can be interesting seeing what is often seen as a common task can make computers of that vintage suddenly start to struggle when they can seem to do so many other tasks just fine. One common thing I've experienced is browser-based v
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by vel0city 2mo ago
I have no clue to the history of it, but personally speaking when I'm serving myself some ice cream I'm eyeballing the volume of ice cream not measuring it on a scale. Even when I buy froyo and I literally am paying by the ounce I
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by vel0city 2mo ago
> try to get you to think that you're buying ice cream when you're buying something else of lesser value. Maybe people sometimes do want the stuff loaded with fudge and candy bars and cake crumbles and whipped to nearly the con
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by vel0city 2mo ago
I do quite often, and have been for decades. Along with shopping at foreign/"world" grocery stores, higher end grocery stores, etc. Across several different US markets over the many years. Once again, got any actual examples
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by vel0city 2mo ago
If they want to make a frozen concoction of a ton of candy bars and cookies and fudge and milk and sugar and churn it all up to be nearly the consistency of chunky whipped cream I don't see any reason to not allow that to be sold as a
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by vel0city 2mo ago
If its a usual trick one should be able to find some usual examples. I've never encountered a bottle of oil in the US suggesting its olive oil when its really a blend. Maybe I've encountered a bottle that had a picture of an o
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by vel0city 2mo ago
Oof, yes, sorry, thanks for calling that out!
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by vel0city 2mo ago
If you see a bottle saying "OLIVE OIL" and its actually a mix of sunflower, canola, or other oils in small print that's a product illegal to be sold in the US. It has to be very clearly labeled its a mix. If its labeled as ol
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by vel0city 2mo ago
> I've seen things that say fructose has worse effects than sucrose Sucrose is 50% fructose. HFCS is ~42-55% fructose. Its "high fructose" compared to just straight corn syrup, which is 0% fructose (practically pure glucos
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by vel0city 2mo ago
HFCS is a mixture of fructose and ~~sucrose~~ glucose. If it was pure fructose it wouldn't be as an effective of cane sugar replacement.
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by vel0city 2mo ago
Yeah, a big part of the flavor difference between Mexican Coke and American Coke really comes down to the extra sodium in the Mexican Coke variety. You can get the US formula coke with cane sugar during Passover in markets with a high Jewis
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by vel0city 2mo ago
The price of DRAM and SSDs might be back to a similar price as 20 years ago with the recent price spikes, but if they're the same price I'll probably take a high end computer from today than a high end computer from 15 years ago.
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by vel0city 2mo ago
"Ice cream" has a legal minimum density floor of 4.5lbs per gallon. It has been that way since 1958. If they're mixing more air than that per gallon, they can't legally call it "ice cream". https://w
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by vel0city 2mo ago
Bandwidth and latency are two different things. The latency of handling things in system memory is still pretty different than the latency of handling stuff on SSDs.

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