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I imagine location matters even more? A well placed restaurant with adequate food probably does good business, still?

Sure is. I was contrasting 'merits' of being listed at aggregator sites vs. having ones own website.

That's a very shallow argument.

If it were shallow, it'd be easy for them to fix

Backwards compatibility, every vim and emacs and bash enthusiast should know about it.

It's easy for the USER to fix, since there are flags available. In the day of LLMs it's also easy to find out about those flags and what they do. And if it's so important, testing shouldn't be supremely hard, either.


The dose makes the poison.

People weren't doing that at a mass scale before people figured out they could make money by increasing addictiveness, once technology was good enough.


I would like to point you towards the industrial processing of soybean into tofu, soymilk, tempeh, and soy sauce in Asia that has been going on for a long time.

Are people being intentionally dense here? We're talking orders of magnitude difference here. Widespread, worldwide transition to ultra processed foods, synthetic emulsifiers, synthetic flavors, etc (the ENNNs), supermarket chock full of things that can't be named food sold as food ("cheeses" that can't be sold as cheeses, etc).

There are tons of products where the base ingredients are at least 2 steps away from actual traditional ingredients. Sometimes (frequently) the base ingredients aren't even food, they're purely petro-chemical based. My dad used to joke that the same plant that makes ingredients for paint and tires makes articial flavors for food :-)

Bah, I withdraw from this discussion. It's full of people that can't see the forest (ultra processed food everywhere destroying people's health through its addictiveness) for the trees (technicalities about some ultra processed foods being available in the pre-industrial era, on a much smaller scale and in much smaller niches).


Ultra processed foods are tied with a myriad of health conditions.

https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-maga...

Please tell the British Heart Foundation that they're "the crazy kind of health conscious" :-)


From your source:

> Ultra-processed foods: Ultra-processed foods typically have more than 1 ingredient that you never or rarely find in a kitchen. They also tend to include many additives and ingredients that are not typically used in home cooking, such as preservatives, emulsifiers, sweeteners, and artificial colours and flavours. These foods generally have a long shelf life.

Are there ingredients actually in the Beyond burger?


Also:

> many additives and ingredients that are not typically used in home cooking, such as preservatives, emulsifiers

Since when? Salt is a highly effective preservative, egg yolk is a powerful emulsifier, and they're largely used for those exact purposes.

The amount of bullshit in "healthy eating" and fitness fad space never ceases to amaze me.


Is that comment trying to be intentionally dense? They're talking about E123 & co, synthetic ones.

LOL @ the downvotes. I'm sure that's why Americans are so healthy, with huge supermarkets stocked to the brim with food so ultraprocessed that there are things that pretend to be called "cheese" but can't be sold as cheese.

How good is Mac virtualization? Would it be doable to put an Ubuntu inside a VM and just run it full screen all the time?

The beating will continue until morale improves.

On a more serious note, at this rate, probably 10 years. I guess it's similar to drinking. You can get drunk in 10 minutes and be hung over for much longer than that.

It turns out that org charts are VERY resistant to letting people go, even when the executives push very hard.


> Agile itself is predicated on software being difficult to ship/expensive.

Software is still "difficult to ship/expensive". Code is very cheap now. Any kind of non-slop software is still expensive.


Annoyingly as downvoting is, it's limited to -4.

> I've been feeling more and more that generative AI represents the average of all human knowledge.

It's literally what it is. Fairly sure that mathematically it's a fancier regression/prediction so it's a form of average.


The thing is, so far you've probably done a bunch of work on the 80%. Now you need to do the remaining 80% to finish the project, launch it, create a stable customer base.

If you're only vibe coding, it's going to be an interesting long term experiment.


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