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I love the effort of actually breaking out the calipers, sincerely gave me a chuckle! Don’t get me wrong, no kitchen gizmo is useless if it gets the utility you need from it! If it’s something you use often, that’s worth it. I just generally try to live by the idea that less is more, so I try to prioritize the things I use more often and find additional uses for things I already have instead of buying something new. For me it’s just that having a good kitchen knife provides a lot of inherent utility, and for someone who doesn’t need to slice cheese very often, it falls into the “good enough” niche. But I’ve been in way too many home kitchens where they have 10 drawers full of all sorts of implements and gadgets that do exactly one thing and seemed neat when they bought it, yet they never get used more than once a year or two. We incur an environmental debt with most every product we buy, and that’s a lot of plastic and scrap metal waste that will need to be dealt with someday.

I understand the tool, we used to have one when I was younger. I’m just saying that a knife will do zero compression if the edge is properly sharp. Most people use knives that go dull quickly and never bother to sharpen them, but a good sharp knife is a game changer for any type of food prep. A cheese slicer is just a convenience thing like an apple slicer. I mostly use a mandolin for the same purpose anyways, but a mandolin is just the convenience of a sharp knife with more consistent uniformity.

Might just need a sharper knife, then.

Yeah the system makes no sense. I got dinged -12 points this week for some reason, apparently for continuing to pay my student loans on time and using my one credit card for the exact same purchases I always do, which I likewise always pay off each month automatically.

Instructions unclear, applied butter to baby.

They’re too rich to worry about books. They have people for that. As long as you have enough money to buy a degree and pay the people who actually run your company, you don’t need to learn shit.

Holy fuck my sides, that’s so good. I hope that horse is okay, though.

You mean…we’ll be able to download more RAM???

I think that’s the wrong way to look at it. Let’s frame it this way. English is not the world’s best language. It’s pretty bad, honestly. It makes little logical sense, pronunciation is all over the place, and it’s inconsistent even between native speakers. Yet like 2 billion people speak it, even in places where it’s not the native language, because the UK spent so long as the dominant world power and just saturated all international discourse long enough to make it the most convenient common tongue. And so English remains the most commonly used language for discourse in the EU, despite the EU now only having one member state (Ireland) where English is the majority among native speakers. Programming languages can fall into the same trap. LLMs today can have the majority of their code trained on a small set of popular languages. They’ll be likelier to produce that kind of code reliably, which in turn motivates vibe coders to prioritize those languages over other options that may be more purpose-built or appropriate for the need. A new programming language that is massively better, more efficient, and easier to use can come about, but an LLM might never excel at it. Basically, a new language precludes itself from success with LLMs. The LLM will suck at it because there is substantially less training data to reliably model from. There will never be enough training data because fewer people are using it. Fewer people are using it because shitty vibe coders just rely on what the LLM can do well. The cycle repeats.

Artificial scarcity is definitely nothing new. Look at the diamond industry, for example. Diamonds are common as hell, but they regulate the supply so severely in order to sell these cheap chunks of carbon for thousands of dollars. If there’s no competition in a market willing to race others to the bottom in terms of price, there’s no incentive to actually produce a reasonable amount of something people want. You can just withold supply and charge way more.