Well that would be a valid reason to spend more on nicer batteries. Only very few people know enough to appreciate that feature though. Most people would just evaluate the situation based on price and performance.

Sounds like a very reasonable compromise.

Are the cheaper batteries better than the expensive ones? If not, dewalt is charging you for a superior product, which is fair IMO. Is the difference big enough to justify the difference? That’s up to the customer to decide. If the difference is not worth it, just buy the cheaper one instead.

Is any of this ethical? Probably not. I suspect both manufacturers have poor labor practices and a negative environmental impact. The way I see it, consumers are destroying the planet through indirect means for the most part. Directly, if you’re burning gasoline, and indirectly, when you’re buying stuff from various companies. Those companies are directly destroying the planet buy burning stuff, leaking toxic chemicals into the groundwater etc. If you’re worried about ethics, you might want to look into the environmental impact these two companies have. If you’re serious about this, you might need to do a proper life cycle analysis of the entire production chain, but that’s a topic for another thesis.

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I agree with most of that, but I think I still need to bring up the benefits of centralised health services. In simple cases, you don’t really need that, but in tricky cases you might. For example, if you need an MRI scan before surgery, you just can’t rely on travelling doctors. Those machines are expensive, so you’re only going to have those in large cities where they can be used more frequently.

Surgery also benefits from being a centralised service. You can’t expect a traveling surgeon to carry all the stuff you need for keeping the whole room clean. Besides, the room itself needs special equipment. A simple scalpel and a steady hand aren’t enough to make it work.

Ecosia and Qwant have their own search index.

It depends on your level of expertise. If your writing skills are awful, boosting that with below average AI-slop is actually an improvement. The output won’t be good, but at least it isn’t awful either. If you already are a competent writer, LLMs will absolutely ruin your text.

However, the middle ground is where it gets interesting. You should start with a rough draft. It doesn’t have to be concise, coherent or even good. It’s just a starting point for the LLM to work with. It’s important that the draft illustrates the vision you’re going for.

If you tell an LLM to improve it, it will usually make some dramatic changes you won’t like, but some of them kinda work. Then you’ll become an editor, and your job is to merge the two texts. Take the best parts from your original and the one the LLM “refined” for you.

This method requires you to have a vision though, and you need to know what you want. Your job is to curate the material. Discard the trash and keep anything worth keeping. You need to have the ability to determine what’s good and what’s not. Fortunately, that’s a skill you can develop by reading material written by other people.

When you remove a single grain of sand from a heap, and as a result, it is no longer a heap.

Some definitions have fuzzy edges. Actually most words are really fuzzy that way. Mathematical concepts are precise, but normal everyday words aren’t. Treat them accordingly.

When taken to extreme, the pieces could also rise.

Imagine that meat demand drops gradually over a few decades, and meat production adapts to it. As a result, the whole industry begins to lose the economies of scale. After a century of this kind of development, meat is produced by a handful of small farms, where the operational costs per mass unit of meat produced are very high. If that ever happens, meat would become a special ingredient most people don’t want. Those few who still do want it, are willing to pay absurd prices for it.

That’s exactly what has already happened with physical media for audio and video.

There are parts of Europe, particularly small villages, where all you see are the locals. People from outside usually don’t move in, more like the opposite actually. Kids move out when they want to study something in a big city, and they only return during Christmas. In a place like that, the only foreigners you could find are the Turks who run the local pizza kebab restaurant. If you go to an even smaller town, there are no restaurants at all, so that’s the place where you can probably find people who have never met a black person before.

Change happens gradually. The first steps need to be easy, maybe even fun. Once you get past those, you’re ready for bigger challenges, harder tasks. Maybe even something a bit boring.

It’s called a “strategic investment into maintaining competitive advantage” in corpo talk.

Installing ransomware on every computer that visits the site. (/s)

Gotta say, pronouncing it as /dʒɪf/ is just top tier trolling. Everyone knows that /ɡɪf/ is the only one that actually makes sense, but some people intentionally choose to pronouns it wrong anyway. Steve Wilhite saw an opportunity to leave his mark on the world by trolling the hell out of everything, so he took it. Who could resist an opportunity like that.

Baking paper is also available in pre cut rolls. Just pull square out of the roll, and start using it. No need to cut anything.

Fancy plastic film comes with a small metal blade that travels on a plastic rail. It cuts the film very smoothly when compared to any other option I’ve seen anywhere.

Cutting aluminum foil is a bit different. Which side of the box has the serrations? Use that edge for cutting.

Didn’t Evan Edinger just make a video about that? Sounds strangely familiar.

Fartplan 🤣

Actually, there are a few performance artists who make money but farting on stage. Sounds like they must have a plan like that.

Also, rule 35, so you can definitely find semi-professionals who focus on farting on video and posting online. I suppose they also plan their activities.

Same thing with Swedish. Gift (Swedish) = poison, venom, toxin etc.

Sounds like there must have been some colossal misunderstanding in the past.

He would still behave in a similar way, but with a lower budget. That would force him to let go of some habits, adapt in interesting ways, and learn new ways. I think it could be interesting, but it would have a radically different flavour.

Tony has amazing skills. He could make just about anything. I think there’s some story potential here.

Bruce would probably end up being a bum or a weirdo. If you like redemption arcs, the story of Bruce could be interesting.