I just use regular ol’ ed for jotting my thoughts on the AI-related news I see each day. After all, it is the standard text editor.

…was that not the question?

/s

If I understand you correctly, I think “people don’t easily comprehend the significance of increasing orders of magnitude” is a better way to frame it. To use iii’s examples, people perceive a coffee that costs 5 as being 1 unit more than a coffee costing 4. But when comparing two cars costing 40000 and 50000, the human brain tends to just latch on to the most significant digit, and starts to see it the same way: just one unit more.

Tangentially, given our brains’ difficulty processing large numbers, I wonder if this effect leads to money management skills being worse on average in economies with smaller base currency units, such as the Japanese Yen, Indian Rupee, South Korean Won, or for an extreme case study, the Iranian Rial, which currently exchanges at 49,313 IRR ≈ 1 EUR. When your haircut costs 1200000, a new phone costs 18700000, and a new car costs 1331400000, it’s hard to judge the weight of your decisions. When the slightly nicer car costs 1645200000, it’s near impossible to notice that you just spent your coffee money for an entire year (~5 days a week for 50 weeks) on a moonroof and Apple CarPlay. Not sure if that example is applicable to the average Iranian, but eh.

125% times

…is the most cursed thing I’ve seen all day. Especially so when you realize that when you convert it to a decimal of 1.25, the sentence is completely correct. Bravo. 😅👏

…your former ethnic group? How does that work, exactly? 🤔😄

Idk, I think that depends on the context in which the rainbow is viewed.

I like to say “cooking with magnets” because 1) it sounds cooler and 2) when people look at me weird I can immediately launch into my spiel about how induction heating is superior to gas in every way.

Okay cool, but what about reconsidering streets from a pedestrian’s perspective?

Wouldn’t it be nice if they were narrower, had raised crosswalks, a rough surface that’s uncomfortable to drive on too quickly, and lines of trees/bollards/gargoyles/^(trees carved to look like gargoyles holding bollards) between the road and the sidewalk to protect pedestrians and provide a better speed reference for drivers?

…come to think of it, the pedestrians (a.k.a. voting taxpayers) would probably rather not pay the taxes needed to finance all these upgrades, and would prefer the much cheaper solution of simply disallowing private automobiles on any street where that is possible. Though, more trees are always welcome. Just about everyone prefers more trees. (As long as the city plants trees of both sexes! Squirrels and allergy sufferers ^(including gargoyles) will thank you!)

If the fish and the birds can doo it, you can too! Fly, my pretties!

Idk, something tells me misery might be his kink…

Which, to be fair, there are more and more of as houses continue to become less and less affordable.

I mean, I like to look on the bright side, but look at how many countries followed the very obviously bad US model of urban planning.

I mean, aliases do exist. For example, with my typical alias schema I might shorten it to sudo syc lsu-s. But yeah, on foreign systems (e.g. random VPS’s) I can see your point.

Not even a contest, leaf sheep sea slug.

I don’t know what kind of kids show you could do with that. Maybe teach kids about the importance of conservation; it doesn’t really matter because JUST LOOK AT IT, EEEEEEE!!! (⋆❛ ہ ❛⋆) ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝

Congrats on being adopted. 😺

Not the case here, but just as a “fun” fact. Drunk drivers have a higher survival rate in crashes because their severely impaired reaction time means they’re usually still limp at impact.

At least it’s your own brain exploiting you instead of some shadowy cabal of advertising execs and astroturf campaign strategists?

My vote is for a name that I just made up, Aarana. It’s the female form of Aaron, with all a’s. 😄

It seems about right to me. Fortunately just a little ventilation goes a long way. You really only need a little fresh air per person to keep levels low. You can go crazy with online calculators to determine an exact CFM number for a given number of people in a room of a certain size, or you can just experiment and watch the sensor.

Nostalgia is a powerful thing, like a rank body odor or a French cheese.

I have to agree.

Probably a result of the tariffs, naturally.