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  • Are you a... frosted mini-spooner??

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  • Are you a... frosted mini-spooner??

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  • No. I’m pointing out to others who may read this thread that if they have been stuck in the mindset of choosing between options of sugary cereal, that they have the other option of simply not consuming it. We often forget that these sorts of options exist, because no one talks about them.

    Also, the example you pulled from my post history is profoundly weird, because it makes me look good… Like, I’m saying that I enjoy something, but recognize that it is an indulgence and then moderate my indulgence because other things are more important to me. I dunno, sounds pretty reasonable to me.

    Ouch. Doubling down on the superiority, huh? That's a bad look, friend.

    Okay, following your logic, should I go to your beer post you made 4 hours ago and as a reply put :

    "I mean, the better alternative is to just not drink alcohol."

    Is that helpful at all? Would you welcome that reply? Would that be productive to the conversation at all where you are celebrating your enjoyment of something? Should I remind others reading your post that "have been stuck in the mindset of choosing between" drinking to excess or to moderation that they have other options of simply not consuming it? Should I remind people reading your post about your enjoyment of alcohol (even in moderation) that these sort of options exists, because no one talks about them? Do you see how pretentious and unwelcome that would look as reply to your alcohol drinking post?

  • Are you a... frosted mini-spooner??

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  • I mean, the better alternative is to just not buy sugary cereal.

    Are you really in a position to criticize others on what they consume?

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    I choose not to drink alcohol. When I see other people posting about what they drink, I don't go around telling other people they shouldn't. These are personal choices. We're both aware of the potential health consequences of our chosen actions. I believe people should be free to do what they want as long as they aren't hurting other people. I don't want to think the worst of you, but the only reason I think of for you to make your comment was from a position of moral superiority. I know I've been guilty of that before and been ashamed of it later. Did I just catch you on a bad day?

  • Why does Intel seem so pessimistic about its future?

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  • Maybe i’m naive about the way businesses work; but if your still profitable, and you know you need to “catch up” why lay off people and close sites?

    I don't have any internal knowledge of Intel but I can make some guesses.

    There is a 1 to 2 year process pipeline that goes from ideation, to design, to prototyping, to production readiness, to recurring production. If Intel has determined that the chips they have in design and prototyping stage aren't market viable, there's no reason to pass them to the next steps. This means that the teams that follow (production readiness, to recurring production) won't have work for potentially years. So why employ the extremely expensive staff that do those steps for years when they have nothing to do and you just burn money for now output?

    Yet while I have no doubt that they are behind; their revenue is about 55 billion since 2023, down from the high of 78-80ish Billion during the pandemic

    Business have ways move moving profit and debt around. One way is corporate bonds ( or Commercial Paper). This can give cash infusions up front to build out infrastructure or finance today's design costs knowing that you'll be able to take the profits from the sales of those completed products at a later date, and pay off the debt. Its possible that Intel has taken out this debt, and because they're dumping products currently in development, they won't have any profits to pay off the debt. I don't know if Intel has any of these, but they are not uncommon in large companies.

    However for a company where RND is really where the value is, like Intel, it just doesn’t seem to make sense; your not going to get better designs and processes by reducing your experienced staff and letting them go work for the competition.

    Sure, but maybe not on all product lines. If you have 10 product lines, and 8 of them are producing products that are barely profitable (or perhaps not profitable at all), you might trim those lines, reducing your headcount to provide more R&D resources to the 2 remaining promising product lines.

  • Are you a... frosted mini-spooner??

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  • Malt-O-Meal cereals used to be the "cheap offbrand". Not so anymore. They're usually slightly cheaper than the name brand, but I've also seen them be more expensive per oz/gram than the name brand. I stopped buying Malt-O-Meal cereals 5 or 6 years ago when I saw the new pricing. The new "off brand" are the store brands. Those are significantly cheaper than Malt-O-Meal.

  • Damar wanted to make his world a better place, took a look at himself, and made a change!

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  • Same is true for almost all revolutionary figures.

    "Revolutionary" as in "US Revolutionary war" or as in "a figure that promotes revolution?" For the former, sure. Our "founding fathers" were all rich white slave owners. They enter the equation with a low score. If the latter, I'd argue many like Harriet Tubman wouldn't fall into this category of small-r revolutionary figures being extremely flawed individuals later raised to hero status.

  • Damar wanted to make his world a better place, took a look at himself, and made a change!

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  • That he eventually saw some error in his behavior/actions and tried to do right must count for something.

    It does count for something, just not much.

  • Damar wanted to make his world a better place, took a look at himself, and made a change!

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  • I mean, I'm glad he got there in the end, but he lived and benefited from the brutal oppression of the Bajorians for years. He then threw his lot in with the Dominion looking to gain more power with the conquest of the Alpha quadrant.

    He only came around as a rebel when it was clear that the Dominion saw Cardassia as he had seen Bajor, a stepping stone of useful people to exploit. I'm not sure that's much to celebrate.

  • What are some events in history that most people would be surprised happened in parallel or at least within the same time period?

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  • When a Christian Makes Contact with an Atheist

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  • Fixed:

    The only winning move is not to play.

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    Trump Supporter Beheaded His Father for Being ‘On the Left,’ Posted It on YouTube to ‘Send a Message’

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  • I really hate the TACO misnomer, because while Trump was distracting everyone with tariffs he did NOT chicken out of doing a whole bunch of worse stuff.

    Using the term is not about logic. Its that it gets under trump's skin for some reason. No idea why when he's done and been called much much worse, but trump really freaked out over this one, so this is the one we use.

    And also, calling him a chicken only eggs him on because now he feels like he has something to prove.

    He doesn't care about anyone except himself. Calling him something or not isn't going to make him do more or less horrible things.

  • Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold

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  • Transparent aluminum was around in 2018 source

  • We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower

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  • … /results.

    I'm....not quite understanding you reply. I think you're trying to add on "results" to my statement of "cost/effort", but I covered "results" with my first statement of "features or functionality". So if I understand your post properly, I think your addition is simply duplicative of what I already included.

    Have I misunderstood what you're trying to communicate?

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  • I would actually call out that your prior work belongs to your employer. That should earn you points with your new possible employer.

    "My most recent examples would be work I did for my prior employer. However, that work contains confidential policies or trade secrets that are not meant for public disclosure. I respect my prior employers confidence and cannot share that. Should I get this position with your organization, I will respect your data just as strongly as I do my prior employer's. However, I am providing Sample #1 document I have written which I wrote which reflects my writing style and subject matter expertise without violating any prior employer agreements."

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  • I agree with te cooling off period. Although I might argue the length of time. If I wait a year to decide on something, I know it won’t have as much interest as it did before.

    Obviously I'm not talking about everything having a 1 year waiting period, such as a $10 video game from Steam, but I waited close to 3 years before I spent well over $50,000 on solar panels for the house. Some large things just need time to work the numbers or gauge the value.

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  • Budgets (formal or informal)!

    • Have I covered all of my expenses? Yes.
    • Have I properly funded my savings (retirement, emergency fund, other savings goals)? Yes.
    • Do I have money left over? Yes!

    Permission to spend granted!

    Further before I buy something I'll write it down on a list and essentially not buy it for a period of time (7 days? 30 days, a year?). I'll come back to that list and gauge my interest again. Many, MANY times (most?) I don't care about the thing anymore so I don't spend the money.

    Then I'll usually try to get the cheaper version (possibly used) of the thing first to make sure it still holds my interest in using it before I would justify buying the more expensive one. So many times the cheaper version does everything I need and I never need to buy the expensive version. When I do exceed the capabilities of the cheap version, and it is still holding my interest, I can then justify spending on the expensive (new?) version. Example: I wanted a bicycle to ride around the neighborhood for fitness and enjoyment. I looked at higher end brands and models, but first I bought a $200 Big Box Store Schwinn. I'm still using that same bicycle 6 years later with no need to replace it. One note, about two years into ownership I took it to an actual bicycle store for a tune up. The cost was about $80, I think. I wish I had done that on day 1! The bike's brakes worked much better and the gear shifting were MUCH improved! Prior to the service, I would regularly have the chain come off from bad shifts. The last time that happened was 3 years ago prior to the service.

  • My cat when her bowl has been empty for literally 5 minutes

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  • Empty? You mean when there is 1 cm2 of the bottom of the center of the bowl visible even though there is still a large halo of food in the bowl? You go over, shake the bowl so the remaining food covers the bottom of the bowl and they're happy again?

  • Muscle memory

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  • You have to look the other way anyway in case there might be pedestrians or cyclists crossing your path.

  • Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database

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  • Most of those expenses are mitigated by the fact that companies buy them in bulk on huge plans.

    There's no bulk rate on payroll taxes or retirement benefits (pensions or employer 401k match). There can be some discounts on health insurance, but is not very much and those are at orders of magnitude. So company with 500 employees will pay the same rates as 900. You get partial discounts if you have something like 10,000 employees.

    If you're earning $100k gross as an employee, your employer is spending $125k to $140k for their total costs (your $100k gross pay is included in that number).