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New comment by proverbialbunny in "Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]"

proverbialbunny — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:56:29 +0000

In Australia Coca-Cola isn't allowed to import coca leaf extract for flavor, so it tastes very similar to one of the 3rd party knock off brands you'll find in the US. In Australia everyone drinks Pepsi because of this. Without the coca leaf Coca-Cola tastes imo pretty terrible.

What makes this video revolutionary is he was able to find an alternative to the coca leaf that has a near identical flavor. If it's as good tasting as advertised this knowledge could empower 3rd party producers to make a coke drink that will finally rival Coca-Cola in popularity.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009)"

proverbialbunny — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 07:58:33 +0000

>In 1980, good programmers spent a lot of time thinking, and then produced spare code that they thought should work. ... But programming now isn’t so much like that, said Sussman. Nowadays you muck around with incomprehensible or nonexistent man pages for software you don’t know who wrote. You have to do basic science on your libraries to see how they work, trying out different inputs and seeing how the code reacts.

Is that how people read code these days? I've always been weaker at reading code, but great at writing it. Iama Data Scientist, which explains why; I haven't had to read tons of code throughout my career. The topic kind of scares me. His description scares me even more.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event"

proverbialbunny — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 07:42:51 +0000

If they really like building stuff like this they can get a career that does it, like Embedded Engineer or Firmware Engineer type roles. And if it's just a hobby that's great too.

I'm not sure about the media part, is it because of Youtubers? If so that sounds like wanting to become the modern version of a movie star. In that situation maybe encourage them to do a multimedia class at school and see if they like it.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Do not download the app, use the website"

proverbialbunny — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 07:36:11 +0000

Caching and loading times mostly.

I'm on old.reddit.com too and I use the mobile app (including the 3rd party ones back when they existed) for one primary reason: Two windows I can quickly switch back and forth on. On my phone I use Reddit to look up things. I can have a Reddit thread on one window and a Google search on the other and go back and forth. In a browser switching tabs back and forth is painful, often reloading pages, losing the spot in the browser, having this url bar and top bar taking up tons of screen space.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Apple M1 Ultra"

proverbialbunny — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 18:27:10 +0000

If you want to get a bit more into significant numbers, Apple has the largest number of games for any platform and it has the largest number of gamers. They're mobile games, but on the M1 people can play them on their desktop.

What I think you mean is competitive gamers and AAA gamers do not play on Apple hardware. This is mostly true today ofc, but keep in mind that's actually not the majority of the gaming market. Apple is raking it in from its gaming market.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero"

proverbialbunny — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:24:19 +0000

Today the world's best players (not just chess) play against bots like AlphaZero. They can learn from their opponent. Today that is what it takes to be the best in the world.

Even if most moves are normal, clearly AlphaZero and other bots are doing something different or they wouldn't be world's best.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Time to retire the CSV?"

proverbialbunny — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:14:16 +0000

The current standard already accepts a comment line at the top, so in this case technologically it is easy, far easier than most problems. However, getting a consensus from a committee with bike shedding and all that fun (horrible) stuff is very hard.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Time to retire the CSV?"

proverbialbunny — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:34:32 +0000

I wouldn't mind an updated standard to CSV that has the type information in the first line with the column labels. I feel like this is all that CSV is really missing. As a format where you can easily see and interact with the data in plain text if you need to nothing really beats CSV but I believe it could be made better, including strengthening standardization. Eg, a CSV standards version header could be put at the top of the file to minimize import export difficulty.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Time to retire the CSV?"

proverbialbunny — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:22:42 +0000

The same argument could be made for all other data formats.

CSV is like the C of data formats. It's incredibly stable yet simple enough you can make your own variant if you need to.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Datalore enterprise – Jupyter environment for data science teams"

proverbialbunny — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 20:18:52 +0000

You're not the only one thinking it. It seems like everyone today sells a cloud JupyterLab / Jupyter Notebook instance, from Google Colab on.

What makes Jetbrain's iteration far better than any of the other competitors? So far nothing?

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Types of propaganda, propaganda techniques, and propaganda strategies (2017)"

proverbialbunny — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 22:36:29 +0000

After WW2 propaganda got a bit of a bad name for itself so it renamed itself public relations. Anything that talks about propaganda and not PR is out of date, but still valid.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Psychedelic therapy could 'reset' depressed brain"

proverbialbunny — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 23:02:31 +0000

It can but it's the kind of prescription where you don't take the drug out of a medical facility.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free"

proverbialbunny — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 18:20:35 +0000

It sounds like you guys could use a YMCA or community center catering to these types. My grandmother was lonely so I convinced her to go to a YMCA for exercise reasons and she made a bunch of friends.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Rust const generics MVP hits beta"

proverbialbunny — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 21:15:37 +0000

This is a pretty big deal. One benefit it gives is it's much easier to write code evaluated at compile time. Most Rust libraries use generics, so if you use a library, compile time support isn't usually available. By adding support for const generics compile time support can become widespread.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees"

proverbialbunny — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:24:51 +0000

Thanks ^_^

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees"

proverbialbunny — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 20:08:50 +0000

Does anyone have an alternative site they go to to buy household goods than amazon.com? Mostly kitchen supplies.

Amazon often sells items lower quality than Walmart. It sucks and it feels like they have a monopoly. I'd rather shop anywhere else.

edit: Maybe https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/ ? I haven't bought anything there, but I might try it if there are not better recommendations.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs"

proverbialbunny — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 22:15:50 +0000

Have you tried seeding something on bit torrent? That's a pretty easy way to tell.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs"

proverbialbunny — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:26:48 +0000

It's also a lie. AT&T currently has a slow lane. Eg, I have fiber gigabit duplex, but for encrypted uploads to unknown servers, I get throttled to 10mbps. This restricts VPN traffic to many companies, including mine 10 miles away. This also restricts bit torrent traffic, and AT&T employs some sort of Sandvine like service that sends disconnect messages to users downloading from AT&T.

As far as I know AT&T has not created a slow lane for download speeds, which is why most people probably do not notice.

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine"

proverbialbunny — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 19:58:37 +0000

As a general rule of thumb there is at least a 2 week delay from getting COVID to death, so it's too early to say going off of a death count. Alternatively, looking up how many new cases of people vaccinated are getting COVID could be used, which doesn't have the delay.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/israel-severe-hospitaliza...

New comment by proverbialbunny in "Zone of Death (Yellowstone)"

proverbialbunny — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 19:53:24 +0000

Duels are legal in a lot of the US, so not really necessary.