And artificial flavouring doesn’t help either, since our brains map flavours to nutrients. Cravings for specific foods can be related to how much your body needs nutrients it associates with that food. But artificial flavours don’t come with any nutrients, they are just chemicals that mimic how the actual food interacts with our taste buds. So it can crave foods that do nothing to help with the nutritional needs, you’ll feel good for a bit because of how the body handles hunger (it subsides when we eat, not when we digest it and get access to the nutrients and calories, otherwise we’d always overeat), but then when the nutrient levels don’t change, it craves it again.

That’s how there’s so many people that are simultaneously obese and malnourished. The food has the calories and the body stores them for later use, but it doesn’t have the nutrition while foods have.

Yeah, there’s that angle also. Like how you can start phoning it in when you have a shitty manager that kills your passion. I have a feeling that that is part of the overall corporate culture at MS rather than just the case for people unlucky with which manager they ended up with.

Assuming you meant that “focus” as a pun that refers to their ability to focus on their work to the point of doing it well.

If you meant that it might have been some rogue developer that snuck in that change instead of a rogue manager, yeah, that’s also possible.

I doubt that it’s a binary. Sure, there’s a binary that could be used to describe the overall state of the brain, but my assumption is that it continues developing until death, just the maintenance load increases over time until it eventually overtakes the brain’s ability to adapt and it looks like it’s just declining, but consider what’s actually going on for say a stroke victim to recover functionality. The brain is rewiring itself to make up for parts of it that ceased being functional brain matter.

I’d also consider forming new memories to be a kind of development, since they are encoded using neurons, connections, and whatever else goes into making our brains work.

That’s the tera tera. Terra terror or Terra tearer, or a trillion terajoules.

Or sometimes the text bar just randomly loses focus and for whatever reason doesn’t default to getting focus when you type anything. I’d bet money this “feature” was the result of someone with more power than intelligence accidentally sending something embarassing because they didn’t realize teams had focus. Hell, I bet a good portion of Microsoft’s dumbshit behavious are the result of incompetent people getting power over how something behaves and basically boomerizing it (making it work in a specific and weird way that only makes sense to them).

Or if someone reacts to your message while you’re still in that chat, you need to go to a completely separate notification feed to clear that one (though maybe they fixed that one… Or maybe I just automatically ignore that other feed because it only ever has noise).

That’s also ignoring the access to data question. Who knows how much the providers are logging. It wouldn’t surprise me if “new companies” pop up out of the blue with surprisingly competitive hardware and software sometime in the next decade.

They are demons gathering strength and waiting for you to let your guard down and go to sleep!

The medical exemption also gives access to the older gen dispensaries, which can have better prices/options.

I remember some times when I’d be up for a long time, eventually it felt like the part of my brain that controlled awareness of another person’s presence would glitch out. Like if I was alone in my room playing video games, I’d get a sense that it was time to pass the controller when I died, or to comment on something for the other person that wasn’t really there.

But I was alone in my room, which made it pretty easy to recognize what was going on as a form of hallucination (I’d also see dark spots moving around in my peripheral, which I suspect some less self-aware people might think are bugs moving around at the edge of their vision). If I was out walking, where it was harder to logically be sure that you’re alone when your senses lie to you, I could see it developing into a strong paranoia. Would suck for that to be a normal feeling rather than something that happens after staying up way too long.

No, black mirror showed technology completely unlike anything that exists today.

There’s a chance they actually just believe they are trolling some of the dumber AI brained people by making them think they are hurting something that can’t be hurt.

This whole thing is like the flip side of the “don’t create the Torment Nexus” meme, where fiction depicted something that is entirely a non-issue but people are going to make it an issue because of the fictional depictions (basically any fiction about AI rights where they treat AIs as if they are pretty much artificial human minds, which LLMs are not even close to).

Reminds me of The Last Jedi.

Could have to do with efficiency at various motor speeds. With IC engines, they don’t take constant fuel input and don’t produce constant power or force over the rates at which they support spinning.

I understand electric motors have full access to their peak torque at any speed but I am not sure if that also means equal efficiency for the full rpm curve, so that could be a part of it.

Also I wonder about wheel efficiency and how that curve would look. Like if your tires are a bit under pressure, I could see more deformation being possible at lower speeds, which could mean the tires themselves become stiffer and more efficient as they spin faster.

And finally, 10 and 20 mph are both pretty low speeds as far as air resistance is concerned. Air resistance is more significant in how it scales. I forget the exact formula but I do remember that air resistance has a term with a higher exponent than the formula for work done (which boils down to distance travelled), which absolutely means that the force required to overcome air resistance increases much faster than the formula for the result of applying that force, but exponents can take a while go really get going.

Oh actually one more thing, when running a device like that, there will be some portion of energy it requires for just being on and another required for gaining and maintaining speed. It could be that the constant power requirements are significant compared to the amount of power required to get to and hold either 10 or 20 mph. Could even be a short or malfunction of some sort. If that’s the case, then the fact that your 20 mph trip only took about half the time could have saved more power than the extra needed to move twice as fast.

So my guess is the amount of extra air resistance going from 10 to 20 mph was less than some set of benefits you gained from that same speed increase, of which I listed the ones I could think of above.

Btw, after looking for it on steam, which is often my first move for “find video game”, just want to add a message to just go to nethack.org where you can get it for free. There are versions on steam but they are “someone grabbed a version of the free game and is trying to make money from a steam version”.

Also, the network hacking game I was thinking about is called hacknet lol.

Unless they changed it recently, you can’t. It’s ridiculous and an aggressive sales tactic to get more people using one drive so ms has direct access to user files, plus some even pay them for a subscription.

There’s workarounds, like addons can still trigger a save and it’s possible for outside tools to send ctrl+s signals periodically. But as far as I know (and a quick search doesn’t contradict this), current versions of ms office refuse to autosave local files.

I remember even when I still thought I liked them, I’d never feel satisfied after finishing a meal. For a while I mistook that for meaning I liked the food. Like “oh I just had one but want another already, must be good”. But no, I think now that it was just a sign of my body being well aware that it didn’t have enough nutritional value to meet its needs.

I’ve had other occasions where I’ll finish a combo and wish I had more with other fastfood places, but it’s not a constant experience like it was with McDonald’s.

Hell, that time they did that 2 big macs for $2 (just the burgers) deal, I bought 4 of them. I was full by the end of the 3rd and gave the 4th away but still wasn’t satisfied, I just couldn’t physically fit any more in my stomach.

Anyways, all that to say that any price is “too much” for those empty calories. But yeah, it used to be ok for “something quick and cheap to put in your stomach on a long drive” but even that is no longer the case.

Yeah, my first thought was that such a system was likely gameable.

But then my second thought was that idgaf what any of the McDonald burgers cost. The price they’d need to set to get me to “buy” them wouldn’t be economically viable for the company because I have no clue how a “pay customers to take our burgers” scheme could work out favorably for them.

Likely the penalty for not retaining the data is less severe than any penalty for getting caught with evidence of illegal actions, so it’s the default action to reduce risk when you’re doing illegal shit.

Or people who can’t turn it on because they don’t want to store their data on Microsoft’s computer and MS is a very hostile salesman.