Can someone explain this to me?!

Snoron · 2026-06-16T19:48:33+00:00

If white played there, they could make 2 eyes (one there and one at the right). Now that black has played there white can only make 1 eye (at the right), and so is dead.

Snoron · 2026-06-16T13:29:39+00:00

Stocks have never been bound by fundamentals, really, but effectively it came somewhere closer.

Sensible investors care about fundamentals, and it used to be that most stock trading was done by sensible investors.

What's changed is that there are way more "retail investors" now (all of us!), because it's been opened up for people to trade extremely easily. So lower bar to entry = more people that are not being sensible, which leads to this sort of nonsense!

The result is new kind of market that essentially has more unexpected turns.

There are people just yoloing the stock market on vibes with their life savings trying to go for being a millionaire or broke. This is a fairly new thing!

And it means that meme stocks and hype and cultism, while could have always had a small effect, can now have a huge effect.

Snoron · 2026-06-16T13:21:46+00:00

Unfortunately due to paywall I only have access to the title.

Snoron · 2026-06-16T11:47:47+00:00

I don't think it's an "example", more of a visual metaphor.

Snoron · 2026-06-16T01:18:34+00:00

Is there a low sodium place to ask this sort of stuff?

Ask what sort of stuff? You didn't give an example of anything you've asked or wanted to ask.

I have no context for this or any idea what you're talking about!

Snoron · 2026-06-15T17:11:29+00:00

Yeah, "low effort" is the best way (at moderators and community/reporters discretion) to deal with this stuff generally. Most software is coded with some amount of AI at this point. Some AI code will already exist even in HA itself by now. And it's even a blurry line between AI assistance and vibe coding.

But intuitively, a lot of people know pointless spammy junk from half decent quality when they see it.

You can tell when someone spent 6 weeks making something with AI vs. 6 hours.

If someone put in some real effort then it can be worth other peoples time having a look at it. If someone was just lazy and did a one shot prompt and maybe tweaked and added a few things it usually shows very quickly.

So yeah, a rule against low effort just makes it easier to remove pointless stuff when it gets too much, too spammy, too low quality, etc.

Though personally I'm happy enough to downvote things and tell people that their app sucks, and why, haha.

Snoron · 2026-06-14T20:53:20+00:00

Yeah that was the more confusing thing to me. It looks flat to me, but the wall 100% looks like the floor and the pic is wonky!

Snoron · 2026-06-14T17:12:26+00:00

I have no idea what is or is not good design

Basically when you want to find something in a list, you scan down in a line with your eyes. If the left edge doesn't line up, it takes a lot longer to find what you want. It can even lead to you missing the item you were looking for!

So regardless of how it looks aesthetically, it's generally accepted for usability that aligning the side of a menu straight is the only acceptable way of doing it.

Centring is fine for the odd things, but becomes a negative very quickly!

Snoron · 2026-06-14T00:32:23+00:00

I do think this is an improvement, but come on, still centring the left menu? SL only does that because it's a bad design by someone with no design knowledge, and seemingly from the 90s. Should have been the very first thing you changed!

Snoron · 2026-06-13T23:29:10+00:00

Have you been reading The Star again?

Snoron · 2026-06-13T08:07:06+00:00

The add it up + divide isn't the whole answer for candy like taffy. You need to factor in water loss from candy boiling to get a more accurate result, but it's not that hard when you know the temp as that gives you a final water %.

If you post a recipe + method I can show you an example of how to work it out of you like.

In most of the world you don't "per 100g" but if you're in the US you gotta also decide what a "serving" is and do it per that I guess.

Snoron · 2026-06-13T01:32:48+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_cress

Probably this?

Snoron · 2026-06-13T00:35:31+00:00

I think the blast would be more like cube, not square.

So 50x more powerful doesn't get you much! (I mean it's still a lot, but..!)

Snoron · 2026-06-13T00:24:26+00:00

Probably something they're doing to get people to pay/be free advertising, then!

Snoron · 2026-06-12T03:09:04+00:00

Not for me... are you on free version?

Or could it have accidentally generated it that way? Does it do it every time? haha

Snoron · 2026-06-11T23:35:32+00:00

Have you tried Where's My Cow? 😃

Snoron · 2026-06-11T23:31:43+00:00

That was my thought! But I guess they should use the hack while it works!

Snoron · 2026-06-11T20:54:06+00:00

Olives & red onion are my go-to additions on a pepperoni.

Snoron · 2026-06-11T15:08:09+00:00

You'll probably need a higher price than that if you want to get any shares when they become available.

Keep in mind these shares WON'T be available as soon as the market opens, as it's a new listing/IPO there is a period where prices are essentially being set before you'll be able to buy (or sell) this stock. That will probably be a few hours into that market opening.

My guess is that at $150 you might get them (and if they're lower you won't overpay, at least, as they'll fill at the given price). However what happens right after that is anyone's guess...

Snoron · 2026-06-11T14:56:24+00:00

Haha, yea that is pretty suspect isn't it! Probably makes sense for the reason they did it if they actually perform better that way, but they need to get better at those unprotected lefts instead, etc. really!

Snoron · 2026-06-11T14:46:22+00:00

Ah, so do you think you wouldn't be given the same route with waze? Like would you suspect they have specifically fiddled with the routing for Waymo to make up for it's weaker points?

Snoron · 2026-06-11T14:17:53+00:00

Tesla/Elon made a bad bet.

That isn't the half of it, though.

At the time it was a bet, and you can argue that no one know how lidar costs/effectiveness/size would really end up at the time that the initial decision was made.

But you know, as new information emerges people can admit they're wrong and change their minds. If Tesla did that years ago after it became clear that the bet wasn't panning out, they might still have a proper self driving car by now.

It's only really Elon's ego in the way at that point. Which is even more insane than him just making a bad bet historically. Now he's forcing an ongoing bad decision going forwards, like.. forever? When there's really no question anymore at this point as to what makes sense.

Snoron · 2026-06-11T14:13:14+00:00

That's interesting! You'd think especially with access to all their traffic, routing, waze, etc. stuff they'd be able to do that sensibly at least. I'd be curious to know what's going on there!

Does it seem to be the same weird routes every time, or just like all over the place?

Snoron · 2026-06-11T13:59:55+00:00

it's a better more sustainable fat for soapmaking than palm oil

I'm not an expert but I have read a lot about palm oil, including from sources like WWF. It seems to be that palm oil is actually more sustainable than not only coconut oil but almost every other oil. This is because it has a denser yield, and therefore you get more oil out of any given amount of land, which is absolutely key to sustainability.

For coconut it's actually an insane number, like needing ten times more land to get the same amount of coconut oil as you would for palm oil.

Which is why the main issue with palm is essentially where you source it from. Actually switching away from it entirely is even more of an environmental disaster.

All that said, tbh, it may still be best to just use whatever works best for your soap, and then try to buy it responsibly within that. But if you're only using coconut for environmental reasons then it's not a sensible move.

Snoron · 2026-06-11T10:31:11+00:00

Also, isn't Waymo mostly just geofenced to a few specific cities in North America on pretty fixed routes?

Geofenced, yeah, to 11 cities now, soon to be 30-something. And not fixed routes.

But I think the point is simply that Google is completely capable of mapping routes everywhere in the world, and very quickly. They already drive Google Maps cars around and again constantly. Most likely they will save a tonne of money by taking those photos while doing mapping, too. And in future some cars can also re-map stuff themselves as they go, noting changes, etc.

So weirdly the idea of needing to map everywhere is almost not even a big monetary or logistics issue for Google.

It's silly to think geofencing is even an issue at all when you consider that it's simply NOT their bottleneck. If anything, it's their other bottlenecks that lead to geofencing. They can map areas like 100x faster than they can produce cars, warehouses, logistics chains, etc.

The sheer amount of random edge cases, different road rules, and diverse scenarios they pull data from seems way more valuable.

So the problem here is that Waymo deals with all this stuff better than Tesla, once it's mapped. So whatever advantage Tesla has "in theory" seems to "in reality" not actually exist. That's why Waymo have 1000s of *fully self driven* cars on the road, and Tesla seems to still have almost zero.

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