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proverbialbunnyon Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]

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.

proverbialbunnyon Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009)

>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.

proverbialbunnyon Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event

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.

proverbialbunnyon Do not download the app, use the website

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.

proverbialbunnyon Apple M1 Ultra

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.

proverbialbunnyon Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero

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.

proverbialbunnyon Time to retire the CSV?

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.

proverbialbunnyon Time to retire the CSV?

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.

proverbialbunnyon Time to retire the CSV?

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.

proverbialbunnyon Datalore enterprise – Jupyter environment for data science teams

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?

proverbialbunnyon Types of propaganda, propaganda techniques, and propaganda strategies (2017)

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.

proverbialbunnyon Psychedelic therapy could 'reset' depressed brain

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

proverbialbunnyon Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free

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.

proverbialbunnyon Rust const generics MVP hits beta

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.

proverbialbunnyon Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees

Thanks ^_^

proverbialbunnyon Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees

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.

proverbialbunnyon California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs

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

proverbialbunnyon California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs

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.

proverbialbunnyon Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine

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...

proverbialbunnyon Zone of Death (Yellowstone)

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

proverbialbunnyon Robinhood is still severely limiting trading

Stock has a 2 day settlement period, so Robinhood could pay out, but it would have a 2 day delay before an ACH transfer would start when liquidating their account.

proverbialbunnyon Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood

Someone not on Robinhood can buy it.

proverbialbunnyon Automating my job with GPT-3

Cool! Did you consider using BERT instead of GPT-3? Any idea what the pros and cons with each approach are?

proverbialbunnyon Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest target: live content

>HN mods focus more on how you say something rather than what you say.

This is how the news used to be regulated in the US. Before the Fairness Doctrine news was all over the place, during it was sane and rational, after .. well we're all living it.

When it comes to checks and balances, the news can be under regulated which allows for lies and corruption like we're seeing right now, it can be regulated in an unfair or bias way, or it can be regulated in a balanced way that doesn't restrict speech, it enhances it.

The US has already solved this problem for previous platforms. It needs to go back and put checks and balances back in, instead of letting corruption remove those checks and balances and keep it removed.

proverbialbunnyon Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

>Bloomberg Messenger (bank paid 2k per month for it!),

Nice https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/24953235/nice.jpg

It's amazing how much spinning happens in current media. The only people in the world who truly know how much this is are those who get the headlines before the stories are written and talked about, like day traders, who get it for speed reasons. It's cool, but it sucks it costs so much to get an unfiltered news source.

proverbialbunnyon Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

I'd consider stickies a decent jump.

My past self never would have predicted the world has moved to a form of hieroglyphics of fuzzy animals to talk to each other.

proverbialbunnyon Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

I wouldn't be surprised that is how they lost the majority of their user base. Everyone I know was on it, myself included, but once support was hampered around the time the AIM protocol died, most people around me left for Telegram and Signal.

proverbialbunnyon GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si

I see. I never downloaded these speedsubs nor knew they existed, because I had a choice. I could download high quality content, which I did. Back then I was never forced into crappy subs.

Today options are limited for many different anime, where you get one or more choices and all of them are just okay, not keeping up with the standard a decade+ ago.

At least professional subs today are better than fansubs in the 80s and early to mid 90s.

proverbialbunnyon GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si

Nice!

Though, it is a bit unfair to take the most popular anime of the decade (by non-japanese watchers) and the highest rated anime of all time (by non-japanese watchers) as an example. I would be worried if there wasn't a quality fansub group covering it.

This was the norm for all anime once upon a time ago.

proverbialbunnyon Gaming the system: How GameStop stock surged

FFVII was used as an example because the re-release is 3 games, and each game is considered long for today's standards.