asdajksah2123 (u/asdajksah2123)

asdajksah2123 commented on Cuttlefish 'talk' with their arms, study reveals scienceblog.com/wildscien... · Posted by u/geox

damnitbuilds · 4 months ago

Again, reacting when an action is detected does not show communication.

asdajksah2123 · 4 months ago

I think you're confused about what the communication is.

The communication isn't the waving in "reaction" (it's not clear it's simply a reaction, but let's assume it is) to the original wave, but the original wave itself.

And the fact that it's also triggered by videos indicates it's not just a mechanical reaction (like some of the research about how plants "communicate" is which are essentially mechanical responses to stimuli).

However, this doesn't necessarily mean that the communication is meaningful. It just shows that a means of communicating exists.

asdajksah2123 commented on America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back molsonhart.com/blog/ameri... · Posted by u/putzdown

asdajksah2123 · 5 months ago

America does need to bring back manufacturing. Not because a manufacturing job that pays $25/hr is somehow better than a service job that pays $25/hr.

The US needs to bring back manufacturing for strategic reasons and in strategic areas.

And it needs to have the capability to scale up manufacturing in response to emergencies.

But also, importantly, the US doesn't need to do this by onshoring all manufacturing. Near shoring and friend shoring will have to be extremely important components of adding these capabilities, and unfortunately, teh actions the US is taking will likely hurt nearshoring and friendshoring and will end up making the US less strategically capable in manufacturing even if it's able to reshore a significant amount of manufacturing.

asdajksah2123 commented on America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back molsonhart.com/blog/ameri... · Posted by u/putzdown

csense · 5 months ago

There are plenty of people saying these tariffs will not work.

But a person used to be able to graduate high school and get a job that could support a house with a yard, a car, a non-working spouse and children.

How we get that level of prosperity back? That's the people really want. Tariffs are simply a means to that end.

I wish people would stop writing articles about 100% criticizing tariffs and instead write articles 50% about criticizing tariffs and 50% brainstorming alternative solutions to achieve the same objective.

asdajksah2123 · 5 months ago

> There are plenty of people saying these tariffs will not work.

Work to do what?

> But a person used to be able to graduate high school and get a job that could support a house with a yard, a car, a non-working spouse and children.

Why do you think this has anything to do with tariffs or manufacturing?

> How do we get that level of prosperity back?

Better pay for the jobs people actually work. Reducing inequality by preventing the richest 0.1% from capturing all the massive gains in wealth the US has seen over the past few decades. Removing regulations that prevent the country from building housing and therefore driving up housing costs. Switching to a healthcare model in nearly any of the comparable developed countries almost all of which deliver better healthcare at half the cost. Not expecting everyone to be able to live a completely unsustainable suburban life. Having the government support children's upbringing by paying for high quality education, instituting rules and regulations that require mandatory paid maternity/paternity leave, etc.

Lost of poorer countries manage to do this and more just fine. The US is far richer than most of those countries.

Very little of this has to do with manufacturing jobs falling from 18mm to 13mm.

asdajksah2123 commented on Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft theregister.com/2025/04/1... · Posted by u/rntn

raggi · 5 months ago

I think it ended at the first "ribbon" UI, which was in the 2003 era, but not all products ate the dirt at once.

asdajksah2123 · 5 months ago

The original ribbon sucked but with the improvements it's hard to say it's generally a bad choice.

The ribbon is a great fit for Office style apps with their large number of buttons and options.

Especially after they added the ability to minimize, expand on hover, or keep expanded (originally this was the only option), the ribbon has been a great addition.

But then they also had to go ahead and dump it in places where it had no reason to be, such as Windows Explorer.

asdajksah2123 commented on Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers techcrunch.com/2025/03/16... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

moconnor · 5 months ago

I don’t see why you believe 2 would be true. I expect a strong correlation between the visual appearance of food and its caloric content etc.

asdajksah2123 · 5 months ago

1 tbsp of animal fat has about 900 calories.

1 tbsp of olive oil has 135 calories.

How would the app know which fat the food was cooked in?

asdajksah2123 commented on Apple unveils new Mac Studio apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/ksec

gjsman-1000 · 6 months ago

In the future, we’ll decide HTML, CSS, and JS are too much of an inconsistent burden; so every website will bundle their own renderers into a <canvas> tag running off a WASM blob. Accessibility will be figured out later - just like it was for the early JavaScript frontends.

I am looking forward to the HTML Frameworks explosion. You thought there were too many JS options? Imagine when anyone can fork HTML.

asdajksah2123 · 6 months ago

> every website will bundle their own renderers into a <canvas> tag running off a WASM blob

Isn't that Flutter?

asdajksah2123 commented on OpenCloud 1.0 opencloud.eu/en/news/open... · Posted by u/doener

asdajksah2123 · 6 months ago

Any reason to choose this over OwnCloud or Nextcloud?

asdajksah2123 commented on Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO tomshardware.com/laptops/... · Posted by u/pseudolus

notcrazylol · 6 months ago

So if people buy an acer laptop, acer makes more profit? Quick math - if a laptop is retailing for 1000 and acer makes it for 500(just a random number), due to the tariffs, acer has to pay 550(10% extra) to bring it to the US and now sells it for 1100 due to 10% hike?

profit before = 1000-500 = 500 profit now = 1100 - 550 = 550

So the company is making more profit from you now? What am I missing?

asdajksah2123 · 6 months ago

We saw this throughout the pandemic.

Companies used the very real inflationary pressures to increase the cost of their products well beyond what those inflationary pressures alone would require.

There are 2 reasons IMO that led to this working:

1. If every company does it, the normal competitive market pressures to reduce prices don't operate. Normally, every company will only raise prices due to collusion, which would be illegal. But when there's a broad based increase in cost, every company will also raise prices beyond just the absolute values of those costs independently, because companies are judged by their margins more than they are by absolute numbers. This is not illegal but the effect is the same.

If in your example, Acer sells 1000 laptops, they originally made $1mm in revenues, with $500k in costs, leading to $500k in gross profits and a gross profit margin of 50%.

If their costs increase by 50%, they need to increase their selling price by $100 to maintain those margins. $1.1mm revenue, with $550k costs, leading to $550k gross profits for a gross profit margin of 50%.

If, however, they increase their Selling price only by the cost, their new selling price will be $1050, for revenues of $1.05mm, costs of $550k, gross profits of $500k, but gross profit margins declining to $500/$1050 = ~47.6%.

The decline in gross profits will hurt their stock price and their valuations (if private) significantly.

2. Consumer pressure. The other reason companies do not easily increase prices with higher costs is negative publicity. Pandemic related inflation, and now tariffs, give them an easy way to explain the reason for the price increases to their consumers and avoid facing any backlash directly.

What did surprise me with the pandemic, which will likely be true with the tariff increases, is that once the companies did increase their selling prices after the pandemic, even though their costs then subsequently dropped, they did not drop prices, across the board.

And the result were the record breaking profits companies have been declaring.

asdajksah2123 commented on Software development topics I've changed my mind on chriskiehl.com/article/th... · Posted by u/belter

noahjk · 7 months ago

Maybe a new paradigm for code formatting could be local-only. Your editor automatically formats files the way you like to see them, and then de-formats back to match the codebase when pushing, making your changes match the codebase style.

asdajksah2123 · 7 months ago

This is pretty common now. At least my Vim/git combo does this, where I always open source code with my preferred formatting but by the time it's pushed to the server it's changed to match the repo preferences.