blackbrook

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[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have a great partner.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I have a similar problem, but what is worse, most of them I can't really claim to "play", I've just kind of fooled around with them.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They all got bought up by venture capitalists like a decade or more more ago, and this is the result.

They were already backward, but now they are backward, ruthless about cost cutting, and care about nothing but profits.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Outrage bait?

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The experiments with the little coat and top hat, on the other hand, were a complete failure.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

That would work great on cars too, all we need is all the roads to be as smooth and even as steel rails.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah what makes spitting in your child's face not ok, is kind of orthogonal to strictness.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

It does seem dumb that you can no longer copy the result once you hit =. Have you been to the issues site yet? It would not surprise me if there's already a bug posted. This seems like new functionality that hasn't really been thought through and needs more feedback.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I hear that in Butter's voice.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't mean that you can't tell the difference between any two things if they aren't side by side. Yes I do recognize, when I play music through my laptop speakers, the sound is not nearly as nice as through my nice floor speakers. But when I use $30 earbuds, I'm not particularly aware of what I'm missing by not using my $100 pair. If I compared them side by side, yes. It's the same for a lot of things, like wine or whiskey.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Those are texture elements, not flavor elements. Surface area could affect flavor but surface area is the same once you chew it up.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Here's a factor that seems to be underappreciated. Those differences are a lot less important when you aren't comparing side by side. Just because you can hear or taste the difference between a thing and a more expensive version doesn't mean you will really appreciate that difference later. Diminishing returns does play into this, and the small differences between two things at a high level is often too small for your memory to even capture.

And even when it comes to the bigger differences, how it affects enjoyment has a large psychological component, in how much satisfaction do you get just knowing you are using something excellent, and does it bother you knowing what you are experiencing could be better.

I have nice quality speakers and headphones, but sometimes I'm lazy and will listen to a piece of music through my crappy laptop or phone speakers. I still enjoy that music. And if that was all I had access to, I'd still enjoy the hell out of music. I'm not about to give away or stop using my nice speakers, but I'm not convinced they make me happier in any significant way.

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