tiramichu

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[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Wholesome sleeping separately because being in a relationship with someone shouldn't obligate sacrificing your rest quality to meet the bizarre pressure of some unspoken social obligation that couples must share the same bed (unless you want to)

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A quick search suggests this appears to be a revised version of Tanita's MC-980 scale, which is intended for professional use and costs $13,000 USD anyway - even without King of Fighters.

So not really any difference, just a very unusual collab and bit of fun for marketing! :)

https://tanita.com/products/mc-980uplus

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Of course they do, but let's unpack that.

When people buy a new car who already have one, they generally do it because either 1. they think it will bring some material benefit over their old car, or 2. they want a new car simply for vanity reasons.

Looking at the PS5 Pro, there will absolutely be people who think "I want to upgrade to the Pro just for bragging rights" but I'm pretty sure the majority of consumers wil simply think "This doesn't play any games my PS5 can't already" and pass on it.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Not if they already have a PS5, though.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

You're going to intercept them at noon, in broad daylight? Risky move pal.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Definitely the noise I make when I get shot

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

There's also the option of electronic scales which are rechargeable via USB

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Haha yeah. People are so accustomed to short TLDs that 'smith.technology' just intuitively feels kinda wrong, and it still feels that way to me, even as a tech person who knows it is perfectly valid.

You're thinking like "smith dot technology dot what?"

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Another reason is brand identity.

Using '.tech' or '.flights' or .sports' for your site feels too "on the nose" and gives vibes of like browsing some directory where things are categorised and sorted. Even worse it implies there are other sites under the same category, and those other sites may be competitors, and this dilutes strength of brand.

lt also suggests strongly what the business does, and while that might seem desirable at first it actually isn't from a corporate perspective because it means the company becomes tied to their business area and can't expand and grow out of it into other things.

I think this is a major part of why descriptive TLDs continue to be less preferred over 'meaningless' two letter TLDs, because companies want the focus to be on the main part of the domain, not the TLD.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago

That is likely part of it and also explains why languages like Japanese are more tightly grouped, as there is less spread in word length for Japanese versus English or Italian.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I would imagine this is because there is a 'comfortable' rate of information exchange in human conversation, and so each given language will be spoken at a pace that achieves this comfortable rate.

So it's not that the syllable rate coincidentally results in the same information rate, but the opposite - the syllable rate adjusts to match the desired information rate.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

You'd be surprised.

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who use their Instagram or Facebook as basically the history of their social lives, where all their memories are, the local copies long gone.

It's a terrible idea, but I'm certain people are doing it.

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