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This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment?
    • yellow
    • male
    • round face, beard, brown hair, mid 20s (I think probably some internet-famous person whose name I don't remember)
    • small plastic ball filled with air
    • a simple square table with a natural wood top and legs

    That was my first thought. But then (before reading the questions) I also imagined other similar scenarios like with a soccer ball and my desk at work, lol.

    My experience with this experiment was kind of like when they play memory flashbacks in movies, I could see the ball being pushed and falling, but with jump cuts and the timing was off. Detail-wise I'd say it was kinda like what you got from AI image generation when Dall-E first came out two-ish years ago.

    I don't think I have the most visual imagination out there but if aphantasia is one end of the scale I'm pretty far to the other side.

  • Coca-Cola Recalls Its Popular Zero Sugar Drink Because It Contains Full Sugar
  • They're not super common. I don't see one every single time I go grocery shopping, though I would say typically there are maybe one or two recalls posted somewhere in the store at a time. Most I've seen at once is four, maybe a year or so ago, but they also keep the signs up for a few weeks so they didn't happen all at once.

    They do always have either a picture of the product or at least the name prominently placed, so you can glance at it to see whether it's about something you might have bought.

  • Coca-Cola Recalls Its Popular Zero Sugar Drink Because It Contains Full Sugar
  • In Germany, supermarkets typically post product recalls right on the doors or over the shelves of the section that has the affected products. I guess if you bought something you might be less likely to go down that aisle again next time and come across the sign, but (barring a big empty space at the entrance) I think that's the most reasonable place for them to be

  • If you could, how would you deprogram an extreme liberal?
  • I bet this is going to be some sort of gotcha about how people didn't feel the need to "deprogram an extremist liberal", so obviously everyone is out to get the poor poor conservatives who just want to be vile in peace

  • Apple backs out of investment in OpenAI
  • According to the keynote at least, the integration is literally just Siri offering to defer to ChatGPT for some requests. Basically a more advanced version of "here's what I found on the web" if it doesn't know what to do otherwise.

    Funnily enough, Apple isn't even paying OpenAI for that, they're literally saying it's for exposure.

  • [USA] Presidential Debate Mega Thread
  • I used to be principled like you, but this man has the potential to cause death and destruction on a scale so unfathomably larger than one person. Would I prefer he face justice? Absolutely. But at some point "not wishing death on someone" flies in the face of the greater good of humanity

  • “I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost Network
  • Imagine you have to choose a health insurance company to be insured with like you choose a credit card (Visa, Mastercard, etc). Many doctors (shops) only accept certain insurance providers (cards) due to fees and other regulations.

    The problem described in this article is when your insurance lists doctors that you can go to that will accept your insurance, but most of them have gone out of business or actually don't accept your particular insurance anymore.

  • Code Smells Catalog
  • Yeah, in Java calling first() on a stream is the same as an early return in a for-loop, where for each element all of the previous stream operations are applied first.

    So the stream operation

    cars.stream()
        .filter(c -> c.year() < 1977)
        .first()
    

    is equivalent to doing the following imperatively

    for (var car : cars) {
        if (car.year() < 1977) return car;
    }
    

    Not to mention Kotlin actually supports non-local returns in lambdas under specific circumstances, which allows for even more circumstances to be expressed with functional chaining.

  • AI bros
  • This is a decent explanation of gradient descent but I'm pretty sure the meme is referencing the color gradients often used to highlight when something is AI generated haha

  • Schufa-Urteil macht Schule: DSGVO-Beschwerde wegen verweigerter Stromversorgung
  • In solchen Momenten bin ich wieder mal furchtbar dankbar für die DSGVO, die – wenn auch gerne mal absichtlich missverstanden – ein verhältnismäßig sehr solides Grundwerk zum Schutz unserer Daten vor genau solcher unternehmerischer Schikane geschaffen hat.

  • `getStorageList()`
  • IntelliJ finds most uses in my experience unless you're doing something weird with reflection or similar. And if it's a public facing API only used by the library's consumers..– it should be used in tests at the very least! Especially if it's prone to regressions like the comment suggests

  • Haupteingang @feddit.org mbtrhcs @feddit.org

    Abonnements migrieren?

    Moin liebe Community,

    ich habe es leider versäumt meine feddit.de Abonnements rechtzeitig irgendwo zu speichern. Da feddit.de jetzt offensichtlich endgültig weg ist, gibt es noch irgendeine Möglichkeit die Liste der Abonnements zu bekommen, die ich auf dem Account hatte?

    Ich bin nicht allzu optimistisch, aber ich dachte vielleicht werden Abonnements ja auch irgendwo im Fediverse weitergetragen, deswegen frag ich trotzdem mal.

    Danke für jede Hilfe :)

    Edit: hier geht es noch, falls jemand anders die gleiche Frage hat :) danke @caos für den Tipp!

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