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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldMtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Nancy - May 11, 1948English
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    vor 3 Stunden

    Yet again proof that inflation as a tracked percentage is BS

    Well for starters, $10–$15 “in most places” is completely asinine. 15 cents would’ve been reasonable for an ice cream soda in 1948, so neither that nor the $2.10 figure are disputed, but “$15” is some “I mean it’s one banana, Michael” shit. No ice cream soda dispensed from a machine at a regular-ass diner in 2026 is running $15. I think a reasonably high-quality float with handmade ice cream that I’ve seen runs about $5, which still doesn’t keep pace with $2.10, but then CPI isn’t tracking specifically the cost of an ice cream float.

    The fact you don’t understand how CPI works or what ice cream sodas cost doesn’t mean the powers that be are corrupting the calculations to make it look better.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldMtovegan@lemmy.world•OpenStreetMap as a HappyCow alternativeEnglish
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    vor 14 Stunden

    So I will say as a contributor to OSM that your coverage is going to vary unbelievably vastly depending on where you are. There are many areas in the US, for instance (in fact, I’d argue most), where HappyCow has an active community but where OSM will be functionally useless and where you’ll have to bootstrap it yourself. Moreover, OSM even given an “ideal” level of maintenance has extremely poor granularity, very minimal standards for what constitutes a restaurant serving a dietary option, poor accessibility (having to issue a JSON query or use something like JOSM, the latter of which I would recommend as easier than Overpass; OpenVegeMap is dead IIRC), no inherent guardrails against outdated information that HappyCow lacks, no community of vegans maintaining it in most places, no reviews, and crucially no real way to express nuance via text (there’s a “note” param, but nobody in their right mind is regularly using it to explain the intricacies of a restaurant’s vegan options; that isn’t why it exists.)

    Your example is in Paris, which is – I cannot emphasize enough – wildly unrepresentative of the map’s progress in most places. At least in the US, the average person is entirely better-served by HappyCow than OSM for this specific problem. Picking out Paris specifically is near-best-case for OSM.

    I say all this recognizing that HappyCow for me has always also been a noticeably flawed experience.

    Edit: As an example even for this near-best-case for OSM, here’s Mannie’s listing on HappyCow. It has three contemporary reviews, the contact, hours, and location info OSM has (OSM even in such a complete area funnily lacks the website:menu param, which the website definitely has; nice for convenience), images of the vegan dishes, an explanation of the veg options, and is overall just a much better, more thorough experience.

    Vegetarian mostly plant-powered street food restaurant. Vegan options are clearly labeled and may include “sweet sweet eggplant” (eggplant cooked in miso, chickpea puree, potatoes, tomatoes and garlic roasted in balsamic, marinated zucchini and hazelnuts), in addition to roasted potatoes with paprika and kimchi.

    The OSM item tells me vaguely that vegan option(s) exist(s); HappyCow tells me that they’re clearly labeled (massive), that there are multiple of them and what they are, what a vegan thinks of the quality, that there are gluten-free options (I don’t need this, but OSM allows it, yet it’s not there), and what the meals physically look like.

    Edit 2: Accidentally duped my comment.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldMtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Three wishesEnglish
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    vor 4 Tagen

    It basically boils down to “do nothing”, right?

    Sort of due to a flaw in the syntax; it (almost) boils down to an infinite loop (we’ll fix the syntax to specify “I wish for you to” and use the wish flags ‘!’ = opposite, ‘~’ = ignore/skip (we’ll assume this exhausts a wish still even though it shouldn’t since it doesn’t matter anyway), and for clarity, we’ll make ‘+’ mean no flags/execute normally; all 3 wishes are ‘+’ at the start of the first loop):

    • “I wish for you to do the opposite of my next wish.” (flag set to do !wish2)
    • “I wish for you not to fulfill my third wish.” (flag set for +wish3)
    • “I wish for you to [have ignored] my first wish.” (now ~wish1 was set before you made wish 2; notably, this needs to be retroactive for the loop to start, so the syntax in the OP is wrong).

    Now +wish2 was set. But then the flag for ~wish3 was set. But then +wish1 was set (i.e. it was never ignored; this is flawed, however, but author’s logic). Now !wish2 was set. Now ~wish3 was set. Etc.

    Every even loop (0-indexed) will be (+, !, +) while every odd one will be (~, +, ~).

    That said, a flaw in this logic is that it should actually stop after Loop 1, since wish3 is no longer an active wish; the genie doesn’t have to go back and change anything. You need the wish to be active, not ignored, to break the genie into an infinite loop.

    “I wish for you to do the opposite of my first wish.” as wish3 should break 'em.

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