fonix232

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[–] fonix232@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do see your point, however the fact that Hitler gave the direct orders (often well documented) that were later deemed criminal, I'd presume that would be enough to assume criminal status.

Also, yknow, defending Hitler on technicalities is like defending a paedo on the distinction between paedophilia, hebephilia and ephebophilia - legally speaking you'd be correct, but in reality it just makes you sound like you're supporting the person in their acts...

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 34 points 1 week ago (14 children)

I've actually been making various cola recipes in the meth lab I call a kitchen for the past ~2 years now, ranging from the leaked 1950s Coke recipe, Cube Cola, OpenCola, and a number of other variations, including my own sets.

In these experimentations I've started noticing the actual flavour differences between different colas. The issue is that these flavours are not something you'd recognise as they're incredibly diluted. For example one recipe calls for a total of 15 MILLILITRES of various flavour oils, to make approximately 70-80 LITRES of cola. Yes you read that right, about half Oz of flavourings (sugar not included) to make 37-40 bottles of 64oz cola. In comparison, when I made my orange soda, I had to use approximately 60ml of flavourings to make TWO litres. 2oz of flavourings to make one bottle of 64oz orange soda.

And it's insane how just a slight imbalance can alter the flavour. This recipe I mentioned calls for 0.7ml (about 6 drops) of cassia oil (basically, cinnamon). The cassia oil I sourced was so pure that that amount waaaay overpowered the other flavours and I had to tone it down to 0.25ml, nearly 1/3. Mind you that cinnamon coke wasn't bad, just... incredibly cinnamony. Great for a bourbon mixer, pretty solid for a Long Island, but in itself it was just too strong.

Once I made it right I started experimenting, reducing it by 10-20-30%, and the flavour profile shifted a TON. We're talking barely recognisable. under 0.2ml (so 20% reduction from baseline), the lavender (yes, lavender is part of the cola flavour ensemble!) started coming through real strong. Upping the coriander/cilantro oil from 0.02ml to 0.03ml shifted it into an incredibly spicy range - you could literally top it up with white rum and people would think you used spiced rum! Or reducing the amount of nutmeg to increase the warmth of the drink - with the slightly higher cassia oil ratio, and reduced nutmeg, this ventured into a hot choc drink made of Terry's Choc Orange... Without the creaminess of the chocolate.

I've also experimented with about a dozen different citrus oils - bitter orange, sweet orange, bitter orange leaf, mandarin, tangerine, the list goes on. And they all subtly changed the flavour, like the transition between coke and pepsi. You can't put your finger on it at first, because the main cola flavour - the same you'd get from any cola drink, including the cheap supermarket brand ones - was there, but the subtle background flavours were all so different, and again, they're so dilute, you can't name them proper. Just guess on what makes it different.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Each and every product is fine-tuned to local markets. Coke will taste about the same throughout Europe but will have a starkly different flavour in the US (due to differences in sweetening, but also the base syrup flavour profile is quite different). Pepsi in my experience tends to be the most similar between different regions.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

So, Conservapedia, but with even more hare brained conspiracy theories?

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Also, it is internationally generally agreed upon that criminals forfeit their rights to personally identifying information, such as fingerprints and DNA evidence.

Given Hitler's regime has been internationally agreed to be war criminals and have committed crimes against humanity, even if Hitler himself chose the coward's way out to avoid being convicted for these crimes, I think we can all agree on him being responsible for these crimes thus is essentially convicted posthumous.

Therefore combining the two, Hitler was and is a criminal therefore privacy protection laws don't apply, therefore his DNA should be freely usable by the scientific community.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

KSP2 comes to mind

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

While I mostly agree with you, I'd argue that a "product" isn't something that necessarily involves any sort of capitalist fever dream of something to be sold or profited off of. A "product" is, at the end of the day, a quantifiable result of work, and Fediverse software is arguably such a thing.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

Can we make one small change? Instead of legislature, make it legislator :3

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 0 points 1 week ago

That's completely irrelevant to my point, which was that in a calendar of 12 30-day months you can't have a 31st day of any month.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The fact that you believe there's actual talent overflow in the US makes me question just what you might consider "talent". A warm body with the ability to turn on a computer is not "talent".

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

No, the talent simply isn't there in the numbers companies would need them. And this isn't limited to the US only - even here in the UK, it's a struggle to hire good talent, because the fields are incredibly muddled, especially since AI-aided engineering came to be.

For example, I work in software engineering. My role, aside from being a senior engineer, a systems architect and designer, also involves hiring. We're actually hiring in a number of countries, US included, and I'm overseeing most of it. The applicant rates are simply abysmal. HR pre-filters our candidates, and that usually boils things down from around 1000 CVs to about 50 who actually make it to first roster, and from that 50, we end up actually interviewing maybe 5, because the rest obviously lack the required (and clearly indicated!) skills. And even from those 5, more often than not we choose none to hire because they don't really reach the bare minimum for the position (and to be perfectly fair, the bar isn't set too high). I've recently had a candidate who had a Masters in Computer Science and some 8 years of work experience, yet couldn't name base components in the specific segment he's been working in, nor could he define basic terms like SOLID or KISS.

And I'm hearing similar experiences from other fields too. Reality is, there's not a lack of people but a lack of talent, which often needs to be imported. And blocking that import will simply result in the companies moving to locations where they can source the talent or where the talent is willing to move to. Previously that was the US, because even though the situation was quite shite, your country has done a great job hiding that via media propaganda. Now it isn't, simply because y'all had to elect a racist demented dipshit.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is beginner level IT-TV mishap.

Wanna see something truly ridiculous? How about two ~~girls~~ hackers one keyboard?

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