Indeed. As a silly example, I had a Pacman clone game that ran based on CPU cycle speed. I needed to turn the in-game speed setting way down and toggle turbo off to make it slow enough to be playable.

Looks like a cute little puzzle game. I think my daughter might go for it; I just want to check first if it has any educational value for teaching algorithmic thinking.

Thoroughly explained and well supported. I want to save this in case this topic ever comes up again so I can copy-pasta this.

Yeah, fair. It's frustrating when prices fluctuate; I'm lucky that we don't have many "must have" items on our shipping lists, and I'm very price sensitive, so I just don't buy things that are expensive. And I only used to go to Superstore at most weekly, so I'd never have noticed daily fluctuations.

Beehaw never defederated with lemmy.ml. Most notably, Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.world which is one of the main reasons I'm happy to stay here. If Beehaw moves away from Lemmy, I'll definitely need to find another instance that's defederated with Lemmy.world.

To be fair to Loblaws, I've never seen them change prices with these mid-day, so they're not engaged in "surge pricing" that I've heard of. (I haven't been to Loblaws since the start of the boycott, but I don't expect it's changed.)

But I do wonder about the legality of that; right now, if the price at the till doesn't match the item price, you get the first one free and the rest at the marked price (up to $10 items; above that it's $10 off the marked price for the first item). But my impression is that policy is from Loblaws signing some sort of grocery code ages ago when scanners came in, essentially to assure consumers that they wouldn't be scammed by scanners ringing up items at higher prices than advertised. I don't think that is legally mandated.

So, then, what happens if the price changes between when you put it in your cart and when you arrive at the till? Anyone engaging in surge pricing where the timing isn't clearly marked in advance is going to get into a lot of trouble with consumer backlash, at the very least, but I hope it's illegal, too.

There's probably something in the terms about it, and it would take a very expensive legal battle to settle it. And I doubt it has enough legal merit to be taken on as a class-action lawsuit.

So, really, does it matter if it's illegal? With the asymmetrical power imbalance, they literally don't need to care about the laws. Realistically, no EU regulator is going to fine them for cancelling "a purchase made in India", either.

This seems like it might work really well. We've evolved to be social creatures, and internalizing the emotions of others is literally baked into our DNA (mirror neurons), so filtering out the emotional "noise" from customers seems, to me, like a brilliant way to improve the working conditions for call centre workers.

It's not like you can't also tell the emotional tone of the caller based on the words they're saying, and the call centre employees will know that voices are being changed.

Also, I'm not so sure about reporting on anonymous Redditor comments as the basis for journalism. I know why it's done, but I'd rather hear what a trained psychologist has to say about this, y'know?

Well said, and you touched on one of the things I like most about Behhaw, that people are actually willing to put effort into writing with sufficient depth to address complex topics authentically, and others are willing to read everything and respond in good faith, even when they disagree.

I browse Beehaw's somewhat-curated-by-defederation /everything quite frequently, too, and I rarely ever have any snarky replies to my comments. It's lovely. Granted, conversation threads are generally quite small, but I don't need an endless firehose of content, so that's not a problem.

I don't have any other Lemmy accounts to compare, but I didn't enjoy reading /everything from a Lemmy app that pulls from it's own feed instead of your logged-in instance feed. On Reddit, I mostly enjoyed smaller niche subs, and very few of the popular ones.

That's terrible, but so are the treatments this article is suggesting. ABA is abuse.

Behaviorism, in general, has lots of research supporting its efficacy in changing behavior, but completely ignores the mental health effects of the trauma from the behaviorist interventions.

This might be made more clear with a thought experiment from Dr Becky Kennedy's mostly-unrelated parenting book, The Good Inside. (Great book, btw. Highly recommended for all parents.) I know a 100% effective treatment for any childhood behavior: when the child engages in the behaviour, lock them outside in a cage overnight. It will take at most 3 treatments and they'll never exhibit that behavior again, guaranteed!

Aside from the hypothetical example obviously not passing ethics review, that's literally how behaviorism research is conducted: the only thing they measure is efficacy in altering behaviour. That's a really low bar.

ABA is "effective" because children are being conditioned to avoid being abused.

Developed, Developing, or Least Developed, according to the UN.

I didn't like summers or winters where I used to live, so I moved to somewhere where I like both seasons. Then moved again to somewhere that I love all four seasons.

But I get what you're saying; you're describing the summers of my childhood. Hot and humid so you feel like you need a cold shower within 5 minutes of walking outside. Sticky by day, swarmed by mosquitos at night.

But you lost me at the sand bit. I love the beach and ocean when it's like 10-30°C out. Colder and hotter are okay, too, but not as nice.