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I'm a small time cattle rancher and raise a few pigs per year. Also friends with many fellow ranchers. My only response to this is entirely "duh". Cows and pigs maybe dumb, but they figure things out with trial and error at an amazing rate.

Also, using a stick as a scratching tool is not really on the same spectrum as flint-knapping a knife, sun-baking a pinchpot, or sharpening a fire-hardened spear point.

This is like those articles that claim that trees "communicate" because they exude more waste products under duress, or somesuch horseshit.


I have Cows and Pigs, raised for show and meat. I would not call either animal "intelligent". I would call them stupid determined. They have all the time in the world to push, pull, grab and generally implement mayhem.

such nostalgia. There was a time when you could tell a fair bit about someone if that was in their email signature.


I agree. This is nearly the exact diet anyone with credibility has suggested for a long long time. If you get into the bro-science(which I believe tends to front run mainstream by a long ways), this is the diet every athlete and gym rat has been doing for years and years, with AMAZING results.


The bro science would tell you the protein target is still too low too :)


That's starting to change... mostly in that exceeding 14g:1kg ratio mentioned in TFA is being shown to have worse results, so some more recent recommendations are that you need to get enough protein, but not too much.

My own opinion is that you should also get at least 0.5g fat to 1g protein as a baseline... more would be for energy in lieu of carbs.


Isn't protein more like a catalyst than the building block? I.e. muscle is not built primarily from protein, it is built primarily from carbohydrates but protein is a necessary building block.


> you should also get at least 0.5g fat to 1g protein as a baseline

And hormonal health


way back when, I had a 32" CRT from SGI attached to an o2. So heavy I had to buy a special desk to hold it. I can't imagine carrying that PVM-4300 anywhere.


I had the same thought when openai acquired rockset.


Lowes and home depot come to mind. Their POS/terminals are just a terminal into an TUI. John Deere, kabota and other ag equipment service & parts providers still largely use a TUI.


Also, Costco uses AS/400. Applications that are pure function over form are amazing


I'm not positive whether Target's system from ~15 years ago was a TUI, but a friend worked there in college. He mentioned the process for tax exempt purchases was a bit challenging/not the most common. There were some frequent shoppers who had heard the assistance from the manager enough times, they could walk an employee through what buttons to press to get it setup correctly.


Was not a TUI, but was totally controllable from the keyboard. There was no mouse or touch screen, you could get pretty fast at it. You are also correct about the tax exempt thing, the customers who used it often knew what to ask for. The new registers now have a completely different UI with a touch screen. Seems like a step backwards.


Giving someone a sequence of keypresses as instructions rather than a series of obscure buttons and submenus to navigate is so much better. The VI/VIM cultists have been wise to this for over 30 years yet we insist on creating terrible mini-pc's running bloated windows to hark up a hodge-podge of WinForms or whatever proprietary corpo-slop is most friendly for the non-software engineer engineering manager and project lead


>He mentioned the process for tax exempt purchases was a bit challenging/not the most common.

I wonder if that's why Target does not support making sales tax-free purchases (for resellers, nonprofits, etc.) online? Amazon and Walmart do.


Couple reasons, spread the risk and increase the possible people to sell to.


google "gen z stare". This is such a commonly observed thing that it got a name, meme, tiktok sound, and news articles.


For what it's worth, the nature of the stare seems to be in dispute:

> With this, a lot of Gen Z “clapped back,” if you will (this essentially means they rebutted), saying that this stare comes from listening to Boomers or Millennials ask them obvious questions or start demanding things from them that warrant a look that says, “Are you actually serious right now?” or “I don’t get paid enough for this.”

https://www.insidehook.com/internet/gen-z-stare (first result after searching "gen z stare" on DDG)

Not saying some people don't get bored and start looking at their phones way too fast (uh, like drivers at a stop light? that's not limited to gen z), just that there might be another reason for any given blank stare.


Hearing mindnumbingly dumb things from customers is as old as customer facing jobs though.


it's $5 for a single toping, walk in and walk out with hot-ish pizza. Is it great? no. Does it have enough qualities that make it good? yes.


As the meme goes:

"$5, hot and ready."

"Is it good?"

"It's HOT and it's READY."


7-Eleven Pizza used to be similar. In grad school I loved grabbing two slices and an Arnold Palmer for like $3 or whatever it was.


They raised the price and added more pepperoni (less cheese). :(


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