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  • This makes no sense. Large doesn’t mean fancy. Back in the day, making the phone smaller was fancy.

    The minimal company’s flagship phone is a minimal phone. It’s their signature phone. The flagship was the ship that had the ranking officer/admiral on it, representing the fleet. Apple, google etc all decided their flagship phone would be huge.

    OP wants more flagship phones, that is the type of phone the company markets as its main phone, to be smaller. It has little to do with the best but how phones are used. So tell him “tough luck because most people use their phones as a TV so they will remain big”. It’s not because that’s a better phone.




  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksMeanwhile in Sweden
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    1 day ago

    Those are some pretty easy to answer questions?

    • for the same reason a kitchen island is in the middle of a corner
    • it’s a pallet of eggs, someone dropped it there with a jig
    • it seems one side of the corner has a barrier, the pallet attemps to complete it and prevent people from going that way (a cash register might be there). Or the person dropping it wasn’t careful
    • only bleached eggs need a fridge, most of the world doesn’t bleach their eggs so they can stay on the counter.
    • why not 15? Base 12 makes sense because it’s a highly divisible number (1/2/3/4/6/12) so a lot of stuff are dozens or half a dozens, but there’s no reason eggs need to be. It likely has to do with “the packing problem” which is a difficult math problem of how to shape stuff so you fit the most in a truck load
    • other countries have other languages, and even sometimes completely different alphabets that resemble or share the same roots as English
    • you are experiencing another culture.











  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldMake me cry
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    I was just summing up a concept I remembered from somewhere. If we’re going to get specific about it, it’s called Weber’s Law, there’s an interesting numberphile video about it about the rate of change, and our experience with different levels of stimulus where the required “ratio” to feel a difference remains the same, which essentially means it takes more to notice the more experiences we’ve had in total. It wasnt an anecdote either, it was a metaphor for that concept / law regarding life experiences. It’s a very real thing.

    It being neurons reinforcing connections doesn’t mean there isnt a rate of change, and my example in no way implies there’s a hard drive (nor does Webers law)

    Edit: it’s also interesting because it’s the answer to the question of “how much can they shrink the candy bar before we notice?”.