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Yes, I know, the true implication of the sausage bit is that a bit less than half of the sausages was water, which has been extracted before packaging. A meatspace compression algorithm, of sorts. "Pork Doubler", perhaps. But it's funnier to imagine that they're fiddling with universal constants.
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Also, I apologize for abusing my editorial powers to seize the jump on the comments. Pthird is the new frist.
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I'm Lily (from Confessions of a Deep Copy, btw). I'm using a Fedora 36 + KDE Plasma + fish.
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The sausages have been dries out, so the weight of the raw material is greater than the weight of the final product.
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Sadly, you were ninja'ed by the article's writer...
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Well, those are famous Polish dried sausages called "Kabanosy". The ad says exactly what it is. You take 185g of fresh pork and dry it. After that, you are left with 100g of product. That's not unlike beef jerky, which has an even higher ratio of 200g meat dried into 100g of jerky.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabanos : "Production of kabanosy requires a minimum of 150 grams of best grade pork meat to make 100 grams of sausage, which is known today as the "minimum of 3:2 ratio"."
Good you reminded me, I'll get a pack on my way home.
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It's all good. Inflation is merely payment for the spending that we wanted, while avoiding the tax hikes we didn't want. Yet, I still see that word - "free" - so often...
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One can easily find 185 g "sausages" that contains 100 g of meat. The real WTF is they still label it "food".
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Sorry, but I couldn't parse the "overclocked memory" story.
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This also happens with ketchup (and probably many other foodstuffs). 148g tomato per 100g of Ketchup.
https://www.heinz.co.uk/sauces/tomato-ketchup/product/100185200030/tomato-ketchup
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A process known as "reduction". Not sure what's he WTF about that :-) It adds to flavor.
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@Fred Fredstone ref
The compatibility specs for that Samsung software app require a computer w 512GB of RAM. Which is unconscionably large for a consumer PC.
They probably meant 512GB of available HDD space.
Calling the gap between a realistic amount of RAM on a PC & 512GB a need for "overclocking" versus "overprovisioning" is just keeping the inflationary / clocking gag going between all of the various Friday WTFs
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Possibly they meant a requirement of 512MB of RAM.
In any case, how outdated is this WTF going to look in 20 years?
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oh, i remember the first time Gasoline in the USA hit over one dollar a gallon...and the mechanical readouts of the pumps were physically incapable of handling it!