Yep, there might be two factors here. From what you describe in your experiences, these seem like real artifacts that occur due to physical changes happening on and around the eyeball? (Photopsia seems to be what you describe).
In my experience when hallucinating (from sleep deprivation), it is the brain failing to correctly interpret patterns seen through the eyes.
For e.g., I would think I see a cardboard box on the ground ahead of me, but then when I get closer I realise it is just dirt of different shades that was perceived as a 3d box.
Similar experience when hallucinating people. In my mind I imagine my friend with a certain colour shirt, then during a period of sleep deprivation, I think I see him on the trail ahead of me. But it was just a rock that was a similar colour.
Do hallucinogenics typically affect the brain and also the actual optics? Maybe it is some combination that is causing the perception of "little people".
But having E-cores does seem to offer the benefit of greater multi-threaded performance and reduced power consumption - something intel has struggled with [1][2]. I find this innovation from intel much more refreshing than their typical route of clocking CPU's beyond diminishing returns with regard to power consumption. I imagine this higher degree of power consumption flexibility makes a lot of sense for laptops also.
Though I don't have experiencing using these CPUs so I don't know how well management of processes is implemented (probably only going to improve from now though).
Sure, marketing might play a bit into it. Less savvy buyers might make the mistake of comparing core counts across different brands / architectures rather than checking benchmark comparisons. Makes me think of the class action that happened with the Bulldozer architecture [3]. As long as they advertise the cores as distinct P and E cores, I think it is fair enough.
I agree, going to a cashier can be way faster, especially if you pack items the same time that the cashier scans. The cashiers also have memorised codes for fruits etc, so you don't have to use the search function on a kiosk.
I have to add that I have basically always had poor experiences using the garbage web-app menus that restaurants use. It is also much slower to get an overview on menu items on a small phone screen.
At least part of the difference is that Reddit can be a useful forum for technical troubleshooting of apps / programs.
But the dissent in the thread is in reference to it as a social media platform - I think.
Early this year, I added a blocklist for Reddit on my PC and deleted the app. I did it upon the realization that for me:
1. It was a time waste. It was entertaining, but more often than not, it wasn't useful or helpful at all. Classic short-term gratification.
2. Various issues with how it was run started to frustrate me. Advertising appearing as genuine posts, poor moderation / mod abuse. Also seemed to be a conflict algorithm, outrage and irrational ideas were disproportionately popular compared to real life.
The smaller communities on the site were good, I'd like to see them find another place to exist.
But yeah, I used to think that self-control and discipline was all that was needed, but creating actual barriers like blocklists etc is actually pretty good.
I have similarly experienced dreams (day dreams even) that seemingly predicted the future. Not discounting a possible spiritual phenomenon, but at least for me I reconciled these situations as being possible "memory falts".
E.g. one time I knew exactly what a friend was going to say before they even said it (phrase was long and unique enough to seem unlikely for me to just be able to predict it). Although it seemed my mind reading powers were happening in real time, experience of the moment only exists in my memory. So it is possible that my brain imagined that experience.
Maybe recording dreams on physical notes is the way to go to account for possible memory shenanigans.
Or indeed it could be that one can recall a dream that happened by chance to be analogous to a real event.
In my experience when hallucinating (from sleep deprivation), it is the brain failing to correctly interpret patterns seen through the eyes.
For e.g., I would think I see a cardboard box on the ground ahead of me, but then when I get closer I realise it is just dirt of different shades that was perceived as a 3d box. Similar experience when hallucinating people. In my mind I imagine my friend with a certain colour shirt, then during a period of sleep deprivation, I think I see him on the trail ahead of me. But it was just a rock that was a similar colour.
Do hallucinogenics typically affect the brain and also the actual optics? Maybe it is some combination that is causing the perception of "little people".