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every AI ad is like "hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?" and then the phone is like "sandwich" and the guy is like "wow"
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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (29 children)

I'm going to be real honest here. I often need someone to tell me what to eat. The decision can be too much of an obstacle, especially when I'm hungry.

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    We technically solved this problem years ago:

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    There used to be a tool called WheelOfLunch that would grab nearby restaurants and put them on a giant Wheel-of-Fortune style wheel and let you spin it. Used it to break many "where should we go" logjams in the office. It was nice

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I often need someone to tell me what to eat.

    Computer is thinking

    Computer is calculating an answer

    Computer is incorporating your personal preferences

    Computer is polling the audience

    Computer is building a heuristic with over 9000 data points in order to triangulate the perfect meal for you in this given moment

    Computer is producing a response

    🥪

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    You can make a list of 20 options and roll a d20 dice.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm unclear on how that's a smaller obstacle.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This seems trivial to solve without all the LLM parts. It's like... 1-3 lines of code to pick a random item from a list. Surely someone has made websites or apps to do that for you, if you can't write it yourself.

    Or a no code solution: dice or a dart board or cards or any other randomization tool.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I solve this by eating the same thing for lunch every day and a rotating set of dinners that I pick based on which ingredients will go bad the fastest.

    This admittedly only works if you can eat the same thing for lunch every day without going mad, but lucky for me I really like burritos.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    i understand that, but i highly recommend you not to rely on chatgpt for that. it is much easier to do so, but you are making it even harder for yourself in the future, by slowly training yourself to trust even less on yourself.

    you could set some time aside when you are not hungry and get a list of easy meals that you can make when you are in hungry mode

    but also, if you do it from time to time when you really need it, that is ok. just not always

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What I actually do: lumber up to whoever happens to be in the house at the moment and say "WHAT SHOULD I EAT".

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How about 1-2 egg omelette on top of a crispy bagel? Don't cook the omelette all the way, then cut it into triangles or strips, then place onto bagel in a circular pattern. The idea is the bagel absorbs the cheese/butter/egg mix.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I am the eggman. I have a whole egg preparation routine that I can run through before I've even had coffee. Doesn't even have to be exactly the same every time.

    My issues generally occur at lunchtime, more often when that time has been pushed back from "regular noon lunch" to 2p or 3p. In a pinch, if there's nobody around to demand instruction from, I can dip into the snack bucket and unwrap something and eat it, which might give me the mental space to figure out what I actually should eat. Kind of like how a fission bomb is used as a detonator for a fusion bomb.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh just pack the same lunch every day. Is it enjoyable? No. Did I prefer a peanut butter on whole wheat with an apple to actually having to decide what to eat or dealing with inconvenience in preparing lunch? You cannot understand how much of a game changer this was. No struggle to pack a lunch. If I was busy the night before then I'd just pack an extra in advance (and keep emergency food in my desk).

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