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Re:Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing l... by userbinator on Friday November 15, 2024 @09:10PM (#42153514)
it's so so so much easier to quickly parse a two-item "contains" section than a 40 item "ingredients" section

Imagine if everyone who has an uncommon allergy wanted to have their allergen listed in "contains" too. You'll just end up with two "ingredients" lists instead. It's insanely stupid and redundant.

Edit: care to give a counterargument?

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Re:Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing l... by tzs on Friday November 15, 2024 @09:35PM (#42153641)
I've seen enough comments from you on technical computing subjects over the last decade to know that you have a firm grasp of concepts such as caching and other related ways to take advantage of usage patterns to optimize things.

Just as caches are useful in computing even if they are too small to hold everything so too is a contains section that only lists the top 9 allergens. That covers 90% of food allergies in the US.

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Re:Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing l... by xocnad on Friday November 15, 2024 @09:35PM (#42153642)
This is a strawman. It seems obvious the number of items covered is a balance between the size of the affected population and the size of the list. I use "it seems obvious" intentionally.
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