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Carbon steel is amazing - durable self repairing non-stick surface that after the inital seasoning is trivial to maintain: wash the pan with a brush when its still hot without any …

No, it doesn’t have feelings - it would be like asking your washing machine to please wash your pants? Anthropomorphising LLMs seems deeply unhealthy.

I wish I could upvote this 10 times! I love the film - blew my mind when I saw it on cable just after it came out.

There was a lot of work done on the RE_303 and the Pixie CPU (303/606) - I don't know much about it but it might give you another more recent vector to explore: https://github.com/…

Try and talk to the other seniors? Last time I joined (fully remote) I asked all the other seniors for a 1 to 1 - not all replied but I learnt a huge amount about past projects, wh…

When I was a kid I thought the future would obviously be more “Star trek” as it had such a compelling interior logic. Sad times. Makes me want to go back and review the Picard year…

If you're transcribing written music then it's fairly straight forward - you program the pitches in one round, press a button and input the note length values. If however you want …

“Never whistle while you’re pissing” - Robert Anton Wilson in Illuminatus trilogy.

I notice there isn’t a lot of the actual performance? Banjo and synthesiser is always a tough call.

Not easy at home in London. Our flat would not allow a cargo bike (1st floor) and there is no where outside to lock it safe and dry. 60,000 people on a 4 year waiting list for on s…

Getting on the front page is hit and miss - this was interesting yesterday: https://bengtan.com/blog/open-secrets-hacker-news/ For what it's worth I didn't read the article and com…

I take the point for sure, and escaping constraints can be valuable - but we must all be familiar with the 'great wo/man' syndrome where everything they say is right and doesn't ne…

What I don't get in these conversations is why no one mentions the role of the editorial team? Expecting even a great journalist to write consistently interesting and clear pieces …

It seems weird to me that people would disregard the input of the artist and producer who will have painstakingly mixed the original - surely that is as much a part of the art form…

The thing is that wind and sheer volume of air tend to mitigate the pollution but in the home the air can stay static.

This reminds me of Philip Larkin - Vers de Société where he opines that, now, "All virtue is social." He had no idea...

Ale is great - lints, checks, fixes - rules my world. A little complex to get going for multiple languages but when you do it's very powerful. BTW worth checking https://github.com…