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This sounds like a wonderful way to spend an afternoon.

This is genius. I've enjoyed Radio Garden on occasion for the musical novelty but never thought about putting a random station in Latin America on to practice listening to differen…

It "was known" in the 60s that Japanese electronics and cars were inferior in design and quality. Chinese products are going through the same trajectory.

The first PC I built myself had an Athlon XP Barton 2500+ and 2x 256mb sticks of DDR2-400. It wasn't top of the line by any means but great bang-for-buck in 2003.

> The Mars talk is just a recruitment tactic to pull in young idealistic engineers and get them to work long hours for cheap His move away from the previously-stated mission for Te…

I absolutely love this characterization of modern discourse.

Because it's a bureaucratic union of 27 countries with goals other than making obscene profits, side-effects be damned?

Then you should also question what flavor of censorship and bias US-made LLMs have. Also, if someone says something that could threaten my safety (either directly or through inciti…

But would you have thought to research how a specific car manufacturer's spicy anti-rodent tape tasted in the first place? There's an element of discovery in this article, as well …

Why is that? (These are my favourite planes to fly on, curious how the A350 is derivative given the apparent difference in packaging.)

Until they make it at least three times bigger, yes.

Really. Especially taken with the "toy" statement that follows, this reads to me like "this isn't perfect but we had a good crack at it and are happy with how good it came out for …

The gameplay is focused on logistics, so those aspects have a lot more control. I particularly enjoy that in conjunction with the model railway aesthetics. - You build roads and ra…

> billionaires telling us that we'll eat bugs and be happy owning nothing Who are we talking about here?

I think questioning the money is just as important. There is so much conflicted money pushing the "climate change isn't real" narrative that it should raise more suspicion in skept…

Also a super relevant issue: the major Mexican cartels are being armed with guns made and sold in the US in order to provide this supply. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/invest…

I'll have two frack whites to go thanks.

No. These machines sound like robot hornets operating dental drills.

The innovation here is integrating the tech into a home espresso machine package. I do wonder if the sound is any less awful though. Does the ultrasonic tub enable better extractio…

Although you are entirely correct in a technical sense, and it's common to serve hot brewed coffee cold, the opposite is so rarely desired that it will be considered 'weird' (in th…

This is indeed surprising. What's the source?

I almost want to leave peoples' minds closed about this kind of thing to avoid an increase in demand. I don't want my Sal de Gusano doubling in price either.

They are researching the use of certain ants as flavor enhancers. Mexicans know a thing or two about making food delicious, and Chicatana ants are used in Oaxacan cuisine to add co…

Another factor besides comfort is that they can extend the flight time 1-2 hours by having fewer passengers and bags onboard, which of course means premium seats like SQ23/24. Qant…

Australian coffee snob here. I can confirm the emphasis of the specialty coffee industry (which I think you can conflate with 'hipster' coffee) is entirely on sourcing and roasting…