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In defense of the comment you replied to: Research into treatments with Psilocybin or LSD was in quite a hiatus for decades after the substances were banned in the 1960s or 70s.

Don't know about the US. From what I can tell Samsung and LG appliances are certainly less common in Europe than the European brands (there's also cheaper brands like Beko or Goren…

The camera based object (and poop) avoidance actually works pretty well in my Roomba j7+, bought in 2022. The cloud-based software for everything else has degraded in quality, tjou…

BSH (Bosch, Siemens, Neff brands) have their main production sites in Europe, a lot in Germany still. But of course China as well. https://www.bsh-group.com/about-bsh/bsh-worldwide…

> There’s something about shoes that makes my legs tire faster. Less weight on the parts of the body that move most during a run is an obvious benefit of not wearing shoes.

Do you have an opinion on the sleep tracking in Garmin Fenix watches?

I disagree on your 14th century building picture being "nothing special" to Europeans. All the major German cities that I've lived in were bombed to ashes in WW2. Most buildings ar…

Huge archive that's heavily biased towards text adventures / interactive fiction. There are only three titles published by Lucasfilm Games, and they predate Monkey Island.

> "Basically nobody writes CUDA," wrote Keller in a follow-up post. "If you do write CUDA, it is probably not fast. […] There is a good reason there is Triton, Tensor RT, Neon, and…

Interesting, I guess this may have resurfaced here because a German translation was posted today, https://www.golem.de/news/arbeit-scrum-nervt-2401-180930.htm... ?

https://archive.ph/IjSRA

Freevee disgusts me. I don't think there's any paid option to watch Bosch: Legacy without ads.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was fabulous. They had lot of good shows in the prestige comedy or dramedy (is that still a thing?) genre. Transparent, Red Oaks, Mozart in the Jungle, Fl…

Earlier submission today where this is already being discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37610500

Absolutely a country thing! In countries where the Amazon Prime membership (originally this was for fast free shipping only) is available, Prime Video is included with that: https:…

I just recalled that Amazon increased the price slightly last year when they launched Rings of Power. Typically I subscribe to these services for just a few months at a time, depen…

While this is true, Netflix hiked prices massively over the years. Their 4K/HDR offering is 17.99 EUR per month here. Amazon Prime including Prime Video is still 8.99 EUR/month, ch…

Features a photograph of the lovely boxed set that's available for 35 euros.