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I agree with most of the examples at the end of the post, except HelloFresh. I'm a huge fan of HelloFresh, and I think it solves an important problem which is one of waste. Before …

There's always a degree of subjectivity and personal taste, but I do consider this to be the peak of OS UIs. I have an "ironic" machine at home that is an old retina iMac, with Lin…

I couldn't find an explanation for why a TV series (Twin Peaks: The Return) is in a Greatest Films of All Time list. In any case, that's a handy reference list for things to watch.…

It's interesting that the Guardian was so famous for their typos (in the 1970s) that it earned them the "Grauniad" nickname. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian (2nd paragra…

Can't speak for other cats, but mine is crazy for tuna. I can't even finish opening the tin with his head butting in.

Cats "meow" (miˈaʊ̯) in all languages. Dogs can woof, blaf, ham, ao, ...

Just as side note, I clap as in figure A2. However, it's one of those things in life where I don't remember when or why I started doing it like that. Surely I didn't clap like that…

Perhaps it's not really a "talking" instrument (as an actual voice is modulating), but Peter Frampton always comes to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7rFYbMhcG8&t=345s

I've tried Borg but I settled with Kopia and a[0] cheap S3-like storage. Everything is automated and runs on a schedule, but when I need some ad-hoc restore, say, of a single snaps…

These are not "small things", but things people generally don't pay attention and just use a cheap version. Using good quality ones really makes life better: A mechanical keyboard.…

> Python is the de facto glue language with one of the biggest ecosystems out there I never contested that. > ML is very specifically about manipulating data (a fundamentally dynam…

I really think that Python is not a good language for ML, it just got "there" first. The ecosystem is the real plus, of course. But the language is a headache for this. I agree wit…

Yep, exactly. Unfortunately, it is working. People will choose convenience over mostly everything else.

My takes: The UK has a ridiculously assymetric economy. You either move to London or fight for scraps anywhere else. This ties with the housing problem. Education is a debatable in…

That's exactly my experience. In areas where I'm an expert, I find myself correcting ChatGPT constantly. But for a language I want to learn, it's been really helpful to get me star…

What a coincidence! Only yesterday I was reading the WP page on Camel Spiders, saw the chewing animation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Junnn11#/media/File:20220... , and thou…

Moved from London to Newcastle. My personal experience is that, despite London indeed having an impressive offer in terms of culture, entertainment, food, social life, etc. it's an…

Not saying this is good news, but given the current amount of plastic floating around in the oceans, isn't aggregating as a big chunk better for the environment[1] than disintegrat…

I disagree, in the sense that it was heavily toned down in the 1984 film, but less in the 2021 one. The Bedouin analogy is much more underlined in the recent film. Everything from …

Interestingly, Spanish farmers say they have enough to go around and Brexit is to blame: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/23/uk--fresh-f...

It's interesting that there seems to be a core generation target for these kind of things. I remember many years ago, the craze of the "see how you'll look as an old person" filter…

Immanuel Kant famously said > There are two things that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Surely there are more. Dancing is perhaps one of them.

What about IoT?

Particularly ironic using the defence of "it’s not the technology that’s to blame, but the person, not the machine gun, but the person". Machine guns, an advanced piece of engineer…