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vel0city wrote: post #236
saaaaaam wrote: post #235

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Valiant attempt but I remain pretty sure that cups as a measurement are insanity! Also… butter with honey mixed in?? Is this also American?

Oh yes. It's quite delicious. https://www.landolakes.com/products/butter-spreads/ Cinnamon sugar is very tasty on toast. I just picked up their Maple Me Crazy, it's nice to just quickly spread on a waffle when in a hurry to get out the door. Butters with herbs is pretty common, it's nice in a dinner roll or something like that. This isn't the only brand that makes products like this.

Meanwhile, back over here in Europe where we are clearly in the dark ages of culinary-tech if we want something sweet and buttery we have a brioche with confiture and butter. Or a scone with jam and clotted cream. Or a Swedish cinnamon bun. :)

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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saaaaaam wrote: post #241
vel0city wrote: post #236

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Oh yes. It's quite delicious. https://www.landolakes.com/products/butter-spreads/ Cinnamon sugar is very tasty on toast. I just picked up their Maple Me Crazy, it's nice to just quickly spread on a waffle when in a hurry to get out the door. Butters with herbs is pretty common, it's nice in a dinner roll or something like that. This isn't the only brand that makes products like this.

Meanwhile, back over here in Europe where we are clearly in the dark ages of culinary-tech if we want something sweet and buttery we have a brioche with confiture and butter. Or a scone with jam and clotted cream. Or a Swedish cinnamon bun. :)

Needing to open two jars of stuff to slather on toast? How barbaric! I couldn't imagine living in such backwards times. :)

Next thing you'll be telling me is peanut butter and jelly come in separate jars!

https://www.smuckers.com/peanut-butter/goober

True innovation happens on this side of the pond.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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vel0city wrote: post #242
saaaaaam wrote: post #241

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Meanwhile, back over here in Europe where we are clearly in the dark ages of culinary-tech if we want something sweet and buttery we have a brioche with confiture and butter. Or a scone with jam and clotted cream. Or a Swedish cinnamon bun. :)

Needing to open two jars of stuff to slather on toast? How barbaric! I couldn't imagine living in such backwards times. :) Next thing you'll be telling me is peanut butter and jelly come in separate jars! https://www.smuckers.com/peanut-butter/goober True innovation happens on this side of the pond.

I… wh…? oh no! Escoffier was NOTHING. D:

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by tomxor »

plagiarist wrote: post #92
tomxor wrote: post #29

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I'd pay to just not have one, but I'm not even sure that's possible any more. I'm really not looking forward to when I'm forced to buy a new car - few things make me more mad than smartphone tech with universally slow and terrible UX, duck-taped onto machines, let alone dangerous machines.

In previous discussions about how shitty touchscreen car interfaces are, people have been mentioning that new cars must provide a backup camera. I'd like to have just the camera, but why would manufacturers stop there when they can ship spyware as well? The screen is the expensive part.

Touch screens are actually incredibly cheap off the shelf components compared to all of the bespoke physical buttons and dials required to kit out a car.

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Post by JakaJancar »

swores wrote: post #228
bad_user wrote: post #217

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I'm going to repeat … cookie banners are not necessary for functionality that the user expects to receive as part of the service provided. And yes, this is part of the ePrivacy Directive. And indeed, the cookie banners that only “notify” users, without requiring an acknowledgement to proceed, are not even legal. Go to any Mastodon website right now. Why aren't they providing a cookie banner for notifying that session…

If you're so convinced you're right about this point (which is not the view of lawyers I've seen spend tens of thousands worth of billable hours around GDPR and ePrivacy Directive... though I'm not in the legal profession myself, just somebody who has seen the legal advice about this at multiple tech companies, and it's a confusing enough area of law with little precedent set in courts yet, so it's absolutely not imp…

Well his username is bad_user :)

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by ncr100 »

mitthrowaway2 wrote: post #121
ncr100 wrote: post #101

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That's an awesome and horrifying story. I used to work with a software engineer who said to me he would never trust medical equipment that was computerized. It's hard to escape it these days but 20 years ago he was well aware of how many bugs even the most experienced software engineer would leave behind, and was rightly concerned that like if he needed medical support from a machine, that it could very well kill him…

Reminds me of the Therac-25: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

Lordy - yes, terrifically horrible example.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by gwbas1c »

qingcharles wrote: post #51
gwbas1c wrote: post #22

What country do they drive in MPH with the steering wheel on the right side of the car? I've heard a lot of references to "miles" in British culture, but I assumed that was habits of older people. I thought the UK was all metric by now?

Metric in many things, and I was taught metric exclusively through school in the early 80s in England. Road signs and limits all still in miles exclusively. People still refer to each other in feet and inches although official stuff often wants cms. TVs still in inches. It's not as bad as America, because Brits have a very solid understand of metric and tend to use it whenever we can, but still needs work :(

When I was growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, in the US, we learned both systems. Rulers had inches and centimeters. All packaging had both units. All highways signs had both units.

I don't know why we "regressed," other than to say that when you live with both units, you realize that some metric units are silly, and some metric units make a lot more sense. More specifically, requiring that all units be merely powers of 10 of each other makes it very hard to use the most appropriate unit for the scale you need. (Don't believe me? Why do we have 24 hours in a day? 7 days in a week? 356.25 days in a year?)

IE, it's a lot easier to estimate short distances using feet or millimeters; but kilometers makes a lot of sense for long distances. Understanding "the weather" makes more sense in Fahrenheit, but general science makes more sense in Celsius.

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