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not_woody_shaw ,

Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Queen…

not_woody_shaw ,

Pain in the arse if you’re staying in Split and do a day trip to Dubrovnik. You pass thru customs and immigration twice in the space of 100 meters and 2 hours.

Why do phone manufacturers use in-display fingerprint readers instead of fingerprint readers on the power button?

I had two Samsung flagship phones, one (S20FE) had an optical fingerprint reader and the other (S22) had an ultrasonic one. Both of them somewhat regularly failed to read my finger, were slower than a fingerprint reader on the power button and are more expensive/complex to build. They won’t work with cheap 3rd party screen...

not_woody_shaw ,

Foldables have it on the side/power button but are priced as if they had 100 ultrasonic fingerprint readers under each screen.

not_woody_shaw ,

Every year

not_woody_shaw ,

I wouldn’t be surprised if parenthood did much the same to fathers brains.

not_woody_shaw ,

Thought it was gonna be CGP Grey.

not_woody_shaw ,

Charity is up to the whim of an individual, whereas welfare is more like what society as a whole agreed is the right thing to do.

not_woody_shaw ,

The problem is 100% of what. There are so many paper tricks to make a billionaires income add up to zero.

“100% of all assets and income over a billion” might work, but you still have the problem of whose opinion do you take on the value of an asset.

not_woody_shaw ,

Map map map men men.

not_woody_shaw ,

Black mould.

not_woody_shaw ,

Neutral evil AND kinda lawful good, but using a second larger bag instead of a bread box.

Lula says Elon Musk’s wealth does not mean world must accept his ‘far-right free-for-all’ (www.theguardian.com)

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has said he hopes the crisis surrounding the social network X in Brazil might teach the world that “it isn’t obliged to put up with [Elon] Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich”....

not_woody_shaw ,

Free speech != hate speech. Maybe in USA it does, but other countries are free to set their own laws on the subject.

not_woody_shaw ,

In 20 or so years, when there are more voters unable to buy houses than there are voters who own houses, this should autocorrect.

The recent US trend of corporations buying up real estate to rent out is very scary because it will prevent this autocorrection.

not_woody_shaw ,

Http? With no “s”? In 2024? Is you being serious right now?

not_woody_shaw ,

Yessir.

not_woody_shaw ,

Grab em by the peach tree

not_woody_shaw ,

Leave the grid out of it. Your PV’s charge your battery with DC, that gets used as DC by the USB-PD outlets in your wall. And you have an AC-DC converter for when you need to consume grid power.

not_woody_shaw ,

Is this stopping people from buying a new car? Or would they just buy a car from somewhere else?

not_woody_shaw ,

They remind me of the Bob’s from Office Space.

not_woody_shaw ,

I knew there’d been some kind of thing with the same name as the open source(ish?) DivX video codec, but not living in the USA I never found out what exactly it was.

not_woody_shaw ,

Haven’t tried it. Not particularly interested in mixing my coffee with … things.

not_woody_shaw ,

primary function

I thought we were talking about voice calls here.

not_woody_shaw ,

Vario team!

Did you try out the steel burr yet? Or the “hyper-alignment” procedure? Any other mods?

not_woody_shaw ,

Your hyper-alignment experience aligns with mine.

I swapped mine to the steel burrs to help with lighter roasts and longer espresso ratios 1:2.5 - 1:3, so this sounds like the opposite of your experience. Of course the steels also help with v60’s down the other end of the macro range. Where is this information coming from, that the ceramics are better for light roasts?

not_woody_shaw ,

Or in New Zealand: Chip != Chip

not_woody_shaw ,

This is the aspect of human nature that fascism seeks to exploit.

not_woody_shaw ,

It’s not a restaurant but the sheep looks kinda hot.

not_woody_shaw ,

Same thing with medical insurance. It shouldn’t exist but it pays a lot of people’s salaries.

not_woody_shaw ,

Yeah I guess the kind of Single Payer model I prefer can be conceptualised as “insurance.” But it feels more like health care is taxpayer funded. The similarity to insurance is just details for the detail nerds.

not_woody_shaw ,

Is this one of those places like in Thailand where they drug the tigers so you can pet them?

not_woody_shaw ,

Thanks for reminding me I need to try the new beans I just got as a sprover. The iced americano was a banger. Sprover should be even better.

Is land inclination included in area calculation? (sh.itjust.works)

For example on wikipedia for Switzerland it says the country has an area of 41,285 km². Does this take into account that a lot of that area is actually angled at a steep inclination, thus the actual surface area is in effect larger than what you would expect when looking onto a map in satellite view?

not_woody_shaw ,

I can’t remember if it was Matt Parker or Tom Scott who did a thing about this on youtube, and I think the answer was no, they just use whatever method is easiest to get these numbers, and they’re not even using a consistent methodology from one country to the next.

not_woody_shaw ,

Why though? Glover is cool.

brewing @ work?

Anybody brew at work? If so, what’s your setup/process? I’m fortunate enough to have free access to a shared automatic espresso machine (beans not pods) so the drive to do this is not super strong. I wrote about my experience with the pipamoka device for travel, and I’m thinking it might make for a pretty simple at work...

not_woody_shaw ,

Clever + Feld + something to heat the water up to brew temp in, was my kit too, back in the day.

not_woody_shaw ,

Biggest problem was water temperature. They’d have a microwave, and one of those fancy taps that gives chilled or instant-coffee-hot water, but not hot enough for brewing, and no electric kettle. Can’t put the gooseneck kettle in the microwave. I had a plastic gravy separator thing to microwave the water in for a while. Better to just use something less dependent on pouring technique, like aeropress or clever.

not_woody_shaw ,

That’s fine, I won’t even see it until somebody asks me on slack if I saw their email.

not_woody_shaw ,

constantly fidling with the grind

…is a necessary step on the way to great tasting coffee. You just have to decide if it’s worth the effort for you. Those kind of super-auto machines are better suited to slightly darker roasts and just getting the same consistent beans every time.

not_woody_shaw ,

Technology Connections on YT has. Awhile rant about this. youtu.be/U0YW7x9U5TQ?si=SZaEzNCDKoLXhx83

not_woody_shaw ,

If it’s successful presumably other places will start to follow suit. Somebody’s gotta go first tho.

not_woody_shaw ,

Real estate prices go down a little? It’s hard to see a downside.

not_woody_shaw ,

Why would you wear pants so tight that you need to choose?

not_woody_shaw ,

Reminds me of the KSP2 fiasco. Management insisting on reusing the engine from the old game, and firing all the senior devs who could have told them there was no possibility of getting the features they’d announced to work without rewriting the engine from scratch.

not_woody_shaw ,

So about $25 per violation. Seems low.

Why do many search engines seem to ignore operators (e.g. exact phrases, term exclusions, OR, etc.)? Is there a good reason for having a dumb 1997-level search logic that I'm not seeing?

Wouldn’t it cut down on search queries (and thus save resources) if I could search for “this is my phrase” rather than rawdogging it as an unbound series of words, each of which seems to be pulling up results unconnected to the other words in the phrase?...

not_woody_shaw ,

I start to feel ill whenever I need to use the search in BitBucket.

not_woody_shaw ,

Westminster bridge also makes shadows. …mylondon.news/…/0_Shadow_on_Westminster_Bridge-1…

not_woody_shaw ,

Stealthy!

not_woody_shaw ,

If you boil coffee it’ll be over extracted, bitter, and nasty.

not_woody_shaw ,

Maybe we’re not the first, we’re the last.

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