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- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 2 hours ago:
Spotify’s best dev reporting for stand-up
- Comment on Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco 11 hours ago:
You are conflating the produce “cheese” with a specific cheese product made in a specific place. You can make cheese where ever you want, but it won’t ever be from that place unless it’s from that place, that’s how the naming scheme works. The name isn’t that name because they named it and gave it a label, the name is the name because it’s where it came from. The only compromise that would make what you are saying more accurate would be to say that all cheese you are taking about outside of the Parma region is “Parma style” cheese.
Trade works both ways, so if the Victorian cheese you are talking about gets its way to Parma shelves, then it’s a mislabelled product.
- Comment on Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco 11 hours ago:
It’s definitely not a type of cheese. You only think that because you have seen so many imitations. The type is a hard crystalline structured cheese made in a wheel. Many have this profile, but when that’s made from the region with the methods perfected by the history of makers in that region with specific ingredients from that region (lots of history to get to the point where are now), then it’s known as Parmesan. Anyone else that eats a cheese similar to that specific cheese made elsewhere has had a copy, which while being similar, is not from that region and not Parmesan cheese. Globalisation doesn’t change a villages history or countries culture of identifying produce, and yes, that’s something worth protecting for them.
It’s like calling a Lepatata from Botswana a Dodgeridoo because they are both wind instruments. It’s their type of horn, like a Didgeridoo and you might call it a Didgeridoo, but it’s not. Most people would get what you mean but to the people that it matters to, you would be wrong.
In geopolitics and when it comes to free trade, respecting the history and origin of a product is diplomatic and the right thing to do, especially since the point of the trade deal is to exchange these goods. Once actual Parmesan hits shelves more freely, it shouldn’t have to be labelled as “real” Parmesan, or vice versa with the local produce because it just doesn’t make sense in the context of the thing you are talking about.
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 1 day ago:
There’s a common old world view that going to a restaurant is either for rich people with too much money or for stupid people that don’t know how to cook. So it’s more a class based frugality thing that then also is a comfort thing because doing something outside the norm would be to be in public and not be in a private space where everyone can be themselves and follow the usual family dynamics. Restaurants are also commonly a special occasion thing too but seems your folks don’t have the memo on that one. Devils advocate, they probably want you to save your money and want more quality time with you and give you the “opportunity” to host them as they have done for you and others in the past and probably they enjoyed doing so?
- Comment on DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors 1 day ago:
The cost of doing business is to pay a poor to close a door and keep the wheels of progress spinning.
- Comment on When you get older you lose the ability to do things quietly, such as fart, or let young people live their lives. 1 day ago:
For a post about farting this is definitely a shitpost.
- Comment on AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution. 2 days ago:
The point of open source and contributions is that your piece of the larger puzzle is something you can continue to maintain. If you contribute and fuck off with no follow up then it’s a shitty way to just raise cloat and credits on repos which is exactly what data driven karma whore learning bots are doing.
- Comment on Old Bureau of Meteorology website still getting thousands of clicks 2 days ago:
TIL there’s a new updated site. The old site is also easy to scrape weather info for any automations, so apart from human resistance to change in UI it could also be a resistance to updating code.
- Comment on The Wheel That Went to Court (or, did you know Pixar sued DMA Design - who ended up becoming Rockstar North - because they made a game about a unicycle? 3 days ago:
I had no idea. I remember hiring it from blockbuster and thinking how 3d the graphics were. I don’t think I ever saw it on the shelves in a store though but I did spend more time in blockbuster than the stores.
- Comment on New Rules Enabling NSW GPs To Diagnose ADHD Could Be "Life Changing" 3 days ago:
TIL GPs can renew scripts for meds. Nice.
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 4 days ago:
This and the channel recall function would be amazing, or a macro button that ran the last set of actions so you can switch between one thing and another.
- Comment on Is ironing clothes significantly less common now? 4 days ago:
People used to care about appearances and wear their clothes for longer and so a level of maintenance and care was inherent that extended into clothes and their care. Fast fashion, a lack of social stigma on casual clothing, and ever increasing lack of time and increase in multitasking has lead to people ngaf.
- Comment on Statistics for Strava, a self-hosted, open-source dashboard for your Strava data. 5 days ago:
This is amazing!
I ditched Strava for WorkOutDoors and it allows exporting data into various formats. Will you support a non-Strava api import of workout data at some stage in the future?
- Comment on Norway’s ambassador to Iraq and Jordan resigns over Epstein links 5 days ago:
- Comment on Queensland moves to ban pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ under sweeping new hate speech laws 6 days ago:
Where’s all the people that were saying that these laws only would apply if the people involved were part of a recognised hate group?
- Comment on Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless' 1 week ago:
If only they had adults that were guarding them in some legal capacity to avoid this behaviour or something
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On “Gargantuan Task” To Give DS9 “Resolution” On ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 1 week ago:
DS9! remember DS9?? It’s the one you all say is the good one after the other one that’s best and we also did a take on, now remember DS9 and check out how this show is more DS9! Did I mention DS9???
- Comment on Amazon misses 4Q profit estimates despite better-than expected growth in cloud computing business 1 week ago:
There must be “Forget Amazon” articles in abundance then in the WSJ right…?
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 1 week ago:
Amazing what a bit of knowledge, intelligence and competency can achieve.
- Comment on ‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection 1 week ago:
Why is the trailer cut off and vertical, is this new Star Trek narrowing the vast expanse of space into a few inches?
- Comment on One out of ten Ferengis recommend Colgate 1 week ago:
Exactly what I was thinking, he mustn’t have the lobes for proper hygiene and presentation.
- Comment on Parents are paying $2500 to falsify vaccine records. It’s endangering babies like Riley 2 weeks ago:
If facts don’t mean anything to these people and they are on the hunt for dodgy docs, I am sure FACS/DCJ will love to have a word with them.
- Comment on Chrome is also turning into an agentic browser with its newest update 2 weeks ago:
It didn’t make sense then, and it doesn’t make sense now. Keyword searches with an understanding of search syntax was always king.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the downvotes lemmings, only asking a valid question
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 2 weeks ago:
Chinese vs US propaganda. When you are being played you are being played.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 2 weeks ago:
How is the change any worse than the current state? Isn’t this all just propaganda anyway to tank the value after the change?
- Comment on no pride in genocide 2 weeks ago:
The thing about Cook is it’s regarded as first contact and everything that followed was after his landing and reports of what he saw and from this was the understanding that the land was terra nullius rather than occupied.
- Comment on NO JUSTICE, NO WORK! 3 weeks ago:
That’s what protests are for. Disrupt the daily grind to communicate and bring awareness to people in power to make changes. Only issue here is the people not in power are the ones that need to make the changes because everything is going to plan for those in power currently.
- Comment on Journiv Immich Integration Launch: Capture the story behind your photos and videos. 3 weeks ago:
This is great 👍
- Comment on Booting from a vinyl record 3 weeks ago:
I heard he tried to boot from the white album but there were some bugs in it.
