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- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 2 days ago:
Most people tend to stay in the same room (or a neighbouring room) when they’re microwaving something. They could probably save on the cost of having a full-blown computer with wifi inside the microwave by just having the noisy thing from an alarm clock. But, ah, the fuck do I know?
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- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 2 days ago:
Can’t say I’d be delighted about this, but they’ll very quickly leave when the food’s disturbed and wasps - like bees - don’t leave behind diseases or eggs. The same cannot be said for flies - if those were flies I wouldn’t touch anything in the shop.
- Comment on "Almost out of shampoo, better add it to my shopping list." 4 days ago:
Oh no.
- Comment on Car 4 days ago:
Remember when you could mix the cake mix off the spoon as a kid? Yeah, the mechanics won’t let me do that.
- Comment on Car 4 days ago:
Subbed. I encourage you, dear reader, to do the same.
- Comment on Blocking real-world ads: is the future here? 4 days ago:
Eight hours of labour, eight hours of recovery, eight hours of preparing for labour/recovery.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 4 days ago:
Same story here. I cancelled Spotify after the whole Trump thing and switched to Qobuz; the whole thing was pretty seamless. I’ve got to say, the increased quality is actually noticeable and, as you said, the curated selections actually seem to be, well, curated. Also, if you’ve got a load of playlists on Spotify you want to keep, Qobuz actually provides subscribers with free access to a migartion service that did a superb job.
- Comment on More people buying electric cars and heat pumps than ever before 6 days ago:
Some people still complain about slow charging on EVs. Most electric cars have no problem getting 3.5 miles per kWh. A standard UK wall plug can safely provide 13A, and while the voltage is notionally 230V it’s actually more than that for most people, but even if we ignore that, 230V × 13A ≈ 3kW, so an overnight charge of, say, eight hours on a standard wall plug gives you 3kW × 8h × 3.5mi/kWh ≈ 84 miles of range for under £5 if you pay 25p/kWh. I’ve said it before; if you can afford an electric car, you can’t afford not to have an one.
Space is the stinker, of course. A lot of people don’t have a spot on their property they can park their car, but for those that do it’s a no-brainer.
Also, heat pumps are basically magic. Why they’re not mandatory on new-builds, I don’t know.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 1 week ago:
That’d be esteemed British author Georgie Orrell, author of such whimsical classics as “Now the Animals Are Running The Farm!”, “My Big Day Out At Wigan Pier” and, of course, “Winston’s Zany Eighties Adventure”.
- Comment on THE PERIODIC TABLE OF TAYLOR SWIFT👩🏼🔬🧪🧫🧬🔬 1 week ago:
That’s really clever. If you’ve not noticed it yet: if you hold your phone at arms length and blur your vision it looks like a vague blob that doesn’t look like Taylor Swift.
- Comment on I'm down 1 week ago:
“The anxiety of an man with the ability to be rendered into glue after death of a horse.”
- Comment on A metaphor for capitalism? 1 week ago:
Dyke Delta
Nice try, but I ain’t Googling that.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 week ago:
As someone who oversees a shop like that, I’ll just say: if there was an even vaguely competitive option, I’d jump at it.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 week ago:
I know what you’re referring to, and I thought that too until he said “northern lights”. Ya gotta learn to listen.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 week ago:
Yeah, me.
Here’s the rule of thumb: do you think the food benefits from being cooked unevenly? For meatballs as you mentioned, I’d sear them in a frying pan to get a little bit of crispiness before I cook them through in the sauce in the microwave. Hunters chicken, cakes, seafood, all good. The microwave will cook far more evenly than a convection oven, though sometimes the unevenness is desirable.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 week ago:
Man, don’t you be dragging down microwave cookery like that. People who depend on LLMs are not like people who cook with the microwave; they’re more like people who don’t know how to cook, refuse to learn, eat takeout for every single meal, and still demand you address them as “chef”.
And now I’m going to talk about microwave cookery.
I think people who object to microwave cooking and see it as ‘lesser’ are either snobs, or people who have never used anything less than 100% power and get food that’s both scalding hot and still frozen.
If you’re in the second camp, try cooking for twice as long at 50% power. For most foods you’ll get an even heat well beyond anything a convection oven could manage. In some dishes the unevenness (e.g. crisping) is desirable, but in most it’s not.
- Comment on Shitpost 2 weeks ago:
Same here. Whether I start the day with a strong mug of coffee, six litres of olive oil, two cartons on concentrated prune juice, or just a simple handful of laxatives pills, the result is always the same.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 2 weeks ago:
It seems crazy that a company that’s only really known for cars, motorbikes, tuning forks, heat pumps, brake pads, pens, tractors, fertilizer, display panels, outboard motors, pneumatic systems, oil tankers, furniture, bricks, solar panels, ATVs, generators, dinghies, hydrogen fuel cells, crop dusters, jet engines, cultivators, hedge trimmers, lawnmowers, precision optics and robots would suddenly pivot to rockets.
- Comment on Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering' 2 weeks ago:
For giggles, I’d like you to explain how the President of the United States launching his old overpriced phone on his own overpriced network with every possible element named, adorned and even priced after himself could be considered anything other than abusing their power?
- Comment on Thing makes noise wallet goes empty 2 weeks ago:
Same in the UK. We have an annual MOT tests and even with that some drivers let their cars slide so much.
- Comment on good advice 2 weeks ago:
Done and done.
- Comment on good advice 2 weeks ago:
Did they forget the “to”?
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
I can also explain Microsoft’s straglehold on enterprise/government/institutional IT in two words: Group Policy. Nothing - absolutely nothing - from any other OS maker comes close to the granular level of configurability, customisation and flexibility that comes with Group Policy, not even ChromeOS or iOS.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 2 weeks ago:
Modern birds are more closely related to tyrannosaurus rex than tyrannosaurus rex was to stegosaurus. Modern birds are, by any reasonable definition, dinosaurs and sometimes they act like it.
Clever girl.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 3 weeks ago:
Not that I’ve seen and I’d take what Purism say with a grain of salt: they’ve acted like pretty shitty gatekeepers themselves. Nothing they mentioned in the article seems too egregious in truth and they’re exaggerating the scale of it: Play Store app DRM exists already, and the restrictions on browser-downloaded apps they mention can be bypassed (albeit by having to go into settings) and don’t apply to apps installed through other apps stores (F-Droid, etc).
- Comment on Why Decentralized Social Media Matters 3 weeks ago:
No. Unfortunately, ActivityPub just isn’t geared up for that kind of thing. It’s why BlueSky uses a different federation protocol called AtProtocol which is a lot more demanding than ActivityPub but is specifically intended for Twitter/TikTok style services.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 3 weeks ago:
How dare you bring nuance, experience and moderation into the conversation.
Seriously, though, I am a firm believer that no tech is inherently bad, though the people who wield it might well be. It’s rare to see a good, responsible use of LLMs but I think this is one of them.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 4 weeks ago:
You’re surprisingly wrong. Landlines exist but there is basically nowhere left in the world where landlines outnumber mobiles (except places like North Korea, obvs). Mobile networks are literally cheaper to run than landline networks and that gets more and more true as the quality of infrastructure drops.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 4 weeks ago:
I was once in New York using an AT&T payphone and trying to place a reverse-charge (or “international collect”) call to the UK and the operator REFUSED to accept that UK phone numbers are ten digits long. You better believe I put that thing through it’s paces.
