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This was three years ago so a bit of a cheat, but I bought a motorcycle. It was life changing and I highly recommend it.

I bought a house with a chunk of land attached to it, and one of the best things I added to it immediately was a stone fire pit. It’s been a fantastic way to relax at the end of the day and to socialize.

A 3D printer to pass the time during the pandemic.

An air purifier and a humidifier. Air you breathe is important. Get it right. Related to this I got a neti pot. Ever get a tension headache after mowing the lawn or working with anything involving dust? For me rinsing out my sinuses afterwards really helps, even with using masks/respirators.

Good face and body lotion with sunscreen. Also good shampoo/conditioner. It really does make a difference in how you look and feel.

Plants. At least three potted plants per person per household.

A miter saw because wood working is both fun and a great way to same some money. Ditto plumbing supplies.

Got my girlfriend a bartending course through Bar Smart. What a great program. Combined with Smuggler’s Cove, a book on classic tiki drinks, it’s been a great way to bond over our love of craft cocktails.
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* A Junghans Max Bill watch : its a bit noisy, but everytime I look at it it makes me happy. That sweeping hand, the dome crystal, the thin case.. Very solid (saphir version) as well, bumped it a few time, and nothing.

* A WBS pedal steel, got into it recently, and it's a beautiful instrument. A bit finicky to tune, but that might be my novice ears and not the instrument itself. Wolfgang seems very nice. Lead time is around 8 months.

* A Lewis Leather Jacket. Very heavy (horsehide), but that is some incredible craftmanship. Every detail is thought of, it's made in England, just be ready to wait a bit for them to make it.

Disposable income from the pandemic, a bit of consumerism ! I also Patreon the Aquarium Drunkard music blog, at least once a month they make me discover an incredible contemporary artist.
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Sure, you can make anything fast, but the question is will it take 40 years of a lot of work, and if so, where will x86 and ARM be when you get there?

I'd suspect an ISA designed in the last few years with performance in mind (even if not a priority), wouldn't take as long to get to where the industry is now, but it's still a lot of years of focused effort required, and we'll see.

I don't have a horse in the race, except that I do like my experience to not evaporate; and I sincerly hope real mode segmented address edge cases aren't something I'd need to relearn on another ISA even though they're still (barely) relevant on x86 in early boot.
You can just use it like a normal, heavy duty pan. The difference in use and flavor between seasoned and unseasoned is pretty minor, IMO.

The real advantage is that they're so cheap relative to their utility. They heat evenly and stand up to incredible abuse at a fraction of the cost of a normal pan.
I agree that the focus on "assault rifles" is weird and misguided, but I don't think this is an entirely fair characterization of gun control. in most states, even those with onerous laws for long guns, it is substantially harder to get any pistol than it is to get a semi-automatic rifle. you might need to get a rifle with a weird combination of features (california) or avoid specific models (maryland), but you don't have to jump through the same amount of legal hoops as you do when buying a handgun.
Yet in the same breath, they censor anti-Israeli government posts.
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Yep, I’m a native English and French speaker and when I speak in English to someone whose first language is a Romance language I make an effort to use more Latin-origin words, which does make the English sound very formal to native speakers.

Haven’t had a chance to try it with folk whose first tongue is a Germanic tongue because they all speak really good English, but if I came across someone who didn’t have great English I’d probably use more Germanic words.

I find this subconscious perception of speech with more Latin-origin words interesting though. Something about Germanic words just feels more earthy and real, Latin-origin words feel quite flowery and sort of hard to pin down.
Totally agree. They are not easy to clean and need to season properly with a bit of oil and mine always smells of cooking oil that is stuck on it and never comes off how much I wash it.

Edit: The cooking oil we mostly use is Ghee (clarified butter) to cook vegetarian dishes on our cast iron skillet.
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I'd suggest "People are generally bad at tuning into language variation." I'm not sure that native English speakers have any particular lock on that.

They may get more opportunities to make that mistake, since (a) they're often monolingual, and (b) they're more likely to be speaking to a non-native speaker (what with English being the international language these days). But it's not inherent to either the language or the speakers.
Recently I've been learning German and one of the examples was "Hier darf man nicht rauchen" (Here one may not smoke) and it has a note after "NB: Not pretentious in German". I found that quite interesting
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Private retirement accounts are far from untouchable in the EU, though: e.g. Hungary straight-up nationalized private pension funds in 2010 [1].

[1] https://www.ipe.com/nightmare-in-hungary-as-government-natio...
The ipad pro. It’s just my favorite device, and has been for the last 2-3 years. I draw and take a lot of notes on it, I read a lot of pdfs and epubs, I watch movies and videos, etc. I like that it allows me to focus, as the os is limiting, and I like that it’s so portable that I can easily take it with me anywhere. I can also hold it well when I’m in bed, in the plane, etc.
I bought a cheapy Lodge skillet -- 12", I think? -- a while back because I succumbed to the cast iron craze and really wanted to try cooking on induction. I figured I'd just upgrade to a bigger skillet when necessary.

It's now like 7 years later and my skillet shows no signs of giving up, and I don't think buying yet another kitchen device would make my wife happy. Should have gone with a bigger skillet to begin with.

Also, induction cooktops are amazing.
> some other brands have obnoxious ads in their UI

Can anyone explain this? Are TV manufacturers now dishing out ads themselves and not the cable company?

I have a not-so-good dumb TV and have not bought a new one for a long time. I'm completely out of the loop here.
Another name for the gadgets is 'precision cooker'. You have perfect control over the temperature of the meat. So, you'll end up with perfectly tender meat, every time.

I don't use my sous vide often, but when I do the results are fantastic. I'm a bit of a BBQ purist, and will even confess that everything comes out better when I use the precision cooker then brown the meat on the grill.
I'm not sure why is this here. It's basically a teacher complaining that people don't like when she makes up words, and has a strong accent.

Language is a living protocol that you can only learn by listening people use it and using it yourself constantly. Whether a made up word makes sense syntactically and grammatically doesn't matter. In fact whether it's in a dictionary also doesn't matter. What matters is being understood. So you need to use words people know. Sometimes you're in a position to make up a new word, when you need to. Talking to students about when their exam is... is not one of those situations.

And a heavy accent literally corrupts your communication. On top of making it hard to understand what words you say, your intonation becomes completely unintelligible, because you're speaking English, but intonating in another language. You're literally not speaking entirely in English. Strong Indian accent is especially infuriating for this, I find it very hard to listen to and understand.

And by the way, made-up words and strong accents are ESPECIALLY annoying to OTHER non-native English speakers, because we have an extra hard time parsing this on top of understanding a non-native language already.

I should know, I'm a Bulgarian, so... (I have slight accent).
No, a better system would give the buyer incentive to release funds in a timely fashion while still offering the escrow company incentive to implement. Maybe you pay escrow 110% of the cost, you get 10% back when you release funds, 5% if you take more than 10 days, 1% after that.
I bought the hypervolt hyperice. I was somewhat skeptical about massage guns in general until I started using it and it is amazing. It can really dig into hip flexors, legs muscles and the lower back where the old-style massagers are much more surface level.

I also got a tv with bluetooth so I can watch action movies full volume on the headset while people in the house sleep. It also makes up for the terrible acoustics in my bedroom which seems to dampen all sound (great for sleeping, bad for tv).
I've had smart lights for a few years now, and I'm pretty happy with them. I can turn them off remotely, dim them as a group and change them to a soft red at night to not blind myself.

Of course this quickly escalated to maintaining a full blown Home Assistant installation...
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Yeah. 100 kettle bell swings and 10 get-ups, in 20 minutes, sounds pretty brutal.
I've found using a french-press with luke-warm water for about 12 hours works great. Probably not as strong as the cold-brew machine, but perfectly fine for my needs in the summer time.
> In 2013 Freenode was sold to PIA for undisclosed sums and terms.

Sold by who? Christel alone? The brother-of-original-owner? What exactly was sold? The name? Server data?
I mean more like they seem to prefer spelling out the exact problem, instead of using a generic phrase, like "this solution has proven inadequate".
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Thanks for this. I'd agree that foam rolling has never been a huge win for me. It's a nice thing to add to my routine and it's super easy to do while watching TV, messing around on my phone, or having a work conference call with video off.
> Chair: Herman Miller

Has anyone done a blind test between a genuine Herman Miller and a knock off or another similar chair. I suspect people say its good just because of the brand name.
Chromebook C423NA - for writing. I intentionally bought the lowest end model I could find at Walmart. I wanted it for a single task - writing - and it's perfect for that. It is terrible at most everything else.

Softball glove - my kid has been playing softball and asked me to help work on some of their skills. I'm not into baseball/softball AT ALL, but I've very much enjoyed my time outside passing the ball. It's a very relaxing activity.

EXIT games - a series of tabletop "escape rooms" that kept me and the kids occupied many days over the past year indoors.

Biscuit Joiner - I've long wanted this "luxury" tool for helping keep things aligned when gluing planks for panels... it has become one of my favorite assembly tools in conjunction with pocket holes to make butt join assembly as easy as Lego.
Because one of the concerns that would lead to an economic collapse is 40+% unemployment.

Providing payroll protection is a very targeted measure against that. The last thing I need is for my six-figure 2019 taxes (good investment returns that year) to be rebated back to me for a job I wasn’t going to lose anyway while 1000s of people in my town lose their restaurant and retail jobs. That’s targeted in exactly the wrong direction I think.
Maybe you got unlucky.

Your original post did mention "freedom from the quarterly demand for metrics" which I don't see as driven from a company perspective. Companies and teams have complex sets of overlapping goals and generally you want to align what you do with those goals. Many of those goals are disjointed from what one would consider necessary for company success. If your boss wants quarterly metrics to go up for their own promotion then you're not going to get promoted by not making those metrics go up.
People made the same arguments about introducing/mandating safety features in cars and yet here we are in the future, with plenty of race car drivers.
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I don't see any utility in inventing a new reading of the standard. Getting everyone to agree on a new interpretation of a sentence can't possibly be easier than getting everyone to agree on a more clearly worded sentence. The actual thing you'd have to convince everyone of (the utility of the new consensus) and the people you'd have to convince (compiler writers, documentation authors) are the same in both cases.
Open back headphones, Hifiman HE400i (2020). It's really cool to discover more details in my favourite songs. I think I paid ~€200 for it. My previous headphones were the Audio-Technica ATH-M40x ~€100, and you can definitely hear the difference in quality, but I think it is probably past the point of diminishing returns.

Synthesizer: Sequential Prophet REV 2 (8 voice). I have it for 1.5 years now and I still feel like there is a lot left to explore for me in the synth, cool sounds to discover/create, I think I'm gonna buy the expansion board (+8 voices) as a birthday gift to myself
I think English has large advantages over other languages. I'm French and live in Hong Kong, and the superiority of English vs both French and Cantonese is hard to deny.

You say the spelling is irrational, I challenge you to find reason in the Chinese spelling, and the French one is full of traps due to our insane obsession with keeping our Latin root intact in spelling but not in verbal French.

The genders make little sense in French, serve little purpose but constitute an immense barrier to a new learner. My wife will never, in her entire life, remember a table is a girl but a bridge is a boy. Because of that, she'll always sound like an idiot. My daughter might, but she hates French already and is incredible in English.

Cantonese, or any Chinese variant, has large issues with temporality while English finds the right balance between having several tenses but not the idiotic amount French would have.

I don't know, coming from a romance and an asian experience, English really is a good language you should be proud of. The pronunciation, sure, I'll always sound French, but that's a small problem compared to the vast advantage learning to read it provided me around 16 yo. Learn French at 16 yo and see if you move from the countryside of Normandy to an IB in Hong Kong thanks to it :D
There are many things that currently existing search engines are awful at searching for, but one thing in particular has recently started to bother me..

Here's the problem:

Let's say you search for "abstract art" on Etsy: [1]

This results in about 1.7 million hits.

Browsing through even just a few pages of results will make it clear that there's an enormous variety of art that passes for "abstract art" on Etsy.

I've browsed through dozens of pages of results and concluded that most of the art is (to my taste) not very good, some small amount is decent, and a tiny percentage is pretty good. But, given the sheer enormous amount of art on there, I suspect there's probably some abstract art by artists I'd never heard of on Etsy that's I'd consider to be amazing.

How do I find such art?

Browsing through all 1.7 million results would take me forever (assuming I had the patience for it and Etsy even let me), so it'd be nice if there was a faster way, but I can't think of one.

Obviously, searching for "amazing abstract art" would be absolutely useless, because everyone has different tastes, so even were the results not manipulated by sellers deliberately labeling their art as "amazing", just because someone thought a particular work of art was amazing doesn't mean I would.

Of course, you could search for various properties of the art like its color. The odds of liking a work of art might increases if it's in your favorite color(s). So that's kind of helpful, but, honestly, if the art really is amazing it could be in just about any color and still be great. Same goes for just about any other property the art might have (like size, media, etc...).

There's also the important element of surprise. Viewers aren't necessarily going to know what they like until they see it. Who before Picasso painted Guernica or before Van Gogh painted his sunflowers would have known to search for them? Often, but especially for abstract art, viewers don't know what they'll like until they see it. So even a strong AI might not help if there's nothing to ask it apart from "show me some abstract art that I'd like", the definition of which would differ for everyone.

While writing this post, I did actually come up with some ideas.

The first idea is recommendations by curators or friends with similar taste.

The second idea is giving the search service a sample of other abstract art you liked. Using image similarity this could show you other images that had a pretty good chance of being the sort of thing you like. However, this would not be helpful in finding truly novel art that you really liked for which I still don't think there's any way to search other than by simply browsing through lots, and lots, and lots of art.

[1] - https://www.etsy.com/search?q=abstract+art
Yes, it would have been unfair and yet still fairer to the individuals. The system we have benefitted a bunch of business owners more than it did individuals.
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My business got a ppp loan within 2 weeks of our “lay off five people” timeline. Any slower ppp process and we would have put a terrible burden on five people. Yes there are better programs we could develop. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
The problem with blockchain is that it's just a distributed append-only log. There's really nothing else inherent in it. There are very few, if any, applications for it.

However, too many conversations around it attribute magical properties to it. And any solutions built on top of it can, and have been, built more efficiently using almost literally anything else. Well, paper records are less efficient :)

And as far as trusting databases goes, in the end you need government to accept whatever records there are. And nothing can help there. And even in blockchain world hard forks and re-writing of history happen even without any governments.
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Instant pot. This thing is magical, everything taste so fucking good in it. I bought a crockpot and never used it, but the instant pot was a game changer for me: ramen, couscous, stews, etc. The meat tastes so good when cooked there, vegetables are the same.
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To be fair, "Did you eat yet?" in this context seems to be universal across languages and cultures for office workers. The "Djeet yet?" will naturally be different depending on language and accent, but my point is that this is not exclusive to the English language. Someone who is familiar with the practice of asking if a coworker has eaten their midday meal in their native tongue will recognize the same nuance if they know the literal English translation.
As a Finn I can second this. It took me a while to remember to use the correct pronoun and still get it wrong sometimes (by defaulting to he/him if I don't pay attention to it)
Cheaters gonna cheat. That's the cost of a fast system that saved jobs right away.

The "technical unemployment" system used in done places in Europe is slightly more robust to these things, but only slightly.

I'm glad the governments acted quickly even with fraud as a result.
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And yet when you "set something back" you move it later in time.
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There's a couple of things Apple can do to dissuade companies from taking this route:

1.) Suspend the device warranty. The warranty on your device is suspended while in "Developer Mode" or whatever it is they want to call it. They can make switching over to "Developer Mode" go through various prompts to make sure you're okay with what you're doing.

2.) When launching the app that's not from the app store they can popup a warning informing you that this application was not obtained from the app store and therefore wasn't inspected by Apple. It may contain malware that dames your device or compromises your data.

3.) Periodically popup a window for a running application that wasn't obtained from the app store. If you leave the app running then maybe you get a daily reminder that the app is still running. Maybe you can get an activity report of sorts for it to - so you can see what the app has been up to.

4.) When disabling "Developer Mode" then list all the applications not obtained from the app store that will be removed from the device. Those applications will be removed when disabling "Developer Mode."

I think there's a way to do this that protect's everyone's interests and allows Apple's customers to make informed choices.
If you don't mind publishing your project as open source then there is the option to let Google pay for it:

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There are 40 slots, so you might not get selected. But the open shuttle uses the same software and framework as chip ignite.
> Are TV manufacturers now dishing out ads themselves

Yes. They have built-in OSes with Netflix, etc apps. They ship ads for the UI to display. It's as ridiculous as it sounds. The best solution is to never allow the TV onto the Internet and use some external device that doesn't hate you.
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electrical piano with headphones: nobody can hear me, the quality of a simple roland is stunning, connects me to the time when I had more time and could play music, and finally, I thoroughly enjoy rather stupid and repetitive finger drills which put me in a trance far away.
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I bought a detached num pad so I could place it out of the way of my normal typing.
I think this is a bug rather than deliberately blocked. The on-page retry button will continuously fail, but if you go up to the address bar and keep hitting enter it will eventually work.

Still embarrassing for a tech company of twitter's size. Displaying a tweet to a logged out user should be the single simplest job their service has, but it's usually broken.