Check out this video: Moka Pot Voodoo by the Wired Gourmet . Caution: turn down your volume for the early part of the video! Random siren sounds for some reason. Or skip ahead to 28s to avoid them.

This is the technique to make really great coffee in a Moka pot!

Which sounds nice but it’s really a false intimacy unless you actually go on to develop a long term relationship with that sex worker.

I think one of the biggest contributors to our growing societal sense of alienation is all the surrogates we use for genuine adaptive functions. Everything from fast food to hardcore drugs has been optimized to mimic what are supposed to be honest signals in our brains that guide us toward making good choices in the long run. Intimacy (and feel-good hormones) are supposed to help us survive in the long term by building relationships and strengthening bonds that protect us against all the random risks of life. Building a sense of intimacy with a stranger that you never see again is ultimately going to lead to greater pain and a sense of loss down the road.

Did you read my second paragraph? There are loads of illnesses and conditions that don’t get treated in my country. There are loads of procedures with extremely long waiting lists (multiple years) and there is no legal alternative unless you want to fly to another country and pay out of pocket for treatment.

I’m not saying that our universal health care system is bad. I’m saying it’s not perfect and it isn’t better in all situations. And if you have rare diseases or a lot of terminal illnesses you just don’t get treated at all. Or in the case of drugs, you could just have the government decide not to approve it for your condition and now you have no option.

Yes. Medicare and Medicaid are public health care, they’re just not universal.

Public healthcare doesn’t eliminate insurance companies, instead it makes the government into an insurance company which does all the same things: approve and reject claims, exhaustively categorize what is covered and what isn’t covered, and finally pay health care providers at the end.

I live in Canada where we have public health care. In another discussion on Lemmy it was mentioned that Ozempic started out as a diabetes drug and is now mainly used for weight loss. Well in Canada, Ozempic is not approved for general weight loss. You need to be diagnosed with diabetes before you can get it.

I think you’re exactly right about his name. It’s completely irrational but people seem to buy into the nominative determinism at a subliminal level!

Sriracha is not taco either, it’s Thai.

Slop falls to the bottom but I bet a lot of hidden gems do too. The greater volume of games coming out, the harder it’ll be for individual developers to get recognized!

Old school indie developer Jeff Vogel has a whole talk about how difficult it is.

To get YouTube to work you need to curate your watch history. Any video you regret watching should be deleted from history so that it won’t be used for recommendations.

If your history is filled with these bad videos then you’re better off wiping your history entirely. Then start from scratch watching only videos that really interest you and your recommendations will all be based on those.

Like the internet itself, there is a TON of great content on YouTube. The trouble is finding it! For me, the internet has been gradually reverting to the situation I remember from the mid-90s (before Google existed). There were lots of search engines but they were pretty much all bad. I relied a lot on word of mouth (and site-to-site links) to find things.

Don’t even have to long press hyphen — doubling a hyphen will get autocompleted to an em dash. I don’t even know how to type two hyphens in a row without iOS converting it to an em dash.

I find the usefulness of a subreddit is inversely proportional to its size (popularity). There are still some good ones but they are quite small.

I had hoped Lemmy would fill this void for me but it’s still too small overall such that the smallest communities are barely active at all. Thus I tend to just scroll the feed of everything and see what catches my eye, admittedly a much less useful way to spend my time since I get sucked into ragebait instead of discussing cool hobbies.

Yes exactly. What they really want to offer is an AI employee replacement service. If they could replace one of your employees who makes $40k/year then they could easily charge $30k/year for the service and you (the business owner and AI customer) could add $10k to your profits.

The fact is that they can’t do that. They can’t even make money charging thousands of dollars a year for basic LLM service that people use to write emails and the like.

The fact that they’re pivoting to full enshittification is the strongest signal yet that the AI bubble is collapsing. There won’t be an AI-driven mass-unemployment revolution this time around. OpenAI has given up on trying to build that.

I love VtM:B but I never had high hopes for this one. Direct sequels made by unrelated developers rarely work out.

I don’t even think it’s greed at this point. As far as I know, no one is making money on AI. Even NVIDIA is cooking the books by investing in AI companies and just making them use the invested money to buy graphics cards. They report those as sales but are they really sales if they gave them the money in the first place?

I think the real reason Microsoft is shoving AI down everyone’s throats is because they went all-in on AI and they’re hoping to keep the bubble going for now and somehow it will work out in the end. It’s literally a fake it until you make it strategy with zero guarantee of making it.

A lot of it I think is just driven by managers with AI FOMO. They really don’t know what AI is supposed to do but they’re hoping users will figure it out.

Sure, though interpreters have already been written for the bytecode language that this source code compiles to. It shouldn’t be too difficult for the community to write a compiler when the back-end interpreter is already there and usable for testing.

They’re not just random examples for some people though. For some indigenous peoples these items are a foundational part of their cultural practices.

They’re actually not hard to replace at all. Just look up “shower cartridge replacement” on YouTube.

How about using birds’ discarded feathers for decorations? Discarded seashells? Pearls from clams that died naturally?

You don’t have to have nostalgia for the game to appreciate how wonderfully crafted and expansive it is. It has one of the best soundtracks of any game, period, and its art is highly detailed and numerous. It has a ton of secrets (including one MAJOR secret) and a couple of extra game modes that enhance the replayability.

I would say the game seems to get better every time I play it. Is that nostalgia or something else? There are a lot of games I played before I had ever seen SOTN, yet I don’t feel the same desire to keep replaying them. I think it’s like a piece of classical music or a great movie. The more you replay it, the more details you come to appreciate. The original Deus Ex is like that for me as well.