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andtheboat··on UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
and every post about it being quickly deleted. It's afraid.
andtheboat··on The end of naked locker rooms
https://i.imgur.com/YuVmKkE.png
andtheboat··on ( UK ) Prime Minister sets out blueprint to turbocharge AI
Have you tried killing all the poor?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4J4uor3JE

andtheboat··on Living in a Lucid Dream
"They fulfill fantasies of control, seek personal thrills like flying, have sex with Jeremy Allen White."

I really hope someone called Jeremy Allen White reads this.

andtheboat··on Meta outage
iirc these all use GCP which would make sense for them all to be disrupted at the same time. I wouldn't have thought Meta was GCP reliant though?
andtheboat··on Study finds influence of smaller jersey numbers on perception
...in american football.

Context and history matter as this is the complete opposite for soccer:

- Smaller numbers go to the defenders and big guys

- Larger numbers are given to younger & academy player

- Numbers like 7, 9, 10, 8 & 6 all have a specific meaning on the pitch

So yeah, numbers matter, but so does everything else.

andtheboat··on Ask HN: Netflix First Live Stream for Love Is Blind – Technical Issues
my margarita is just liquid at this point.
andtheboat··on Autonomous robots to help modernize grape, wine industry
"People are part of terroir"

The most common type of machine automation in the wine industry is the use of optical sorters - no longer do you need rows of people separating good grapes from raisains and debris. The machine scans what's going through the shoot and uses multiple prongs to flick anything unwanted into a separate container. The sorters are even transportable to different wineries and vineyards.

The issue is that wine is not an engineering product, people don't want it all to taste the same. These machines do have calibration but in my experience we're getting too close to wine as a generic product. That is my fear with something like this - we know more than ever about grapes and when to harvest, we lose what makes a wine unique.

So while I praise this product and the exciting world of agricultural technology - just not sure it's the right direction for wine.