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I am curious to see how this works in practice. When I went to their Turnstile sign-up page [0], that is itself protected, I had no problems passing the test despite a slew of privacy-focused features enabled in my browser.

[0] https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up?to=/:account/turnstile

Having used dishwashers on three different continents (US, Europe, Asia), I can attest that they definitely do wash dishes. The only caveat I would add is that when my mid-1990s vintage US dishwasher broke, the modern replacement seemed to be far worse. The cycles took longer and dishes came out dirtier. I always suspected it was some energy efficiency mandate that ruined the dishwasher experience in the US as I have had no such issues in Europe or Asia. Maybe I'll try different detergents next time I'm back in the US...

Hm, that's an interesting thought which never occurred to me until now. I didn't know about the Austrian German expression, but paradicsom in Hungarian can mean either tomato or paradise! Please chime in if you're familiar with other languages of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Edited to add: According to Wikipedia [0], the original Hungarian expression was also "apple of paradise," which then got shortened to just paradiscom. It also points out that the Italian pomodoro is literally "apple of gold." I guess the far-flung origins were thought of as paradisical...

[0] https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradicsom_(n%C3%B6v%C3%A9nyfa...

Another example of this article being confidently wrong about tomato is Czech, where the word used is rajče or rajské jablko, the latter meaning "apple of paradise."

There's an Apple Classical app in the Android Play Store. I used to use Primephonic before Apple bought it, so I might give it a shot...

Ah, I remember reading Spike Japan! It has some pretty amazing writing but hasn't been updated since 2014. Still worth a read if you're interested in this sort of thing. Also makes me wonder how things have changed since then.

The 10,000 dollar note remains legal tender in Singapore but is being withdrawn from circulation together with the 1,000 note:

"Note: MAS has stopped issuing the following notes as a pre-emptive measure to reduce the potential money laundering and terrorism financing risks associated with large denomination notes:

The $1,000 notes with effect from 1 January 2021. The $10,000 notes with effect from 1 October 2014. Existing $10,000 and $1,000 notes in circulation remain legal tender in Singapore and can continue to be used as a means of payment for goods and services."

https://www.mas.gov.sg/currency/circulation-currency/circula....

I should have specified "normal browsers out of the box."

I've considered setting up a pi-hole at home but never got around to it. Same with browser extensions... Getting the ad blocking without additional effort appeals to my lazy self. :)

I am so used to seeing websites rendered in Brave (both mobile and desktop), that whenever I am forced to use a standard Chrome/Edge/Firefox I am appalled at the experience. The ad bombardment is unrelenting, and I my mental reflexes to tune them out have atrophied to the point where I don't understand how anyone can use the web with a "normal" browser.

The crypto stuff I just ignore.

Very occasionally a web site will break in Brave but work in Chrome, but those instances are converging to zero based on about 5 years of use.

Syntax is one thing, but as others have mentioned it's more than that. Libraries, tooling, IDE and perhaps also knowing the ideosyncracies and pitfalls, and how to recover from them.

I'm very comfortable in Matlab and often know immediately what's wrong when I hit those oddities. In Python it usually means I spend considerable time googling and tinkering before I even understand what I did wrong because I have far less experience... Same when I tinker with Julia.

And for some people it being a Real Programming Language may be a disadvantage actually... Typically means you need a better understanding than just type-and-run.

France has a border with the Netherlands? I guess if you count St. Maarten that's correct but that border is wide open. Is there another one I'm missing?

Hm, now that you mention it, it's not common to see Aspirin here in the drug stores. Apparently you can buy low dosage Aspirin online but the regular dosage seems elusive. I'll ask in the pharmacy next time...

Panadol Extra is paracetamol with caffeine, not acetylsalicylic acid, which is Aspirin.

And yet again, you reinforce the same point!

With more words and more eloquently, but still a perfect example of the same blind spot.

>>Every AI safety researcher knows about the paper clip maximizer. Few seem to grasp the ways this subculture is mimicking that tunnel vision.

>Lol really?? You're comparing some bad PR incidents to the literal unintentional destruction of life on Earth

Your reply is a perfect example of the blind spot the quote from the article is referring to.

"some bad PR incidents" being sexual harassment and assault, facilitated by the in-group doctrine, and the Paperclip Optimizer being a central tenet of the in-group, while for the real world it's a quaint and somewhat interesting hypothetical about a far off future.

So we have real, actual harm hand-waved away by reference to a hypothetical.

You can also overload end in Matlab for your custom classes as it's actually a method.

Don't forget to factor in maintenance costs. If you own the place, you're on the hook for maintenance, which can be pretty high for old buildings. While the asset may appreciate in value over time, the cost of carry may negate that price appreciation.

Or you can decide not to do maintenance but then the value won't appreciate.

Isn't this common to most Indo-European languages? I think it's valid for Germanic, Slavic and Greek.

As often is the case, Matt Levine has an amazingly detailed, horrific and informative rundown of it all at

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-14/ftx-s-...

The FTX "balance sheet" (which was a spreadsheet) had a cell called "hidden, poorly internally labled ‘fiat@’ account”.

Another key bit from Levine:

"If you try to calculate the equity of a balance sheet with an entry for HIDDEN POORLY INTERNALLY LABELED ACCOUNT, Microsoft Clippy will appear before you in the flesh, bloodshot and staggering, with a knife in his little paper-clip hand, saying “just what do you think you’re doing Dave?” You cannot apply ordinary arithmetic to numbers in a cell labeled “HIDDEN POORLY INTERNALLY LABELED ACCOUNT.” The result of adding or subtracting those numbers with ordinary numbers is not a number; it is prison."

And that's not all. This is fraud on a truly epic scale... Read the whole thing.

Edited to add that the HIDDEN POORLY INTERNALLY LABELED Account had a value of negative $8 billion.

I agree it's hard to run a profitable restaurant, but I disagree it works fine in Singapore. I just had lunch at a QR based restaurant here and it was a bit painful. Staff shortages are a real problem though in F&B so something has to give. Thankfully printed menus are making a comeback. Even when the apps work fine I still prefer a printed menu.

One should note that the participants (N=20) were divided into two groups with the respective regimens, and put on a controlled calorie diet for the rest of the time. Evaluation was after four weeks.

This study tells us very little. Small sample size, constrained diets without a proper control (protein pacing without IF, or no restriction at all), short evaluation horizon.

There could be something to it, but as they say, that requires a lot of further study. In itself this study provides a hint, certainly nothing close to an authoratative conclusion.

I've been using Brave as my primary browser now for at least four years, and it breaks very few web sites these days. I still have to revert to another browser every once in a while (less than once a month). The Brave experience has made using any other browser painful... Whenever I open a familiar site in a different browser where Brave isn't available (work) it's a jarring and dissonant shock. So many annoying ads everywhere all of a sudden! The crypto stuff I just ignore.

A stablecoin with 1400% yearly return is ipso facto anything but stable. It purports to return 1400%. Exponentially not viable seems more apt. Or just shortcut it and call it a scam outright.

They seem to have done measurements at different temperatures, so we can nudge the lower bound higher.

They also said they used transparent champagne bottles... Did they use Cristal for this? Now I really want to know what happened to the champagne! Although Cristal at 30 C may not be ideal to drink...

And what was their budget?

Wow.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, or just stand, staring blankly with mouth agape...

Similarly in Dutch, de soep wordt niet zo heet gegeten als ze wordt opgediend. In this case it's soup that's not eaten as hot as it is served.

I remember playing that a lot!

Unfortunately it bombs with a Type 10 error.

This does bring back memories, especially Think Reference! This was an application that came with Think C and contained a full reference to all of the System APIs. It was Inside Macintosh, with all documentation a simple click away. And it was all locally stored, and blazingly fast. After I had moved from Think C to CodeWarrior, Think Reference remained my go-to documentation.

Nowadays with everything on bloated web pages, a simple API lookup takes seconds, and may be out of date.

Good times.

Thank you!

There have definitely been signs of serious disquiet amongst the western business community; earlier this month the European Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai sent an open letter saying in the usual diplomatese "this can't go on, it's a serious problem." [1] The Japanese did something similar. [2]

This is not out of humanitarian interest. It's starting to affect business very significantly.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/european-business-chambe...

[2] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/04/16/business/japan-...

Looks very interesting... Are they selling this?