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Holy Smokes!

My trusty M1 Max went full bonkers immediately. GPU temps spiked at 101°C and both CPU and CPU showed 100% workload. Also probably the first time this year the fans went on.

That is true, the French (as opposed e.g. the Germans, they blend different varieties much less) in particular do this, and they do it well. So yes, strictly speaking these are blended wines as well. But seldomly any wine maker in France would buy them; it all comes from their own parcels, and these blends are well established flavor profiles. They know their own grapes and what they can do with it.

If you do really high volumes you buy, sure. But again, it's of no surprise if these manufacturers experience a decline of demand.

Very interesting how different the experiences can be from one continent to another. But then again, who cares for American wine (certainly not the Euros).

Coming from Europe I'm used to see that every vineyard makes their own wine. Seeing grapes become such a commodified thing is a bit weird, I must say. Buyers of these will probably by definition make blended wines, which are not really held in high regards. People who drink wine are usually quite demanding about their drink.

So yeah, I'm surprised the farmers just let go of their produce instead of making a wine themself, if they think the vintage is so great.

It is true tho that regular wine has been in decline; nobody (aka the younger folks) wants that Monsanto-flavored and sulfured wine anymore, so natural wine has been a big craze and also more funky flavours are swiftly taking ground. Sure, the quantities are different, for many reasons - having less money in the pocket being one of them.

I don't get it. Finder is okay. Yes, there are some idiosyncracies, but once you got to know them (e.g. when coming over from Windows), it's smooth sailing - and much better than the Explorer.

Why is seemingly every single person on HN unhappy with the Finder?

I can't stand it. It's really not a nice reading experience.

Before AI we had better writers and worse writers, but it was always profoundly human. The voice is completely lost and everything reads as this garbled mess.

Was about to say the same. It's really a slideshow – and that being on an M1! Can't imagine how much worse it probably is on Windows.

Very cool project, but obviously missing (too) many great castles. I'm not sure if that way of measuring popularity is really well done.

Just hoping the maildir and proper Gmail-like threading comes soon finally.

Dumbcad line barf will not help you with that at all.

There already is a format that is plain text and preserves the semantics: IFC. That's what it was made for.

I concur. I had "inherited" the sets of my 10 years older brother, and they where a pain to play with. It was sometimes impossible to separate the pieces, especially if it were plates with no leverage and nothing to grip.

Another note to add here: The whole system was stupid, too! What do you mean, I can only give answers, but not comment?

While there is much more to say about SO's demise, the "interaction" on the platform was definitely not one of its strengths, either.

Does anybody know which edition with the cheerful footnotes is referred here?

So weird that this is nowhere stated on the website at all. Was literally the first and only thing I was interested in. So bad.

And yet here we are in VSCode, still completely unhinged, not letting us have background colors in themes at all.

Apparently it's too technically complex :D (their words in the open GH issue, not mine)

Good luck to them!

On a nother note: still 1+ year(s) until we get a real email database (enabling gmail like thread view) in TB. [0]

[0] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/video-conversation-view...

Before clicking on the link I assumed circumcision actually. Basically half the population has got it done :D

(I know that the rate has lowered over the last years, but USA still has what... 85+% ? Even higher in South Korea e.g.)

Came here to recommend that as well.

Or just leave it. Nobody needs to comment on blog posts, really. :D

I have entirely no clue about how other folks are using Notion .... but, errr – how exactly is this supposed to help me, or work at all?

How could the AI possibly know what I want to put in? The whole point of note taking and ordering and rearranging data is that I have the control over it. And by that a better understanding.

Definitely a Must-Read. One of the best books I read this year, and basically spent my whole holiday digging it.

I think it is a real eye-opener.

Very interesting. I did the treasure chest emoji proposal back in 2018.

Back then the committee was very determined not to let in more emojis – for the treasure the official response was that Unicode already had money symbols and that this should be more than enough for all use cases.

Looks like they caved in now and just adding more clobbers left and right. Half of me is happy to finally have the treasure chest, but the other half is sad, that somehow now they added it, when we could have had it 8 years ago!

I've seen tech like this on display at the IFA already 15 years ago. Forgot the name, but it was pretty hyped at that time. You could even demo it live. Sure, it was only to steer a sidescrolling video game character, but it worked great with as little training of half a minute or so.

Anyhow, Alterego just seems like another vaporware product, that will never enter or even begin to penetrate the overall market. But let's see!

Mh, yeah. You are right. It's flaky tho for me... Sometimes it displays my own messages, sometimes not. I won't open a bug for that right now. I just keep my fingers crossed we get the better implementation.

What is still missing now (even if or when it works), is a continous display for me. Currently you have to go email by email, which can be a bit cumbersome to navigate, because then you'll never get the "full picture" for a quick glance, if you get my drift.

It's not my words. There is a 1.5 hour long video of a maintainer chat uploaded to their YouTube channel a while ago. There one dev explains it very carefully and in depth – "ugly hack" is their words, not mine! Seems a lot of work to untangle that mess. They are already a long time over their estimates of how long it would take.

Not sure what you mean by that you see your own response. In the current "conversation" (thread) view the chain will only display incoming answers, but never your own outgoing emails – which well... would make it a true conversation view.

Both ideas are pretty old (50s) and in development for a long time. Both designs have their pros and cons. The biggest drawback of the Tokamak however is that it can only be pulsed... which is kind of dumb to actually generate and provide energy in the long run. You really want the Stellarator here, since there it is at least theoretically possible to run "for ever" (not entirely true, but long enough cycles to be used in a power plant).

There are 2 podcast episodes with the guys who run Wendelstein here: http://www.alternativlos.org/51/ (it's German tho)

The current "conversation view" is misnomer. There really is nothing like that. Again, just think of Gmail and how it's handled there. This is how it would look like, e.g. you actually see your own response, too. Currently this is impossible because Thunderbird does not actually know what messages belong together. It just applies some ugly hacks to even find the ingoing emails. It's a trainwreck, but I believe it will get better and we will finally have some decent mail software out there.

That we can search at all is nearly a miracle given the old and bad infra. At least they work hard (I hope) on replacing the old system with a real database. That should enable the conversation view (Gmail-like), too!

That's why I love DNGs. No Sidecar file to lose! Just one file, and still non-destructive.

Thanks, I hate it!

Looks like they try to "fix" an issue that should be fixed on the browser's UI side.

Sadly he nowadays seems to be a bit forgotten, apart from the Napolitan ice cream here in Germany named after him (chocolate + strawberry + vanilla), and I am not aware of any books on him in English.

He wrote many books, by which sale he got revenue to foster his expensive landscaping. The "most famous" is probably "Tutti Frutti", which is not about landscaping but a ironic representation of his current times – but this as well has not seen any reprint for probably a century now. I always wondered, why... Maybe I'll do a reprint someday :)

Pückler is a fascinating person and most of the stories about him sound so unreal, Hollywood would outright reject scripts containing them.

If you ever find yourself to be in Berlin with an extra day to spare you should take the 1.5 hour drive to Cottbus, where his second park – Branitz – is located. Has a lovely museum in the manor house and in the stable a world class restaurant, cooking his meals with a modern twist (he had an extra meal diary, that's how we know exactly what he has eaten with whom throughout his entire life).

Basically the complete field of modern landscaping design has grown – no pun intended – on his work and vision. The probably best known example is the Central Park in New York. Without Pückler it would not have come to be.

Oh and did I mention he is buried in a pyramid?