I wouldn’t try unpasteurised cheese from a big US brand, knowing what the hygiene standards and oversight for cattle are like. That said, I’ve regularly eaten unpasteurised cheese from Spain, France and the Netherlands and I don’t think those need to be banned (in the EU or their respective countries). I don’t think they’re comparable to unpasteurised cheese from the US though, especially since the budget cuts to the FDA.

the point is saying unpasteurised cheese is always horribly unsafe is to me wrong. it can be done relatively safely, but in the US currently it will not be done safely.

love typst, way easier to use than latex and fantastic output

why JavaScript? I’d figure CSS would be enough for text transforms

I’ve got to disagree about long pepper, I bought some for some specific recipes and tried some ground up just on steak, tastes great

sure both pagerank and llms can modelled as marlov chains, but the working and output of these models is very different. it’s disingenuous to state that google used llms and their precursors since the beginning. their precursors maybe but they are very different beasts.

as for the complaints, for me a big problem of their use in search engines is that they often hide the sources of the summary they provide and disincentivize people from clicking through to the source sites. This is very much a new problem that didn’t exist before google included output from generative models

given that by LLMs, people generally refer to the transformer architecture, it definitely wasn’t how google always did search. they famously started out by using pagerank. now, back then this was definitely seen as AI, but what gets called ai by the general public has changed over the last couple of decades. now people use it almost exclusively to refer to deep learning models or even just llms.

so yes, in a strict sense google has always used ai for search. but when the general public says AI now, they usually mean llms specifically and using that to replace actually going to the source websites is new

yep, wealth inequality is a big problem. more people should read piketty

I only knew Lunduke from his Linux sucks series and was surprised to see him on this list. so I did a quick search and found lunduke keeps his own ‘software politics tracker’ which of course does not track all politics, but just “woke”, “leftist” and “dei”.

Apparently Gnome just celebrating trans day of inclusion is a bad thing. Ugh. Wish I’d never given that guy my time and attention.

according to him, the Linux foundation also ‘pledged fealty to the UN’. wtf even is that supposed to mean? is this common conspiracy shit or is he completely off his rocker?

Linux can, but all streaming services refuse to serve higher quality on linux

they’re unlikely to lose significant weight simply because they use a bicycle. just like most people who start exercising without putting effort in their diet, any weight loss from exercise would likely be gained again by compensating by eating more. It’s a separate issue in any case, regardless of what life of transportation they use, many westerners should eat less and especially eat less meat

surprisingly, the e-bike has lower emissions in both cases

over an entire day, sure. needing to carry a 1.2l container around all day seems to me overkill. carry a smaller bottle, refill it when needed, drink a glass of water with your meals etc. remember, juice, tea, coffee, coke etc are mostly water and also count towards your water intake

how about deepl.com? it’s been my go-to for a while but no idea how it performs on these langs

you’d think they would use embeddings nowadays instead, with all the llm hype going on

whoa, didn’t know the distillers were back together, will have to check it out

maybe if you store them better than I did they dont become unreadable son quickly. personally I’ve sadly not much luck with them. Thankfully it did push me to find new encodes of the shows and I got much better quality replacements for most of them

used to have a bunch of DVDs with my favourite shows. but I kept them on a spindle and didn’t look at them for years, only to find out they had all become unreadable

rookie mistake, they forgot to rip it first

you won’t be able to tell, but at least when I was taught ages ago, they advised to call out verbally before approaching, and then circle around to approach from the back to prevent them pushing you under in an attempt to draw a breath. and that’s after trying to find other ways to save them than getting in yourself

current sodium ion tech is great for stationary use and for cold climates. beyond that, lithium ion will be more useful