Interesting that you guys associate guitar solos with feeling like a knight. For me, it’s brass and choirs and such.

Something like this, for example: https://www.jamendo.com/track/1244744/swords-of-fire
The bass trombone sizzling throughout that song apparently got developed in the late 16th century, so technically not even that is anachronistic. 🙃

Did not expect that kind of law change from such an aggressively Conservative government. I guess, there is ample reason to put the NIMBYs into overdrive, though…

Don’t think, Grok was a thing yet back then…

“City limits” sure is one of the signs of all time.

I do feel like AI art has entered the boomer stage of the hype cycle, as in Trump et al use it prominently, so the kids start to think, it’s

.

But I also feel like the blog post conflates two aspects. It’s not just about AI art, it’s also about every goddamn brainfart being turned into AI art.
No one needs to see a t-rex giving a thumbs-up or similar.

That’s what people are tired of, for sure. In the before times, the person would’ve chuckled at the thought and then forgotten about it. It took long enough to create an image of it, that they had time to realize that no one cares.
That barrier is now removed, so you definitely see posts online with just the dumbest brainfart turned into pixels.

I had to start reading that three times over, because I saw they mentioned “Canadian” and just assumed the angle brackets are a joke in reference to the Canadians in South Park:

Yeah, even just having more different ingredients and spices available makes those recipes of old somewhat obsolete. But then you also have the internet to tell you all kinds of new recipes, so if the local cuisine isn’t great to begin with, it is easier than ever to not bother with it.

The mushrooms worry me the most. There’s sizeable gaps between them, which seem to have been filled up entirely with whatever the white stuff is…

Yeah, and even when you do taste a difference, it’s rarely actually bad. Usually, it’s just a different hint of something in the overall taste. If you make the dish often, those variations are actually good, because it makes it more interesting.

Might’ve been beetroot. It’s excellent at coloring things pink and also used as a food dye…

Did you maybe accidentally turn on the “drunk” mode at the top?

Hmm, that’s interesting. Don’t you guys generally use concrete for paving in the US? In building construction, you’re supposed to give concrete like a month to fully harden, even though it already looks firm after a day or so.

For paving, they’re likely using a hardening accelerator, so the timelines wouldn’t be the same, but if building construction is anything to go by, it seems like you’d want to give it as much time as possible, not send cars on there while it’s still hot. 🥴

Well, no, but not every funny story ends with a near-death experience…

Labe explains that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere tends to peak in April each year as decaying plants release greenhouse gases after winter. Some of that CO2 gets reabsorbed by plants as they grow during the warmer months.

In case anyone else is wondering why it doesn’t just go up continuously…

A bucket of bytes. 🙃

Ah, that makes more sense. I did remember it being a Dutch acquisition.

Dutch cartographers subsequently renamed Tasman’s discovery Nova Zeelandia from Latin, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. This name was later anglicised to New Zealand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand#Etymology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealand

Oh man, if not someone else would’ve also mentioned Spongebob, I would’ve been really on the fence whether you’re just making a elaborate joke or not…

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I imagine, this is more about software devs than sysadmins. Sure, you’ll hire a couple more sysadmins to help with the massive user growth during the pandemic. But especially combined with loans basically being made free in the same time, it’s suddenly worth hiring a bunch of devs to build the Next Big Thing™.

Once those loans start costing again and the user numbers fall off, you quickly have lots of devs that you can’t find tasks for, that are worth doing.