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Re:Italy bans cultivated meat products on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @01:09PM (#38462862)
It's coming from a place of realism and facts. A place seemingly lost in the current zeitgeist.

> Quorn makes chik'n nuggets made of mycoprotein with similar nutrients to a chicken nugget,

Wrong again.

https://www.checkyourfood.com/ingredients/ingredient/1916/qu... https://www.checkyourfood.com/ingredients/ingredient/220/chi...

Half the protein, the nutrient profile is completely different (because it's mushroom and not chicken). No B12.

Where you getting your facts from man? It takes me actual time to refute your bullshit, the least you could do is provide evidence yourself.

Finally, Quorn is not rice is it, which is the original argument, so stop moving the goalposts and argue my original point if that's what you want to argue. If not, then you are contributing nothing of value and wasting everyone's time.

Re:Italy bans cultivated meat products on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @09:46AM (#38459940)
> I ate some chicken nuggets made out of rice

Do other people not see how ridiculous this is?

I partially agree with Italy's decision, at least to the naming of food.

You didn't eat chicken nuggets made out of rice. You ate deep-fried rice balls trying to simulate the taste of chicken nuggets, and they might have tasted similar to chicken nuggets, but that is an incredibly low bar to set in terms of taste (mostly spices) and texture (terrible).

The nutrient profile wouldn't have had nearly the amount of protein, vitamins or other nutrients an actual chicken nugget would have had, either.

Re:Show HN: GPT4 Vision for the Meta Glasses on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @07:55AM (#38458757)
Very cool! Hacker ethos (make a fake account to leverage sending photos), short and simple demo. Nice job
Afain, that comment was flagged and downvoted so to be honest mate, I think you are chatting shit.

I don't need to reply to anyone, I do what the fuck I want lad, how about you admit you're fucking retarded and can't hold a debate to save your life and then resort to childish "rebuttals" (argue with someone else / nooo it's not me downvoting), honestly mate if i knew you in real life you'd get chinned lad. straight up, you ever in the UK give me a shout, I'd happily pay the train fare to smash your teeth in.

Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown on Monday September 11, 2023 @12:14PM (#37469431)
I wouldn't worry about it, we take cheap shots at French food and French people too ;)
And who marked it for flagging, I wonder?

Grow up.

> Now if you do inherit a larger project that you don't like, well, you either work on it or you switch jobs.

Which you wouldn't have to contemplate if your predescessor had simply used the right tool for the right job, right? Such as not using an over-engineered framework for a problem that didn't need to use one. :)

Cheers!

As you get more experienced in programming you'll inevitably inherit projects that you didn't have any say over, when that time comes come back to this comment, I'd be interested to hear if you still feel the same way.
> When you're writing a specific program, e.g. it's never going to be anything more than "Hello, world!", why would you use the fattest framework when you can write it in plain HTML?

Emphasised the parts I think you should re-read

Re:A Journey Through Spain’s Islamic History on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:26AM (#37350525)
Historically, Islamic philosophers (as they were then called) took works from the greek philosophers before them and expanded upon it. Then a few other philosphers who did not like people learning from non-muslims leaned hard into fundamentalism and you now have the kind of Islam (Salafist/Wahhabism) that exists today, e.g. Saudi Arabia

The Mongols opened the door to fundamentalism, but it didn't have to go that way. The sack of Baghdad is a simplification

Read up on Al Ghazali, it is eye-opening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ghazali

What a dogshit argument, rebuttal:

Because they are called "general purpose computers" for a reason, it can do much more than "Hello, World", and they are routinely used for much more than that.

When you're writing a specific program, e.g. it's never going to be anything more than "Hello, world!", why would you use the fattest framework when you can write it in plain HTML?

And yet they are routinely used to solve "simple hello world" apps. Riddle me that.
"You don't agree with me so I'll throw my toys out of the pram"

Come off it, debate is debate, you're trying to come to a conclusion, but for that to happen your mind needs to be open to the possibility that you are wrong, can you do that? If not, then yes, debating is not worth the effort.

Re:fish-shell: the user-friendly command-line shell on Saturday August 26, 2023 @10:16AM (#37273149)
Yes, it really is odd, I couldn't figure it out so switched back to zsh.

The specific issue was to do with a script we had to run to gain ssh access to an internal network. I can't post the script, but it was related to openssh.

Even logging into bash and running the script didn't work, I had to remove all fish binaries, symlinks, etc and set my shell to bash/zsh. Maybe it was an issue with how I installed fish, but yeah like I said, very strange, but I can vouch that I've encountered a similar issue before

It's a real shame because I think the fish syntax alone is worth the switch, for my personal machine(s) I use it.

Edit: this was years ago now, about 4 years, maybe the issue doesn't exist anymore but it caused me a bit of grief at the time (beacuse I didn't know it was related to using fish!), I've not since tried it again. I might try again and get back to this thread

Re:fish-shell: the user-friendly command-line shell on Saturday August 26, 2023 @09:54AM (#37272953)
Yeah I would have thought so too, but I have personally ran into this issue running fish-shell on my mac. There are some scripts I need to run that do not work even when I shebang the script to run in bash.
These responses are hard-coded by developers, we know this because it's the same stock response every time. It is personal because it's not the model, it's a wrapper around the model enforcing US-centric cultural censorship norms onto the rest of the world.

I understand the optics around why FB/OpenAI/etc do this, (as a sibling user posted), but make no mistake, it is no accident that it talks to you in a condescending way.

For example, why can't the response just be "I am not allowed to answer that request"? Why does it have to give you this condescending spiel about "offensiveness" or some other subjective reason?

Re:The Albanian town that TikTok emptied on Saturday August 26, 2023 @09:14AM (#37272590)
> In 2022, around 16,000 Albanian citizens applied for asylum in the UK, making up 16% of all asylum applicants.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/commentaries...

What's that?

Let's be real, there is no reason for any country to be granting Albanian citizens asylum. There isn't a genocide going on, it's a (relatively) free country:

https://www.equaldex.com/region/albania

Re:Ask HN: What's the Situation with YouTube-Dl? on Saturday August 26, 2023 @08:45AM (#37272359)
This is my experience with any linux distro I've used, I'd prefer a smaller, regularly updated repository instead of my (2023) distro being shipped with ancient versions of, e.g. node, python, openssl, etc...
I honestly find the "holier-than-thou" speech of anyone offensive, but when it's coming from a program I genuinely find it rage-inducing. I can't be the only one, facebook devs, what you guys playing at? You guys speak to each other like this in work? I doubt it!
Re:Coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger on Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:51AM (#37247337)
Thanks, that actually makes a lot of sense. So I've been using them wrong, whoops! I guess I should get myself a little bin to compost stuff in
Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:27AM (#37236482)
"I'm ok with having my freedoms restricted so you should too"
Re:Coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:04AM (#37235224)
Sand is cheaper per kilo than used coffee grounds.

"Building-grade sand" is sharp sand. It is the cheapest sand you can buy. Roman's built things out of their concrete which was full of random bits of rubble, and some of these structures still stand today.

Re:Coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @08:57AM (#37235139)
I keep my grounds but I've found whenever I use them on indoor plants it grows mould on it within a day of watering the soil. Outside plants / veg don't have this issue -- have you come across this before? I keep my used grounds in a conservatory, they're very dry when I use them, although I guess not dry enough...
Re:Coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @08:55AM (#37235106)
The angle about "reducing waste" seems a bit moot. Sand is plenty and coffee is organic.
Re:Is Beekeeping Wrong? on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @03:57AM (#37233052)
Interesting, I only ever see wild solitary bees in my (UK) garden.
> This particular green revolution is going to be privatized and inegalitarian.

It's never good enough for some people is it? :)

The buzzing would happen whether or not I look at my device. It only annoys you if I don't look at it?
Re:Show HN: The Uncolouring Book on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:08AM (#37222934)
I almost recommended this to a friend for his children.

I'm glad I explored all the pages.

Not really a fan of rug-pulling behaviour.

We are humans, the greatest species on the planet. Even before industrialisation we lived on almost every continent ranging from scorching deserts to blizzard-filled snowlands.

Humans are the greatest adaptors to a given environment, even if the climate catastrophising ends up being true, we will survive.

How to be really optimistic?

Get away from the news, social media. Spend more time on hobbbies, family and friends. Do something for your community.

These things will make you happier

Re:Study: Inflammation drives social media use on Monday August 21, 2023 @10:57AM (#37210411)
Is it the same? There are gamification tactics I'm not a fan of (voting system), but I find the level of discourse on HN to generally be a much higher quality than say, twitter, facebook, instagram (e.g. what we mean when we say social network).

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