I think I rememeber an episode where he played a clip of AI Chris talking about Linux at the start of an episode and I genuinely couldn't tell the difference

Yeah for sure it has copied his voice and mannerisms nearly perfectly.

My wife, an archetypal normie iPhone user of 15 years, has recently switched to Pixel for this and many other small reasons. It's just crap software.

It's not Japanese either.

This non-problem sounds like it's on the same scale as "The British Isles", a term which is mildly annoying to Irish people but in common use everywhere else.

Transcontinental road/rail/sea transport would probably be a lot better if the airplane didn't exist

All publicly-listed ad delivery systems like Meta do in fact need to deal with high-income countries.

They can't afford to and will never strike off 100m Brits and Aussies, and that number will only rise with more high-income countries making regulation.

I don't know where the author is from but this goes dead against common courtesy in the UK for sure, and probably similar places like Canada and Japan as well. In Japan you might expect the apology to be longer than the email content.

Thank you. I logged in to say almost exactly that. I was raised with very different cultural norms that are hard to remove. At times, I do come across as overly apologetic based on nothing more than, from my upbringing perspective, being polite.

No idea if I'm normal or not (based in the US, with a British family), but if I miss an email by a few days/weeks, I'll just say "sorry for the delay" and jump right into the actual content. And on the recipient side, I don't expect even that. If it was critical, I would have used Slack (or sent a follow-up email if it was something to an external party).

GOD: Oh, don't grovel. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's people grovelling.

ARTHUR: Sorry.

GOD: And don't apologize. Every time I talk to someone it's sorry this, and, forgive me that, and, I'm not worthy.

he's hosted on Medium

The hijacking of file associations is one of the most awful and malicious things about macOS. You can set it to whatever you want, when Apple decide they want to, your CSVs will go to Numbers, JSONs go to Xcode.

> The dream scenario, IMO, is that we regulate out the worst of the harmful properties, rather than trying to get rid of them entirely (which I think is the dream scenario with cigarettes).

Isn't that basically vapes? A nicotine delivery mechanism without the most harmful properties, created by regulation on tobacco.

The thing with tobacco is it doesn't really have any benefit. It isn't a social lubricant like alcohol and doesn't have medical use like opiates. Old World societies managed fine before tobacco.

> It isn't a social lubricant like alcohol

It is, and I'm not a smoker. Ironically mainly because of the indoor smoking bans.

Sounds like the sociability comes from making people stand in an enclosed space together, usually outside a pub, rather than smoking tobacco.

Yup, though outside the workplace is usually the bigger one - might depend on the country. It's just not going to happen without tobacco though.

You can achieve the same by pulling the fire alarm and making everyone stand outside.

Fair point! I’m not that woke on the relative health impacts of vaping but agree that the positive impact of vaping is not akin to that of actual food, no matter how processed.

This works well for rolled oats but not for steel cut. Both types are much nicer cooked in a pot with stirring to bring out the creaminess (like risotto).

It's possible to both soak and cook the oats.

The overnight oats (rolled or steel cut) will cook much faster after they've soaked up liquid. If you're adding ingredients such as egg (two per 1/3 cup s.c. oats) this takes care of the raw elements as well.

Overnight oats made with milk and yoghurt in equal proportions has all the creaminess you could ever dream of.

Hell, go full insanity mode and make your overnight oats with cream!