Binging with Babish - used to be a fantastic set of recipes and takes on cooking that I really enjoyed trying to make, then got into the serious money and jumped the shark, both in "I bought my brother a Tesla/fulfilled a fan dream" and "this week we're using this dehydrator" ways (that meant I just wasn't going to be able to even imagine using the techniques and knowledge on show).

Ha, me'tal gymnastics.

I'm sorry, do you mean Microsoft Copilot 365?

gags

For what it's worth, as it's not clear if you're already aware, but Al Franken was actually a pretty decent senator for ~9 years.

Jon has stuck his oar into political matters, but not at that level.

The "I" in "LLM" stands for intelligence.

February 28th, 2025

The article structure seems... pretty slop-like. Though thank you.

I dunno, it seems easy enough to say "we've got rid of cAIo Colin v1.0 for his clearly insane ideas last year, we're looking forward to bowing to the whims of Colin v1.3, who I hear has some excellent new data sets from last year!"

Or a different product, or whatever. Ew, in any case.

Is that shittywatercolour? Didn't realise he was still posting!

Wondered if you typo'd the 678 until I read the article - damn! That's a heck of a range!

Hold up. Digital zoom is, in all the cases I'm currently aware of, just cropping the available data. That's not reconstruction, it's just losing data.

Otherwise, yep, I'm with you there.

And they just got partially acquired by HP.

Real "got money, I'm out" energy, there.

For what it's worth, I subscribe to the "use your TV as a screen, plug another device in to deal with content" method. It's not connected to the network.

So, whatever my TV wants to do, I'm not using it's janky apps that might get slow over time or try to advertise to me - my Nvidia shield (which is on the ropes/way out due to some updates it pushed) CEC wakes the TV and plays content without having any particular insight into my emotional state. But I can replace that relatively easily/cheaply until my screen literally stops working, rather than if some new service isn't supported on it or an old one is deprecated.

I'm being tempted to replace the shield with a NUC or other device due to the updates I mentioned above - but I can probably replace the launcher more easily.

Another vote for Binging with Babish - though my interest waned when he started going from "hey, I could try making that!" to episodes requiring ever more complex and expensive niche machines (e.g. dehydrators), I completely lost interest around the time he started doing the "going round buying folk things" series. Never really got back into it, unsubscribed after a while.

Bon Appetit was great, then everything happened, many folk changed (for good reason) and it just lost the appeal for me. I've watched some of the spun off channels, but some of the appeal for me was the interactions.

I used to religiously watch everything Shut Up and Sit Down put out, but found myself watching less and less over the last few years - turns out, they changed primary content creators and editor (if I understand correctly) around that time, and announced that they did so recently. Still watch occasionally, but it's a very subtly different style that hits less reliably for me. May also be related to me managing to play fewer boardgames, lately.

Yeah, though a nice thing for those who need it my immediate worry was "well, this may mean companies lean further into tipping because yay tax free" rather than working towards just paying workers.

Humtum.

Step 0. Have enough money to buy enough shares to pay your medical bills? 😬

Like what?

It's clearly down to the increase in visible moustache-twirling villains in the news, saying stuff like "and I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids."

Or something.

Personally, I'm also annoyed at the increased use of "needs done", which feels like it's missing half a sentence. But hey, languages are big - and can fit a lot of different usage.

I'm not saying everything in the world has been done, but "what, like Tiny Tina's Wonderlands?"

Hbomberguy has been getting nothing but better.

Foldingideas also has fantastic long form video essays that I really enjoy.