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Those are just page after page of embedded YouTube videos. It's doubtful that's a meaningful difference under this bill.

Violife is probably the best for shredded (mozzarella/cheddar) but its still not great.

I really like Field Roast Chao slices for things like burgers or sandwiches.

Because after 8 years the idea of eating meat has no remaining appeal and is switching more to mild revulsion. Why would I order a substitute that is a close copy of that?

I'll still get them if there's literally no other vegetarian option on the menu, but that's rare.

I've been vegetarian for about 8 years and won't buy them and try to avoid them in restaurants because they're too meat-like. Unfortunately they've made good non-fake meat vegetarian burgers (black bean, wild rice, etc) harder to find.

It's a situation of "You know that thing you don't eat, don't like, and don't have cravings for anymore? We made something that tastes exactly like it. You're going to love it!"

I'm glad they existed when I first went vegetarian as they made the transition easier, but its a tough market when people will go off them in a couple years.

Might be thinking of Google Buzz (hey, remember Buzz!?). Google+ was a few years later (2011)

I still kinda wonder if they saw the success of the invite system for gmail (I remember a lot of late nights begging for an invite on various forums) and thought that it would work again.

The critical difference is gmail still worked just fine with hotmail, yahoo mail, aol, etc. Wave was useless if both sides didn't have it.

I loved Wave. It came out my senior year of college; and for one class all four of us on a group project managed to snag it and it was amazing.

Unfortunately, for every other class, the Wave signups were so rationed that it was impossible to get everyone on it.

"Can we use Wave? No, Steve has been trying to get an invite for weeks".

I feel like you need to make sure the rental side is the first thing people see.

My initial reaction at being dumped on the "Explore" section was "this is just a spammy pinterest style link aggregator thing".

Tool libraries are starting to take off. Ours is $35/quarter and gives you free access to their full library:

https://mtl.myturn.com/library/inventory/browse

It might be part of the feedback loop, but from my experience it always starts at the company level.

I think I've been under a pay freeze for 4 of the last 6 years, and a capped 2% raise one of the others. No matter how much effort I put in, my wages would have stagnated.

I don't see any reason its not theoretically possible but I doubt it would be that beneficial.

You'd have to map the results back onto the traditional model which has overhead; and using shaky results as a precondition is going to negate a lot of the benefits, especially if its (incorrectly) predicting the part is already in the non-linear stress range which I've seen before. Force balances are all over the place as well (if they even bother to predict them at all, which its not always clear) so it could even be starting from a very unstable point.

Its relatively trivial to just use the native solution from a linear solution as the starting point instead, which is basically what is done anyway with auto time stepping.

I've been "lucky" enough to get to trial some AI FEM-like structural solvers.

At best, they're sortof ok for linear, small deformation problems. The kind of models where we could get an exact solution in ~5 minutes vs a fairly sloppy solution in ~30 seconds. Start throwing anything non-linear in and they just fall apart.

Maybe enough to do some very high-level concept selection but even that isn't great. I'm reasonably convinced some of them are just "curvature detectors" - make anything straight blue, anything with high curvature red, and interpolate everything else.

Definitely working off an incomplete data set from wikidata.

According to the wikidata, there are no articles for the United States in whatever languages VEP, GUR, and UR are, but:

https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikan_%C3%9Chtenzoittud_Va...

https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA...

https://gur.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America

Ended up being fairly easy to look for - I compared the David Woodard list to the United States list and found instances where it claimed there was an article for the former but not the latter. Most David Woodard articles have a link to where he was born (United States), so an easy crosscheck.

Though VE seems to be an outlier where there is a Woodward but not United States article: https://ve.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Woodard

I like Babbel a lot for reading/writing/listening but their speaking is a little weak. It's there but I find it pretty flaky - either so permissive it'll accept just about any sound you make, or so buggy it won't accept a single thing.

I haven't done a lot with it, but Pimsleur (https://www.pimsleur.com/) seems quite good for conversational. I've done a couple trials of it and plan to dive in when I finish my Babbel courses.

For conversational though you might be better off just finding an online tutor. 1 hour a week with a native speaker is probably more effective than any of the apps.

Duolingo is little better than a gacha game these days. It wasn't bad early on but its nearly unusable these days.

I like Babbel a lot for early levels - its gotten me back to a rough-B2 German level. I was probably approaching C1 in college, slipped to an A2 from lack of use, but I'm building it back up; and spent a while learning Norwegian from scratch a couple years ago on it.

Pimsleur is probably next on my list once I top out on Babbel to build up speaking.

Interesting idea on the ChatGPT sentence prompts. I'm not sure I fully trust it for that, but its worth a try.

Edit: Hm. Interesting idea. It's definitely a bit better at German than me, but its still making a handful of mistakes (as compared against other sources).

Almost certainly going to get killed by DOGE though:

https://www.businessinsider.com/irs-direct-file-doge-treasur...

Worth noting the 10 year are spiking again today and are currently at a higher level than Wednesday: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd10y?count...

(though they have started recovering some since I posted this originally)

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

"Ladel" isn't actually in the dictionary:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ladel

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ladel

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/spellcheck/english?q=la...

OED has it as an incorrect/unusual variant:

https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=ladel

It's misspelled constantly on the internet, but "ladle" is the correct spelling.

Interesting. Any suggestions?

I've looked in the past and didn't have much luck.

A few pieces of feedback from me:

1) Keyboard input would be really nice, especially playing on desktop

2) A "give up" button instead of a 5 minute timeout would be appreciated

3) It might be more fun/challenging if you don't give the category, but have to guess the category after unscrambling the words.

As they're the name of US professional sports teams, that's the official name of the teams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Hawks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Lions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_Spurs

Previous puzzles don't have many plurals, but its the correct choice for this puzzle.

It cuts both ways.

Cryptic Crosswords are almost impenetrable from the US as they're so deep in UK specific words, spellings, and trivia.

The place I most notice it is the Hugo nominations.

Pre-2010 its almost exclusively a White Male author club.

2010-2016 seemed to be a fairly decent balance.

2017 and later there's basically been no White Males. Scalzi seems to be "grandfathered in" somehow with a few of nominations, then Andy Weir and Kim Stanley Robinson with 1 each. Certainly no millennial or younger either, as the article discusses.

The old status quo was bad, but even I have to admit its over-corrected a bit.

It is if its manufacturing technology. Knowing what something is/how it works is a lot different than knowing how to make it.

Nice!

I don't have time to do a full solve but I got the first few digits. That plays significantly better to me.

I think it would, though there is a risk it'd be too cluttered visibly. But it does add the option of printing which is nice.

Looking at your example puzzle with all lines visible; the 8742 line in the top right and 896 in the bottom right are both redundant (second one doubly so since it's all givens). Maybe 50% of the two-cell lines are redundant and 33% of the 3-cell; so it might be manageable?

It's an interesting idea but I really don't like it.

The runs not being visible makes it a really unsatisfying experience - you just kindof click around hoping that a cell is part of a long run (and therefore more constrained).

Most runs are length 2-3 as well and entirely within the the same "region", so are therefore redundant as they're already constrained by box logic.

Nice idea but its a miss for me.

Yeah, there are quite a few RedLetterMedia videos that are no longer available because the director copyright strike'd them to death.

Oh damnit. I actually like current Digg. Doesn't nearly have the reach it used to, but its definitely in my "scan once a day list" for a couple interesting articles.

Digg founder Kevin Rose has teamed up with former rival Alexis Ohanian to buy the once-popular content aggregator as they bet on an artificial intelligence-powered revival of the platform that once drew around 40 million monthly visitors.

Sounds way worse.

Edit: And, "Current Digg" is apparently down now.