6 bits per digit, 12 bit words. Octal (8) number system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8

I always thought it was the christian brand version of Roman Saturnalia.

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

*Muskistan

ftfy

That’s fair when you just use another name.

I’m not Italian but I find it highly annoying when restaurants offer carbonara but it turns out to be a cream based sauce - it just tastes different. Unfortunately here (mere 3h by car to Italy) most restaurants serve cream-carbonara.

So I never order it, it just make it at home. (And there’s a trick to get a nice carbonara, I put the eggs and parmesan into a steel bowl and heat and whisk them “bain-maire” on top of the pot where the pasta is cooking (and add a bit of pasta water).

This makes a really creamy carbonara sauce. And I don’t need to buy cream, normally I’m having eggs and parmesan available at home.

Oh and let the pasta steam out and cool down a bit before adding the sauce or it will curdle.

I did cream-based “carbonara” in the past, but for my taste this is so much better. And I don’t feel the cream-less one is more work, ok I have one more bowl for the dishwasher.

I shared the link to this to friends a week ago or so.

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One tip when you have kids: If all the accounts are set up correctly as family accounts you can control playtime right in the settings. The PS will then log out the kids after (say) one hour of play automatically.

Using the PSN website you can grant an extension day by day. When my son had done his homework before playing I would regularly grant another hour. “Can I play more? - Have you done your homework? - Yes - No problem”

In the long run that conditioned him to do his stuff before playing. (And I did trust him, when he said he was finished with his work)

When you have kids it’s really worth finding out how to set that up. And it saved us sooooo many “turn it off now” discussions.

That ticket is already included for free when you order the console.

Level 3 is a big part of the storyline in “The Memory Police” by Yoko Ogawa

When my life turned upside down and a lot of shit happened I got interested in Stoicism to the point I even read a bit of Seneca.

I never felt it as a way to be emotionless or a way to hide or suppress emotions , but rather as a way to just accept my them and “yeah, I see and acknowledge I feel like crap, no need to go crazy about it” (in my situation). It brought an understanding to me that not everything that happens is about me personally and I stop fighting what I can’t change to put my focus where I can have an influence.

Warning: this is not a definition of stoicism, but what I took away from it for myself.

Both my kids favorite veggie was broccoli when they were small. I’d prepare it the way you’d get it in an Italian restaurant - small parts of it just bleached for a short time, so it stays firm, served with nice olive oil and salt. (And a bit of lemon, if I have it on hand)

Broccoli (like so many veggies) tastes awful when overcooked into a soft and mushy consistency (and then it also changes its taste in a bad way).

Here in Germany grandmas typically are amazing cooks, with the sole exception when they cooked veggies. That generation loved their vegs really soft and overcooked.

When I was 13 I was the one who knew the most of dirty jokes in ny class. I had learned them from my dad.

40042.5 * 2

Of the erogenous zones, breasts are the ones you can see most often. It may be different in the US, but where I grew up, topless sunbathing is quite a thing and I even saw a lot of boobs in shower soap commercials at 6pm on public TV as a kid. When my kids were babies, my (now ex-) wife would also just nurse them on a park bench - which also I isn’t unusual.

I was not breastfed as well (as couldn’t even digest my mother’s milk), still I like boobs very much. I find them very beautiful - and also like different forms and sizes.

I only don’t like boobs with silicone implants, they’re not soft and cuddly.

Dicht und Ergreifend (Guys rapping in Bavarian dialect) did crowd-surf in a porta-potty at the show I saw last year in Munich.

What a horrible day to be able to read.

I switched over to have water delivered to my home in glass bottles (fortunately multi-use glass bottles are still a thing here in Germany). It tastes so much better than the same brand from PET bottles.

(Why don’t I drink tap water? Because I want my water sparkling with CO2 bubbles, and I don’t like the simple carbonaton appliance)

The greatest - I don’t know. The most recent I used: I have this box of instant dark cocoa powder I bought around 5 years ago or so and it’s best before Sep 2023. I had a nice cup of hot cocoa with whiskey last night.