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No… It’s just really far fetched. I wouldn’t have gotten it back in the 90s either.

Not at all. I want to be a park ranger. In the central Highlands of Iceland. In perpetual winter.

Sure, it is kind of true for any service. But the resources needed to scrape and index the entire web are so enormous that, AFAIK, only 2* companies are doing it. Every other search engine goes through them. Kagi only indexes the “small web”. It’s such a large difference in degree that it becomes a difference in kind.

*There was something about Qwant and Ecosia building a third. Haven’t read up recently.

A search service is different from the Linux kernel or a web server though. You can release the perfect open source search engine, but running it will be expensive. If we, as users, aren’t paying for it, then someone is going to have to extract value from us to pay for it.

The industry thing is sad though. They’re kind of economically deadlocked

I have no idea where you’re getting this from. Iceland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Per capita, obviously.

And I think you’re getting your bubbles mixed up.

Could be for the US part of the tour? I saw them at a festival in Italy. And yeah, brilliant. Next day was Nick Cave who was even more spectacular live.

E: Enjoying listening to The Mountain again now that I’d barely played since before that event. It’s pretty good.

Just saw Gorillaz on their first show of The Mountain tour.

That can’t be. I saw them on The Mountain back in June. But yeah, Damon’ll show them how it’s done.

that can increase the price tenfold at will

That will have to increase the price ten fold to stop bleeding billions of dollars every month.

JPEG happened. That should always have been a PNG.

Thanks. I might just Hoover up your ideas and Xerox them for my Ziploc of tricks.

*I’m not American and would never use any of those words.

His space man persona was the real Bowie all along. And he was here to hold the fabric of reality together.

Huh. Slashdot. And my old sub-3000 id still works.

You really can’t though. The batteries both have a capacity (kWh/MWh) and discharge power (kW/MW) rating, but it’s usually the capacity that is the limiting one. And for extra fun, the discharge power goes up as the battery has more charge, and the charging rate goes down.

Fun thing is, though, that 0.25g of oil is 2.2kcal and not 0.

They’re multiplying by the 0.25g serving size, then rounding the 0.25g of fat down to 0g and calculating the calories from that? I can barely imagine the apoplectic rage this would have triggered in my experimental physics professor.

the alternative is going to small shops where the menu is handwritten and without pictures

That’s what I used to do and then I’d look around and find something that looked nice on someone’s table and ask for that. And I learned the word for beer. It worked pretty well.

Also, going to KFC when you’re in a country with a rich culinary tradition… As an Italian you should know better.

Must one? One would rather not.

I certainly haven’t seen one in 10 years of living in Italy. But they might hide one in Milano.

Starbucks has arrived, though. Just a handful in the largest cities. I haven’t been inside one, but I hope they’re full of tourists.

You’re confusing Starbucks with anything Italian. They’re an entirely American purveyor of milk shakes.

Trofie* al pesto is most properly made with string beans and potatoes and is delicious if the pesto is good and fresh.

*a pasta shape