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Hardware & Technology / Re: Hermes Agent, LLMs and SLM...
Last post by littleman - Today at 02:28:19 AM
That's a very good point.  Thanks for the article.
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Water Cooler / Re: Child mortality has fallen...
Last post by rcjordan - Today at 01:48:58 AM
French people had RC still has a particular hangup about Chicago.

Richard J. Daley - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Daley
#3
Water Cooler / Re: Child mortality has fallen...
Last post by ergophobe - Today at 01:34:32 AM
> headlines

I think that's the nub of it. Child mortality that falls 4% per year, year in, year out, never makes a headline. A famine or a war or whatever, makes persistent headlines.

But I think it's like when I would meet Europeans who would tell me they would never go to the US because it's too dangerous. Back in the 1980s, French people had a particular hangup about Chicago. They seemed to think that Al Capone still ran the place
#4
Water Cooler / Re: Companies lie
Last post by ergophobe - October 06, 2026, 11:36:22 PM
If you prefer dark chocolate to milk chocolate and good peanut butter to Skippy, Justin's dark chocolate PB cups are a big upgrade.


https://www.justins.com/products/super-dark-espresso-almond-butter-cups/
#5
Water Cooler / Re: Companies lie
Last post by Travoli - October 06, 2026, 11:11:33 PM
>Reese's cup

Check out Justin's peanut butter cups. Gem says 27% less sugar. Not marketed as a "healthy" version, more of a premium ingredients.
#6
Hardware & Technology / Re: Markdown comes to Google D...
Last post by ergophobe - October 06, 2026, 10:25:21 PM
Not my favorite but it has wide adoption so if you want all the writing tools of Docs like spelling and grammar correction, it's nice to have that and then export something clean to a CMS that can handle MD, which most do with an add-on

OTOH if you want to compose in a simple text editor distraction free and import to have the tools, you can put formatting in on the fly.

Fundamentally I'm lazy and prefer WYSIWYG.

But I did for a while compose in Docs and export MD and then import that into WP as my standard workflow because that allowed me to keep basic markup without importing all manner of junk formatting



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Water Cooler / Re: Child mortality has fallen...
Last post by rcjordan - October 06, 2026, 09:15:55 PM
>updated your vision of Africa

Some, the buzz about the Equal Earth map projection replacing the traditional Mercator map helps with sizing --which didn't come out right when looking at, say, air travel times.  And I see countries with some more modern-ish cities.

That said, news headlines about the burning of Ebola clinics severely tempers my positive views.
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Hardware & Technology / Re: Markdown comes to Google D...
Last post by rcjordan - October 06, 2026, 09:08:03 PM
I've never cared for MD.  I favor ubb code.
#9
Hardware & Technology / Re: Uh oh RC - free Gem to be ...
Last post by rcjordan - October 06, 2026, 09:06:06 PM
hhh
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Water Cooler / Re: Companies lie
Last post by rcjordan - October 06, 2026, 09:05:13 PM
>Reese's cup

All-in-all, the original Reese's cup is still the least bad, most satisfying candy I've found even with T2.