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  • Beer thread

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    @Victor-Meldrew welcome down the rabbit hole

    Hazy are challenging in some ways. They really test your process, particularly with oxygen risks post boil

    Small batches are harder than large batches in a lot of ways. Temperature control is twitchy, measurements are sensitive... And you only get limited beer at the end 😄

    How are you mashing? Sous vide or oven?

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    Wrestlemania 15 (1999)

    Boys 2 Men singing national anthem Apparently I'm going to see The Rock vs Stone Cold later on, which sounds great... But first-up - "what does everybody want?" head! "what does everybody need?" head!
    -- Al Snow & Head (completely forgot that guy... and his mannequin head) - vs Hardcore Holly
    -- I think I'm going to need to take a toke to try to understand and enjoy this.

    ... work in progress ...

    stoned, I didn't understand match 2 Match 3 is confusing me also... the promo after that... WTAF?

    ... work in progress ...

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    @1kiwi said in RIP 2025:

    New Zealand, Entertainment Once Were Warriors director Lee Tamahori dies aged 75 Once Were Warriors director Lee Tamahori dies aged 75

    He later directed major Hollywood hits including Die Another Day.

    Parkinsons. A tough way to go, and before his time RIP

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    Eclectic night of music for me.

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  • 50 Years of Star Trek - RIP

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    @MN5 said in Movie review thread...:

    Or about 4 or so Cubits if you want to go that way.

    That's a lot of love arrows.

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    @antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

    I partially sympathise with you and partially don't because I hate business email cc-ing.

    Totally get that - like when people start a Reply-All and people Reply-All saying "please stop using Reply-All"

    I think about it more like this:

    Person "A" sends me a chat and I reply Person "A" sends someone else in my team a chat and they reply Their boss later asks for an update from Person "A" and it doesn't agree with what either of us said Finding that chat is fucking fucked, because chat.

    So easier to put both bosses into the loop on both ends, IMHO.

    Back when I worked for a major MSP, more than once a worldwide email storm would happen because too few of the clowns realised it was a better option to create a rule deleting associated emails rather than compounding the problem by replying all asking to be removed from said email storm.

    I suggested to the execs that the next time we lay off tens of thousands of people, we start with those who replied all...

    Reminds ne of the best email autoreply I've seen;

    Apologies if i ignore your email. Yesterday I received over 800 emails and my email-reading robot broke down. If it's important you will have my phone number. If you don't, you're not

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    Going through a bit of a stressful time.

    One of my sons is eating electrical cords. I'm not sure how to punish him.

    I guess I'll have to ground him until he conducts himself properly.

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  • Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****

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    @Nepia said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

    I've got the fucking high ground.

    How to make the trickle down theory even more horrifying.

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    @Nepia yeah I remember the first season being pretty good, I know I watched S2 but no recollection of it at all.

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    @sparky said in Happiness Scale:

    Anyone ever lived in Switzerland?

    Two years in the late '80's/early '90's.

    Really lovely people (hospitality outstanding) but the place was so rule-bound it became a bit of a pain. Things rarely went wrong, but when they did, it was total chaos.

    Simple, sensible tax regime though.

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    Community Notes works pretty well, that's why Zuck is copying it for his platforms. The crowd source approach is a good interim step until we get AI watermarks somehow. XAI have a plan for that, will see how effective it ends up being.

    Will definitely need some sort of blockchain/watermark that can't be spoofed for video from politicans and news reports sooner rather than later.

    Even I get caught by AI Video now, and I'm looking for it. Good videos are indistinguishable from real videos now.

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    @mikedogz That's brilliant news. Congratulations! 👏

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    I don't know Wordpress but Grok gives a comprehensive answer on how best to go about doing it: https://grok.com/c/fd288606-2fb8-4e7b-b331-be3514116cbb (Edit - scroll down to your question, I forgot I included another question previously)

    I'd think there would be someone in your Chess community who is handy with basic webdev and could knock it out.