If you grew up hearing the crackle, then to have it removed is pretty jarring. Some stuff feels to me like it benefits from it because it's kinda old-timey stuff anyway, and it sets the mood better - like the Beatles or Frank Sinatra. But it's not an audiophile thing in that case, just vibes.

My man has got no money, he's got his trombelese.

Let me know how the film was, I haven't seen that one!

Mulleins always make me think of triffids with how huge they get

I have kids now so I've read the first two books again and frankly I'm on the Dursleys' side. Harry is a shit

I thought it was grapes, not figs?

I don't get it, am I meant to have sympathy for this couple? They speculated on the value of some land going up, it did, they thought they deserved more. Boo hoo.

Yeah that's a very good point. I was kinda thinking of HCI at the end there but I'm a software engineer so I was only talking about dev experience 😅. Definitely the same ballpark though and 100% agree with you

There are so many different areas of computer science though... Everything from pure mathematics (e.g 'we found a new algorithm that does X in O(logx)') to the absurdly specific ('when I run the load tests with this configuration it's faster'). The former would get published. The latter wouldn't. And the stuff in the middle ranges the gamut from 'here's my new GC algorithm that performs better in benchmarks on these sample sets' to 'looks like programmers have fewer bugs when you constrain them with these invariants'. All the way over on the other side, NFT/Blockchain/AI announcement crap usually doesn't even have a scientific statement to be expressed, so there's nothing to confirm or deny. There are issues with some areas, but I'm not sure that replication is really the big one for most of these. Only one it commonly applies to IMO are productivity or bug-frequency claims which are generally hella suss

Ah yes, that old chestnut. 'Yeah sure this other guy would probably genocide harder but he didn't (because he wasn't president) so we should suppress the vote for the old genocide dude to help the other old genocide dude who also hates that autonomy (bodily, electoral, legal) exists at all'. Very sensible, enlightened centrist, let's gooooo.

That's indepe dance to you, good sir

I'd be happier if Sir Kier hadn't been so down on rejoining the EU. Can only hope that is all just smoke and mirrors to try to stop too many people turning to reform and we actually end up with closer trade and travel arrangements with the EU. That fucking reform vote, though...