kefirchik
Why would inexpensive cheese manufacturers secretly add expensive ingredients like honey?
Jeeze you guys are so cynical 😂It’s true that many innovations from academic research fail to be commercialized or scaled. But it’s also true that many many successful technological innovations come out of academic research and impact the lives of millions.
The biggest barrier here will most likely be whether it can scale, not patent litigation.
If you ask ChatGPT to communicate to you in a different writing style it can do a decent job of doing so. It will also respect requests to decrease verbosity and formality. The default writing style is some kind of specific configuration they have made for it, it’s not a fundamental characteristic of it.
Email is a collection of different protocols: SMTP, IMAP, POP are all different protocols that serve different purposes. Oversimplifying a bit, but - SMTP is used to exchange messages between mail servers. IMAP and POP are used to synchronize mail between a mail server and a mail client.
In other words, they absolutely can shut down IMAP and POP but still send/receive for gmail.com addresses. The main reason reason they wouldn’t do this is that their larger clients on Google Workspace need that functionality, but it’s the type of thing you might imagine them taking away from the unpaid version of Gmail to nudge companies over to Workspace.
I would suggest “custom spinach pesto”, where you serve a base of plain spinach pesto made from lightly cooked spinach, onion, garlic, salt, pepper, and lots of olive oil. Blended, then mixed with spiral pasta in a very large bowl.
Then, you provide your guests with a very large selection of mixins: halved cherry tomatoes, bacon, fried mushrooms, steamed broccoli, grilled zucchini, olives, capers, Parmesan, grilled chicken breast, rucola, chili flakes or oil, pine nuts, pumpkin seeds, anchovy paste, sun dried tomatoes, baked tofu, etc etc.
I’ve made this numerous times for a crowd that was a mix of allergies, vegans, picky eaters. The spinach pesto base can be either mixed into pasta initially or also placed on the side. The most picky of guests eat basically plain noodles and the others are experimenting with different combinations with each serving.
Serve with a very simple classic salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber) with a bright acidic dressing, which complements the pasta in both flavor and simplicity.
You may optionally offer whole pieces of grilled chicken or something on the side to make it feel like a more complete meal.
Another simple dish we made numerous times for this crowd was Levantine mujaddara, which is lentils, rice, and caramelized onions with warm spices. It’s a superb dish for a vegetarian crowd, but your picky eater might find lentils and cinnamon off putting. I serve this often with baked chicken on the side. To match the Levantine theme, just bake chicken thighs kind of plain and after pulling from oven coat in olive oil, lemon juice, salt, fresh garlic.
I share your concern over the risks posed by the loss of sea ice. However, per the Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, even if the entire glacier were to collapse it would amount to around a 65cm rise of sea level, and the majority of that would come in the 22nd and 23rd century.
They are most useful during local development. It’s useful to have project-scoped config that your app interacts with in a manner identical to how it works in prod.
Generally you don’t commit to version control because you want to keep secrets out of there. However, it can be sometimes useful to hold non-sensitive config that you may want to commit but also to customize on prod. For instance like NODE_ENV, so you’re not building multiple mechanisms for configuring your code. But this is less useful and generally solved with a sample config that is copied to the .env file that is never pushed to VC.