I just tried your experiment, first asking for a bolognese sauce recipe in English, then translating the prompt to Italian and asking again. The recipes did contain some notable differences. Where the English version called for ground beef, the Italian version used a 2:1 mix of beef and pancetta; the Italian version further recommended twice as much wine, half as much crushed tomato, and no tomato paste. The cooking instructions were almost the same, save for twice as long a simmer in the Italian version.
More authentic, who knows? That's a tricky concept. I do think I'd like to try this robot-Italian recipe next time I make bolognese, though; the difference might be interesting.
The italian counterpart of what english speakers call "bolognese sauce" would be "ragù alla bolognese". I've never heard anyone call it "salsa bolognese", it's mostly called "ragù" only as it's most common type.
Nonetheless ragù alla bolognese is made with ground beef and tomato sauce, so the italian version is simply wrong. Try and ask for ragù recipe instead. :)
That is the phrase Google Translate proposed: the exact prompt I used was "Come si prepara il ragù alla bolognese?"
I often consult several different versions of a recipe before cooking, and this feels like a normal degree of variation. Perhaps there are regional differences?
Just for kicks, I asked (in English) "what is an authentic Italian recipe for bolognese ragu?", and it produced a recipe similar to the version returned from the Italian prompt, noting "This version follows the classic canon recognized by the Accademia Italiana della Cucina". Searching on name of that organization led me to this recipe:
There are indeed regional differences, but at that point is not called "alla bolognese" anymore but "alla whatever place". People usually call it "ragù" and that's it.
Didn't know that the original recipe has pancetta too. It's good nonetheless. :)
FWIW, and tangential, the biggest (and time consuming) difference I ever found in making bolognese was hand cutting the meat instead of getting it ground.
The texture was way better. It's a pain to do (obviously) but worth trying at least once, IMO.
I did the same a decade ago, and I've been fully content with my Linux-only life - but a new MacBook recently arrived along with a new job, so now I'm using Tahoe whether I like it or not. It's generally difficult to vote with someone else's wallet.
Happened to me many times. As my other colleagues, I ran a Linux VM inside macOS. The overhead is not that large and is totally worth the sanity. Of course I had to use a few corporate-managed macOS apps, like Zoom, or Outlook, but this is not a very big deal.
It's literally impossible to run docker containers on mac without virtualization. An IT dept that forbade developers with macs from virtualizing would be facing a lack of developement in any company using docker/k8s
I’m in the same situation, have to use Mac for SOC2 reasons after having used Linux for 10 years. The apps are fine, it’s the KDE window management I miss the most, and a VM won’t really help there.
Why, running KDE in VirtualBox in full-screen mode must be fine :) At least, I did it breathlessly with Xfce, on much older Apple hardware, and it was... just fine.
(OTOH running text-mode Emacs from a headless VM in a full-screen built-in Terminal may suddenly feel sluggish. Kitty or WezTerm solves this.)
Well, be glad you're working for a company that is still willing to stump up properly for hardware.
Too many companies are balking at spending money on hardware right now. While I would love to think that this will drive Linux adoption, it probably won't. Microsoft is going to cave on TPM 2.0 for Windows 11 or extend Windows 10 support much further.
It will be interesting to see how RAM prices affect the behavior of all companies.
I wouldn't mind if this finally lights a fire under certain software companies to also actually optimize their shit for memory use, but... I'm not that optimistic.
I can't speak for all companies, but the feeling I get from mine is that the issue is more about the maintenance and support for Mac rather than the little extra spend to get a MacBook pro instead of the standard windows box.
It really was! I have never even used a tablet, but I was disappointed when they dropped Unity and went back to the old way.
But I was never a Windows user, either, and I've never held the idea that there is one normal and right way to do a computer interface, so I think I was more open to it than many people are.
I stayed on a workable Unity install on 2020.05 LTS for as long as possible, then switched to 2024.05 LTS, at which point Unity, for some reason, no longer functioned (even though I was using the Ubuntu Unity flavor). Tried Gnome for a while but what ultimately lost me was the notifications. To close out a notification without switching focus I had to, very carefully, click right on the X in the upper right corner. Otherwise it would activate the notification and switch focus.
I've got a workable setup with XFCE4, the whisker menu bound to the super key, a few panel plugins to make a maximized app have the same behavior as they did in Unity, and the Plank docking program (along with a brief shell script bound to the dock that kills and relaunches Plank when it starts moving out of place). The notifications work the same as they did on Unity - clicking on them dismisses them unless you click on the "activate" button to switch focus.
I long ago decided never again to use anything but a credit union, and this makes me glad that credit unions tend not to ride the forefront of tech trends.
> First assumption: public school socialization is good.
I was home-taught all the way through high school. In the decades since, nothing I've heard about public schooling has led me to believe I missed out on any social experience worth having.
I have two solid life long friends from High school. I was the best man for one, that is how close we are. Two of us are planning a future business venture. The three of us get together at least two or three times a year even though we live far apart.
In shop class I impressed my teacher who was a master electrician and businessman. He pressured the school to move a $250k (1994, USD) robotic manufacturing system to our shop and I was given full reign of it. That introduced me to an intersection of computers and electronics which pivoted me from becoming an electrician to an EE. My shop teacher also became my electrician and I hired his son to perform two commercial service installations.
Sorry you missed out on such amazing opportunities.
For a differing opinion, I was homeschooled for six years during and it was damaging. There is plenty I missed out on and I wish my childhood was just a bit more normal.
I'm sure a lot has to do with home life though.
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There are legitimate reasons to homeschool, but the article itself is garbage.
> You're not qualified to teach your own children
> You know what does predict outcomes? Whether someone cares.
Fundamentally not true. Caring doesn't make you qualified. I care that my car runs well but that doesn't mean I can replace the transmission. My mom with a basic high school education had no business being a teacher. It's bad enough that standards for _real_ teachers have been lowered over the last few decades.
> outperform an indifferent professional
Some teachers (and professors) are mids. Others will change your life. Some care an incredible amount. It can also expose you to a variety worldviews. This could be due to malice (my kid won't learn about sex!) or simply because people are different. Getting a variety of inputs is so vital to receiving a solid education.
> What about socialization?
My last two years of high school were public after a long debate with my parents. The level of change in socialization was immense. Sure, only during lunch did we get to socialize without guidance. Inside the classroom it still happens though. Pretending like a classroom of 20 kids has no socialization going on is silly.
> Second assumption: homeschooled children can't socialize elsewhere. But of course they can. ...church groups...
In my experience, church is the absolute worst place to socialize. If the author thinks the classroom doesn't encourage socialization (I need another word) I'm not sure how they could possibly argue that church does, which behaves much more as a dictatorship than the classroom.
The author does list other activities that are solid imo. But those didn't happen for me. If I went to public school there would've at least been some baseline socialization going on.
> Now ask the opposite question: where are the studies on the system we already have? Those exist.
Fails to cite studies.
> You have no credentials.
And back to point 1.
True, American public schools are absolutely failing while spending more money per student than most other countries. The solution isn't to chuck out the whole thing, have your mom teach your kid with AI, and entertain them with church.
These days, I don't really have friends. And I never really had them growing up either. My entire life was in my parent's home. A good bit of that can be attributed to home-schooling.
Being old enough to have owned and still remember records and record players, it's been a bit surreal to watch the name of the material gradually take the place of the thing itself. Imagine waking up one day and hearing the kids talk about the fashionably distressed "cottons" they're all wearing, nobody using the word "jeans" anymore...
You're using the words in a way which has become normal; nobody will mistake your meaning. I'm just observing a shift in the use of language over time which feels strange to me.
I wish there were a way to disable the touchscreen built into my thinkpad, which I never use - except occasionally by accident, when my sleeve brushes it or the like. Why would I want fingerprints on my monitor? Of course I'm not going to touch it.
It may be better in an overall-compromise sort of way, but a touchscreen is not better for typing. I still miss the BlackBerry, and basically just stopped bothering to do any real text entry on a phone after keyboards went away.
They have no meaningful choice. To the degree that this does represent consumer preference, however, what it tells us is simply that touchscreen phones are preferred overall: it does not follow that touchscreen keyboards, specifically, are preferred for text-entry tasks.
I feel like, over time, they have though. Blackberry was more than willing to keep the lights on well past the point of viability. Other competitors too. They kept trying to resurrect the physical keyboard popularity and it never happened.
You can still buy niche phones with a physical keyboard right now.
Doesn't look like the Clicks Communicator is actually available yet - the website says it's coming in February - but it's good to learn that there will soon be a physical keyboard option once again. (Or was there some other device you had in mind?)
Although cars have way more touch screens than before, they are not yet ubiquitous. With phones they have pretty much all converged on a single form factor with the only variant being size.
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