Kajo [he/him] 🌈

I live in Provence, 200 km (125 miles) from the Italian border.

You can find it at any outdoor market. It’s called “cade”, which derives from the Italian “calde” (hot). It was imported by Italian workers hundreds of years ago.

It’s cooked on site over a wood fire and sold fresh from the pizza oven. One particularity is that it’s thinner than socca from Nice, and is served with pepper and/or ground cumin.

Because it’s thin, it cooks evenly and isn’t creamy in the center, rather like a heavy pancake.

I think it’s a more global movement.

When I was recruited at my university in the early 2000s, every teacher had an ftp-accessible space with an http address like myuni.edu/~myname. The more techie ones did html, the fancier ones even added css. Muggles would export html from a Word document.

Then one day, the IT department decided to replace this with a “learning management system”. A wysiwyg platform with dozens of modules for videoconferencing courses, homework submission, online exams, and so forth.

Except that the user (the teacher) no longer has control over his or her personal space.

Psaum for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers.

After these, I read all her books this year.

Singular Value Decomposition is widely used in machine learning, image processing, natural language processing, recommender algorithms…

Stable Video Diffusion is a good marketing name, but SVD is quite confusing from an academic point of view.

It’s not the best idea to call it SVD, as it already stands for Singular Value Decomposition.

They have 300 facial expressions for that.

Because they don’t need to, as long as we keep believing their nice promises without looking if their old promises have been kept.

There is no universal “line”. Every family has its own implicit rules about clothing and nudity, which vary from situation to situation.

If she doesn’t question the rules acquired on her mother’s side (your SO doesn’t seem to be worried by her clothes), it’s because she sees you as an adult in the family, i.e. someone she trusts and who won’t sexualize her.

If you feel uncomfortable, I think you should work on that on your side. I think these days, it must be precious for a young adult to have a safe place, where she can dress without being judged or sexualized. You shouldn’t risk taking that away from her.

This study was funded by a grant from the Fondation for Obviousness.

Full support for the strike.

Salade nicoise : cold rice, tomatoes, cucumbers, olivs (green or black, but black ones give a weird color to the salad), mayonnaise. You can also add thuna, cubes of hard cheese…

Tabbouleh : bulgur, tomatoes, cucumber, oignon, mint, lemon juice, olive oil. You can also add chicken breast, chick peas, raisin, parsley, watermelon…

For these salades, there are tons of recipes. In my opinion, the most important is to have more vegetables than anything else.

Not only that. It’s also a means of long-term tax evasion, by storing works of art in a freeport.

I cooked with (non portable) induction stoves in various places, and I daily use one: all of them shared the same basic features and in the end, I couldn’t see any difference between the models.

Just check the customer reviews for the reliability of the model you’re interested in.

There are so much delicious recipes with leeks : leek and potato soup, leek chowder, leek pie (with or without salmon), leek fondue (works great with smoked sausages), cold leeks and vinaigrette. It can also be used in couscous…

If you have the chance to get a whole plant, use the green part for the soup/chowder for a stronget vegetal flavor and the white part for other recipes.

I totally get that. For most people, watch history and relevant recommendations are indeed useful tools.

But if, for some reasons, you want to switch off these tools, the price to pay was a home page full of flashy clickbait miniatures. This terrible home page could have been an incentive to switch history on.

Now, it’s just a minimalistic google-ish search page. It’s an unexpected improvement when they could have done much worse, like a home page autoplaying ad videos, for example.

I don’t understand. Is this supposed to be an incentive to turn on watch history?

I can’t count the number of movies with a scene in Paris, and the extras with one line of text have a thick american accent.

You have to be able to hear and to reproduce the sounds of the language.

I’m French, and I have an Italian friend. She can’t hear the difference between \u\ and \y\ For her, “dessus” (above) and “dessous” (below) have the same sound.

And I’ve never been able to reproduce the sound \r\ . I can only say \ʁ\ , which ruins any attempt to say something as simple as “ragazza” (girl).

Solo boardgaming: tons of cooperative games can be played solo. At the moment, my main games are Marvel Champions and Arkham Horror LCG.

Cross-stitching: maybe the easiest kind of embroidery, perfect for pixel art patterns and you don’t need expensive stuff to get in.