What I like is to be pleasantly surprised, which requires leaving a degree of freedom to the chef.

“What we are trying to do is turn the machine’s parameters into numbers, and use that to standardize every single bowl.”

So once you’ve tried everything on the menu, there’s no reason to ever come back.

Many overseas self-media vloggers have hailed the technology, calling it “the future of education,” China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Tuesday.

Is “overseas self-media vloggers” the Chinese term for influencers?

the whole reason it was possible to experiment cheaply and come across this serendipity was because 9 months ago, faced with the choice to either do the bad easy thing or the good nothing, I chose to do the bad easy thing. The SQLite database worked! I understood how it worked, behind the scenes with its B-trees and its Full Text Search extension.

I always wonder what the tradeoffs are for using SQLite for personal projects… being a stepping-stone to rolling your own non-sql alternatives is one I hadn’t thought of.