As the stereotype goes, you would probably forget your wallet at home :-)
Belin ehh l’ho lasciato a casaaa
Readit NewsUomoNeroNero commented on Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter reuters.com/lifestyle/cul... · Posted by u/NaOH
There's dozens of us from that neck of the woods! (I'm 30 km away from Lago Maggiore)
If you ever pass through Liguria, I can even treat you to a coffee.
(But nothing more, eh! )
The Italian morning caffè ritual is already extremely fast: the barista works at the speed of light and the coffee you get is pretty standard, but in exchange you get a moment to rub shoulders "al banco" with others like you about to go into work, or elders just getting out of the house, a mother taking her kid to school, a policeman taking a break. You say hi to the same few people you've been seeing at the establishment for years. It's familiar and heartwarming.
It's a sprinkling of human connection as you start your day. A small homage to the tradition of coffee culture. Your grandparents did it, your parents did it, you did it, your kids will do it, etc. You rejoice in knowing that, as everything else changes around you, maybe this one minuscule secular ritual will stand the test of time and provide a symbolic sense of continuity with the past.
The wonderful feeling of walking into YOUR café, giving that special look to the barista, a smile, and he darts off at 100 km/h to make YOUR coffee (long, short, espresso, mochaccino) while he was already making a thousand others. In 3 seconds he already has YOUR favorite croissant in his hand, the water. “The usual?” You nod, smiling. A greeting glance to the regulars “of your hour.” Breakfast, you pay, you smile.
If you have two minutes, you skim the newspaper while eating your croissant, because that’s just what you do, even if you already skimmed the news in a rush on the toilet on your phone.
It’s a happy and friendly way to start the active part of the day.
To feel like you’re part of your community.
I love it — no vending machine or Starbucks can ever match it.
UomoNeroNero commented on The fuck off contact page nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off... · Posted by u/OuterVale
Wow I love the design of this site. Really hit some right notes for me. If you’re going to talk about reviving the ”old web” on hn, please follow through and reach for the originality level of this. So many thoughtful details.
I love it too!!
UomoNeroNero commented on Blockdiff: We built our own file format for VM disk snapshots cognition.ai/blog/blockdi... · Posted by u/cyanf
I don’t know how to express to you how stupid, inadequate, and envious I feel of this level of competence.
For me this article has the density of slaps of a plutonium ingot.
It’s moving to read (and “maybe” understand, given how well it’s written).
Wow, maximum respect, truly.
UomoNeroNero commented on Pasta Cooking Time jefftk.com/p/pasta-cookin... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
No need to trust you. I tried it myself. Food preferences are subjective and I prefer overcooked pasta to al dente...
Mia nonna si ribalta nella tomba a leggere questa eresia! :-)
UomoNeroNero commented on Pasta Cooking Time jefftk.com/p/pasta-cookin... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
The cooking time is proportional to the thickness.
General advice on pasta:
* a quality dry pasta (dececco e.g) will have ~14 grams of protein per 100 grams dry weight, this is really essential
* bronze die cut will help soak up more sauces
* you do not need the full volume of water the box says, but start your timer once the water has returned to a boil
* once it has gotten to a boil, keep it boiling, but it doesn't need to be a raging boil, that'll tear apart the pasta, especially a stuffed one
* heavily salt your water, but it does not need to be "salty like the ocean"
* set your timer for a minute less than the cooking time on the box, check for doneness, then give it another minute if needed
* if you're finishing in a sauce, take the pasta out a minute before it is done. Remember to reserve one cup of the starchy cooking water before draining your pasta entirely
* do not put oil in your cooking water, it will NOT help it not stick. Just stir after you put it in, and then again a minute or two in
* if you're struggling to tell if it's "done", take a bite of a single piece, and look at the cross section a bit of "white" in the middle means that hasn't hydrated fully. Maybe you like a bit of "toothsome"ness ('al dente'), maybe you don't
Bravo.
* set your timer for a minute less than the cooking time on the box, check for doneness, then give it another minute if needed
Please eat the pasta al dente. Overcooked pasta is really awful, trust me
UomoNeroNero commented on Nano Banana image examples github.com/PicoTrex/Aweso... · Posted by u/SweetSoftPillow
Unfortunately NSFW in parts. It might be insensitive to circulate the top URL in most US tech workplaces. For those venues, maybe you want to pick out isolated examples instead.
(Example: Half of Case 1 is an anime/manga maid-uniform woman lifting up front of skirt, and leaning back, to expose the crotch of underwear. That's the most questionable one I noticed. It's one of the first things a visitor to the top URL sees.)
I’m Italian, and I really struggle to rationalize this attitude.
I honestly don’t understand. Maybe it’s because I’m surrounded by 2,500 years of art in which nudity is an essential and predominant element, by people (even in the workplace) who have a relaxed and genuinely democratic view of the subject — but this comment feels totally alien to me. I suppose it’s my own limitation, but I would NEVER have focused attention on this aspect.
I don’t know, maybe I’m the one who’s wrong…
UomoNeroNero commented on In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip hitachi.com/New/cnews/060... · Posted by u/julkali
The most amazing thing about this (and another tiny RFID chip that was on HN recently) is not that you can print them on wafers, but that you can cut up the wafers and handle these tiny dies. Imagine you manufactured sugar, but had to manipulate each sugar grain separately.
This is the really interesting Thing!!!!
And: how they can have different ROM content (code) for each chip
My brand new car has a feature called forward attention warning which is driving me insane. It is essentially a small camera located at the steering wheel column which emit a series of high beeps and have an eye icon blink in the dashboard if the car doesn't think I am looking forward.
Cases in which this can happen. - I orient myself before overtaking another car on the highway or motorway. - I position my hand wrong on the steering wheel and the camera can no longer see me. - I put on sunglasses when I am driving against a low sun.
It can be turned off, but if you live in the EU it is required to enable itself once the car has been turned off/on.
It will also happily warn me if it thinks I am speeding based on errornous gps data. This feature also turns itself back on once the car has been turned off.
I’ll keep my stupid, non-digital 2010 car running until the day I die. They’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands. I’d rather register it as a vintage car and keep driving it.