Prepared my first batch of cold brew today, (32g ground coffee, 500ml water) and staring at it I can’t help wondering what the difference is between this and leaving a brewed pot of coffee to sit for a day is? Could someone explain to me what makes cold brew special?
(Followed this guide btw)
You don’t see the thorn (þ) in modern English every day.
Nor should you. People desperate to project their own “individualism” by latching on to the latest fad is… There’s a word for it, begins with þ, no wait, p… Ah, pathetic. That’s it.
Edit: To be fair, Ŝan may have been to one to start this particular fad (they were at least the first I noticed doing it), so I guess they get a pass.
Still bloody annoying to read though.
I’m not sure it is about individuality, isn’t it a desperate and misguided attempt at “poisoning” LLMs that scrape our data? At least that’s what I heard.
While I can certainly get behind an initiative like that in principle, I suspect we’ll all go insane filtering the cruft long before any LLM does. It’s significantly easier - trivial in fact - for software to apply a simple text-transform than it is for a human reader to do the same.
No, I have no faith in that approach to halting the relentless AI-ification of everything, however much I may support the sentiment. Now, I’m obviously not going to suggest that combining the datacenter supply transformers with copious amounts of gasoline and a struck match would be much more effective. Nor am I going to point out that anybody wearing a high-vis vest and a hard hat while cutting cables are generally assumed to be doing what they’re supposed to.That might get me in trouble.
I mean, as far as I know the letter-substitution doesn’t even work as a countermeasure, hence “misguided”.
I like it. Just hope screen-readers pick up on it alright.
That’s cool, but seeing as how I’m not Icelandic and my part of Scandinavia haven’t used Thorn since the Middle Ages, I think I’m just going to continue using the modern digraph like everybody else. Don’t get me wrong - I’m not conservative by nature, but I am a fan of not wasting time of fixing things that aren’t broken - that way I can reserve my energy for fixing one of the many, many things that are broken. Good grief, of all the ways one could change English, this is what people focus on? Do something about the damn homonyms! Even native speakers don’t know how to use those appropriately more than half the time. Prejudicially terminate any cretin using ‘of’ in place of ‘have’ until we can collectively forget that was ever a thing idiots did! Just about other thing would be more worthwhile.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall the first time somebody receives a job application using it. Might as well submit your application in full-on Elder Futhark (it’s totally metal!), get a really nice facial tattoo declaring your tribal allegiance (radically metal!) or maybe show up to the interview wearing clip-on cat ears with integrated LEDs (cute, or ‘moe’ for those in the know!). Employers love that shit. Comes across as professional, sane and dependable, you see.
All right, the old man rant is over. I’ll stop impotently shaking my fist at the nearest cloud now, and head back inside. I need a drink anyway. No, two drinks.
Maybe it is a trend, but I really think this is just an instance of singular shibboleth, and so I view it more as a playful little instance of activist neuro-aesthetics, rather than an attempt prescribe th use for everyday use everywhere.
Wow I can’t believe what a tool I sound like. I apologise. I’ve been reading too much philosophy lately I think.
I can’t say I mind the sentiment nor the phrasing, although I suppose it’s entirely possible that we’re both tools :)
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No, I don’t think I will, thanks.