There are few things more depressing than having to deal with companies like Accenture, EY, KPMG etc. It's a world of FUD, upsell, more consultants, nothing getting done, lots of slides, new "junior senior Global Consultant for Microservices" type stuff. They are literally a cancer on innovation and just getting things done.

They destroy the ethos of a company through deliberate intransigence.

I do love a good pint of Guinness. There's something very satisfying about how it looks; the more pronounced flavor than other globally available macro beers, and how it seems easier to have a few more than it would be with other beers.

I love Guinness (their nitro cans are surprisingly good for canned beer) but I really love the various Sam Smith stouts. It took me quite a while to realize I hate hops, and love roasted malt flavors, as well as "chocolatey" flavors.

I've come to hate hops over the last 20 years or so as overpoweringly flowery and/or bitter IPAs and pale ales have become more popular. I like just enough hops to balance the sweetness of the malt. For me hops are like salt in food- a little used carefully is great, but too much quickly becomes disgusting.

Why it's easier to have more: despite the darkness and thick head that make it look and feel so, well, stout, Guinness is actually fairly light in calories and alcohol content, at just 4.2%.

Certain people still insist on joking about it being a 'meal' almost every time I drink one though.

Yes, it's very interesting that a concept that is now so widely used in general statistics was first used in a brewery. It helps that Guinness is still the best globally available macro beer (imo).

One of those quirky little intersections between mathematics and practical business outcomes.

Agreed - one of the best - just wish bartenders outside of Ireland knew how to pour a proper pint.

How’s that?

Pouring is a crucial step in ensuring the creamy smoothness of Guinness. Many people may not be aware, but Guinness drafts incorporate nitrogen into the beer during pouring, resulting in an exceptionally creamy texture.

They don't incorporate the nitrogen at the pouring step, Guinness (and other stouts and ales) are force 'carbonated', stored and dispensed under a 75% nitrogen/25% CO2 blend, whereas most draughts use just CO2.

Guinness requires a different faucet to most draughts, with a restrictor plate that forms the creamy head. The plastic widget in cans of draught Guinness performs the same function as the restrictor plate.

The purpose of all of this is to replicate the head and mouthfeel of a 'real ale' that has been naturally carbonated and dispensed at atmospheric pressure with a handpump.

Understood re: nitro. But was inquiring about your thoughts on how one ought to pour a proper pint.

I assumed you meant the “half pour, sit, half pour, serve” but was wondering if there was perhaps another approach?

If it had the ability to block videos that have that stupid mouth open and shocked expression of the presenter in the preview tile then I’d be sold.

You should maybe check this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dearrow/

The problem with this is that the thumbnails usually also contain helpful information.

As an example, a recommendation from ARTEde with the title "Poor despite job | ARTE Re:" where the thumbnail shows "Brits at the limit" and someone standing in an supermarket aisle.

Or the title "TSMC's First Breakthrough: The Copper/Low K Interconnect..." with the thumbnail "COPPER SEMIS" on top of a magnified semiconductor.

This is from the same person that made sponsorblock https://sponsor.ajay.app/

This means that it's the community that sees sensational thumbnails and changes them to some other thumbnail. By default dearrow shows random thumbnails if no other were provided by the community. But you can disable this and show original thumbnails, but if there is a community submitted thumbnail it will show the community submitted one. I think for example the arte thumbnails won't get changed to other thumbnails as they are not sensational/clickbaity/mouth open.

There are extensions that can swap the thumbnails with a frame from the video. It's not as good as a handpicked frame, but it's a lot better overall compared to the garbage youtubers are making now. The one I use on chrome is called "clickbait remover for youtube"

I haven't been to Boston in 15 years, but I remember it having two very distinct accents when I was there.

There was the very Bostonian Irish accent with rolling R and very soft H. My mother always said Kennedy had it, but I can't pick that up in recordings apart from the use of lots of adverbs and a general flair for speaking.

The other is distinctly WASPish. It's the New England received pronunciation style. It's more Yankee.

Archie Bunker and Thurston Howell. You don't encounter them as much today in the wild, possibly because of how they were caricatured on TV.

I think you’re much more likely to hear a foreign accent than a waspy one these days. Charles Emerson Winchester III isn’t walking thru that door.

That's a Brahmin accent, and it's completely dead. Maybe a couple of old ladies at the Athenaeum talk like that.

Kennedy more had the wasp-ish accent. The other you could hear from some priests

But these days, it's all drowned out by Matt Damon and Ben Afleck's version. I feel like Bostonians talk like caricatures of themselves

Where does Bill Burr fit in there

Pascal was still the language being taught to first year students in the university I attended in the late 90's.

Our "multimedia" professor was very in to Javascript, but assured us that it would be replaced by something more efficient. Neither happened.

We still had programming classes in school with Pascal in the early 00s.

In fact, my recollection is the AP computer science curriculum was in pascal until around 2000.

I hate to be such an immediate Buzz Killington, but this is not a good business idea.

It's just not a very enjoyable experience these days.

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