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Infinite pancakes, anyone?
https://archive.ph/qNfbg https://archive.ph/qNfbg
- superfunny 9mo agoDo we have to beat Prince at a game of basketball first?
- sandworm101 9mo agoOnly if you play blouses.
- listenallyall 9mo agoIHOP already has this covered: https://www.ihop.com/en/specials/bottomless-pancakes https://www.ihop.com/en/specials/bottomless-pancakes
- Insanity 9mo agoGotta order their breakfast first though, which luckily is better than their pancakes (imo).
- taneq 9mo agoThat’s interesting, the cloudflare screening whatever it is thinks my phone’s a bot. Safari on an iPhone 11 with Firefox installed as an ad blocker.
- unwind 9mo agoMe too, from Firefox in Linux and no (!) blockers. Weird. Maybe geo-fenced for not being in the US, sometimes companies do that which is ... weird.
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- augusteo 9mo agoThe real unlock for pancakes is making the batter the night before. Cold batter from the fridge gives you fluffier pancakes than fresh batter, and you don't have to measure anything at 8am.
- stuporglue 9mo agoDoesn't the baking powder makes its bubbles and run out, leaving behind flat batter?
- TurdF3rguson 9mo agoIt depends on the other ingredients. If you use buttermilk or seltzer (which you should), then don't let it rest more than 5-10 minutes.
- pseudohadamard 9mo agoI think people commenting need to qualify what they consider a pancake in their posts. Baking powder is definitely new to me, I'm used to { flour, eggs, milk }. With baking powder you'd get a sort of... flabby dough thing? And... pancakes for breakfast? I'm guessing its something US-specific. And if it is a US thing, I'll just mention the pancake soup here.
- DauntingPear7 9mo agoYeah us US folk love our dessert for breakfast
- Markoff 9mo agoyup, I make crepes (not small thick US pancakes) only with flour, eggs, milk and a pinch of salt, though we call them pancakes here
- pseudohadamard 9mo agoSame here. Do you make soup from the leftovers the next day? For people not familiar with this, you let them dry out a bit overnight, then cut them into thin strips and cook them with chicken stock and chives.
- walletdrainer 9mo agoDisappointingly, the article does not contain a cool household appliance that will dispense infinite pancakes at the touch of a button.
- viccis 9mo ago>The notion of “concrete mathematics” was meant as an antidote, of sorts, to new trends in “abstract mathematics” (a.k.a. “new math.”) I thought it was because it was a course covering a combination of discrete and continuous topics?
- wodenokoto 9mo agoAs someone who reads comments first, I’d like to nominate this is the most confusing article ever. Top comments includes, comments on a university course, pancake recipes and questions about basketball matches against the dead musician Prince.
- NedF 9mo ago[dead]
- cainxinth 9mo agoI don’t mind the occasional joke in an hn thread. I’ve made several myself. But I’m disappointed that this thread is seemingly all jokes and no actual discussion of the article. I’m no mathematician, but as best I can tell, this is describing a novel approach to the “lazy caterers problem”: “Given an integer n, denoting the number of cuts that can be made on a pancake, find the maximum number of pieces that can be formed by making n cuts.” [1] Their method was to use weirdly shaped, sometimes infinite knives, computing optimal arrangements, and recognizing the resulting region counts as known integer sequences. [1] https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/the-lazy-caterers-problem/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/the-lazy-caterers-problem/
- qingcharles 9mo agoYeah, this comment section descended into Reddit :(
- iancmceachern 9mo agoAs someone who didn't read the article, or any of the other comments, I just want to say reading the comments first is the only way to HN.