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An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet
- alexandrehtrb 2mo agoThe engineer's name is Michael Chu, he made a website with cooking recipes structured as tables. https://www.cookingforengineers.com/ https://www.cookingforengineers.com/
- jolt42 2mo agoThe recipes are a little bit too clever i think. Turning the text on the actions saves space but it makes the instructions off-putting.
- fsckboy 1mo agohis implementation does not save space which is fine because that was not his intent. to make a programming analogy, he turned spaghetti-code into structured code.
- Freedom2 2mo agoSomething about this site really makes me yearn for the internet of old.
- bigfishrunning 2mo agoone of the tweet screenshots censors the word "kosher", which I completely don't understand. Why are screenshots online so agressively censored?
- jameslars 2mo agoDid you look at the original? I assumed it was censoring "killer" which also meshes with my perception that "trigger words" get censored in certain social media circles now.
- bigfishrunning 2mo agook, so i misread the censored word. Maybe i'm old; the concept of "trigger words" doesn't seem to be solved by making it harder to communicate in my opinion.
- jameslars 2mo agoDefinitely agree. I don't understand how "thinking harder" about what the word MIGHT be solves any problem. I might just be part of this older generation who is hard trained on reading and not skimming, I don't know. I've never found anyone who appreciates this sort of censorship to ask them to help me understand.
- smallmancontrov 2mo agoNobody appreciates it. It's in the Nash Gap -- the difference between the true optimum and the reality that emerges from each involved party optimizing for their incentives. People: complain to politicians when egregious content starts trending Politicians: bug Platform to do something about the egregious content Platform: quickest fix for egregious content is dumb pattern matching Content Producers: avoid becoming a false positive by using dumb substitutions to dodge the dumb pattern matching The most direct fix would be the platform getting smarter about censorship, but this would not be without its own tradeoffs.
- rtkwe 2mo agoIt not /all/ about triggers it's partially driven by the algorithms on some social sites like TikTok or Youtube where there's some evidence and a lot of speculation that mentioning or including certain words can cause the recommendation algorithm to suppress your videos etc. That leads to a lot of homophones etc popping up like "sewer slide" or odder non mentions like unalive popping up. Because the really big channels care about maximizing reach for monetization reasons it shows up strongly in peoples feeds which drives wide adoption.
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- yuye 2mo agoNot just screenshots. Look at the modern social media trend of using "unalived" as a euphemism for "died", for example.
- inasio 2mo agoFor another super condensed shorthand system for recipes, see Thermomix cookbooks (requires a Thermomix though)
- teiferer 2mo agoUm, friend of mine in her handwritten "my favorite recipes" book has used that layout for decades, using curly braces to group things. I'm doing that too since seeing her book a long time ago. I thought it's standard to do it that way.
- marak830 2mo ago(former chef here) - I've been writing my personal recipes like this for 20+ years. Mostly because I can grok the steps from memory so I can skip that part (other times I just write the spec step between the curly bracers). Not the neatest, but my 'Dad's cookbook' isn't really read by anyone except myself when asking the family what they want me to prep on the weekend for the week.
- piinbinary 2mo agoSome of my pet peeves about regular cookbooks are: - Steps that actually include many different steps. - Steps that don't repeat the quantities, making me scroll back and forth between the step and the quantity list. The diagrams in this post very cleanly solve both.
- piinbinary 2mo agoAnother pet peeve (which this doesn't solve): Recipes that include "marinate overnight" or some such in the middle (which can be easy to miss), instead of telling you up front that you have to start the day before.
- floren 2mo agoYou're supposed to read through the recipe before you start. Also, most modern recipe books and websites put prep/cook/total times at the very top, so if you have to marinate overnight it'll say "total: 13h" or something like that.
- lazide 2mo agoYeah except they often don’t. My favorite is the ‘30 minute recipes’ that involve overnight marinating, carmelizing onions, etc.
- gabrielsroka 2mo agoYou can caramelize onions in 10 minutes https://youtu.be/yt_0e72fs9M https://youtu.be/yt_0e72fs9M
- lazide 2mo agoWhew, good thing i have 20 minutes left over to do everything else! (That is great gaslighting in that vid, lol)
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- mathgeek 2mo agoHave always loved cookingforengineers. We should really just be linking to it directly instead of whatever this “having to scroll through a life story f other people’s tweets” spam is.
- juancn 2mo agoThis is not new at all: https://www.cookingforengineers.com/ https://www.cookingforengineers.com/ Look at the site design! It went viral on Digg! That's how old this is.
- TheRealPomax 2mo agoSorry, is there supposed to be an actual article somewhere hiding behind this giant collection of embedded whatever-the-hell-X-calls-posts quotes? Because there does not appear to be one. "Someone said X and then someone else said Y and then even more folks said Z" was slop long before AI existed.
- righthand 2mo ago> even though the system had existed the whole time. But it didn't. Isn't that the point of someone inventing it? If the system existed the whole time then it would most likely be much more realized. Also people don't use this system because 99% of people don't right things down in tables. I know not many people hand write things anymore but even typing up ingredient lists on a machine I don't begin by creating a table. Also this article format of numbered tweet responses as images is just terrible. What am I reading Buzzfeed? I had to stop reading. Also isn't "viral" 100k or more? Not 10's of thousands? This is a clickbait article. But it brings up a bigger question: why claim that something is viral with 100,000+ views/likes/shares/responses/whatever when we know damn well Twitter is full of bots?
- nico 2mo agoIs there something like an abacus but for cooking? A simple device to keep track of the different tasks for a dish that can be used in the kitchen while cooking? I’m guessing there are apps
- bityard 2mo agoTFA is mostly just a bunch of twitter screenshots. From people on social media who forgot that the rest of the web still exists. (Original site: https://www.cookingforengineers.com https://www.cookingforengineers.com) Also, clickbait headline: There is no dissent presented anywhere on the page that this recipe format is pretty great. It did not divide the internet even a little.
- jonahx 2mo agoMany of the screenshots from twitter are negative.
- josefritzishere 2mo agoThis is genius. Where can I buy that cookbook? Why is it flagged?
- perching_aix 2mo agoLooks a surprising amount like a structogram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassi%E2%80%93Shneiderman_diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassi%E2%80%93Shneiderman_diag...
- JohnFen 2mo agoThat format is great for relatively simple recipes, but there are a number of things I make regularly that could not fit into that format without making everything clear as mud. So, I think its utility is a bit context-dependent.
- SirFatty 2mo agoWhy would something like this get flagged ffs? Not enough AI or crypto?