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by downut 2y ago
YES! This is the way. And to these, which I have too, add Fucshia Dunlop for Chinese, Debora Madison for general vegetarian, Maya Kaimal for truly exquisite Southern Indian, and pre-1980 Joy of Cooking for general wisdom (I have 3 copies)
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by downut 2y ago
Here in GA it happens all the time. LoC with the driver staring at a screen or off into space deep in a conversation. It is mandatory for me to drive within the lane because if for instance there is a 2' shoulder with a rumble strip
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by downut 2y ago
"You have to be careful with videos of chefs cooking, because they often don't eat the exact thing that they're filming. The finished dish you see at the end or showed off might be cooked at a different time (usually beforeha
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by downut 2y ago
Well done! I mean you got out of the fire and into the fat. Sorry. Oh, I so feel for those sacrificial cows, if they knew how their corporeal selves would be so disrespected. "I always cook with a thermometer" Not bad, not bad
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by downut 2y ago
Corp jumps into the trunk, Oracle slams shut the lid, and the usual story ensues. There's a process bug now, not Oracle's to be sure, and to fix it will cost real money. Edit: make things more clear.
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by downut 2y ago
"universal healthcare" Not in the US. Only in BigCorps.
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by downut 2y ago
I told you to stop talking to my wife! She has 35 years engineering, now a quality manager, and the new boss has been hair on fire all weekend, cosplaying that a top down intense low bid culture can adapt, and uh, oracle is in the mix. Th
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by downut 2y ago
1985-87 my partner and I rented a just fine spacious 1 bdrm with a 10 min walk to the Math building on the East side of Gville for $200/month. We both had graduate school stipends. The 4 apartments all had cool tenants. Geckos in th
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by downut 2y ago
Agreed. I don't want Stross skewing (especially unconsciously) toward his (imperfect) understanding of his most unhappy readers. Strength to your sword arm, Charlie! I get you, at least! For 50 years I've read vast swaths of fi
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by downut 2y ago
"The Kindness of Women" was surprisingly moving to me, reading it after I spent years enjoying the ambiance of most of the rest of his works.
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by downut 2y ago
Don't forget "Vaughn died yesterday in his last car-crash." That's right up there with "A screaming comes across the sky." One or the other lurks in my memory, bubbling up from time to time.
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by downut 2y ago
Yeah. I came home from spring break during college and the back pasture was filled with flowers so I got a chair and started reading a book, enjoying Arcadian nature. Fucking colt snuck up on me from the back and bit me hard on the shoulde
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by downut 2y ago
Yeah, I dunno, I've seen a lot of burros and this was pretty far off the beaten path. It was a major surprise for us that this burro hated dogs. OTOH I've seen a lot of horses and dogs working together (hunting, say?) and never
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by downut 2y ago
How was she around dogs? Burros in AZ attack dogs. Had one harass our dog all night while camping, had to put the poor thing in the truck, it was terrified.
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by downut 2y ago
It is expensive to go blind in on buying artisanal charcuterie without knowing how to optimize for what you want. Kinda like California cheese. Good, but... $30/lb for cheddar? I have eaten at restaurants that have "charcuterie
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by downut 2y ago
I've been eating packaged ramen since when I had to and when I saw momofuku "tingly chili" noodle packages I bought 4. Don't remember the price, it was immaterial. Turns out they're so boring and flavorless that 2
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by downut 2y ago
18 months ago when I moved cross country to the Atlanta area I was delighted and excited to find out that my house was 10 min from a real butcher! OMG, what I always wanted. Then I talked to the counter man (no butcher on site), bought th
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by downut 2y ago
Where I live, both of the two major supermarket chains (Publix x 3, Kroger x 3) with stores within an epsilon of my house feature Boar's Head next to their house brands. Other than the odd Food Depot there are no other grocery corp br
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by downut 2y ago
NASA Ames NAS.
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by downut 2y ago
I think the quote implies that Feynman's suggested changes were for marketing materials. It turns out myself and my colleagues were the intended targets of those marketing materials. We ignored them and just benchmarked the system. I
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by downut 2y ago
"content". 1/3 of that is ads. You know what I'm not going to do? Pay for ads.
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by downut 2y ago
I have multiple accounts and I use the friction of logging in manually to each as an incentive not to check them. About every 6 months or more I get a beer, login to each, and check for surprises. Ever since decades ago I gave up my perso
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by downut 2y ago
I have no idea what it is like now but a significant part of the testing environment at Georgia Tech in the early '80s in the highly competitive engineering fields was "impossible" exams. These involved a timed in-class exam
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by downut 2y ago
A yes or no would be cool. I understated a bit on why I love working this way, and it is interesting that that isn't important to the several enthusiastic advocates here. Noted.
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by downut 2y ago
I took a look at it since I'm learning cl. lem doesn't appear to have a concept of emacs frames? I have all the HiDPI display area that I could ever want, and an fvwm-based emacs dev configuration evolved over 25 years. The fea
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by downut 2y ago
Over time a blacklist is potentially unbounded. Better a whitelist, I think.
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by downut 2y ago
I want to emphasize for others how important this comment is. I live in suburban Atlanta and last month the AC failed. Can you guess what day and time it failed? Yep, 8AM on 96F/70% humidity SUNDAY. And we moved into this f*cking o
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by downut 2y ago
I called the cops. They did not show up. And the ordinance that I read at the time was vague, and that means the interpretation goes the way the cop wants it to go.
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by downut 2y ago
Oh yes I can. I don't care if there are a variety of levels and flavors. Noise over my yard from somebody else sucks. ICE noise on the road sucks too, there's a reason freeways have massive investments in sound barriers.
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by downut 2y ago
We had an asshole neighbor fly a quite large drone over my wife working in her garden and she was terrified. It was shockingly loud. I had a very strong desire to reach for the 20 gauge. Apparently that asshole behavior is legal! I hear

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