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by ksenzee 1y ago
Yeah, no. Family recipes rarely work like that anymore. My mom’s lemon meringue pie recipe is from the Pillsbury cookbook from 1960-something. My chocolate cake recipe is straight off the back of the Hershey cocoa box. It is way more common
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by ksenzee 1y ago
It’s not. I’m a mom with two kids at home, I write software for a living, and pancake mix is one of the staples in my pantry. Why this is so bizarre you would think it ironic, I have no idea.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
That is a good point - scaling down to pancakes for one is a great use case for mixes. As it happens, my preference for Krusteaz is not all convenience; they’re also what I grew up eating, and they’re still my favorite. I bake a lot from sc
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Then you’re certainly a domain expert in making that kind of calculation, so I do retract my comment. I do not, however, retract my assertion that nobody in a modern society should have to make that kind of calculation to such an extreme. $
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by ksenzee 1y ago
That’s correct. Some grandpas don’t know how to fix their own car or build their own furniture, either. I’m not sure if you’re expressing surprise or disdain here, but neither seems called for.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
As others have pointed out, you do need low-gluten flour, which you can indeed buy at any US grocery store, but it’ll cost more than just buying cake mix, unless you make a lot more cakes than anyone I know.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Sorry, I still think an off-the-cuff “buying Krusteaz is the same kind of self-destructive choice as smoking a cigarette or drinking a Coke [unless you’re rich]” is condescending, especially when coming from someone who presumably is not a
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by ksenzee 1y ago
By the time I’ve soured some milk (to take the place of the buttermilk in the mix) and measured out the oil, I’ve spent five minutes and used a pyrex measuring cup or two that I didn’t otherwise need. That’s apart from getting out the kitch
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by ksenzee 1y ago
No, that’s incorrect. Krusteaz Complete Buttermilk Pancake Mix (which, at least where I live, ten miles from Krusteaz HQ, is the only “Krusteaz” anyone cares about) contains flour, sugar, dextrose, baking powder, salt, starch, soybean oil,
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by ksenzee 1y ago
The overwhelming majority of American women old enough to be grandmothers use cake mixes. For that matter, professional bakers often use cake mixes, including my uncle, who insisted on Duncan Hines brand. But more importantly, this idea tha
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Why on earth would I make pancakes from scratch when I can buy Krusteaz? If someone gets enjoyment from buying their flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, buttermilk, and oil separately, and turning pancakes into an entire weekend morning activi
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by ksenzee 1y ago
In my four decades of baking, I have never seen a recipe that calls for packing flour. It is always sifted, spooned and leveled, or weighed.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
The first-past-the-post system, combined with our current primary system, is set up such that most Americans do not get the representation they actually want, and Congress is made up of extremists. We don’t have the Congress we have because
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by ksenzee 1y ago
I picked 2012 because that’s when the claw hammer discourse was happening, but I agree with you. You could write pretty nice-looking PHP by 2012, and a lot of people did. The claw hammer thing was itself looking back at PHP from several yea
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by ksenzee 1y ago
I'm the one asserting that women have been forced into childcare for millennia. It's the default state in the absence of societal support. > It comes naturally to parents. _Love_ comes naturally to parents. Almost nothing else
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by ksenzee 1y ago
> I’m going to reach for the tool that always works vs. sometimes works. This is only logical if you're limited to one tool. Would you never buy a power tool because sometimes the power goes out and a hand tool is your only choice?
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by ksenzee 1y ago
They have, in fact, been willing to break backwards compatibility when it matters. mysql_real_escape_string(), for example, my personal favorite bugaboo from the early days, was removed in 2015.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
How so? What do they have now that they will be losing under the new system? It seems like having childcare paid for would be beneficial to any single working parent.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Firstly, I am a mother with two children, so no need to educate me about the bond between mother and child. Secondly, of course children love their parents. You seem to be conflating parenting with daytime childcare. This is a common miscon
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Just because women have been shunted into childcare for millennia doesn’t mean we’re naturally better at it. It just means we’ve had to do it. Do you similarly think it’s a rarity for men not to be cut out for subsistence farming?
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by ksenzee 1y ago
“You’ll have issues” was my way of saying “I wouldn’t recommend them.” IMO if you want to run in a loop, pick a language where that’s the standard practice.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
The language itself, though, does absolutely have this assumption built in. If you want to run it in an endless loop, you’ll have issues.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
That’s a really good analogy, thanks.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Working with Drupal as a user is not the same as working as a Drupal developer. If you know Drupal well enough that you’re not flailing around trying to figure out how to do things—if you actually know the framework and you build sites with
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by ksenzee 1y ago
This is, indeed, my favorite feature of the language.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
The developers come in all flavors, too. I spend my time writing Drupal code and the average quality is fairly high. (Code quality in the Drupal project itself has always been high, in fact, even when PHP was a disaster on wheels.) So it de
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by ksenzee 1y ago
That’s a perfectly valid argument. I’m not saying people shouldn’t make that argument. I’m just saying I don’t want to hear about mysql_real_escape_string. To answer your question, I don’t know that modern PHP has big advantages over other
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by ksenzee 1y ago
This is a preemptive plea for people who last wrote PHP in 2012 not to opine on what writing PHP is like in 2025. It is not a hammer with two claws. It’s a modern language with types and tooling and package management.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
You have clearly not shopped for childcare on the open market. Highly paid professionals still struggle to get childcare. Putting more resources into the system will be a net positive for all parents who need childcare.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
That’s great, but not every mom is your mom. You just lucked out. This is like saying “my dad was a doctor and we lived very well and I wouldn’t trade that for anything.” Some dads aren’t cut out to be highly paid professionals. Some moms a

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