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by mountain_peak 5y ago
Love the 'fantasy' scene [0] in Annie Hall where Woody Allen's character 'pulls out' Marshall McLuhan to put an intellectual blowhard back into place. McLuhan says, "I heard what you were saying. You know nothi
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
Great suggestion; I've never tried gum arabic in anything, but it looks like it's close profile-wise to the other thickeners, so I'll pick some up and give it a shot. I should have mentioned that I do cook the egg yolks over
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
As someone who loved eggnog as a child (my favourite was eggnog with Honeycomb cereal), and who has since become glucose intolerant (surprise, surprise), I've made a low-carb version of Alton's recipe in recent years, and it'
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
Alum crystals in a disposable pie pan on a hot water radiator turned out brilliantly in my youth. Fast-forward many years, and my daughter wasn't having much luck with salt, sugar, or even copper sulfate (that one looked like a melted
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
Completely my experience as well (x3 kids)...can you enlighten me on what the author meant by, "drinking beer from a small and dainty glass"? If there's a social reference or analogy, I'm missing it.
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
My first job out of university was working with a very large firm that bought into Computer Associates' product suite - including 4GL code generators such as Telon ("green-screen" generators) and Easytrieve (4GL report genera
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
It's also interesting to look at how Taiwan historically built knowledge and expertise in technology manufacturing. In the mid- to late-1970s (far before Korea entered the fray), Taiwan was the global epicenter of illegal clone manufac
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
As much as I appreciate the freedom e-bikes provide to people who wouldn't otherwise venture outside, without proper cycling infrastructure, e-bikes are quickly becoming a serious hazard to pedestrians. As a long-time runner who is usu
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
Wow - thought I'd never find anyone else with my diet on HN, but (other than half & half, ice cream and Brussels sprouts), we're surprisingly close. I'd also add a few things, such as almond milk, homemade mayo, flax, coc
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
Definitely curious about the negative reaction to NoScript - I did some digging and there appears to have been (or still is?) some controversy around the NoScript author displaying 'dubious' ads? Not sure I've even seen a NoS
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
About 10 years ago, I was in a meeting with our security czar and I asked him what he was 'fiddling' around with in his browser toolbar. He replied, "NoScript. Highly recommended." Ever since then, I've become adept
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
Coincidentally, I was just reading "See Wayne Run. Run, Wayne, Run." [0] yesterday. Not sure if it's a character assassination or a valid warning to others. Lots of other interesting reading in the collection regardless. [0]
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
Is a good ol' .com with no ads and minimal JS - originally launched in 2011. Thanks again for your insights; I've bookmarked your site and will check back every so often to see if my site's been indexed.
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
Thanks for the advice; not hacked, but I have "resurrected" many WP sites that have been (including my wife's non-profit). Just running on an EC2 micro instance, but I tried adding "site:" and received "No such
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
Likewise, I co-maintain the only "fan" site on one of my all-time favourite composers/performers, and gave the engine a shot with a unique string query. While my text-heavy WP-driven site didn't seem to make the cut, the
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
Quick tip on moving Canada Geese out of the way without aggressive behaviour (from you or them): lift your arm up just above your head to make an "S" shape and pinch your fingers to make a goose "beak", then move your ha
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
My wife had a kidney infection when she was pregnant with our middle child in 2003, and the walk-in clinic doc prescribed Ciprofloxacin. She filled out the prescription, but I did a quick search just to make sure it was safe during pregnanc
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
As much as I love pork rinds, I haven't been able to coax them into a "bread-like" form yet. I have had some success with Peter Reinhart's "Toasting Bread"; this [0] site's recipe is very close. [0] https
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by mountain_peak 5y ago
"Scienziato pazzo italiano" fares slightly better at 16 results (that's a literal translation; I'm sure there are better ones). Amusingly, one of the results refers to "John Lithgow", which I instantly recogniz
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by mountain_peak 6y ago
According to "The Song Machine" [0], track-and-hook has largely replaced singer/songwriter for top hits. The book details how Dr. Luke (a very talented guitar player) himself works with a ProTools tech to lay down beats, chor
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by mountain_peak 6y ago
My understanding is that the last application code Gates was involved in was the TRS-80 Model 100 [1] circa 1982; I taught my kids assembly on the Model 100 and think it's great. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
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by mountain_peak 6y ago
Yes - I certainly didn't want to impart 'the obvious' in my response, but I'm not sure if there's an answer to your more literal question. If there was, we would have read an HN post on how there's a great new
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by mountain_peak 6y ago
That interview with George Plimpton (I think) is great, but Hemingway does eventually go into a bit more detail when pressed. My interpretation is that he admires people who have a deep well of talent and knowledge and use that to push art
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by mountain_peak 6y ago
Was diagnosed with IBS just after university, then (similarly) spent 10 years suffering and experimenting when I ended up switching to an ultra-low carb diet for unrelated reasons. Within weeks, I started to feel better and for the next 12
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by mountain_peak 7y ago
Not claiming that the science is settled, but I when I entered keto over 10 years ago (TL:DR daily 10K+ 'performance' runner, neuropathy from glucose intolerance - genetic, avoid all drugs), I wanted to be sure that I could run wi