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by mrob 2y ago
You can cook eggs on non stick with no added fat at all.
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by mrob 2y ago
>What are people possibly using these for? Eggs and egg dishes (e.g. pancakes) mostly. No other pan works as well. Washing after cooking is also very quick and easy. Perhaps you've never used a non-stick pan that was maintained corr
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by mrob 2y ago
Although the fats in butter have good heat stability, and the proteins can be easily removed by melting the butter and letting them settle out to make clarified butter, butter also contains cholesterol, which is not so easily removed. Altho
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by mrob 2y ago
The risks of both high temperature PTFE and high temperature cooking oils are poorly understood. I wouldn't say with confidence either is safer. I personally avoid both.
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by mrob 2y ago
Searing food in a PTFE pan almost certainly involves overheating it. Depending on what you're cooking you don't necessarily need oil (e.g. you don't need it for cooking eggs), although you might want to use some at moderate t
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by mrob 2y ago
It's easy to learn how your cooking setup responds using a cheap IR thermometer. You can check it's working correctly by boiling water in the pan and confirming the temperature is close enough to the expected boiling point for you
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by mrob 2y ago
Capitalism need energy. It doesn't have to be fossil fuels. If we'd had the good sense to ramp up nuclear power several decades ago then we wouldn't be in this predicament.
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by mrob 2y ago
The poor are responsible for below average CO2 emissions, so they stand to benefit from redistributed carbon tax. Wood burning has its own problems, especially in urban areas, but its carbon emissions are net zero, and should be taxed as su
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by mrob 2y ago
Because that wouldn't have the desired effect of incentivizing reduction in CO2 emissions. The alternative is privately owned air and class action lawsuits at unprecedented scale.
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by mrob 2y ago
Like all externalities, the solution isn't social shaming, it's taxation. We need to introduce a carbon tax, and tariffs on trade with countries that don't enforce an equivalent tax. I suggest this tax income be distributed e
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by mrob 2y ago
From the article: "We will be chiefly concerned with the middle game and will not consider the end game at all." The effect of having the checkmate rule instead of capturing the king is allowing the possibility of stalemates. But
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by mrob 2y ago
Andrew Plotkin developed a rating system for adventure game cruelty that's popular within the community: https://www.ifwiki.org/Cruelty_scale Space Quest is rated the maximum "Cruel" under this system, as it&
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by mrob 2y ago
I'm not convinced that current generative AI is a good fit for this kind of game. IMO, the heart of the text adventure game is the world model, and LLMs are notably lacking here. It's hard to believe the game is simulating a real
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by mrob 2y ago
If performance optimization changes anything other than performance it's either a bug in the program or a bug in the compiler.
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by mrob 2y ago
Other non-obvious things about historical candles: Self-trimming candle wicks were invented in 1825. Before that people had to regularly trim the wicks of candles (there were special scissors made for this) or the candle would produce huge
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by mrob 2y ago
Lewis was clearly intelligent and well educated in the humanities, but I don't think he ever cared much about science. IMO, the Space Trilogy is good writing but bad sci-fi.
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by mrob 2y ago
Sync everything to GPS. Record a harmonic of the carrier on the same tape, or just record the carrier itself on a parallel track. Have the SDR use this reference tone to undo any tape speed fluctuation artifacts. You can bring the deviation
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by mrob 2y ago
Who says you have to use an analog PLL decoder? FM audio tape is clearly capable of storing DC because you can store a constant sine wave at a different frequency to your carrier frequency. Maybe you'll decode it with software defined
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by mrob 2y ago
>What is the first noteworthy piece of fiction set in a fictional land? Earliest I know of set in an entirely fictional land with no connection to the real world is Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott, from 1884.
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by mrob 2y ago
It must be an FM encoded tape, which can record DC. There were upgraded versions of both VHS and Betamax with FM audio support (although I expect in practice the inputs were AC coupled).
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by mrob 2y ago
Water pipes are made from rigid, unplasticized PVC. It's only flexible PVC (e.g. cable insulation) that contains plasticizers.
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by mrob 2y ago
That kind of thing only works in a high trust society. Given the choice, I'm not going to buy food from bulk bins where some stranger could have contaminated them, whether by malice or incompetence.
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by mrob 2y ago
>carpets near the bathroom sink and the shower Now every spillage is a potential mold growth problem, which is also bad to inhale.
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by mrob 2y ago
In Japanese folklore there's the concept of "ikiryō" (literally "living ghost"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikiry%C5%8D
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by mrob 2y ago
I'm not aware of any scientific research using Comic Sans itself, but a font designed specifically to aid dyslexics using the supposedly beneficial features found in Comic Sans failed to help: "Dyslexie font does not benefit readi
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by mrob 2y ago
I think you're underestimating how effectively the old-fashioned text-based design repels users who would lower the quality of the site. (Although as Usenet proves, high-quality moderation is also necessary.)
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by mrob 2y ago
All headset mics have the great advantage of minimizing the influence of room acoustics. Speech is easiest to understand without reverb. Putting the microphone close to your mouth is cheaper than room treatment.
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by mrob 2y ago
The exact behavior isn't hugely important (although I think off-screen cursors are a useful feature). What matters is consistency between applications. There's no realistic scenario where I do everything in Emacs, so Emacs has to
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by mrob 2y ago
I'm certain that people did not spend centuries trying different formulas for the laws of motion before finding one that worked. The crucial insight was applying any formula at all. Once you have that then the rest is relatively easy.
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by mrob 2y ago
Understanding is finding the simplest general solution. Newton's laws are understanding. Catching the ball is not. LLMs take billions of parameters to do anything and don't even generalize well. That's obviously not understan

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