We’re polar opposites. I’m in northern Europe and sleep with an open window, thin blanket, and rocking 20.

I use stainless for acidic foods. Most of the advantages of cast iron are irrelevant when you’re making a sauce anyway, since the water adds mass, distributes heat and deglazes the bottom.

My favorite pan is from the 70s and I got it out of tge trash.

I recently got an induction stove (not even one of the expensive ones) and am so blown away by how fast it can heat up cast iron pans. It’s seconds, not minutes.

I mean I’m sure it’s pretty much instant with pans of lower mass, but instant isn’t what I need.

Exactly. The problem isn’t moving part of production to some other facility or buying a part that you used to make in-house. It’s abdicating an entire process that you need to be involved in if you’re going to stay on top of the game long-term.

Claude Code is awesome but if you let it do even 30% of the things it offers to do, then it’s not going to be your code in the end.

Books. The models were trained on books. And it’s terrifying that 90% of people think you’re not real if you use a semicolon correctly.

That’s on him. He wouldn’t have been the first person to walk or bicycle across West Asia, Iran included.

It would be so fucking funny if this is the last straw for Americans and they finally rise up.

Why didn’t I think of that?

Not sure if this is real, but just to be clear, it is totally stripping your body of all ions, including the electrolytes that your nerves need to keep your lungs and heart functioning.

Small amounts will be fine, especially if you don’t hold your pee, but it can absolutely kill you. Read up on water intoxication if you want to know more.

Quit reddit 5 years ago. Had a 12 year old account then.

Thread asked for early examples of racism against a certain group, by my country. I dug up such examples and translated them into English. The examples included slurs. Got permabanned for using slurs, no appeal.

Apparently I should have included a racism trigger warning in a thread asking for examples of racism, although the mod admitted that that wouldn’t have saved me either.

This is a site which was notorious for indulging in gore with videos of people being killed by the way. Bunch of weirdos.

That’s not why I deleted my account though. The last straw was when CIA thinktanks made a hostile takeover of all Middle East and geopolitics subs, forcing a Washington agenda to manufactor consent for war. The Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq subs were riddled with ex-military Americans and the mods were literally paid thinktank gooners. They were quite open about it too.

That’s one of the most infuriating things. Like, you get tons of posts on your frontpage that you did not choose. At some point you engage with some unhinged statement, trying to reason with the lonely wayward person that said something horrible or sad. You are now shadowbanned from multiple large communities, so no normal users will see your posts and you won’t even get notified that this action has been taken against you.

Yeah they make hair products.

Alright you know what, I’m not going to argue. You do you.

I just know that I’ve been underwhelmed with conventional search for about a decade, and I think that LLMs are a huge help sorting through the internet at the moment. There’s no telling what it will become in the future, especially if popular LLMs start ingesting content that itself has been generated by LLMs, but for now I think that the improvement is more significant than the step from Yahoo→Google in the 2000s.

I think you’re underselling it a bit though. It is far better than a modern search engine, although that is in part because of all of the SEO slop that Google has ingested. The fact that you need to think critically is not something new and it’s never going to go away either. If you were paying real-life human experts to answer your every question you would still need to think for yourself.

Still, I think the C-suite doesn’t really have a good grasp of the limits of LLMs. This could be partly because they themselves work a lot with words and visualization, areas where LLMs show promise. It’s much less useful if you’re in engineering, although I think ultimately AI will transform engineering too. It is of course annoying and potentially destructive that they’re trying to force-push it into areas where it’s not useful (yet).

If you need to wash something with hot water but don’t like the steam, mix it with cold water before applying.

I can see the ridges that cut across each segment in the rings of a fingerprint. And the fibers that make up the threads in a piece of cloth.

I’m very near-sighted. Also means I have a built-in microscope.

And? Why shouldn’t I expect to be able to find essential OS tools and settings by using the OS search?

I’m new here but this reminds me a lot of what reddit was like around 2008. I and lots of people came from slashdot, to be able to talk about things other than computers. So everyone is a nerd that cares about data and wants to have a genuine conversation, and I think that makes my experience more intelligent because it becomes less about winning by drowning interesting topics with the same rehashed jokes or tropes, and more about formulating your own thoughts as best you can.