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We got a little impatient waiting for it to reduce, but we made a delicious lentil dahl today.
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You don't get to say that a recipe takes 10 minutes to prepare when one of the directions is "simmer covered for 25 to 35 minutes".
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I think the convention is "prep time" for a recipe is before heat is applied "cook time" is after heat is applied and "total time" is the sum of both, plus any required rest time between or after cook.

But, I do agree that can be annoying, because it's not the same as my expectations.



I just spent way longer than I care to admit trying to clean a spot on my glasses. Turns out it was a piece of lint on my eyelash.


Upgraded my Gitea* server this morning and had a moment of panic when I thought I'd lost admin access. Turns out they just changed where the admin interface lives.

* I meant to switch to Forgejo, but never got around to it and then they went hard fork, so it's more complicated now.



Some money that I was expecting a while ago finally hit our account. We can make rent after all. Finally my anxiety can start ratcheting down for a bit.

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So for some reason two of my apps are suddenly switched to French. It wasn't a big deal as I can read it, but it was annoying.

I had my system languages set as follows:

  1. English (Canada)
  2. English (United States)
  3. French (Canada)

I assume it was because these apps didn't have localisations for my first choice, but I don't know why they instead jumped to the third option, skipping the second.

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I have swedish as my second language and that happens to me sometimes too.
I don't mind, but it's surprising.


Just heard someone unironically use the term "real AI".

Real artificial intelligence? What the hell does that even mean?

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It means not actually an outsourced team of humans in India like that startup that was recently in the news.
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@Matthew Skala I guess, but that wasn't the context in this case.


@Judy Anderson Fair, but this guy talking about how Zork "faked AI" instead of having the "real AI" we have now.

Edit: context




For the first time in a wile I've had he mental bandwidth to put a nice dent in my to-do list today. I'm very happy about this. Don't know if it'll last, but I guess I'll ride the high while I can.


Peaches come in a can. They were put there by a man, in a factory... in China, apparently.


infosec - CW: potential malicious link (obfuscated)

So Katy got a scam text claiming to be Canada Post with an underliverable package. I'm in the process of gathering information to send a report to their registrar's abuse department, but they're doing something clever to cover their tracks that I haven't fully been able to unravel.

For context, here is the link (with spaces added to prevent it from turning into an actual link and being accidentally clicked):

https:// canadapost-postecanadadeliverylivraison .com/canadapost/index.php

When opened from Safari on her phone, it loads a realistic looking phishing site, but when opened from any other browser, it returns an empty (0 bytes) page. I assume this is to hamper attempts to investigate abuse claims (though the domain name is already pretty incriminating).

Since there doesn't appear to be any kind of unique identifier, I assumed this to be some kind of spear phishing attack that was based on her browser's User-Agent string, but when I tell curl to mimic it, I still don't get a result.

Any ideas about how they're doing this?

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@Isaac Ji Kuo Perhaps, but that leaves me wondering why using private browsing trips it up.


I just got an email today from my doctor that there will be a charge of $25 for prescription renewals when requested by the pharmacy effective... at the beginning of this month (retroactively?).

Katy and I just renewed five prescriptions this way yesterday.

It's been a morning of interesting and stressful phone calls.

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too many people try to avoid calling the doc by letting the pharmacy do it and some docs are inundated by the e requests.

It's easier on everyone if you can try to get all prescriptions updated during your doc visit.

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@e bored Sure, but up until this point that was the way he specifically told us to do it.

The thing that's changed is that he can no longer bill OHIP* for these renewals.

* Ontario Health Insurance Plan


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@Jonathan Lamothe I wonder how the jacket would look with two bands of contrasting colour bias tape sewn (by hand, if I had to do it) around the cuff seam.

but I'm not sure it would last long, if the rip is because it's a high friction area, maybe you'd need something stronger than bias tape

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