Tried the whole green/blue test that people have been talking about. Problem was that it kept giving me colours that were neither. I couldn't answer the questions.
@sour.dough.hk I measure by weight, bit the recipe's so simple it didn't even occur to me to make a checklist. The whole thing has four (arguably three) ingredients in total.
@Joseph A di Paolantonio @sour.dough.hk No yeast in this recipe (well there's technically yeast in the starter), but it's the first ingredient, so hard to forget.
I do that - I’ve taken to weighing out the salt at the same time as the other ingredients and putting it in cup on top of the bowl while the flour autolyses. That means I HAVE to move it before kneading. That _generally_ works…
@Justin To #НетВойне Fortunately, most of the time it takes is just waiting on it to proof, so it doesn't prevent me from doing other things in the meantime.
@justinto This one is essentially what I do, but I also add in grated cheese both into the batter and on top of the batter once it’s in the loaf pan. But the cheese isn’t needed.
There's a family member that Katy and I had cut ties with about a year ago because he's toxic. Today Katy extended an olive branch and we were immediately reminded why we made that decision in the first place.
I’m sorry to hear that. I’ve been there and done that — and it’s more difficult than many people realize. But cutting that kind of toxicity out of your life is necessary sometimes.
I've been working through some #soroban exercises try to actually become reasonably proficient in its use. Interestingly enough, I'm doing much better with multiplicaiton/divison than I am with the addition/subtraction questions, but that's because the latter involve summing a column of values rather than just multiplying two numbers. There are more places to screw up.
Still, these questions seem designed to deliberately screw me up with things like multiple carries, changing the value on a rod just to immediately revert that change, etc.
I don't want this place to be a "Twitter replacement". I came here (in the pre-Musk era) because I wanted something better* than Twitter. The fedi certainly has its shortcomings, and we need to work to improve it (especially regarding the treatment of marginalized people), but Twitter should not be the yardstick we measure ourselves by.
I am neither for nor against AI, mostly because it's essentially a meaningless word. What does bother me is the number of people who are shoehorning it into their products because investors lose their minds and shovel boatloads of money at them.
It's not that I have a problem with fools taking other fools' money; I'm just really sick of them trying to sell me their magic beans.
In this remastered episode I talk with author Mary Mahoney who details her experiences in The Children of God, talking us through the trials of her memoir. Mary
I eat peaches with the skin on, but usually rinsing them and rubbing them with a paper towel gets most of the fuzz texture off, since I'm also not a big fan of that
yeah lol i'd absolutely eat nectarines before i'd peel a peach
Unless I'm going to a farmers market where they have the good shit I end up buying nectarines more than peaches anyway just because supermarkets tend to have dogshit peaches but okay nectarines.
And, time to turn my phone off again to enjoy the trip instead of scrolling social media (which I can do at home). Also, I only have so much battery. 🙃
Fun fact, the cat can slip out of his harness when spooked by a passing car. We're hanging out in the tent with him until we can sort out this logistical wrinkle.
So I think that when I took off after Benny when he got loose I got into some poison ivy/oak. I'm normally careful about such things, but I had to be quick to catch him.
I washed my arms immediately after and slathered them with afterbite (which I figured was the most useful thing we had on hand) but there was some itchiness/rash shortly thereafter. Fortunately Benny seems to have been unaffected.
Well, we forgot to bring bug spray. Rookie mistake, but it's been a while. Ran off to the nearby pharmacy to pick some up, then we'll finish setting up camp.
Doing some last minute checking of the #camping gear for our trip tomorrow. We haven't touched any of it in like six years. I was sure the batteries in our lantern would be dead. I tested them and they're fully charged. I'm impressed.
I just pulled some Energizer lithium AAs from an old set of FRS/GMRS handheld radios. The batteries have "expiration" dates of 2010, but they read 1.7 V on my multimeter, 14 years later. These batteries are rated for a 10-year shelf life, so they are 24 years old.
Ugh, I hate that. My current EDC flashlight has a parasitic drain like that, so I have to keep the tailcap partially unscrewed so the battery isn't dead when I actually need it.
In this remastered episode I talk with author Mary Mahoney who details her experiences in The Children of God, talking us through the trials of her memoir. Mary
Okay, finally took the plunge and just booked a #camping trip this upcoming week instead of waiting for everything to just fall in place. We haven't been camping since before COVID.
I've got to go through all our gear to make sure everything's still in working order.
Just for fun, I decided to look into how to use an abacus the other day. I have no practical use for this whatsoever, it was just something I was curious about. Learning this of course made me want to buy an abacus. I know myself well enough to know that while it would probably be an inexpensive purchase, it'd only end up collecting dust on a shelf within a week.
Then I thought about programming a virtual abacus that I could then play around with. I know this to be an absolutely absurd idea, but that absurdity only kinda makes me want to do it even more.
Cast your ears back to the time I was given the chance to interview the legendary Jon Atack LIVE on stage at Crimecon UK. An experience I won't soon forget, and
Just started down the rabbit hole that is the Japanese electrical system. At a glance, it actually seems to make the North American system look sane. That's an impressive feat.
They aren't quite as deterministic as we might like them to be these days. I think some CPUs have a quantum randomness source, and task-scheduling across multiple computation units often _feels_ non-deterministic to me.
Plus, I do believe the term "Heisenbug" can be applied to bugs that go away when you turn on debugging/profiling/tracing or any other type of monitoring system that might be useful to diagnosis, even if everything is perfectly deterministic.
I mean, there is a basement floor and there is a hallway we could use down there in a worst-case scenario. Fortunately, the storm seems to be letting up.
@erin (she/her) You know, it's funny (in a not funny way). We've had a number of tornado warnings in recent years. In my childhood, I can only ever remember that happening once.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •For me, turquoise is green.
You should answer the questions as if those where your only two color words, so that any color they can possibly show you is either "green" or "blue".
But, *of course* most of the colors they showed me I would *actually* describe as "cyan", a common color from my CGA roots.
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. • •