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Buddahriffic

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  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • America does have its own style, though. Or rather a set of styles, just like any other region.

    I would say that one aspect of "American-style" cooking (and "American" here includes "Canadian") is avoiding cooking. There's so many options when you don't really want to cook. Just stack some premade elements onto the premade bread and you've got a sandwich. Or stick a frozen dinner in the oven (with entire sections of grocery stores dedicated to the options). Or boil some premade dried pasta and mix with heated up premade sauce. Or just get someone to bring you warm food made by someone else.

    Or for actual cooking, there's each of the variants in the OP meme. So many things that people complain about not being authentic, when it's actually just being cooked American style. Might be due to what ingredients are easier or cheaper to get, which style is easier to make, or just preference.

    Pizza is a great example. I've had pizza that was described as "authentic italian" and personally I find it to be soggy and floppy compared to the pizza I normally eat. It's not bad, but I prefer the American style by far. At least in general, a poorly executed American pizza can still be gross, and a high end Italian pizza will probably still be more enjoyable than a mid end American pizza, but all else equal, I like pizza with crust that isn't saturated with sauce to the point of no structural integrity and toppings smothered in cheese.

    Curry is another one that varies quite a bit by style. I like the Thai style (the curry is more of a soup than a sauce) the best personally, but don't think I've ever tried a curry I didn't like. It's a dish where you need to be more specific than "curry" to say what you have in mind.

    The reality is that the vast majority of people have had as little to do with how their culture's cuisine has developed as anyone else, so the bragging or competitive comparisons don't really make sense. Same thing if there's any shame with being from one of the less prominent or made fun of cultures. I'm Canadian and while I love a good poutine, I had nothing to do with their invention.

    Whether or not the dishes were invented in North America, I'd say that the following all are North American dishes (mostly based on my own upbringing in Southern Canada):

    • pizza
    • hot dogs
    • hamburgers + french fries
    • traditional thanksgiving dinner (turkey, stuffing, mashes potatoes, bread, cranberry sauce, etc)
    • eggs/bacon breakfast
    • various mayonaise + X sandwich salads (eg egg or tuna)
    • potato chips
    • steak/ribs bbq style
    • chicken wings
    • clam chowder
    • chicken noodle soup
    • chili
    • sloppy joes
    • casseroles
    • mac and cheese
    • grilled cheese sandwhiches
    • deviled eggs
    • loaded fries/baked potato
    • pasta and meat sauce

    Today, my culture includes things like sushi and curry, too. Not to say I have any kind of ownership or special connection other than I enjoy eating them and make an effort to do so from time to time.

  • Japanese Precision & Accuracy

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  • I wonder if it has anything to do with lack of enforcement making weed effectively decriminalized long before the official legalization went through. Official legalization was more of a "government and their buddies want in on the lucrative market", ignoring that weed was only as expensive as saffron because of the legal risk (or illusion of one) that went along with trading it.

    Saffron is expensive because each plant grows 1-4 flowers, and each flower has two yellow and two red stigmata, and saffron is the two red ones. A whole acre of it will yield less than a kilo IIRC.

    Weed, on the other hand, is aptly named because it is happy growing pretty much anywhere from swamps to dessert mountains. Only real complication with it is the whole determining the sex of the plant ASAP to remove/separate the males before they pollinate the females and then watch for hermaphrodites. Though, even then, it only affects the quality of the final product, as fertalized females still produce bud, it just has seeds in it (at a surprisingly high density if you've never gotten seedy bud before) and doesn't mature the same. Still works fine for extracts.

    If done properly, you can get the whole yield of an acre of saffron from a single weed plant.

  • Obvious "AI" slop trying to garner sympathy for fascist paramilitary invaders. Do not fall for generated propaganda. Learn to tell the difference.

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  • Also notice how it's acting yelling, not the genuine rage they are trying to portray.

  • Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State

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  • I'm disappointed that it took seeing that ad for so many people to realize what should have been obvious: ring, along with teslas, and any voice assistant listening devices, or any other cloud-based tech that monitors video, audio, or even other data, can be used to set up an unprecedented surveillance network. Phones are a part of it, too, at the very least as tracking beacons, assuming the mics and cameras aren't being tapped more often than that little activity dot indicates.

    There's a reason why the venn diagram of people who really understand tech and people who are enthusiastic about most new tech in the last decade and a bit aren't the same circle. The Snowden revelations weren't surprising on the "what they are capable of" side of things, though there had been hope before they came out that they weren't crossing the lines that tech would have easily allowed them to. Just like when zuck bragged about the information fb users just gave him, that wasn't all new but there was an unspoken (and perhaps naive) rule that admins should respect their users' privacy.

    When I was on the webteam for a gaming community, it would have been trivial to set up the login page to also store all user/password/email combos in a location none of the other team would be likely to notice. We hashed the password in the db, but I could change the source code to do whatever. Even if it was hashed on the client, I could have added a temporary unhashed field and get all the plaintext credentials to check who uses the same password for their email. I didn't because I respected our users, but from then on just assumed that any site admin could see my credentials and never reuse passwords.

    That also applies to Lemmy, btw. At the very least, you shouldn't use the same password for you email and anything else (though also be aware emails are just sent as plaintext to a bunch of servers while being routed to your email provider).

  • This void needs to be reset to its factory settings

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  • Instructions unclear. It was working at first, but then after I ate the tuna, my cat peed in my boots despite being fully litter trained prior.

  • BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair

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  • Yeah, security screws are security theatre. I had an electronics screw driver set that came with a bunch of the rarer screw bits by default. Actually ran into one I didn't have, then noticed another set with that one (plus other features like the long bendy bit for hard to reach screws) next time I was in the tool section and just bought it.

    That said, I won't be needing this one. Driving a BMW would go against the image I'm trying to cultivate of not being an asshole.

  • ESL homework

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  • You: the existence of the subway is actually a lie to make Russia look strong to the west.

    Bob: oh damn

    You: we aren't allowed to talk about it in English. The birds are microphones.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • Similar with mp3 bitrate. While I do think I noticed a difference going from 128kbps to 192kbps, anything beyond that I can't hear a difference for.

    Which clearly means I need to dump 15k into my sound setup because it maxes out somewhere between 128kbps and 192kbps!

    Edit: dumb -> dumpaound -> sound

  • Sleep well

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  • Glad you used "effectively impossible" because I think it is possible, though it would be tedious as fuck to do because you'd have like a hundred different shades where each one gets used only a handful of times. It would probably take a computer program pattern helper where you tell it what colour you're doing so it can highlight where that thread is supposed to show up. You might need to spin some of your own threads to get the correct shades, too.

    That would be like a $1000 pillow for the number of hours that would need to go into it, at least.

  • Everything's fine. Nothing to see here.

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  • Sounds like the people who are realistic about AI are going to end up having a huge advantage over people who use it naively.

    Like with statistics, there are a lot of tools out there that can handle them perfectly accurately, you just don't want an LLM doing "analysis" because the NN isn't encoded for that. Consider how often our own NNs get addicted to gambling while not being fully specialized for processing language. An LLM might not get caught up in a gambler's fallacy, but that's more on account of being too simple than being smarter.

    I wonder if this will break the trust in MBAs because LLMs are deceptively incompetent and from the sound of this comment and other things I've seen, that deception works well enough that their ego around being involved in the tool's development clashes with the experts telling them it's not as useful as it seems.

  • Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

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  • I read the comment, then judge the comment and use that judgement and voting scores to judge the community.

  • DIY

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  • I think those are where the name "desktop" comes from, though that term now refers to other computer things.

    I refer to them as "tower", "case" (which is technically just the shell and frame, but can include the contents), "computer", or "machine".

  • A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad

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  • Yeah, windows came from a different era where if you're seeing a new exe, it's because you put a disk in the drive and explicitly navigated to it. Speaking of which, this isn't even the first time that convenience ended up opening up a wide security hole because they handled CDs differently and added an autoplay feature that would check the disk for autorun.exe and just run it if autorun was enabled. I started disabling it after word about sony's rootkits got out but have been appalled to see it enabled by default still ever since then.

    I was one of the few that appreciated UAC when it was there and kept it on one of the stricter settings. I'd rather my PC ask than assume, but people bitched about it so they weakened it and eventually just got rid of it entirely I think?

    Though a permissions setup would be even better. I didn't like that UAC was an all or nothing prompt, plus it didn't give any details about what a program wanted to do. Are you asking because this program is trying to create a new directory in program files or because it wants to replace system32 dlls with its own versions?

    It's an area even Linux can improve in (though probably depends on flavour). I like the android permissions model, where there's various actions and you can allow or deny categories (though GrapheneOS does it even better by also sandboxing everything). I'd love to see something like that for my desktop, where apps are free to save files but can't touch files that aren't their own unless an explicit share is set up, where I might want one app to have network access and no disk access and another to have the opposite. I'd love to be at a state where I could just run any executable from the internet because I know that my OS won't let it fuck anything up other than its own address space. Hell, could even dedicate a core to monitoring apps to detect if one breaks out of its sandbox without my explicit permission (while the OS also doesn't use that to enforce the desires of other developers over my own).

  • DIY

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  • It might be sufficient if the case airflow is good. Not sure if you could avoid any heat throttling that way, but I'd guess it wouldn't need to shut down because of heat.

  • DIY

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  • This one is even worse than just removing the CPU cooler, because that cooler is now blocking the hot air from leaving the case via the rear fan.

  • DIY

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  • No, they pulled the cooler off thr CPU and decided to use it to block airflow entirely to the CPU case fan. Best guess is that they are trying to build an expensive smart oven.

  • DIY

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  • Back in the 00s, a story about CPUs getting so hot they'd start on fire went viral. In it was a video of someone removing the cooler while it was running and then a few seconds later a flame appears.

    On the one hand, obviously you shouldn't remove your CPU cooler while it was running.

    But on the other hand, fans and mounts can fail, so this was still a risk even for people who were smarter than removing the cooler entirely.

    It prompted CPU makers to add thermal protections that started out as "if CPU hits threshold, cut power", but over time more sophisticated heat management was integrated with more sophisticated performance and power management.

    So these days, if you aren't sufficiently cooling your CPU, it won't die much quicker, instead it will throttle performance to keep heat at safe levels. OP would have gotten better performance out of it after removing that plastic. Assuming it was CPU bottlenecked in the first place. Things like RAM choice and settings can make it a moot point because the RAM can't keep up with the CPU at 100% power anyways.

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  • That "we" isn't global. Some called it "the CPU", some called it "the hard drive", some made fun of those two groups for not knowing what they were talking about.

  • Is Windows FOSS now?

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  • I believe it was a product of the earlier conflict between copyright owners and AIs on the training side. The compromise was that they could train on copyright data but lose any copyright protections on the output of the AI.