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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • I just use butter to cook my eggs. I also pay attention to the bonds that the bottom of the egg form with the pan. By using a stainless turner on a stainless pan you can get between the egg and the bonds it’s forming with the pan. The more often you manipulate it and make sure those bonds don’t form, the more “non-stick” the egg is.

    I usually pan flip single eggs cooked with this method because the egg slides around the pan easily.

    My wife has a problem doing the same though, so I buy a couple of the disposable Teflon junk pans on a recurring basis.

    I’ve been looking at the pirotech pans which are supposed to be nonstick and fully recyclable, but I’ve been unable to find a lot of reviews on them.







  • Oh come on, we cannot expect this class unconscious wannabe professional vibe coder to have market awareness. A lot of software developers are people who basically won the lottery (got into the right field at the right time) and think they deserved all of it. They think the poor people who were in other careers are just worse than them and that’s why they’re poor.

    He doesn’t understand why unseen people aren’t clamoring to pay him $150k/year to browse Reddit when they don’t even have to anymore to provide the illusion to the market that they’re software companies.

    That’s right guys, some of this is about impressions and stock prices and always has been. It was the case before chatgpt and friends that you’d have to have a slew of engineers doing stuff to look like a tech company. No longer. Even the big tech companies are doing away with lots of people. So now to look like a tech company you have to keep saying AI into a mirror and hope it conjures up a bunch of new investors.





  • It’s a sad day for our species, and barely anybody even notices.

    It’s kinda like when you’re hungry and the hunger pains don’t go away until twenty minutes after you’ve started eating so you eat way too much.

    A lot of the major consequences aren’t here yet (enough that denial is still possible). People will notice after it’s already gotten really terrible and it’s beyond obvious that we should’ve done anything at any cost about it.

    Maybe when the arctic circle is springing up palm trees people will understand that it’s not a Chinese hoax.



  • Cable providers have unskippable ads on their own “on demand” platforms. I’m sure they track everything you do on their apps and their (often required for no technical reason) cable boxes. The only reason they didn’t participate more in surveillance capitalism is that they didn’t have the technical chops. They tried – and are still trying – their best to strangle broadband with needless data caps and anticompetitive agreements with alternative ISPs.

    Cable companies were also rabidly anti-dvr as anyone who had a tivo can attest to. I’m glad you like your cable provider or whatever, but cable companies suck in the US.




  • AI didn’t make the change. AI made no policy changes. The logout thing was a backend bug. The only thing the AI did was hallucinate that the bug was actual policy.

    And honestly, it’s completely fair that it would behave this way if its training data contained actual interactions with support agents or developers apologizing for shitty software. I don’t even know how many times I’ve encountered people in my career that insisted that – to quote 30 Rock – they had built the bookshelf that way on purpose, and that they wanted the books to slide off.