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stealth_cookies

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  • [QUESTION] What is the best way to learn to cook and improve?

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  • There are a couple ways to approach this. Find a couple "one pot" or "one pan" meals and try those to get a healthy balanced meal without feeling overwhelmed. Soups and stews can be great for this.

    Otherwise a meal should have a protein (e.g. meat or beans), veggie(s), and a carb. Keep it simple if you want to focus on being healthy. Also instead of trying to time everything cook each element separately and reheat when you are ready to eat. I'd do something like:

    • baked chicken thighs using a seasoning mix (great thing about chicken thighs of that they are tolerant to overcooking)
    • roasted veggies (grab baby carrots, add enough oil so they just shine, add some salt and pepper and roast at 400F until they are just soft)
    • steamed rice

    Obviously this takes longer, but gaining confidence is more important than speed. Also know that even good cooks mess up occasionally and have things come out bad. These are learning opportunities, don't get put off of trying again because of a couple failires (on that note watch Glen and Friends cooking on Youtube, he shows mistakes and has the right attitude to dealing with them)

  • [QUESTION] nonstick cookware?

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  • Unpopular opinion, but all nonstick cookware has a limited lifespan, get something inexpensive and Teflon and expect to replace it away every couple years. For the most part do your cooking in stainless steel, carbon steel, or cast iron cookware which are all fairly nonstick of you have good technique and save the Teflon for more challenging foods or when you can't be bothered to wait for a pan to heat properly.

  • Android TV Box vs. Mini-PC Cody/Jellyfish

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  • The whole TV streaming space is just super depressing. Even though I try to self host as much as I can, nothing I've found comes close to the experience of Android TV even with the ads (though you can replace the launcher to fix that problem).

  • 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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  • I really noticed when I switched from Spotify to Tidal that there is something different about Spotify's sound quality that makes it worse even at the highest streaming quality. I was surprised since I fully admit that in 99% of cases I can't tell the difference between a 128kbps MP3 and a FLAC of the same file.

  • AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds

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  • I honestly used AI for something other than summarizing a meeting yesterday. It failed so miserably that I'm really not apt to use it again. Maybe I was wrong to assume it could summarize a simple graph into a table for me.

  • Smart Homes Are Terrible

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  • Good point, I missed adding that crucial detail.

  • Smart Homes Are Terrible

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  • Smart Homes arent terrible, but it is easy to end up with a terrible smart home if you don't take care in designing it.

    Consider who is using it. Are they tech saavy enough to use an app? Is every user only within your household? If not, make sure everything can be controlled without an app, smart buttons are a great solution. What automation actually benefits your lifestyle? Keep it simple where possible, start with just lights and maybe some sensors.

    I think it is best to have an overall plan to make sure your devices work together, but start small. Choose devices that run on stable platforms and locally. Make sure everything can connect to Home Assistant, even of you don't plan on using it, having the option may benefit you in the future.

  • Decriminalization worked. B.C. killed it anyway

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  • Pretty much, you need to invest in all the pillars to deal with the drug addiction epidemic. Just decriminalizing doesn't solve the problem for society as a whole, the non-drug using public also needs to see a marked decrease in drug users on the street and reduced crime for a program to be a true success.

    I said from say one that this was doomed to fail because they weren't primarily investing in mental health and addiction treatment that was sorely needed. Of course that is the expensive and hardest part. Decriminalizing drugs is the "quick and easy" part.

  • Clever trick to Un tangle a spool

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  • Tangled spools are a user caused issue 99.9% of the time. About the only way a spool could be tangled out of the box is if the manufacturer had to manually rewind it and they screwed up.

  • Nearly 1,300 customers affected by Canada Computers data breach, company says

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  • The article says that they say it only affected customers that check out as a "guest". Presumably most customers use an account when making a purchase.

    That said I saw the people reporting it initially saying you didn't even need to submit the form to be affected so I don't know how they can tell how many customers were affected.

  • The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore

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  • I typically build a whole new PC and then do a mid-life GPU upgrade after a couple generations. e.g. I just upgraded my GPU I bought in late 2020. For most users there just isn't a good reason to be upgrading your CPU that frequently.

    I can see why some people would upgrade their GPU every generation. I was suprised at how expensive even 2 generations old card are going for on ebay, if you buy a new card and sell your old one every couple years the "net cost per year" of usage is pretty constant.

  • Can you tell when the dry filament started being extruded?

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  • I've got the same experience, never really had any issues with moisture for either PLA or PETG.

  • Anyone use Bambu Lab Cool Plate

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  • Pretty much every PLA or PETG print unless I want the textured surface of the powder coated sheet.

    Large prints seem to peel off fine, and then I use the razor to slice off any smaller prints that don't peel off when I flex the bed.

  • Anyone use Bambu Lab Cool Plate

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  • Cool plate supertack I assume you mean given there is an older cool plate available too.

    Yeah having the razor blade scraper is a requirement for that build plate to get some types of prints off. I live the plate since I pretty much just don't have to wash it or worry too much about accidentally touching the surface.

  • Trying to design a simple photo frame. Please help me understand these print issues.

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  • Yeah, that isn't going to work. The nozzle has drag force due to the molten plastic so any tall and thin beams are going to flex as the layers are deposited.

  • I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore (video) (enshittification of computer repair)

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  • I have a hard time calling this enshittification, it dilutes term if it is just used to mean anything getting worse. Rather it should be used to describe the purposeful corporate destruction of a service's value to boost profit after attracting users.

  • AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

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  • "Its the customer's that are wrong" is essentially what he is saying. Anyone with any marketing ability should know how insane that sounds. Build something that people want to use to drive growth. This is pretty much an admission that LLMs are a solution in search of a problem.

  • Does Prusas textured sheet...work at all?

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  • Stupid question, you sure you are using the right bed temperature? The feature of a PEI textured sheet is that it self released the part when the bed cools down,.

  • Does Prusas textured sheet...work at all?

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  • Back when I had a Prusa I never had any success with the textured sheet and PLA, however it worked perfectly with PETG.