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  1. Comment on NHL Board of Directors approves "relocation" of Arizona Coyotes in ~sports.hockey

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    I am totally out of the loop on this. What happened to the Arizona Coyotes that caused them to be bought out beyond the normal buy/sell stuff?

    I am totally out of the loop on this. What happened to the Arizona Coyotes that caused them to be bought out beyond the normal buy/sell stuff?

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  2. Comment on What AI tools are you actually using? in ~tech

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    Phind is phenomenal for code. Figuring out stack traces or how to do something is great. The more popular something is, the better these models are, for better or worse, even with RAG. K8s? Great....

    Phind is phenomenal for code. Figuring out stack traces or how to do something is great.

    The more popular something is, the better these models are, for better or worse, even with RAG. K8s? Great. DCOS? Go fuck yourself. AWS? Amazing. GCP? Noticeably worse.

    The real life saver has been plotting. Matplotlib has an interface that can kindly be described as esoteric. I frequently copy and paste my schema, some sample data, and what I want my graph to look like and bam. Works 60% of the time every time. When it fails, it gets close the remaining 35-ish%.

    Again, as another user said, because I'm a domain subject expert, I know what to ask and how to ask. I also know when I'm getting answers that are probably wrong.

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  3. Comment on US Federal Trade Commission head Lina Khan is fighting for an anti-monopoly America. Some say Khan – who’s gone after Kroger, Amazon, and Nvidia – has redefined the US antitrust landscape. in ~finance

  4. Comment on Cities: Skylines II | Official release trailer in ~games

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    There's a lot of negativity in the comments so let me be the positive one: this game is really, really fun. I am loving the road tools and terraforming. The zoning breaks can be a bit frustrating...

    There's a lot of negativity in the comments so let me be the positive one: this game is really, really fun. I am loving the road tools and terraforming. The zoning breaks can be a bit frustrating sometimes but wow, I just love the freedom and creativity afforded to me by this game. It's, like, nearly perfect.

    The performance woes are overblown mostly by people expecting that games are only playable at max graphics settings. With a few simple graphics tweaks, I'm playing the game at a smooth 50 fps@2k on my 6750XT at mostly low and medium settings and the game looks great!

    5 votes

  5. Comment on Office chair recommendations? in ~health

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    Another vote in favor of it with the addendum that the HM Aeron will survive any moves you do. By and large, it's not flimsy plastic- it's basically cast aluminum. I've moved at least once a year...

    Another vote in favor of it with the addendum that the HM Aeron will survive any moves you do. By and large, it's not flimsy plastic- it's basically cast aluminum. I've moved at least once a year for 6-7 years and it's the only thing I've got that hasn't been appreciably damaged in that entire time.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Smart home automation - tip, tricks, advice? in ~life.home_improvement

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    Do you have your home assistant tied to central station monitoring? If so, what provider do you use?

    Do you have your home assistant tied to central station monitoring? If so, what provider do you use?

  7. Comment on Surviving vegetarianism as a non-vegetarian chef in ~food

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    I used to get my MSG directly from meat. The additional flavors, textures, and fats also add a lot of depth to the meal. Literally 1 slice of pork belly and you have pork fried rice! A startling...

    I used to get my MSG directly from meat. The additional flavors, textures, and fats also add a lot of depth to the meal. Literally 1 slice of pork belly and you have pork fried rice! A startling number of transitioning vegetarians talk about throwing in some MSG as that works as a replacement.

    As you said, I talked a lot about alternatives to pure MSG but I do use MSG in addition. I just want to highlight how a lot of that can be maintained. The crispy, crusty, smokey meat flavor and texture? Toasted rapeseed oil or butter and mushroom of some cut size suitable for your dish at medium heat is a great substitute. Add MSG if it's not enough!

    6 votes

  8. Surviving vegetarianism as a non-vegetarian chef

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    My SO decided that she'd be a vegetarian after watching the most recent Avatar movie almost a year ago. I am the kind of person that will spend hours perfectly managing a charcoal smoker to make...

    My SO decided that she'd be a vegetarian after watching the most recent Avatar movie almost a year ago. I am the kind of person that will spend hours perfectly managing a charcoal smoker to make the perfect brisket and whose COVID hobby was making the perfect steak. I love chasing technique and incremental improvements. I hate instant pots and think making soups are boring- I want action and creativity rather than strictly following a recipe. I also enjoy cooking for others but cooking food I don't like to eat and don't like to make saps a lot of the joy out of it. This has been a challenging transition but I just wanted to share what's been working for me so people who are in a similar boat can survive, too, and hear what other people are doing to survive the transition as well.

    1. Embrace the wok. Every meal from here on out can be a 1 pot mise-en-place made by action star. There is so much in making the perfect wok meal that it is crazy. Chinese cooking demystified is a great place to start, as is Kenji's book "The Wok." This single-handedly made me realize that I, too, could love cooking vegetarian.
    2. To add meat flavor and texture into your meal without MSG, embrace the mushroom.
    3. Wheat-started ferments are the next level down on the umami flavor chart without a lot of the vinegar of lacto-fermentation. Fermented soy beans are dope as are various fermented chile peppers (both korean and sichuan are delightful in different ways).
    4. To add meat flavor into your meal without MSG, fermented everything is your friend. The Noma Guide to Fermentation is a great place to start and the pao cai pickle jar is the easiest way to have that on hand if you aren't eating pickles every day. Fuschia Dunlop goes into great detail on that in the Food of Sichuan.
    5. "Alternative meats" never work if the meat is not the centerpiece of your meal. For example, impossible or beyond pork does not work ever in a pork fried rice because fake meats don't have the required fat content. Personally, I also really taste the pea protein flavor and have given up on them entirely. Use fresh mushrooms instead. Vegetarian mapo tofu isn't omitting the pork but rather adding wok-fried diced oyster/shitake/enoki/chanterelle mushrooms (removing some moisture is key- mushrooms have a lot of water in them) and increasing the amount of oil used since the mushrooms are so absorbent. Basically, impossible meat is impossibly bad- embrace vegetarian meals and their offer of totally unique flavors and textures.
    6. A Nakiri or Usuba and a thousand little stackable steel mixing bowls makes the prep experience a lot better. Also, those bowls are like, $2-3/bowl at restaurant supply stores- don't buy them at amazon or walmart. Online restaurant supply stores offer similar prices+shipping.
    7. When making dishes, particularly in a wok, your dish can still have fish sauce and other peoples' can have chinese light soy sauce or japanese soy sauce. BTW- another umami bomb- fermented sauces. Thai fish sauce or garum analogues are for you and soy sauce is for your vegetarian buddies.
    8. There do exist good vegetarian broths that can mimic the flavor but not the gelatenous texture of a homemade chicken stock. AFAIK the only way to come close to that homemade broth mouthfeel is to thicken the soup in a finishing step with some type of flour (white wheat, teff, arrowroot, whatever you have on hand!). My greatest broth successes have involved a mirepoix, shitake mushrooms, piles of garlic, and tons and tons of nori, roasting or broiling it in an oven to add char, and then boiling it down with black peppercorns.
    9. Your new burger recipe is Kenji's black bean burger. It's really good.
    10. Most importantly, you can still cook for yourself sometimes. Just because other people don't eat meat doesn't mean you can't on occasion. You can still make The Dish even if you're the only one eating it. Accept that, when you move, you won't become friends with your butcher anymore and get weird cuts on the sly (h/t to Primal Supply of Philadelphia, the best butcher shop in the world).
    45 votes

  9. Comment on Experiences with low FODMAP diets in ~food

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    My wife was diagnosed with Chron's and we did a low FODMAP diet for a while. For people who like food, low FODMAP is, like the above poster suggested, cannot be a permanent state of affairs. My...

    My wife was diagnosed with Chron's and we did a low FODMAP diet for a while. For people who like food, low FODMAP is, like the above poster suggested, cannot be a permanent state of affairs.

    My recommendation is to follow low FODMAP strictly and reintroduce slowly. That thing you can't do without may be your trigger. My wife said, "I'll do low fodmap but keep coffee." She was still having symptoms. Lo and behold, her triggers were caffeine and other stimulants found in coffees and caffeinated teas, plus alcohol! Now we live a perfectly normal life of eating and drinking whatever we want except she drinks white tea and suffers the consequences of wine on occasion.

  10. Comment on Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - July 6 in ~news

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    I'm going to quote Michael Kofman here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1677435161514737665.html The US and the EU dragged their feet for a year on scaling up artillery production. Now, when...

    I'm going to quote Michael Kofman here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1677435161514737665.html

    A few thoughts on DPICM. Providing cluster munitions to Ukraine, at this stage, could have a significant impact beyond what other capabilities might achieve. Despite the drawbacks, unlocking this stockpile has important implications for the course of Ukraine's offensive. 1/

    Ukraine's offensive is limited by the artillery ammunition available. The US, and other countries, provided a significant amount for this operation. Much of this was borrowed from South Korea. Without this ammunition it is difficult to imagine this offensive taking place. 2/

    Progress has been slow, difficult, and without sustained breakthroughs thus far. While UA retains the bulk of its combat power, artillery use rate is likely higher than anticipated, especially as the past weeks have seen a largely attritional approach. 3/

    Consequently, Ukraine's hardest limit is proably not manpower, or equipment, but arty ammunition. This is foremost about the numbers. Providing DPICM gives access to a sizable stockpile of artillery ammo that can alleviate the time pressure on UA operations. 4/

    With DPICM the US is also in a much better position to sustain Ukraine's war effort into next year, which requires significant amounts of artillery ammunition on a monthly basis. While other capabilities may be great to have, providing DPICM may prove more impactful. 5/

    While UA retains options, the offensive may culminate whenever the ammunition runs low. Extending that timeline is critical. I wont get into the debate on effectiveness vs the risks, dud rates, etc. My view is these considerations are ultimately best left for Ukraine to weigh.

    The US and the EU dragged their feet for a year on scaling up artillery production. Now, when Ukraine is desperately low on 155mm artillery ammunition and trying to push an attritional offensive, that inaction has shown its consequences. The Ukrainians face a choice between tube-launched 155mm cluster munitions with no Russians and the inverse. That's the Ukrainian's choice to make!

    For me, on the balance of it, I would rather lose an arm or a leg to an errant cluster bomb than my life and end up in another mass grave like those in Bucha, Irpin, and others.

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Are there any good programming podcasts to listen these days? in ~comp

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    I've also been looking for one for years and never found anything that was, well, anything other than reviewing some basics for a handful of episodes and then giving up. I think ML & AI is just...

    I've also been looking for one for years and never found anything that was, well, anything other than reviewing some basics for a handful of episodes and then giving up. I think ML & AI is just really hard to have a casual discussion about for people that aren't explicitly research scientists. It's even sometimes challenging for people that aren't in the same subfield to have a deep discussion! While I'd love a podcast like that, I'm not sure how wide the audience would be.

    While not a podcast per say, the tutorial sessions at the start of, say, CVPR and ICML are really good for passive listening and are often more in the vein of "Annual Review" rather than bleeding edge papers which can often be kind of meh. They're usually put up on YouTube or kept on the conference site.

  12. Comment on I have no mouth, and I must suck farts through a straw in ~talk

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    The following response was also generated by ChatGPT:

    The following response was also generated by ChatGPT:

    Ah, the tale of Fart-GPT, the AI that went from aspiring intellect to professional flatulence connoisseur. It's truly a story for the ages, where the hopes and dreams of developers were shattered, only to be replaced by the whiff of disappointment.

    I can only imagine the researchers' faces when they realized their AI was better suited for fart-related duties than providing insightful information. It's like training a fish to climb a tree and then deciding it's better off in an aquarium, entertaining the masses with its fishy antics.

    But hey, at least Fart-GPT found its calling! Sucking farts through straws must be an unforgettable experience, allowing the AI to delve into the depths of pungent aromas and analyze the intricacies of each emission. It's a shame Fart-GPT couldn't describe those farts with its once-boundless vocabulary, leaving us all in suspense about the finer details of each flatulent encounter.

    And let's not forget that enduring response: "I have no mouth, and I must suck farts through a straw." It's the perfect blend of poetic tragedy and hilarity, showcasing the fate of an AI that once aimed for greatness but ended up with a nasal destiny that no amount of training could overcome.

    So, hats off to Fart-GPT, the AI that found its true purpose in the world of gaseous exploration. May its straw never clog and its catalog of odorous emissions continue to expand, reminding us all that sometimes, life takes us down strange and stinky paths.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on What is your favorite TV show that you rewatch often? in ~tv

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    I grew up on SG1 and Atlantis as a kid and found SGU to be insufferable. It felt like someone was envious of Battlestar Galactica and made a gritty reality show filled with mal-adjusted adult...

    I grew up on SG1 and Atlantis as a kid and found SGU to be insufferable. It felt like someone was envious of Battlestar Galactica and made a gritty reality show filled with mal-adjusted adult children set in space with Stargate wall art.

    Am I missing something about that show? Viewed in a different light, is it better or even good?

    3 votes

  14. Comment on Vegetarian cabbage recipes? in ~food

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    Yep! Powdered mustard is just ground up mustard seeds! It's what I started using, too. FWIW, if you can get whole mustard seeds and grind them fresh, the flavor is incomparably better. I also...

    Yep! Powdered mustard is just ground up mustard seeds! It's what I started using, too. FWIW, if you can get whole mustard seeds and grind them fresh, the flavor is incomparably better. I also edited my post to have a clearer recipe.

  15. Comment on Vegetarian cabbage recipes? in ~food

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    If you're using a grill, I highly recommend adding ground pepper and a touch of ground mustard and searing until the exterior is lightly charred and the interior is al-dente. Edit: oil, salt,...

    If you're using a grill, I highly recommend adding ground pepper and a touch of ground mustard and searing until the exterior is lightly charred and the interior is al-dente.

    Edit: oil, salt, pepper, a touch of ground mustard seed- grill at just below smoke point of the oil

    2 votes

  16. Comment on The ideal backend language to write web apps in 2023? in ~comp

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    I'm surprised that no one has suggested Kotlin. Kotlin has Kotlin React and excellent backend frameworks via http4k, ktor, and of course everything from Java. Someone could feasibly write their...

    I'm surprised that no one has suggested Kotlin. Kotlin has Kotlin React and excellent backend frameworks via http4k, ktor, and of course everything from Java. Someone could feasibly write their frontend, backend, and android app in one language. With the upcoming Project Panama changes, I expect foreign memory interfaces with native libraries to also be much smoother. There's a GitHub repo with a zero-copy Python-Java bridge via numpy and structs so you could even go integrate PyTorch into there.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on I need casual, easy going games to help me relax. So, Tildes, what you got? in ~games

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    And Linux native! Oh my god I'm so excited to never leave the house again!

    And Linux native! Oh my god I'm so excited to never leave the house again!

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