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ch00f,

The way car companies are working around this legislation is why it’s so hard to find and buy smaller sized cars

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

ch00f,

Sous vide creme brûlée is stupid easy. Mix ingredients, pour into mason jar, screw lid lightly, dunk in water bath.

The only thing that can go wrong is if you manage to crack a jar.

ch00f,

Funny. I’m surprised this is Beat Buy. We didn’t get those until like 2002. It would have been CompUSA for me.

What are your best air fryer/oven recipes?

My parents got me one of them fancy countertop air fryer/oven things and idk what to cook first when I get it set up. According to the box, it does everything a normal oven does as well as air fries. It can hold two whole chickens or 1 frozen pizza. It came with a rack for things like toast and a baking sheet. I also have a...

ch00f, (edited )

You can do DIY potato fries if you couple the air fryer with sous vide. You need to get the starch out of the potatoes. People will suggest you soak them in water, but that only gets you so far.

Put the raw fries in a ziplock with enough water for them to float around. Put this bag into your water and set it to 170F and let them soak for 20-30 mins. Then dry them out (start in salad spinner and spread out on a towel), coat in oil/salt, and air fry at 400 until done.

The 170F water breaks down the pectin that holds the sugars in the potatoes, so if you don’t sous vide, you end up with caramelization/burned fries. This is actually what McDonald’s does to their fries.

A sous vide wand can be had for around $50, and you just need a big enough pot to hold whatever you’re cooking. They also do wonders for dark meat. Sous vide chicken wings are ridiculously good.

ch00f,

Also meteors don’t burn up due to friction. They burn up due to the heat generated by compressing the atmosphere stuck in front of them.

ch00f,

The heat doesn’t come from friction. It comes from compression of the gas in front of the object.

ch00f, (edited )

I hate golf for reasons above, but I recently tried Top Golf, and if there is any sustainable future for the sport, that’s it.

A single fairway can serve ~100 tees with probably 500 people playing. And some of the games are super accessible to people of lower skill levels. We played a round of Angry Birds at a work party where the virtual targets were only maybe 25-30 yards away. Super fun.

ch00f,

Yeah, they have a big screen that maps a 3D Angry Birds piggie tower over the fairway, and the birds follow the path of your ball. It really is an impressive 1:1 mapping.

ch00f,

Yeah, but there’s mini golf across town for that.

ch00f,

My mom’s friend was nearly pickpocketed in front of the Trevi Fountain by a man with two thumbs on his right hand. My mom caught him with his hand in her purse and made a big scene. He ran away.

I was 11 years old and had my camera out and ready and it kills me that I didn’t get a photo of his hand.

ch00f,

Heh, my thought too, but it wasn’t like an extra pinky. He had two thumbs stacked on top of each other. I don’t know where they joined, but I could see the pad of one thumb on top of the nail of the other.

I sort of left the hobbyist electronics world back in 2018, and now everything seems to have an embedded Raspberry Pi in it. What's the best way to catch up?

I’m an EE by trade focusing on embedded devices, but most of my work is in relatively low-power STM32 applications. When I stopped following developments in hobby kits, it was mostly Arduino Unos slowly driving I2C OLED displays....

ch00f,

and nobody knows how to code anything and read datasheets anymore.

You seem a bit bitter which I can relate to. As someone who cut his teeth writing assembly for an 8051, I remember feeling a bit cheesed by people using arduinos to do what could be done with a 555.

My career has gotten comfy, but I can feel my skills stagnating with all this new stuff coming out. I of course would never ship a product with a Raspberry Pi embedded in it, but I’d like to have a feel for how to solve problems using newer more advanced hardware. With that in mind, do you have any recommendations?

ch00f,

chugs down cool, refreshing, non-exploitative Lemmy.

Dang, wish it came in a large.

ch00f,

Beat me to it.

If I recall, nothing are nuts. Nuts don’t exist. Collective hallucination.

ch00f,

I hope that aluminum piano is bolted down tight.

ch00f,

Should have said 'this."

Why is the usage of 'this" and “that” so arbitrary in English?

ch00f,

Back in like 2013, there was a fruit cream soda with Shaquille O’neal branding called “Shaq Soda.” I think there was strawbeery and blueberry cream flavor.

I bought one at 7-11 and brought it to the bar across the street and asked them to make me a “Shaq and Jack.”

It was not good.

ch00f,

I love how some old military tech is like some shit an 8 year old would think up.

As someone who has operated a camera before, I have a hard time believing this camera ever took a single useful picture.

ch00f,

I literally bought a Lightphone II because I was spending too much time on reddit. Like, I’d stay in bed for an hour just scrolling.

I’ve recently slacked off and started keeping my iPhone (on wifi) next to me when I sleep. I loose interest in like 20 minutes.

I’ve made a point of not posting or commenting on reddit since the recent debacle, but it’s really frustrating when I have some OC that would be great for a niche community that just doesn’t exist in any real numbers on lemmy.

like Playdate dev or Framework laptop.

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