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barsoap

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  • Trump tells UK to buy chlorinated chicken from US if it wants tariff relief

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  • It's not so much sugar in the flour but amylase in the flour turning starch into simpler sugars. If you add sugar to your dough it means that you're either not giving enough time to autolyse, or you're making cake. Either way it's not proper bread. And yes this also applies to non-sourdough bread. You need a minimum of two or three hours of autolysis for the dough to be nicely digestible and workable on the benchtop, there's dough conditioners which can imitate part of that but well then you're getting American "bread". A typical German process develop the sourdough for about 1 1/2 days, then mix the final dough, let it rest for 2-3 hours (Stockgare, depending on temperature, humidity etc), then form it, then 1 - 1 1/2 hours of final leavening (Stückgare). And it's not like you can't get industrial bread over here, it's just that they're not taking shortcuts when it comes to time.

    There's regions which add sugar beet syrup, recipes with extra malt (often with active enzymes), or good ole pumpernickel which develops its sweetness through low and slow baking (24 hours in the oven), but adding plain sugar? That's just ignoble.

  • ErikMcClure/bad-licenses: A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.

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  • The Nuclear Waste Software License is brilliant. Not only does it make the right impact when publishing random write-only code, it's legally BSD so lawyers won't be up your arse about it. In fact, it only strengthens the warranty disclaimer.

  • Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better

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  • The one thing to criticise about steam (and that they're slowly, but surely, losing a EU court case over) is inability for customers to sell their games.

    Their marketshare is organic, based on being the choice of store both from the customer and developer POV. As a customer you get the usual painless returns, great interface, community features and whatnot, as a developer you get plenty of store features which make life and customer acquisition and gamedev a lot easier (things like playtesting, next fests) and most of all you get customers because steam has lots of customers and a real, I mean real good, recommendation algorithm. Sure, Epic wants a smaller cut but you're also not going to sell much, there, which is why they had to lure devs in with advances, guaranteed sales, etc. Larger publisher might not like steam so much because they have gigantic marketing budgets in the first place so all the discoverability/recommendation stuff is not as relevant but, well, fuck EA, Ubi, etc IDGAF, I don't want to hear it, cry silently.

    As to the "can't sell games for lower prices elsewhere" myth: That applies to when you're selling steam keys in places that are not steam. Which is fair, if you're selling steam keys then that's incurring costs for them (if nothing else, bandwidth) and they don't even get their usual cut when you sell a steam key off-steam, least you can do is not undercut them.

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  • Do any of you here use Programming socks?

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  • My prof called K&R C "Knall und Rauch C", "bang and smoke C". Also: C lattice fence.

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  • Doesn't occur directly in plants but can be produced by humans from beta carotene. Carrots, kale, spinach, honey melon, others, the list isn't exactly short or expensive.

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  • When talking evolution it's not just humans, and human behaviour. The fasting metabolism, hunger hormone system etc. is shared through pretty much all of the animal kingdom. We had it before we left the seas. Fish don't stockpile food, they store it in adipose tissue with about exactly the same mechanism as we do, there might not be much food around, that means increased competition, that means you need to be active, not lethargic, when hungry, and the level of exertion experienced during that fasting time will be taken by the body as the signal how much to bulk up, that's why growth hormones are highly active at that time. We're dealing with a truly ancient mechanism.

    You can trust that I read up on the stuff or you can do it yourself or you can trust an army of gymbros to have done it.

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  • There's not a single nutrient you can't get from plants or fungi, that wasn't the issue. But yes it's literally essential for vegans to know what they need as unlike the rest of us, they are way less covered by simply grabbing something from the supermarket shelf.

  • DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

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  • I'm not enough into that industry to actually give a good estimate, here, but the amount of COBOL systems still up and running is certainly not even close to non-zero, and it's going to stay that way for a while. From what I gather for companies moving away from COBOL is more of a "programmers are hard to find" situation, not "these systems absolutely must be replaced" one. It's well-supported and scaled with their business, as in, in places they're running the same 60 year old code on new mainframes because if there's one thing that IBM mainframes are then it's excessively backwards-compatible.

    As far as the language is concerned: It's not hard, it's just weird, dating back from an age where people thought randomly calling things "divisions" would make businesspeople capable coders. The reason I'm not in that space isn't because of the language but because of the type of software you write there, it's all bookkeeping and representing business procedures, as said: Bureaucracy.

    Also I'm not sure what "modernising" actually meant, there: SEPA instant payment was introduced, meaning that mainframes won't batch up the day's transactions and then talk to each other every night so cross-bank transfers took a day to process, now they're doing it in ten seconds. Most banks already supported instant transfers within their own systems so they should only have had to rewrite the external interface as the rest was already up to the task.

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  • I'd argue the "eat before the workout" advise isn't right: While you shouldn't work out directly after eating as your body will direct energy towards digestion, working out on a fasting metabolism is beneficial as fasting comes with high levels of growth hormones. Evolutionary speaking: You're not hunting when you have food, you're hunting when you're hungry. How can you have breakfast before you caught it.

    You might not be able to hit peak performance at the tail end of even just an interval fast, but it is going to do all kinds of signalling to your body to put more energy into growing muscle. The growing happens not while you're lifting, but after you inhaled the chicken you caught.

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  • The most infuriating discussion I had online about proteins was with a vegan, their claim was "there is no such thing as essential amino acids". Couldn't get it into their head that a) there are essential amino acids but b) yes, unless you eat so horribly lopsided it's unknown of anywhere but in horribly deprived populations or among some indigenous folks (pretty much only eating manioc or such) there's nothing to worry about, you'll get your essentials. Kinda like Vitamin C deficiency being unheard of in the developed world because even the most gutter-rat of diets still contains enough as an antioxidant. Still not a bad idea to pair beans with rice and lentils with noodles or bread, though, IMNSHO they just taste better that way around.

    Especially infuriating as it was a vegan. If you choose to have a diet that requires nutritional knowledge to get right then don't suck at it, and call your fellow travellers out when they're spewing BS. I really doubt vegans are keen on yet another "I stopped being vegan and it fixed my anaemia" story. Take an apple or two. Either eat them, there's your iron, or make a sauce that works with a sour/sweet accent (i.e. chunks of apple) and prepare it in an iron skillet, there, even more iron. It's not hard but you gotta stop pretending that vegans can get by without understanding nutrition.

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  • When I'm forced into a qwerty situation it's not just 30 seconds, I simply can't touch-type qwerty and my current qwerty skills are way slower than 25 years ago where I had reached peak seven-and-a-half-fingers hunt-and-peck performance. In principle I should know where all the keys are, still, I can't find them without looking. Somewhat similarly, I don't really know where keys are with dvorak when my fingers aren't on the home row but I am faster finding them on a touch display than finding qwerty keys. Also dvorak is nice on the smartphone your thumbs alternate more often.

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  • I mean yes but no. Back at some old job all the devs had the local admin password so we could do things like install drivers for bluetooth dongles on our own (I said "old job", didn't I) and usually everything was fine but at some point my machine just barfed, it would neither install nor uninstall drivers. I called an admin because I have no idea about windows internals. They were ecstatic, finally, an actual problem, and not walking someone in marketing through how to write an email. Some arcane regedit magic later the problem was solved, and yes I had layout switching ready on the taskbar.

  • DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

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  • COBOL is the career advise you hear people give for people who want to make money but don't want to deal with the VC clownshow. COBOL btw is only 13 years older than C and both language's current standard dates to 2023.

    It's at its core a bog-standard procedural language, with some special builtins making it particularly suited to do mainframe stuff. Learning COBOL is no worse a career investment than learning ABAP, or any other language of the bureaucracy. Sure you'll be a career bureaucrat but that's up sufficiently many people's alley, no "move fast and break things", it's "move slowly and keep things running".

  • do you hate AI generated art? why?

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  • Stock images are a whole category of awful of their own.

  • do you hate AI generated art? why?

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  • However, as it stands the majority of the tools in place cost a fair bit of money to set up and run

    You can get by with 4G of VRAM if all you want is to generate some pictures, or differently put every PC capable of 1080p gaming should do the trick. With good software (comfyui) you can do SDXL just fine, and almost crush SD1.

    It's fine-tuning much less training models where things get expensive but there's other ways to get creative with those models. Training is only ever barely possible on gaming GPUs because those cap out at about 16G VRAM.

    (Just for completeness' sake, for anyone wondering "why don't I just use my 32G worth of CPU RAM to supplement the VRAM?" -- that's already happening anyways. You need a minimum amount of VRAM or your box will be busier shuffling data from and to the GPU than it is actually doing calculations: Your GPU is going to thrash. If that happens it's probably faster to run the AI on the CPU and, well, it's just not build to run that kind of code).

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    'vegetative electron microscopy'

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  • From all I know none of the systems that people have built come even close to testing the speedup: Is error correction going to get harder and harder the larger the system is, the more you ask it to compute? It might not be the case but quantum uncertainty is a thing so it's not baseless naysaying, either.

    Let me put on my tinfoil hat: Quantum physicists aren't excited to talk about the possibility that the whole thing could be a dead end because that's not how you get to do cool quantum experiments on VC money and it's not like they aren't doing valuable research, it's just that it might be a giant money sink for the VCs which of course is also a net positive. Trying to break the limit might be the only way to test it, and that in turn might actually narrow things down in physics which is itching for experiments which can break the models because we know that they're subtly wrong, just not how, data is needed to narrow things down.