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  • You went off the rail when you used "women" and "men" instead of "people".

    I'm not exactly sure which one is more frequent, the behaviour itself or the accusation thereof as thought- and conversation-terminating cliche, but both suck donkey ass. OTOH it's not some special grand thing in itself, either, it's plain old failure to relate and communicate.

  • Ceramics can take plenty of heat, the non-stick isn't stellar but it's there (and probably better or worse depending on manufacturer). And you can reduce tomato sauce in it without killing the patina because there is none. If the anti-stick properties degrade sodium percarbonate should fix that, stripping oil and polymerised oil and everything out of the microstructure. It's basically good ole enamel but with rougher surface. Kind of like those fancy lotus effect sinks.

    If your go-to is stainless then I don't think there's real advantages, if you want a second pan then I'd go with iron for actual anti-stick, and do those tomato sauces in stainless.

  • You are absolutely allowed to remove it, you just have to replace it. The correct thickness is "try to wipe it all off with kitchen tissue", it really shouldn't be a grease hazard to clothes.

    Also washing up liquid should do the trick.

    Eggs pretty much work like meat when it comes to stickiness, just with an even tighter window when it comes to right temperature and it's even more important to let the thing be for a while before attempting to move it.

    Also, yes, scraping. I use a burger flipper spatula which practically has a knife edge at the front. Ideally though things should be moving when you shake the pan, that is, loosen on their own.

  • My iron pan might very well be lighter than your stainless, it's actually quite flimsy. I guess technically they should be called steel pans because it is steel, as in iron alloyed with carbon but not so much as to make it cast iron, it just isn't stainless.

    That said yes stainless is also a proper thing they are very capable when it comes to searing in the flames of hell, but generally more for when you want things to stick and then deglaze. I'd go nuts making eggs in one.

    This "you can't even clean it" -- it gets heat-sterilised every use. Patina isn't dirt same as any other protective/functional coating isn't.

    Also stainless might have similar iron advantages as non-stainless pans. I repeat: You're not my enemy. People can also keep their enamel pans (old or the new-fangled non-stick ones), very useful if you want to e.g. boil tomato sauce for a while. It's Teflon I actually have an issue with.

  • Two main problems I have with cast iron - the care that they take is too much effort, and their constant risk of rusting if they’re not coated in oil at all times is just too much bullshit to deal with for a kitchen tool.

    I don't use cast iron either they're heavy and I generally don't need the heat capacity. Think De Buyer Mineral B, in that direction.

    Care+feeding in the usual case consists of as little as wiping them down with some kitchen tissue, or holding them under water and rummaging around a bit with a bristle brush (don't use a plastic one they can't take the heat), then re-applying oil which is literally a second of work. In nasty cases, steel wool instead of brush.

    Explaining all that took longer than actually doing it. Residual heat does most of the work: Evaporating left-over water. It might also already polymerise the new oil a bit, but generally that's done when you heat the pan up rule of thumb if it's not smoking off then you aren't frying at temperature.

    Also it's not like the pan would break instantly if you leave it out without a coat of oil. Some fly rust, is all, nothing serious. Scrub it off with steel wool or leave it on it actually doesn't matter iron oxide won't kill you.

    The other issue is that I try as best as I can to do oil-free cooking, and cast iron is antithetical to that.

    Vilifying fat is a ploy of the sugar and tobacco industry. Literally, it's all well-documented: The sugar industry to sell more sugar, the tobacco industry to blame the epidemic of heart disease on anything but smoking.

    Also we're talking about drops, you do not need more than a thin film on the thing. Thin as in "try to get it all off with kitchen tissue". If you burn it off when heating though you need to add some more before adding ingredients, what the Chinese call "hot wok, cold oil", it's a simple and reliable way to get excellent anti-stick. You don't need Chinese amounts of oil for that, maybe a tablespoon (actual one not those strange US measurements).

  • Hate to be that guy but y'all need iron pans. Proper sears at temperatures that would disintegrate Teflon, better and self-healing anti-stick coating than anything else (if used properly), you can use a metal spatula, no more anaemia, what's not to like?

  • The Wolfsburg-based manufacturer on Monday informed its works council

    Goshdarnit Guardian. You mean management, as in the CEO, informed the board, which has 50% - 1 seats allocated to the works council. Who already expressed their preference for the CEO to shove it. Then we have the seats representing the state stake (Lower Saxony owns 20%), which let it be known, somewhat more statesmanlike, that "the question of works closures won't arise because every other option will be exhausted first".

    My prediction? If the CEO doesn't clearly communicate that "those were of course theoretical considerations unlikely to have practical relevance" there's going to be a new CEO.

  • Screens still have real estate that you need to fit onto. You can do "click to expand" but frankly, who would look at that. You could have the full list in the bibliography section, but frankly, who reads all that: The stuff I look at is the citation abbreviation ([Miller et al 2003]), then the doi or journal/paper title to copy and paste. Everything in between gets ignored, if I read names then it's on paper titles, not citations. I've also seen a tongue-in-cheek proposal to overlay all author names on top of another in citations, sadly can't find the paper.

    Typography isn't the place where you want to attack this issue, at most you can get some token feel-good result that will be ineffective because it ignores the psychology of people looking up papers. Which is to say: You'll do net damage to your cause because you're spending goodwill capital on feel-good BS. If you want to have a systemic impact then attack the issue from the other end, such as cracking down on people which insert themselves as first author of every paper coming out of their department and stuff. Rule of thumb: If someone can't do a thesis style oral defence of a paper, their name has no business being anywhere even close to the front. I don't care when the administrative boss is listed at the end, though they should have the decency to put themselves after any assistant who did actual scientific work, even if it's just pipette wrangling.

  • VESA Adaptive-Sync goes back to the eDP stardard, 2009. AMD simply took that and said "Hey why aren't we doing that over external DisplayPort". And they did.

    So instead of over-engineering a solution that nobody asked for to create vendor lock-in nobody (but fanboys with Stockholm Syndrome) want they exposed functionality that many many panels already had, anyway, because manufactures don't use completely different control circuitry for laptop (eDP) and stand-alone monitors.

    And, no, nvidia's tech is not superior. From what I gather they have stricter certification requirements but that's it.

  • OpenAI will fail. StabilityAI will fail. CivitAI will prevail, mark my words.

  • One night I dreamt about the new C standard. It was a tome of ten thousand pages, in dense, tiny, font, three columns of text on each page, and it was all headings and sub-headings interspersed with nothing but either "undefined" or "implementation-defined".

  • Somehow I have the feeling that this is not going to convince people who think that 0.9999... /= 1, but only make them madder.

    Personally I like to point to the difference, or rather non-difference, between 0.333... and ⅓, then ask them what multiplying each by 3 is.

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  • I wouldn't want anyone to seize the food in your fridge. Unless with "seize" you mean "fill up unprompted" because people know you need to eat and that's enough reason to give you food, and maybe you're busy all the time with constructing bridges or whatnot so they also cook for you.

    And while corruption is an issue, it's not the only issue: The very act of having lots of capital to throw around allows companies to direct policy, you e.g. don't need to grease hands to get different municipalities to overbid each other with tax breaks for your new fidget spinner factory. The BS is inherent in the system.

    As to scaling: Possibly. Possibly not. I'd argue that it can't yet be envisioned, not even by anarchists themselves (and we're aware of that, hence all the gradualism)... but as you acknowledged that it can work in the small, what happens if all the municipalities we have turn into hippie communes? Would they elect, among themselves, an Emperor Commune to rule over them? I don't think so. They'd find ways to cooperate at eye level. How that will look in detail, as said, I have no idea, it's probably going to involve federation and plenty of subsidiarity.

    Practically, right now, it makes no difference as most of us are not living in hippie commune towns. First step would be to get there, then we can think about luxury gay space anarchism.

  • What would happen to those corporations without the government enforcing their property? Have you ever tried to seize a McDonalds to distribute food to the homeless?

  • With that out of the way, most of your suggestions boil down to “use lemmy.world instead”.

    It's where big replacement communities happen to be, that's all there is to it. Avoiding centralisation is a good thing in general but "tired of .ml mods? Here's alternatives" isn't the right time to go for it I think. Maybe the admins can come up with a scheme to round-robin disable community creation or something, to spread things out. Also, community migration is in the pipeline software-wise that would help a lot.

  • Lemm.ee will not defederate over tankie mods, there's a specific policy. As to the change I want to see: Guess what I did just before I posted the list, go through all my subscription and clean it of lemmy.ml.

    I very much doubt there's going to be one a day, these kinds of things tend to ebb and flow. Also it would've been much faster to ignore this thread than to reply.

  • The reason is flexibility, the board manufacturer can decide how many PCIe lanes to send where, how many USB ports there's going to be etc. Modern mainboards are a power delivery system and IO backplane.