CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@benjancewicz
nice

@human3500
They play it on the TVs at a local brewery. I asked why and the server said "my dad owns the place and likes cornhole"

@AnguaDelphine
From what I saw, it seems like you are required to have a beard and a twitch account

ESPN was playing pro axe throwing, now it is playing the canadian roller hockey league. I am not a sports gal, but bad hotel tv is a requirement every time I travel and something about ESPN scraping up increasingly niche sports leagues is hitting the spot. With any luck, they will put on cornhole or kabbadi by the end of the day.

@iagox86

@Viss @da_667 @hrbrmstr it would really suck to be the person who has to do multiple rounds of that with a really fast turnaround time with someone who argues with every correction you suggest. If a job was like that then it would be really frustrating.

@Viss

@da_667 @iagox86 @hrbrmstr vercel not beating the allegations of being the ai slop cdn

@da_667

@Viss @iagox86 @hrbrmstr it's like when a guy puts "linux admin experience" on their resume but they really mean "installed kali in a vm once," but times 1000

@jackryder
brick for my family

You don't need to submit a useless form to Anthropic to learn how to use the io and sockets python libraries

@chirpbirb I'm still getting the error ;-;

[cybersecurity instructor reaching out to middle schoolers voice] Hey guys! You know what's funnier than 67? Active directory event code 4627! Are you ready to start kibanamaxxing until you're a gigadefender??? ha ha haaaaa you're gonna see this code a lot, folks.

@rootwyrm

@cR0w

It is so frustrating. Like, npr has until the past couple years been genuinely great. Then they got insecure about all the allegations of liberal bias and now it's like they have to meet a daily quota of shitty people to interview. A few weeks ago they straight up had a segment on the concept of "toxic empathy" that the far right has been espousing, but instead of tearing the concept to shreds they gave softball interviews to conservative authors and influencers about it.

@cR0w
NPR has been playing almost nonstop interviews about AI lately, and I am pretty sure every single person they have interviewed says "The problem is there are right ways of using AI and wrong ways of using AI" before inevitably describing how they use it in a way that another interview will call out as being the wrong way to use it.

Well, you see, a slot machine is just a tool...there are right ways to play the slots and wrong ways to play the slots...

Chinese teacher: ok so [chinese concepts I don't quite understand yet]

Me: [dial up noises in my brain] wait! It's like in French how [french concept that is sort of related]

Chinese teacher who has barely started learning French: [dial up noises]

@cthululemon
what a distinguished gentleman

@miah I like the implications of this post. How many of these bowls have you consumed to reach this conclusion? I may be getting tutored by a master of macaroni science

Experimental results:

Experimental equipment: Toshiba ML-EM45PIT "Origin Inverter" 1250 W microwave

3 minutes on 40% power resulting in ZERO spilled water. I repeat: ZERO SPILLED WATER. This is groundbreaking.

However, initial results were disappointing. The macaroni was slightly underdone, and the sauce was watery, almost as if Kraft expects the water to boil out. Unacceptable.

Upon taking the macaroni out and thoroughly stirring the cheese powder in, I let it sit for one minute (60 seconds) at room temperature, to let the macaroni continue to gently cook and the cheese sauce fully hydrate. At that point, the macaroni had a good texture and the sauce had thickened. One more minute of sitting at room temperature (to account for reading fedi and checking what model my microwave is) yielded and even better result.

Preliminary results: the true macaroni instructions are to microwave them for 3 minutes at 40% in a 1250 W microwave after thoroughly stirring the water and starch together. Then, remove from the microwave, thoroughly stir in the cheese sauce powder and let sit at room temperature for 1-2 minutes longer to fully hydrate.

@cR0w the bowl already includes xanthum gum and potato starch. I find that thoroughly whisking the water also helps

The tiny single serving bowls of microwave macaroni and cheese say to microwave them on high for 3.5 minutes.

Now, as anyone who has worked at a call center and needed the mac and cheese to get through a shift may know, following the directions as written is how you end up spending more time cleaning the microwave than eating macaroni, as that amount of time on that power level will always, 100% of the time, result in it splashing all the water out all over the microwave.

I have the little bowls in my home right now. For reasons. I am currently conducting experiments in what time and what power level you can get away with to cook the macaroni while minimizing splash.

So far, I have taken it as far down as 3 minutes on half power, but it still splashes out a bit. I am currently experimenting with 3 minutes on 40% power. After that I may experiment with 2:30 on half power, as I notice around the 2:30 mark is when the water gets uncomfortably close to the edge of the bowl.

I will conduct this science, and publish my research. In this way, I am contributing to the good of society.

@jackryder I'm super hype. I'm spending some time off in between jobs to get some gardening done and to visit my brother and maybe do some hiking