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cube_drone

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90% JOKES ABOUT SOFTWARE / 10% PICTURES OF CAT
Vancouver, Canada - Lead backend developer for all of virtual reality, or VRChat at least.

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cube_drone, to random
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I think Slate may imply that the problem is sexism and while that's likely the case, I'd also like to advance the theory that the last few remaining fans of golf have simply died

lzg, to random
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    cube_drone,
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    @lzg nah, I'm Canadian, all of our classics are dour stories about farmers angrily glaring at one another from the wheat fields

    cube_drone, to random
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    every time I see two people hugging in a picture my mind immediately moves to the next frame where one of them is delivering a devastating suplex

    try it: you, too, can enjoy this brain disease

    cube_drone,
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    the suplex is objectively funny

    cube_drone,
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    like, imagine this scenario:

    a realtor is taking a man through a nice building. they say "well, if this fourplex isn't the right size for you, perhaps I can interest you in a duplex?"

    prospective buyer: "no, I still think that's going to be too small."

    realtor: "okay, well, I'm showing off a beautiful suplex right now."

    prospective buyer: "a... suplex?"

    realtor:

    cube_drone, to random
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    "emulation isn't piracy" is, IMO, a "guns don't kill people" argument: while it's technically true, it's disingenuous to the point of being useless

    that's not to say I'm against it: I'm actually all for emulation, but I think emulation's benefits are arguments in favor of piracy rather than arguments for why emulation ISN'T piracy

    cube_drone, to random
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    "I'm terrible at citing my sources" - Unknown

    gwEm, to random
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    I am trying to produce French House

    http://www.twitch.tv/gw3m

    cube_drone,
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    @gwEm

    oho

    may I suggest

    french hammer?

    cube_drone, to random
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    Okay, tech vocabulary time:

    A "Widget" is any UI element

    The way to develop a widget it to sit down, uncomfortably: this will give you a Widgey. Then, develop functionality by working in slugs - sample versions of the real data you'll be working with. That should evolve your prototype to a Widgeotto. Once you've got to there, it's not long before you've got a fully evolved Widget, at which point your app will really be Flying.

    sjvn, to opensource
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    Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab https://computerworld.com/article/3714821/software-vendors-dump-open-source-go-for-the-cash-grab.html by
    @sjvn

    When #opensource companies--I'm looking at you, Redis, Hashicorp, MongoDB, and Elastic--turn bad.

    cube_drone,
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    @sjvn

    > this means developers can no longer use Redis' code

    solarbird, to cooking

    okay gastrodonians gimmie a hand with this

    So I have this skillet.

    A small skillet, silver in colour, not non-stick and not black/cast iron. The handle appears to be cast, the skillet itself is smooth.Obviously, it’s a skillet. And it looks like a cheap skillet – real cheap. But I don’t think it is.

    The handle is cast iron or steel of some kind, despite being silver. The handle is also magnetic and heavy. The actual pan part, however, is aluminium, with no hint of magnetism, and also quite heavy – heavier than I feel it should be, like it has a slab of copper sandwiched inside layers of aluminium. There are three big thick bolts holding this thing together.

    This is an object I feel like had to have been made with a purpose. I don’t know what that purpose was. And despite being a decent baker, I am no chef, and am merely an adequate cook in the sense of “I can follow directions correctly and produce the intended meal.”

    So what the hell is this for?

    Am I wrong about it having a special purpose? Is it in fact really cheap? Because it looks cheap. But it doesn’t feel cheap, and I think that’s important here.

    Is it some sort of esoteric camping kit? Is that it? Feels way too heavy for that but it is nicely small.

    What’m I missing here, Gastrodonians? Is this some sort of special #cooking implement? Or is it just a weird kind of cheap pan I’ve never seen before.

    Do you know? ’cause I sure don’t.

    #gastrodonians

    [link] #HomeEc #cooking #cookingAndFood #gastrodonians

    cube_drone,
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    @solarbird

    if it's heavy it's probably not cheap

    aluminum sandwiching copper is fairly common: copper conducts heat amazingly well but it's really expensive and doesn't do as well when directly exposed to the elements as aluminum or stainless steel, which is why pans that have it tend to keep it inside.

    cube_drone,
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    @solarbird

    teflon pans can't go in your oven, don't hold on to heat well, don't distribute heat well, and shouldn't be heated past ~450F: their magic is in how non-stick they are - great for eggs - but if you ever want to properly brown the outside of something you're going to struggle with them

    cook a steak in a teflon pan and you're on the road to a flabby gray steak

    cube_drone,
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    @solarbird this thing should be able to get blisteringly hot and STAY blisteringly hot, which is your road to crispy exterior country

    cube_drone,
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    @solarbird stainless steel is often either non-magnetic or almost-entirely-magnetic so maybe it's just stainless steel throughout

    ainmosni, to cooking
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    I hate recipes that use volume measurements for solids.

    A cup of chopped onion... Buy a fucking scale.

    #cooking

    cube_drone,
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    @ainmosni

    volume or weight measurements for onion are kind of silly, some of the best recipes I've ever encountered call for "one onion" or "half an onion" which is a perfectly cromulent measurement

    cube_drone,
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    @ainmosni
    yes, I know,

    but onion is super forgiving

    little too much onion in a recipe? fine
    little not enough onion in a recipe? fine

    which is why "one onion" is pretty much always a valid measurement: every amount of onion you could add to the recipe along the whole spectrum from racquetball to softball will probably be okay

    I've also seen recipes that call for "4 to 14 cloves of garlic" for similar reasons

    enobacon, (edited ) to ebikes
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    In the last five years, caused only 3.8% as many injuries as bathrooms. Wear your bathroom , and shame your friends and family until they stop taking baths

    without a helmet.

    cube_drone,
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    @enobacon

    hundreds of people a decade die in train accidents, whereas not a single person has died in the past decade getting around with rocket-powered-roller-skates like Wile-E Coyote

    and yet somehow everybody is sleeping on this incredibly safe and fast mode of transportation

    cube_drone, to random
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    okay, so, here's my theory

    that creative narrative project you're working on? here's the order you should write it in

    first, low-stakes scene from the middle

    then, outline

    then, ending

    then, beginning

    then, high impact scenes

    then, remainder of the middle

    this is based on the assumption that your quality of work picks up as you gain consistency and experience with the characters and style you're going for, then starts to drop off as you get exhausted

    cube_drone,
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    if you're not excited to write a low-stakes scene from the middle of the story at the beginning of the project when your energy is at its highest, there is no WAY you're going to be excited enough to write it weeks later when the whole project feels like a grind

    cube_drone, to random
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    i thought i was here for avalanche safety training but this huge black guy tells me that we're going to blow up a power plant so I just nope on out

    cube_drone, to random
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    the thing I like about javascript conferences is that they only have one room for talks but they just get whoever's on the mic at any given time to hand it over when they need time to set something up, so you can quickly catch loads of talks so long as you don't mind that they're in kind of a jumbled order

    cube_drone,
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    i can't remember what I liked about memcached conferences because there was a power outage

    cube_drone,
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    the thing I like about rust conferences is that they're a huge amount of effort to set up but once they do they run really smoothly

    cube_drone,
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    the thing I like about PHP conferences is that they're easy for anybody to set up and that it's really hard to predict what will happen at them, which is also a thing that a lot of people do not like about PHP conferences

    cube_drone,
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    the thing I like about Go conferences is that they're exactly like C conferences, but with a guy who comes around and collects the garbage every now and again

    cube_drone,
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    the thing I like about Postgres conferences is the consistency, but they only ever throw the one and honestly if they can't find a bigger venue they're going to start running out of space

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