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cube_drone, 6 months ago

Restaurants like chicken stock - because it's lightly flavored, versatile, and clockwork-reliable. You can trust that the stock is going to be basically identical every time you use it.

Home chefs like broth - when you're pulling flavor out of that chicken, toss some spices and onion chunks and whatever vegetable scraps you want in there: it's more efficient and much more delicious, and it doesn't matter if it tastes a little different every time.

cube_drone, 6 months ago

Restaurant knife skills focus on efficiency and homogeneity: if the onions are always the same size, they always take the exact same amount of time to cook and taste the exact same.

Home knife skills focus on safety and ease: your goals are simply to make food smaller and not hurt yourself: however you accomplish this is fine.

cube_drone, 6 months ago

Many, many home recipes are just adapted restaurant recipes and it's important to be able to learn which parts of the recipe are vital to the flavor of the dish and which parts are simply there for the sake of industrial-scale production.

Home chefs are adept with substitutions (you rarely need to DO a substitution in a restaurant and you OFTEN need to do it at home) and the measure of a good home cook is more "versatility" than "scale".

cube_drone, 6 months ago

Speed is important, of course, in both, but what "speed" means in a restaurant and at home are totally different: speed in a restaurant means executing a complicated, complicated dish as quickly as possible with a production line of people helping and prepping, whereas speed at home mostly comes from simplifying.

Adam Ragusea, on YouTube, is one of a few personalities out there preaching the word of de-complicating home recipes, and it's good stuff.

cube_drone, 6 months ago

a restaurant might have a guy who's job it is is to make 500 radish florets a night, which he gets extremely fast at by virtue of doing it 10,000 times a month

a home chef might achieve a similar efficiency by simply not bothering to add an extraneous radish floret

cube_drone, 6 months ago

@kmccoy

radishes are delicious, I am against spending 5 minutes delicately hand-carving a beautiful radish floret unless it is to be the centerpiece of a charcuterie board presented to your closest friends

cube_drone, 6 months ago

@kmccoy
the correctest thing to do with radish is to thinly slice and quick pickle it with some spices and garlic, then add the radish chips to sandwiches and egg dishes

cube_drone, 7 months ago

I was the one who asked her to take over cooking duties from me once a week, and it has only periodically resulted in barely edible or actively toxic food so I count this as mostly a win

cube_drone, 7 months ago

@seldo

cube_drone, 7 months ago

• scramble eggs with a little bit of sour cream or creme fraiche (or, heck, butter), use gradual heat and keep them moving, taking them off the heat when they're almost cooked for the ideal goopy consistency (you may not regard "goopy" as the ideal consistency for your scramble but I do)

• if you have messy toppings - in this case, green onion kimchi - consider putting them on the toast before the eggs: they won't fall off as easily

cube_drone, 7 months ago

• tots are to be seasoned with steak spice, it is the best tot seasoning

• make a dippin' sauce out of mayo, ketchup, and a blisteringly hot sauce

• air fryer make good tater tot

• I only clean the air fryer about once a week, and then immediately make a small batch of bacon in there, so there's almost always fresh bacon grease in the air fryer which makes every recipe that comes out of there a little more excellent

cube_drone, 7 months ago

mutable slices? string length determined by raw byte count of the UTF-8? pointers to mutable data as arguments? i'm sorry, are you from the past?

cube_drone, 7 months ago

Go's whole community seems to have unified around a convention of single-letter variable names which is as infuriating as it is simply wrong, and the dank ass Unix wizard responsible should be retired for it

cube_drone, 7 months ago

I don't care if your hands are falling off your body and you're still using vi, typing the rest of the word is STILL non negotiable

you ever try to grep the letter "l"?

you don't need to write a whole essay but you're not even bothering with the word

anyways: here's what I think about that, in a language even you fucking Go nerds can understand: y c g f y

words are free my good bitch

cube_drone, 7 months ago

look at me, I'm using a code editor written in 1974 so I can't simply autocomplete any variable name by pressing tab

look at me, I think that writing code is more important than reading it

cube_drone, 7 months ago

Now Rust - Rust is a thing of beauty.

I'm angry at myself, for being too stupid to think seven-dimensionally enough to be able to code in Rust. Oh, the type of that code is a Maybe[Future[Async[Wrapper[Arc[Reactor[Core]]]]] and you needed a Future[Async[Arc[Wrapper]]]]? Guess you're fucked.

But with Go, I'm angry at the language, just for having the sheer gall to just be C with a rubber mask on.

cube_drone, 7 months ago

Learning Rust is like learning Haskell, or, like, Esperanto, it's a mind-expanding paradigm that's endlessly frustrating because you're learning how to operate in a new, fae universe where the rules are as alien as they are unbreakable, and while you respect its beauty and power, you literally can't do anything because you need to spend 6 more Lifetimes learning about how Hindley-Miller type systems apply to memory management.

cube_drone, 7 months ago

Whereas learning Go is more like driving a manual transmission to the Staples so that you can send a fax to your doctor. You just spend the whole time going "fuck, it's 2023, I can't believe I still have to do this shit."

cube_drone, 7 months ago

can you tell I'm a python/javascript developer

LOOK, I'M FROM A SOFT UNIVERSE WHERE I CAN REPRESENT LITERALLY EVERYTHING IN MY LIFE AS TRANSFORMATIONS ON A LIST OF STRINGS