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hankg, 1 day ago to food

I finally found Meati Steaks (made of mycelium protein) and I really liked them. Aroma and flavor is spot on. Texture is not, just somewhere between meat loaf and real steaks. I'm definitely going to add it to my regular rotation. #food #vegan #PlantBased

meati.com/

dnc, 1 day ago to Bread

This morning’s beauty https://www.diningandcooking.com/1440343/this-mornings-beauty/ #Bread #Sourdough #SourdoughBread

jeffjarvis, 3 days ago to random

At last, The Times covers the stakes of a Trump victory. Now keep going with the perils to women's control of their health, race, the courts, the environment, education, freedom of speech....
Gift link:
If Trump Wins
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/07/us/politics/trump-policy-list-2025.html?smid=url-share

baldur, 3 days ago to random

“Anti Trust in Tech – Pixel Envy”

https://pxlnv.com/blog/anti-trust-in-tech/

> These product introductions all look like hubris. Arrogance, really — recognition of the significant power these corporations wield and the lack of competition they face.

hankg, 5 days ago to rant

I'm not even an Agile evangelist. I've used Agile in the past. I think it has great uses when done right but often it is not. That's not a No True Scotsman fallacy either. It's about understanding why aspects of Agile Methodologies work and exist and adapting them to your particular scenario. For example, the whole "no requirements" at the start thing. Does that literally mean it breaks Agile rules to not have starting requirements? First off, if you think there are universal etched in stone rules of Agile you already are probably off to a bad start. Second, it really depends on what you are building. Are you building something from scratch that you have no idea what is and will do? Probably need to be light on the hard R requirements on day 1, if you have any at all. Are you replacing a tried and true system with a new stack or deployment environment? Then you'll probably end up having a good number of hard R requirements but still want to err on the lighter side since a lot of legacy systems build up a lot of cruft that actually can be jettisoned. Being Agile is not setting out to build a car and saying, "Well according to 'the rules of Agile' we can't presume how many wheels this thing will have or if it has wheels at all!" #rant #programming

hankg, 5 days ago to rant

I have seen how Agile Development, the term as well as some practices, can be abused or misapplied. So I get being down on Agile. But the speed at which the tech media is catapulting a sham study by a group that has some properietary thing that they say is better shows how useless they've become. I'm not going to link to it because its already been shared so pervasively. #rant #programming

hankg, 5 days ago to history

When I saw the title I assumed this was some failed 1980s/1990s IBM project but apparently engineers have tried making superconductor computers back in the 1950s! Fascinating! #history #computers #science
Why IBM's Superconductor Computer Failed

hankg, 6 days ago to random

A. Florida Man
B. Not all heroes wear capes

lol

parismarx, 6 days ago to tech

dreading the media cycle that will accompany a bill gates memoir, but fascinated to see how he twists his history

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Source-Code

#tech #billgates #books #memoir

hankg, 6 days ago to random

Six screens at the bar, all with sports channels on. The only sport events, versus news and commentary, on are women’s sports. I love that! Not that I follow sports of any kind but still think that’s a wonderful change of pace.