weeshtable.bsky.social
Try-hard hobbyist, cat mom, probably too online, she/her.
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My university had a handful of licenses for Wolfram Mathematica, which he also disliked. But that was because he personally had a problem with Steven Wolfram, whom he had done a postdoc alongside.
I'm not *as* paranoid, but I certainly do not trust or use the computational black box, myself.
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My (now retired) undergraduate advisor was like this. A theoretical/computational astrophysicist, and hand-coded all his stuff in FORTRAN. He was a little skeptical of some of the built-in C++ libraries I and others used, and was highly skeptical when I used MATLAB for anything other than plots.
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And I love it so much <3
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Adam Liaw is great! His Hainanese chicken rick recipe is incredible.
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My cousin called napkins "namick", which still lives rent free in my brain. She got a master's degree last year.
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The commercial is Seal's face on a seal
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I have bad news for you
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Just got 25+ gallons of compost fodder from the municipal green waste station to start a new compost pile at the house we bought.
Excited to have a yard to grow stuff in.
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Only safe way to preserve fish/meat is with a pressure canner. If you're not sourcing the fish yourself, then brining (kinda optional, can add salt to jar), smoking (optional), then canning are all fairly straightforward.
My husband and I can salmon/steelhead from Costco.
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That's what the freezer is for. I lived off of on-sale family packs of cheap meat in grad school.
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The orange label Similac is the lactose-free version for babies sensitive to lactose. It uses sugars that aren't lactose as well as fats to provide energy for growing babies.
Also that is a picture of infant formula, not toddler formula.
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The famous May-bearing variety of strawberries
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A delightful push your luck game with fruit, do recommend!
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I would love to hear more about your pea pod wine, tbh. My husband and I are into making weird meads.
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Ew
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I grew up in MA with Blue Laws, so when moved to IL for grad school I was legitimately shocked that I could buy actual (full proof) liquor at the normal grocery store. Now I am in PA, Land of Confusing Liquor Laws once again
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And the drive-thrus are mostly beer and other low-ABV malt beverages (Smirnoff, White Claw, etc.). Maybe a cheap bottle of wine?
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I just moved out of Ohio, and grocery/convenience stores are capped at 40 proof (20% abv) unless they have an actual liquor license. The "liquor" sold at CVS/Kroger is watered down, or under the proof limit to begin with (Bailey's, etc). Normal vodka is 80 or 100 proof.
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He might also enjoy these zhoops: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyDc...
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My research group in grad school (not me, specifically) did black hole simulations. He's done an excellent job capturing both the accretion disc and the jets!
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@spindlypete.bsky.social I believe you were looking for something like this?
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Or a better wig?
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The front-line IT people I interact with at work are usually just as frustrated by corporate policy/Microsoft as I am
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Baby Lasagna was *Croatia's* Eurovision entry this year, not the Netherlands (whose entry was DQ'd and it was A Whole Thing)
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Darth I should have listened but I didn't think it would happen so soon
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That's fair. I'm a hobby soapmaker so I've done the "bucket of lye water" method before without much fuss or worry, but that wasn't being asked about.
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I've heard of tossing cast iron in a campfire or on a really hot grill, which basically accomplishes the same thing as the self-clean cycle but outdoors.
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One of my better thrift store finds recently was an American Giant zip up hoodie. I finally replaced the threadbare Old Navy one I had bought in college.
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Me and my love of weird produce cultivars was about to start looking for this guy on seed supply websites.
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He might have gotten a BS in Physics, and has a definite case of Physics Major (derogatory). See: xkcd.com/793/
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Those look a lot like morning glories, which are impossible to get rid of
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It's so useless! The poster was like "how else do we spread knowledge of permaculture if not through LLM chatbots?" and the near universal response was "talk to people"
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There was some bozo on r/permaculture the other day talking about some "AI powered" app they made to keep track of your garden. Like you'd take a voice memo about how the various plants are doing and the app would infer soil pH (???).
Anyway everyone hated it.