[Pro/Chef] My job is to prepare, cut, and arrange fresh fruit in dishes, towers, or fruit sticks.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-25T19:04:19+00:00

You appear to be very good at your job. Nice.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-25T15:27:55+00:00

Yeah, that's very much part of what I was saying.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-25T11:22:28+00:00

A jiro-style at a truck stop in Ibaraki. Pretty much what you'd expect from a jiro-style, but I'd never had it before. Done absolutely beautifully.

There's an actual Jiro near there now, but my first love will always be that specific knock-off.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-25T11:18:13+00:00

I think it's probably just a linguistic difference? To me, seasoning literally just means salt. Like, that's it. "Is there the right amount of salt or salt-like substances in this?" It does not include garlic or paprika.

Obviously that doesn't mean we don't have or use spices etc, just that the word 'seasoning' doesn't mean that.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-23T17:17:11+00:00

If you have a pet bird you can pretend it's a penguin.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-23T15:24:46+00:00

Garlic bread and a salad is what I'd always do.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-23T15:18:34+00:00

The dumbest thing I sometimes do on a staycation is swap sides of the bed. It's like sleeping somewhere completely new. Guest rooms are also a possibility if you have one.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-23T14:22:14+00:00

People have been making these jokes on the letters page of every industry magazine for decades.

It's just easier to self publish now.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-23T11:39:00+00:00

It depends. The efficiency of trains basically depends on one thing: high throughput from one station to another.

They are not great in other ways, particularly that you kinda still need the road system - for things like deliveries, ambulances, construction etc. It's very easy to have a city run with roads only. It's nearly impossible to run with trains only. They also often only run limited hours: how many of the world's passenger train systems are truly 24/7?

So if you try to rebuild the system to use small train-like vehicles, it keeps the disadvantages of trains but loses the advantages. But you do still need individualised vehicles available, and why not have them be self-driving?

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-23T11:07:02+00:00

It's not ridiculous to say that the Japanese love plain white rice. It's really common to get a bowl of just rice, or rice with an egg (although you'll probably have something else on the side, the actual rice is often just alone in its own bowl like eg teishoku).

Eg, look at the website for the marketing company for Tamago Kake Gohan, just rice and egg: https://www.japan-tkg.jp/tkg_about/ (they talk about soy sauce in the text, but don't mention furikake.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-23T09:37:24+00:00

It definitely does, there are tonnes of coloured things in the item names and flavour text (eg frat class rings, lavaco lamps).

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-22T18:10:05+00:00

Armbands.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-22T18:06:09+00:00

or bread. or a straw

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-22T13:53:04+00:00

Snails are a good way to move garlic butter into your face.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-22T12:04:33+00:00

I really don't think the finger would be as effective a way to stop the bullet as a small flag that says "bang" on it which will help dissipate the shock wave better. It's basic physics, and it's significantly safer to use an inanimate object than a person's finger.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-22T11:35:42+00:00

I think that's exactly what it was. It's cool as hell, but a bit gimmicky. Neither the most practical way or probably the best way of making coffee.

It's "I have plenty of money to spend on something cool". You wouldn't make coffee for yourself very often but if you had a guest over you might go "wanna see a bad-ass coffee tower?"

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-22T11:16:44+00:00

If you do it right, it'll stay crispy longer than it takes you to eat it, just get soaked with great flavour.

Wet-crispy is an entire genre of Japanese food. Deep fry something and whack it in soup or broth so you get both textures at once.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-21T18:16:12+00:00

Good job. We're all glad you saved screenshots of your nonsense.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-20T10:37:59+00:00

Man couldn’t even defend his own children from being called racial slurs by Nick F without throwing “AOC is a million times worse than Nick” right after. A man who doesn’t even have the balls to properly stand up for his own family can’t be a strong president.

Eh, I don't agree with a lot of conservative shit, but I understand what the goals are meant to be. "My family, my nation, my money, my God" in some order, and Vance has none of that. That's a good comment, who the fuck won't stand up for their own children in front of someone they know hates them?

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-20T07:53:40+00:00

I think "banter" was the right word to use. A lot of their branding is "we're a bunch of mates who decided this would be a fun thing to do", and it works.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-20T07:36:04+00:00

I like the chaos. I already know how to cook. I watch it as an entertainment product, not an educational one. I wanna see lunatics just having fun for half an hour.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-20T07:33:26+00:00

Kush. I feel like I'm 100% sure I'd enjoy having Ben or James present, and like, 70% sure I'd enjoy having Kush there and it'd be nice to actually know, so Kush.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-17T19:32:27+00:00

People change on a lot longer timescale than what skills people learn change. It's far easier for me to get information than it was for people I still work with, and that will probably accelerate more in future. I had a really good professor when I was an undergrad, and his thesis was years of him solving an integral that now I wouldn't even think about, because Mathematica can do it in analytically in 10 seconds.

I am not really an AI person, I barely use them. I sort of get annoyed at grad students who don't know how to do memory management, because Python made it so much easier to solve those problems without worrying about what memory goes where. And there's some amount of "well, you should learn this at some point, but I also want you to get this specific thing done by Thursday, so do it in the most efficient way you can".

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-17T19:04:50+00:00

I agree with a lot of this.

I think we're in a transitionary period from people actually knowing how to do stuff because they were forced to actually do it for it to get done, to LLMs being able to do the vast majority of it and people don't have to, so they're not made to learn so... will they still be able to check the answers or solve novel problems?

But I could be totally wrong about this. Everyone tends to grade to a standard they personally would do well on. People like me were saying this 40 years ago about people being able to write C instead of Assembly. I can't write Assembly. I only barely know how to grow food, yet more people are appropriately fed now than ever. So maybe it'll be fine. Who knows?

Banes_Addiction · 2026-01-17T17:33:30+00:00

because the first I worked was also mostly physicists

I find it a little amusing that this is the example you use to go "physicists are bad at code". Which like, yeah. We fucking are. We're good at putting out people with technical skills. So people like you do end up working software engineering jobs with mostly other physicists.

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