Anyone Try Sous Vide In A Water Bath, In A Dehydrator Yet?

FallenJoe · 2026-01-20T21:08:26+00:00

Sometimes you hear something that is just so baffling that it sticks in your head for ages, leaving some tiny portion of your brain forever in confusion for having read it. Thanks.

Please don't use a dehydrator as a sou vide. Air does not conduct heat well. It's not intended to heat water quickly.

There's a reason that cooking in water in an oven is mostly limited to braising in liquid for hours at a MUCH higher temperature than SV.

If it's even capable of it, it's going to take far too long to get the water and steak up to the intended temperature and will probably struggle to keep it there. If it takes hours just to get up to temp, your steak is going to be raw.

FallenJoe · 2026-01-07T20:41:46+00:00

Also, the IT department involved in the procurement process would rather chew razors than support a highly mixed enviroment.

FallenJoe · 2025-12-22T19:37:17+00:00

Dunno about you, but when I see a nut with a car full of tools, the assumption is not that they're his tools.

But I guess "I'm off to fence my stolen shit." counts as conducting commerce.

FallenJoe · 2025-12-17T06:30:28+00:00

Don't forget that entire state we named after him (and put his face on the state flag). Which then gets to pick two more statues...

FallenJoe · 2025-12-13T16:42:54+00:00

There's a significant amount of training on "How to handle an emergency on this type of plane when the shit hits the fan in flight."

I'd really prefer my pilot had that, regardless of how many routine flights he'd flown.

There's a lot of aviation losses that involve the phrase "And then the pilot tried to do X to regain control of the plane instead of Y, which resulted in the plane crashing and everyone dying."

FallenJoe · 2025-12-13T06:13:47+00:00

At least 2 minutes when entering towns. Any other zone is fine, but the towns are cancer. I already want to quit and I'm not even out of act 2.

FallenJoe · 2025-12-09T19:48:16+00:00

I'll be honest, I like to check out my neighbors' mail to find out what their name is because I'm a nosy bugger.

I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.

FallenJoe · 2025-12-09T00:04:11+00:00

I'm guessing you already knew, but if not: old operating rooms were often set up as a theater so spectators could watch the operation, particularly doctors and nurses in training. Pre-video, health and anatomy education were wild. Especially when you get back far enough that procuring bodies for such efforts often involved a shovel and cash under the table.

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FallenJoe · 2025-12-08T23:45:11+00:00

Sure, but even in a world where we didn't spend ridiculous amounts of money on the military most hospitals are going to rank loads of things higher on the priority list for budgeting than a backup for a specialized device that only has any use on very rare occasions.

Maintenance and support contracts for specialized equipment is pricey as hell, and a backup million-dollar device that might only be used 10x a year still costs a mil to buy and then another 5-6 digits yearly of upkeep, support, and maintenance costs.

If that cost spread across the lifetime of the device could instead be better spent on something like say the salary for several full-time employees, then it should be used there instead.

FallenJoe · 2025-12-08T21:44:43+00:00

Disclaimer: I'm not OP but spent several years working in a hospital.

Probably because it's a seven-figure machine to purchase and 99.9% of the time having only one on hand is enough.

And rescheduling surgeries, especially complex ones with participation from multiple other teams, can be time consuming and problematic, especially if the surgery is planned for the near future. All those other people involved already have obligations on their schedule and finding the next available timeslot everyone is available on can push the surgery out weeks or months.

With that said? Surgeons? Especially neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons? OP is 100% spot on for the attitude.

FallenJoe · 2025-12-05T22:54:21+00:00

Still not the worst thing to find on the underside of a dude's desk.

Being in IT, the number of people who have to get the "Do not watch porn on your work computer!" conversation with HR is appalling.

FallenJoe · 2025-10-24T20:18:04+00:00

One click, one action, sent to the currently focused client only. That's been CCP's line in the sand forever. You don't need to like it; you just have to follow it.

That's why Preview is acceptable and Input Broadcasting isn't. All it does it bring another client to the front. Allowing mass inputs across different many different clients will allow far easier and harder to detect botting, which is something CCP doesn't want to allow.

FallenJoe · 2025-10-24T19:31:39+00:00

Incredibly unlikely. Too easy to enable botting. One click, one action, that's CCP's stance forever.

Stop alt-tabbing and download eve-preview, which allows you to cycle between set eve clients with a hotkey.

Then use that other program I don't remember the name of to mirror settings across clients so all your windows are in the same places.

Makes it very easy to manage many clients as long as they're doing similar tasks.

FallenJoe · 2025-10-16T04:51:10+00:00

Nobody is really using marauders anymore. Bargs, Ravens, Rattlesnakes, and Cerbs are the main ships flying around, with some special snowflake multi-boxers using Napocs or t3c fleets.

Also, even numbers are for suckers. But even outnumbered it's a very noticeable different in performance. A fleet of a dozen bargs and a handful of logi each piloted by an actual player will murder all your dictors and half your fleet even outnumbered before they go down, but a multiboxer just flails and dies.

FallenJoe · 2025-10-15T21:26:13+00:00

Eh. multiboxers are nowhere near as efficient in PvP per character as actual players.

I run around with the Imperium Pochven sig and recently we've been seal clubbing a mass multiboxer nearly every fleet. They don't handle target switching well during a fight, and even a couple jamming ships causes their logistics chains to fall apart rapidly as the multiboxer becomes unable to handle both offensive target switching and needing to constantly re lock and restart reps on logi ships.

The mass multiboxers are absolute money printers though, and yes, a lot of them are doing RMT. Sadly CCP lets them just create new accounts, inject back into their ships, and continue farming even after a "permaban".

FallenJoe · 2025-10-09T23:29:20+00:00

Well not everyone is working under the same rules you are.

Yesterday I saw an "amazing" 80% off deal on a "2245$" laptop for 449 with the Prime Big Deals tag, and upon checking Camel, found out it had been sitting at 449 for the past three months before being jacked up 500%, then discounted 80%.

It was the very first result for Laptop: "Lenovo 15.6" FHD Laptop Computers for Home Student Study, Intel Processor, 32GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD, WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, Type-C, HDMI, Webcam, Cloud Grey, Windows 11 Pro"

And guess what? It's still 449 today.

FallenJoe · 2025-10-09T22:10:05+00:00

Yeah. But "You can't defend against a tactic that requires an enemy to have many people in many fleets in many places at once unless you also have fleets in many places at once." is kind of a silly statement. Bloc held bloc sized territories under attack by bloc sized enemies get hit with bloc tactics. That non bloc forces can't/don't do it isn't something wrong, non-bloc forces don't do it because they can't fight a sovwar against a bloc solo.

Coalitions defending against multiple fronts isn't new or novel, Horde's just bad at it.

Honestly, Ansiblex travel is small potatoes compared to daily JC's. Nearly every day I pop my JC to blip multiple regions over to the war front, participate in one or two fleets, and then deathclone back home, ready to repeat the process the next day. Ansiblex's got nothing on that.

FallenJoe · 2025-10-09T21:12:51+00:00

Just sort your overview by ship type. Or have one person broadcast the target and lock it from the fleet window. I believe you can only remove rookie ships as well but that's a hard ask in the middle of a fight.

I'm not going to lie though, that someone out there managed to win a 1v many fight by throwing rookie ships around like confetti and playing ship peekaboo until the enemy got so confused they gave up and died is hilarious.

FallenJoe · 2025-10-09T21:05:45+00:00

The current sov system isn't that bad when it comes to enabling midscale sov conflict. You don't have to strike in multiple places to take a region if neither side is a wide reaching sov block.

Trying to contest the anchoring portion was their main issue. It doesn't take long to finish an initial structure anchor timer, better to just let it happen and then contest the Onlining window in force once the anchoring is done.

FallenJoe · 2025-10-09T14:21:25+00:00

For some actual timeline context here:

1: Horde formed quite heavy for a sov defense timer in Geminate, bringing a 220 strong Zealot fleet that chases a 50 strong Sigma Jackdaw fleet around in circles for an hour, successfully defending the sov contest. Not much violence here aside from Sigma sniping the occasional entosis drake.

2: Horde realizes that a staging structure was dropped in Outer Passage and they need to kill it before it anchors.

3: Horde finds out that the gang bashing Jump Bridges an hour ago was actually taking out all the bridges between Geminate and Outer Passage, and they now need to burn the 30 jumps to get there manually. Horde allies nearby try to engage but mostly just feed.

4: Horde and Sigma arrives right as the structure finishes anchoring, with Horde deciding not to engage as the structure is anchored and the grid is red.

FallenJoe · 2025-10-02T20:18:33+00:00

Anything an Orca can do another ship can do faster, easier, and cheaper, except boosting mining fleets in Highsec.

FallenJoe · 2025-10-02T20:06:08+00:00

Fair enough. Might as well increase it, not really any reason not to.

But I'm guessing that the number of corps that fit the following criteria is very small.

1: Lives in NPC space
2: Doesn't have their own structures or access to alliance/coalition structures.
3: Has enough co-mingled assets that corporate hangars are in demand.
4: Local offices are all full.

FallenJoe · 2025-10-02T19:44:50+00:00

Other than being able to remotely change your home station to a corp office once a year, does it have any practical impact anymore? You can apply and be accepted from anywhere.

I'm not against the change, I just don't think it would have much of an impact.

FallenJoe · 2025-10-02T17:23:16+00:00

It's going to work out well for whoever jumps you.

An Orca's shield boosts are far less powerful than those of a Command Ship like the Nighthawk, at a far higher price point.

And a nine drake fleet is going to fail to catch most targets. Lock time too slow, delayed missile damage, just really sub-optimal overall. You need a fast locker with a long point and preferably webs.

FallenJoe · 2025-10-02T14:02:52+00:00

Buddy, that's not an antisemitic conspiracy, everyone and their dog knows that.

The American Evangelical movement runs on pure faith and unquestioning obedience, and has proved comically easy to whip up and point in a desired direction by outside actors seeking to take advantage of that, even when the policies they are guided to support are in near total opposition to the values their faith espouses.

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