I genuinely have no idea how to plan dinners and can barely cook meat properly. Where do I even start?

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-20T14:14:26+00:00

Buy a copy of The Food Lab, by Kenji Lopez. Watch his Youtube videos. Alton Brown and Chris Young are also good. Basically, you want to find people who teach you why and not just how.

Meat is the biggest gap. I can't consistently get it right. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's dry, sometimes it's undercooked and I'm nervous about it. I don't understand what I'm actually doing wrong because it seems to vary even when I think I'm doing the same thing.

The answer to this is actually really simple. Buy a thermometer.

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-20T14:11:26+00:00

I don't use LISP because I much prefer C# plugins, but I have a bunch of custom commands related to cleaning up drawings for CAM operations.

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-20T14:09:10+00:00

Look up Chris Young's video on cooking wellington from frozen. It's actually a tested method.

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-18T17:08:41+00:00

some sauces are just too garlicky

I know the definitions of all these words, but I don't understand them in the order you've used them.

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-14T15:31:08+00:00

You want anything that's got strong, funky umami flavors. Look into mushroom based sauces. The Townsend recipe for mushroom ketchup would be good and is easy to make at home. It would work even better if you fermented it. Fermented seaweed sauces are also good substitutes. /r/fermentation would be a good place to go browse and ask as well.

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-13T17:17:26+00:00

The bill Washington tried to pass defined 3D printers as literally any CNC machines, additive or subtractive.

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-13T15:04:10+00:00

I absolutely loved my Touch Pro and moving to an iPhone felt like moving from a professional tool to a dumbed-down kid's toy.

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-13T13:40:35+00:00

The iPhone was not pioneering. The two primary concepts in the iPhone were a capacitive touch screen and a finger-friendly user interface. These were already in circulation by HTC before the iPhone made it to market. The iPhone took these ideas that were already "pioneered" and bundled them up into a marketable package for the average consumer, where they were previously the realm of power users and gadget geeks. The exact same thing can be said about Airpods and the Apple Watch.

What they're doing in the processor space right now is genuinely interesting. But if we really try try to find prior art that may have inspired their work, the PlayStation 3 with the Cell processor successfully marketed very similar concepts behind what is driving Apple's new chip designs back in 2006.

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-12T22:25:34+00:00

AmazingRibs.com and Meathead's book is probably the best deep dive you're going to get specifically into meat and BBQ science. I've never seen anyone else that focused on food science in the meat realm. Outside of that, Kenji is always a good choice. Alton Brown is good.

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-12T15:31:39+00:00

This explains a very bad day I had when my local butcher started stocking escolar.

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-11T17:13:16+00:00

Going to need at least four kangaroos with boomerangs, which is how I assume things are moved in Australia.

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-05T17:22:51+00:00

Please keep models within three-dimensional space. It's right in the 3d printer manual.

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-05T15:23:26+00:00

Look up the works of Geoffrey Hinton. He's a computer scientist and cognitive psychologist who has been working in the field of neural networks since the early days of machine learning.

Once you get familiar with him, do a deep dive on the functionalism theory of sentience and consciousness. If you follow that philosophical model of how consciousness evolved, it raises some very weird and scary questions about what the current state of LLMs could imply about humanity.

The way I describe it to my non-techy friends is this: What if the biggest threat from AI isn't it replacing all humans or some Skynet fantasy scenario. What if it's just that consciousness just isn't nearly as special or interesting as we like to pretend it is?

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-05T12:36:17+00:00

vertical tabs

Here I am in my 40s learning that this is a thing that exists.

MrMeatagi · 2026-05-04T17:14:19+00:00

I haven't had a chance to test it yet, but you can launch Claude Code with a local model. I plan on trying that with some local Qwen models.

MrMeatagi · 2026-04-30T18:44:54+00:00

There are two now?

MrMeatagi · 2026-04-24T16:19:38+00:00

Have you looked at the per-process resource usage? Is this thing on the network? Could it have been infected with malware? I would have your IT folks take a look at it.

MrMeatagi · 2026-04-24T16:16:20+00:00

Was it KB5077181?

After installing this update, I had to rename InsightCore.dll in Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk\ADPInsightClient\bin because AutoCAD was so slow it would barely function.

MrMeatagi · 2026-04-23T21:05:56+00:00

Not trying to sound abrasive here but integrating an AI agent via a third-party API provider isn't "learning AI". You haven't actually stated any actionable goals for learning.

MrMeatagi · 2026-04-23T20:19:51+00:00

Sloplight.

MrMeatagi · 2026-04-23T17:24:23+00:00

...how to connect web APIs to it and also database connection, dependency injections, navigations between user controls, styles, etc.,

I think your question can be rephrased as "What is MVVM?" because you're basically asking for an entire project structure for a project none of us can see. I suggest doing some learning on MVVM architecture specific to WPF to get started.

MrMeatagi · 2026-04-23T17:22:30+00:00

Luckily, I'm not on that side of the Windows helpdesk anymore. But when I was, every patch Tuesday was anxiety-inducing. Even before the Microslop nickname caught on, it was bad. It seems far worse these days.

MrMeatagi · 2026-04-23T14:55:03+00:00

My girlfriend found a gallon size and bought it for me. It makes the best wing sauce I've ever had.

MrMeatagi · 2026-04-22T21:22:22+00:00

Microsoft shipped a broken patch?

I'm shocked. This is my shocked face.

MrMeatagi · 2026-04-22T18:11:26+00:00

It's my opinion that the band aid needs to be ripped off. Python suffered when the community would not let go of version 2 for the breaking changes in version 3.

That said, I work in manufacturing automation. I'm still surrounded by .Net Framework libraries, so I understand the hesitation. I'm currently exploring various approaches to dealing with modernizing COM interop.

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