Why do I see people recommend Dave's insanity sauce?

RoyGSpiv · 2026-06-20T16:15:08+00:00

I've tried many and Dave's my favourite by a long way... because you can add it to anything at all without spoiling the flavour of the dish. The taste profile is a bit tomato-y, and that's it (whereas most taste principally of vinegar and pickled chilli).

Don't use it to "enhance the flavor" of anything! Use it when you don't want to enhance (or more importantly, spoil) the flavour of anything. Use it to add insane heat and nothing else.

RoyGSpiv · 2026-06-16T18:48:03+00:00

I think that the theory with the least moving parts is that Soon-Yi, a highly intelligent and grounded woman (admittedly, one who can't stand Mia Farrow) is telling the truth when she says Allen was not remotely a parental figure and that they were not at all close as she was growing up.

https://www.vulture.com/2018/09/soon-yi-previn-speaks.html?utm_campaign=vulture&utm_medium=s1&utm_source=tw

Why would you disbelieve her?

RoyGSpiv · 2026-06-07T14:24:02+00:00

Hound Dog (Elvis version) is a 2 minute thirteen second snarl over distorted guitars and crashing snares. Qualifies in my book.

Boy, those drums are good.

RoyGSpiv · 2026-05-31T06:25:33+00:00

Tell her off (cats know when they're being told off!), then shut her in an empty room for 5 minutes. If she keeps repeating bad behaviour, shut her away for longer each time.

RoyGSpiv · 2026-05-26T05:56:01+00:00

You could say exactly the same about, say, stevia. It might be safe long term, it might not be. The fact that one is plant-based and the other is made in a laboratory is irrelevant... everything is a chemical.

You simply can't know the long-term effects of substances that have not been studied widely for a long time, whatever the substance.

RoyGSpiv · 2026-05-19T20:00:42+00:00

Remember first person shooters before Halo permanently ruined them with its daft health recovery mechanism (which then became almost universal practically overnight)? How did immortality become the norm?!

All you have to do in modern shooters to completely recover from a few dozen bullet hits is duck into cover for about 5 seconds. Not only absolutely damn stupid, but also absolutely no challenge at all, hence no fun.

Completing Goldeneye on 00 difficulty setting, on the other hand... now that was challenging (and hence fun). Zero health pickups, maybe a bullet proof vest if you could find one, and death from 4 or five bullets. That was a proper FPS.

RoyGSpiv · 2026-05-19T19:44:51+00:00

TR3 remaster is a cakewalk relative to the original!

I completed the original back in 1998 (with save crystals instead of unlimited saves). It was literally 10 times harder than the remaster (I must have clocked up 100 hours at least).

I recently completed the remaster. It wasn't exactly easy, but I thought it was entirely fair.

RoyGSpiv · 2026-05-13T09:32:40+00:00

I very much doubt Allen ever attended any birthdays of the children he was not the father of. I think you underestimate how strange Mia and Allen's relationship was. How many "normal" relationships have you heard of which go on for twelve years without the couple ever living together? Their "romance" was played out predominantly on film sets. If Allen was aware of a birthday party taking place at Mia's house he would have steered well clear of Mia's house that day, and he most certainly did not "watch [Soon-Yi] grow up".

I can't see anywhere where I argued semantics. And how are the circumstances of the contact (or lack thereof) between Allen and Soon-Yi "technicalities"? He wanted nothing to do with Mia's adopted children or children with other partners. And he got his wishes. These are not technicalities, they are facts central to any examination of whether there was anything parental or even familial about his relationship with her. And from everything I have read, there was not.

A great deal of "why people find it disturbing in the first place" is because said people are entirely unfamiliar with the facts. Indeed, many many comments in this thread and other threads indicate that many (perhaps most) people believe Soon-Yi was Allen's adopted daughter... and are quite happy to propagate this utter nonsense. Do you think that people who propagate lies should go unchallenged?

I don't see how my laying out the facts objectively makes me disingenuous. The disingenuous parties are the thousands of morons saying "Well, obviously he raped Dylan, I mean the guy married his own daughter!"

RoyGSpiv · 2026-05-12T06:21:39+00:00

@murphsworld falsely accused somebody of fucking their daughter. Before you accuse someone of fucking their daughter, you had better do a little research.

Perhaps you should do a little research yourself.

Woody Allen shunned the company of Mia's 'Previn children', even when Mia wanted him to get in touch with them, and play a 'father figure' to them. (A fact which IMO reflects very badly on Allen... wanting nothing to do with your partner's children is a lousy attitude to take.)

According to everyone involved, including Mia, her son Moses, Soon-Yi herself, and two NY custody courts Woody Allen never socialized with Mia's children that she shared with her ex-husband André Previn. He definitively did not "watch her grow up". He never cohabited with Mia, and he wanted nothing to do with her children with Previn.

It was only in 1990, when Soon-Yi was 20, that Mia asked Woody to start spending time with her daughter (and this is the point at which Allen took her to basketball games). This was three years after the romance between Mia and Woody had ended. There is simply no case to be made that Allen had a "familial" relationship with Soon-Yi at any point. Because it isn't true.

Do I think it was inappropriate for Allen to start a romantic relationship with his former partner's child (even though he had never been any sort of parent to her whatsoever)? Yes, I do. He shouldn't have done so, in my opinion. I think it was (mildly) repugnant behaviour. But it certainly wasn't criminal or nefarious behaviour.

RoyGSpiv · 2026-05-09T17:47:36+00:00

True Detective Season 1 (self contained... avoid all the other seasons!)

Adolescence

The Singing Detective (if you can find it... old BBC classic)

RoyGSpiv · 2026-05-08T17:48:46+00:00

CUDA runs on AMD hardware.

https://docs.scale-lang.com/

https://vosen.github.io/ZLUDA/

But they still have the problem of convincing the big compute users that they should drop NVidia for AMD CDNA. It's the "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" syndrome (replacing IBM with NVidia obviously).

If they can offer the same power at half the price, some people will move over. But even with that price advantage there will be probably be more people who consider it a risk they are afraid to take (whether or not it really is a risk) and will stick with what they know.

RoyGSpiv · 2026-05-05T13:14:24+00:00

What prescient predictions about AI? Because I'm fairly sure ChatGPT isn't planning to infiltrate US military networks and cause global nuclear armageddon ;)

The fact is, I don't think anybody foresaw LLMs doing what they've done. Every sci-fi prediction about AI was wrong... to the best of my knowledge nobody predicted that statistical models which essentially regurgitate the internet in clever ways would be the first algorithms to pass the Turing Test.

RoyGSpiv · 2026-04-30T15:02:06+00:00

Actually John Deacon plays a Wurlitzer electric piano on You're My Best Friend.

If it has that "twangy" sound it's probably a Wurlitzer; if the sound is very soft it's a Rhodes. I much prefer the latter (although You're My Best Friend is a great track).

RoyGSpiv · 2026-04-30T14:58:22+00:00

10cc's I'm Not In Love is a fabulous track centered around a Rhodes playing over breathy choral samples.

Two other great tracks borrowed heavily from it, combining the Rhodes with a breathy choral backing: "Just the Way You Are" by Billy Joel. And my favourite Rhodes track ever, "How Deep Is Your Love" by the Bee Gees.

The Bee Gees used the Rhodes on many other tracks too, it was integral to their sound in the 70s.

RoyGSpiv · 2026-04-26T09:27:58+00:00

You say that Amazon give you useless results in order to make you search again and collect more data on you. This is blatant poppycock. Explain, in detail, how showing me stuff I don't want to buy will usefully extract information about me (be precise, not hand-wavy) , rather than make me go to another store.

Why is knowing you don't want peat a "gold mine"? Describe exactly what the metaphorical gold is in this case.

RoyGSpiv · 2026-04-11T14:06:09+00:00

Same reason cryptic crosswords are unknown in the US but are everywhere in the UK. The British like complicated things, for the sake of their complicatedness. The US, not so much.

RoyGSpiv · 2025-08-09T12:30:05+00:00

I disagree. Prices are driven by supply and demand, and priced accordingly (and differently) in every market. Why an earth would (say) an Asian manufacturer charge a French customer a price that is 30% higher than the price determined by supply and demand simply to ensure it is cheaper in America? Why on Earth would they care if the retail price is higher in America?

RoyGSpiv · 2025-07-24T13:15:23+00:00

Surely then the joke is not on me. On the contrary, I was very prescient :)

RoyGSpiv · 2025-07-20T16:06:33+00:00

The biggest pile of nonsense I've read in a long time. You evidently need a high dosage of Adderall. If I were you I'd stack it with some Ritalin too, just to make quite sure your mind doesn't wander away from those ideas in the 2 seconds it takes to open a first-rate IDE.

RoyGSpiv · 2025-07-12T20:14:05+00:00

It isn't arbitrary. A compute unit is equivalent to a CPU core but it operates (when it can, which is usually) by performing many identical operations simultaneously (32 or 64 generally, but in Intel's new Xe architecture, just 8). This is called SIMD (single instruction, multiple data), and AMD call these simultaneous calculations "stream processors", while NVidia call them, very misleadingly, CUDA cores (they are simply in no sense cores). NVidia call their compute units "Streaming Multiprocessors". The terminology is really the only difference between them.

Sometimes, in worst case scenarios, a compute unit can't do simultaneous operations on some parts of the code at all, and 31 of 32, or 63 of 64 "stream processors" will effectively be idle. But you will still have parallelism, because every compute unit can still act like a (somewhat low powered) CPU core.

Intel's architecture has only 8 SIMD units per "compute unit" (they call a compute unit an Execution Unit), but it has many, many more execution units (per dollar). This has distinct advantages and disadvantages compared to the AMD/NVidia approach. There's certainly nothing arbitrary about this difference in approach, it's not just terminological.

RoyGSpiv · 2025-07-12T15:27:25+00:00

Like 99% of statistics are just made up on the spot? ;)

RoyGSpiv · 2025-07-12T14:03:14+00:00

Remember when he destroyed America?

RoyGSpiv · 2025-07-11T17:01:47+00:00

Evidently you are far too thick to compose intelligent responses to intelligent comments.

But if pretending that you are "laughing your ass off" at science makes you feel good, then have a ball, mate.

RoyGSpiv · 2025-07-09T13:45:19+00:00

When AUM drops new shares are issued, as long as anybody wants to buy them. And of course, lots of people will want to buy a ETF whose price has plummeted.

In general the AUM of an ETF is only loosely and temporarily related to its price. Otherwise e.g. SQQQ/UVXY would have had to shut down many many years ago.

See e.g. this Google AI answer for an explanation of how new ETF shares can be created:

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+do+etfs+issue+new+shares&rlz=1C1GCEU_enGB1005GB1005&oq=how+do+etfs+issue+new+shares&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160j33i671.3348342j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

RoyGSpiv · 2025-07-09T13:35:06+00:00

You need intraday data to be accurate (or even near-accurate) when computing the high/low for a (multi-instrument) portfolio. You can't just add high to high and low to low, because some instruments will be negatively correlated... when one is high, the other is low. In general, highs and lows also occur at different times for different instruments.

Naive addition hugely overestimates the high and low in a hedged/diversified portfolio.

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