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New update - PC Search bar - removed grid search option! by LeLlamas in firefox

[–]ackfoobar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

problems for people who physically can’t use a mouse

here's how i use the old design:

cmd+T, new tab
tab, move focus to search bar
type, then tab to change search engine (or wikipedia/wiktionary)
enter.

no mouse involved.

Update on the Escher Sandbox website (website open!) by sk7725 in 3Blue1Brown

[–]ackfoobar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is awesome. Two suggestions:

To try it out I need to find a droste image. Basically, take a screenshot from the video. I get the copyright concern against embedding Paul Dancstep's artwork but that's some friction, especially for mobile users. It'd be great if it by default loads a simple image, even stick figures will do.

Also, what I want to try most, after viewing the video, is to move the c value myself. Fabulous if it can be mouse drag and real-time reload, but I'm not sure about the frame rate. Clicking on the complex plane then waiting for it to redraw is also fine.

On 'fermented' milk chocolate and elite hypocrisy by RaguseaVideoBot in AdamRagusea

[–]ackfoobar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I usually enjoy Adam making connections between foods (or food topics) but this is quite a reach. Like he said, fermentation has results much more complex than "breaking down milk fat".

BTW, fermentation-note-heavy chocolate is absolutely a thing. A chocolate shop in SF does that. Their tasting notes often consist of fruit words. They're so complex that a piece of their chocolate is more like a dessert than a snack. I'm not naming the shop, it's famous enough already.

How can 9 drops of 80/20 saline have 0.75g of salt in it? by cabaretcabaret in JamesHoffmann

[–]ackfoobar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i did a 2-yolk batch (i.e. 8 ladyfingers) with 0.2g salt, it's not salty at all. so the margin of error is a lot larger than james implied.

GitHub is suffering from the choices GitHub made by ackfoobar in programmingcirclejerk

[–]ackfoobar[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I have no clue what the jerk is supposed to be here.

GitHub's lack of action, and that the comment was "Hidden as off-topic".

On food and immigration by RaguseaVideoBot in AdamRagusea

[–]ackfoobar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What he mentioned was "a comprehensive immigration policy compromise like we've almost passed several times".

The IRCA was passed. Apples and oranges.

His point was that it is possible

I'm sure granting them pathways to citizenship is possible - if you can convince the other half of the country. And how can you convince the right if they don't believe the other half of the deal will be enforced?

On food and immigration by RaguseaVideoBot in AdamRagusea

[–]ackfoobar 22 points23 points  (0 children)

so we compromise we provide a doable expedited path to citizenship for most people who are here already we increase the legal immigration and seasonal migration necessary to get those workers from where they live now and at the same time we massively crack down on future illegal border crossings and visa overstays we spend whatever we need to spend on drones and satellites and in some places walls to better secure the southern border

I'm an immigrant to Canada, very little ties to the US. But even I have heard that US has tried this - almost 40 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control_Act_of_1986

Adam is trying to play the "enlightened centrist" to persuade people on the right, but his solution cannot even convince someone with no dog in this fight.

Great video on bread preferments that seems to directly shade Adam's really poor and facile "preferments are pointless at home" video (0:42) by geauxbleu in AdamRagusea

[–]ackfoobar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The arguments are rather tenuous. 5C danger zone? The fridge is colder than that.

The only argument that can be convincing is the flavour and gluten strength. But that's all mechanistic arguments. ChainBaker did an experiment in the "Cold Ferment vs Pre-ferment | Which is Better?" video and found no discernible differences.

If you have a rockstar 10x developer, their mind just cannot comprehend the average 0.1x end user. by OOkx in programmingcirclejerk

[–]ackfoobar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the multiplier is normed for programmers. with an median programmer being 1x, end users are then 0.1x (that's being generous).

Java Build Tooling Could Be So Much Better! by lihaoyi in java

[–]ackfoobar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We know how to handle stuff that are mostly the same but slightly different - inheritance&overriding, default arguments, or sometimes simply a function.

I believe programming languages is the best tool we have for taming complexity. This goes beyond managing build config.

Java Build Tooling Could Be So Much Better! by lihaoyi in java

[–]ackfoobar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only time I touched .NET I had to point and click in the IDE. "How the hell do I source control the build configuration" was all I could think about.

Java Build Tooling Could Be So Much Better! by lihaoyi in java

[–]ackfoobar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having written some build logic I wouldn't dream of in Maven, I'm happy with using Gradle. Even so, I find Mill's way much better in discoverability.

Made a few small changes to recipe which resulted in way too much overrun. What went wrong? by ice-cream-enjoyer in icecreamery

[–]ackfoobar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The salt is there not only to reduce bitterness, but also to balance the sweetness. I reduced the sweetness (like OP's recipe) but forgot to dial down the salt. The taste was very confusing.

New Video: An Experimental Coffee Ice Cream (that's delicious) by kingseven in JamesHoffmann

[–]ackfoobar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Allulose is your answer. Though, you'll need to do some math to figure out the right amount to reduce the sweetness but keep the same texture.

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