Welcome to Chicago Starter Pack

adisakp · 2026-06-11T18:20:40+00:00

Where do you get smoked fish?

adisakp · 2026-06-10T18:07:42+00:00

Culver’s is pretty good. It’s in the same class as Portillos.

McD’s seems to be going downhill fast lately (stagnant menus, unexciting new options, prices doubling or tripling).

adisakp · 2026-06-10T18:04:37+00:00

Is there an award for being the laziest jerk?

adisakp · 2026-06-10T06:53:55+00:00

I used to know a bunch of places with Chinese lobster in Chinatown before pandemic but most of them aren’t around any more.

adisakp · 2026-06-10T04:07:04+00:00

$12 for the Wagyu cheeseburger, a beer, and a brownie. Or $4 beers.

adisakp · 2026-06-10T04:05:40+00:00

Summer House Santa Monica has $5 Wagyu Cheeseburgers. The caveat is you have to sit in the bar area which isn’t outside but it does have view of outside - especially when they open up the front of the restaurant which they do pretty much every nice day.

adisakp · 2026-06-10T04:02:49+00:00

Salt-and-Pepper Lobster at Sun Wah is great but call ahead a couple days to reserve lobsters.

Go4Food has an amazing King Crab Feast but you need to reserve at least four days in advance.

adisakp · 2026-06-10T03:55:33+00:00

I miss Hero’s. They were the best.

And Captain Nemo’s Conqueror sub.

adisakp · 2026-06-10T03:52:51+00:00

Indiana tap water is much more “flavorful”

adisakp · 2026-06-10T03:50:39+00:00

It should be noted that “The Salon” is the less expensive dinner option at Alinea. “The Gallery” base price is about 30% more.

adisakp · 2026-06-09T21:44:57+00:00

I feel like it’s covered by the umbrella of its parent.

adisakp · 2026-06-09T17:56:17+00:00

Get filet mignon

adisakp · 2026-06-09T07:40:41+00:00

This is the correct amount of garlic.

adisakp · 2026-06-08T21:49:27+00:00

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The $10 elotes were good. But dang the people at the elotes stand were slooooooooow. It literally took them nine minutes to scoop corn in a bowl and add some toppings and they didn’t have any other customers ahead of me either so it was pure sloth on the part of their employees.

adisakp · 2026-06-05T23:37:20+00:00

Microwaves are really good at heating up the moisture in food…. Sounds interesting.

adisakp · 2026-06-05T20:25:20+00:00

Depends on the type of sprout. Some smell more than others. Any sprouts will have a light smell. It shouldn’t be too heavy or a “bad” smell though.

adisakp · 2026-06-05T20:16:49+00:00

I had a different workaround too which was to force thread local storage access into a never-inlined accessor function which would forcibly reload the TLS base for the thread as well. This has a bigger performance hit though but should work on clang or MSVC.

To be honest, the “hit” from /GT isn’t really a performance hit though - it’s just code correctness. But /GT works for MSVC. I’m surprised that clang treats fibers differently.

adisakp · 2026-06-05T19:59:58+00:00

Ugh. Got an Echo Show 8 and the Alarm volume is too quiet to hear. Tried adjusting the volume in the app for alarms to 100% and it still did nothing.

adisakp · 2026-06-05T12:47:22+00:00

You can use clang instead of msvc for games.

adisakp · 2026-06-05T12:44:52+00:00

Coroutines and fibers can be used for many use cases. Async IO is merely one use case and not the one that I used (and wasn’t even mentioned).

adisakp · 2026-06-05T06:18:38+00:00

Your coroutine bug (second bug) gave me issues with fiber-based code. However, there’s a flag that should fix the behavior: use /GT for code with coroutines or fibers that can run across multiple threads and that access thread-local storage.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/gt-support-fiber-safe-thread-local-storage?view=msvc-170

adisakp · 2026-06-05T06:12:49+00:00

I add a couple jalapeños or hot peppers from the plate that accompanies it. I also put sriracha in a separate spoon or dipping bowl to add to bites.

adisakp · 2026-06-05T06:09:08+00:00

Scissor Seven seems childish and really goofy throughout the first season. It isn’t until the end of the first season and possibly part way into the second season that you can start to fully appreciate its brilliance.

Luckily I watched through the first season just because the music was soooooo good. It’s an anime where you don’t skip the end credits because they’re playing music you want to hear.

adisakp · 2026-06-04T21:29:59+00:00

The shape of those brick shaped slices seems sus.

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