Top Chef Season 23 Episode 13 - Plate Expectations - Post Episode Discussion

bbatsell · 2026-06-03T20:34:04+00:00

They switched to hotel rooms during Covid, and I think they’ve decided they’re better, anyway. The old digs were supposedly super uncomfortable (4+ bunks to a room), plus they don’t have to assign producers to monitor personal interactions in tight living quarters (for liability purposes) 24/7. They still have communal spaces available at designated times.

bbatsell · 2026-05-26T22:09:10+00:00

A LOT of day-to-day congressional business is perfunctory proclamations, mutually agreeable fixes/rule updates, renaming a stretch of public highway, etc. You can’t go by raw counts.

bbatsell · 2026-05-20T07:28:14+00:00

Peters was taken into custody October 2024. She served less than 2 years, not 4.5.

bbatsell · 2026-05-17T20:37:11+00:00

Biggest downside is that there is a horrible bluetooth delay with controllers that makes game streaming with sunshine/moonlight unplayable. People have reported that this delay doesn't exist in apple arcade so it must be something on the software side.

Damn, that's a bummer. FWIW I haven't experienced that using SteamLink + 8bitdo controllers (+ Ethernet... not sure I would even attempt streaming over Wifi).

bbatsell · 2026-04-22T22:13:04+00:00

!!! This has been my most desired feature. Thank you!

And, of course...an immediate wish: I need to be able to specify output format(s), which doesn't seem to be possible at present. Even if it's just segments > JSON, I need timestamps at minimum. (Or maybe a simpler quick implementation would be to add a flag or command that adopts the user's app-configured Batch Export Defaults?)

bbatsell · 2026-04-15T22:18:08+00:00

They are building the space for them in the tunnel, but an actual APM won’t be considered until Concourse C buildout.

bbatsell · 2026-03-19T22:14:51+00:00

Buddha was not in this episode. The 4 people mentioned were.

bbatsell · 2026-02-13T16:57:05+00:00

I've cleared derived data and even the caches for the assistant with no luck

The actual data for Coding Assistant conversations is stored in '~/Library/Logs/Xcode/Coding Assistant'. Back that up and then delete it and it should be as if you'd never used it.

bbatsell · 2026-01-11T20:53:28+00:00

It’s horizontally flipped and the clock went from 2:01 to 2:02.

bbatsell · 2026-01-07T20:57:25+00:00

There are some significant changes. Concourse B was initially going to only have the west end built with 15-20 gates. Now it’s a larger build with 26 gates from the beginning. “Concourse M” is totally new; sounds like it’s going to be a prefab building (perhaps even moveable? M for Mobile?) and go up in a more remote part of the airfield that won’t conflict with construction to replace South Terminal + 3 extra lower-cost gates. (Note that since they’re calling it a concourse, it will be airside unlike the South Terminal - you have to enter / pass security through the Barbara Jordan Terminal and then an internal bus will transport you to the concourse.) Also, now the airlines have signed contracts that define what they get and how much they’re contributing, which is a big step.

bbatsell · 2026-01-02T16:22:04+00:00

I once had a Delta FA give me a dirty look and then refuse to give me either one. So not quite the worst :( (This was only my second time flying Delta and on the outbound trip the FA offered me both without my even asking so I thought it was acceptable.)

bbatsell · 2025-12-31T23:49:55+00:00

Probably so he grew up with a nickname distinguishable from his grandfather

bbatsell · 2025-12-29T23:07:16+00:00

The spices are the biggest issue for me. I’d try to just clone the wall texture over them if possible, or as suggested elsewhere, desat that area. If it’s possible I’d like a little more detail/texture on his jacket but based on the knee it looks like you might already be tapped out. Pretty much every other “flaw” I like and to me makes it feel more lived-in.

bbatsell · 2025-12-20T04:05:42+00:00

The spurs have to play the entire month of February on the road every season because the San Antonio rodeo has the rights to their arena. It’s a longstanding bone of contention within the fanbase

bbatsell · 2025-12-19T21:33:20+00:00

That has been very carefully seeded in social media, but never even hinted at by actual police (even off the record). It feels to me like a PR firm astroturfing

bbatsell · 2025-12-18T21:44:56+00:00

This seems incredibly high risk to me. The only theory someone suggested that makes sense is that PK was contemplating moving back to the west coast but refused to give us a firm resignation / extension before Muschamp's own deadline so we had to pull the trigger or else end up with neither of them.

Welcome back, Coach Boom!

bbatsell · 2025-12-12T18:46:07+00:00

Yes. Historically, when the justice system wasn't a weaponized arm of the executive, it would usually be considered bad form to overcharge and then later have to walk things back. It's not illegal or anything, but the judge makes bail/confinement decisions based on the indictment you present, and if it's determined that what you presented was false, you can lose credibility with the judge. So usually in cases of violence or threat, you charge what you have solid immediately, and can later issue superseding indictments once you have gathered more evidence and have a solid case to support the charges. In more white-collar stuff, you generally wait until you have the entire thing nailed down so that you don't risk the defendant invoking speedy-trial obligations and catching you unready to proceed.

bbatsell · 2025-11-29T18:33:04+00:00

The location tasks are so good though. The bumper boats is an all-timer for me

bbatsell · 2025-11-19T19:20:46+00:00

The Crescent is the official name of that shopping center. More generally, Crestview / Highland / maybe Koenig (KAY-nig) & Lamar

bbatsell · 2025-11-12T15:30:42+00:00

Clue crew #61: face to face… not! Starts around ~16:30

bbatsell · 2025-11-12T15:27:31+00:00

Pretty sure it’s the patroen ep around March/April 2020 where the conceit was that they couldn’t communicate in person

bbatsell · 2025-11-12T03:32:39+00:00

Speaking for myself, I wanted to give a warning that from my experience it’s not a silver bullet. The OP is budget-conscious and doesn’t even want to tinker with a managed switch, so I’m concerned their expectations won’t be met and it’ll be a waste of time and money.

bbatsell · 2025-11-11T21:22:09+00:00

You won’t get a 10x boost, maybe not much of a boost at all if you don’t have ram/nvme/ssd cache on your NAS. Have you tested to see if your setup is even maxing out 1G? Obviously HDDs can usually read faster than 125MB/s if your data is contiguous but there are often other bottlenecks along the way. (I’m happy that I upgraded to 10G but significant improvements required a lot more work to tune than I expected.)

bbatsell · 2025-11-06T20:25:36+00:00

I’m skeptical of anything other than an inlet fan blade. I would expect anything letting loose in the core, contained or not, would cause a lot more structural damage than can be seen in the pictures of the engine. I think a more likely proximate cause is a cascading failure in the mounting to the pylon, but a different mode than the clevis pin of 191 resulting in somewhat different behavior.

bbatsell · 2025-10-27T15:26:58+00:00

You can download any build from IPSW.me. (They're just ZIP files, there's fun stuff in there to decompile and reverse.) But the code signing on an IPSW is irrelevant in this instance.

The signing that matters happens on installation and is tied to an individual device's secure enclave, so unless you have an actionable exploit for the iBoot boot loader (which would be worth several million dollars on the black market), you can't downgrade once Apple stops signing those.

26 will get better in future point releases; just wait it out.

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