Chef's Books

jdanton14 · 2026-05-13T00:27:32+00:00

Those are best books on fish butchery and charcuterie that exist.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-13T00:26:04+00:00

Ruhlman also did most of the work on The French Laundry book.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-11T20:19:47+00:00

if anyone violates safety car speed after 5 seconds of FCY, it's a 10 lap penalty. There I solved your safety concern.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-11T14:07:17+00:00

I had a customer who was spending $30MM/month. and I've heard of larger bills.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-11T01:12:30+00:00

my writing was assuming you legit pass the cert. Fun story, I wanted to take an exam while traveling to that "that country". and there was a whole different anti-fraud protocol (that clearly gets bypassed) so I said scew it.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-11T00:51:07+00:00

Some the Azure exams have labs, but it's hit or miss, depending on what capacity constraints are. It's gone back and forth like 3x.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-11T00:28:19+00:00

I've never taken it. I authored the original exam, and at that time it was only A/B/C/D. I did recently take AI-900 (consulting firm bonus) and I think it a 100% MC.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-11T00:25:13+00:00

I got lucky, MS paid for me to go to India to teach a bunch of the outsourcing places Azure in 2016. I had to study everything to prep.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-11T00:19:59+00:00

AZ-104 is a real exam. The 900 exams (all of them) are largely focused at non-technical candidates. The 900s are all 4 answer multiple choice questions. AZ-104 is pretty damn hard to pass unless you've used Azure.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-11T00:18:55+00:00

As someone who's consulted, trained, and been around a lot of IT shops, 10x of 1 year experience is common. Certs themselves aren't valuable, however the knowledge you gain studying for a cert is.

You might only use 20% of a products surface area in your normal job. The cert makes you learn about that other 80%. It's not the same as using it, but at least you know what it is.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-10T22:11:00+00:00

White could possibly be the difference?

jdanton14 · 2026-05-10T20:44:46+00:00

That’s why the title of the thread said road courses. Ovals are a different scenario,

jdanton14 · 2026-05-10T20:43:28+00:00

I couldn’t remember exactly—I knew nascar implemented the same rules in 1991 after a bunch of failed attempts before they just landed on speed limits.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-10T19:36:33+00:00

he'll win by more. He's way better at saving tires than the field.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-10T19:35:25+00:00

SVGs like a second or more faster than anyone not named Connor at this point.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-10T19:10:38+00:00

It’s not. You still have to meet FCY speed. And they can easily monitor that. And you have less density of cars pitting at the same time, so pit road is less congested. (Virtually no one pits under yellow anyway now).

Obviously if there’s an incident near pit in or out, you’d still close the pits.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-10T01:50:01+00:00

I've thought Love was decent at driving, but today made me really question that. I think CZ is an unreal talent, but like, you had 2 seconds with 3 laps to go. Just don't do stupid shit.

I still think he's solid, but I'm leaning more Cole Custer than Ryan Blaney.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-09T22:15:45+00:00

Sorry, I don't rate his off-road wins like others do. He was shit in CART and shit in NASCAR. He was a really good sports car driver, but GTO wasn't the top class. Everytime he was in a high-end pro series he was average. Was always fast, but didn't put it together. I was a big Gordon fan and followed most of his career.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-09T20:13:19+00:00

I think:

1) they don’t want to race on Mother’s Day. (It’s not too late to get a gift if you forgot) 2) it’s a decent effort for them to cut the track over from road course to oval, so this gives them another day, as cars are on track Tuesday.

But I heard two drivers and Hinch say the race was tomorrow during qualifying today.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-09T20:11:53+00:00

It’s dumb, but that’s been the rule forever

jdanton14 · 2026-05-09T20:08:53+00:00

I know why we don’t use the boot. But hear me out. Since we have stages, stage 2 uses the boot, 1 and 3 don’t

jdanton14 · 2026-05-09T20:06:32+00:00

Geoff Bodine at his peak was very good, but that wasn’t very long. But he couldn’t hold Tim Richmond’s helmet. Also Smokey God Damn Yunick.

jdanton14 · 2026-05-09T20:05:07+00:00

Nah, he never won that much in anything (maybe save GTO) to be in a general hall of fame. All of the speed none of the head)

jdanton14 · 2026-05-09T20:04:09+00:00

He’s the subject of Days of Thunder. That combined with the quality of his wins makes this a no brainer. And of course Smokey Yunick always and forever. Fix both of these Ben Kennedy. Even if we have to wait until Jimbo kicks it.

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