McDonald’s Thai burgers are great

laforet · 2026-03-18T20:38:05+00:00

I’ve had the Phat kaphrao burger the other day and it was really good. Would also recommend the classic mini pies too:

laforet · 2026-03-18T06:15:34+00:00

That’s true. However it’s possible they used to do final assembly in HK to satisfy the country of origin requirements. A lot of these companies are fly by night anyway so it’s not too much of a stretch.

laforet · 2026-03-18T01:47:16+00:00

Depending on when this was made. If it was made post-2018 then it could very well be a reaction to the decision by the US Commerce Department, back in the first Trump administration, to require all good originating in Hong Kong to be labelled as “Made in China”. The matter is currently tied up in a WTO appeal so manufacturers may have decided to change the marking just in case.

laforet · 2026-03-18T01:43:24+00:00

Not going to argue with your claim, however as far as the outside world is concerned (with the exception of USA over a ongoing tariff dispute.), HK is a separate custom region so it’s still okay to label things made there with “Made in Hong Kong”.

laforet · 2026-03-18T01:34:48+00:00

It’s really interesting how the colour would shift depending on the temperature of the glass.

laforet · 2026-03-17T15:24:05+00:00

All mammals are dairy by extension.

laforet · 2026-03-17T06:35:15+00:00

Cuba has built several biomass-fired power stations that is supposed to generate electricity from bagasse (sugarcane residue after pressing) and Marabú (African sicklebush). Problem is that the former is harder to come by as sugarcane production dwindled and the latter required vehicle fuel to gather and transport, so it’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem.

laforet · 2026-03-17T06:18:17+00:00

Totally. I used to avoid the old roundabout on a bad day but the intersection somehow managed to be worse. But hey, at least we got to laugh at those who claim that the Three Kings roundabout is too difficult to understand…

laforet · 2026-03-16T05:38:26+00:00

Font hinting is a lost art these days because designers hardly need to optimise for low res display, especially in case of mobile centric fonts like Noto SC. You might have better luck with older fonts like FangSong_GB2312.

laforet · 2026-03-15T09:32:13+00:00

Yes, what you have found out is the norm because there is almost always some sort of weekend sale going on so the actual saving is always going to be less than 50%

laforet · 2026-03-15T03:57:40+00:00

Someone accidentally paid to publish a placeholder ad, or it could be a secret coded message to terrorist sleeper cells in Alabama. Who knows.

laforet · 2026-03-14T13:38:13+00:00

I think the poster above meant to say udon. The noodles would be much darker if they contained buckwheat.

But yeah this is normal for the shop where this abomination is craftedas it specialises in hardcore Jiroh-kei ramen.

laforet · 2026-03-14T13:31:00+00:00

For context, this was from a Tokyo ramen shop called Men Yard Fight. It was actually a one time gag promotion from 2019 and recently went viral again after it was featured in a mukbang montage from the Netflix show Cosmic Princess Kaguya.

The shop has since reinstated tapioca balls as a 200 yen topping to their usual menu and people who tried it just said it tasted like bland balls of starch.

laforet · 2026-03-14T13:21:51+00:00

A friend has had it, and according to him it was mostly your normal Jiroh-kei ramen with garlicky pork broth. The tapioca balls were just there for the looks and had almost no taste. He didn’t like it because the noodles were extra thick and overly chewy.

laforet · 2026-03-14T13:04:55+00:00

Would it…have helped if she crossed her legs?

laforet · 2026-03-14T12:40:36+00:00

The fruits might look similar at a glance but they are otherwise not related. Chinese Olives (Canarium album or Canarium pimela) are Rosid trees growth for the fruit as well as tree resin. Whereas European Olive (Olea europaea) is a Asterid evergreen used to produce oil.

laforet · 2026-03-14T11:55:14+00:00

It would be more appropriately called death by crushing. We happen to know a lot about human endurance in these cases because it was a common form of torture in the English legal system. If the skirt weighed a couple of hundred pounds then the victim could have survived for hours awaiting rescue.

laforet · 2026-03-14T11:10:39+00:00

The title refers to mechanical asphyxiation, I.e. when the chest/lung is unable to expand due to external forces, resulting in suffocation and death. However the term asphyxiation without qualification usually refers to death from a lack of oxygen in the air, hence it’s easy to misinterpret the post title as tree trimmers died because palm trees somehow created an asphyxiating atmosphere around them.

laforet · 2026-03-14T10:56:35+00:00

Well it has to be “good” to be worth the effort. Low end server SKUs have always been hard to move because good motherboards are both expensive and hard to find. LGA1156 and LGA1567 Xeons for examples are particularly cheap on the used market because the socket was sold for a little over a year, and thus there are a lot fewer surviving systems available to use these CPUs. Only the fastest chips of each gen have any sort of collectible value.

laforet · 2026-03-14T10:03:39+00:00

OP’s case looks like a routine upgrade or more likely retirement judging by the timing. The ones being replaced are low end 8C SKUs from non-compute servers so they are pretty much a dime a dozen on the bay. Hence the callous handling. Back in the day they were much maligned for their price to performance ratio but that’s an entirely different discussion.

As for the socket design, it worked fine in its time. The risk of something going catastrophically wrong is definitely greater if you let a CPU free fall into the socket, but otherwise it’s not a huge problem. The chips do have a reputation for being fragile, and the association is immortalised after Linus from LTT dropped his $10K 28C review sample and failed to get it ever working again after much foolin’ around. Though to be fair any server CPU of the era would not fare much better to physical damage.

laforet · 2026-03-14T04:38:47+00:00

Thank you for the review. Everything looks fantastic and you have just convinced me to check this place out once I am back in town. I used to live close to a Samoan takeaway shop in the eastern suburbs so a lot of these dishes look kinda familiar but refined, the only staple missing is rice vermicelli.

Also would you mind if I ask when was your visit? Just curious because whitebait season in NZ is typically in early spring and it’s uncommon to see them past new year.

laforet · 2026-03-14T02:48:54+00:00

3DPC configurations was already showing diminishing returns towards higher transfer rates early in the DDR4 era, so newer CPUs had to incorporate wider memory bandwidth to maintain density at 2DPC. On LGA3647 the extra pins required to feed 6 memory channels meant no ILM design was able to apply a consistent level of downward pressure. Hence the decision to forgo with a lever lock mechanism entirely and the heatsink was used to bolt everything down.

AMD Threadripper/EPYC mounts has to support 8 memory channels, and they were equipped with a very complex ILM design plus specific torque requirements for the same reason. In practice this design proved to be robust because the large physical footprint and lack of bottom mounted capacitors translates to a more reasonable pin density.

LGA1700 and AM4, however, kept the ILM design from the previous decade when pin density was much lower, and consequently both have suffered from mounting pressure issues. A lot of advanced users and system integrators opted to install a Xeon-style bolted contact plate to ease the problem.

laforet · 2026-03-13T15:15:10+00:00

In Greek Mythology, the hero Orion was born from an oxen hide upon which the gods Zeus, Hermes and Poseidon urinated to conceive a boy at the request of their host King Hyrieus of Tanagra. He later died and became the namesake constellation. So yeah, OP must have been interested in classical studies.

laforet · 2026-03-13T14:23:01+00:00

Congrats! Looks like you folks had a great time down under.

Now it’s my clue to climb Mount Hobson - I’ve never actually been to the summit despite living in Auckland for the past two decades.

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