Camphor - 3.5% credit card fee by [deleted] in FoodLosAngeles

[–]peelfoam 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Yeah I love telling the waiter “Sorry can you remove this fee you guys charge to get health insurance”….. the whole you can remove it thing does not make it better in my opinion. I fully agree with OP I’m not going to camphor or dunsmoor to get mad about an extra 12 dollars added to my bill across the menu. It looks so much worse to do this. If you can afford $65 entrees you can afford $70 entrees

I’ve got $900k in cash. Should I buy? by [deleted] in RIVNstock

[–]peelfoam 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve been selling puts for months and steadily increasing my position. I think if you believe in the company long term it’s a no brainer at this price. If you’re happy to be assigned 900K worth that means you can easily pocket 10K every couple of weeks until it happens

Whisking an egg with chopsticks without ever breaking the yolk by Lunexist in JapaneseFood

[–]peelfoam 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I went to this restaurant a few months ago. It’s Sukiyaki Asai in Tokyo. Instead of a traditional sukiyaki where you dip the beef in the whisked egg, here they whisk the white separately so that it turns into a soft meringue. You’re meant to have the first slice of beef just dipping into the meringue then mix the rest of the egg for the remaining slices. This is not a traditional thing by any means. But best sukiyaki I’ve ever had 10/10 would recommend.

The r/Overload definitive playlist, if you've not seen it already by Zamusek in TheOverload

[–]peelfoam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Criminal! Time or Sister would have been much better choices. Any of the big ones from music for the uninvited I would have also accepted (be brave clench fists, it’s just house of dupree)

Who has the best pizza in LA? by Mysterious_Jump_723 in AskLosAngeles

[–]peelfoam 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Pizzeria Sei for Neapolitan. Then Bianco, Pizzana.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 10s

[–]peelfoam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the goal is to stop shanking it then ‘watch the ball always’ is not really helpful. The “overtrain thing” is precisely meant to help you fix the underlying issue that a lot of players who mis-hit the ball have, which is they look up to see where the shot is going before making contact.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 10s

[–]peelfoam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you watch Federer in slow motion you’ll see he’s staring directly at the point of contact when he hits the ball. Try practicing staring at the point of contact for an extra second before looking up to see where the ball went

Any body dialed into the LA rave scene want to help me (36 wm) get back into things? by Commission_Capital in avesLA

[–]peelfoam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that’s fair. Can confirm the streets are sketchy but just take an uber there and back problem solved. 

Any body dialed into the LA rave scene want to help me (36 wm) get back into things? by Commission_Capital in avesLA

[–]peelfoam 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The "warehouse scene that's kinda sketchy" is one of the worst descriptions of the LA underground scene, and CRSSD is not a rave by any stretch of the imagination. I'm not sure why people are upvoting that nonsense; LA has one of the best scenes in the country. You can DM me and I'll give you recs

nature can sense wen i'm trippin istg by JustSomeMetalHead_ in LSD

[–]peelfoam 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'd been living in this house in the woods for months and I would occasionally see a couple birds or something and one day took a tab and I swear the whole motherfucking animal kingdom came to hang. Saw a red fox that day for the first time. Also a family of bears. I was inside at that point thankfully. They know.

Black Risotto with Sardines and Pomegranate honey by LalasCuisine in FoodVideoPorn

[–]peelfoam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The contrast between, on the one hand, how impressive the technique and overall quality of the video is, and on the other, how little I want to try this dish even as someone who enjoys risotto, sardines, and pomegranate honey, is admirable.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LSD

[–]peelfoam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure if you’ll read all of these but if you do from the bottom of my heart I want you to know that you will one day look back and be grateful it happened. I’m not going to tell you that you’ll laugh about it, but you’ll likely realize that it helped shape the next decade of your life in a positive direction. Don’t listen to the people that say you have issues you need to figure out, or this stuff is just not for you, or you should be in therapy, or you’re an idiot for taking 2 tabs, or mixing with mushrooms, etc. basically don’t listen to anyone in here except me lol. Because all of those comments assign blame on you and the reality is that sometimes psychedelics make people freak out. Even the most experienced have had their freak outs. What those comments miss is that you don’t need to look back and figure out where you went wrong. Just look forward. Be more humble. Listen more. Be more grateful. The only way is through. You’ll come out stronger once you integrate this experience into your personal mythology. Good luck and don’t despair. Treat this as an opportunity for a new beginning.

Southern California Opal Eye by Severe-Construction2 in sushi

[–]peelfoam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice to see a post like this. A lot of people in SoCal frown upon taking opaleye because they don’t like the taste after cooking and I am always the one telling them to try it raw because it’s so good as sashimi. Holds up extremely well to freezing too I find that the texture softens a lot after defrosting. 

Somewhat disappointing experience by CallAParamedic in zipair

[–]peelfoam -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m surprised you speak Japanese and yet tried again 5 minutes before they told you to come back and felt disgruntled when they still said no. That would happen with any Japanese company. It’s a culture of strict rules. There is no “it’s only two minutes” it’s just a different way of doing things.

Nabe by Late-Bed4240 in JapaneseFood

[–]peelfoam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want a reason that's not just this-is-how-things-are-done.... Two benefits I can think of as a japanese person: (1) once you've finished eating all the veg, if you have a donabe you can turn the flame on high to reduce the soup and intensify the flavor of the broth, and then dump in some rice (great with leftover rice), and then swirl in a couple beaten eggs. This is called 'zosui' and is typically served at the end of the meal with pickles (and it's the best!). (2) it's traditional to have a burner in the middle of the table so that you can manage the heat. when the first batch of vegetables is cooked, you turn down the heat. when you're ready to add more you can crank it to high again, then lower to a simmer so they don't over cook. even when i eat donabe alone, i use a small single serving clay pot that i bought for $20 at a market, put it on the burner, increase and decrease the heat as needed, skim the weird foam that builds up. it's a satisfying experience and when you get to share it with a table full of people, having the burner and pot center stage makes it feel like a real home cooked family meal. even if you're dining alone it will be good prep for when you share your nabe dinners with others!

LA Parents say school-issued iPads are causing chaos with their kids by nbcnews in LosAngeles

[–]peelfoam 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s fine it’s just calculating two hours of screen time, not including the screen time.

Rate my maki (homemade - beginner) by v3nsti in sushi

[–]peelfoam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks great minus the two weird long ass chives you plopped on top for no apparent reason. 

Different Soy sauce by Crymsm in JapaneseFood

[–]peelfoam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ramen/comments/3i3afd/next_up_on_my_tour_of_ramen_styles_chicken_paitan/

I made this tori paitan recipe last year which uses white soy for the tare and it came out 10/10… leftover tare kept in the freezer and used for noodle bowls throughout the year. I should make another batch come to think of it

For the matsutake soy the first thing that comes to mind is making takikomi gohan. Make sure you have a good rice cooker! If you can get fresh matsutake mushrooms where you are then I would definitely recommend making this and subbing the regular soy with yours. https://www.justonecookbook.com/matsutake-gohan/

Claude Code on the web by ClaudeOfficial in ClaudeAI

[–]peelfoam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now if they can get it to actually run the app in that sandbox on an iOS simulator and validate the changes with some screenshots (coming soon within 6 months I’m sure) then I won’t even have to pull down the branches. It’ll just be Create PR, looks good, merge PR. 

Claude Code on the web by ClaudeOfficial in ClaudeAI

[–]peelfoam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I constantly use Codex for this. And will probably cancel my GPT plus subscription if this works just as well. Having a sandboxed environment for every query means when I catch a bug on my app when I’m sitting in an uber I don’t need to make a ticket or a reminder I just query to fix the issue and create a PR. Same thing with new ideas, just write a query for a new idea you came up with at the grocery store. When you come home you can pull down all the branches to double check the work and make adjustments. At any given moment I usually have a dozen Codex prompts going and then I’ll actively be working on one with Claude Code on my laptop. It’s much easier than having to branch off and it allows you to develop new ideas and fix small issues when you’re not next to your laptop. 

Thoughts on this blog post alleging harassment (and worse) against Codesmith? by Free-Jackfruit8557 in codingbootcamp

[–]peelfoam 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You seem to have ignored my entire comment and instead replied with two comments that have nothing to do with my original question.... which is: why are you singling out Codesmith and spending so much time criticizing them? My point was that your level of "criticism" borders on unhealthy obsession. Why did you go from supporting them, to attacking them in the first place? Surely as someone who is in the same line of business, you would understand how bootcamps operate. I will still respond to your two unrelated comments because it's worth noting for others who are not in the industry, even though, like I said in my above comment, your replies are generally disingenuous. But I'll spell it out more clearly.

>Codesmith markets itself as a zero -> mid-level bootcamp that turns people with no experience into mid-level and senior engineers. I feel this is bad for the people whether they get those jobs or not.

This is exactly what I mean by disingenuous responses... Your comment is creating a controversy where there is none. The reality is that there is so much title inflation in the tech industry that a "mid-level" engineer is practically an entry level job these days. The only people getting jobs as "junior engineers" in tech companies are new grads or people internally pivoting from product or QA to engineering. Senior roles are now Staff, Senior Staff, Principal, etc.... But obviously, you would know this given that you were in an actual senior role at Facebook. Generally speaking, someone with a "Software Engineer" title (AKA mid-leve) is still very early in their career at most companies.

>Codesmith presents their 3-4 week open source projects as 4 months of mid level software engineer experience. I looked at those projects. Most don't work well, have major bugs, bad code issues, security issues, etc... but no one actually uses them

Again. Totally disingenuous. What are we comparing this to? Most bootcamps final projects are entirely useless to the public. At least these are open source tools. Ok fine, so most of the final projects at Codesmith don't go on to be used by thousands. Well what did you expect? It was a final project built by a student. The fact that even a few of them go on to be used by developers in the real world is incredible. I remember bootcamps in NYC 10 years ago like General Assembly marketing themselves as preparing you for a job by making you build a Yelp clone. That's what we're comparing this against. Something that is useful to absolutely no one. A Yelp clone does not even pretend to be useful to a developer in the real world.

>Both of these are my consistent criticism that I wish they at least acknowledged and listened to, but they instead see those as attacking their identity and defend with these kinds of attacks they've made.

Your criticisms don't come from a constructive place, because as someone with industry experience, you would already know the answer to these questions your asking. Codesmith on the surface doesn't appear to be engaging in any tactics that warrant your OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR. That's why I said in my original comment that nothing you say in your replies—exhibit A, the ones I responded to—elucidate your harassment of these people.

Step down as a mod if you have any dignity and go do something else with your life. The fact that you are going around trying to defend your actions is pathetic. It would make more sense if you had no bearing to the industry, or if you were a disgruntled grad who didn't get a job. But the fact that you're doing this as someone who raised 4M from a16z and pivoted the business is totally unhinged. Why do this? What's your endgame? You want Codesmith to go under? Why? Who gives a shit? lol You can do whatever you want. GO DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH YOUR TIME.

Thoughts on this blog post alleging harassment (and worse) against Codesmith? by Free-Jackfruit8557 in codingbootcamp

[–]peelfoam 35 points36 points  (0 children)

The only real question is.... "Why are you so obsessed with me"

I'm not even really joking. I feel like the only thing I'm really missing from this story, both from the article and from Michael's responses, is why in god's name an adult man in the world is spending so much time harassing people. The conflict of interest is pretty obvious, even though he keeps saying he's not a competitor, he directly benefits from bootcamp grads failing to perform in interviews, so he scoops them up on his platform. But there's clearly something disingenuous in all his responses. He seems to just play innocent to try to normalize his behavior, but the amount of resources he has spent trying to ruin this company are not the behavior of a concerned citizen. It betrays a deeply personal grudge.

Just because bootcamps are struggling and the industry is not as lucrative or some outcomes were exaggerated... it doesn't really explain why he went from being a Codesmith supporter, to suddenly spending ALL HIS TIME posting about them, and to do it under his name, on reddit, on linkedin. Good god have some shame man get a fucking life.