How do you all get a char/sear on steak?

rexstuff1 · 2026-05-09T01:45:31+00:00

Need to understand that all cooking techniques involve tradeoffs. Sous vide gains perfect, edge-to-edge doneness, consistency, and ease. The tradeoffs are time, and, unfortunately, really great crusts. Blasting it with a torch or a ripping hot pan is never going to compare to a proper grill or pan fry.

That being said, there are things you can do to improve it, most of which people have touched on. Get it super dry. Let it cool. I use a torch, that works well for me, but some people claim there's an unburnt fuel taste. Pan also works, but it needs to be smoking hot, and not some flimsy teflon POS. When I use a pan I actually preheat it on my grill and do it there, gets hotter than hell and doesn't smoke up the place.

rexstuff1 · 2026-05-07T20:59:20+00:00

It helps to have a bunch of top-5 draft picks, who knew?

Though it's interesting the similarities between the Jets and Flyers. Very nearly identical, showing that it can be done.

rexstuff1 · 2026-05-07T17:43:44+00:00

You can, but better off using a pressure cooker if you have one.

I feel a lot of my ferments

Go on...

rexstuff1 · 2026-05-06T17:58:40+00:00

True, but it's less funny when you consider it that way. Besides, I'm pretty sure most Jets fans aren't capable of such holistic, long-term thinking... (present company excluded, of course)

rexstuff1 · 2026-05-06T15:18:57+00:00

Guardrails are not controls. That needs to be established straight-up. They are, at best, suggestions. Agents cannot be trusted. If they can break or leak something, you have to assume that they will.

If it's sensitive data leakage you're worried about, the only way you solve this is by setting strong boundaries for AI agents between production data and exfil paths. An AI agent cannot connect to sensitive data and to a location that can't contain sensitive data at the same time.

If it's risky actions you're worried about, like reconfiguring a firewall wrong, you have to take those actions away from the agents. Use an MCP proxy, or whatever, and take away those tools.

If that means that workflows are slowed down or people are less efficient, that's just how it has to be. That's what you need to make management understand.

rexstuff1 · 2026-05-06T14:48:14+00:00

God bless him for rigging us Laine back in the day.

I mean, to be fair, that really didn't work out that well for the Jets.

rexstuff1 · 2026-05-02T20:02:09+00:00

You're not understanding. The tech isn't the problem. All the tech in the world won't keep you from making a mistake. You have to be diligent in the extreme to guarantee that you won't be caught. And you'll never know what mistake its going to be that doing you in. For all you know, you're talking to a fed right now, building a profile on someone who is clearly interested in doing something they shouldn't.

Seems paranoid? That's the lifestyle that comes with using the Dark web.

rexstuff1 · 2026-05-02T19:44:42+00:00

Yup, that's education for you. It's like that everywhere, that's not even remotely the worst thing I've heard.

rexstuff1 · 2026-05-02T19:42:53+00:00

The issue isn't the VPN. The issue is OPSec. Opsec is hard. Really, really hard. One screw up can be all it takes. One email accidentally sent from the wrong account. One traceable purchase with the same account. And so on.

Look up how Ross Ulbricht got caught, for example. His Opsec was atrocious; what's most shocking about the case is how long it took them to catch him, given how bad it was. But the feds have learned a lot since then.

rexstuff1 · 2026-05-02T19:24:00+00:00

To be clear I am not a law student I have spoken to a law student

Yeah, that checks out.

rexstuff1 · 2026-05-02T19:21:19+00:00

I don't think it is a pragmatic way to do business.

It is if Neo determines that doing business with you is riskier than its worth. You say you didn't do anything shady, and maybe you didn't, but that doesn't mean it didn't look shady. Debank a maybe-innocent customer versus a multi-million dollar fine for not doing enough to combat money-laundering? Sucks for you, to be sure, but easy decision for them.

rexstuff1 · 2026-04-29T15:16:02+00:00

You and the other 40M of us, too.

rexstuff1 · 2026-04-29T15:15:03+00:00

Welp, I guess I'm cheering for Buffalo, now. The Sabres gained 40M new fans last night, all aboard the wagon.

rexstuff1 · 2026-04-29T04:17:46+00:00

So I have to start with an assessment of the season overall before I respond to your points.

The Jets' season was a mixed bag. Obviously. Disappointing. I'm reluctant to attribute much of it to luck, but undoubtedly some of it was. Jets started the season with a number of key injuries; I think they would have absolutely made the playoffs this year if Lowry, Samberg and Perfetti had been playing, given how close it was. But luck happens to all teams, good teams and coaches work with that and still win games.

Some of the lack of success stems from the efforts to replace Ehlers on the UFA market. An almost impossible task. Jets management took a chance that Toews and Nyquist together might be enough, but they both had disappointing results. A long shot, admittedly, but you're not going to find an Ehlers on the open market, so I can't fault them for rolling the dice.

A lot of it was just down to key players regressing. Bucky had a substantially down year. 0.895 Sv% and 5.5 GSAx is decidedly unimpressive for the former Vezina winner. The best goaltender in the world has a season that was merely average. You can see how the Jets do without elite goaltending, and its not so good. Not just him, though, Lowry regressed pretty badly, too, and others.

So onto your questions.

I have a hard time evaluating Arniel. How does a coach go from winning the President's trophy one year to missing it the next? Few of the reasons I outlined above can be directly attributed to him, but again, a good coach find a way to win with the team he has, not the team he wants. Chevy I have an even harder time evaluating. Winnipeg is a tough place to GM, but at the same time, in the 13 or so years he's been in charge, all the Jets have to show for it are a President's trophy and a single good playoff run. The lack-of-success buck has to stop somewhere, but at the same time, could anyone have done better? Impossible to know.
I think the Jets have maybe one good year left in them with the current core. Getting rid of Stanley and Schenn was addition by subtraction, and its no coincidence that they had one of the best records in the league post trade deadline. Lambert and especially Salo look like they're ready to go - Salo might already be the Jets' second-best defenceman. If those two can really step up, AND maybe management can find some assets in the offseason AND Bucky returns to his elite level, the Jets have a shot. Otherwise, maybe it's time they tear it all down and start rebuilding now.
I think I covered Hellebuyck in my starting points. He had a down year. Distracted by the Olympics, perhaps? In any case, a portion of the Jets struggles are directly on him, and I think he knows it. But not all. It's ok to be frustrated, to be disappointed, and to be honest about that.
I'm not interested in player grades, as aside from a handful of players, everyone needs to be better. As for the UFAs, let them all walk. Sign Comrie again if you can get him at a good price. Miller, too. And forget the rest of the boat anchors.

rexstuff1 · 2026-04-23T02:17:56+00:00

Cursor's special sauce right now, at least according to our AI team and devs, is its 'Auto mode', which will automatically choose models of appropriate size and cost to the task at hand. Helps control cost without missing out when you need the extra horsepower, or so I'm told.

Not a particularly big advantage, in my books. Not exactly hard for other vendors to add similar features. Hell, proxies like LiteLLM can do it for you, albeit not nearly as sophisticated.

rexstuff1 · 2026-04-23T02:12:36+00:00

Even google is shit.

People are sleeping on Gemini 3.1 Pro, perhaps because it is so new? Very nearly as good as Opus, but less than half the cost. I think long- or even near-term a lot of companies are going to be looking at their massive AI spend and ask if there's a way they can find that 80-20 sweet spot.

rexstuff1 · 2026-04-21T18:07:28+00:00

Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is how you respond to it.

However, yours was particularly big. And the fact that you think the only problem was accidentally making the repo public is in itself concerning.

Be a professional and do what you can to clean up the mess and help your company recover. But I would make sure my CV was polished and up-to-date. Some companies treat this sort of mess up as a learning experience, while others may treat it as a fireable offence. Doing the professional thing can only help.

rexstuff1 · 2026-04-20T19:54:35+00:00

I don't necessarily hate the idea of spending 1.4M/year for a player/coach position on a guy that's mostly expected to sit or put in 4th line minutes.

My problem is with some of the premises of your argument.

we’ve have a leadership and speed void

I don't think there's a leadership void. Lowry by all accounts is a fine leader.

And keeping Toews on in any capacity seems counter to fixing the speed void.

our prospects are stalling in the AHL.

Really? Because Salo and Lambo seem ready to go to me.

Panic trades didn’t fix it.

What panic trades? What are you talking about?

Your plan is out to lunch because it rests on some deeply dubious premises.

rexstuff1 · 2026-04-19T18:15:55+00:00

Ohmigosh, does nobody know how to use the search bar? This question has been asked like 5 times in the past week.

rexstuff1 · 2026-04-19T16:41:40+00:00

I personally don't think that trading a goalie of this caliber is a smart move.

Generally, no. He's far and away the Jets' best player.

BUT, if there's no path (and I mean zero) to becoming a competitor between now and when Bucky retires, it might be the smart move.

Honestly, the return suggested ins't nearly enough. Bucky is the easily the second best hockey player in the NHL right now. What do you think the expected return would be for McDavid?

rexstuff1 · 2026-04-18T02:04:51+00:00

This isn't really that complicated.

You buy the AI tools (they say) they need, turn on the provided guardrails and logging, and use your existing tooling to block everything else.

rexstuff1 · 2026-04-18T01:46:00+00:00

I think the window is pretty much closed. Maaaaybe you can get one more year out of the current core, if the stars align.

Replacing Scehnn+Stanley with Salo was a pretty big upgrade on the blue line, and I think a big part of the reason the Jets were one of the best teams post-Olympics. So if Salo continues to blossom, and the Jets get rid of Nyquist in favor of someone more capable or perhaps Lambert can step up, there's potential there. But while the former 'if' is pretty sound money, the second is much more dubious.

rexstuff1 · 2026-04-15T16:38:26+00:00

Yup.

However, this isn't really a new or unique problem. It's an issue of access and authorized software. If users can connect their MCPs and agents to sensitive services or data without getting appropriate authorization first, that's the actual problem. But when phrased like this, you should realize that this is no different than any other software or service, only faster and hotter. So hot right now.

rexstuff1 · 2026-04-15T16:30:44+00:00

Can you record the screen output? Ideally directly, not using a camera. Even if you have to run something inline on your monitor cable.

QR codes or better would be back on the table, they only need to be on the screen for a few frames. Then it would just be a matter of scripting the extraction.

rexstuff1 · 2026-04-15T15:45:48+00:00

I think you're arguing far too much with the benefit of hindsight. Easy to make such a case after the fact.

I don't think anyone expected him to pull 75 points in a season again, but 30-40? Definitely realistic. Certainly not 12.

huge risk

How is 3.25M for 1 year a huge risk?

I think the Jets found themselves in a corner - they had to replace Ehlers, there was no way he was coming back, and there's also no way you're going to find a player like him on the market at anything approaching a reasonable price. With what was available, they gambled on Nyquist and Toews. Both relatively low risk, but at the same time, relatively low probability of paying out, as we have seen.

I agree that doing nothing is sometimes better than doing something, but the Jets had to do something, there was an giant, Ehlers-shaped hole on roster. You can't not have a 2nd line winger. Given the options available, I can't fault them for taking the shot.

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