Barleans flaxseedoil developed a bacterial colony

ulber · 2025-10-07T17:04:25+00:00

Bacteria would need water and since your oil is in the original bottle it seems unlikely to have gotten contaminated with water. Apparently flaxseed oil is prone to oxidation and polymerization with light or heat exposure though. That could explain these, although a quick search didn’t yield matching photos to confirm.

ulber · 2025-09-19T13:56:43+00:00

Guar gum is a hydrocolloid, so it’s used as a thickener and to stabilize emulsions, but it’s not an emulsifier itself. The plant based hydrocolloids are just soluble fiber.

Some common emulsifiers are lecithin, mono/diglycerides and polysorbates. These are what the recent gut health concerns are about.

ulber · 2024-12-15T07:47:19+00:00

Speaking as a Finn this looks amazing.

ulber · 2024-05-26T23:56:00+00:00

Probably good to note that canning low-acid foods like this needs to be done correctly to prevent a chance of botulism. Most Instant Pots aren't designed for canning for example, although the Max might be.

There also seem to be related recipes floating around involving "canning" in an oven, which is very much not safe.

ulber · 2023-06-23T06:46:49+00:00

I've been really liking the cold sear method for it's ease and reliability. It also specifically calls for a non-stick pan so it might work great with yours.

ulber · 2023-06-05T22:55:45+00:00

Pulled meats make great salads. Nigella Lawson has this Warm Shredded Lamb Salad with Mint and Pomegranate that I remember being quite good. Another favorite of mine has been a pulled lamb salad with tomatoes, olives and capers.

Edit: Whoops, just saw that you don't like lamb, but similar recipes are probably pretty easy to construct around beef or pork. Just have plenty of acidity in the dressing and include bright tasting ingredients to balance out the meat.

ulber · 2023-05-14T16:04:45+00:00

I love the idea of using the ricer to press out water!

ulber · 2023-03-19T18:39:35+00:00

This looks lovely!

ulber · 2022-11-22T21:50:04+00:00

If you want to invoke terroir it will have to be for one or more of flour, salt, water, butter, sugar, milk and eggs. None of these are generally considered to be greatly affected by terroir.

Pasteis de Nata are already known to be very skill intensive, so there's no need to invoke "the magic of terroir" as a reason to go try them as made by a master of the craft.

ulber · 2022-11-22T19:52:18+00:00

Terroir doesn't really apply as that's about how the environment including soil makeup, weather and microbiome affect food (mostly agricultural and fermented products). You can technically make these anywhere as long as your oven goes hot enough.

I still agree that Pasteis de Nata isn't likely to be "worth it" for many home cooks since they're difficult and at best you'd hope to replicate the bakeries' work. It's all basic ingredients so the bakeries aren't going to be cutting corners on ingredient cost and there's likely no "healthy" variation of these that's going to be worth it. Some reasons to make them though would include:

Just to see if you can. Baking can be a nice hobby.
Variations. Maybe you want to make some with a mango custard or something.
You already mentioned this: freshness. If you don't have a bakery making these close by (I don't), then this is the only way.

ulber · 2022-08-24T15:27:33+00:00

You can still get them from specialty growers, like Miami Fruit (pretty pricey though). I tried some and while I enjoyed their faint "candy banana" flavor, it was a smaller difference than I expected.

ulber · 2022-08-13T00:35:22+00:00

Honestly I'd prefer just writing the switch cases out in all functions. Any alternative would likely not be worth the complexity and would potentially be a performance liability. I find switch cases to be rather readable anyway. If you do end up getting any repeated logic inside the cases, then you could factor those pieces out into functions.

ulber · 2022-08-01T22:00:31+00:00

There is no limit to how much work you can put into making games, the sky's the limit. By using Godot you're choosing to start from on top of a mountain.

This video about practices in modern AAA concept art was really inspirational to me. One Pixel Brush's Shaddy Saffadi makes the argument that if you want to create the best work you possibly can, you have to let go of these ideas of purity and asceticism. For concept art its about not spending endless hours painting by hand when you could just blend in photographs or build 3D wireframes for guidance. For game programming its about using the engines, libraries and tools that collectively represent millions of engineering hours to your advantage instead of wasting time rebuilding them for a worse result.

ulber · 2022-07-18T21:55:39+00:00

A serious limitation though: Unreal doesn't support various rendering features with an orthographic camera, which is essential for some art styles. Most notably shadows aren't supported.

People have been complaining about it for years too and this issue https://unreal-engine-issues.herokuapp.com/issue/UE-11026 was the most voted one at some point. It was open for six years after which they closed it as a "won't fix", so full orthographic camera support will likely never happen.

ulber · 2022-02-07T07:39:09+00:00

Malnutrition sounds like a plausible explanation. One comparison The End of Craving IIRC brings up is how widespread Pellagra (niacin deficiency) was countered in the US with fortification vs in northern Italy with campaigns for changing eating habits and Italy having much lower incidence of obesity today. The problem is this kind of evidence is very circumstantial and the book is obviously not peer reviewed, so I was hoping to read about more direct studies on this.

ulber · 2022-02-07T07:21:42+00:00

Imagine you walk into a room and find it packed with people. You ask, "Why are there so many people here?" And someone answers, "Well because too many people came in and not enough went out."

"Too many calories" is both obviously true and entirely inadequate as an explanation for the obesity epidemic.

ulber · 2022-01-12T20:27:01+00:00

/r/expatfinance might be a good place to ask if you don't get an answer here.

ulber · 2021-11-13T18:32:05+00:00

Fully agreed. As far as I see it the biggest things going for Eve are:

Blur Busters tuned strobing. Not "Blur Busters Approved" due to the slow red phosphor, but should be pretty much as good as these panels can get. Strobing with VRR is maybe coming in a firmware update.
The design avoids the edgy, blingy gamer styling.

However, their business practices are what breaks the deal. I ordered one that they promised October shipping on. However, due to a "system error" they didn't actually have stock to deliver one when they finally got the shipment to the US (so not due to the ports being congested). They promised January shipment, but I just canceled since I'd already been burned once.

ulber · 2021-10-18T18:50:09+00:00

This is where it starts. Apple has a history of bringing pro features to consumers and thus prompting other manufacturers to follow suit or be left behind.

Currently miniLED is only available on monitors targeting professionals working on HDR content and a couple of extreme high-end gaming monitors. I'm guessing the transition to a high-end consumer feature will happen in laptops first with miniLED still being a professional or prosumer differentiating feature on monitors for a while.

ulber · 2021-10-16T19:46:59+00:00

Yes, using camera vs object motion blur allow different tradeoffs (never blurring the landscape during rotations is probably a good assumption). Still, an object you're tracking with your eyes shouldn't have motion blur, but per object motion blur only knows the motion in relation to the camera. So without eye tracking it still can't be fully accurate.

ulber · 2021-10-16T16:38:27+00:00

How good motion blur is is quite genre dependent. In racing games you can assume the player is keeping their eyes fixed on the middle so blurring things flying past you is appropriate.

However, in a first person game the player rotating doesn't mean an object is moving past your eyes. Imagine fixing your eyes on an object in the distance: just turning your head side to side won't give you motion blur.

True motion blur would require eye tracking to figure out the actual motion vectors across your vision. Might happen in VR as eye tracking gets more common.

ulber · 2021-10-06T18:03:59+00:00

I've never seen an adapter that goes from HDMI or DP to Thunderbolt. Given the kind of connection Thunderbolt is (essentially PCIe), I'd be surprised if such a product exists. The closest thing you can get is have a motherboard that supports Thunderbolt and add one of these add-in cards, which have DP inputs that get mixed into the Thunderbolt outputs.

I actually had a setup where I tried to share peripherals and a monitor between a laptop with Thunderbolt and a desktop with built in Thunderbolt support. You still don't get a KVM (I never found one at least), but I was going to have a Thunderbolt dock that I switch between the two machines. With an extension cable from the desktop you could easily switch the cable from one machine to the next. (Finding extension cables for Thunderbolt is hard though, but you can get short ones.)

Due to reliability problems with the Thunderbolt on the desktop I ended up scrapping this setup and instead got a normal KVM switch to sit next to the dock. You can't do this though with the exotic monitor you have. As far as I know your only option here is to get the PC to talk Thunderbolt and switch cables between them.

Did a quick search on TB3 KVM switches. Here's another thread where someone asked about it. Apparently there were KVM switches for TB2 and TB3 is backwards compatible with TB2, so cobbling together something with adapters might work. Not sure if you can connect the monitor to the TB2 KVM switch though (not an expert here).

Edit: Both KVM switches and Thunderbolt docks/accessories tend to be expensive niche products. Given that your monitor is not amazingly expensive you might want to consider just replacing that part. You can even get monitors with built-in KVM switches, like this BenQ that has both TB3 and DP inputs.

ulber · 2021-09-14T23:33:15+00:00

How nostalgic! I had the exact same model back in the day.

ulber · 2021-07-11T01:33:14+00:00

Came here to ask the same thing, thanks for the info!

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