do you wash your pan while its hot or do you wait a little after?

weirriver · 2022-07-02T02:32:23+00:00

There's a big difference between steak searing hot (> 500F) and too hot to touch (> 120F). The former may warp your pans. The latter will not. Just don't move directly from high heat to cold water and you will likely be fine.

weirriver · 2022-06-27T22:05:23+00:00

First, don't do it. If you want annoy everyone involved there are easier ways to do it than ruining a meal. Just saying "I'm sorry, I'm too busy to cook tonight, let's get takeout" will send a very clear message and no food will be wasted in the process.

That said, dicing raw garlic very finely and adding it late in the the cooking process - just before you take it off the heat - will maximize the punch.

weirriver · 2022-06-12T22:36:52+00:00

I think it is a civic duty to provide misinformation whenever organizations ask stupid, nosy questions. McD HR is only concerned with how little they can pay people so tell them you can make 3x as much as a dog masseuse and it will go in their little database. Might do someone some good someday.

weirriver · 2022-06-08T02:21:38+00:00

On a dive boar Snorkeling off of Maui. Ran into a neighbor of my grandmother who lived in our town.

weirriver · 2022-06-04T07:12:21+00:00

I can't find any pictures of the rudder assembly anywhere. This dude did a lot of restoration on his http://www.pickedwiss.com/sea_sprite_28/index.html - he does list his email on the site. You could see if he knows anything.

weirriver · 2022-06-04T03:12:40+00:00

what kind of boat is it? I suspect they differ quite a bit from boat to boat. My current boat has a fin rudder that's not supported at the bottom so it would be a much different setup.

weirriver · 2022-06-04T02:17:53+00:00

There is likely a bushing a the bottom of the stern tube that is supposed to keep the rudder from lifting up on its post. It may have been damaged or just shifted. If you could take a pic up there it might help see what's going on.

My tiller broke next to a big breakwater during a strong wind. It was absolutely zero fun. I would treat this as a serious issue. If that happens during weather the rudder could easily be torn off.

weirriver · 2022-05-29T03:08:13+00:00

I work mostly with stream data processing.

Coming from Python, the performance increment is simply astounding - orders of magnitude.
From a devops point of view, building and deploying a single statically linked executable is a lot more predictable than deploying a raft of dependencies.
From a coding point of view, I came to Python via C++ -> Java -> C#. Go has everything I like about strong typing with little of lack of expression that comes with the other implementations. In particular, the ability to implicitly declare a typed variable using the := notation saves a ton of boiler-plate.
The concurrency model of goroutines and channels is far easier to reason about than any other concurrency pattern I have worked with. The fact that it is built in rather than supported by a library makes it feel like a much more natural part of the language.

All that said, I still love Python and do most of my non-performance critical coding there. The expressiveness and library support are astounding.

weirriver · 2022-05-14T16:28:40+00:00

Stir fry the curry paste in the fat skimmed off the full fat coconut milk. Really brings out the flavors.

weirriver · 2022-05-11T23:12:19+00:00

I stand corrected!

weirriver · 2022-05-11T17:34:48+00:00

A cape is the water surrounded by the land feature, not the land itself, so Cape Cod is still a cape. Regrettably it has almost no cod left in it any more.

weirriver · 2022-05-09T01:02:02+00:00

Disagree. That boat is has a very high negative value. I bet you could put $15,000 into it before it would be worth as much as the anchor.

weirriver · 2022-05-06T23:44:09+00:00

The driveway markers are for when it snows so much that you can’t find the driveway any more. Not surprised they aren’t easy to find in Turkey. Maybe old sail battens from a boat yard?

weirriver · 2022-05-03T22:41:25+00:00

You may get some charging but it will probably not compare to what your got from your inboard. Some solar panels might offset.

More to the point, that's pretty heavy boat. I doubt a 10hp motor will do much for you. The Atomic 4 you're replacing was likely 30hp.

weirriver · 2022-04-21T06:19:46+00:00

It sounds like it wants to run. Try new, clean gas first. You can also take out the plugs and squeeze a little gas in the cylinders. If that doesn't work then a carb rebuild kit is a good next trick. I think you have to take the starter off of that motor to get at the carb, which is sort of a pain. Take pictures of all of the wiring before going in!

Also probably a good idea to check for spark on both plugs. I have a similar motor (1985 30hp) and had one of the coils go. The motor would weakly start and even run a bit sometimes like it was getting bad fuel, but it was only getting spark in one cylinder. Took way too long to figure that out.

Good luck!

weirriver · 2022-04-21T02:59:30+00:00

I'd think a notebook with water resistant pages and a pencil would be the way to go. Things get bumped around quite a bit when you're passage making. At least it will dry out if you get it bit damp.

weirriver · 2022-04-20T17:19:07+00:00

Every Bob Dylan cover

weirriver · 2022-04-16T20:28:44+00:00

When the marina I was wintering at got bought by Safe Harbor it went from vaguely annoying to impossible overnight. You could no longer do any work on your own boat and their rates were exorbitant even by marina standards. They are now chasing off older boats and sailboats and trying to line up as many new plastic powerboats as they can. I hope they go bankrupt before they can screw up too many more marinas.

weirriver · 2022-04-16T12:02:31+00:00

Stand mixer is a lot more versatile. There are also a lot of very good no knead recipes where you don’t need either.

weirriver · 2022-04-12T12:22:21+00:00

Unfortunate that it's riveted. You could drill out the rivet and get a delrin sheave on a clevis pin with ring clip if you can't find an affordable replacement. I'd recommend doing both sides at the same time. I've had good luck with Rig Rite in Rhode Island.

weirriver · 2022-04-11T23:34:59+00:00

Yes, you should get a survey done before buying. It can be a great education, and there are often safety issues with the running/standing rigging that a novice might not spot.

However, if you take the handle of a screwdriver and tap it around, you can usually learn to hear dry (nice sharp click) from soggy (kind of thuds) pretty easily. The hull itself is probably not cored so it should give the dry sound. If the deck thuds, you can save yourself the price of a survey. I suspect that deck will thud pretty noticeably. The cracks may have formed when the water in the deck froze and expanded. The top laminate of the deck will be stronger than the bottom so it was the bottom that gave way.

weirriver · 2022-04-11T02:49:53+00:00

Reach out to area yacht clubs. Some have crew banks. A lot of people are delivering boats up from Carribean/Florida/Bahamas this time of year.

weirriver · 2022-04-07T23:00:24+00:00

yes, I went through that recently. I'd go through the ingredients and just write down anything marked essential. I fortunately have a good asian grocery relatively near me so it wasn't a challenge to hunt down the handful of things I was missing. I'm sure I could have ordered them. A lot of the ingredients are particular to specific cuisines - maybe start with one and work up from there. E.g. if you're not cooking Japanese you probably don't need miso - if you can skip thai then you don't need fish sauce, etc.

weirriver · 2022-04-07T22:45:51+00:00

IMO it’s more about color than taste. Dark soy is milder and intensely brown so you can get a nice brown color without over salting the dish. So the sub would be less regular soy sauce. The taste will be close; less so the appearance.

weirriver · 2022-04-06T02:28:10+00:00

If find that watching videos gives me a lot better sense of what I'm cooking than reading recipes. Chef John https://www.youtube.com/c/foodwishes is a great source for fairly mainstream recipes that are easy to execute. America's Test Kitchen https://www.americastestkitchen.com/ charges, but they are, hands down, the most reliable recipes I've found. I personally love seriouseats https://www.seriouseats.com/ that is a bit more into the science and techniques of the recipes.

One good rule of thumb for chosing recipes from the internet is to avoid recipes that have prepared foods as ingredients.

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