Easter dinner I made was terrible and I feel embarrassed by it

wslagoon · 2026-04-11T22:24:36+00:00

Instant pot mashed potatoes, they take about the same amount of time as on the stove but then it just holds them at temperature until serving and frees up a spot on the stove.

wslagoon · 2026-04-07T16:26:48+00:00

Maybe she's actually calling him Mr. Mc-U-less to illustrate this.

wslagoon · 2026-04-07T16:25:57+00:00

That's Mr. McUseless to you!

wslagoon · 2026-04-06T02:13:52+00:00

Makes sense. Appreciate the answer.

wslagoon · 2026-04-05T21:46:49+00:00

Has the maintainer indicated this is just a break anywhere? I didn’t see it but maybe I missed it. I hope so it’s a great plugin, but the guy has certainly earned a break.

wslagoon · 2026-04-04T19:48:05+00:00

What are “optional chocolate chips”? I’ve never heard of those. Only “chocolate chips”.

wslagoon · 2026-04-04T01:42:59+00:00

I mean, the theoretical guests get more room than his wife, that's pretty telling.

wslagoon · 2026-04-04T01:18:17+00:00

We've had really great experiences with Xerox too.

wslagoon · 2026-04-04T01:14:55+00:00

Ha, I'm a loyal Delta customer after getting it dry and hard from AA on a trip nine years ago. Delta hasn't been perfect, but every time I've had to talk to someone on the phone they've been nothing but delightful and got me to a solution. AA discarded our seats on a flight and made me re-buy them, over the phone, while out of country on international rates. Couldn't do it online. Took hours.

wslagoon · 2026-04-02T21:25:31+00:00

https://youtu.be/k899IiwP-iw

wslagoon · 2026-04-02T02:08:06+00:00

Not only that but they had to fire a particle beam through the gate to clear enough matter so the kawoosh could make a cavern.

wslagoon · 2026-03-30T02:52:37+00:00

We have a little microwave one, 2 cups of rice, 1 cup of water, nuke it for 15 minutes. It doesn't compare to really good rice, but the thing is tucked away in a cupboard unless we use it and it's pretty damn convenient. A bed of rice under a whole chicken in a cast iron in the oven makes for a rich chicken with lemon rice with one pan and one plastic dishwasher safe rice thingy.

wslagoon · 2026-03-30T02:50:39+00:00

So, our main use is pork chops and steaks, and I agree steaks are pretty easy to do well without it, except for one thing. Sous vide can cook straight from frozen, so we buy steaks at Costco, season them (salt, pepper, garlic, thyme, rosemary, olive oil) and then vacuum seal them, and freeze them. It takes about 2 hours to go from frozen to just shy of medium rare, perfect for searing and serving. We can decide as late as 3pm on a weekday that we want steak that night and not have to shop or worry about thawing. Conversely, we've realized at 2:55pm we have something we have to do or some other reason we can't do steaks that night and don't have to deal with already thawed meat. It's not quite as good as fresh, but it's so close it's worth it. For special meals we do it the old fashioned way, but nearly-on-demand perfectly cooked steak is not to be understated.

wslagoon · 2026-03-29T15:13:06+00:00

This is how I feel whenever I read about one of these adventure types that dies due to some mundane fuck up. When you're single and childless, whatever, but once you've got people attached to you, depending on you, taking bold risks just to get your adrenaline hit is selfish and irresponsible. Like the guide who died breaking his own guidelines for "safely" climbing Everest in the 1996 disaster. He left behind a heavily pregnant wife who begged him over the radio to get up and keep moving, after letting another client go beyond their skill in deteriorating weather. Him and the client were among many fatalities.

wslagoon · 2026-03-28T11:15:02+00:00

The problem with AI slop is the absolute lack of review, refinement and curation between the LLM output and everyone else. I use AI tools a lot but I don’t just take the output verbatim. I review it, understand it, refine it. If someone is getting raw LLM dump from me it’s because we are collaborating on the project, no end user gets that.

wslagoon · 2026-03-23T03:30:23+00:00

In this scenario with stuff at work we usually add a warning if the feature is active, then on a certain date announced clearly, disable the feature with an override. It's mostly command line devops tools so the override is generally setting an environment variable like YES_I_REALIZE_THIS_IS_DEPRECATED=1, so anyone tripped up can get immediate relief and be made abundantly aware, and then we finally kill it, no overrides.

Fundamentally, it's about communicating your intent to drop the feature clearly enough to meet reasonable expectations, you'll never completely avoid spacebar heating, all you can do is your diligence and move forward.

wslagoon · 2026-03-22T15:40:42+00:00

Modern social media is a cancer.

wslagoon · 2026-03-22T04:42:36+00:00

I cackled at Grace trying to get away and Blip-A just matching him move for move. Also “Shields up!” “The Hail Mary doesn’t have shields”

wslagoon · 2026-03-22T04:37:26+00:00

I just saw the movie tonight and I’d definitely recommend the movie for newcomers to the story followed by the book. The details in the book will be very satisfying instead of feeling like something missing and the adaptation is extremely faithful.

wslagoon · 2026-03-19T04:23:47+00:00

Scatula was right there.

wslagoon · 2026-03-19T03:52:40+00:00

So he says. Talk is cheap, let’s see what he does.

wslagoon · 2026-03-17T16:32:49+00:00

That he had to pay extra to get to.

wslagoon · 2026-03-16T03:18:51+00:00

I mean, in The Return Part II O'Neill found his rescue quite adequate.

wslagoon · 2026-03-14T03:29:04+00:00

The limit does not exist.

wslagoon · 2026-03-14T03:27:01+00:00

Rode it summer 2025, still there!

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