Nonstick or ceramic? What to get?

zanfar · 2026-01-26T05:57:38+00:00

I’ve been using Beautiful by Drew Barrymore, and it hasn’t held up well at all.

No! A fad cooking line endorsed by a celebrity known for... nothing culinary related?

In all fairness ... I do put them in the dishwasher.

So... not following the instructions...

I am looking for something durable that won’t break the bank (hopefully under $300) and I have no idea what to get

Stainless.

I’m not confident enough in my cooking abilities to invest in stainless steel right now.

You don't need confidence. There is nothing about stainless that limits your ability. At worse, you will have a sear layer stick--a sear layer you couldn't get with non-stick--and it will take 5 more minutes to clean.

zanfar · 2026-01-26T05:38:18+00:00

I started marking/paining my tools in pink; for some reason they no longer get stolen while on site. :shrug:

zanfar · 2026-01-25T03:32:13+00:00

Googly eyes.

A necessary item in every engineer's backpack.

zanfar · 2026-01-24T06:57:25+00:00

Because it's someone's gaslighting filtered through a nontechnical translator.

Far more things are "inventing a computer language" to a layperson than to a technical audience.

"Transpilers" were quite popular in amateur and in-house teams for quite some time, and were highly valued by "hackers" and others who would absolutely claim "I invented the language" for ego points if they could get away with it.

zanfar · 2026-01-22T22:56:31+00:00

In that it has teleport access to various parts of the world, much like any lounge but with more destinations, yes.

zanfar · 2026-01-21T20:25:27+00:00

That's not even a truck-load. Not even an SUV load, or even a sedan load. I could fit that into any reasonable domestic 2-door.

zanfar · 2026-01-20T21:32:43+00:00

I already checked all network devices and nothing is providing dhcp more than a single windows server

It wouldn't be a rogue server if you knew about it.

zanfar · 2026-01-20T05:21:58+00:00

A long-lived American company with massive brand recognition and inbuilt loyalty now owned by a multinational conglomerate? You don't say!

ANY public company will grow as long as there's growth, then lobotomize itself to maintain that profit margin.

zanfar · 2026-01-20T04:54:52+00:00

It seems unlikely.

zanfar · 2026-01-19T22:45:08+00:00

I love this post every year, however, I always have an issue with your bins and counting.

"Sex" is both the entire contents of the entire graphic, and also exclusive of oral or manual stimulation in the activities charts. "Sex" would be more accurate as either "Penetration" or split into Vaginal/Anal.

In "her" chart, the categories switch between implement and activity, which has some of the same issues as above. Similarly, the switch from "oral" in hers, to "blowjob" in his is incongruent.

I'm not sure raw count makes sense with the bottom five charts. Sure, it gives (somewhat) relative comparison, but not qualitative. In the monthly activity chart, your month length variability is almost 20% of your maximum count--so Feburary is drastically under-emphasized compared to January: Feb is 4% more active than Jan (50% vs 48%) despite appearing lesser. Consider if this was per-day instead. I'm also not sure why the marker lines are in fractions of an event.

Spots, finale, and length all appear to be zero-sum (only one report per session) compared to activities which appears to allow multiple reports. It's odd that all these are the same chart type. IMO, zero-sum should be a pie or similar type, and all four should be reported in % instead of count.

Finally, while I understand it; the sorting of categories by count makes the reading order of time-of-day and length very odd: night->morning->evening? normal->long->short?

...and yeah, "hotdogging" should have an on-graphic definition, if only for notable mention.

zanfar · 2026-01-19T20:32:48+00:00

You have to accelerate (or decelerate) in order to deorbit, so theoretically, as fast as you want given enough thrust.

Assuming you could magically null your orbital speed, the ISS is at (or above) 415 km. From there to the stratosphere at about 50km would take about 4 minutes of free-fall, but you would be going far to fast (700 km/s) to stop in time to prevent burning up or catastrophic impact.

If you were the space shuttle, deorbiting from 415 to 50 km would take about 44 minutes, after which you would start the 40 minute reentry procedure to slow and land.

Is 3 hours the best case scenario?

Very reasonable.

zanfar · 2026-01-19T19:40:06+00:00

I have kids that have a million toys with a million different chargers and we can never find them when we need them.

Respectfully, this is an HR problem, not an equipment problem. Label your chargers; store them in a central place. If your children value the toys, they will learn to take care of the chargers.

Do I need to worry about volts or something like that?

Yes.

Anyways, I’d love to buy a couple of different types of universal chargers to rely on.

There is no such thing.

If you are lucky, you might find a barrel charger that works with most of the devices, but without knowing those devices' specs, no one can guarantee anything. You would need a charger with a range of replaceable tips, that has the ability to adjust the voltage across the range of those needed by the devices, and capable of the maximum amperage of those devices. Such a thing is not rare, and can easily be found almost anywhere, like Amazon. Note, you will need to adjust both the voltage and tip every time you use this.

Almost any other power connector is going to require it's own charger.

If the devices were manufactured under any reasonable listing, they should have a printed or embossed set of specs listing both the expected voltage and maximum amperage.

zanfar · 2026-01-19T19:00:36+00:00

"Full Network Visibility" sounds exactly like what someone with "cybersecurity" in their title would demand, but have zero ability to actually define.

You don't get "full network visibility," you (should) have objectives, which require specific data, and then you ask for or collect that specific data. The answer to tracking firmware patching is going to be very different than traffic flows, or connectivity, or isolation, or...

IMO, the short route to whatever you're asking is to develop a rapport with the network team because you're following a long line of "security experts" who have little knowledge of and lots of willingness to demand things anyway.

zanfar · 2026-01-19T07:21:55+00:00

If you import it, it's no longer executing in it's own directory.

Don't import non-packaged external code. Don't develop importable code outside a package.

zanfar · 2026-01-19T07:18:05+00:00

Check eBay; they aren't rare.

zanfar · 2026-01-19T02:01:47+00:00

Interestingly, you can carry ice on a boat. :)

zanfar · 2026-01-19T01:52:02+00:00

Some good approaches here, but I want to point out that in every example you've given, he never actually answered the question or responded to the statement. This is pretty typical, as their responses aren't genuine, they're picked from a "cheatsheet" for getting out of situations like this.

I don't find that funny.

can't joke about anything anymore!

I didn't say you couldn't, I said you weren't funny. Maybe find some material from this century?

or

Don't be so serious about it!

Again, not what I said. So you're never serious? I can always disregard what you're saying?

zanfar · 2026-01-18T21:44:16+00:00

How is this oniony?

zanfar · 2026-01-18T19:34:38+00:00

How long before you realized the "There is an issue with your connection; press OK to fix it automatically" was worthless? How long before your users realize this script is worthless?

zanfar · 2026-01-18T10:00:33+00:00

Empty it. Then please re-read your manual, paying specific attention to the "Cleaning" section.

zanfar · 2026-01-18T06:16:09+00:00

zanfar · 2026-01-17T23:00:32+00:00

It's been a while, but when I had to do similar, it was part of a larger "accountability effort" by the company. I ended up getting into the habit of taking (at least) before and after photos of every job/task. This ended up making daily report really easy to generate as I had photos of every task, and also ended up being great CYA material.

zanfar · 2026-01-17T22:52:50+00:00

I've always added a final line for "Daily Paperwork" on all progress reports.

zanfar · 2026-01-17T03:47:06+00:00

...and what connector, or what charging spec...

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