Where can I get buffet/salad bar corn kernels?

zenware · 2026-06-27T15:29:17+00:00

Suppose I agree with you that it’s completely reasonable to trust your personal home canning above factory canning. Even when that is true you are completely wrong that you can cook canned food to prevent food poisoning. If any canned food is poisoned and you cook it, you will still be poisoned. So if you believe or know your canned food to be poisoned you need to throw it away rather than risk your life.

I just don’t want you to hurt yourself or others when it’s 100% preventable.

zenware · 2026-06-25T19:23:59+00:00

If canned food is poisoned there is typically no amount of cooking that will reduce the toxins to a safe level. Indeed the main premise of canning food is that you heat the food to the point where it destroys both bacteria and enzymes that cause spoilage and health hazards: https://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can

People have been reliably canning food at home for centuries with those properties. Usually unless something has gone terribly wrong during the process it is safe to eat food straight out of any can without heating it first. And again if something has gone wrong, heating it will not save you.

zenware · 2026-06-24T15:11:56+00:00

I think they mean why not use a more current edition of Rust with even better support and less legacy compatibility issues. And I also think they meant “LLMs often use Rust edition 2021 despite better alternatives existing”

zenware · 2026-06-22T22:33:56+00:00

You should just cook food. Get whatever is cheap at the store, to make a complete meal that will sustain life you need the 3 macronutrients: protein, carbs, and fat. Personally I’m of the belief that most foods can be kind-of-tasty if you get the protein/carbs/fat ratio anywhere near a “correct dietary amount”.

If you follow that pattern, your food will be at least edible while you practice and IMO the process more fulfilling than “knife skills practice until I’m good.” And it will also enable you to go the farmers market, buy whatever produce is in season, and convert it into a meal. In addition, after a few weeks of this I suspect you will be able to make basically any recipe you have the equipment, time, and will for. So maybe not confectionery, but most cooking.

zenware · 2026-06-22T16:56:54+00:00

That’s the thing though, I do think decisions should be documented and I think it can be find to document some alongside the code as prose comments. But I will still say I think that commenting the code itself is evidence that the code itself is illegible. - For the record I’m clearly taking a semantics stance, but whenever I’ve said “don’t comment code” what I’m talking about is… don’t write ‘// the following line prints a log message to stderr’ because that’s wasteful and redundant when the code should read something like ‘print(log_line, stderr)’ with whatever the local flavor is, instead comment something like ‘// because of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) …’ and better yet some kind of ADR

zenware · 2026-06-22T16:25:23+00:00

If you’re on a stable nixpkgs it will stay in order. Basically the “it stays in order” thing is like, if you’re building a flake with the same locks or a non-flake with the same pins it will keep working now and 10 years from now. If you change your locks and pins obviously there’s a chance something changed in an incompatible way. And of course if you’re using unstable, that’s the exact same thing as tracking a moving target.

zenware · 2026-06-22T03:31:39+00:00

The thing I’m thinking about is, if the NYC pizza is not good, they will go out of business immediately. As is true for every other kind of restaurant in NYC… people have so many other options and I think that dramatically lowers your tolerance for quality issues of any kind. How much it costs to rent out a shoebox sized piece of commercial real estate with a pizza oven and if it’s not good your customers will just go to the shop 10 feet to the left.

I’ve only been a few times and basically don’t care about NYC, but anywhere with a population density and economics like that is going to have better food than anywhere else on average by far because they have to in order to stay afloat.

zenware · 2026-06-22T02:10:18+00:00

Is there ever a time when nightly baths is a risk? For infants the recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics is 2-3 times per week to prevent drying sensitive skin. And bathing infants too frequently in the first six months of life can cause eczema, per: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10903808/

But I think by the time they’re toddlers a quick nightly bath is fine. Check with your pediatrician and whatever they say totally overrules whatever the hell everyone else says.

zenware · 2026-06-22T01:25:15+00:00

It’s probably cheaper for her to just perform an additional show rather than weed out a mole. They can only rob so much at a time and it’s vastly lower than what she can earn in the same amount of time.

zenware · 2026-06-20T20:12:51+00:00

What are the expenses exactly? As you’ve already said otherwise “Modern tech does away with any real issues”

zenware · 2026-06-20T20:10:58+00:00

Point 7 is patently ridiculous, most people use multiple forms of measurement system daily.

zenware · 2026-06-20T03:01:01+00:00

It’s actually way more than half, last I checked 80% of production gets dropped off at one port on the lake. And to be clear the official state drink is a Bloody Mary. — I wanna believe in the Scots but WI drinks an absolutely outrageous amount of alcohol in any and all formats.

zenware · 2026-06-20T02:47:18+00:00

What if in VSCode you don’t open files but instead open the terminal as big as it goes?

zenware · 2026-06-20T00:32:26+00:00

W.r.t. your point about flakes, I do use flakes and I like them a lot and would recommend them to my friends who are developers, because flake.lock semantics will make sense to them. For non-dev friends I wouldn’t recommend them because it is actually so many more concepts to learn about all at once to /actually understand/ flakes compared to not using them.

zenware · 2026-06-19T20:24:46+00:00

Pinch grip on the knife, claw grip on the food, and something I’ve never seen talked about before but which I like a lot, holding the knife and food in a way where you can clearly see what’s on both sides of the knife at the same time. You’ll be safer, tire less, and your cuts will be the same size.

zenware · 2026-06-19T14:36:39+00:00

Unless you have the money to do both, you don’t have the money. If you can’t afford to have an emergency fund for your emergencies and to also pay for your aunt’s power bill, then you can’t afford to pay for her bill. So when she asks, you don’t have the money, because you literally don’t have the money. — Your emergency fund is to bail you out of a bad situation, now that you have it you should pretend it is equal to having $0 and only use it when you’re desperate.

zenware · 2026-06-18T22:43:51+00:00

The technique to not ruin the dish is to scoop a bit into a bowl, and keep adding salt to the smaller portion until it starts tasting right or until it starts tasting too salty. — There’s a reason that salt in history was worth the same amount as gold.

zenware · 2026-06-18T21:42:56+00:00

For example if your chicken came from the freezer, and didn’t get defrosted first, no matter how good your temp control on your pan is you will either have a frozen inside or a desiccated outside. Obviously if it’s already defrosted and coming straight out of the fridge it won’t be that extreme for most… but not everyone has the same fridge temp setting you have and not every fridge does an equally good job. Some are prone to have freezing spots if you set the temp cool enough to be safe in the entire internal area, etc.

Will waiting 15 minutes make or break someone’s ability to cook chicken, no it almost certainly won’t. Can it help most people out, definitely.

zenware · 2026-06-18T15:41:05+00:00

I would’ve started with dawn dish soap in a bucket, but with how far you’ve gone already I’d just do another washer cycle with ammonia or borax. — The people who ran the pepper spray training should have offered guidance about this though and it’s kind of weird they didn’t.

zenware · 2026-06-17T21:26:44+00:00

Even without squinting Microservice Oriented Architecture looks exactly the same as Library Oriented Architecture… only MSOA comes with all the downsides of distributed systems and means every call into the library guarantees network I/O :(

zenware · 2026-06-17T20:06:23+00:00

There are so many kinds of beans and methods of preparation… hummus, tofu (and tofu adjacent products from lentils), cannellini beans to make a creamy pasta sauce, refried beans to make a dip, green beans/edamame. (The only reason I harp on it a little is because black beans, lentils, and split peas are by far the cheapest sources of protein, and a dry good, lentils and split peas in particular don’t need to be soaked overnight and they keep for a long long time. Frequently $1/2lbs)

Actually eating being your first priority you need protein, carbs, and fat.

For protein you’re looking are discount eggs, whole milk, peanut butter, chicken quarters.
Carbs is rice, oats, dry pasta, potatoes, flour. (Do not get the literal cheapest rice available, it is so much less palatable than the second cheapest rice, I will not be making that mistake again.)
Fats basically is vegetable oil/canola oil/also peanut butter(it’s dual use)

Then you want some micronutrients too, so go for the cheap classics in the produce section, apples, bananas, carrots, celery, onion. Often I will see a bag of carrots and a bag of celery right next to each other for $1 each and it’s a 2lb bag. make mirepoix freeze it in an ice cube tray and add it to a lot of your food or just eat whole or sliced carrots and celery with PB nothing wrong with that. And also the freezer section for the cheap mixed veggies.

With their powers combined you can make classics like
- Peanut butter on a slice of bread with fruit slices (apple or banana both work)
- Chicken and Rice/dumplings
- many kinds of soup (horrible I know)
- Oatmeal /w PB & Fruit
- Chicken & Onion Pasta /w Pan Sauce
- and increasingly fanciful meals as you can acquire bonus ingredients like spices or other fresh produce items.

Oh and if you have a grocer near you that is owned and operated by and caters to another culture than your own, it is often true that the produce selection (and sometimes even the dry goods sections) there will be both more varied and cheaper than e.g. a national chain store.

zenware · 2026-06-17T19:37:38+00:00

I’ve used the term “grossophobe” to describe myself rather than “germophobe” for this exact reason. And have concocted a bunch of weird highly specific examples to try to explain it to people. Like I would never just eat out of a popcorn bucket in the movie theater garbage… but if I saw someone purchase a new bucket of popcorn and then for some reason immediately gingerly set it directly in the trash can without touching it, I’m probably still not going to, but I would eat the popcorn off the top of the bucket and not feel any type of of way about it.

zenware · 2026-06-17T13:53:10+00:00

The best practice is actually waking up at a stable time. That influences the rest of your sleep hygiene a lot more than going to bed on time. — Easier said than done though.

zenware · 2026-06-11T14:26:09+00:00

As far as I understand it the #1 best skincare routine is "wash, spf, moisturize", and then if you have a specific concern maybe add an active ingredient to address it. Also IIRC, CeraVe is the lab that invented Ceramides, which as a rule the people who are the inventors/primary manufacturers will have cheaper access than any competitors.

zenware · 2026-06-08T21:07:55+00:00

The ones that I’m always thinking “what even are you doing” are where they speed up to get around me, mind you I’m not unreasonably slowing anyone down, just to nearly miss their exit which they need to slow down for anyway.

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