Probably proper knife skills. I’ve always been pretty good with a knife, but I’ve been taking my time to really refine the skill as I do a lot of cooking for large groups so speed is extremely useful. I honestly learnt a lot of it indirectly by just watching how chefs use them, but for the details I started with Lan Lam’s video on knife skills over at the America’s Test Kitchen yt channel.

I’m about to be going to an event where I’ll be cooking nearly a thousand meals a day for three days, so I’m going to be putting it to the test. The one nice thing is we’ll have a team of volunteers to help with ingredient prep, so it should be okay but daunting none the less.

I don’t like commercial “AI” period.

That said, I did find some use for chatGPT last year. I had it explain to me some parts of Hawking’s paper on black hole particle creation, this was only useful for this one case because Hawking had a habit of stating something is true without explaining it and often without providing useful references. For the record, chatGPT was not good at this task, but with enough prodding and steering I was eventually able to get it to explain some concepts well enough for my usage. I just needed to understand a topic, I definitely wasn’t asking chatGPT to do any writing for me, most of what it spits out is flat out wrong.

I once spent a day trying to get it to solve a really basic QM problem, and it couldn’t even keep the maths consistent from one line to another.

Is this the new version of the “I hate my wife” joke?

Inb4 robodebt 2.0

Hard agree, market solutions are bullshit designed to keep profits high and that’s all.

For what it’s worth, I don’t really trust these ratings or put much value in them I just didn’t see where they said it was leftist. The UN in general seems more centre left than anything else, but I’m sure one could make a reasonable argument for any centre-ish leanings, I’m not actually taking a position here because I don’t care about the UN, beyond the fact that it sure isn’t leftist.

Am I looking at the wrong thing? Because it says it’s rated as centre left for me

Don’t take my explanation for an endorsement, I’ve no love for DST either

It’s about daylight savings, it provided more daylight to hunt in the evening, presumably because the day’s other activities ended earlier.

That’s a pretty reasonable misunderstanding, I don’t speak for anyone but myself but generally as long as there’s no malice involved I’m not upset by an accidental misgendering.

I’m on jerboa too and didn’t even know there were specific pronouns on accounts, I just chucked mine in my bio.

Devices less sophisticated than smart phones were once pretty common in sci-fi novels, but they still achieved the same sort of thing, all the world’s knowledge in the palm of your hand.

You can get smartphones for absurdly cheap these days, and while crappy by modern standards they’re still technological marvels.

I feel like the difference is what you’re preparing for, when I think of a prepper I’m thinking of people who are planning for an enormous society ending disaster.

I’ve also got a bug out bag, but it’s just for general emergencies if I need to leave my place in a hurry very unexpectedly.

Good point, time to order some trans pride programming socks

Terfs

I have a trans pride flag and a baseball bat next to my front door

This looks like a score for a Tim Minchin show lol

I’ve also got a degree in physics and I think it’s a valid if kinda wonky use of the word study. They studied whether or not GR allowed this specific thing and that’s enough to say it’s physically possible. It’s not just publishing an idea so much as proving the validity of it within current models, to me a study implies investigation of some kind and that’s definitely what went on here.

I’ve definitely heard it used this way before, even if it is less common. I wouldn’t say it’s an unwritten rule so much just that people have learnt to infer that there’s some direct observation going on.

I don’t think his personal accomplishments really matter in the face of his support for the far right, crushing hatred of trans people, calling people pedophiles and the absurd amount of misinformation and bigotry that he promotes on xitter.

If SpaceX needs an absolute piece of shit like him in order to succeed, then there shouldn’t be a SpaceX.

The balls, sigh

I don’t know if it’s the worst or best I’ve ever seen, but Sonichu

It’s wild to me that corporations and governments can hold hands and be openly evil together, and people still think we can somehow regulate our way out of this, as if the last few decades of trying isn’t enough of an indication that it’s never going to happen.