I've always understood rice cookers to be most energy efficient. If I had to guess why, it's probably a factor of insulation and their precision of temperature control. Less heat is lost versus the stove top.

Admittedly, that's mostly a hunch. But even if my opinion here is misinformed, the convenience factor of the rice cooker can't really be overstated.

I don't know if I have a BIFL recommendation. I got a mid-tier one to see if I liked it and would use it, and usually when buying my first appliance of a new kind longevity isn't my biggest concern. But now I know I won't go back to making rice on the stove top, so for my next one I'd hope to buy it for life.

Mine is an Arrow Professional Plus. I've had it close to five years now and it still looks and behaves as new. I might have already stumbled into buy-it-for-life, I don't know

Generally speaking, games don't fail because of the decisions made by the developers. That's usually caused by people higher up the food chain, you'd think a film/tv producer would know all about that

That's a fair assessment. It's kind of like the rule for premature optimization: don't.

With experience you might get some intuition about when it's good to lean into inheritance. We were definitely lacking experience at that point though.

OOP is a pretty powerful paradigm, which means it's also easy to provide enough rope to hang yourself with. See also just about any other meme here about OOP

Most of my college coursework was around OOP. That said, they actually did a pretty lousy job of explaining it in a practical sense, so since we were left to figure it out ourselves a lot of our assignments ended up looking like this.

At the end of the program, our capstone project was to build a full stack app. They did a pretty good job simulating a real professional experience: we all worked together on requirements gathering and database design, then were expected to build our own app.

To really drive home the real world experience, the professor would change the requirements partway through the project. Which is a total dick move, but actually a good lesson on its own.

Anyway, this app was mostly about rendering a bunch of different views, and something subtly would change that ended up affecting all views. After the fact, the professor would say something to the effect of "If you used good objects, you'll only have to make the change in one place."

This of course is only helpful if you really appreciated the power of OOP and planned it from the start. Most of us were flying by the seat of our pants, so it was usually a ton of work to get those changes in

Oh sure, I don't disagree with that.

But I also don't think a group of teenage soccer players are the people who deserve to receive extrajudicial violence

Sounds like you need an ice cream eating partner.

I volunteer as tribute

My general experience has been that furries are people, and people aren't homogeneous - so even if they share some traits it's not fair to make blanket assumptions.

I'm reserving judgment until I hear what the joke is. Not really enough to go on otherwise.

Is that why the back lot of the hospital smells so enticing?

Reading articles like this you always want to be careful. People are often pretty quick to pick sides when it's about whether or not a mob was justified.

There's a genocide being perpetrated by Israel, but not all jews are Israeli, and even if they were you can't really hold individuals abroad culpable for the sins of their government.

So this mob is racially motivated and engaged in terrorism - what else do you call turning an armed mob loose on a bunch of teenagers? This will surely come back to say that Palestine supporters are terrorists, and now you're right back to lumping everyone into a group.

There would be a certain amount of irony that goes with racially profiling a racist mob. Too bad that means lumping a whole people in with the shitheels who'd be prepared to threaten kids with knives

Jurassic Park, but it's vampires

I think you can actually deglaze with any liquid if you want to: even water. Wine is often used for the flavour, and I guess in some dishes the alcohol can affect the other ingredients too.

That said, I imagine lentils would turn out just as good with non-alcoholic wine, so no worries there.

I'm sure you know your friend better than I do, but as a general rule if someone says they won't eat food with any amount of alcohol in it, it's good to respect that choice. Some people have allergies or intolerances, or the flavour might cause an alcoholic distress, and that's before you get into people's religious, philosophical, or dietary beliefs about alcohol.

Honestly, that's kind of true for any ingredient, but alcohol tends to be one that people push people on and it can be really triggering for some people.

Gotta love a good meta joke

Something I always loved about Calvin and Hobbes is how there's usually something else going on in the background while they're conversing. Instead of just being talking heads, Calvin and Hobbes are usually out for a romp in the woods or some such.

And yet, Watterson's still using the four panel format common in syndication. He tells a richer story than most who share the format. And even here where he's highlighting the talking heads trend - which has only become too prevalent since we ditched xerox in favour of copy/paste - he appears to have still drawn each pose by hand.

I always assumed they were a pepper

Well that's disappointing. What even is the point in scheduling a message then?

Surely there's some way to spoof it, but I guess I've never really tried

Yes, because surely all adults know better, that's why they so frequently swallow propaganda and vote against their own interests.

It's controversial and it has its own problems with enforcement, but it often seems like there should be some kind of civics and media literacy test before voting. Of course, whoever is administering the test is going to have their own biases and agendas, so it's no magic bullet solution.

There's a vast gulf in maturity between children at different ages, and everyone develops at their own pace. Some thirteen year olds are more mature than many eighteen year olds, and some forty year olds needed more time to cook but they still graduated anyway.

This seems to be about oppressing women while uplifting the creepiest sort of men.

To give the maximum benefit of the doubt (which frankly, I don't think they deserve), there's evidence to suggest that birth defects become more likely as the mother gets older. I've always understood that to happen in women of a more advanced age though, 30 is too young to be a cutoff.

Also, women can't marry older than 25? What kind of bass ackwards handmaid's tale bullshit is that? If you want to have a family I guess you've got to hitch your wagon to any horse you can get your hands on. They're so fortunate though that the law doesn't apply to men, so they'll have plenty of creepy fifty year old dudes to choose from.

I think as a rule we should start sterilizing politicians who endorse sterilization. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, right? Of course, a hysterectomy is quite an invasive procedure compared to a vasectomy, so maybe in the interest of equitability we should begin with castration.

Anyway, this kind of rhetoric isn't really for women - they just happen to be the ones affected by it. For the men that this appeals to, they're probably believe they're more likely to attract a virginal beauty if they start removing women's options. It's truly abhorrent.

I hear California's always on fire, so it'll fit right in with our west coast

Pro tip - when replying to an email, schedule it to be sent at 8pm so they know you've got that sigma grindset

The Tao of Pooh is awesome. I had a similar experience to you when reading it, where I realized that it was already pretty close to my philosophy.

The Te of Piglet is also there if you want some more reading through a western lens, but really the Tao of Pooh is all you need to get yourself thinking

I think the long distance transmission lines are kind of neat. They often become roosts for hawks and eagles here, gives you a chance to see some nature near the city.

The linked comic is ugly as sin though, that's a high voltage rat nest. And I'm sure there's a happy medium to be found with that sort of electrical pole, but it doesn't give me the feeling of serenity that the high tension towers do.

Underground transformers seem to be the better approach for denser connectivity