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What's your favourite and/or least favourite gaming hardware?
    • SNES was the ultimate From childhood until the release of Nintendo 64
    • In high school it was a PC with a mouse and keyboard.
    • Now it's a PC with an xbox controller. Using a mouse and keyboard reminds me too much of work.

    There is a PS5, a Switch, and a Steamdeck, in the house plus several more devices in the garage. I'll watch other people play but gaming on dedicated hardware just doesn't grab me. I've never tried gaming on a phone.

  • Beans Are a Vegetable: an Overanalysis
  • Late reply but I'll share what I know...

    I have the best results when I rinse dry beans in cold water, put freshly rinsed beans and enough cold water to cover plus an extra inch into the pot, add salt and a few drops of oil, cook on high pressure.

    Depending the type of beans and how fresh they are the cooking time and release process is different. For black-eyed peas that are fairly fresh 6 minutes at pressure and waiting 10 minutes after the "keep warm" cycle is best for me. For older peas it can take an extra 1 to 2 minutes.

    That's for creamy mouthfeel. If you want firm ones for salads or whatever I find upping the salt and cooking an extra minute at pressure followed by immediately releasing the pressure and allowing to cool gives the best results.

    I tend to buy 25 lbs at a time from the restaurant supply. Those are often extremely fresh and cheap. Like $0.60 per pound ($14-15 per bag). The first two or three batches don't come out right but they teach me everything I need to know to cook that rest of that bag intuitively.

    GL!

  • Beans Are a Vegetable: an Overanalysis
  • Amen! I try to always prepare from dry beans. Canned beans are never as tasty and cost 10 times as much. The InstantPot makes it take under a minute of work and less than a 40 minute wait. If you can plan 40 minutes ahead there is no reason to bust into cans on the regular.

    One of the worst parts of traveling is the difficulty of finding my daily helping of beans.

  • For the Love of Everything, Please Keep 3-6 Months Worth of Money for an Emergency Fund (If You Can)
  • The other benefit of having a proper emergency fund is being able to say no to your boss without any fear. It took me 10 years but I have enough accessible funds to go a year easily without any new income. The freedom at work is so nice. I've noticed that my confidence at not needing the job makes them take me way more seriously and offer all kinds of benefits they don't afford everyone.

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  • This resonates with me. I love all the packages but yes the gigabytes downloaded to build something and the sheer time taken is not fun at all. Syntax is ugly IMO as well. It's still my go to for strongly and statically typed languages in spite of everything though. Maybe you're right about the hype train hitting me. :)

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  • What you call hype I call a strong and growing ecosystem. ;)

    Honestly it's been fun chatting with you. I think we are sort of opposites. You seem to like hobby languages. I like well used languages. You are tired of hearing about what's popular. I'm excited about other programmers being excited.

    I am curious what turned you off when you were actually using Rust. Or did you mostly lose interest because other people endorse it?

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  • Fun stuff :)

    Part of what make Python amazing is pip and everything that's already been built. For a strongly typed and statically typed language with a large and growing ecosystem I'm drawn to Rust even though I don't think it's pretty.

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  • nim looks good at a glance. I tend to stick with marketable programming languages so there are so many I don't know about. I personally think that using the optional strong typing features are enough to make Python a joy to use. But yes, other people's code can be cumbersome.

  • Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library
  • Such a well thought out and reasonable response. Thank you!

    I generally do not agree with the law around intellectual property or even private property so we likely would not see eye to eye but I appreciate the chance to understand where you're coming from and what you believe.

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