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Crusty Nutsack posted:today I tidied up the dining room which has just been a mess of random stuff. that included finally going through my dead boyfriend's stuff from his desk at work and deciding what to toss and what to keep. Probably a lot: Not only did they have to do it in partial color plus the typsetting, but also Daniel Z had to fly to NY to go over their files to make sure everything was just right because of the limitatiions of doing something really weird in the year 2000. My copy cost me $29 last year but I hear the "full" color version of the book cost >$50 upon release Edit: whoa I picked the wrong post to quote. I'm sorry your boyfriend died Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 12:05 on May 5, 2020 |
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Crusty Nutsack posted:today I tidied up the dining room which has just been a mess of random stuff. that included finally going through my dead boyfriend's stuff from his desk at work and deciding what to toss and what to keep. I totally misread that as scampi and broccoli with rocks, which was honestly only the second most alarming part of that post.
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May 5, 2020 08:32
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I'm channeling my inner Catastrophe and sinking into a numbed state of frantic despair. Nothing to do with covid tho. If there wasn't a global pandemic ravaging society to distract me I'd probably be in trouble hahaha gently caress
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May 5, 2020 08:47
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I’m enjoying car ownership, I didn’t realize how much time I spent on public transit (although it saved me a ton of money the last two years)
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May 5, 2020 18:04
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I'm finishing up a giant graduate paper today. I'm coming up a bit short in the word count so I'm trying to decide if I should just let it go and hope my professor doesn't care, or find a point somewhere in the middle that I can ramble on about some more.naem posted:I’m enjoying car ownership, I didn’t realize how much time I spent on public transit (although it saved me a ton of money the last two years) Do your own maintenance. It's extremely rewarding, and saves money.
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May 5, 2020 18:09
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spacetoaster posted:I'm finishing up a giant graduate paper today. I'm coming up a bit short in the word count so I'm trying to decide if I should just let it go and hope my professor doesn't care, or find a point somewhere in the middle that I can ramble on about some more. 50% Desperation: 61->73 words quote:I''m finishing up a giant graduate paper today in a major way. I'm coming up a bit pretty short in the word count so I'm trying to for all intents and purposes decide if I should just generally let it mostly go and hope my professor doesn't care, or find a point somewhere in the middle that I can ramble on about some more, which is fairly significant. 100% Desperation: 61->137 words quote:I''m finishing up a giant graduate paper today, or so they for all intents and purposes thought. I'm coming up a bit definitely short in the word count so I'm trying to mostly decide if I should just really let it actually go and hope my professor doesn't care, or kind of find a point somewhere in the middle that I can really ramble on about some much more in a subtle way. http://www.textinflator.com/ E: to clarify: this tool is clearly garbage but padding/shrinking text is a great skill to have and practise. Moo the cow fucked around with this message at 18:29 on May 5, 2020 |
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May 5, 2020 18:15
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Any decent instructor is going to prefer a more succinct paper anyway
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May 5, 2020 18:19
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Drunk Nerds posted:Edit: whoa I picked the wrong post to quote. I'm sorry your boyfriend died that would explain why I was super confused when I read this last night. I figured it was the nyquil  Bees on Wheat posted:I totally misread that as scampi and broccoli with rocks, which was honestly only the second most alarming part of that post. maybe that's why I'm gaining weight lately...
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May 5, 2020 18:22
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Moo the cow posted:
AAAAHHHHHHHHH I was semi-supervising a coworker who had his master of science and apparently didn't retain any of the writing skills they taught him. Horrific abuses of logic, flow and the concept of building a coherent narrative were regular features. On top of that the guy just jammed words wherever he may have liked, however, whereas he could have simply, easily inserted any number of words that may have, possibly reduced the total word count by half, if not more. Editing his work felt like someone was deliberately derailing my train of thought. Get halfway though a sentence, stop, back up, read it again, edit it a few times... delete the whole thing and rewrite it. Over and over. Despite having a decade of experience on him I only have a BSc so he just dismissed everything I said. I don't care how many letters you've got, until you've got a few years actually working in an industry you work is probably going to be dogshit. Also he hadn't heard of endnote or any other citation manager. He did all of his citations by hand. What in the actual gently caress.
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May 5, 2020 18:50
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Good writing can be learned, but I think most of it comes down to innate talent or spending a lifetime reading and writing. If your only extracurricular reading growing up was Harry Potter, you probably just haven't engaged with writing enough to be great at it. Even an MS program can only do so much (and they have little to no writing instruction outside of maybe your advisor/committee sending you scattered edits on your thesis). I teach undergrad writing, but what I hear from other faculty most of the time is that they need my help with their grad students.
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May 5, 2020 19:06
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*reads Cormac McCarthy* gently caress punctuation
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May 5, 2020 20:21
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NotJustANumber99 posted:It's burnt. It's not burnt, Detroit style always looks like that it's caramelization. 
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May 5, 2020 22:56
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Been drinking gin cocktails and swimming in a pool all day. Good day. ^gently caress that pizza looks good. Not burnt.
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May 5, 2020 23:10
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That reminds me. Made that pizza this weekend. I cut the recipe in half to only make 1 pie. I let the dough sit for ~20 hours; had to add at least 1/4 cup flour at that point - it was way too wet. But good pizza, well-received. Thanks thread for the inspiration.
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May 5, 2020 23:22
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God drat. These pizzas. 
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May 6, 2020 00:18
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do you normally finish those deep dish pies under the broiler or is the ambient temp in the oven enough to toast them on top like that? I would guess you'd cook them longer and lower than a thinner pizza you'd do on a stone and then broil the tops to finish, but I don't make 'em like that so I'm heh...pie curious (that just came to me)
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May 6, 2020 00:23
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Big Beef City posted:do you normally finish those deep dish pies under the broiler or is the ambient temp in the oven enough to toast them on top like that? No broiler for me. I did put the pan on the burner, medium heat for 1 minute because I was worried about the bottom crust, but it was perfect.
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May 6, 2020 00:54
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Any decent instructor is going to prefer a more succinct paper anyway I agree with you. However, I get the distinct impression that he reads the first sentence, the conclusion, and then checks the word count and throws a grade on it. *edit* I think I'm just going to quote some stuff from the books. spacetoaster fucked around with this message at 01:28 on May 6, 2020 |
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May 6, 2020 01:23
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Ah gently caress I made two pizzas but forgot to take pictures. I mean who cares but still. They weren't pan pizzas though. I have a stone.
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May 6, 2020 03:19
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I ordered grocery delivery and I realize I’m compulsively keeping the same couple months worth of food in the apt at all times which prob isn’t necessary at this point (right?) also I’ve successfully had tp and grownup baby wipes delivered the last three deliveries so I’ve got like a lot, it’s me, i’m the problem now
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May 6, 2020 03:23
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Ah gently caress I made two pizzas but forgot to take pictures. I mean who cares but still. They weren't pan pizzas though. I have a stone. I care. 
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May 6, 2020 03:30
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Ah gently caress I made two pizzas but forgot to take pictures. I mean who cares but still. They weren't pan pizzas though. I have a stone. What the gently caress man?
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May 6, 2020 03:32
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I ate the pizzas I mean, I had help.
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May 6, 2020 03:42
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Ah gently caress I made two pizzas but forgot to take pictures. I mean who cares but still. They weren't pan pizzas though. I have a stone. Question. Can you get get any old piece of marble or granite from a kitchen cabinetry place (like their left over or offcut stuff) and throw it in the oven and get better results?
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May 6, 2020 03:53
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well you're not gonna get marble or granite regardless of if it's 'scrap' for a pizza stone cheaper than you would a purpose made one, I mean hell it's a brick to retain heat. You can use unglazed ceramic tile for it
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May 6, 2020 04:13
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I broke my pizza stone a few years ago and bought a cast iron pizza pan for thinner crust pizza. I dont know if it is any better or worse than the stone but so far I've been digging it.
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May 6, 2020 04:21
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I'm gonna install OpenBSD -current on my laptop this weekend. Then those jerks in YOSPOS will see that it's the year of BSD on the desktop. THEY'LL ALL SEE
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May 6, 2020 04:27
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Buddy I just bake with the things Part of the point is that it's porous, so that's something to think about
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olives black posted:I'm gonna install OpenBSD -current on my laptop this weekend. Then those jerks in YOSPOS will see that it's the year of BSD on the desktop. THEY'LL ALL SEE Last time I tried Ubuntu like 10 years ago it was surprisingly usable and sorta... good? But no games, and that dog won’t hunt
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May 6, 2020 04:35
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Steam works great on that version of Ubuntu just take the laptop into the bathroom and turn on the shower
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Last time I tried Ubuntu like 10 years ago it was surprisingly usable and sorta... good? But no games, and that dog won’t hunt It's excellent now. Totally a replacement for Windows for day-to-day stuff. Also plays a lot more games now. However, I have control freak and old-school tech fetish itches that only a minimalistic and notoriously cranky operating system can scratch atm.
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Every dime I've billed for the past five years has been developed for on Linux and not a penny less due to it.
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Bless those open source curmudgeons, they’re doing it, looks like 2020 is the year of Linux on the Desktop 
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grillster posted:Every dime I've billed for the past five years has been developed for on Linux and not a penny less due to it. Linux is good grillster posted:Steam works great on that version of Ubuntu just take the laptop into the bathroom and turn on the shower 
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Big Beef City posted:well you're not gonna get marble or granite regardless of if it's 'scrap' for a pizza stone cheaper than you would a purpose made one, I mean hell it's a brick to retain heat. You can use unglazed ceramic tile for it I can get it for free.
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May 6, 2020 04:45
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Made a quinoa and spinach salad with crispy pork and a tahini, lemon and mustard dressing. Pretty grouse really. Haven't had vitamins in a while.
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Getting pretty fed up at work, that's what I'm doing. Boss has decided now is a good time to work through a bunch of maintenance/upgrades since we have less users in the building. Oh, vendor support is reduced during a quarantine you say? gently caress it!
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When I worked at google we used a version of Ubuntu called Goobuntu.  I messed around with different Linux distros many years ago including drat Small Linux at another job that I could just plug in and go do whatever I wanted to the work computer with. I made a pot roast tonight. Sort of. I thought I'd be smart and add the potatoes/onions/carrots halfway through the 8 hour planned cook time. Well they weren't cooking AT ALL for 4 loving hours. So I went 2 hours longer before I finally gave up and started eating it 20 minutes ago because it's almost midnight right now. So I had an overcooked roast with undercooked vegetables. And it barely had any flavor. I'm really upset. Now I have that leftover tri-tip and now also this pot roast that I want to try to repurpose. I don't know what to do with them. My cooking endeavors are not going well lately.
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Outrail posted:Made a quinoa and spinach salad with crispy pork and a tahini, lemon and mustard dressing. Pretty grouse really. Haven't had vitamins in a while. I was just browsing a book about how quinoa is bad for you because it has lectins or something
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