So... she's a completely normal, current 16 year old. We had to basically force my stepson to get a license at 17, his now 22 y/o GF just recently got her license, my 18 y/o niece doesn't even have a permit, a good friends 28 y/o son still doesn't have a license etc etc. Shits weird IMO
Someone pointed out that the most performant website on the internet belongs to a 100 year old hardware manufacturer: https://www.mcmaster.com/ Amazing what can be achieved when you optimize for performance, and not for bloating your site with shitty ads and analytics frameworks.
They are a HUGE supplier of industrial parts, so I would not be surprised if a ton of their orders come in from very remote locations with shit internet so it's in their best interest to make stuff super fast and lightweight and efficient.
Seen more and more kids not care. That was the first thing i did when turn 16 was down at the office writing my test.
So I opened a letter from my bank today to find it was a bill for almost 300.000 dollars (2.9 million swedish kronor) due by friday. Nearly shit my pants. Turns out they somehow cancelled our mortgage when we paid the bridge loan on our new house a couple weeks ago. To say this is a huge fuck up on their part is an understatement, the bank seems to have no idea what to do at this point, I think they are consulting their inhouse lawyers tommorow. I kind of want to go to the press just to show off how ridiculous of a bill I got.
That's one hell of a screw up. Good job not actually shitting your pants, because I'm not sure I wouldn't have.
Damn, I need to put my readers on. I thought Jager typed "300.00" and was trying to figure out why people would shit themselves over a few hundred bucks.
Joshua Weissman is this generation's Alton Brown of YouTube. All of his videos are good instruction, but they also actually explain the science behind the methods as opposed to just going through the motions of making something without telling you WHY they're doing the things they're doing.
The engineer in me deeply distrusts all of the hand-waving around cooking. There is way too much mythology whose sole basis seems to be, "someone told me to do this once and it turned out okay."
We talkin' food and engineering? I'm currently self hosting an instance of Tandoor which I use to keep track of my recipes as I dial them in. Some are straight lifts of other recipes, others have more significant modifications, but it's nice to have them all in one spot in a form I have total control over.
I wouldn't call it hand waiving as much as, like engineering, it builds upon already assumed known topics/concepts. For example, in the original video he talks seemingly off-handedly about sous vide and how it's used in a multitude of preparations; however, it's assumed that you understand the concept and underpinnings of sous vide cooking as a general technique. Again, like Alton Brown, (more specifically the Good Eats series) it's a series that builds upon itself over time. Unfortunately, in the YouTube age, that doesn't apply as easily as it did to serial TV shows where you could easily reference a specific episode, or even call back to said episode.
There's so much science that goes into cooking these days. Read any of the Kenji Alt-Lopez books, or his recipes/guides on Serious Eats. Yeah, there's a lot of tradition and tried/true techniques (especially from French cuisine), but so much is experimenting to find the best cooking methods and ingredient combinations. And then there's baking, which is just pure chemistry.
Sorry, I wasn't clear - Brown and Weissman do the exact opposite of hand waving. They explain why a thing works the way it does, and what factual/scientific basis there is for it working that way. I like that. Cooking in general is absolutely chock full of people saying stuff like, "you must stir this with a wooden spoon that's at least 17 years old, 6 swirls and no more, then whisper quietly to it for 3 minutes."
Hell yes. I wanted WHEELS. Driving around my dad’s 747-sized 1983 caprice classic with only AM radio, I felt like Superfly TNT. The first time you get out of a car you drove into your high school parking lot it’s like “ That’s right, bitches. Childhood is over, the MAN has arrived.”