Meanwhile in America, my old ll tried to tell me I couldn’t have my deposit back because “it’s summer and the bank is on vacation”

And at least I’m North America there’s another Maté relative, Yaupon. Both are holly species.

Huh! Mine popped when I planted them in the fall, and haven’t gone dormant at all - they hung out with the garlic being green all winter.

I’m excited that my saffron bulbs overwintered. I’m growing in containers in NYC (7b). We’ll see if they survive the summer!

At least in my faang office, there’s essentially zero ports to plug into. If you have a desktop, there’s a port, but that’s the exception. I’ve never seen anyone plug a laptop in.

They mostly don’t even give out desktops to devs these days, everything is in the cloud.

It’s mostly software engineers, and distributed across almost every team.

Genocide is not an appropriate response to an attack.

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/11/a-chemical-hunger-part-ii-current-theories-of-obesity-are-inadequate/ is a good analysis of why calories in calories out is both true and not a good model for how weight gain/loss works in people.

“well actually” room temperature superconductors do exist, quite definitely! … But only at 100 gigapascals of pressure. https://uspex-team.org/static/file/Troyan2022_ufn227g_High-temperature superconductivity in hydrides.pdf

Still really cool, but not useful for engineering.

I agree that this paper needs to be replicated before we get excited.

I’m a confident cook making food for two people in a small kitchen.

I wing it, but I’m making choices so that everything fits together and I have some recipe patterns that work well. I don’t do meal prep. Most dinners double as a lunch.

A lot of what makes my cooking efficient only comes with practice. I know the timing of different things and cook accordingly to line stuff up. Rice in the pressure cooker takes 30 minutes. That kind of thing. Make choices so that stuff goes in parallel, or make one pot dishes.

I generally try to have a main dish, potentially a starch side if the main isn’t, and a vegetable.

Some example meals:

• Mashed potatoes (steam in instant pot, mash with olive oil salt and water when ready), kjøttkaker (meatballs) which finish in a brown gravy, and some seasonal vegetable, maybe sauteed.
• Pasta, red sauce with vegetables in it (always an onion, maybe some other stuff), maybe ground meat or sardines. Sauce cooks in pan and then mixes with pasta
• Vaguely Thai curry (sauteed veggies, chicken, garlic ginger onions, curry paste, coconut milk), rice in the instant pot