I started by “making” frozen dinners, instant noodles and meal kits.

The most complex stuff I’d make is stir frying with some stir fry sauce.

Starting somewhere around 3rd year in college I decided I wanted to get better at cooking so I would look up a recipe for something I liked to eat once a month and try to make it.

Once I graduated I realized I actually like cooking so I took the idea further and decided to make a new dish every week. I would research a dish, find a recipe that I thought looked good and then buy the ingredients the next time I’m at the grocery store. I practiced mise en place (ie. I would measure, wash and cut every ingredient before turning on the heat) and it really helped make every dish accessible.

I did this for 10 years. Turns out if you consistently cook at least once a week for 10 years you make mistakes, learn and get better.

I’m not as good as a chef and my knife skills suck but I like to think I can cook food as good as most restaurants. I also got to explore a large range of dishes and discovered a lot of foods I love and how to make it.

In my fish eating experience, the main bones come from a spine that run through the fish from head to tail with bones shooting vertically (up and down) from the spine. Then there are two extra rows of bones, one row at the top coming down towards the middle and another row at the bottom coming up towards the middle.

So the angle of attack is usually to use chopsticks to break off the meat starting from the center towards either the top or bottom. Keep going until you have all of the meat on one side. Then flip and repeat with the other side.

This cooking method should also work with fillet though so if you are not used to eating fish with bones, you can just make it with fillet.

No. After steaming, the “steam water” was drained. Then a sauce was prepared by cooking ginger and scallions in oil for a few minutes. A little bit of soy sauce, water, sugar and salt was added. Once the sugar is dissolved, the sauce is removed from heat and then poured over the fish. Finally, the dish is topped with extra scallions.

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Alright time to get downvoted to oblivion.

Yes, I know non-stick is bad for the environment. So I want to give a recommendation for a good set so if you do buy it you dont have to throw it out after a year.

The non-stick I currently have is from all clad. I’ve owned them for 4 years now and they still work great.

In the past most non-stick pans would start sticking after 2 years, so these lasting this long is pretty good great. Yes, they start sticking even if I stick to medium heat.

Yes, I own both carbon steal and stainless steel pots but sometimes I just don’t want to deal with the clean up.

Thank you for bringing this up and for the comments for feedback/suggestions. Will find a way to make this clearer in the next release.

Thank you for reporting. Will fix in the next release.

Sorry if there is a misunderstanding, but what I meant is that I feel like manga has not hit the mainstream in the west so generally people will not hear about any particular manga unless they have a friend who is really into mangas.

You might have a different experience. I basically don’t know anyone who frequently reads mangas. Some people might follow one or two mangas because they watch the anime (eg. One piece) but they will usually not read any other mangas.

Bed bugs… and possibly roaches (only the species that infest homes).

If you ever had to deal with an infestation, you know the psychological damage it can give you. I’m sure it can give you PTSD as well.

This is cooking advice.

If you struggle with cooking or find that you mess up often, try preparing all of the individual ingredients before you start cooking. Eg. measure, wash, cut every ingredient. Apparently this practice is called mise en place.

If you ever watch a cooking video and it looks so effortless this is probably why. It was a game changer back when I was learning to cook. Suddenly it felt like I could make every recipe with ease.

This practice has drawbacks as it could dirty more dishes and increase cook times but it allows you to tackle most dishes at your own pace. I definitely recommend it whenever you make something new for the first time.

Goodnight Punpun

It’s a manga so if you are in the west it’s already going to be obscure. It’s also pretty messed up so it might not be for everyone, but if you are able to stomach it and read it, man is it amazing. It has very little anime bs that a lot of anime/manga suffer from; it’s not a shonen, it’s aimed at an older audience. It is very well written. The art is amazing. I could go on, but I think it’s best enjoyed blind.

It’s 13 volumes, but you can binge it in a day (not recommended). It has a lot of dialog so a lot more reading than most manga.

If you are not sure about the manga, read the first chapter. I think it sets the tone well for the rest of the series.

Like a lot of great things, I wish I could read the manga again for the first time.

Looks like its a AVIF image. AVIF is not well supported unfortunately. Even on the latest version of Android it’s not 100%. But support is significantly worse on older versions of Android.

It works fine in the browser because browsers bundle their own AVIF decoders.

Support will gradually get better over time.

Maybe you have not played for a while but in the latest versions of minecraft, the caves are pretty insane specifically when talking about how varied they are in both size and depth.

You can also realistically get a lot of diamonds by just caving now.

I often times end up with a stack of diamonds just from exploring a cave without the intention of finding diamond at all.

I thought about it but i think it wouldnt look very realistic so I didnt end up going through with it.

My cat once jumped on the counter when I was cutting raw chicken. He stole a piece and I just let him have it… He knows I’m powerless and my threats are empty T_T

Yeah but are large rocks bad to the head? Are small rocks bad to the head? Can we draw a clear line where a rock is no longer considered small?

This experiment only showed that more experiments are needed for rocks to the head.

I’ve had this problem with abstractions for the longest time. Of course whenever I say anything negative about abstractions I just get dog piled so I don’t usually like to discuss the topic.

I think abstractions as a tool is fine. My problem with abstractions is that most developers I meet seem to only talk about the upsides of abstractions and they never take into account the downsides seriously.

More often then not, I just think people treat abstractions as this magical tool you cant over use. In reality, over use of abstractions can increase complexity and reduce readability. They can greatly reduce the amount of assumptions you can make about code which has many many additional downsides.

Of course I’m not saying we shouldnt use abstractions. Not having any abstractions can be just as bad as having too many. You end up with similar issues such as increased complexity and reduced readability.

The hard part is finding the balance, the sweet spot where complexity is minimized and readability is maximized while using the fewest amount of abstractions possible.

I think too often, developers would err on the side of caution and add more abstractions then necessary and call it good enough. Developers really need to question if every abstraction is absolutely necessary. Is it really worth it to add an additional layer of abstraction just because a problem might arise in the future vs reducing the number of abstractions and waiting for it to become a problem before adding more abstractions. I don’t think we do the latter enough. Often times you can get away with slightly less abstractions than you think you need because you will never touch the code again.