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ccsalvesen··on Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
A splash of white wine vinager when they are done will neutralize left over baking soda and bring it back to normal pH. It makes all the difference.

They will still be mushy thou.

ccsalvesen··on Drone operator will try to rescue dogs from Spanish volcano
Twitter and google translate: https://mobile.twitter.com/aerocamaras
ccsalvesen··on Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo
Here is the Norwegian Meteor Network's report on the event: http://norskmeteornettverk.no/meteor/20210724/230849/
ccsalvesen··on Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable
This is negative consent. I can't fathom why we are supposed to be ok with that.

The variable should be named DO_TRACK.

ccsalvesen··on Rainway forces signing up to Discord in order to delete your account
There has been a number of fines. British Airways is on top of the leaderboard this far with €200M.

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

I'm not sure about how efficient the process is, but there is some enforcement.

ccsalvesen··on Psilocybin Produced in Yeast
As a Norwegian I can tell you that your friend is pulling your leg. You are free to drink on private property. I have never heard about anyone being arrested for responsible drinking in public parks, beaches and places like that.

It's not allowed to serve people that is "visibly intoxicated" but almost no one cares. At a normal Friday and Saturday night, Oslo is a battlefield of shitfaced people.

ccsalvesen··on McCharge: McDonalds Is Now Charging EVs
(Norwegian with Nissan Leaf) This is exactly what we do on a long drive. Stop to charge, try to convince the kids that there isn't any happy meals left. They are all out, we promise. No other burgers either.
ccsalvesen··on The Hydrogen Hoax (2007)
If it exploded; the outcome would have been pretty much the same, but i'm probably wrong. I assume the amount of KJ is about the same; hydrogen will blow up much faster and much more violent. Petrol tend to "wooooof" into an fireball and expell a lot of the energy in the fire afterwards.

A leak in the petrol tanks at a station won't cause explosions in itself, it causes polluted ground water. Not to mention it's quite hard to get petrol to blow up, you need a pretty specific mix of fuel and air.

Hydrogen pretty much blows up no matter what if there is a leak.

ccsalvesen··on The Hydrogen Hoax (2007)
June 2019: https://www.autoblog.com/2019/06/12/norway-hydrogen-station-...

We heard the explosion 7km away.

ccsalvesen··on Norwegian F-35 Sending Sensitive Data Back to Lockheed Martin (2018)
Actually we can. The US is a big customer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongsberg_Defence_Systems
ccsalvesen··on Carlsberg glues beer cans together as it abandons plastic rings
tldr: nope.

The've arrived in the shops in Norway. One row of three cans are glued at both bottom and top. The two rows are glued only at the bottom. The handle keeps the rows securely together. The glue is some sort of hot glue used in liberal amounts. If anything, the boxes are harder than before to get loose.

ccsalvesen··on Stay-at-home dad
This doesn't happen here in Norway either. It might have something to do with the (more or less) mandatory 14 week paternity leave.