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majikandy

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Language agnostic developer passionate about code quality.
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majikandy··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
Agree, and actually less necessary than you think. Sometimes you forget and it’s usually still fine.
majikandy··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
Ah yes, croutons are another fantastic thing to use it for.
majikandy··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
Air fryer isn’t the best choice for Chicken breasts, so your point is valid for that cut. It will of course still cook ok. But chicken thighs on the other hand, probably better than a frying pan as you can get the crispyness all over and juicy still in the middle, just like deep frying. The fattier the raw product, the more the cooking choice swings to the air fryer.
majikandy··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
For example, George Foreman decommissioned. Sausages never cooked any other way. Chicken nuggets, love them or hate them they cook great in the air fryer. Main convection oven only really used in our house to bake bread.
majikandy··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
I wouldn’t lose too much sleep for them, I think they are doing ok :)
majikandy··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
This. The pull out draw/basket is the true game changer.
majikandy··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
Haha. Funny, but doesn’t match widespread opinion. Personally it is the best money I have ever spent in my kitchen. Fantastic results. Food often even better than fried, oven baked, pan fried or grilled. I explicitly choose my air fryer for certain cooking even though all those other options available to me. So the opposite of substandard to be honest… there must be a word for that?
majikandy··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
And then you try it, still confused how this can fry. And after the first couple of cooks, you don’t care anymore and wouldn’t give up this gadget!

For me the USP is the slide in and out basket, ability to do a little shake. The convenience of that over a tray in the oven and the washing up and the turning and the burning one side of the items… is priceless

majikandy··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
Are you sure? Feels like totally less oil than deep fried to me, even tossed in oil, it isn’t sitting in that oil… put too much and that all drips off into the bottom of the pan the basket sits over. I agree to makes fantastic chips (UK), even with oven chips without adding further oil, much better than those oven chips when cooked in an oven.
majikandy··on I worked at LastPass as an engineer
Lastpass
majikandy··on I quiz ChatGPT about math
I spotted that too, also the next iteration is 3.5 even though 5 should have never been fed in?
majikandy··on The clever reason scammers can’t spell (2019)
Is it possible that scamming huge swathes of people would make said sacammer a victim of their own success and a prime target for the authorities?
majikandy··on The clever reason scammers can’t spell (2019)
In personal interaction scams, spelling mistakes are also endearing and help you believe you are talking to the real person. Even if they “work for” a known company.
majikandy··on Human Chess is a chess variant where playing the top engine move is forbidden
This is what I thought it would be from the title. Top players say that they don’t necessarily see a top engine move but can immediately identify one when it is played on them.
majikandy··on Is this the end of crypto?
If the value dropped to Zero, I’d “buy” them all and then run my own miner to confirm the transaction and sail off into the virtual sunset with my story about how I bought all the bitcoin in the world. I’d keep running the miner and publishing my chain. But then someone would come along with more hashpower than me and rewrite all my transactions with their longer chain and my sunset would turn to darkness, and I’d be poor again… but ironically they’d probably not be worth zero anymore. Then people would rewrite that chain with more hashpower… And so on, until greed secures the transactions again and restores value.

At which point I’d turn my miner off and wind the chain back to when I was rich on my private virtual island for one and live happily ever after.

majikandy··on Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
Might you be better off spending the effort on improving the codebase of the existing product instead of rewriting from scratch?
majikandy··on Box breathing techniques and benefits
I remember reading years ago that if you want to be chilled out, do Pranayama. So I tried. It was the first thing that helped me chill out my mind at a time of great difficulty. The one that worked the best for me is where you breathe in 3 times with a tiny hold between breaths and without breathing out in between. So each breath takes you a little deeper. I forget what it is called, but wow, life changing.
majikandy··on Box breathing techniques and benefits
Pseudoscience would be if breathing exercises didn’t have a significant effect on cortisol levels. But some randomised trials have proven that they do. If you apply an additional reason over the top of the breathing like the utterance of certain words that make it work or not, I’d agree with you. From personal experience having attended meditation classes when stressed out, I have found “omm ar humm” very effective in reaching a relaxed lower stress state. I didn’t know this was called box breathing to make the omm (in) arr (the pause held at the heart) and the humm (the outbreath) the same length. So that was a lesson for me. I have however experimented with different non religious words and found it effective in reaching that pleasant meditation very rapidly.
majikandy··on Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image
Haven’t had this much fun since last Saturday morning pressing refresh for Glastonbury tickets.
majikandy··on Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing
Awkward name though isn’t it mastodon
majikandy··on Ask HN: Just received spam to an address only used at Amazon?
Ah yes… the classic “do you work for dell?”. No, because I’d have a dell email address wouldn’t I? not one that starts with dell@
majikandy··on Ask HN: Just received spam to an address only used at Amazon?
I have done the same for years but I don’t think I actually had much benefit in the end. I don’t ever remember getting spam sent to dodgy-company@mydomain and then needing to block it, in all the 20 ish years I’ve done this.
majikandy··on Ask HN: Just received spam to an address only used at Amazon?
The issue I have is not remembering them, as the password manager does that. The issue is more when companies rely on your email address being the same for different parts of the service or they take my PayPal email address and use that as my email address.

One of the most annoying is when contacting customer support by email and they reject andy@ at and now I have to find a way to send an email to them from ocado@ or whatever email address I chose.

majikandy··on Ask HN: Just received spam to an address only used at Amazon?
What a crazy idea. I have .com too :)
majikandy··on Why do we salt the ice when making ice cream?
Remember for point 4 it needs something in that salted water that can keep it at the lower temperature.
majikandy··on Why do we salt the ice when making ice cream?
So just under a double shot of 40% abv spirit here in the uk per litre. You’re right, not that much is it.
majikandy··on Why do we salt the ice when making ice cream?
Yep I hear that, but also a frappucino without Xanthan gum is just a floaty slushy mess on sugary water.
majikandy··on Why do we salt the ice when making ice cream?
A bit of alcohol would achieve that too right? Eg rum&raisin ice cream
majikandy··on Why do we salt the ice when making ice cream?
Presumably that is less significant a drop than the equilibrium melting freezing point being 5 degrees lower as even if endothermic it won’t be much will it and will just return back up when you add the warmer mixture bowl?
majikandy··on Why do we salt the ice when making ice cream?
More importantly, how was the ice cream you made? Apparently liquid nitrogen ice cream makes smaller crystals or something and tastes better? That could be the sequel…
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