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It took me somewhere around 10 tries until I baked my first perfect bread. My overall advice would be to knead really well, unless you're doing a no-knead bread. As to your question about proofing, be gentle, let it rest in a warm spot for a fair length of time - but not too long so as to let it collapse. A lot of this will depend on the weather where you are.

It may be wise to pick ones battles, but it certainly is braver to pick one knowing you will lose. Stupid, but brave.

My guess is that US intelligence has several "shadow" arms that have morphed into their own creatures and are no longer the same patriotic beast it was during the cold war. I'm doubtful whether destabilizing China is a real possibility, in the "CIA in Latin America" sense.

> objectively terrible

These two words next to each other really bother me. That something is "terrible" is not objective, whatever that means. All we have are our subjective valuations.

More like a decade of failures really, resulting mostly from hard addiction to drugs and drinking that led to a failed suicide attempt in 2017. Still recovering from it. Initially there was hatred and resentment towards people who "saved" me, but I can see why people would do it for their fellow human, especially as time goes by. I'm 30 now and starting over...

Overtly?

Unfortunately, most people don't care about the "plenty bad shit" going on in China as long as their cheap imports are flowing in. In a Cold War 2.0 scenario, it is absolutely necessary that China be made out to be not only worse than they are, but worse than they possibly can be.

That's my opinion. I'm in favor of any propaganda that causes friction in the rise of the Chinese hegemony.

Unfortunately, I am unable to trust your words at this moment in time. I'm sure many others will agree.

It may sound like a conspiracy theory to you, but it looks to be a case of healthy paranoia to me. Brave seems to me all kinds of shady. My browser should have nothing to do with tokens, crypto, paying content producers etc. All of that leads me to be suspicious, without having to check the source code.

Requiring IDs is not the exception these days. Also, limiting government power through policy seems unpopular because it doesn't work.

Definitely not. One of the things that makes existence tolerable for many of us is the assurance that it is ending quite soon.

Although I can see why people would choose to stick around for much longer. I suppose one legitimate reason to live for 1k years is to satisfy one's curiosity about the future and see how it all turns out.

Corporations in bed with state actors to harvest data and spy on every single user despite running marketing campaigns on how they care about privacy so much.

I think of tiling WM in terms of never having to leave my keyboard, or in other words, never having to make use of the mouse/touchpads. That itself leads to a vast boost in productivity. I haven't used macOS in a while, but when I did use divvy(?) To tile, it seemed cluncky.

Something like i3 is complemented with heavy use of the terminal, which has its own productivity boost over GUI applications. Throw in vim shortcuts in Firefox and you essentially have a system that is completely usable without leaving the keyboard.

I don't have kids but find it absurd that parents who post photos of their kids online, be it them crying or smiling, don't put a single thought into the issue surrounding consent. Instagram photos aren't the same as my dad pulling out photo of his kids out of his wallet to show a coworker. They're permanent and will likely never disappear from the internet. And it's highly likely that these parents are posting hundreds of photos a year, so by the time these children are 28, they will literally have snapshots of their entire existence for the world to see.

I don't want to sound like "but think of the children", but seriously, think of the children...

An obvious one is Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. I'd also suggest audiobooks if you're looking for something more substantial. I'm currently revisiting the classics and found a great reading of Plato's Republic. Before this, I had a great time listening to an audiobook of Will Durant's book The Story of Philosophy which is a nice summary of Western philosophy.

YouTube seems to have full audiobooks, some of which are of great quality. There's a version of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra that is highly entertaining and even enlightening, if that's your thing. There is a good librevox recording of Wittgenstein's principle book that I've started on recently, and was surprised how good it was.

So I suppose I'd suggest audiobooks over podcasts for in-depth material.

I do like Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton, though they're probably not mainstream/radio country.

Somewhat related - I don't know much enough bluegrass to distinguish between good and bad bluegrass, but I really like Billy Strings, who I discovered recently. He's great.[0]

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6CyQftidOw

The Satoshi reveals every now and again always remind me of someone claiming to have deciphered the Voynich manuscript - except it's way more scammy and fraudulent.

I eat chicken, eggs and beef and limit drinks to water and coffee.

>By that premise, Norway controls Microsoft and Apple because they own part of the companies

Even so, Norway's political/ideological/moral objectives are in line with the west's. There is a difference between the Norwegians having some influence in something, as opposed to the Chinese.

Naipaul is my favorite writer. A House for Mr. Biswas is a book I keep coming back to every year or so. It's deep, humorous and very melancholic. Miguel Street is the funniest book I've read. Naipaul is great!

You seem to be implying that being apolitical is a political position in itself, much like how atheism is a religion too.

Do you consider baldness a hairstyle?

This is the third time I've seen the "was email a mistake" title in the past week, from different publications too, if I recall correctly. What a silly thing to ask.

What's the deployment story on Elixir as of now? I recall that some previous threads had not-so-nice things to say about deploying Elixir apps. Any progress on this front?

At this point in time, it's reasonably healthy to assume that everything has backdoors. The only place where information can be kept safe and hidden is deep within our minds. Any method used to share said information with another human being is subject to surveillance and backdoors. Only share what you don't mind being read by the state and it's friends.

I understand your perspective, but as the GP said, ethics is exactly whatever the collective Haas decided it is. Unless we're involving God or some kind of external divine guidelines on ethics, it's pretty much something we've collectively agreed to.

Let's at least be honest about our moral/ethical frameworks. They are useful for social cohesiveness, peace and order. But they're still just made up.

It depends on what you mean by better. Is it better from the perspective of the universe? Or according to your individual personal guidelines that define "better"? Or better as how your society thinks it is? Or better as how Socrates would've define it?

Quite impossible to answer generic questions and better/worse without defining boundaries.

I'm rediscovering metal after straying away from it for a while. I somehow ended up going from playing metal to shred to jazz fusion to straight jazz and kind of got lost in that world for a while. I'm very much enjoying the simplicity of the metal music I grew up with.

The stoics had a great deal to say about reacting to insults. I suggest you read Seneca or Epictetus for some perspective on taking offense.

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.

For web dev, the ecosystem isn't quite there yet. I've written a few utilities and toy APIs, but don't feel like the web ecosystem is was rich as it needs to be for a serious project. Actix comes close. A few others like Warp ND Gotham are interesting. I'm waiting for rocket to compile in stable, and pick up async.

But yes, rust is definitely pretty cool, and I'm annoyed that I finally "understand" the language on my nth attempt at learning it, and still haven't found a good use case for it.

Well at lest she had the good sense and empathy for that cougar to not play anything from the St. Anger album.