I have some fantastic mom & pop shops in my area that I patronize regularly. However, just being a mom & pop pizza shop doesn’t make their pizza good. I’ve spend a lot of money on bad mom & pop shop pizza.

The good news is that is super easy to remedy.

I have to learn the basics of stir-fry first! :) I’m a pretty basic cook, but haven’t really tried my hand at stir-fry.

I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge on the wok cooking though, and I didn’t know about the specifics behind wok hei, though I always love that flavor from restaurants.

However, sautéed green beans in cast iron on an induction stove is one of my go-to dishes at home. What I make is NOT 四季荳! I have to go to a restaurant for that lovely dish! There was another thread here on Lemmy we were talking about induction cooking and I had taken some picture that last time I made my green beans. You’re absolutely right on my overcrowding:

And after looking up your comment about wok hei temperatures starting at about 260°C and going as high as 371°C, you’re also absolutely right my regular methods are nowhere near that (but until your post I didn’t know about wok hei specifics). I used a FLIR camera when I was in middle of cooking and you can see I was only at about 150°C. This was the induction element set at 6 or 7 I think:

actually just you overcrowding the pan and steaming things in soggy oil rather than rapidly pan frying it

Why do you have to call me out like that?! I thought we were friends!

Oh, there’s even more jank in this thing than the reboot workaround described above!

I have 3 windows displaying different metrics on this display powered by the RPi. Because of the animation of each metric rendered on the display, higher value metrics will consume more CPU. Since each is a separate process, the animation in the displays would be different for each window by without any modifications. So to make each of the 3 display’s animations operate at the same relative speed, I do a calculation of how the number of objects being displayed for the metric, then add an amount of invisible (well, black on black) objects to each window so to equal a fixed amount of the animation speed I want resulting in each window having the exact same number of objects and the animations move at the same speed.

This works surprisingly well. The only time I have to monkey with the fixed value is if I’m using it on faster or slower Raspberry Pis. For example, I’ll have a lower number of final fixed objects for an RPi 3 rather than a higher number of fixed final objects for a faster RPi 4.

Oh shit! Forget all that stuff I admitted to. My RPi reboots every 4 hours because … uh … cosmic radiation.

My RPi uptime on one project will never exceed 4 hours.

I’ve got a cron job set to reboot my Raspberry Pi every 4 hours because I wrote a crappy Python app that continuously creates objects during operation that I would have to recreate, but I can’t delete the originals, or rather, I can delete the original parent but the child survives and keeps its memory allocation. So a full reboot with autolaunch of the application on boot is my ugly janky workaround. Its a cosmetic application, nothing critical. Its just a colorful display of data metrics.

I can hear the horror and gnashing of teeth of real developers as they read this.

Increasing fossil fuel - Heritage warns that the U.S. is on the verge of an electricity shortage, arguing that cutting reliance on renewable energy — and expanding oil and natural gas — is the only way to avoid a crisis.

How are they able to say this with a straight face. “Were on the verge of a electricity shortage. We believe we should cut out a huge source of electricity to solve the shortage”.

That’s just whackadoodle, and so is anyone that genuinely thinks this is true.

Can you be charged with destruction of evidence before you’ve even been charged with a crime?

who the fuck are YOU? Get over here!”

“Well, you certainly won’t find out from my phone, because I’ve just wiped it”

I don’t disagree, but usually they at least try to present a semi-defensible argument. So far the only thing they elude to is “before or during a time when we were going to perform a search he wiped his own phone”. If its “before” a search then what is even the basis for that being illegal for him to wipe is own property?

Its far worse than that. Anywhere that is within 80 miles of an international airport, they claim, is also inside their jurisdiction.

"U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) jurisdiction at airports covers all international arrivals/departures as designated ports of entry, plus a 100-mile zone inland from borders and coasts for immigration/customs enforcement, meaning they can operate at large international airports like DEN or DFW and even domestic ones if near borders, stopping, questioning, and searching individuals/belongings for admissibility and contraband, though searches need consent or probable cause for internal searches, notes the ACLU. "

source

Details are weird here. The wiping occurred in Jan 2025. I found the indictment which was filed with the court on Nov 13th 2025 linked here

We have almost no details of what happened in Jan 2025 except “Customs and Border Patrol Tactical Terrorism Response Team” was doing something with Tunick in January and Tunick “used a code” to wipe the phone. Then suddenly in November 2025 the US Government filed to have him arrested for that event.

I’m not a legal scholar, but none of these details or timeline makes sense to me. Anyone else have any clue?

Isn’t that convenient! One lesson you learn as you get older is to simple “let people continue to be wrong”. That’s what I’ll do now. You should probably just block me then because I must be AI, right? I think you’ll be doing both of us a favor. Have a great day!

Are you being intentionally evasive, or is that just your “thing”?

Gotcha, no hard feelings. I think we both appreciate the art and the artist.

but imo it’s important to aknowledge the skill behind something like this.

From my first post that’s what I’ve been doing. I’m not sure why you’re taking this thread where I have done nothing but compliment the artist and their skills and try to make it sound like I’m insulting the artist instead. Even with your response here you’re doing that again.

Get started with what?

I, uh, I think those are the tires of the car it ate.

This isn’t the first time I’ve been accused of being a bot, nor of using AI. Instead, its the other thing. I’m older. This is just how we talk. Heck, why do you think LLMs talk this way? Because it was trained on people data that talk like I do.

I don’t really use LLMs or AI for regular tasks like posting online. I grew up with the skills to do that

Corrected, thank you. Aging eyes and lack of proofreading on my part are to blame.