solidgrue
@solidgrue@lemmy.world
I’m just this guy, you know?
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 3 weeks ago:
Your alternatives aren’t shelf stable. That’s all there is to it.
- Comment on Sugar vs baking soda to neutralize acid in canned tomatoes? 3 weeks ago:
When you simmer or slow roast tomato sauce over several hours, the sugars in the tomato release and caramelize which helps to offset acidity. If you’re finding the cooked sauce is still acidic, you can try adding other sweet vegetables such as finely grated carrot, sweet onion, or half of a raw potato (which you’d remove before serving).
That they pack your tomatoes with lemon might mean you need to actively neutralize the extra acids, which you can do with milk or cream, or just a little baking soda as you suggest. Probably not more than a pinch, though, or the sauce could lose its brightness.
- Comment on Have you ever had a shit that smelled like a hair salon? 4 weeks ago:
N… No?
No.
No, I’m pretty sure I haven’t. - Comment on Kitty car trip 4 weeks ago:
Hello, third rail. i wasn’t expecting to tangle with you today.
- Comment on How is "son of a gun" an insult? 2 months ago:
If you’re wrong then I don’t wanna be right.
- Comment on Potential downsides of buying a brand new soft-unlocked (carrier-unlocked) phone? 2 months ago:
I buy all of my phones carrier-unlocked, and have never had a problem.
Potential pitfalls are if the IMEI is blacklisted, which could happen if the phone is reported as stolen, or if the radio deck isn’t compatible with your carrier’s network.
In the US, the AT&T and T-Mobile networks are pretty open, and you just need to pop in your SIM card. I don’t have experience with Verizon to know if you can bring your own device or not, but I imagine as long as the phone can work with Verizon then its probably just a matter of visiting a store to have it activated.
- Comment on If Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite? 2 months ago:
A cable-cutting war will be absolutely devastating to the global economy. It’s the modern equivalent of Mutually Assured Destruction. There are few viable contingency plans.
I say this as a telecom wonk: hope and pray and vote so that war never comes.
- Comment on What are some ways to see the back of your head without others' help? 2 months ago:
- Find yourself a Spacetime Bender guru, preferably with a boomerang shaped birthmark on his scalp
- Become a generational talent
- ???
- Contemplate your inevitable bald spot
- Submitted 3 months ago to [deleted] | 3 comments
- Comment on Lemmy shitpost right now: 3 months ago:
Oh, goddammit.
- Comment on We're in a very verify-happy era of technology 3 months ago:
Lol, thanks! I knew what I meant, so clearly everyone must know what I meant! :face palm:
- Comment on We're in a very verify-happy era of technology 3 months ago:
The OPM hack a few years ago says they already can’t.
- Comment on We're in a very verify-happy era of technology 3 months ago:
On the matter of information security, but also security in general:
- convenient
- effective
- inexpensive
Pick two.
- Comment on Are there any legal issues with pulling out of an interview? 3 months ago:
I’ve been on the hiring end of those conversations before, and frankly I prefer it when a candidate withdraws. It saves me the time and effort of an interview and let’s me focus on other candidates.
Don’t forget, it’s an inter-view-- you’re vetting them as a potential employer just as much as they’re vetting you as a potential hire. It’s completely reasonable to tell them that after further consideration, you don’t think the you’re a good fit for the job and that you’d like to withdraw your application, thanking them for their time and consideration. It’s more professional to be respectful of everyone’s time and withdraw since you already know you don’t want the job.
If they booked you plane tickets or something to fly you in for a face to face…? Eh, they might have a beef with that. You’d have wanted to withdraw before it got that far.
- Comment on How come neither burps nor hiccups are usually painful, but a combination of both is? 3 months ago:
You know what you did
- Comment on How come neither burps nor hiccups are usually painful, but a combination of both is? 3 months ago:
When you burp, your stomach contracts and your esophagus relaxes, allowing air to expel. When you hiccup, your diaphragm contracts, and your esophagus relaxes. I dunno. Kinda. I’m mock-hiccupping abs burping as I type this and that seems to be what’s going on).
When all three contract, everything jams up, and that hurts.
Cool story time: Sometimes I hiccup really hard and it’s kind of painful. Thanks for coming to my TED talk
- Comment on 🅱️🅾️🅾️🅱️🅰️ 3 months ago:
In the appropriate topology projection, all beans are orbs
- Comment on Adult pool goers - what do people even do at the pool? 3 months ago:
That … That’s baller. I’m “doughy” at best, and its all I’ll ever be.
- Comment on Adult pool goers - what do people even do at the pool? 3 months ago:
Depends on how fat, and how salty, but generally the difference is less than 5% by mass.
- Comment on Adult pool goers - what do people even do at the pool? 3 months ago:
Swim.
Not get splashed or crowded by kids, mostly.
- Comment on What song would cause you to do this to yourself ? 3 months ago:
The Nickelback catalog. Most of Creed’s too.
- Comment on Bet y'all are very familiar with this 3 months ago:
Misinfo!
That is a professional grade fleshlight with the liner removed for sanitizing.
- Comment on Don't. 4 months ago:
- Comment on This is my 666th post. AMA 4 months ago:
What brand of shirt do you wear? Also, which wrist do you prefer to wear a watch-- left, right or middle?
- Submitted 4 months ago to [deleted] | 11 comments
- Comment on Farting 4 months ago:
The rankness of a fart can be expressed in decibel-Farts (dBF), a logarithmic scale where dBF = 10 log10(F1/F2).
Characterizing F in standard units is a bit of a chore, but broadly speaking the resolution concentration of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in air for humans-- the concentration at which 50% of people can detect its odor-- is about 4.73ppb, or 4.73 x 10^-9.
Air at sea level (1atm or 760mmHg) at 15°C contains about 2.53 x 10^25 molecules of mixed gasses, so the resolution volume of a H2S in humans is about 1.19 x 10^17 H2S molecules per cubic meter at 1atm at.15°C. This is value is your F2.
A typical human fart has a concentration of anywhere between .001ppm and 1ppm of H2S concentration, or between 1x10^-6 and 1x10^-3, thus between 2.53x10^19 and 2.53x10^22 H2S molecules.
Therefore the rankness of a typical fart could be expressed as falling somewhere between -60dBF and -30dBF.
This is a useful expression of rankness for modeling attenuation over time, accounting for dispersion, wind drift, and distance from the zero point.
- Comment on Stop this madness 5 months ago:
They’re chocolate curls. You can find then and similar products searching for “dark/white chocolate twists.” They’re not uncommon to find in bougie cafes, coffee shops and bakeries.
- Comment on Who would win: every human in the world vs. every animal in the world? 5 months ago:
Every animal?
I think the humans lose. I can’t even keep mice out of my garage.
- Submitted 5 months ago to [deleted] | 2 comments
- Comment on Best Buy Membership "discount" 5 months ago:
Wrong question.
Is NewEgg any worse? Too close to call.
