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Workaround: Potato peeler extends peeler, so just cast your carrots as potatoes before you peel them, and then cast them back to carrot afterwards

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To cast them, it uses libvegs however. It is not available in any standard package libraries, so just quickly build it from source

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Yeah but the current build of libvegs has some conflicts with libfruit, so if you need to use both you have to build libvegs in a different directory and then simlink it in /lib.

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42 points

Tomato keep being casted as fruit, even that for any practical purpose it should be as vegetable

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10 points

Maybe cooking isn’t for me.

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Yeah but that’s all my replacement’s problem to deal with

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Unfortunately, casting from potato to carrot is a narrowing conversion so your new carrot will lose some properties

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You say “potato” I say “caroto”

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I hate that I understand this. Well done.

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12 points

Internal screaming.

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If you forget the second step, well, that’s what sweet potatoes are.

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I’m a sysadmin by trade. My hobbies are:

  • cooking with nothing but a cast iron pan and a knife I forged after a medieval design
  • tinkering on bicycles ('90s MTBs, the golden age of component compatibility)
  • sewing clothes by hand
  • smashing printers with baseball bats
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smashing printers with baseball bats

I have years of IT experience, offer Linux support, and am visibly the kind of guy you just know can fix your computer problem (or, if I take my glasses off, I look like I sell weed apparently), and when asked to help with printers I have one answer:

They’re sentient and they hate you. I was trained in IT, not exorcisms. Send it as a PDF, PNG, or smoke signal before you try troubleshooting.

Like, I broke my big office one the other day so bad the tech had to come out. What had I done to brick it so badly? Tap a menu option, tap back, then tap a different menu option. If you don’t wait 3s between the second and third tap it errors and freezes and they have to send a tech out to do some sort of 2 hour long ritual where he rubs it and whispers how sorry he is.

What the fuck is wrong with printers

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Fun fact: the entire Free Software movement exists because Richard Stallman got pissed off at Xerox one day, for not giving him the source code so he could fix his printer.

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25 points

Framework printer when?

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19 points

And we still don’t have open source printers

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25 points

Brother :(

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28 points

HP

worse than HR

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HR with an HP

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I’m a QA director and I also like smashing printers!

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55 points

only hobbyists and artisans still use the standalone carrot.py that depends on peeler.

in enterprise environments everyone uses the pymixedveggies package (created using pip freeze of course) which helpfully vendors the latest peeled carrot along with many other things. just unpack it into a clean container and go on your way.

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I know you’re joking but you basically just suggested buying a pack of frozen mixed veggies so you can pick out and use only the carrots for your stew, and the idea of someone actually doing that sends my brain into a tailspin

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So you’re saying pymixxedveggies is bloated?

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Do NOT give the carrot industry that idea

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Big Carrot is coming for your stew

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Which is essentially the type of workarounds enterprise systems admins have to come up with as solutions.

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Right? You could probably find just the frozen carrots. Some people, SMH.

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39 points

I got into cooking during lockdown, and have managed to get surprisingly good at it, to the point where if you asked me to make a meal of your choosing I could probably make it without looking up a recipe. It’s actually unbelievably simple to make even complex stuff, basically using all the same rules you apply at work:

  • Use the right tools for the job
  • Plan it out first, do your prep and the actual work is simple
  • A simple dish will take much longer than you think
  • RTFM. Many sauces and dishes from classic cooking are basically a mixture of a small handful of base ingredients/techniques, and they’ve been written down for decades.
  • Once you have the basics down, you can basically make it up as you go. You’ll make amazing meals, and you’ll never be able to replicate it again because you eyeballed it or cooked it in a way that made sense at the time. You say you’ll document it well, but deep down, you know you won’t.
  • Nothing is original, everything is stolen. Adapt recipes you see, look at ingredients of sauces and sachets you buy/use, etc.
  • You can be a solid hobbyist, but against a pro that does this shit all day every day, you don’t know a fucking thing. You’re also probably not going to replicate what they can do in a professional setting while at home unless you’ve got money.
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“RTFM” My irritation is that most recipes make a huge amount of assumptions - at least as many as code that assumes a certain version of library. You can get recipes that say things as vague as “prepare the chicken” and aren’t at all clear what they mean, unless you’ve seen someone do it first, but it’s published in a book like you should just know. I hate that. I also frequently see quantities like “1 can” which just drives me insane as though that’s a standard unit.

There’s also plenty of cooking specific jargon, so densely packed that beginners might spend the majority of the recipe looking up what the terms mean. “Chop” parsley - how finely? “Mix the ingredients” how long? What the fuck is Golden Brown actually?

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Golden brown is my favorite considering it changes depending on how much light is in the room.

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Golden brown is however seared you like it, as long as it’s cooked, and there’s no pink. Cooking is not a science, unlike programming. Personally, I like a good crusty sear.

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Beef doesn’t go golden brown when you sear it

Golden brown is the colour of cooked wheat flour products - things toast to golden, they don’t sear to golden

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Golden Brown is a song by the Stranglers released in 1982

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I think in the according to The Stranglers it’s heroin.

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It seems like you would probably prefer baking as it is a much more exact science.

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Mix ingredients - how long? Until they are mixed. If a thing needs stirring for a length of time the recipe will tell you

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As someone who loves cooking but doesn’t have a dishwasher: it is the cleanup afterwards that kills me. Especially if I don’t do it immediately.

With certain things, you can clean as you go, but sometimes I need to tend to something and I end up fucking it up because I’m running around the kitchen trying to wash out the pan I just used while something else is burning.

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Try cheesecake and despair.

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I don’t think cheesecake is difficult

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4.3 ??? Hell, I haven’t updated my peeler since 2.1 - no wonder my stove won’t even boot.

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If you missed the 2.3 security update, you peeler is now mining crypto

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Wouldn’t be the first time.

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I know you’re joking, but semi-related, I highly recommend the Kuhn Rikon peelers.

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I’ve tried those but I prefer the traditional long-axis blade style.

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