Thanks! That worked as expected. Odd. I’ll just point the dev to this and a couple of other threads I have seen this happen. Cheers!

Unrelated question: Is the markdown above broken for anyone else? There are random cases where it’s broken for my client and am trying to to nail down the conditions better for the dev. (I am on Connect)

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Note to self: Start wearing silver eyeshadow.

Butter is just milk with extra steps. There are quite a few things you can cook with milk (or specifically creams) that you would typically use butter for that you wouldn’t think. Steak is a good example.

Of course it’s not a 1:1 replacement, but that is kind of the point. The question is: How of you prefer your milk fats to taste when cooked? (If you are cooking a steak, are you after a specific butter flavor or a deeper cooked dairy flavor?)

It’s worse. We are reverting back to the age of lügenpresse and hearsay comes in short-form video formats.

Many people simply do not care (or are even aware) if a source is trusted if the message aligns with their own bias or the message is presented as a new “fact”. Trust is irrelevant, unfortunately.

Probably because of its unique structure. It is slightly different than the rest of your fingers. I wouldn’t consider it different enough to exclude it from being a finger though.

I am just surprised when I Google one and they are still alive. Meth hit my small hometown really hard after I left there. A few people I knew had heart attacks in their 20’s. Sure, meth was likely the direct cause, but it was common place to start drug use early, so it was probably just a contributing factor. (Highschool jumpstarted my own alcholisim. We didn’t think of it as abuse at the time because it was so normalized.)

There is a dark art to growing in small spaces and it’s super fun! Run 12-12 lighting from seedling and you can get a single mega bud, with proper care. The plants will only develop its main cola, basically. Unfortunately, small grows and screwing with their growth cycle causes stress and too much stress causes herms. Small price to pay, I suppose.

Oh, fuck off.

No, that is not what he said at all.

“real” is subjective.

I guess you are saying that everyone on Lemmy is on the spectrum. That kinda tracks…

And that is scary. If the is one takeaway from observing the universe it’s that there are always bigger and stranger things out there somewhere.

Something tells me this isn’t a bad thing. If there is an edge of the universe, it’s probably going to be a very strange place.

I taught myself QuickBasic as it was the only thing I knew that was related to copying C64 BASIC out of magazines. (QBasic was packaged with DOS 3.11 I think and I was able to get a full copy of QuickBasic somehow. That was about +30 years ago? Dunno. I was about 12 at the time.) I didn’t know what other languages were out there besides TurboPascal. I did learn simple Pascal, but that was a short chapter.

I actually met someone else in the area that was learning to code, and of course, we wanted to write a game. The only way to code for a mouse at the time was to write an INT33 handler, so it kicked off our interest in asm. (I still use asm for MCU stuff on occasion, but it’s limited.) I quickly diverged into writing some really nifty… eh… “boot sector code” so that kicked off my career in security.

And yeah, it’s the same phenomenon for me: I just think in terms of bits and bytes getting shifted around and I still refuse to believe in “magic”. (Slight jab at Rust coders there, but in good fun.)

Fast forward to today, I train “kids” fresh out of college as part of my job now. The first thing I do is start giving them weird tasks that require they actually understand how something like an fopen() actually works.

(Funny story. I refused to “show my work” in math class for simple f(x) problems as I viewed it as unoptimized code. Lulz. I was such an autistic dork.)

That, 200%!

When I started in computers, years ago, I transitioned from QuickBasic directly into assembly. Ever since then, I can kinda “read the Matrix” (Blond, Brunette, Redhead…) and forget about how confusing a raw binary or how a mess of a dmp looks to someone else. (To me, I really just see patterns and nothing massively complicated.)

“It’s just data.” - You would be surprised how fuzzy that statement is for some people. It’s almost exactly like telling someone who doesn’t speak any English that “the sky is blue”. It’s totally cool though! Learning about the internals of any computer is really just a very long chain of “aha moments” as many concepts aren’t intuitive.

I dump memory more often than you would think. It’s usually not obfuscated or encrypted in any meaningful way even though it is fairly trivial to do so.

It’s good practice to scour through any bloatware installed on windows laptops. Since bloatware is generally written by the lowest bidder, you can find all kinds of keys and phone-home urls (sometimes with all the parameters) and other weird things. Just fire up a decent hex editor and search for strings in the dump file. You don’t need to know jack about reverse engineering either.

I remember a couple of first dreams from before I was a toddler. (I have memories from a loooong time ago, actually.) My dreams at the time kinda blended with reality and I couldn’t tell the difference.

See, that is what I thought at first until I thought about the proportions. Having one arm shorter than the other is possible…)

(FYI, my comments are ~50% /s)