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Spellman··on Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)
I don't see anything extreme, but the primacy of proteins (and especially meat-based protein) and dairy seem suspicious considering the broader rhetoric coming out.
Spellman··on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A
Depends on how big the NPU is and how much power/memory the inference model needs.
Spellman··on Ford can't find mechanics for $120K: It takes math to learn a trade
Generally the rule is you buy your own tools and then take them with you if you leave the shop.

Lots of mechanics prefer owning their own tools because the community shop tools will end up beat up and not cared for. Plus, another thing locking you down to the location. On the other hand that's yet another personal expense.

Spellman··on LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego
Already exists, put out by LEGO https://brickit.app/
Spellman··on My sourdough starter has twins
I also highly recommend The Sourdough Journey for a lot of the science and showing how different variable can affect the results.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMNnFRtsaxxzZsbxK3yAj...

His chart showing Temp and Time for Bulk Fermentation gets referenced A LOT. Key is higher temp means faster bulk fermentation.

https://thesourdoughjourney.com/tools/

Spellman··on My sourdough starter has twins
I assume they mean Whole Wheat Flour. The hulls contain lots of wild microbes which helps the starter get going. Similarly people recommending Rye.

The key though is finding unbleached flour.

Spellman··on How to win an argument with a toddler
On the Internet you're not engaging in a discussion, you're putting on a show for others to see.

In person, you have a much more intimate situation.

Spellman··on Sleep is essential – researchers are trying to work out why
There are a very small minority that seem to have a genetic component requiring less sleep for them (4-6hr).

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/03/410051/scientists-discover...

Spellman··on David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way
The presentation bird is still dead and cooked.

A dish being "fired" means finish the cooking process, eg put into the fire.

When a meat comes out hot from the cooking process, it needs to "rest" a certain amount of time for the temperature to even out and the juices to be reabsorbed before being sliced/butchered. This is time that the diners now need to wait before they get their meal.

So, in David Chang's model, when the dish is ordered a prepared, dead chicken is "fired" and heated so that it finishes cooking. Then, while hot and still in the pot, presented to the diners. It's taken back, must rest outside of the hot boiling pot, and then is sliced into pieces and plated to be served and eaten by the guests. The remaining carcass is supposed to then be boiled down into a stock for a 3rd dish.

However, the resting and boiling steps could be skipped. Why does it all have to be the exact same chicken!? Have a presentation bird, another that is fired and rested (while the other is presented) you can carve and serve quicker, and make a large amount of bulk stock that can be served on order. The only difference is you don't have the exact same bird going through the whole 3 steps to the diners and instead have the 1. dead cooked presentation bird, 2. the carved bird, and 3. stock from a bird from yesterday.

Spellman··on David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way
I actually put his in a lineup with others when I got in a chili oil craze.

And while it definitely is good quality, it isn't mind blowing. And I personally prefer other brands instead! It's also, to my taste, much more Americanized. Much more refined sugar and using a different less complex method for the umami.

It's still delicious, but I personally won't be getting it again.

Spellman··on Dolphin Progress Release 2407 and 2409
Moon Channel has a pretty great post mortem.

https://youtu.be/7rzWR9JP1WE?si=wbsDoWLD7DatWlS3

The main TLDW: Yuzu was reaping huge income and bragged about delivering at-launch support for major Nintendo Switch games, thus directly diverting paying customers from Nintendo. The other major aspect was Yuzu was facilitating encryption key distribution which is how Nintendo was able to bring forth a legal attack.

Spellman··on We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad
This is classic Survivorship Bias
Spellman··on I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)
Luckily we have equations for this!

Assume that the water has a fixed resistance of R. You have increased the Voltage V about double.

As a result of V=IR, the I, or current flow, will be doubled. Which in this case is probably a moderate tingle since R is so high.

For reference, the heart muscles start getting involuntary twitches around 100mA, and at 200mA causes cardiac arrest. And the standard units of Voltage, Amp, and Ohm will serve you well here for any conversions.

Spellman··on The Effects of Early Relational Trauma (2001) [pdf]
I agree that just marinating in a trauma and victim mindset isn't healthy. All you do is re-traumatize!

But that's why any therapist worth their salt will focus on engaging and healing those issues. Yes we engage with the trauma response, but in a safe space so that you can walk out of being trapped in it.

Spellman··on Supreme Commander Graphics Study (2015)
If you specifically want more Total Annihilation style RTS games, Ashes of the Singularity scratches a similar itch. And of course Planetary Annihilation does TA IN SPACE with the ability to sling asteroids at your opponents. Personally switching to a 3D sphere world broke my brain.
Spellman··on Supreme Commander Graphics Study (2015)
I thought technically BAR is the OSS heir of Total Annihilation (which then Supreme Commander later developed).

Only 2 sides, no unique Experimental units, etc.

That being said, it's a great FOSS game and really captures the genre feel of epic scale.

Spellman··on Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler
Free Open Source???

Unciv

https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv

Spellman··on Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead
Similarly.

And why is that bad? Because once you run out of money everything is cooked

Spellman··on The case for single-stair multifamily
I believe the new codes require the stairway to be enclosed
Spellman··on Unciv
Depends. Do you like Civ2 with it's unit stacks and square grid? Or Civ5 with 1-unit-per-tile hex design?
Spellman··on Unciv
Well how about I introduce you to... FreeCiv!

https://freeciv.org/

Spellman··on Play Leisure Suit Larry free in DOS running in browser
As are a LOT of DOS games in convenient DOS BOX for your playing pleasure.

There are several of these sites to play DOS games on, and I suspect some are just cribbing archive.org since most have the exact same library with exact same issues in their copies.

For example I was looking for Operation Neptune and found it on archive.org, but it doesn't have any sound. And neither does every other copy I could find to play online in browser.

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Super_Solvers_Operation_Ne...

Spellman··on Google Podcasts is going away
OK. So, who has a good recommendation for something that:

* Variable playback speed

* Cross-device sync

* Subscribe to a podcast stream

* Selectively Queue episodes

Spellman··on NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats
Which then gets referenced/copied in Uplink as a homage.
Spellman··on Help the Library of Congress create games to improve public knowledge of civics
Democracy is a particularly interesting game about how political decisions can have a web of effects on different competing interests.
Spellman··on How the design of Disney parks affects our perspective (2020)
There's actually a classic GDC Talk about this very subject!

They talk about using big visible markers (called weenies) for orientation and to help draw players. Having seemingly multiple paths that actually end up in the same destination. Tiny rewards for exploration. Good stuff

Talk: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1305/Everything-I-Learned-Abou... Slides: https://mrbossdesign.blogspot.com/2009/03/everything-i-learn...

Spellman··on Want to buy a West Texas ghost town? Now’s your chance
He even gets featured in this video as basically always asking for more money. Turns out it's really hard to get construction supplies out to the middle of nowhere and he's progressively selling off more and more of the resources.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIcnCaVsYFI

Spellman··on Kraken lays off 30% of staff
Adding to this, groups like 80000 Hours and Evidence Action are EA and still worth it.
Spellman··on Number of States with High Rates of Adult Obesity More Than Doubles
But then requires the time to cook them
Spellman··on Schools in England warn of crisis of ‘heartbreaking’ rise in hungry children
Particular examples of "waste"?
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