jasonjei (u/jasonjei)

jasonjei commented on BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English github.com/DeclanChidlow/... · Posted by u/OuterVale

kennysoona · 10 months ago

Kind of funny the animus the author has against US spellings. It's nothing but shade to refer to US spellings as 'simplified' and UK spellings as 'traditional', regardless of the merit of the argument for doing so.

I can't imagine anyone will really need to use this, but it seems to have let the author work out some issues.

jasonjei · 10 months ago

The funny thing about references to Traditional Chinese (HK and Taiwan) and Simplified Chinese is that there’s even more shade in Chinese…

簡體字（简体字）Simplified characters

繁體字（繁体字）Complicated characters

jasonjei commented on Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks blog.archive.org/2024/09/... · Posted by u/TangerineDream

bobthepanda · a year ago

Baking is about precision but it’s not just limited to the recipe. The recipe may need to be adjusted based on temperature, humidity, cooking appliance, altitude (if you live in different locations.) Heck, ingredients like flour are not necessarily standardized across brands or region.

Tasting/feeling as you go and adjusting is probably one of the most important bits of cooking or baking.

jasonjei · a year ago

Yes… It’s even crazier with bread baking. While cakes and cookies are generally the same everywhere with the exception of high altitude baking, bread baking is some of the trickiest skills to master.

For example, hydration of the dough will dictate the final outcome of the bake. Every flour hydrates differently depending on protein, ash content, milling, and so on. So even if a recipe calls for generally 70% hydration, it may be more or less depending on the “feel” of the dough if you switch flours. Croissant dough detrempes need to be hydrated at a very low percent, generally under 60%. The flakiest croissants tend to be made with a very dry stiff dough hydrated at 50%.

And beyond the choice of flour—temperature (proofing, desired dough temperature), climate, kneading/mixing, yeast or wild starters, salt will drastically change the substance of the bread.

We haven’t even talked about gluten formation (especially with regard to autolyse and dough folding) and fermentation techniques… and how the raw dough is loaded into an oven and at what temperatures (deck, convection or fan-assisted, with humidity, Dutch oven, etc).

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person101x · a year ago

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jasonjei · a year ago

I am not sure if there’s evidence. But reading more about physics and the cosmos and the events of the universe happening 13.8 billion years ago only increases my faith that there is more to our “random” existence.

Too little science leads away from God, while too much science leads back to Him". So said Louis Pasteur.

jasonjei commented on More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Switzerland bluewin.ch/en/news/switze... · Posted by u/belter

robertlagrant · a year ago

Sounds like in hell you get your food cooked by Gordon Ramsey and Jamie Oliver, with dessert by Mary Berry.

Could be worse.

jasonjei · a year ago

“Hell’s Kitchen”

jasonjei commented on Group of 17 London secondary schools join up to go smartphone-free theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/kepler471

jstanley · 2 years ago

Isn't banning smartphones rather an example of overprotective parenting?

jasonjei · 2 years ago

Everyone’s definition of overprotective parenting is different. But we do know the harms of smartphones. Many of us have decided to curb it as much as we can, just as we want to mitigate pre-adult drinking and marijuana consumption (or at least demonstrate an environment that produces the least harms).

For me I don’t mind her running around in a forest school or climbing on trees. Modern playgrounds are surprisingly sterile and overly safe.

jasonjei commented on Group of 17 London secondary schools join up to go smartphone-free theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/kepler471

Delphiza · 2 years ago

At least you have a choice. Other parents have little choice but to send their kids to the same school as everyone else in the neighbourhood. London-based academies are not going to be as exclusive as independent (private) schools.

jasonjei · 2 years ago

I’m grateful I have that choice to send her to a Waldorf school and I want more parents to have more options.

jasonjei commented on Group of 17 London secondary schools join up to go smartphone-free theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/kepler471

ben_w · 2 years ago

Good for you, and good for her.

I wish I had kids, but sadly not yet.

Myself, I grew up with a Commodore 64, whose user manual didn't only teach me to code, but was even part of me learning to read.

But everyone is different, what worked fine for me isn't necessarily even a good idea for others.

> This is about a developing child’s mind and the cautionary principle of knowing with the evidence we have now that it is extremely harmful to mental health, especially to girls. This is not the same as outlawing alcohol to grown adults.

Sounds like you agree with me that much of the current stuff is bad. I'm saying that some of the rest is both harmless and helpful.

jasonjei · 2 years ago

I had a computer growing up. It wasn’t always connected to the Internet. I had dial up occasionally. But I cannot imagine my child growing up with social media is a good thing. Facebook, MySpace, Instagram, TikTok didn’t exist when I was a kid.

And while the genie is out of the bottle, I want to minimize the exposure of social media. The smartphone experience is shrouded in social media. I want to do everything in my power to put her in an environment with other parents who have agreed to modify their environment. We’re looking at San Francisco Waldorf School. They even have a “computer lab” with designated screen time in the later grades.

jasonjei commented on Group of 17 London secondary schools join up to go smartphone-free theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/kepler471

jasonjei · 2 years ago

I think many of the comments in opposition to this are coming from people that do not have children. Many of those in support do. I speak as a parent of a child, and I think “parent brain” will affect your thoughts on this. Having said that, I grew up on dial up and very low tech HTML. Not social media which is an entirely different beast.

There is a book called The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. NYU Prof. Jonathan Haidt argues that the rise of smartphones and overprotective parenting have led to a "rewiring" of childhood and a rise in mental illness. Suicides for both teenage girls and boys are up.

I’m choosing to send my kids to a school whose parents have also agreed to remove or drastically curb the use of social media. Not eliminate the creative sense of electronic tinkering.

jasonjei commented on Group of 17 London secondary schools join up to go smartphone-free theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/kepler471

ben_w · 2 years ago

I can see it going either way.

A century ago in the US, a lot of support for Prohibition came from the impact of liquor, yet Prohibition itself also banned beer.

I can very easily believe that the backlash against dark patterns, against deliberately addictive apps (games and social media), against advertising getting squeezed into what would otherwise be normal conversations, against the surveillance that currently manifests as GDPR cookie popups because almost everyone both corporate and government would rather annoy people than stop snooping, may well lead to a new Prohibition on all such things.

But will this new Prohibition throw out the baby with the bathwater? Smartphones do a lot of genuinely useful things.

jasonjei · 2 years ago

Do you have kids? I have a 4-year old girl. And while parenting is so much harder without iPad and iPhone, my daughter is genuinely more interested in the world and imagination play than looking at screens. At age 2, was curious about the other kids with iPads, but now she shows no interest in screens. And we’re doing fine with static or minimally electronic toys. She has a whole adolescent/adult life ahead of her of screens.

This is about a developing child’s mind and the precautionary principle of knowing with the evidence we have now that social media is extremely harmful to mental health, especially to adolescent girls. This is not the same as outlawing alcohol to grown adults.