laputan_machine (u/laputan_machine)

laputan_machine commented on Italy bans cultivated meat products chemistryworld.com/news/i... · Posted by u/Vagantem

On the other hand, chicken nuggets made out of rice explains exactly what they were eating and what the food might have tasted like and how it might have been cooked. You didn't explain what's wrong with that beyond it sounding funny to you.

Quorn makes chik'n nuggets made of mycoprotein with similar nutrients to a chicken nugget, but with the added benefit of fiber and less saturated fat.

Including chicken nuggets in the name is useful for the exact purpose of helping the consumer scratch their itch for a food with something that approximates that food. Maybe they care about animal ethics, maybe they're allergic to chicken, maybe they want to reduce saturated fat despite eating something that tastes 95% like a chicken nugget.

Requiring them to label it "fried mushroom protein" doesn't help anyone and seems to be coming from an emotional/reactionary place rather than a place of helping consumers.

laputan_machine · 2 years ago

It's coming from a place of realism and facts. A place seemingly lost in the current zeitgeist.

> Quorn makes chik'n nuggets made of mycoprotein with similar nutrients to a chicken nugget,

Wrong again.

https://www.checkyourfood.com/ingredients/ingredient/1916/qu...https://www.checkyourfood.com/ingredients/ingredient/220/chi...

Half the protein, the nutrient profile is completely different (because it's mushroom and not chicken). No B12.

Where you getting your facts from man? It takes me actual time to refute your bullshit, the least you could do is provide evidence yourself.

Finally, Quorn is not rice is it, which is the original argument, so stop moving the goalposts and argue my original point if that's what you want to argue. If not, then you are contributing nothing of value and wasting everyone's time.

laputan_machine commented on Italy bans cultivated meat products chemistryworld.com/news/i... · Posted by u/Vagantem

martin_a · 2 years ago

It's all about the spices.

I ate some chicken nuggets made out of rice and they tasted just like the ones from Mc Donalds.

laputan_machine · 2 years ago

> I ate some chicken nuggets made out of rice

Do other people not see how ridiculous this is?

I partially agree with Italy's decision, at least to the naming of food.

You didn't eat chicken nuggets made out of rice. You ate deep-fried rice balls trying to simulate the taste of chicken nuggets, and they might have tasted similar to chicken nuggets, but that is an incredibly low bar to set in terms of taste (mostly spices) and texture (terrible).

The nutrient profile wouldn't have had nearly the amount of protein, vitamins or other nutrients an actual chicken nugget would have had, either.

laputan_machine commented on Show HN: Hacky Meta Glasses GPT4 Vision Integration github.com/dcrebbin/meta-... · Posted by u/devon_c

laputan_machine · 2 years ago

Very cool! Hacker ethos (make a fake account to leverage sending photos), short and simple demo. Nice job

laputan_machine commented on UK air traffic control meltdown jameshaydon.github.io/nat... · Posted by u/jameshh

omginternets · 3 years ago

It’s all good. We still take cheap-shots at English food and English women ;)

Edit: I lived in London for 3 years. I miss it every day.

laputan_machine · 3 years ago

I wouldn't worry about it, we take cheap shots at French food and French people too ;)

laputan_machine commented on Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components mux.com/blog/what-are-rea... · Posted by u/thunderbong

satvikpendem · 3 years ago

I have inherited such projects. But it seems like you're talking about code that is no more complex than hello world, as you've quoted, so it wouldn't be too complex to do in any language or framework. Now if you do inherit a larger project that you don't like, well, you either work on it or you switch jobs.

laputan_machine · 3 years ago

> Now if you do inherit a larger project that you don't like, well, you either work on it or you switch jobs.

Which you wouldn't have to contemplate if your predescessor had simply used the right tool for the right job, right? Such as not using an over-engineered framework for a problem that didn't need to use one. :)

Cheers!

laputan_machine commented on Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components mux.com/blog/what-are-rea... · Posted by u/thunderbong

satvikpendem · 3 years ago

> why would you use the fattest framework when you can write it in plain HTML?

I mean, don't use "the fattest framework" then, who is forcing you to use it for writing hello world?

laputan_machine · 3 years ago

As you get more experienced in programming you'll inevitably inherit projects that you didn't have any say over, when that time comes come back to this comment, I'd be interested to hear if you still feel the same way.

laputan_machine commented on Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components mux.com/blog/what-are-rea... · Posted by u/thunderbong

uxp8u61q · 3 years ago

> Because they are called "libraries" for a reason, it can do much more than "Hello, World", and they are routinely used for much more than that.

There you go.

laputan_machine · 3 years ago

> When you're writing a specific program, e.g. it's never going to be anything more than "Hello, world!", why would you use the fattest framework when you can write it in plain HTML?

Emphasised the parts I think you should re-read

laputan_machine commented on A Journey Through Spain’s Islamic History smithsonianmag.com/travel... · Posted by u/Thevet

29athrowaway · 3 years ago

No mention of the Toledo School of Translators, the equivalent to the Tizard mission of the 12th century.

That event along with similar events in Italy and elsewhere was what truly triggered the Renaissance but historians in the West won't ever acknowledge it using that phrasing.

Today, people are taught that Leonardo Da Vinci was hiding in a room somewhere and suddenly the Renaissance happened. That caliber of nonsense is necessary to explain the gap without recognizing the merit of other civilizations.

Then you read this and realize that everything you have been taught about medieval times are fake feel-good stories about how the West is the light

https://web.archive.org/web/20051210130856/http://umcc.ais.o... (book written in 1160 CE)

A brief extract:

> Now 'tis established in the exact Sciences by precise demonstration, that the Sun is a Spherical Body, and so is the Earth; and that the Sun is much greater than the Earth; and that part of the Earth which is at all times illuminated by the Sun is above half of it; and that in that half which is illuminated, the Light is most intense in the midst, both because that part is the most remote from Darkness, as also, because it offers a greater surface to the Sun; and that those parts which are nearer the Circumference of the Circle, have less Light; and so gradually, till the Circumference of the Circle, which encompasses the illuminated part of the Earth, ends in Darkness.

After the fall of Islamic civilization in the Iberian peninsula and the middle east, the world took many centuries to reach the same level of scientific progress from centuries earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell%27s_law

If the Mongols had not burned the Grand library of Baghdad you would be in a flying car right now talking with your friends on Mars.

laputan_machine · 3 years ago

Historically, Islamic philosophers (as they were then called) took works from the greek philosophers before them and expanded upon it. Then a few other philosphers who did not like people learning from non-muslims leaned hard into fundamentalism and you now have the kind of Islam (Salafist/Wahhabism) that exists today, e.g. Saudi Arabia

The Mongols opened the door to fundamentalism, but it didn't have to go that way. The sack of Baghdad is a simplification

Read up on Al Ghazali, it is eye-opening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ghazali