Readit Newstnorthcutt commented on Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong seriouseats.com/meat-rest... · Posted by u/voxadam
> "Searing the meat seals in the juices" -- every chef on every cooking show.
I could be wrong on this but I think Kenji was the first prominent writer to debunk this. I bring it up given the context of who all we're talking about.
I think Alton Brown covered this on his show Good Eats quite a few years ago as well.
tnorthcutt commented on Someone at YouTube needs glasses jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someon... · Posted by u/jaydenmilne
In the past several months, I've moved to using an RSS Reader + Watch Later Playlist + DF Tube extension (you could use whatever to nuke parts of the UI you dislike). This has greatly improved how I use YouTube. This method allows me to be significantly more intentional with what I'm watching and how much time I'm spending. The only frustrating part is that YT shorts still come through RSS, but they are much easier to avoid in a reader than YT's UI.
> DF Tube extension
This extension is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions.
:(
This view is a bit too simplistic when the "countless millions" is often paid by taxpayers. Taxpayers pay the company to develop a drug, and then the company gets to seek profit by maximally exploiting taxpayers who paid for the drug.
We don't need to forcefully regulate drug companies, all we have to do, as taxpayers, is ask for something in return for our tax dollars. "We will pay to develop your drug, but then we get to regulate the price, and you'll still make a reasonable profit. That's the deal, take it or leave it." No force, no compulsion, just us taxpayers asking for something in return for our dollars and coming to an agreement before handing over our dollars.
I wasn’t aware that taxpayers funded drug development.
Can you share examples? I am genuinely asking.
tnorthcutt commented on Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite wafris.org/blog/rearchite... · Posted by u/thunderbong
This was a really good, and entertaining, read. Obviously (as the author notes multiple times) the takeaways probably don't generalize, but I suspect there are lots of other places where something similar could be used to improve performance a lot.
I've got a different take. If they're in the VC phase, that means they are not self sufficient. The amount of funding that they've raised is no indication what-so-ever of a) how much of that funding has actually been realized / received b) what their overhead is and c) what their overall financial picture looks like.
I do wish that more companies would take privacy and security seriously. And bug bounty programs are great. But they're not always within the budget of companies and the fact that they decided to award this security researcher regardless of having no such program is a massive win in my opinion and shows how much they value this particular contribution.
Thanks for the reply! I think I disagree with you, mostly because it seems like this particular bug could have been company-destroying because of the potential reputation hit if it was exploited on a wide scale.
But regardless, I appreciate your perspective and it gives me some stuff to consider I hadn't previously.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-browser-company/...
> Total Funding Amount $68M
the browser company normally does not do bug bounties, but for this catastrophic of a vuln, they decided to award me with $2,000 USD
I'm struggling to put into words how disappointing I find this.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw-cutting_lathe