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wscott commented on Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes   cubbyathome.com/boxed-cak... · Posted by u/Avshalom
dfxm12 · 3 months ago
She's upset that the recipes are different

If she's like my mother, she probably thinks of these recipes as a connection to her parents and grandparents. The importance is not in the finished dish, but in the history of this specific artifact, including: the hand writing, the original index cards, the references to the bowls she remembers as a little girl. I understand this. When I see my grandmother's recipes, hand-written in broken English, it makes me smile, because I can't not read it in my grandmother's voice. Ok, these aren't cakes and cookies, so there's no need to be precise, so I do the recipe updates in my head anyway.

When updating the recipe, consider this. If you're laying it out on paper, at least keep a reference to the original recipe, a photo, etc. I have a professional cookbook like this. It has excerpts from journals from the 18th or 19th century with the original recipe, and also recontexualizes them for today's ingredients, tools and techniques. You get both the history and the dish.

wscott · 3 months ago
Indeed. When I entered "grandma's cookies" into the shared family instance is 'mealie' I was sure to include a copy of the "original" index card. (surely a copy) https://imgur.com/KMSuUhz

That card was has several fun comments and lots of history to my siblings who added to the crustiness of this card.

The original card I remember said to use lard or you can use margarine if you "haven't slaughtered a hog recently".

The recipe in mealie was modernized and tested more.

wscott commented on Show HN: C++ Compiler Support Page   cppstat.dev... · Posted by u/cemdervis
wscott · 3 months ago
For reference here is the cppreference page the OP is trying to improve: https://cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support.html

Personally I am not not sure the live search on this new page saves me time, but perhaps if you added the ability to only show missing features it could be useful. For example if I could pick that I am interested in c++23 and earlier and that I use gcc-14 and clang-16 it should list the features that won't work for me. That would be useful compared to trying to scan the full list.

wscott commented on Obsidian Bases   help.obsidian.md/bases... · Posted by u/twapi
abalaji · 4 months ago
This seems useful for folks who use Obsidian as a personal CRM. I got some queries with data view that I'm going to see if this can replace:

https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/

I often want to answer questions like:

- When was the last time I chatted with this person - What did we talk about - Who haven't I spoken to in a while

wscott · 4 months ago
Dataview can generate all of the data from Bases (and a whole lot more), but Bases is a lot easier to use as you can build queries in the GUI and the data comes out in nicely formatted table where you can edit the fields directly in the table rather than needing to load each data item one by one to make changes.

And still after using and making changes in the GUI the query is stored in a nicely formatted and editable YAML file.

wscott commented on The Church FAQ   whatever.scalzi.com/2025/... · Posted by u/nivethan
vermilingua · 9 months ago
Completely off topic, this is the first time I've seen ordinary US streets outside TV/film, it's jarring to see so many flags.
wscott · 9 months ago
Very small town in the midwest. The US is a big place and this is just one possible look.
wscott commented on Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts   labs.ripe.net/author/emil... · Posted by u/voytec
UltraSane · a year ago
It turns out that flooding your own lies is far more effective than trying to censor information.
wscott commented on A 94x speed improvement demonstrated using handwritten assembly   twitter.com/FFmpeg/status... · Posted by u/doener
zbobet2012 · a year ago
The thing I found interesting in the AVX512 gains over AVX2. That's a pretty nice gain from the wider instruction set which has often been ignored in the video community.
wscott · a year ago
The important thing to understand about why AVX512 is a big deal is not the width. AVX512 adds new instructions and new instruction encodings. They doubled the number of registers (16->32), and added mask registers that allow you to remove special cases at the end of loops when the array is not a multiple of the vector width. And there is piles for new permutation operations and integer operations that allow it to be useful in more cases.

The part Intel struggles with is that in many places if they had the 256-bit max width but all the new operations then they could build a machine that is faster than the 512-bit version. (assuming the same code was written for both vector widths) The reason is the ALUs could be faster and you could have more of them.

wscott commented on Crossing the USA by Train   blinry.org/coast-to-coast... · Posted by u/chmaynard
wscott · a year ago
I was pleased to read such positive contagious excitement and someone who can still see the wonder of the American west. And excitement of trying new experiences.
wscott commented on Low Cost Mini PCs   lowcostminipcs.com/... · Posted by u/mjcurl
wscott · a year ago
On the website itself, "OS" "Included" and "Not Included" is strange. I don't see that I need "Not Included", unchecking "Included" should show you everything but instead it shows you nothing. I don't see the value of "no os included" verses a copy of Windows that I will overwrite.

So I would just have an "OS Included?" checkbox.

wscott commented on Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs   workspaceupdates.googlebl... · Posted by u/pentagrama
wscott · a year ago
So, can we now write a plugin for Obsidian that syncs changes to Google Drive?
wscott commented on Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes   lowercase.app/... · Posted by u/siegers
iseeyouseewesee · 2 years ago
some feedback:

as a first time visitor, the pricing page is really confusing. if its free why is there a stripe faq immediately below? i am still confused whether this product is free or paid without signing up. the pricing page requires some rework imo

wscott · 2 years ago
Reading the rest of the pricing page gives me the clear impression that it wasn't free initially and then changed it to free recently and the rest of the text on that page wasn't updated. If I am making donations why do I need to be reassured that I can have a refund if I don't like it?

u/wscott

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