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"Every Grain of Rice" is my favorite cookbook ever. Its emphasis is home cooking so the recipes are pretty practical and it covers more than just Sichuan or Hunan cuisine so there …

I'm a big fan of Buckaroo Banzai but it seems odd that you credit BB when the linked Wikipedia article is about the original source of "Yoyodyne" > Yoyodyne was introduced as a fic…

Try the Mala Market 0]. They have really good Sichuan products that are hard to find in the US. The quality is really good as they are a low volume business and travel to China to …

I don't think your comment about a breaking abi change on a minor point release is fair. Perhaps you have misunderstood the release number scheme? Every year around the first quart…

If you are interested on programming something like a 6800 or 6502, but would like to make a practical device and not just run in simulation, take a look at the STM8. It's a very w…

There is no such thing as 8051 love.

> The project itself is terribly run--the maintainers recently pushed out an ABI change which broke everyone's code, but released it as a minor version bump. When was this? What ve…

He cannot become president as he was not born in the US. However, he could perhaps become governor of Texas. Might even be an improvement.

> they call the police and tell them a home-jacking is ongoing Who show up three hours later and shoot your dog.

John Kenneth Galbraith called this phenomenon "convenient social virtue".

Most gas stove tops in the US are not great for cooking with a wok anyway as they are underpowered and the flame comes out the edges of the "sealed burner". I use an Iwatani 35FW t…

After watching "Fitzcarraldo", be sure to watch "Burden of Dreams". Another director would have used practical special effects (models) to film dragging the steamship over the moun…

"The Switch" [0] This set of blog posts that turned into a book is a great history of the underlying technologies that ultimately led to the computer, from the discovery of electri…

> Can you explain the 'thinner spokes are better' bit? The rim deflects inward as it contacts the ground. This is controlled by the stiffness of the rim. The deflection untensions …

If you want a more modern microcontroller that can actually be used to make things, take a look at the 8 bit STM8 series. They are widely used (you may have a few already, toasters…

Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler, by Niklaus Wirth and Jurg Gutknecht. Oberon is a beautifully simple language and the Oberon System was amazingly cre…

Perl is not generally faster than awk. Obviously there are cases where perl is faster, but for the text smashing that awk is meant for, perl usually much slower, particularly than …

> so if you label me you need a more generic term. Does Luddite work for you?

Tesla has reduced (but not yet eliminated) cobalt in their batteries over the years and has further reductions in the works. Tesla does not source cobalt from the Congo.

> dealers parked cars in the spots for charging, had them in locked off areas, had them turned off or otherwise inaccessible, etc That has caused me a few anxious drives in my Spar…

Interiors don't weigh all that much being mostly fabrics, plastic and foam. A Pikes Peak quality roll cage is quite heavy. That said it's probably quite a bit under 4700 lbs, but a…

There is only one incident, not two.

I'm hoping for this in Oakland, I'd love to go all electric.

I cook Chinese. Cooking on a typical gas rangetop is also painful. Not enough heat, and the wok is not very stable. I use a tabletop butane burner indoors (Iwatani 35FW) and it has…

The human body is not perfectly elastic, as it is made out of meat. When the bike goes up and down, it makes the meat jiggle or flap which dissipates energy in the flesh as heat. S…