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Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

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Re: Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

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Post by tkfoss »

chickensong wrote: post #22
jnwatson wrote: post #4

I like cocktails. I like cocktail recipes. I don't know why this is on hacker news thought.

I feel the same, but it's an unavoidable cycle IMHO. Any subculture that becomes popular gets diluted by more average people, and the content becomes more basic and banal. You can flag and downvote, but eventually there are enough people who treat a platform like HN as a general discussion board, without regard for cultural alignment. It seems that stuff like politics and random recipes are on the rise, but it's not…

Just because you might prefer coffee or soylent doesn't mean some other hackers don't like cocktails. Make yourself some https://entropia.de/Tschunk and relax!

Re: Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

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Post by tkfoss »

pjerem wrote: post #24
chickensong wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel the same, but it's an unavoidable cycle IMHO. Any subculture that becomes popular gets diluted by more average people, and the content becomes more basic and banal. You can flag and downvote, but eventually there are enough people who treat a platform like HN as a general discussion board, without regard for cultural alignment. It seems that stuff like politics and random recipes are on the rise, but it's not…

Well, it’s our fault. We had forums with categories and those had some random / chit chat category to have off topic discussions with the community while staying on topic anywhere else. And a lot of the time, this random section was the more active of the whole forum but that was ok because it didn’t impact the other discussions. But those were less engaging than social networks i guess (which hn is) so here we are.

...whats "on topic" for HN?

Re: Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

#35

Post by varispeed »

Arainach wrote: post #28
varispeed wrote: post #27

You can dress it however you want, but "cocktail" is just a guise for self-harm. Do your body a favour and don't drink.

I don't know why the teetotaler community feels the need to comment in any discussion on the internet where alcohol comes up. You don't have to say anything. There are many risks in life. Most of us make tradeoffs for things which don't maximize longevity but increase happiness in the time we get. For some people that's driving a car, for some people that's getting a sun tan, for some people that's alcohol.

> teetotaler

ah the alcoholics lingo. The word you are looking for is "health conscious".

Re: Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

#36

Post by dsr_ »

tkfoss wrote: post #32
pjerem wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it’s our fault. We had forums with categories and those had some random / chit chat category to have off topic discussions with the community while staying on topic anywhere else. And a lot of the time, this random section was the more active of the whole forum but that was ok because it didn’t impact the other discussions. But those were less engaging than social networks i guess (which hn is) so here we are.

...whats "on topic" for HN?

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Re: Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

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Post by dsr_ »

varispeed wrote: post #35
Arainach wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know why the teetotaler community feels the need to comment in any discussion on the internet where alcohol comes up. You don't have to say anything. There are many risks in life. Most of us make tradeoffs for things which don't maximize longevity but increase happiness in the time we get. For some people that's driving a car, for some people that's getting a sun tan, for some people that's alcohol.

> teetotaler ah the alcoholics lingo. The word you are looking for is "health conscious".

teetotaler(n.)

also teetotaller, "one who formally pledges to entire abstinence from intoxicating drink," 1834, agent noun from teetotal (q.v.). Related: Teetotaleress (1834); teetotalist (1840).

Invented by the "health conscious" and used as a term of self-identification. As far as I know, nobody thinks of it as anything other than a convenient synonym for "doesn't want to drink alcohol, at all".

It conveniently avoids motivation, too. Several religions forbid alcohol, it's not a good idea for alcoholics, and of course there are people who just think it's a bad idea for any other reason. "I'm a teetotaller" avoids getting into personal details.

Re: Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

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Post by ljf »

ianthehenry wrote: post #16

I like this website a lot and used it as the base recipe book for a program that will tell you what cocktails you can make with the ingredients you have, but also what cocktails you are “one ingredient away from.” https://github.com/ianthehenry/mixologician It’s a little datalog script - input is a text file, output is a text file. I’ve used it a few times to decide what to pick up at the store!

Love this - I'd wanted a little site that helps me see which of the top ~100 cocktails I already have the ingredients to make, and which I need to make a purchase to be able to sample: https://iba-world.com/cocktails/all-cocktails/

When I had more time and money, I planned to try to make one a week, across two years - but I rarely seem to drink these days.

Re: Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

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Post by kergonath »

dsr_ wrote: post #36
tkfoss wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...whats "on topic" for HN?

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Or, if you want to be less philosophical: anything that other people would upvote and not flag.

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