Almost any beginner programming course states that algorithms are like recipes for a computer. Conversely a recipe is an algorithm meant for imperfect humans.
If a recipe isn’t code then what is ?
Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
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Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
#52I loved the issue about the "sauce code", and "compiling the sauce". There's so many puns here waiting to happen: - Finding 'bugs' in the 'sauce' - Continuous testing and integration - "Forking" ... what else? Contribute your puns below :p
The language of coding is almost all metaphorical, some food & food-adjacent terms offhand:
- bit, byte
- server
- curry
- salted hash
- spaghetti code
- code smell
- syntactic sugar
- java
Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
#53Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
#542018, 127 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540401 I made this back then! It’s what taught me to use gloves with chili. The capsaicin managed to permeate my skin, and for around 3 days my hands would start burning if they only got slightly warm. I had to sleep with my hands slightly raised, so they wouldn’t touch either the mattress or the covers (or my own skin). Nowadays, I always have nitrile gloves…
Use gloves if you’re ever handling a lot of tamarind as well. It’s more acidic than you might think and it will burn your skin.
Same thing with lemons, especially if you're in sunlight.
Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
#55There is an argument to be made that a recipe is code, it just runs on a different platform
Yes, that's how I usually explain programming to someone unexperienced with it. A computer programming language is usually more strictly defined, but depending on compiler and architecture results can differ in computer progamming as well.
Speaking of which, a spec for recipes that was a previous Show HN[1], Cooklang[2]
Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
#56I loved the issue about the "sauce code", and "compiling the sauce". There's so many puns here waiting to happen: - Finding 'bugs' in the 'sauce' - Continuous testing and integration - "Forking" ... what else? Contribute your puns below :p
The language of coding is almost all metaphorical, some food & food-adjacent terms offhand: - bit, byte - server - curry - salted hash - spaghetti code - code smell - syntactic sugar - java And the hardware world is full of fruit -- Adafruit, Apple, and many flavors of Pi.
- 0XDEADBEEF
- 0xCAFEBABE
:-)
Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
#57I loved the issue about the "sauce code", and "compiling the sauce". There's so many puns here waiting to happen: - Finding 'bugs' in the 'sauce' - Continuous testing and integration - "Forking" ... what else? Contribute your puns below :p
The language of coding is almost all metaphorical, some food & food-adjacent terms offhand: - bit, byte - server - curry - salted hash - spaghetti code - code smell - syntactic sugar - java And the hardware world is full of fruit -- Adafruit, Apple, and many flavors of Pi.
DRY the chilli, Beautiful Soup
Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
#58Author of the open sauce here. Coolt to see this on HN for the second time(!) Still making fermented sauces and pickles. Set Moroccan Salted Lemons this week actually. Happy to answer any questions. :-)
Why chlorine free water?
This is really, really important for any kind of fermentation (including things like sourdough starter). I believe it's possible to get rid of some kinds of chlorination from municipal water sources by boiling the water first, but it is not possible to get rid of "chloramines," which are widely used (at least in the US). The web page for your local water supplier should be able to tell you whether they use chloramines or not, but I pretty much always just use bottled water that I know has nothing in it that would inhibit the fermentation.
Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
#59Is this kind of like sourdough? Since there's no starter culture, seems like it will ferment with whatever random yeast or bacteria happens to land in it while you're preparing it.
I tried making sourdough without a starter culture several times and it worked every time (1), so I suspect that having the correct conditions may be sufficient depending on what you want to ferment. (1) to be precise, it looked and tasted the same every time, and it was somewhat sour and not disgusting, so I just assumed that it worked ;)
Sourdough does use yeast from the air and feeds on the flour (often with help from a sugary friend like an apple), but fermentation of vegetables is usually from bacteria on the skin of the veg, for instance in sauerkraut the bacteria that kicks off fermentation is Leuconostoc mesenteroides which is found on the skin of cabbage (and many other veg).
With both you can use a starter, often from the previous batch but buying them works too. My first attempts at sourdough weren't very successful at all and I wish I'd chosen a famous starter to get that good taste, even once I got it going okay it wasn't a great taste, the yeast strains in my kitchen can't have been that good!
[1] https://olykraut.com/blogs/knowledge/the-stages-of-sauerkrau...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuconostoc_mesenteroides#Envi...
Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
#60I loved the issue about the "sauce code", and "compiling the sauce". There's so many puns here waiting to happen: - Finding 'bugs' in the 'sauce' - Continuous testing and integration - "Forking" ... what else? Contribute your puns below :p
The language of coding is almost all metaphorical, some food & food-adjacent terms offhand: - bit, byte - server - curry - salted hash - spaghetti code - code smell - syntactic sugar - java And the hardware world is full of fruit -- Adafruit, Apple, and many flavors of Pi.
> - curry
Fun fact, this was named after Haskell Curry. Haskell is also named after him.