I'm starting to really hate analogies. They more often obscure than enlighten.
an analogy is like a garden shed: you try to eat it, it'll get stuck in your throat.
(with apologies to Mike from The Young Ones)
Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
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#342Earlier quoted context omitted.
What I've really gotten out of this is that I'd like to learn how to use a (proper) meat thermometer when I make steaks.
The funny part is steak is one of the easiest foods to cook without a thermometer You don’t have to worry about undercooking like you do with most other meats and most steak cuts will be delicious anywhere from 11-130 (if you cook a filet to 130, it won’t be the best but it’ll still be good) and some can go even higher It’s not like poultry where the range where it’s “good” is very small. A 170 chicken breast is almo…
160 degrees for a chicken breast is perfectly safe. Considerably lower temperatures can also produce microbiologically safe chicken when combined with sufficient holding time.
165 is a rough rule of thumb, not some magic number like the boiling point of water at 1 bar or something.
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#343>And what do we want? >We want the perfect steak. This premise seems incorrect. SWEs may aspire to produce perfect steaks as a matter of pride, but demand asks for mass produced steaks that trade off against other factor like time and cost. There is a reason github isn't full of nasa lunar lander quality this can't crash code...
Since the invention of the optigrill you can get great steaks in your home. Automatically. Those existing make the comparison a bit silly. Though, given how those seem to be somewhat of a niche that few people know or care about maybe automated perfection isn't what all people have an interest in. Process vs. result and all that. Or maybe it's just that few people realize that optigrills are a thing that exist and ho…
Are you saying a George Foreman-style electric countertop panini press makes a "great steak?"
Re: Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
#344I've never cooked a steak. Not once. It feels like one of those foods where getting it wrong means you've just ruined an expensive piece of meat, so I've always let a restaurant take the risk. This post makes me think I've probably been overthinking it.
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#345I am vegetarian, but my family likes steak so I buy it and cook it for them. I've been told it is very good. Not sure if the this is an instructive extension of the steak metaphor or not.
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#346If only it could do things as predictably as a steak machine. I guess flexibility comes at a price.
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#347Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great answer. Just to add, this is with red meat where E. Coli is the main concern. That exists in the gut of the animal and that bacteria can travel to the surface of the muscles during the butchering process. Poultry on the other hand is mainly concerned with Salmonella which does live in the muscles of the animal. That's why people aren't ordering rare chicken breast.
Also, rare chicken breast is apparently pretty unpleasant to eat. Kenji Lopez-Alt did an article where he discussed how you can use sous vide to pasteurize chicken while still keeping it at a low temp, but the result (while perfectly safe to eat) was not enjoyable.
It was actually one of the first things I tried when I got my sous vide. Amazingly tender and juicy but the texture reminded me too much of under cooked chicken that it made me queasy. Now I stick with steak sous vide.
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#348That's right. It's not skill. It's technique.
And there are techniques that make it brain dead simple.
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#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
Believe me, there's a huge spectrum, from the sweet aroma of freshly ground Brazilian beans to straight up cat piss coffee sold in supermarkets.
No offence, but for some reason some people just can't accept a simple fact: for some people this difference is still not a difference. I've tried good coffee. At least that's what people told ne on multiple accasions where I was taken to "the right places" in multiple countries. On two sides of the globe (Brazil and Vietnam if we are talking about producers, not to mention countries that import the beans). Thing is:…
I honestly fail to understand the relevance of "some people can't tell the difference or just don't care". Good (or not) for them?
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#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
Believe me, there's a huge spectrum, from the sweet aroma of freshly ground Brazilian beans to straight up cat piss coffee sold in supermarkets.
No offence, but for some reason some people just can't accept a simple fact: for some people this difference is still not a difference. I've tried good coffee. At least that's what people told ne on multiple accasions where I was taken to "the right places" in multiple countries. On two sides of the globe (Brazil and Vietnam if we are talking about producers, not to mention countries that import the beans). Thing is:…
Question: how is your sense of smell? My friend has the same opinion about coffee as you (he just drinks cheap diner joe) and his sense of smell is almost nonexistent.
I, on the other hand, have a pretty good nose and I can pick out peach, raspberry, toasted nuts, caramel, marshmallow, chocolate, and blueberry notes from a variety of different coffees I’ve bought. The smell of some of these coffees is mesmerizing, like walking into a high end patisserie.
Without that smell component, the coffees taste either sour or bitter or somewhere in between.