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Re: Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

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Post by braiseB »

Pandabob wrote: post #838
52-6F-62 wrote: post #769

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Binging with Babish has a great series on basic dishes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBGoJUxxRqU He covers the American omelette which is my go-to. Usually with spinach, red bell pepper, red onion and sometimes mushroom filling. Often with some old cheddar and they are monstrously simple to make mediocre and not too difficult to make very well.

I'm a big fan of Babish! I'd also recommend the Bon Appetit Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/BonAppetitDotCom and Chef John from Food Wishes https://www.youtube.com/user/foodwishes

I would die for Claire from the Bon Appetit test kitchen

Re: Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

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Post by UnFleshedOne »

VLM wrote: post #923
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Alternatively you could just read Starting Strength. The only exercise that's difficult in technique is the Power Clean, and you can replace it with Chin-ups. Even Rip does it in his Practical Programming book. Seriously though, your stabilizers are important and machines do nothing for them.

Its all in what you want to do. The barbell prescription book goes into great detail on medical research on the effects on blood chemistry and general health of the ratio of muscle to fat and so on. For that, it doesn't matter if all the muscle in my body is in my left calf or stabilizers or whatever. On the other hand SS and similar IS vital if you're going to work a blue collar job and lift and install plumbing all…

If stabilizers were not important, one would be able to lift exactly the same free weight as you do on a machine (after practicing form with light weight under supervision for a while). Is that true?

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Post by omar12 »

RobertRoberts wrote: post #862
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These are good tips, thank you! For rice, the rice:water ratio I follow is 1:1.25. I add a teaspoon of olive oil, salt and pepper to taste. For eggs, I'm going to try running the egg under warm water. One thing I've observed improvement in quality of eggs when mixing it is the material of the bowl (copper provides best results) and how much air you introduce when mixing the eggs. Try making a meringue, it's fascinati…

I have tried lots of ratios rice/water, and I think the brand/type of rice, stove and pot properties all greatly affect the results. Not to mention the subject "goal" for the results we all like. (maybe you like your rice wetter/stickier than I do?) Do you add the oil, salt and pepper before cooking?

That is true, I haven't had the same success with the ratio when using different types of rice and pots. I achieve the desired texture that the people I cook for prefer :)

Yes, I add the oil, salt and pepper before cooking.

Re: Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

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Post by wayneco »

learning basic electrician skills for use in power outage/natural disasters. Everything in our world is powered by electricity, nobody knows how to help themselves in creating their own when the power goes off. Use of generator to power their house, basic setup and ops of batteries and solar panels, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

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Post by dragonsngoblins »

RobertRoberts wrote: post #903
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I've always been confused by people talking about losing things like keys/wallet a lot. I take them out of my pockets and put them on a flat surface when I get home which means they are always in one of like 4 different places tops, but in two of them the vast majority of the time (dining table or desk). Surely there are natural places those things end up?

We have a similar technique, I put my stuff in the same place all the time. But only because I was sick of misplacing them for many years. I think there are a lot of people that don't have tendencies towards systems/self rules to solve issues like this, so they casually smash through life care free and forget where they put their keys "this time". (based on many people I know)

It isn't a system I developed to remember though, it is just... I put them somewhere sensible where they won't fall behind something or scratch anything etc.

My keys are often in different places, it is just that the list of "sensible" places isn't very large so if I have forgotten checking them all takes practically no time

EDIT: I should say not a system I developed consciously, I do have ADD so my habit of putting things in sensible places generally might be an adaption to that, though if so it happened before I even had keys to lose

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Post by 80386 »

ZoomZoomZoom wrote: post #243
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Half of Cyrillic is learned by the average HN reader if you tell them to think Greek rather than Latin. "P" is an "r" sound (rho), "П" is a "p" (pi), etc.

I always wondered why in English the constant and the letter π pronounced as /paɪ/ when the Greek letter is obviously /pi/. It really grinds my gears, there's no pie in π! Does Enlgish routinely localize foreign alphabet names? If so, it's bad practice. I believe no one in the world learns English alphabet pronouncing it arbitrary, and not as /ˈeɪ/ /ˈbiː/ /ˈsiː/.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift is why.

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Post by wenc »

boring_twenties wrote: post #954
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Agreed. Which brings me to something I learned in an hour (from Ricky Yean's insightful piece on "mindset inequality" [1]) and which I'm still learning recognize in myself -- i.e. the disadvantaging qualities of a poverty mindset. Quote from article: "Being poor makes you suck at using money as a resource. My time was always cheaper growing up, so I got used to opting to spend time rather than money. I had to fix thi…

I'd be careful with those "impeccable" $25 oil changes. The only time I've ever tried one, they threw out the filter housing along with the old filter, and just "installed" the new filter without the housing. This was immediately before a 400 mile road trip through the middle of nowhere. Good times. Never again.

As with everything YMMV. Oil changes are so commoditized that it is more likely for nothing to happen. I don’t know where you live but 25 is kinda of a standard price in most places I’ve ever had an oil change at.

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Post by [deleted] »

RobertRoberts wrote: post #176

How to cook for yourself, really, really good food. I no longer crave restaurant food, and all of the really important things I learned about cooking take just the time to read it, hear about it and then try it. All without any special hardware. A few examples: 1. Cooking jasmine rice: rinse it first, 1 c. water to 1 c. rice ratio. Bring to boil, turn down heat to lowest setting. Leave lid /the entire time/. Fluff th…

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Post by sgillen »

sshine wrote: post #150
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Both things change how you think temporarily. I think they both do so in such a way that you can identify and emotionally deal with stuff that would otherwise remain unresolved.

I'm sorry, but there is a fine line between dealing with stuff and smoking weed, one of which involves dealing with stuff, and the other postponing dealing with stuff.

I think different people use it differently. Certainly a lot of people use it to postpone dealing with stuff.

I do think it’s possible to use it as a tool to help you deal with stuff though, and I think that’s what the person I was replying to was doing.

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Post by z3t4 »

forgotmypass9 wrote: post #914
z3t4 wrote: post #274

Many people think that if they just become successful they will be more happy, but it's actually the other way around. First comes happiness, then comes success. A happy life will be a successful life.

In my experience, this is not true at all. When I had a solid job, I was the happiest person alive. When I was struggling to find a new job, I was the most depressed person alive. It's not just me, there was a study saying that money correlates to income perfectly - up to $70 000, after which there is no correlation at all. Unless your definition of "not successful" includes people who make enough money to paying liv…

Indeed economy security is one of the corner pillars of success. Think of it as part of the hierarchy of needs. But you can be upper class and still feel miserably, then you think if only my startup takes off I will be happy. But that will only lead to more work, not happiness. It's better to do something you love, be around people you love, etc, which is more likely to lead to success.
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