glorkon
@glorkon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Political leaning 2 days ago:
“Kommunist Metafisto” made me chuckle. Thanks.
- Comment on Smokin' meat 3 days ago:
I’d prefer it if the AI gave it to me straight, like a pear cider that’s made from a 100% pears.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
No fair. We all know this is the coolest car ever.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
It looks cool? Well, we have completely different ideas of cool looks, apparently… I think this car looks cool. Image
- Comment on 4 days ago:
That may be true, but in case of the Cybertruck, I doubt that there is any lipstick you can put on that particular pig that can somehow turn it into something I would even remotely consider buying.
I mean, I’m European, I can’t buy the fricking thing anyway, but I am also rather glad that I’m spared from ever seeing it in the wild.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Leaving all the downsides of the Cybertruck aside - the fact that it’s built by a fucking nazi, the fact that it can turn in to a death trap, the fact that the build quality is shit…
Who the fuck buys a hideous, hideous car like this…? Who suffers from such poor taste that they think a piece of junk that looks like it was designed by a five-year-old is something worth spending money on, let alone so much?
- Comment on How kind! 1 week ago:
It was several teams from different German cities, five people per team. Don’t remember how many teams exactly, but at least eight. I got 9th in the solo ranking but we won the team title.
- Comment on How kind! 1 week ago:
Same here. My balcony faces North. No way I can grow my own peppers, but I know some places where I can at least get decent quality habaneros, scotch bonnets and jolokias.
Recently made a mango habanero sauce using fermented yellow habaneros. Lovely stuff.
- Comment on How kind! 1 week ago:
Well, I don’t like it, but you definitely have a point. :)
- Comment on How kind! 1 week ago:
Definitely. I have stopped using extracts altogether, I go for best taste now, make my own sauces, I frequently attend Chili Festivals here in Berlin and I’ve tried hundreds of hot sauces. It’s become a hobby.
But I will never, ever again participate in a hot food contest.
- Comment on How kind! 1 week ago:
To be honest I only backed out because some medics who were present took my blood pressure and emphatically recommended that I stop.
- Comment on How kind! 1 week ago:
That particular extract tastes very awful, really bitter. There’s a British manufacturer named Grim Reaper who has figured out how to produce extracts that aren’t bitter, but “The Source” will ruin the taste of your food along with making it extremely hot.
- Comment on How kind! 1 week ago:
Um… thanks, I guess. I’m one too…
- Comment on How kind! 1 week ago:
So I participated a bit longer ago, the hottest pepper extract available at the time was called “The Source” rated at 7.1 million Scoville. To put that into perspective, Carolina Reaper peppers, depending on how well they’re grown, can reach 2.5 million Scoville.
I quit when they served a lemon sorbet with a large amount of that in it - which was the most sadist thing they could come up with in my opinion. Imagine you’re in a lot of pain from having suffered through all the enormously hot rounds before that one, and then they serve you something icy cold, which you are desperately longing for, but you also know it will inflict immense pain.
It’s like throwing a drowning man a barbed wire rescue rope.
- Comment on How kind! 1 week ago:
Well, then I shan’t.
- Comment on How kind! 1 week ago:
I once participated in the German Hot Food Competition, it started off with having to eat a whole Bhut Jolokia chili pure and only got worse from there.
- Comment on The greatest subtitle in history 1 week ago:
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 weeks ago:
I’m a software architect. I work with large amounts of data. And a sizeable RAM disk is generally useful for many purposes. And yes, I also run AI locally, though that’s what my RTX 4090 is for.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 weeks ago:
IBM stopped their support for LTFS, unfortunately. Which I kinda want to use despite all the drawbacks. And well, the RAM disk workaround does the trick, so there’s not enough pain to compel me into investing more time into the issue.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 weeks ago:
Oh, there can be all kinds of uses.
For example, I own an LTO tape drive. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the IBM drivers to compile on my particular flavor of Linux, but I do have a dual boot system.
Now, Windows is a shitty, shitty OS that I only boot up when I really need to. It interferes with all kinds of stuff in ways I hate, for example - copying files. It just refuses to read large files from my SSD when backing them up to tape. This causes the LTO drive to slow down, speed up, rewind, which is not a good thing because it causes additional wear on the tape.
Fix: Create a large RAM drive, copy files to RAM drive, run backup with RAM drive as source.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 weeks ago:
Built my new PC in late 2023… so glad I put 96 GB of RAM into it, despite several people asking me why the fuck I need so much RAM…
- Comment on This guy gets it 2 weeks ago:
Whenever I read Schopenhauer’s name, I’m reminded of this part in a song by German punk pop band Die Ärzte.
- Comment on That Orange Bastard 2 weeks ago:
As a fan of Terry Pratchett’s wonderful discworld novels, just like the orange douchebag writes his messages on Truth Social, I would love him to meet someone who speaks only in all caps.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 3 weeks ago:
In Germany, we have the word “schönsaufen”, which means something along the line of “drinking until something or someone ugly looks pretty” and I think that’s beautiful.
- Comment on Buttcoin 4 weeks ago:
I gamble too, but I do it with knockout options. I sometimes buy a factor 20 option, set it to 5% trailing stop loss and watch what happens.
In many cases, the option starts losing value and is automatically sold once it’s lost 5%, which isn’t too bad if you’ve invested, say, 1000 €. You lose ~50 €.
In other cases it goes up. And up. My current high score is making 450 € with one such investment.
It’s fun, and not too risky. Meanwhile, my retirement vehicles go brrr.
- Comment on Buttcoin 4 weeks ago:
I started investing during the corona dip. Best financial decision of my entire life. These days, it’s an extra 20% effortless household income and the entire portfolio value is up almost 40%.
But even then, I felt I was just too late to the party for going into crypto. Thank goodness.
- Comment on Imagine the farts 4 weeks ago:
So here’s a quick recipe for a spicy egg salad. It’s a kind of love it or hate it thing.
20 cooked and roughly chopped eggs 1 jar of Hellmann’s Light mayonnaise 1 jar of white asparagus, chopped 1 jar of mushrooms 50g Stokes Curry Ketchup 3-4 dashes of Worcestershire sauce Habanero Tabasco to taste
Has the same musical effect on your digestion.
- Comment on Huh? 1 month ago:
Absolutely. When I go to a bar or restaurant, I prefer a place that doesn’t look like a co-working space. Also, when I see anyone using a laptop in there, I’m out.
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 1 month ago:
John Ecticut?
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