/hob/ - Hobbies

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>>67490
>>67493
Thanks, it was tasty. If I had a bigger dish that can go in the oven I'd have added another leek, especially since I ordered an extra one by accident when I meant to up my scallions to 2. I did leeks instead lol. Sadly this was the max my dish can support, it even boiled over and made a mess in the oven. I still haven't dealt with that. I really want a 6 quart stainless steel rondeau (pic related) but we don't really have room for it. Maybe we could move the wok into storage somewhere because we almost never use the wok.

I made some baby back pork ribs tonight. Ribs are one of the easiest and most delicious things you can make. I find you need about a pound per person to really pig out on them and at $10 a pound that is somewhat pricey, but it is absolutely worth it for how easy/delicious it is.

>season with dry spices
>wrap in foil
>bake at 275 for 2.5 hours
>slather on sauce ( I like stubbs mixed with some sriracha and vinegar)
>broil for a couple of minutes

that's it and it comes out amazing every time. If you've never cooked ribs before, do yourself a favor and buy some next time you go shopping.

>>67497
Get some hooks and hang them pots and pans from the wall

> cooked with poblano peppers
>just ripped the seeds out by hand because it's way easier and it's just poblanos it's not like they're spicy
>after dinner I notice my balls are burning a little
>wipe my eyes a few times and notice they start to burn
>realize I got a little spicy fingers but the ball burn was mild and went away so I just ignored it for a few hours
>fingers starting to feel a little spicier and I can't stop accidentally wiping my eyes so I figure I'll just take a quick shower and rinse it all off
>get out of shower and realize my fingers are now BURNING like I just scraped the backs of them on sandpaper or something
>fingers still burning 6 fucking hours since I deseeded them

wtf man, I thought poblanos weren't that spicy. Last time I underestimate a poblano, gotta wash that shit quick.

I've been grilling a lot lately because the weather is nice. It's annoying how good stuff comes out on the grill. Annoying because you can't always do it because of the weather. I've been catching stuff on fire by accident and it comes out good. I think being cooked in the fire from the fat of the meat makes it taste better and the higher temp makes the outside get a little crispy and charred without over cooking the inside.

i didn't know jim kelly was in this movie

>>67712
Mr. Vampire is my favorite movie.

>>66210
Usually, most of the questions aren't 'unique'; if there are 40 questions, most of them are just differently stated versions of the same question.

If you believe you understand the subject matter but still struggle with exercises, try looking up the answer to one of the questions you are having trouble with and attempt to solve similar questions on your own.

>>66210
dont do them then, or just do a few.
Modern mathematics education is a disgrace because nobody wants to learn with dozens of tedious exercises. I hope you actually have good learning material
https://maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Lament

>>66310
doing the problems is how you develop maths intuition tho?

I'm the person who started this thread. Since someone bumped it I might as well say I kept going until reaching differential calculus. I filled about 2 notebooks with exercises. After that, about a month ago, I stopped with math focused books and picked up a textbook on electronics. It's amazing how much math helps in understanding things like magnetic fields and just electricity in general. I could even predict some of the behaviors on the theoretical part of the text. I really feel I'm making good progress, can't wait until I reach the meat of the thing and start reading schematics and study electronic components.

Anyone got/read/knows Linear Algebra book from Peter D. Lax?

I'm reading Sherlock Holmes

>>67549
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alone. Hapless you are, however, if life itself so oppresses you that you're forced to become a slave. Hapless you are if, having been born free, with the capacity to be isolated and self-sufficient, poverty should force you to live with others.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

One of my favorite books now, it compelled and congealed out of me emotions I wish to not fully feel by the end of it. I had to get a physical copy since there wasn't a PDF I could find for free.

I have recently finished "King Solomon's Mines". This is an old book, one of the first to popularise the lost world/adventure genre in the english language. I thought it was okay, by today's standards it is quite average, but at the time I can see how it was quite ground breaking.

It is a proper boys adventure novel, just pure fun and adventure, no sex or excessive swearing that I've come to loathe in modern novels, and it is kind of a product of its time though I'm not bothered by that. You can see how it could have influenced future adventure writers, including Tolkien.

My biggest gripe about it is how little the characters prepare. For example, they knew they were going to cross a vast desert and the supplies they packed were a huge amount of guns and ammo and two days worth of water. How the hell was that a good idea to the leader who has spent most of his life hunting in the wilderness? Is this another product of its time thing when the Victorians believed in Divine Providence, or is it a lesson the reader is meant to pick up on themselves or what? Either way, I enjoyed it, a fun and easy read, a simple story but plenty of action packed into 250ish pages.

I'm reading Star Trek Vanguard, for now it's a ok reading, liking so far.

>>66148
Some engineering advice for you:

(1) Don't try to over-abstract your code. Write what you need and if a pattern emerges frequently then you can write a general abstraction.

(2) Don't bother trying to optimize your code. Work on building the project you want and optimize when you run into performance issues.

(3) Avoid using every language feature. Every additional feature you use imposes complexity and increases the cognitive load of working with your software. This is also true of frameworks.

(4) Object orientated programming is mostly bullshit and will make your program into spaghetti. There is one exception though: encapsulation. Use classes as if they were related functions and state. This lets you build parts of your project as components that only have to focus on only thing. Avoid using every feature of OO programming if you want a program that's actually maintainable.

(5) You need to write tests to verify that your code works. At the very minimum you need tests to check that a feature you write can be used. Call this an 'integration test' if you will.

(6) There are some ways of solving problems that will only be suitable for toy apps and make it impossible to re-use in professional software. As a noob you won't know what these are but expect there to be a long learning curve.

(7) If you're trying to debug a highly complex error and you're drowning in complexity start adding assert statements everywhere. E.g. your function takes n. Assert n is within the range you expect. Assert all different variables for sanity checks. It can drastically reduce the amount of time you spend trying to guess what's wrong.

(8) Python packaging isn't great. If you want to make things easier on yourself try to avoid packages that have C dependencies (they need complication) and use only packages that use the standard library. Don't bother with Python 2 support. For building your own packages I recommend you just put all your source files in one folder with one init file. Trying to over-complicate how you organize your project will lead to you losing to complexity.

(9) You need to get serious about continuous integration across different OSes and versions if you want to release something to actual users.
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Hey man, kind of in the same boat except I'm doing Ruby. If you want to become pro I'd try to use the best resources possible. They're probably books tbh. If you just jump around things on the internet you might not progress that much but a 400 page book is structured and edited for quality etc. You don't have to do it my way I'm just offering an opinion

>>66274
try leetcode and codeforce. This roadmap is organized in a way you learn techniques which you build up to solve more complexes problems. But the is a rule, after 30~60 minutes without solving yourself, read the solution and focus on similar problems which require that technique
https://neetcode.io/roadmap

>>66259
a good post on wizchan? thats bullshit dont post here ever again

>>66259
this seems very helpful, thank you

AI TTS has a bright future. If they can do celeb voices so good, just doing a generic narrator should be even easier.

>>67288
I was hopeful when some stuff started coming out with AI voice but the reality of it has set in.
99.9% of it is lazy low quality junk that the uploaded didn't bother to do even basic audio editing of.

Pretty clear VA and other such people still will have job security for the foreseeable future.
Sort of like how AI art is hyped to the moon but without skillful editing 99.9% of it is garbage.

Could be a game changer for the skillful few willing to put the work in to polish the stuff generated, thus saving time and money allowing solo and small team to metaphorically punch way above their weight. But ai mainly attracts the incompetent, the lazy, and the scammers/hustlers who just want a quick buck without providing any value to anyone.

I now don't even bother to deal with ai generated content. It sucks. Partly because the tech ain't ready for prime time yet and partially because most who use it suck.

What a fucking let down.

>>67295
https://www.businessinsider.com/publish-books-amazon-kindle-reviews-2019-2

I listened ton an entire AI read audiobook by this Ukraine company without realizing it was fake, they even made a fake Linkedin for a narrator. on another book it was more obvious and i did more digging.

idk if AI readers can sometimes pass "the turing test" on me, we're getting there.

Eaters of the Dead
Was alright. I think this is the abridged version though.

Doc Savage and the Fortress of Solitude.

Don't quite make them like they used to. Full cast for the audio which was a treat, though there were a couple of dead air gaps from the upload.

If you are in the mood for a straight forward action adventure story then this will scratch that itch. That said it does way too much tell not show for the main bad guy so it made confrontations involving him feel pretty hollow imo.

>>67672
When you're a fatass your stomach will make the rumblies from just eating a normal amount of food, the stomach has a mind of its own and wants the amount it's used to having no idea it's bad, that's why fatties when trying to lose weight they do OMAD one meal a day that's like 2000 calories just so they can feel full.

>>67394
as the other wiz said, its mostly something you do once you have at the very least been lifting for a good while or have had a history of lifting in the past. it is very effective and also doesnt waste your time. if you are a beginner then do starting strength, get real fat and strong, then do nucleus overload and recomp until your body is in acceptable shape

>>67393
>>67387
also dont listen to the idiot telling you not to squat or overhead press. though when doing the OHP you really need to be strict and make sure you're not bending the hell out of your spine. shrugs are probably unnecessary though since the other exercises you have listed already are effective for back and trap strength

>>67695
>get real fat
No way!

>>67697
…and strong yeah

>>65198
cute

>>67679
I scrolled past this a few times and assumed it was someone posting a Mike Mignola drawing in the comics thread. Well done

>>67687
Thanks, it's based on this panel by Jim Starlin's Dreadstar.

>>64009
You still painting wiz?
I haven't posted in a long time but I still check /hob/ for you and >>67508 every so often. I was the wiz you did a NGE request for if you remember that. Perhaps youd be willing to paint Asuka in the style of painting 147 for me to update my phone home screen?

>>67691
Asuka is a goddess. I wish she'd crush my throat with her foot and rip my guts to ribbons with a pocket knife. What is wrong with me

>>67617
esoterism, the other one being science

Did the occult wizzer do any research into bio-electricity and the earth's magnetic fields? I find it very interesting that it is possible to transmit information using magnetism and wonder whether or not these fields could be an explanation for supposed telepathy, remote viewing etc

IE some thoughts leak out into a person's bioelectrical field, which possibly could be accessed by tapping into the earth's magnetic field. The evidence for "telepathy" is often quite sleight, a 5-10% increase in hit rate for normal people but some seem to be unusually lucky when they do this.

Satan-min made this site reliant on google recapcha just to torture us

>>67600
I could help in this activity, but my abilities leave much to be desired. if you are interested, write your discord or email men

>>67615
Magic is actually something you should empirically test, in that regard, it is akin to science.
The difference is that the results of magic are highly subjective, as they are in the domain of the subconscious and superconscious. They do not pertain to physical matter but to your own deep psychology, and western science has made virtually no progress whatsoever in this area. As a corollary, magic is also not quantifiable or measurable, therefore not apt for the methods of science.
There is also a very great deal of charlatanery surrounding it, and much of what is of substance is obscured by arcane language, such as with alchemy, and unfamiliar imagery from mystical traditions long neglected in our rationalist/materialist mindset.
It is imperative that the practicant be a sceptic at all times.

>>67693
shit i can't write, s/sceptic/skeptic/ stay clean wiz