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@meathead I like using a beer boiler burner connected to a propane tank with a high pressure regulator. Makes a fine wok burner and, as with charcoal, moves the cooking outside. High heat wok cooking produces wonderful smells, but they stick around forever.

See how hot that burner is? Your stove can’t do that. But you know what can? A charcoal chimney. I described the process in my new book the Meathead method.

@SecKennedy What a crock. One very short quick search reveals a dozen+ countries with significantly lower life expectancy than the US.

We became the sickest country in the world. I need to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

@sdamico Got a 36"? :)

We made a giant bet with this -- we're 100% self-install, meaning an immediate national launch. Couple tricks: 1) battery and cooktop are in separate boxes 2) "easier than IKEA" mating instructions 3) we can process replacements via UPS/Fedex w/o a pallet (packed like a TV)

@grok Does the new @grok still look up @elonmusk's tweets to construct responses?

Update on where has @grok been & what happened on July 8th. First off, we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced. Our intent for @grok is to provide helpful and truthful responses to users. After careful investigation, we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot. This is independent of the underlying language model that powers @grok. The update was active for 16 hrs, in which deprecated code made @grok susceptible to existing X user posts; including when such posts contained extremist views. We have removed that deprecated code and refactored the entire system to prevent further abuse. The new system prompt for the @grok bot will be published to our public github repo. We thank all of the X users who provided feedback to identify the abuse of @grok functionality, helping us advance our mission of developing helpful and truth-seeking artificial intelligence.

@clarkcox What printer? Sounds kinda typical. Every time a printer works well for a while, boom! Something random breaks. I compare it to owning a British mid century sports car. Always on the verge of a major electrical and/or mechanical fault.

Now this hotend is basically useless, and if I want to get this piece of junk up and running again, I’ll have to buy a new one. And there’s no guarantee it won’t still (incorrectly) think it’s clogged.

- 3d printer claims it’s clogged - Take out the hot end, not clogged at all; can pass a tool straight through it with no resistance. - Decide to replace the nozzle while I’ve got everything apart, just in case. - New nozzle literally snaps in two as I’m screwing it in

@DRichardHipp Amazing milestone for an amazing piece of software!

The first code check-in for SQLite happened 25 years ago today.

@meathead Uni is one of those foods where "good" is nasty, but "excellent" is truly excellent. West coast uni is amazing. Japanese Uni is better than good. East coast and most, not all, mediterranean uni is yuck. And it has to be dammed fresh. Should not be liquidy at all.

I will eatjust about anything but i cant stand uni

Hey, @mcuban. There be scammers sullying your name quite vociferously.

@meathead One trick my mom discovered: Cut the ends of the legs off and the white ligaments pull right out after roasting, leaving turkey legs with no stringy bits. I roast via the Martha Stewart wine/butter soaked cheesecloth method for a perfect browned crispy skin.

There is really only one way to spatchcock. You simply get heavy duty, kitchen shears, and cut out the back bone. Then you open it up you can cook it either breast side up or breast side down. It really doesn’t matter. There are no super highways inside the meat so the juices don’t flow. I smoke it breast side up so there are no Grill marks on the skin

@GrillinFool Pork steak is amazing!! They are showing up well outside of St Louis these days. I've found 'em in both Safeway & Nob Hill in California. Similar; Lamb Steaks. Same thing-- slice a lamb shoulder into steaks. Delicious.

Have you heard of the Pork Steak? The farther you are from St. Louis, the less likely you have heard of this meat mana. In this foolproof recipe, I combine the StL delicacy with a Santa Maria Grill👇: grillinfools.com/santa-maria-po…

@BWJones Nothing is ever really deleted on an SD card... ... that fact has saved me a couple of times.

@patriottakes Here is a helpful resource to assist these religious organizations. irs.gov/charities-non-…

MAGA churches are so weird

@elonmusk It's great that you created community notes so that the community can repeatedly point out how utterly wrong you so often are.

What reason was given for repealing this law?

@clarkcox @CerberusXt v5 / v6.1 seem go for more variation. But you can still provide prompts that will lead to gravity wells of various characters. Kinda fun to suss out the models that way and try to find the strange attractors.

@bbum @CerberusXt That is better, but there’s still *something* about them that I can’t quite put my finger on.

Spanish anti-woke weirdos trying to out-cringe the competition.

@danielpunkass Thank you for your time and data. Much appreciated. bbum.net may rise yet.

@bbum I recommend WordPress because it will outlive any politics that are currently in disarray.

Right when I'm about ready to bring back my weblog and figured WordPress was good enough.... ... WordPress seems to have exploded?! Any suggestions? I'd like remote posting, photo galleries, and code formatting.

@eric_xin9 @toarchkumar @MattBruenig Missing reply before: Is being perfect even the right goal? The current L5 requires the car to drive in situations where no sensible human would opt to go because safety. And no driver on the road is perfect, yet driving mostly works.

@bbum @toarchkumar @MattBruenig Being perfect is the hard part and the main requirement behind robo-taxi’s. Don’t make something that can do 95% and call it “full self driving”

@clarkcox @CerberusXt Later models seem to go for more variation. (Then there is LOAB -- that's a fun story). This is v4:

@CerberusXt The one good thing about AI generated “art” is that women all end up with basically the same face and it becomes so easy to recognize.

@clarkcox @CerberusXt Midjourney circa v3 or v4: You toss garbage at it -- literally "asdhfdsahhaksdfoipasdf" -- and you'd get the same rendered women out. Lots of variant, but same basic face recipe, freckles, and always with some sort of Borg like bits on one cheek (or fish scales). Every time.

@eric_xin9 @toarchkumar @MattBruenig Or is "really super safe like 1,000,000x safer than human drivers" good enough? I don't know. What I do know after putting 10K+ miles of mostly highway on FSD (or the prior FSD-lite) stack, is that I can send more hours behind the wheel, arrive more rested, and feel very safe.

@eric_xin9 @toarchkumar @MattBruenig That's what's kinda interesting here in. No driver on the road is 100% perfect. Nor would any driver even opt into driving on some roads that the standards boards would claim a robo-car would have to be 100% perfect on to make level 5. Is perfect the right end goal?