JustAnotherRando

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[–] JustAnotherRando 7 points 2 months ago

Morning people are an oppressive class.

[–] JustAnotherRando 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They felt like it? Their brain worded the thought using "his or her"?

[–] JustAnotherRando 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

On top of that, many people will see a Mennonite and think "Amish."

[–] JustAnotherRando 1 points 2 months ago

I didn't even realize there was aloe liquor, but I'm intrigued. I do like aloe drinks though, so I'd probably be more likely to enjoy it m

[–] JustAnotherRando 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've been meaning to do a post and share this, but I'll just pop it in here. Wife and I converted an old piano into a cocktail bar

We couldn't fit all of the alcohol in the piano, so the rest is in a trunk next to it

[–] JustAnotherRando 3 points 2 months ago
[–] JustAnotherRando 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Kidney stones fucking suck too. Note that there are more than just the calcium oxalate kidney stones, but for those ones in particular, other things high in oxalates that you might be eating that are high in oxalates: spinach, chocolate, tea, nuts, sweet potatoes.
So if you're trying to eat healthier, don't fully adjust to eating (breakfast) an oatmeal bake with nuts, peanut butter, and chocolate; (lunch) wraps using a spinach wrap and/or spinach instead of lettuce for the greens in it; and tea instead sodas... Unless you like the idea of Tylenol sized kidney stones.

[–] JustAnotherRando 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It absolutely should not have been named zeroth() because the reasoning for that is purely pedantic and ignores WHY arrays are 0 indexed. It's not like the people in the early days of writing programming languages were saying "the zeroth item in the array" - they would refer to it using human language because they are humans, not machines. Arrays are 0 indexed because it's more efficient for address location. To get the location in memory of an array item, it's startingAddress + (objectSize * index). If they were 1 indexed, the machine would have to reverse the offset.
Function/Method names, on the other hand, should be written so as to make the most sense to the humans reading and writing the code, because the humans are the only ones that care what the name is. When you have an array or list, it's intuitive to think "I want the first thing in the array" or "I want the last thing in the array)," so it makes sense to use first and last. That also makes them intuitive counterparts (what would be the intuitive counterpart to "zeroth"?).

[–] JustAnotherRando 7 points 3 months ago

Hank and John Green are pretty good role models, I'd say.

[–] JustAnotherRando 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it could serve that purpose (and honestly has to some degree), but the big thing that I didn't consider when I was young was that a lot of people just want to hate (or to convince others to be focused on hate), and will find spaces to spread and amplify that hate. I underestimated the capacity and drive of those that would spread fear and anger.

[–] JustAnotherRando 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

If it makes you feel any better, when I was young, I thought the Internet would bring the world together since you could sit and have a conversation with people all over the world with different perspectives, and befriending those from different walks of life would help break us out of small-town small-mindedness where everyone "not like us" is scary...

Yeah, I might have been a bit too optimistic with that one.

[–] JustAnotherRando 12 points 3 months ago

It took him 12 days to complain about it and be fired

 

A couple of months ago @RBWells made a post for a bourbon, pineapple amaro, apricot liquor cocktail that sounded good, but was "missing something." It sounded like a great candidate for my new cocktail smoker but it took me a while to get suitable ingredients. I had to change things up a bit because I couldn't find the same apricot or amaro, but this came out quite well (the wife took one taste and decided I was making her one too).

My version: 2oz Knob Creek Smoked Maple (didn't realize I only had a maple bourbon at home, but it worked. Maybe made it a bit sweeter than intended) 1oz Amaro Montenegro 1oz Drillaud Apricot 1oz lemon juice

Mix in a shaker with ice, pour into low-ball glass and smoke (I used Cherry wood for mine and Pecan wood for my wife's - very subtle change in flavor but I think the pecan might have been just slightly better).

The cocktail is very smooth, a great blend in flavors - the Amaro Montenegro comes through really well but not overpowering. I think I would choose a more traditional bourbon next time as the maple bourbon is a bit sweeter than I was looking for, but the smoke did balance it out. It is apparently my wife's new favorite drink though, so I'll have to keep the maple bourbon as an option in case she prefers it over other bourbons.

Definitely a drink I'm going to hold onto, and I think I'm going to have to explore Amaro Montenegro as an ingredient further.

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