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imgur.com/a/DyQZL Man, I really wish I had the time (and skills) to do something like that ;p
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Q: Is ginger a good substitute for galangal in Thai green curry?

scottishpinkIs fresh ginger a good substitute for galangal in a Thai Green curry? (I cannot get fresh galangal here anywhere) Would I use less or more ginger than galangal quantity?

It's simply amazing how large and diverse the Stack Exchange network has become.
@JourneymanGeek that is crasy it doesn't even have a cappuccino machine. It looks lovely lovely. but to me it would be sort of anti computer, when with a good toolbar you can have all those buttons, without the problems of 4 more computers.
> And now introducing Cooking Overflow
LOLOLOLOL
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@Psycogeek physical controls are always better
While its specialised, I'd totally love to build something smaller with say, a physical volume control hooked into windows mixer and throw in a few other shiny things
@allquixotic: also, its pretty hard to find a watch that fits a dog. I've considered sticking one in my pocket tho.
IIRC @BenRichards has a kickstarted one that isn't particularly well supported.
Me? I've not seen one that makes me go "OH MY GOD, I WANT ONE"
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@DragonLord Cooking.SE has been around for ages. :P
Quoted from the above linked reddit comment.
 
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Bob
Bob
02:55
@JourneymanGeek It's also hard to find a pocket that fits a dog.
@Bob: yeah.
 
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@XKCD wut?
rofl. That was my reaction too.
Tho, we had a fridge that would freeze solid inch thick layers of ice... I used to use a steamer to melt it out ;p
Ideas on how to use my old Nexus 7, perhaps as an IoT device?
05:01
@DragonLord Mount it in your car!
 
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@XKCD As always, the alt-text sells it :P
08:35
man, you guys are quiet.
I can get out my trumpet if it helps
Since it's been a while since I did background tasking/multithreading in Windows like environs, anyone with some advise for the least resource heavy way to wait for a hardware response in the background while returning the original request call to allow the client's code to keep running? C++ language.
08:48
@JourneymanGeek That's not very helpful
X_X
(I don't code. ;p)

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Today we're daydreaming about C++26 reflection
09:35
@JourneymanGeek I'm busy raging about things IRL
wtf is up with that layout?
I can guess what DEL… and REP… are, but I'm still not sure if MA… is supposed to be "Mark unread" or something else
@tereško nice
Bob
Bob
@Asmyldof There really are only two ways.
One is to spin off a thread and run a (normal) synchronous call.
The other is to run an asynchronous call if the Windows API supports it for the particular thing you're doing.
The latter is more efficient, if the API supports it.
09:51
The API semi-supports it, which is no
:-)
The C++ chatty people just told me that std::thread (or else boost::thread) works well enough for my purposes. Which is a relief, since I already kind of know it
Bob
Bob
Yea, I mostly use C# for the Win32 API stuff, not C++ :P
I don't really like C#, on account of fiddly stuff with .net and customers constantly calling about stuff not working on computer X or Y, but that's probably due to a vicious circle where I do not use C# enough, because also, on embedded systems it's a not good idea to need .net
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Anyway.. thread-play, hurray
 
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So, 10M questions on Stack Overflow...
How can there be 16M accepts?
Or am I misunderstanding that site?
I bet there's a meta post about that :P
11:49
@OliverSalzburg I can accept and answer on my question, then later accept a better one
If you so desire, you can count that as a 2 accept per question
@OliverSalzburg: new math ;p
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Heheh
 
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113 reputation to 20k.
Finding a question I can answer is hard enough...
Why Google Play does only offer to show "Highest rating first" or "Most helpful first"? Why I have to dig deeper to find the truth which is often said in negative reviews?
What kind of connery is that?
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@Boris_yo Sean?
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@allquixotic No. CONnery or CONning
aww, I was going for a funny joke star :(
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Another reason to disable Windows Updates altogther forum.thewindowsclub.com/technology-news/…
Very tempted to switch back to 8.1
or update to Windows 10 Enterprise
 
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guys can you recommend me a book to learn powershell (dump to profesional) :)
That will get you started.
seems to be the saint grial of powershell :O ty DragonLord, when i said dumb to profesional i mean as introduction.
ill check the price at amazon
Bob
Bob
All these people talking about the LEDs, while no-one seems to have noticed the outrageous specs for those batteries. Meaning they are most likely the dodgy cheapies you find on ebay/alibaba/etc
@DragonLord Nup.
I'm almost certain that they're mis-specced cells.
He says it was a 10pk of 18650 cells for $15
17:49
Okay, question was edited.
Bob
Bob
With "included charger"
@Bob: regarding one of your comments: HF isn't generated by Li-ion batteries. It can be generated by lithium primary cells (CR123A 3V) under abusive conditions.
Bob
Bob
@DragonLord The SDSes I've read and some anecdotal forum comments suggest otherwise.
Lemme see if I can find it
@DragonLord Found some mentions of it. Can't find any concrete sources. The SDSes do mention the presence some fluorine compounds. Depends how the reaction goes.
oh here.
> Under fire conditions this product may emit toxic and/or
irritating fumes and gases including carbon monoxide, carbon
dioxide, hydrogen, hdrogen fluoride, aldehydes, metal oxides and
C1-C3 hydrocarbons.
I think that's the SDS for the Li-ion batteries of some Holden electric cars
> LiPF6 hydrolysis yields PF5, a strong Lewis acid that reacts with electron-rich species, such as water. PF5 reacts with water to form hydrofluoric acid (HF) and phosphorus oxyfluoride. Phosphorus oxyfluoride in turn reacts to form additional HF and difluorohydroxy phosphoric acid. HF converts the rigid SEI film into a fragile one. On the cathode, the carbonate solvent can then diffuse onto the cathode oxide over time, releasing heat and thermal runaway.
That's from Wikipedia, citing rdmag.com/articles/2014/04/…
All SDSes for Li-ion rechargeables I could find say they contain LiPF6
@DragonLord From what I can find, yes, li-ion can generate (some amount of) HF in the worst case.
If you have any references stating otherwise, I'd love to see them.
(seriously, I would - I spent a lot of time looking this up the last time this came up...)
 
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Now there's a variant. Instead of linking to "HEY WE GOT YOUR DLLS.com", someone answers with a "HEY TRY THIS MODIFIED DLL" link to mediafire (behind a bitly link, no less).
Not sure that replacing a core dll is entirely the best practice for hiding a UI element
I'm not even sure why you would need to patch a DLL to modify a theme, but YLSNED
Just flag for removal and move on :-)
@Ramhound Mod intervention, low quality? I wasn't sure (& was contemplating a meta SU post to ask!)
got an example?

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