So wait, what would your quick & dirty advice be for the overall simplest way to achieve decent beans? I soak pintos (from the giant Walmart 20lb bags) overnight and into the instant pot for 22mins, but have noticed the same thing where if I get lazy and let them soak for almost 24hrs before cooking, they tend to come out way too firm and not satisfying at all. Wasn’t sure if it was just my imagination
My first suggestion would be to cook it longer than 22 minutes. Instapots only go up to around 9 lbs of pressure on high, from what I read, so any pressure cooking recipe that is expecting a 10-15 lb pressure stove top cooker will need some extra time added. I cook my pintos and red beans for 30 minutes.
I would add a 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda to the water. I don't reuse my soak water, and I don't salt my water until after they have cooked. I may experiment with adding salt beforehand later, but I suspect that I'll need to add salt to the soak water too for this method.
Adding garlic and bay leafs are nice, but not necessary, as is an onion. For red beans I often blacken an onion on the stove and then throw it in whole in the pot with the beans.
For decent tasting beans don’t soak them at all, clean and boil them normally with some salt or bullion. Never soak your beans if you want them to taste good.
Yes and soaking scientifically doesn't affect it either.
>Gray and his colleagues developed a method for extracting most of the alpha-galactosides from beans. The beans are boiled for three minutes (effectively killing the bean and allowing the sugars to pass through the cell walls), then allowed to stand for two hours. That water is poured off and the beans are covered and soaked for another two hours. Then they’re drained, covered and soaked another two hours before being drained and rinsed a final time.
>This method succeeded in ridding the beans of 90% of the troublesome sugars, but as you might expect, there was a side effect. “I used to do this blanch-soak method all the time at home and it works very nicely,” Gray says. “The one thing people who ate dinner with us have noted is that you do lose some flavor.”
>What’s more -- without going into details of what they measured and how -- suffice it to say that even with almost all of the alpha-galactosides gone, there wasn’t a consistent marked decrease in human flatulence.
>“We reduced the alpha-galactoside content by 90% but we haven’t done anything to dietary fiber,” says Gray, “and dietary fiber produces similar effects.”
We’re clear here that that was just what the kid said, all made up right? And no one was actually killed prior to the swat showing up. The article was written pretty confusingly.. anyway sounded to me like the guy was literally just sitting around and happened to have a gun, as you probably would in a rural area, and went into fight or flight once the neighbor told him he was surrounded by armed cops
But I would think - depending on whether prank reports like this are relatively common, as a % of all SWAT calls made legitimate or illegitimate - it’d be better to check out the scene, maybe even knock first if the situation allows it, as a default, to determine any chance that they were just being sent on a wild goose chase by some bored gamers. I guess cases with quote-unquote hostages would preclude that kind of luxury though, dunno
It sounds like the police did a fairly rational thing here. They went to the house in a large group, they asked for the person, told him to out down his weapon, and didn’t shoot him. That sounds like a reasonable response, even though it ended in tragedy.
The only people responsible for this were the people who called the police with a false report. That is the crime.
I think cops do a lot of bad shit and need to be held accountable, but this sounds like they did the right thing.
I'm not for UBI but I totally get & agree with the reasoning behind it; including yours here which I think is pretty dead on as to why it would be beneficial (in theory). In fact the "stealing from our future" part jumped out at me as similar to the way I think of societal debt cycles (the kind Ray Dalio talks about in his books - short-and long-term [~10yr; ~100yr] cyclical sine waves of waxing & waning [in/de]flation). You probably would avoid taking on a ton of debt during the peak of a given credit cycle (when rates are at their highest %), especially if you know you're simply fking yourself that much harder than if you were to take on the debt at some point in the future, when rates are much more likely to be low, and thus save you a ton of money in the long run.
Same thing with putting in extra effort at work. No reason to actually take on the extra hustle if it pays off minimally when all is said & done anyway. Better to say no thank you, I'd rather not take on a burden of effort-debt yet and wait till it makes significantly more sense to do so
This, short & sweet, to the point. Should be top comment.
Seriously. The other Orwellian agency installments are at least iffy with some potential justification for their existence, but I struggle to think of any way my life would be worse if the DEA were to just... not.
> I wonder if anyone will even notice though as it would require putting energy into criticizing anything other than the election
Not really; they seem to have gone out of their way to be election-relevant:
> The first analysis was to occur after 32 volunteers — both those who received the vaccine and those on placebo — had contracted Covid-19. If fewer than six volunteers in the group who received the vaccine had developed Covid-19, the companies would make an announcement that the vaccine appeared to be effective. The study would continue until at least 164 cases of Covid-19 — individuals with at least one symptom and a positive test result — had been reported.
> In their announcement of the results, Pfizer and BioNTech revealed a surprise. The companies said they had decided not to conduct the 32-case analysis “after a discussion with the FDA.” Instead, they planned to conduct the analysis after 62 cases. But by the time the plan had been formalized, there had been 94 cases of Covid-19 in the study.
> Gruber said that Pfizer and BioNTech had decided in late October that they wanted to drop the 32-case interim analysis. At that time, the companies decided to stop having their lab confirm cases of Covid-19 in the study, instead leaving samples in storage. The FDA was aware of this decision. Discussions between the agency and the companies concluded, and testing began this past Wednesday.
So they had a plan in place to release interim results as soon as 32 cases were detected, but then in late October they decided they wanted to alter the plan. And just to make sure the original plan couldn't happen no matter what, they also stopped their ongoing testing, choosing to resume it on November 4th, when they learned they had dramatically exceeded their revised goals.
I still can't believe it's not more widely used (and I only started using linux full-time earlier this year). It confines the entire (non-user) filetree into the read-only /nix directory, and manages every single component of the OS through Nix, the package manager - and I guess nix-daemon in the case of NixOS specifically - 100% declaratively. You define the entire thing through a single configuration.nix file.
You can even do crazy stuff like erasing the root upon each reboot, leaving only /nix and /home if you wanted, and I think I remember in the article I was reading about it that it can mount everything on a tmpfs or something like that, so you have a perfectly "clean" root tree every time you restart the computer (as /nix is stateless, it's guaranteed not to change except when rebuilding the system configuration).
The point of nixos is really the declarative aspect, with "splitting" the OS being more of a secondary benefit, but for your case, you might like the whole declarative builds thing in general to accomplish that.
>Is there an option that doesn't require everyone who uses it to learn an entirely new language?
This.
Also, in my experience proponents of NixOS significantly understate the technical complexity and various idiosyncrasies present in trying to get NixOS set up and usable for daily driving. I found several examples where the documentation was unclear, confusing, or out of date.
Coming from DevOps, I'm certainly a fan of declarative/immutable patterns, but it feels like NixOS requires more work than some would have you believe.
What?.. How could you generalize this across all of "Linux"? Or did you mean something else?
I know what you're talking about, and I'm pretty sure it's a very GNOME-specific problem (or gdm, or whatever login manager they use by default...) because when I started out on Ubuntu earlier this year, there was a very active bug report about it. I could actually probably find it if anyone was curious.
But I've long since ditched gnome because well, I hate it. On KDE now and never had this problem. I'm pretty sure this is not an "all of linux" problem at all though.
I use KDE and I have this problem. Similarly when I switch vterms (I have separate X11-Sessions for my personal and my work-from-home user account), I can briefly see the content of the session that I switched away from (without having locked it) before the lockscreen comes up.
Yes, you're right, I think I've picked up a little confirmation bias based on my choice of distro lineage (in hindsight all have been some derivation of Ubuntu, with some variant of a Gnome 2 / 3 desktop environment). I guess where I was coming from was that I would have expected some mechanism at the lower level of the OS to marshal this kind of behaviour, rather than it being trusted to the window manager. Maybe this stems from security being mainly thought of as a terminal / ssh-level concern, rather than the GUI.
Maybe I’m just flattering myself though