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No recipe because I put together various bits of other recipes with edits. I’m so happy I got to do this! My health has been worse than ever for about a year now and I’ve hardly baked at all, but this week I get to get tested + results for Sjogren’s Syndrome, so if it comes out positive I might have treatment pretty soon!! Banana cake (flavored with jello pudding mix), banana cream pudding + Nilla wafers in the lower filling, graham cracker crumbs + frosting in the upper filling. Topped with a home version of vanilla grocery store whipped frosting because my partner loves it and specifically asked for it months ago lol. Cinnamon sugar on top! I’m dead sore today and barely a...

**“Full-Service Sex Workers”** Justin’s ill-advised cellie fight and pruno-making adventures pushed his release date back to October of the following year, and that’s moved Emily, with the black eagle-taloned claws and vintage accordion wooden coat hanger tattoo on the side of her face, to a quiet despair.  She screams in tandem with the passing dusty Union Pacific train the in the same spirit Liza Minelli, as Sally Bowles, screamed at a passing train confronting her life in the Weimar Republic and the impending Nazi regime in “Cabaret.”  Justin, whose fate we now know, plaintively and repeatedly asks for loyalty and Emily promises to stick like oatmeal to ribs even though her...

Everyone talks about "tokens" and "context windows," but I realized I didn't *actually* have a visual mental model for what happens between hitting "Enter" and getting a response. So I built a visual breakdown tracing a specific prompt ("Write a poem about a robot") through the entire engine. **The "Aha!" moments I found most helpful:** * **Embeddings are like a Grocery Store:** Words aren't stored alphabetically; they are stored by "concept." Apples are near bananas; "King" - "Man" + "Woman" = "Queen." * **Attention is a Cocktail Party:** The model doesn't read left-to-right...

Some background: I work in a place where we cannot have cell phones because of the product we make/service we supply (I will take zero questions on this). I have the desk next to the office phone so that is typically my job, but the only other phone in the office is my bosses - I don't usually answer it. Someone had been hogging the phone all day (for work) on a day where there was a lot of phone communication required when my bosses phone rang. I picked it up and answered with the usual spiel. A lady was on the other line. She explained that she was my bosses wife and was going to the store - would he like anything specific? I explained to her that he was in an uninterruptible meetin...

Everyone talks about "tokens" and "context windows," but I realized I didn't *actually* have a visual mental model for what happens between hitting "Enter" and getting a response. So I built a visual breakdown tracing a specific prompt ("Write a poem about a robot") through the entire engine. **The "Aha!" moments I found most helpful:** * **Embeddings are like a Grocery Store:** Words aren't stored alphabetically; they are stored by "concept." Apples are near bananas; "King" - "Man" + "Woman" = "Queen." * **Attention is a Cocktail Party:** The model doesn't read left-to-right...

Picked up a pair of KP-2000- C “Professional Speakers” speakers at a thrift store today and would greatly appreciate any info as far as using them in a standard home set up ? Not much info online so figured I’d ask here . They seem to be a 2 way speaker , the wiring seem to take a banana style plug but aren’t marked with polarity, how can I test that or is there a certain set up I’m missing ? Any and all info or help greatly appreciated!

(On the history of leftist revolutions, national history, injustice and the suffering of vulnerable groups, the historical connections between the Mainland China and Hong Kong, the distortion and misuse of socialism/communism, populism, June Fourth, the pursuit of democracy, the transformations of Chinese liberals, the future of the mainland and Hong Kong, and personal reflections and expectations) Respected Mr. Leung Kwok-hung: I am Wang Qingmin, a writer living in Europe. During my middle school years, I already heard your name and learned about your deeds through media, newspapers, and the internet. Whether it was your struggle for the rights of the hardworking laborers and the sufferin...

(On the history of leftist revolutions, national history, injustice and the suffering of vulnerable groups, the historical connections between the Mainland China and Hong Kong, the distortion and misuse of socialism/communism, populism, June Fourth, the pursuit of democracy, the transformations of Chinese liberals, the future of the mainland and Hong Kong, and personal reflections and expectations) Respected Mr. Leung Kwok-hung: I am Wang Qingmin, a writer living in Europe. During my middle school years, I already heard your name and learned about your deeds through media, newspapers, and the internet. Whether it was your struggle for the rights of the hardworking laborers and the sufferin...

(On the history of leftist revolutions, national history, injustice and the suffering of vulnerable groups, the historical connections between the Mainland China and Hong Kong, the distortion and misuse of socialism/communism, populism, June Fourth, the pursuit of democracy, the transformations of Chinese liberals, the future of the mainland and Hong Kong, and personal reflections and expectations) Respected Mr. Leung Kwok-hung: I am Wang Qingmin, a writer living in Europe. During my middle school years, I already heard your name and learned about your deeds through media, newspapers, and the internet. Whether it was your struggle for the rights of the hardworking laborers and the sufferin...

(Comrade Leung Kwok-hung from Hong Kong, China, was a Trotskyist in his youth. Although he no longer explicitly emphasizes a Trotskyist identity, he still upholds Trotsky’s theory of “permanent revolution” and the spirit of Trotsky.) (On the history of leftist revolutions, national history, injustice and the suffering of vulnerable groups, the historical connections between the Mainland China and Hong Kong, the distortion and misuse of socialism/communism, populism, June Fourth, the pursuit of democracy, the transformations of Chinese liberals, the future of the mainland and Hong Kong, and personal reflections and expectations) Respected Mr. Leung Kwok-hung: I am Wang Qingmin, a wri...

(On the history of leftist revolutions, national history, injustice and the suffering of vulnerable groups, the historical connections between the Mainland China and Hong Kong, the distortion and misuse of socialism/communism, populism, June Fourth, the pursuit of democracy, the transformations of Chinese liberals, the future of the mainland and Hong Kong, and personal reflections and expectations) Respected Mr. Leung Kwok-hung: I am Wang Qingmin, a writer living in Europe. During my middle school years, I already heard your name and learned about your deeds through media, newspapers, and the internet. Whether it was your struggle for the rights of the hardworking laborers and the sufferin...

(On the history of leftist revolutions, national history, injustice and the suffering of vulnerable groups, the historical connections between the Mainland China and Hong Kong, the distortion and misuse of socialism/communism, populism, June Fourth, the pursuit of democracy, the transformations of Chinese liberals, the future of the mainland and Hong Kong, and personal reflections and expectations) Respected Mr. Leung Kwok-hung: I am Wang Qingmin, a writer living in Europe. During my middle school years, I already heard your name and learned about your deeds through media, newspapers, and the internet. Whether it was your struggle for the rights of the hardworking laborers and the sufferin...

I haven't had Ben & Jerry's in a while because I've been trying other brands. I got a pint of my old standby Chunky Monkey for the cold weekend. I sat down and planned to only eat about half, but a quarter of the way through, I had yet to find a walnut. I continued and halfway through, still no walnuts. I was on a mission. Towards the bottom of the pint, I finally discovered my one and only walnut chunk. Now I sit here confused and sad. Did I just get a really bad batch? There were less fudge chunks than usual, but still more than enough. I know there's been a lot of conflict within the company and that Jerry left but I haven't heard anything about c...

Wanted to share my build in public journey. **The idea:** A daily sports trivia app - guess the mystery player from clues. NBA, NFL, MLB, Premier League. **The tools:** Claude, Claude Code, Figma, Gemini (Nano Banana) **The timeline:** 3 weeks from idea to App Store **What I learned:** * AI can write code, but you still need to understand what you're building. I couldn't just say "make me an app." I had to learn the concepts, break things down, and guide it. * 80% of the time was spent on stuff I didn't expect - App Store compliance, security hardening, edge cases, push notifications, the last 10% of polish. * Moving game logic server-side was critical. Started...

Whew. The title just about says it all. I'm asking for recommendation for scents that last more than 1 to 3 hours and produce a nice bubble or scent trail. I live in a nursing home (I'm 65, one of the youngest on my floor), so recs can't be heavy or cloying. They may scent bomb me on occasion, but I'm not going to bomb them back! I like white florals, light fruits can be OK, petrichor, and gourmands. I've been testing samples from Scent Split, and so far Le Labo Baie 19 is my absolute favorite. No oils please; just sprays. Must be available in 2-mL+ sample sprays. Here's what I've tried in the past week or so. I'm quite clectic and open-minded. ...