Minor victory thread

bhamv3

bhamv3

Incoming translation editing case that involves roughly one thousand pages of text.

*shocked_pikachu.jpg*

Realization that around 998 of those pages say the same thing, so we can just translate it once and then propagate the translation throughout the whole document.

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PatrThom

PatrThom

bhamv3 said:
Incoming translation editing case that involves roughly one thousand pages of text.

*shocked_pikachu.jpg*

Realization that around 998 of those pages say the same thing, so we can just translate it once and then propagate the translation throughout the whole document.

*dancing_pikachu.gif*
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First you curse, then you recurse.

--Patrick
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Actually cooked something for dinner instead of simply making a sandwich or stopping for fast food on the way home. Yay.

(Alright, so it was TKG, but still.)

I got all the dishes done before bed. GASP!!
 
Denbrought

Denbrought

DarkAudit said:
Tamago kake gohan. :)
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Eaten my fair share, what with using my rice cooker 5 times a week on average, but recently been doing runny coddled eggs instead and man... Much easier to fit 2-3 eggs in your bowl (more than one in my tamagohan makes it a bit too snotty for my taste), and the taste is somewhat better (IMO) with the yolk completely runny but set whites.

Can vouch for these gizmos on the stovetop (haven't had the need to try microwaving). About a gram of olive oil wiped on using a towel, egg in each, 5:00-5:30 in a steaming pot, and perfect eggs.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

I've been using my rice cooker more to make oatmeal than rice lately. I've got nearly a full 5 lb bag of rice in the pantry, so I'd better get to using it.
 
Gared

Gared

I traded up from a rice cooker to an instant pot, and I'm never going back. The only thing I've had to do is replace the original seal that came with it because I let mine sit for too long after having used it to make a version of Czech goulash that uses sauerkraut as an ingredient, and the smell was never going to come out of the rubber.
 
Shawn

Shawn

My daughter seems to enjoy video games just fine without my influence. When she's over we often play Animal Crossing or Minecraft together. I had introduced her to Untitled Goose Game last time she was over but she didn't seem too interested in it for long. This weekend when she came over she immediately asked if she could play the game and completed a full play through. Needed a few little "hints" every once in a while (e.g. "Boy that kid has big shoe laces") but she was pretty clever figuring out the puzzles on her own. I wish I had recorded some moments where she got so excited about completing a task that she started hopping around and giggling.

 
Denbrought

Denbrought

DarkAudit said:
I've been using my rice cooker more to make oatmeal than rice lately. I've got nearly a full 5 lb bag of rice in the pantry, so I'd better get to using it.
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Hah, that's more of a 1/week for me, I love steel cut oats the way mine makes 'em.

Gared said:
I traded up from a rice cooker to an instant pot, and I'm never going back. The only thing I've had to do is replace the original seal that came with it because I let mine sit for too long after having used it to make a version of Czech goulash that uses sauerkraut as an ingredient, and the smell was never going to come out of the rubber.
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Thought about buying an instant pot last Black Friday, but I'd want to keep both appliances--I still want rice/quinoa/oatmeal/lentils when I make $other_dish, yannow :p I'd also be surprised if a 20-in-one could nail rice the way a dedicated cooker does (though I'm open to finding out).
 
Dei

Dei

Denbrought said:
Hah, that's more of a 1/week for me, I love steel cut oats the way mine makes 'em.


Thought about buying an instant pot last Black Friday, but I'd want to keep both appliances--I still want rice/quinoa/oatmeal/lentils when I make $other_dish, yannow :p I'd also be surprised if a 20-in-one could nail rice the way a dedicated cooker does (though I'm open to finding out).
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Our instant pot does way better with rice than our rice cooker ever did personally.
 
Gared

Gared

Dei said:
Our instant pot does way better with rice than our rice cooker ever did personally.
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Same here, but I should note that I had a relatively cheap Black & Decker branded rice cooker, and the InstantPot is brand name. I frequently found that the rice cooker would brown the bottom of the rice before the top was done, and I've never had that happen with my InstantPot. I have had to adjust the water amount for long grain white rice from 1:1 per my machine's instructions to an additional 1:1.25 rice:water, because it was leaving Jasmati slightly chewy. But I only had to make that adjustment once I'd replaced the original seal.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

Our rice cooker is made by Mitsubishi (yes, the same Mitsubishi), and Mr. Z has had it either from the late 80's or very early 90's. I only know how to use 2 buttons on it because the entire thing is written in Chinese and Mr. Z only knows "you push this button twice to start it, and this button to turn it off". We planned on keeping it until it died and then get something fancier and in English.

This thing will never die. But it still makes a good pot of rice or steamed buns.
 
Gared

Gared

Celt Z said:
Our rice cooker is made by Mitsubishi (yes, the same Mitsubishi), and Mr. Z has had it either from the late 80's or very early 90's. I only know how to use 2 buttons on it because the entire thing is written in Chinese and Mr. Z only knows "you push this button twice to start it, and this button to turn it off". We planned on keeping it until it died and then get something fancier and in English.

This thing will never die. But it still makes a good pot of rice or steamed buns.
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Honestly, that sounds like the best kind of tool, to me.
 
Denbrought

Denbrought

I have a 3-cup Zojirushi I bought back in 2018. The "GABA Brown" mode made me fall in love with brown rice. It also cooks white rice a damn sight better than I can on the stovetop, and (of course) it's night and day from my college era rice cooker. Only drawback is that I know the pot will eventually wear out, being teflon, and OEM replacements are like $50 (the cooker itself having cost ~$90). Holding up well around 400 uses later, but we'll see.
 
Simfers

Simfers

Vu que je parlais du site en soi, en tant qu'entité, j'ai utilisé le singulier, mais je crois que le pluriel serait aussi acceptable.

Apologies to all non-Francos. Nerding out over grammar is a significant part of my job.
 
Far

Far

I know and remember so little french from school. I couldn't get past conjugating for whether a car was a man or woman or not and, more specifically, how that was decided. I get that's common of a lot of languages but it just never clicked with me.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Far said:
I know and remember so little french from school. I couldn't get past conjugating for whether a car was a man or woman or not and, more specifically, how that was decided. I get that's common of a lot of languages but it just never clicked with me.
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English is actually one of fairly few languages where all nouns are just neutral.
Though admittedly, I never managed to get a good feeling for languages requiring cases (genitive, dative, accustaive, what-have-you, like German or Latin). Guess it's partly down to what you grow up with.
 
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