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[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Scrum as mini waterfall isn't supposed to happen, but it usually does. The idea is everyone can help the people will are currently busy

The problem is test and build can't do much to help the system analysts; the analysts and testers can't help build because they don't usually know how to code, so all that happens is everyone tests when build is done

As an analyst I don't do any testing because I had a bad team leader in a past job as a function tester which soured me on the job, so it's pretty much mini waterfall to me

[–] psud@aussie.zone -2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

A Linux phone won't help with the problem side loading stopping problem.

Last time I used side loading was on a driving trip in Italy, I wanted the ZTA app so I could see where I wasn't able to drive and plan routes that avoided ZTAs. A Linux phone wouldn't have helped as no one would publish such an app for Linux unless the user population was in the tens of percentage

ZTAs are the no cars allowed areas, usually the middle of towns

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The UK isn't in the EU much to my easy travel self disappointment

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago

Universal serial barker

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Perhaps they should have used a ramp, so the uncontrolled one would go wheeee

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

I stopped using my old cases when we went from AT to ATX

Though I still have a 286 that still works, my expectation for the first thing to go on it is the mouse

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're referring to quantum effects? Don't worry about whether you're not watching, the universe is watching. If one photon is emitted from the thing in a quantum state and hits anything, that's the observation

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's medicine. Science just sees it as a problem to be sorted by good study design and statistics

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Most people believe red painkillers work better than other colours. Because of that when painkillers are tested, red ones work better (and red placebos also). You might find the placebo effect of red painkillers effective

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IPA usually means "fruity flavour" now. IPAs haven't been bitter in the last few years, much to my disappointment; I really like old style IPA.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Old style IPA also is good but it's nothing like what IPA means now

IPA used to (and still does in some places and to some people) high alcohol (6 to 8%), low malt flavour, very bitter, no hop flavour

It was made for export to India (hence the name) in the age of sail, they believed the hop bitters and alcohol would make it last long enough for the 3 month trip plus however long it took to be sold.

 

I think they mean fish and chips takeaway

Brighton, South Australia

Chips are Australian for fries

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by psud@aussie.zone to c/carnivore@discuss.online
 

On this diet, especially as I'm eating pemmican, it's incredible how little I eat compared to the normal Australian diet

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by psud@aussie.zone to c/googlepixel@lemmy.world
 

I like pixel phones, I have had them since they were Nexuses. When the 9 came out and I needed to upgrade I chose the pro fold

The bad first: I'm typing this on my pixel 3 because the 9 pro fold is in bubble wrap in a box waiting for a courier to take it back to Google. Worse, this is the second 9 pro fold I have put in a box with an RMA note to go back. Both died the same way, about 6 months old the inner screen broke along the fold line.

The good: they agreed to replace it pretty quickly when I selected to communicate by message, they took over a month though when I requested a call

 

That seems to be the most common question I get from people who know about carnivore and aren't opposed to someone else doing it

My usual answer has just been "no, since it's so nutritious it always tastes good"

But really it's not all the same. The batch of fat I'm using at the moment has more flavour than the last lot, also the texture of my pemmican is different this time to last, less well blended so there are bits one can chew, though nothing too big to easily swallow if in a hurry

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by psud@aussie.zone to c/carnivore@discuss.online
 

Ingredients

  • Ruminant meat, I used beef
  • Rendered fat from the same, I used suet

Method

  1. Remove any fat from the meat. This can be done before or after drying. It's a nice snack when removed after drying
  2. Dehydrate the meat until it is so dry it can be broken into pieces Meat, so dry it snaps
  3. Grind, smash, or blend the dried meat to add small as practical Blended dried beef
  4. Weigh the dried meat
  5. Weigh out the same weight of rendered fat into a microwave or heat proof container Cold rendered suet
  6. Heat the fat until it is just melted, I use a microwave 1 minute at a time, or starting with 2 minutes if I'm doing more than 1 kg Melted rendered suet
  7. Put the dried meat in a suitably sized mixing bowl
  8. Add the melted fat to the meat, mix well with a wooden spoon Mixed blended dried meat and rendered suet
  9. Empty the mix into a suitable mold. I use a large casserole dish, once it has set reasonably firm, cut it into pieces. This has set completely, and two pieces are already eaten Completely set pemmican molded in a Corning Ware large casserole dish, cut into 8 pieces of which six remain
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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by psud@aussie.zone to c/minecraft@lemmy.world
 

I updated my server from fabric 1.21.3 to vanilla 1.21.7 directly just recently and have noticed that my skeleton spawner farm is now killing unarmoured skeletons rather than leaving them on half a heart

  1. Is this a bug, or a bugfix?
  2. Is anyone else having this problem?
  3. Is this just a problem that happens when going from fabric to vanilla? The skeleton spawner was created by a mod which is no longer running.

I can't see anything relevant in the changes or bugfixes of the releases after 1.21.3

My workaround is to raise the landing floor by 1 block which has returned the farm to normal functionality

 

image of spreadsheet values showing high LDL from 3 to 3.6 to 2.8 and FFA/HDL reducing from 2.2 to 0.9

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by psud@aussie.zone to c/carnivore@lemm.ee
 

A bit of my past, back in about 2003 - before I had eliminated sugar from my diet - I went to an all day event, got dehydrated and had a gout attack.

I mistook it for a foot injury from jumping down some stairs

But it happened again and nothing I had done could be blamed, so I ended up on allopurinol

Time passed, allopurinol worked. Then about COVID lockdown time I fell off keto and went back to eating junk, then in December 2022, just before Christmas I read The Fat Of The Land and went carnivore, calling it zero carb

So everything I read said there's no gout without sugar, so I stopped using allopurinol

Then in April this year I got foot pain. Not quite the classic big toe ball of the foot swelling but the next three toes' joint

So I blamed gout despite having no sugar for years

I got prescribed an anti inflammatory and it quickly cleared the problem

Then it happened again and I noticed the pattern, it was particular shoes. I cut my toe nails shorter and now those shoes don't compress my toes and cause toe pain

So I'm pretty sure again that gout needs sugar

Reversal being:

  • I thought I had an injury but it was a gout attack when I ate junk
  • I thought I had a gout attack but it was an injury while I was eating just meat
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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by psud@aussie.zone to c/carnivore@lemm.ee
 

Yesterday I ran out of pemmican, so I bought steak. Scotch fillet is usually one of the fattiest cuts, but what I got must have been the smallest, skinniest cattle.

I had maybe 50g of fat in the day and woke this morning feeling less than well

All symptoms vanished though when I had breakfast: 200g of tallow and about 600g of steak

Perhaps I'm too lean now to run well on my own fat (why can't you judge your own fatness?)

I highly recommend pemmican if you're as bad as me at making sure you have fatty enough meat

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by psud@aussie.zone to c/carnivore@lemm.ee
 

#Pemmican

Ingredients Beef, sliced thin for easy drying 1.2kg Tallow (made from suet) 1.2kg

Equipment

  • A method of making thin slices of meat - My butcher cut mine up
  • A dehydrator. I have had success with a cheap round one, and an expensive box one. The key is ability to hold a temperature. I prefer commercial driers over home made as they provide a reasonably sanitary environment. Higher temperature = faster drying, but higher temperature = less vitamin C
  • A method of making the meat into tiny pieces. I used a food processor. Feed it slowly, meat is harder than most of the stuff it cuts
  • A method of melting sufficient tallow. My dehydrator holds just over a kilo of meat, which means just over a kilo of tallow. I used a glass mixing bowl
  • A large enough mixing bowl to mix in - mine pictured below is an enormous steel salad bowl 34cm across
  • Something to mold the pemmican in, I use a large casserole dish lined with grease proof paper

Method

  1. Dry the meat. This can take a while. I'd love to know how hot I could take this without destroying too much vitamin C. I ran it at 30 degrees C

Thin slices of fresh silverside beef hanging in a biltong box dehydrator set to 25°C. The temperature was later increased to 30°

  1. Wait. I waited a week. Maybe 4 days would have been enough. The dryness you're looking for is where the meat cracks instead of bending

A hand demonstrating meat being so dry it cracks rather than bends

  1. Weigh your mixing bowl. This is a slow process and scales tend to turn off part way through.

  2. Blend the meat to powder. I used a food processor, with about a third of a slice being fed at time, emptying it into the mixing bowl after every 300 grams or so.

Dry meat blended fine. The little bit of fat in the meat makes it sticky

  1. Weigh your blended meat. Weigh out the same amount of tallow

Blocks of tallow in a glass bowl

  1. Melt the tallow at as low a temperature as you can. That's about 50°C. I used the microwave for this as I didn't want to dirty my double boiler. I ran it 1 minute at a time for about 3 minutes, stirring and measuring the temperature each time. Tallow melts at about 50°C

A glass bowl with melted tallow in it. A thermometer to the side reads 50°C

  1. Combine. This works just like making cake batter. Make a well in the mound of blended meat, pour in the tallow. Mix with hands or wooden spoon until all the meat is saturated.

  2. Mold it. I line a container with grease proof paper. I haven't tried a teflon lined container, though that could release the pemmican easily. Press the pemmican into the mold, I use a steel spatula to flatten the top.

Pemmican in the mold

  1. Let it cool. In the fridge or on the bench. Before it goes hard, but after it has set a bit, cut it into portions. I cut mine into 16 pieces averaging 140g each.

Package it in glass, paper, or foil. I used foil and packaged each two together

A rectangular prism of pemmican with added salt, unwrapped from its foil wrapping, in front of a wrapped piece

  1. Clean up. As the cook you get to eat the pemmican left in the mixing bowl

A spoon in a mixing bowl. The spoon scraped up pemmican that was left behind when the mold was filled

 

It's sad that it's so resisted

 

This is a 1 year old archived thread on the popularity of carnivore. I found the discussion interesting, though no one was throwing studies around, one person noted the catch 22 that research can't be done on carnivore because it would be unethical to assign people to the diet because it has no research on it

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