Just like the old days, when people would subscribe to the daily newspaper for the crossword, the comics, the TV listings, the want ads, or the ads and coupons with the Sunday paper.
NYT is really just making the old newspaper model work in the new age, albeit with higher reliance on subscription revenue and less an ad revenue.
Good recipes do explain this though. They say heat the oil until it shimmers, or until it smokes, or until beads of water in the pan sizzle. Or they give an exact temperature, which you can read (imperfectly) with an infrared thermometer.
None of these descriptions is perfect, but each is less likely to result in a burnt steak.
The difficulty is that the more precise you make your recipe, the more you need to account for the specifics of the situation; which you cannot possibly know.
There is one time in my life that I recall legit burning a steak. I did what I had countless times before. Heated the pan until the oil started smoking, put on steak, and reduced stove temperature. Just like how I would have written the recipe before without a second thought. This time, however, the outside was thoroughly burnt before the inside even started to cook. The difference was I was using a cast iron pan for the first time, which has a lot more thermal mass than what I was used to. My old process relief on the steak cooling down the pan.
For recipes I'm reading, I've almost always found the temperature and time details to be nearly useless. If the recipe says to make at 400 F for 30 minutes, I bake on "high" (450F) until done. If I'm in someone else's kitchen, my cooking turns out a bit worse than when I'm at home.
This is a problem you always run into when writing down a process. You need to rely on the knowledge of the person following the process to apply it correctly to their specific situation. Trying to prescribe every detail does not work well.
The checklist doesn't have to be perfect. Just continually improve it.
I keep several checklists - some I use several times a week, others every few months or so. If I notice something needs to be added to the checklist or removed, I do so.
It's always better to start with an imperfect checklist vs not having any checklist at all. With no checklist, you start from scratch every single time. Not starting from scratch allows you to focus on marginal improvements with each use.
The instant I saw the title I knew the post would be “I turned off oh-my-zsh” or “I tweaked oh-my-zsh.”
Yes zsh has a bunch of settings and dense documentation, and it can be hard to understand. The problem with something like oh-my-zsh is that now you have two things you don’t understand, and worse, when something doesn’t work you don’t know which one isn’t working or where to look.
Comcast was forced to go to IPv6 because they ran out of IPv4 addresses in the private address space to use for management of their network (think of how each and every cable modem needs a an address for management in addition to all the routers and CMTSes). I was a fly on the way inside one of the router vendors when this took place more than 15 years ago.
I know for a while (I switched back to consumer a few years ago) Comcast Business let you persistently opt out, but if you opted out, you couldn't use other people's APs (either "share and get access to that network" or "don't share, and don't").
“That value is exponentiated each time a note is shared.”
I disagree, I write notes for my eyes only. They would be less useful, not more, if I shared them: I world have to make sure others understand it, and would need to censor it to avoid offense.
A note that will be shared is called email, or a social media post, not a note. A note is for personal use. This notion of a note being more valuable if shared is baffling to me.
Yes, would have been a much better article if it told us how to be sure AI is the next automobile and that AI is not the next augmented reality, metaverse, blockchain, Segway, or fill-in-your-favorite-fad.
NYT is really just making the old newspaper model work in the new age, albeit with higher reliance on subscription revenue and less an ad revenue.