As somebody who’s hiked the length of the Pacific Crest Trail, I can say the West Coast Trail is very different from a walking trail. Basically a km feels like a mile on that trail. Everything is slippery, and steep. It wasn’t designed as a hiking trail it was an escape route for shipwrecks.
The one minute par-bake also makes it so much easier and stress free to slide a fully loaded pizza onto the stone. I don’t even use cornmeal just lightly dusted whole wheat flour for the raw dough. The par-baked crust needs nothing.
We used to cornmeal lightly but then discovered parchment paper. It's super easy to slide off with a spatula underneath.
When you par-bake, how long does it take you to then add the ingredients? Do you have to rush? Or is it better to take a few minutes, so the oven can re-heat itself?
I’ve gotten much better at load the pizza into my pizza oven stress-free. I’ve moved away from cornmeal; it works great, but I never liked the gritty texture it gives the pizza.
My technique is to use a wooden pizza peel and liberally flour it before starting to form the dough-ball into a pie shape. I form the pie using my fists, so I have a chance to shake the extra flour off the crust before I start putting the sauce and toppings on it. I’ll also give the peel a good shake before I start saucing, just to make sure the dough isn’t sticking.
Doing all of the above, I haven’t accidentally turned a pizza into a ripped-up calzone for at least a few years.
One issue with parchment paper is the max temperature rating is 425-450 and I've gotten best pizza crust results with temperature of 500 with my oven and that scorches the none food covered parts of parchment paper when I tried it. I don't know if it's toxic when overheated and burned like that but it is super convenient for lower temperature usages.
At my house we routinely scorch parchment paper (the edges away from food) and use it for all sorts of purposes. It should be perfectly safe because the coating is just silicone. However, white parchment paper has some amount of dioxin in it (I'm not sure how much), which is bad stuff; possibly also fluorine. I've also heard that some parchment may add plastics for extra non-stick, exposing you to PFAs and the like.
Probably a good idea to stick with the hippie-looking brands / made in Western countries like If You Care, which use unbleached paper and silicone and presumably don't douse the paper in other chemicals.
My neighborhood delivers the mail on foot, while the truck is parked most of the day. The delivery man walks more than a Pacific Crest Trail thru-hiker.
Seems to be at the discretion of the delivery person. Our usual one walks a lot, but there's one sub that literally drives to every house, hops out, delivers.
There's a glimpse of the Amazon delivery dystopia on tiktok where the driver shows the monitoring camera and goes through the rules the system enforces. (Favourite ones: can't drink water while driving (even if stopped), can't touch centre console (e.g. for airconditioning, radio).)
Because of the delays due to rules (vehicle in park before unbuckle, seat belt buckled before moving, door shut), and the huge penalties for forgetting a rule even once, it is common for drivers to park and then run back and forth to the truck.
Aereo almost got away with rebroadcasting OTA TV. It is legal by FCC rules, under specific conditions. What we need is a torrent streaming protocol for live TV. The video stream could be divided up by key frames and hashed. You could verify that you received the signal without errors. Anybody with interruption could instead download the chunk from peers. Many digital antennas can tune multiple stations at once so it’s possible to always seed popular channels. In return the antenna owners could enjoy full quality streams from channels that don’t come in as well, or that would require adjustment of the rabbit ears. I’d gladly take a few seconds delay/buffer of live TV to ensure a perfect signal.
Other than lawsuits being the American national sport I never understood why people were so interested in Aereo.
Before that there was a service called ivi.tv that streamed broadcast TV from cities all over the US and boy it was a lot of fun. You got four chances to watch every network TV program, one for every time zone. In election season I think it's a lot more interesting to watch the local coverage (and local ads) in competitive districts than it is to get the safe-for-the-nursing-home take from CNN. And of course you get a better selection of football games on any given Sunday.
It might have been most threatening to the TV industry in that it held it accountable. In particular you would see that the TV market in Los Angeles was unlike any TV market in America, including major markets like NYC. TV in your town is not a "vast wasteland", it's a postage-stamp sized wasteland compared to the independent channels in LA in the digital age where you can tune in nearly 100 channels with a modest antenna including broadcasts in languages I can't recognize.
Unfortunately it got sued and was shut down very quickly and vanished without a trace while oddly Aereo got a huge amount of coverage. I can see it being compelling that you could get channels that don't tune in well at home, but portable TV was a wash back when it was possible in the NTSC era. Standards committees have spent a lot of ink on standards for digital mobile TV but the only people who've been more indifferent than the broadcasters are the viewers. I know Verizon thinks anything is meaningless if you do anything without a smartphone but I hardly expect the rest of the world to agree.
Starboard.gg is similar but also allows JavaScript, CSS, or HTML cells to execute in the same notebook. Python has access to the DOM and can share variables with JavaScript.
The format is only partially invented, it follows Jupytext [0], but adds support for cell metadata. There is no obvious way to get that in fenced codeblocks, especially with the ability to spread it over multiple lines so it plays well with version control.
One more consideration is that it's not "Markdown with code blocks interspersed", one might as well use plaintext or AsciiDoc.
Of course there are tradeoffs.. I wish I had more time to work on it.
