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In Nepal, my parents always warned me before eating at some rest stops because they said the food was doctored with baking soda to make you feel fuller, guess it was true after all and not just an urban legend heh.

I've heard the same from South Indian friends, so I guess it's pretty widespread.

I've sometimes used baking soda to accelerate softening of beans, and I imagine the effect is more appreciable at higher altitudes perhaps? Some of the usage of baking soda could be innocent enough.

Alkalinity softens the husk of legumes. Look up nixtamalization. It’s what the Aztecs invented.

Try using it on meat. Turns it into pink slurry.

You're using too much! Its commonly used to improve meat texture, especially in Chinese cuisine. It's called "velveting".

you're thinking of corn starch

Both are used, for different reasons, but it's a pretty loose term. Can also use enzymes or other alkaline things. With or without a marinade. Pass through oil or water, or just stir fry with a little extra oil.

No reasonable person would be confused by use of baking soda as an ingredient in cooked food (reasonable) vs the addition of baking soda after cooking as an adulterant.

Did we discover a new diet hack?

A few thousand years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization

Can apps detect whether the advanced flow for sideloading is enabled or not?

Why'd the battery be related to the keyboard issue?

Batteries swell

That looks neat although your package is missing a link to the source repository.

Good catch. Will get that added today.

github.com/howie-code/temporal-fun

If you don't have the original executable on hand:

localStorage.setItem('vcsky.haveOriginalGame', "true")

I haven't checked further than the third mission

doesn't seem to work

you have to call it on the cdn page: https://cdn.dos.zone/vcsky/release/vc-sky-en-v5/game.js reload on the original page an then it works

Refresh the page after adding the flag

i thought i had refreshed, but apparently not. it worked when i tried again, after i had closed the browser.

Calling someone an asshole, or calling them a racist if they seem to discriminate you based on your race, saying a restaurant isn't good etc. can very easily get you sued in Germany.

Do you have examples for each of those?

I think the breadth vs depth thing applies here as well, the PhD will know more about the topic they're researching of course.

Heh, if so, I wonder if there is a correlation between social anxiety and babies who relied on formula instead of breastfeeding.

For groceries at least, the time cost + fuel cost of buying from different stores would probably cancel out any minor variations in prices

Hm, I am equidistant from 3 different grocers and sometimes 15 dollar steaks are marked down to 10. I think you're right with a variered enough basket the sales will be a wash but maybe if I let the algorithm decide what my diet is that week based on what's discounted the most I could save some dollars. The thing that actually keeps me loyal to one store is I'm familiar with the floor plan so it doesn't take 5 minutes to find the hot sauce, so I would love a wayfinder for unfamiliar stores. Could be a good app for ambient competing / meta raybans.

depends on where you live. in european cities you tend to have multiple grocery stores within walking distance from each other. also you don't have to go to all of them on the same day. i delay buying certain things until i have a chance to go to the place where those are cheaper. it just takes a bit planning ahead.

>For groceries at least, the time cost + fuel cost of buying from different stores would probably cancel out any minor variations in prices

Sure, but alternatively, using the same data you could find out what the whole list costs at each store and just go to the cheapest one.