Prabhakar Ragde

@plragde@mstdn.social
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Food, wine, music, books, film, art, architecture, travel, feminism, and functional programming.
Webhttps://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/
LocationToronto/Waterloo/Lisbon
Prabhakar Ragde16h ago
Tosta Sandwich Kitchen, a tiny spot up the hill from Anjos subway station. It can be tricky to get a Cubano right. The pork can be chewy or dry, the cheese leaden, the pickle too dominant. This was perfectly balanced, with a vibrant salsa verde and nduja mayo. Also they have Sovina on tap at normal prices (€2,50/imperial). Will return for sure!
Prabhakar Ragde16h ago
Intimations of mortality, Laranjeiras, Lisboa.
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@rg9119 @regehr @krismicinski @adrian @wingo Glad to hear I remembered the gist of it (as did my interlocutor, but that was a lot closer to when it actually happened).
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@krismicinski Hildy asked me what I thought of the future of academia and I said maybe more like monasteries again. Not an original thought but worth keeping in mind.
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@krismicinski Maintenance costs are going to kill you though
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@krismicinski Ha if you ever get a private jet you will never talk to me again anyway
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@krismicinski I’m not understanding where the fun comes in
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@shriramk @monkey1 I usually quietly say "There's no scientific basis for that, you know," and they either ignore me or start making up excuses.
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@monkey1 @shriramk I've had students (some, not all) "read on demand" for some time now, but usually in the context of a course with assignments. Yes, they run into trouble with progressive exposition. Worse is when a student says "I'm a visual learner," or asks "Are there other resources to learn these ideas?", meaning "Where can I find more examples that I can try to tweak?".

I still write, but it feels increasingly obsolete. Even with my latest work, people are asking for videos.

Prabhakar Ragde4d ago
Show threadSarah Taber4d ago

Anyway. When you see people hyperventilating that "B-b-but paying farm workers more would make food unaffordable!" please correct them up for me.

They might mean well? They might be trying to make a point about how much we owe the humble farm worker?

But that kind of talk is exactly how you get people believing "Gosh shucks golly. I guess we just need slavery to live."

Cut it out already.

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Prabhakar RagdeJul 8
My first time making arròs negre or arroz negro here in Lisbon, though it would be called arroz preto locally. The liquid balance was off because I am unused to working with pota (large squid). I had to reduce it and thus made it too salty. But apart from that, it was good, and pretty promising.