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I think the same thing when I see "chemical free" products. What are they made from, then? 
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- Homer
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I - indeed my entire class - was "awarded" an F in my French O-level exam... are we thinking along the same lines, Griff?
But yes, "free from" seems to be synonymous with "safe for everyone" these days; and I do worry that it's also free from vitamins, protein, and taste!
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Food for thought!
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OriginalGriff wrote: they are handy for quick pasta and curry meals.
Frische Bratkatze!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Of course they are free from food. They are made of recycled plastic, salvaged junk food scraps and reclaimed Styrofoam, with loads of seasoning to disguise the taste. Added with iron, Bx vitamins and god (better leave god out of this  ) who knows what because we have to slowly poison everyone with excess of those things. That is why they are so cheap compared to doing them at home.
And... Oh... Wait... That one had an F so... maybe it has "some food"?! 
On a more serious note, I prefer to make my own but rarely have the time and end up using supermarket ones too. Some are acceptable but it is a trial and error thing before you find them (to bad there is no program to do that for me. Even a brute force for loop would be faster  ). Some are complete #$%#@ waste of money.
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I prefer my own, but making them is a time and labour intensive process, so I generally get the "better ones" from the supermarket and roast them myself. That way I've got loads in "single portion" sizes ready to go in the freezer when I need them.
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Do you have a recipe for Massaman Paul ? I've googled and there are lots out there but I trust your judgement more than them
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This is the way I do it:
Ingredients
2 potatoes, cut into large chunks
1 small onion, coarsely chopped
50g butter
575g beef stewing steak
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 (400g) tin coconut milk
4 tablespoons peanut butter
3 tablespoons curry powder
3 tablespoons Thai fish sauce
3 tablespoons brown soft sugar
500ml beef stock
75g unsalted, dry-roasted peanuts
Preparation method
1. Place the potatoes and onion in a slow cooker.
2. Melt the butter in a frying pan over medium-high heat. Cook the beef and garlic together in the melted butter until the beef is browned on all sides. Transfer the beef and garlic to the slow cooker while keeping the beef dripping in the pan.
3. Return the pan to the medium-high heat. Stir the coconut milk, peanut butter and curry powder into the reserved beef dripping; cook and stir until the peanut butter melts. Pour the coconut milk mixture into the slow cooker. Turn the slow cooker on to Low; stir the fish sauce, brown sugar and beef stock into the slow cooker.
4. Cook on Low until the beef is fork-tender, 4 to 6 hours. Stir the peanuts into the curry about 30 minutes before serving.
The curry powder is up to you - make your own, or buy it. I tend to use a shop bought Madras because I like the blend, and I tend to buy it because like all spices it loses flavour fairly quickly and I can't get through all the individual spices quickly enough. Coriander and Cumin are the only ones I really buy in bulk! "East End" do a nice one, available from FleaBay.
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Discuss direction I follow turning at junction I eat ? (9)
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I see what you did there! 
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See my reply to meatballs
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Discuss
direction N E
I follow EGO
turning (anag)
at junction at t
T AT
I I
eat (contains)
NEGOTIATE
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Correct except direction was just N turning was the anagram indicator and T was the junction YAUT
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Does anyone actually like creating screens/user interfaces?
I wish I had someone to delegate this to. I wrote some fantastic supporting code to make all the screens look pretty, with an easy(ish) to use API (given its complexity and large featureset) - that doesn't mean I want to have to use it myself!
It's a slog, making screens. Just rote code and very little problem solving or creativity.
It's times like this that make me eager to move on to my next project.
Real programmers use butterflies
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But can it do IoT? =)
Real programmers use butterflies
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UWP works on RaspberryPi! I mean might depend on OS installed.. but last year I was working, amongst other thing, on a UWP UI on a solar inverter! 
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A raspberry pi will run linux and mono.
I'm not at all surprised it runs UWP.
It's not an IoT device. It's a low end computer in a small form factor.
As soon as you connect it to batteries, that point will be driven home.
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It's drudgery for sure. Gotta do it though.
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I built my own JSON based UI manager that can handle all my UI elements plus wrap any other control, and then built a graphical form designer for it. Form editor allows me to draw and then drop back to JSON when I need to. Problem solved. It’s a dream to use
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Yeah, I can't really do that in 300kB of primary ram and 4MB of 80mhz secondary ram on a CPU @ 240mhz attached at 20mhz to an 800x480 display. There's very little room for any niceties. I do support True Type on it though.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Reminds me when I worked on a WYSIWYG emulator app for HP LaserJet printers. This was back in the old DOS days (the original IBM PCs had just came out a few years earlier) and was written in assembler as a .COM app. I developed the user interface similar to Lotus-123. Was actually fun and something I still remember with a bit of pride...
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About 40 years ago I wrote a full screen text editor with word wrapping that ran in 8kb of RAM (about 7K of code and 1k of data) and could handle editing large files by windowing through them (it used a second temp file to manage the data it couldn't keep in memory, with a stack algorithm to keep it fast). Oh, and it was all hand coded assembly (I also wrote one in BASIC to run on the same hardware, but it was more restrictive and had to page code in and out).
It should be 'easy' to write a dynamic screen layout system in 300k, as long as you apply appropriate restrictions (e.g., no 1MB GIFs)
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A simple layout engine i could do given the time.
This isn't really about that though. See the rest of the thread.
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Never worked on GUIs but figured it would be as you described.
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