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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • A reasonably big restaurant doesn’t get enough amps in the panel to replace all their gas equipment with induction

    This is the true reason more industrial kitchens don’t go electric, at least in my experience. This and cost. I work in building design and do a decent number of commercial kitchens.

    New kitchens in new buildings tend to be trending towards electric, but retrofits / renovations more often than not are constrained by the (hyper-)local electrical infrastructure.

    The chefs we’ve worked with actually really like cooking with induction, and their teams f*cling love that it’s safer and cooler than gas. Electric kitchens lose way less heat to the environment than their gas counterparts, and thus are way more comfortable to be standing in for 8+ hrs/day.

    especially in grid-strained California.

    Working across the country, I haven’t run into this “issue” as much on the CA projects I’m involved in.

    Certain locations, especially older urban neighborhoods may have some local capacity issues, but not at the “state” level. I see many of the same issue in older urban areas around the country (and globe).

    From my viewpoint, any increase in occurrences in California is largely driven by the fact that CA is the most populous state and simply has more projects interested in / requesting these things.



  • I love long complicated games, like breath of the wild, but I think the world also needs more concise games, those 20-40 hour masterpieces that keep you wrapped up without having to memorize 3600 pages of back story to remember where you left off.

    What the studios (especially Nintendo) don’t understand is you can’t charge the same ~$60 for both games. People don’t hate shorter simpler games, they just hate paying the same price for less content.

    Right now, Nintendo is selling the Switch version of Link’s Awakening for only $10 less than TOTK ($60 vs $70). That’s right, a remake of a 20+ year old game with a pretty limited story is selling for almost the same as the largest most complex and expansive game Nintendo has ever produced.

    I don’t know why they’re so fixated on matching prices between games that took orders of magnitude different amounts of effort to produce.