Post #1156488
2025-08-03 20:35 UTC
Replies (28)
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@kbsez@mastodon.social 2025-08-04 12:50
@colincornaby Then you better own the Bible: Richard Deacon's Microwave Cookery is the holy text. Yes, that Richard Deacon... Mel Cooley from Dick Van Dyke Show fame. Now our microwave messiah - He released his bible onto the world in 1981 and if you read it, hidden amongst the recipes you find the wisdom of the ages. Hidden in his recipe for Beef and Bacon Teriyaki is the secret to all happiness.
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@Walrus@toot.wales 2025-08-04 13:19
@colincornaby But my wok won't fit in there, and I really like Chinese food. [OK, I admit I said this before reading the item, which is hilarious.]
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@web_goddess@aus.social 2025-08-04 13:59
@colincornaby This is the “modest proposal” of our times. Genius.
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@kaiserkiwi@corteximplant.com 2025-08-04 14:13
@colincornaby I get the impression that the main topic if this post isn't about food. 🤔
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@instantiatethis@keyboards.social 2025-08-04 15:05
@colincornaby "And that sounds like a next quarter problem – and we don’t talk about next quarter problems." Is a perfect example of why I will never be upper management. I keep thinking about impacts in years and decades instead of months and quarters.
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@ljrk@todon.eu 2025-08-04 15:09
@colincornaby Honestly I'd be more sold to this theory than vibe coding lol
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@patrislav@chaos.social 2025-08-04 15:17
@colincornaby Frying pans will be obsolete, people will use NVIDIA to fry their eggs.
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@RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo 2025-08-04 15:47
@colincornaby 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
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@mrudokas@mastodon.social 2025-08-04 18:15
@colincornaby Satire is powerful tool to cut through the hype layer to the kernel of realism. We definitely need that. But the fact that CodeGen microwaves can be useful for fast-food-level code brings the question – how much of populous will move to fast food as a replacement for real food? And what effect will that have? Code-obesity? ImageGen microwaves are cutting into the livelihoods of artists. That’s real. So the remaining question is: is the complexity a wall that will be hit?
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@MercG@mindly.social 2025-08-04 19:21
@colincornaby Laughed so hard I nearly fell off my Segway.
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@lispi314@udongein.xyz 2025-08-04 20:56
@colincornaby @wakame It'd be somewhat more likely with the weird fusion assisted-convection oven + microwave that gets sold, as that addresses a number of the total use-cases. There are many that remained unaddressed though.
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@palmer@social.kernel.org 2025-08-04 21:16
@colincornaby when I moved into my first apartment after college my friends' parents' gave me a microwave they'd been given as a wedding present. It had a "turkey" button on it. I tried it once and it boiled the coating off my ceramic plates.
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@RandamuMaki@mstdn.social 2025-08-04 21:35
@colincornaby I don't want microwaved food. I want food replicators. I want us to be able to 3D print food molecules so we stop destroying the planet and ourselves.
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 2025-08-04 21:36
@colincornaby unlikely. You can't have microwave ovens without a complex technological civilisation, and we're busily destroying the foundations of that.
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@a_cubed@mastodon.social 2025-08-04 21:55
@colincornaby 👨🍳💋
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@http@infosec.exchange 2025-08-04 23:08
@colincornaby I understood that this is some kind of satire, as it's talking about future 1955 and about Internet at the same time. And microwaves became a thing only around 1970. Does it stand for LLMs or something? If yes, what are they replacing (or not)?
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@mrkwlsn@mastodon.social 2025-08-04 23:38
@colincornaby thank you for resetting my timeline
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@mk30@tilde.zone 2025-08-05 02:59
@colincornaby reminds me of the classic "microwave cooking for one." There was definitely a time when some people thought all future cooking would happen in a microwave, just like there was a time when there were people who thought synth instruments would replace all other instruments.
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@gaditb@icosahedron.website 2025-08-05 03:32
@colincornaby This post feels so extremely targeted at me and my two different thrift-store-finds microwave cookbooks (a GE puff piece (tho still thorough, if rather UHWUT in one or two spots) from 1977 and an actually quality one with meaningful contributions to knowledge from 1987) in particular, I love this so much.
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@ppxl@social.tchncs.de 2025-08-05 04:51
@colincornaby even for Satire, this wasn't a great read because it agitated over stupid shit, and ALSO bcs I didn't touch a microwave in over 2 decades. Not recommended, 1 of 5 ⭐
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@TheOneDoc@tech.lgbt 2025-08-05 05:43
@colincornaby where's my micro reactor, flying car and robot servent? The 1950's lied to me.
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@dangero@vocalounge.cafe 2025-08-05 11:19
@kainisenni @colincornaby I draw parallels here LOL.
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@BartoszMilewski@mathstodon.xyz 2025-08-05 14:42
@colincornaby Ever since people realized that you can sear a steak on a GPU running LLM, the Nvidia stock is skyrocketing
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@dshan@mastodon.au 2025-08-05 16:08
@colincornaby This future is now at my place. Mostly.
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@mwguy@infosec.exchange 2025-08-05 18:54
@colincornaby I bet the popcorn at your restaurant is fire.
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@monkey@greatape.casa 2025-08-07 04:45
@colincornaby I'm going to v*mit
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@Catwoman69y2k@meow.social 2025-08-07 14:25
@colincornaby Getting huge "Embrace AI or you will be left behind" type vibes off of this headline.
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@tweitzel@fosstodon.org 2025-08-16 16:09
@colincornaby Half the time my microwave makes food that looks fine (like pizza with broccoli) but the broccoli is Lego. Not Duplo. Full tooth-shattering Technic. I then have to show the microwave my missing tooth and a dentist’s note to get a retry, which usually swaps it for cake with Play-Doh icing. After enough retries I sometimes get something edible, though it still tastes like wet cardboard.