

I’ve been told by my Thai friends that many of their food have variants that exclude fish sauce. This is mainly done for the benefit of the vegan Buddhists; a not-insignificant proportion of their population. But that would write off oyster sauce as well, which didn’t explain your observations (or maybe the unusual flavour you’re tasting is faux fish sauce)
But to make Pad Thai with very little or, god forbid, without tamarind - that’s definitely illegal!














The more you move through the networking stack, the more you start seeing OB1 error potentials.
Many protocols have packet ids starting from (and wrapping back to) 1. Modbus registers start from 1, but stored in memory offset 0.
Packet lengths can either include or exclude the length itself. E.g. packet length 200 in a protocol could either mean the length is followed by 200 bytes of data; or 1 byte containing the length + 199 data; or even 4 bytes length + 196 data (off by four!)
It’s a wild world out there.