You're on Hacker News. Why put an excess of effort into any nostalgic project? Why try to recapture Windows XP GUI or SNES graphics or try to hack together a classic car that was, by all measurements other than cool factor, inferior to a modern car?
You're on Hacker News. Why put an excess of effort into any nostalgic project? Why try to recapture Windows XP GUI or SNES graphics or try to hack together a classic car that was, by all measurements other than cool factor, inferior to a modern car?
You're replying to a comment that responds to the claim that making cake from scratch is significantly harder than using a commercial cake mix because those contain millions of hard to get ingredients.
If you want to precisely emulate it for the fun of it then more power to you but if you just want a good cake then no you don't need to. Basic flour, baking soda, sugar, cocoa powder, etc. will do the trick just fine.