jadams5

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by jadams5 4y ago
As a counterpoint, my cardiologist suggested I get an Apple watch so I could keep a better eye on things and send him any questionable ECGs. At least some doctors seem to think there are positives.
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by jadams5 4y ago
For folks having issues with food sticking to cast iron or carbon steel, try learning to cook on stainless. It's much more prone to sticking, but if you can get the technique down well enough to not have eggs stick on stainless then sw
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by jadams5 4y ago
Gotta be careful with the wire wheel, it's possible to get the surface too smooth and the seasoning won't stick as well. Source: I've stripped and re-seasoned 20+ pans and the one I wire wheeled has never been quite right. Pe
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by jadams5 5y ago
Kurzgesagt: Can YOU Fix Climate Change? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6_JakZFc Link in response to people asking what everyone is doing, should be doing, and can be doing...
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by jadams5 5y ago
Oh wow, yep, that's exactly what we figured out. Their save file format stored the password hash, but didn't actually encrypt or obfuscate the grade data beyond just whatever serialization they were doing. We were starting on fi
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by jadams5 5y ago
Oh man, yeah also adding to the list of people that abused their highschool computer labs with this. We had so much fun, but we eventually drew the ire of the school IT admin. After class one day the teacher took us aside with the admin a
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by jadams5 5y ago
Yeah, I've cooked eggs in cast iron for several years and I think a lot of the advice I see is wrong. You really have to get the pan fairly hot IMO, if they don't bubble as soon as you pour them in then I get a lot more sticking.
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by jadams5 6y ago
NBA Top Shot is major sports' entry into NFTs and is already dominating by market cap while it's still in beta. I've only been following it for a few weeks, but collectors are going nuts, but not quite to the point of some o
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by jadams5 6y ago
That was posted 4 days ago, long before the ladder attacks and disinformation campaigns desperately trying to shift attention away from GME. People need to understand the risks involved and not sink their life savings, but there is definit
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by jadams5 7y ago
10'ish years ago I remember people being mad at the cable companies for bundling all the channels together into all-or-nothing options. Why did I have to pay for ESPN when I just want the SciFi channel? Here we are today with lots of
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by jadams5 7y ago
Interested to hear about what your issues with Ansible were. It's been a game changer for us over the past couple years. Manual processes that used to take an engineer a week to do manually are done in 20 minutes and correctly every ti
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by jadams5 7y ago
A friend of mine that's self made and worth about $40m strongly advised me to cash out my 401k. His reasoning just boiled down to who has your best interest at heart, you or some random broker in New York? If you think you can do a bet
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by jadams5 7y ago
(also not a physicist) I think you're correct that objects falling into a black hole never cross the event horizon from our reference frame, but at the same time the light from the object red shifts towards zero energy as it approaches
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by jadams5 7y ago
I founded and am still heavily involved in a makerspace that's doing pretty well (8k sqft facility, 4 staff). Focusing on equipment doesn't work, you have to focus on community building. The only equipment that will draw people a
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by jadams5 7y ago
I got this model several months back and have been really happy with it: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FYWU2IS/ I got it to monitor CO2 levels in a house without central air. It's pretty amazin
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by jadams5 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushometer edit: It's just like what you'd find in any modern commercial building in the US, just with a much older form factor of toilet. When we moved in I got curious why mos
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by jadams5 8y ago
Yep, it's a two pipe system. One of the first things I did was verify that the traps were all functioning. Amazingly enough, they were! The house was built in the 20's by a commercial plumber who put in some more commercial-style
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by jadams5 8y ago
I live in a 90 year old house that still uses the original steam heated radiators. It's actually been a lot of fun learning about the old technology with its pros and cons. As an example, I always assumed that the radiators were alway