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by kibibyte 3y ago
I like Discord but I get that it's not for everybody. Jumping into a very active wide Discord community (with many channels) can be an incredibly jarring sensory assault, and if you don't have a narrower community (e.g. a private
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by kibibyte 3y ago
Something I found dismaying was just how only a few of the subreddit communities I liked had any alternative platforms to go to: only the fountain pens community had a Discord server. And upon joining that server the day before the blackout
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by kibibyte 3y ago
TIL there was a different "First Republic Bank" that failed in 1988. This name carries a curse now.
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Combi-ovens are predominantly equipment that belongs in commercial kitchens, but nowadays, there are a few options (still not very many though) that can actually fit on a home kitchen countertop. The two notable ones are the Cuisinart steam
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Given sufficient information about your personal biomechanics, a sufficiently advanced AI may be able to suggest the right fingering for you. But the main problem with this (and I think this is something that many in this thread simply don&
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Pressure cooking (including the time to bring up to pressure, pressure cooking, and pressure release) can save you about 2-6 of those hours. Depending on who you talk to, it's either almost as good or perhaps better than simmering for
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by kibibyte 4y ago
This explains why I'm able to achieve my lowest ever score (0.7%) by starting a sort of spiral shape near the dot, whereas drawing that spiral in reverse would be much closer to perfect (>85%).
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by kibibyte 4y ago
You can get this feature at their lowest end model of that series (CA49), though it may lack some other aspects of the resonance modeling that they reserve for higher end models. I believe almost all digitals starting at $2000 across the bo
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Parental cargo culting, probably. "It makes you smarter" (tenuous, as hinted in article), "all the other parents are doing it to their children"/"I want my child to be better than theirs" (this can be very
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Thanks for the tip, but I am practicing this with a teacher who has prescribed some similar advice. I've accepted that this just takes time.
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by kibibyte 4y ago
I've always felt that Prelude in C major is Bach's prank to all of us. It's the start to Well-Tempered Clavier and makes you feel that maybe this set of compositions is approachable. And then you try out the fugue that's
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by kibibyte 4y ago
I appreciate the author running these experiments; even though I think the answers were obvious, it does confirm a lot of what we know about coffee extraction. I do have a few related thoughts on some different points in the article. > T
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by kibibyte 4y ago
There is actually a substantial amount of flavor left, but just like in coffee, it's very difficult to extract without increasing the surface area of the vegetables and meat you add in. And how can you increase the surface area? Exactl
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Scaling back up is really hard though. We had a de facto freeze on hiring (not exactly hiring freeze; more of a headcount cap) just shy of a decade ago to focus on our product. During that time, some of our best recruiters left because they
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by kibibyte 4y ago
I can imagine both cases being true, that the renewal process is automated and that certs won't get renewed because institutional knowledge has left the door. Where I'm at, service-to-service TLS certificates (the bulk of our cert
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by kibibyte 4y ago
It's pretty common. Most pasta cooking directions say to use 4-6 quarts of water for a standard 1-lb pack of dry pasta. Many Italian grandmas (I'm making a guess off n=1 person with Italian heritage who learned it this way) do it
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by kibibyte 4y ago
I was gonna say, Serious Eats talked about this method (starting with a boil and then cutting the heat, mentioned in the article but not in the comment) so many years ago; only that they didn't call it "passive cooking". It c
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Plant subscription boxes are a thing, so we're not _that_ far off.
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by kibibyte 4y ago
One of the funnier problems I ran into recently was when a friend who actually understood my coffee preferences pretty well (though I don't think he actually grasps my preferences fully) got me coffee that was actually not bad, except
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by kibibyte 4y ago
I can provide a little bit of insight into the Google Pay shenanigans, though I didn’t work there or interact with anyone there. The initial Google Wallet launch irked the card networks because they presented their own proxy card rather tha
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by kibibyte 4y ago
If you bump your budget a little, you will start to find digital pianos that are designed to better emulate grand piano actions. And further on, starting around $3500 and above, you start to find longer key sticks and counterweights and suc
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Fundamentally, you are correct and I will agree with you. But have you tried any of the higher end digitals from the latest generation of pianos, e.g. Kawai CA79/99 or Yamaha CLP-745/775/785? Those come with some pretty serio
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by kibibyte 4y ago
EMV is a very very chatty protocol, basically.
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Technically yes you are correct, but the threat model here is similar to someone grabbing a card from you and dipping it into a terminal chip reader without your permission. This is what the PIN part of chip-and-PIN protects against; the ch
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Old payment card RFID contactless was really insecure; it basically spat out the data on the magnetic stripe. New contactless is directly tied to the EMV chips and requires the whole cryptographic round trip and such. You can put a protecti
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by kibibyte 4y ago
With gas stations, there is so much more to it than just replacing a card reader in the kiosk, or even just replacing the kiosk itself. You may have to even tear out all of the old networking equipment. https://news.ycombinator.c
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by kibibyte 4y ago
My experience is that they usually complicate your taxes. In particular, past a certain asset threshold, Wealthfront will do something called "direct indexing", which basically invests your money in individual stocks the way an ET
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Considering this press release came out on a Friday afternoon shortly before the Labor Day weekend, I sensed this wasn't supposed to be good news.
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by kibibyte 4y ago
I think some parts of this system may already be available to end users today. I noticed recently that Chase allows me to transfer money in real time ("using the US real-time payments network") to an account I own at Bank of Ameri
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Ergodox-based keyboards might interest you. I use one myself with a Mac. And you could easily set up a specific layer to give you a numpad. There's a bit of a learning curve however: it's a split keyboard with keys arranged in an

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