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by robotmay 6y ago
I think that's a good approach. If you end up using it a lot and want something more, then you can always upgrade later on :) YumAsia ship to most of Europe and have some cheaper models, if that's useful to you.
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by robotmay 6y ago
I'm not too sure what others models will do it, but this is the one I have and they call it "Yumami": https://www.yumasia.co.uk/bamboo-induction-heating-ceramic-r... I originally went for it because there hon
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by robotmay 6y ago
I use a Japanese-style rice cooker and mine will do this I believe, and even has a specific tahdig setting, though as I have nothing to compare it to, I can't attest to its authenticity :) https://www.yumasia.co.uk/bamb
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by robotmay 6y ago
Good lord this is one of the saltiest posts I've ever seen on here, which is an accomplishment. The simple lesson here is: what is easy for you is not necessarily easy for everyone else, and you should not get pissy if you state your o
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by robotmay 6y ago
Have they reverted the godawful address bar change yet?
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by robotmay 6y ago
Finance in London does pay well, but there are plenty of engineering opportunities as well. I would say that UK junior and mid engineer roles are in general worse-paid than in the USA, but senior roles are competitive. Getting a big salary
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by robotmay 6y ago
As one of those odd people who actually knows someone who plays a Gittern; I love the name and the medieval theme to the site :D
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by robotmay 6y ago
I have a similar relationship to Grafana as I do for Prometheus; love it for my home and I've got some very useful graphs for my home network, but it's almost unusable for work due to its speed degradation the moment you start add
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by robotmay 6y ago
Yeah the pushgateway was the alternative to using InfluxDB. In the end we actually used Datadog for it, despite the cost, as it was just easier to scale on it (we had hundreds of devices per site). The pushgateway route with Prometheus just
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by robotmay 6y ago
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Prometheus. At home I really like it; it was simple to set up for my needs and most of my configuration is on my server which then scrapes other machines for the data. However I find it qui
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by robotmay 6y ago
Personally I swapped from rbenv to asdf a while back. I don't think there's any real justification for one over another these days, just use the one you're comfortable with :D
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by robotmay 6y ago
Seconding NieR: Automata. It's a pretty quirky game with tight controls and combat, which is a plus, but the story is interesting and has a lot of variety. In a similar sci-fi vein I've just started on Detroit: Beyond Human, which
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by robotmay 6y ago
I hate the UglyBar so much. I've got a user style to fix it but my god, who thought it was a good idea? It's so much worse and it didn't need doing.
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by robotmay 6y ago
Welp, this is confirmation that I haven't been keeping up on everything going on; when I learn about my most desired feature on my company's software from a Hacker News post :S
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by robotmay 6y ago
One of my all-time favourite sci-fi shows. The setting manages to mix the banal and the excitement of space so well.
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by robotmay 6y ago
I do recall something about how Japanese companies are traditionally careful with their money, and therefore expansion. I can't remember where I read it, but there was a tendency to save money during the good times by not chasing exces
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by robotmay 6y ago
Good question! If I'm sat listening to someone in person spinning a yarn then I have no issues, although story-telling seems oddly different to a written story somehow. I don't really listen to audiobooks because I find it quite h
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by robotmay 6y ago
I'm really confused as to why people keep downvoting this comment. Are you offended that I can't read first-person books? :\
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by robotmay 6y ago
Don't get me wrong; I totally get the reasons for doing it, but unfortunately I have some weird problem with reading books written that way :( When I read fiction I barely notice the words on the page and instead (sort of?) see what&#x
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by robotmay 6y ago
Ooh, thank you for the tip, I didn't know that.
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by robotmay 6y ago
I love the 90s TV series with Fry and Laurie (as in the article image), but I've sadly never managed to get into the books as I have an extreme dislike of books written in the first person. There are a lot of good books I've misse
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by robotmay 6y ago
Haha I do have lamps, at least, though it's not quite the same as getting actual daylight. I'm now using a bunch of Hue bulbs to try to emulate real light a bit better. Even still, I prefer dark themes for most things. I'm no
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by robotmay 6y ago
Dark modes are a choice. Light modes are a choice. Everyone is free to choose what they like, so trying to influence people one way or another, or criticising their choice, is unproductive. I live in Wales, a country where our default weath
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by robotmay 6y ago
Hah yes pine is pretty infamous for denting easily. I actually received a pine desk surface today that I'm staining/oiling. It's nicer quality pine than what I used for the skirting boards by far and seems pretty tough so far
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by robotmay 6y ago
The price of walnut here in the UK right now is insaaaane. I think France can often have it for a decent price but you really have to know a guy who knows a guy who seems to have his own mill.
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Which is a shame really, as the sustainability of it is quite a merit. I opted to use it for all the wood in my office as I could get a finish I was happy with, whilst also not spending an absolute fortune on wood (posh woods are very expen
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by robotmay 6y ago
I ended up doing all the skirting boards for my office spread between both the office itself and the room next door, just to have enough space :D I do actually have that rare privilege of having a "workshop" space (a solid shed),
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by robotmay 6y ago
I learnt to carve spoons from a few Swedish guys so I have a lot of love for a simple linseed-oil finish :) Can't get any nice, bright, linseed-oil paint in the UK though, which is a bit of a bummer. I ended up using stain for this cur
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by robotmay 6y ago
Has anyone found any good non-American-continent woodworking YouTube channels? Nothing against the Americans/Canadians etc, but this is one area where regional differences make a pretty huge difference in terms of wood and products ava
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I can second this. My previous company runs a few hundred Pi units across loads of separate locations; the locations where we had constant corruption issues were also the ones experiencing dodgy site power-supply issues. We did try various

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