roel_v

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by roel_v 7y ago
That's cool, although I do somewhat have the same reaction as the poster downthread that I don't really have the experience that cheeses in my dishes separate. Either way, did you figure this out yourself from your chemistry backg
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by roel_v 7y ago
You're talking about having a side job while doing a PhD. GP is talking about (as I understand it - not to put words in their mouth) having a job that will let you take some of the work you do there and turn it into a PhD. Which, admit
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by roel_v 7y ago
Eh, I don't think using "American bread" as an expression for bad bread is all that horrible, just like "being on Italian time" (or Brazilian or whatever) or for people who are habitually late or "going Dutch&q
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by roel_v 7y ago
"People often move to rural areas because they love nature, but ironically this is actually a terrible thing for nature." Oh this is one of my pet peeves. It's usually the people who claim to love nature the most who will go
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by roel_v 7y ago
" Last night I was making some melted cheese for nachos and used sodium citrate to emulsify the cheese sauce and sodium hexametaphosphate to sequester the calcium " Can you expand on this for a non-chemist? What's the effect,
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by roel_v 7y ago
There is nothing wrong with most additives. Even so-called 'artisanal' bakers add 'bread improvers', which contain things like 'ascorbic acid' (ooohh scary! except that its common name is... vitamin C), enzymes
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by roel_v 7y ago
If the IRS would "ask" me about income in the same way that I "ask" my wife to pass me the peas when we're having dinner, you can be sure I wouldn't be paying any taxes...
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by roel_v 7y ago
I love this website. Can anyone from the UK explain what a 'mutti-car' is?
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by roel_v 7y ago
I was assuming the OP was talking about iridium (or at least quality) sprinklers, the graphs don't look like good placements for basic sprinklers at all. I guess basic sprinklers do pose a somewhat more interesting problem - then again
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by roel_v 7y ago
How are these layouts better than equidistant sprinklers? I think this article is missing some description of what it tries to achieve.
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by roel_v 7y ago
The article links to a website where you can calculate your footprint, and buy offsets in various programs to negate that footprint (projectwren.com). It would cost me USD 17 / month to offset my (larger than average for my country) fo
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by roel_v 7y ago
In law school, I had a 'how to negotiate' workshop once. We were given a fictitious deal to negotiate (with some external circumstances hidden from us), were paired up with a random person and then had 15 minutes to execute in the
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by roel_v 7y ago
This applies word for word to jiu jitsu, as well...
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by roel_v 7y ago
This is true of real fighting too...
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by roel_v 7y ago
This is so true. I got a law degree as a hobby while working as a software developer. The actual substantive knowledge I got from that hasn't been very useful so far (apart from the occasional online flex...), but the skills I learned
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by roel_v 7y ago
I don't know about backpack style vacuums (the few I've seen seem plenty loud), but the idea that manufacturers deliberately create loud vacuums to make them seem more powerful is ridiculous. There is an entire market segment of v
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by roel_v 7y ago
At the same time, there is a 30m2 (323 sqft) Parisian apartment for sale for e1.2mm (USD 1.3mm). Not sure these things are quite compatible...
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by roel_v 7y ago
I said the other thing profitable, i.e. the thing we don't want them to do, I didn't say another .
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by roel_v 7y ago
Not by having them do the exact thing we pay them not to do. In the EC case, we pay them to develop bird habitat, yet that habitat doesn't get developed. If we'd pay people to not grow palm trees, we expect that there isn't s
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by roel_v 7y ago
And it's mostly not working (see today's EC reports on farmer subsidies for nature preservation). Spoiler: the money is spend and happily pocketed by the target audience, who then find ways to do the other economically profitabl
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by roel_v 7y ago
I co-supervised a British PhD student once who did his PhD at a Spanish university. Not only was he a native speaker, but he also wrote very clear - no passive sentences, clear structure in thinking and writing, very good. He had a paper re
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by roel_v 7y ago
Can't really tell if this is sarcasm or not...
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by roel_v 7y ago
OK yeah then your case doesn't apply to my general question. I imagine that for something that is as visual as your topic, animation would be extra useful though :) (like showing with a slider how reflowing works in certain edge cases
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by roel_v 7y ago
Thanks, that makes sense. Once you start thinking about it, it's obvious (e.g. F can never go to 0), turns out I've always had a wrong mental model of how the length of a lever influences the torque (beyond 'longer lever = mo
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by roel_v 7y ago
Yes, but my idea was that pushing the wrench at distance x is double as hard as pushing it at distance x * 2; my understanding of the diagram is that it's not.
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by roel_v 7y ago
It wasn't the assumption, I was just being extra careful to emphasize that I wasn't saying 'hey dude you're doing it wrong', but was asking about how the OP felt on a topic I had personally experienced (i.e. interes
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by roel_v 7y ago
I have a dumb question about this. Under the header 'Torque', where the wrench is introduced the first time, the length of vector F is non-linear with the position of the slider; in other words, the curve you see (that of the leng
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by roel_v 7y ago
Not to dismiss your work, but do you think the best investment of your time is to write another textbook (assuming this is an undergraduate level book in a relatively well-explored field), or in adding detail/great illustrations/g
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by roel_v 7y ago
That's not the point. If the law in some place says so and so, and you break it (even if involuntarily), you can't say 'oh I disagree with that law so I'm going to flee the country and that's morally ok because in m
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by roel_v 7y ago
"she should be thrown in jail for up to 14 years for an accident." This is such an American-centric view of the world. If you don't want to abide by the moral standards of another country, maybe... uh... don't go there?

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