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by wheels 4y ago
I don't usually let it go in the kids room unless it's right after they've cleaned. The main problem areas in the apartment are right in front of the door, where they take off their shoes (so much sand, always!) and under th
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by wheels 4y ago
I feel like the major consideration is: do you have kids or pets? Then get one. Otherwise, probably not worth it. If you have small-ish kids, you end up vacuuming everyday one way or the other. A Roomba's a decent stand-in for that
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by wheels 4y ago
Still, I found it staggering that there were 414 companies in the recent batch. When we went through 13 years ago (crazy that it's been that long) we knew pretty much everyone in our batch. It was like 50 people. I had conversations
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by wheels 4y ago
Habeneros aren't common there, but in general for cheap chilis, try the Turkish grocery stores (EuroGida or similar). Basically for any Mexican / Latin-American stuff, they're great for sourcing ingredients: chilis, dry bea
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by wheels 4y ago
The previous 19 discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by wheels 4y ago
This is my favorite practical tool for woodwork -- it tells you how much different woods will sag based on the properties of the load: https://woodbin.com/calcs/sagulator/
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by wheels 4y ago
...and most people have to work until 5 p.m., which is why all schools go until at least 5 p.m.
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by wheels 4y ago
I wrote the most widely used implementation of ID3v2 (TagLib), and honestly, it doesn't even both implementing most of the really absurd parts of the spec, and nobody's ever asked for them. There are some things that I did implem
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by wheels 4y ago
Honestly: it looks pretty gimicky, and the dimensions and wattage don't put it in Rolls Royce category for serious cooks. It does 1800 watts into < 20 cm (8 in.) whereas the central burner on my SMEG induction stove does 3000 watt
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by wheels 4y ago
I already mentioned the brand: SMEG. This is what I've got: https://www.smeg.com/products/C9IMX9-1 This is a cooktop with knobs (they have several more): https://www.smeg.com/products/SI364BM
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by wheels 4y ago
It's just a stupid trend in electric cooktop design, not something specific to induction. I've got an SMEG induction combo oven/stove and it has real knobs – out front, where they belong. They also make induction cooktops w
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by wheels 4y ago
Not a chef, but an avid eater and obsessive home cook: I eat at a lot of high end restaurants (and usually a couple Michelin starred places per year), many with open kitchens, and in the last 5 years I've noticed a trend towards induct
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by wheels 4y ago
This is mostly true for the sound of the instruments – the emulations are very good these days – the folks writing them often sit with the original instrument and an oscilloscope and adjust the software until the outputs are the same. But t
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by wheels 4y ago
I'm not saying that's the logic here, but this is a common pattern because SEO. It's a useful way to end up on potential customers' radar.
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by wheels 4y ago
That's almost certainly psychosomatic. The sugars in the two are basically identical, and the creamer presumably has some fat in it, which would actually make it have a lower glycemic index (meaning the crash would be slower with the
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by wheels 4y ago
No you didn't, unless the quantities were very different. Honey is basically nature's high-fructose syrup.
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by wheels 4y ago
I wonder if I'm the only one reading that finds the term "gentile" as moderately offensive. It seems to map the world into Jewish ontology of "God's chosen people", and other. "Non-Jew" feels less a
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by wheels 4y ago
OpenVPN supports compression, and Private Internet Access used to enable it by default. I don't know if they do with Wireguard (now default). I also don't know if most bandwidth testers use TLS. I would actually assume not sinc
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by wheels 4y ago
If you're using a VPN, I've noticed that behavior when the VPN was compressing data in the background, since Speedtest data compressed well.
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by wheels 5y ago
I would assume mixing in buttermilk for milk would mess things up since it messes with the acid ratios, which is one of the things that really matters in baked goods with chemical leavening agents. Usually something with only milk would us
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by wheels 5y ago
The "wasting time" is literally adding three spoons of stuff to flour. (Two for me since I use a full package of baking powder.) It's literally in the 30 seconds range. If you were doing it a lot, you could even pre-mix th
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by wheels 5y ago
For folks with no actual interest in cooking, and who live in a place with obnoxiously large kitchens (i.e. USA), they're fine. Also, it helps to be well off, as they're basically a scheme to mark up simple ingredients by a signi
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by wheels 5y ago
With a sufficiently insulated apartment, you actually stay at reasonable temperatures from other sources of heat: bodies, bathing, appliances, cooking, computers, etc. A normal apartment uses a couple kilowatts of power, which generates a
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by wheels 5y ago
In continental Europe (Germany, specifically is where I have experience), most apartments are so well insulated that they don't even get significantly cold without the heat on. I often travel in winter, and have come back home, say, m
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by wheels 5y ago
The article mentions "correcting" searches as an instance of this. I find that particularly infuriating on Amazon. I often search for a specific thing, let's say, "CRI 95 LED light bulb", and it'll return thi
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by wheels 5y ago
Notable in Berlin is that most folks come from somewhere else (mostly other places in Germany), so meeting friends as a newcomer is normalized. That wasn't nearly as easy in the other two German cities I've lived in.
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by wheels 5y ago
In a lot of European countries, you're required to take most of your vacation, and 6 weeks a year is not uncommon. Taking 6 weeks would be significantly frowned upon in the US. Also, again, what you're calling "most tech com
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by wheels 5y ago
I moved to Europe from the Midwest near the beginning of my career (20 years ago). It's very difficult to compare things like housing, social life and salary without knowing where you're coming from and where you're consideri
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by wheels 5y ago
You're right that whether we're deterministic or not isn't settled, but that argument is mostly a physics question, not a biological one. (It reduces to: is the universe deterministic? And it is a very much a debate at the
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by wheels 5y ago
Those are very different corners of philosophy. Things can be epistomogically unprovable, but at the same time ethically relevant. Put another way, your counterargument applies equally to genocide as it does to octopus intelligence. That

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