I can’t stand the amount of times my phone tries to force apostrophes into places that don’t need them. So many plurals that should just end in " s " become " 's ". “Were” also gets changed to “we’re” despite it not making any sense in context.
Also, separate issue, but it seems like autocorrect can almost never comprehend the possibility that I hit the wrong button for the first letter of a word.
Agreed. Sometimes, a sentence that ends with a preposition sounds weird. Oftentimes, a sentence that has been completely rearranged to not end in a preposition sounds weird.
It depends on what you are cooking, but I usually do. Maillard and caramelization reactions will not occur in the temperatures that your pressure cooker will get to. If there’s an option to add those flavors to a meal, I’m going to do it. There are cuisines, though, where that’s not traditional or desired.
Think about rice, for example. Sometimes, you want more delicate fluffy plain white rice, while other times you want to do a pilaf technique where you brown it first. Neither is “better”, just different.
Generally, if an ingredient is susceptible to overcooking, I’m not going to pressure cook it. Rice is easy since the grain size is consistent, but something like chicken breasts, I’m not going to pressure cook.
Adding more high temp cooking will drive out more moisture, but sometimes that’s worth it. I would never eat a steak without a search, for example.
Not only is it fine, but it’s the most common (and i would say most correct) way to write scientific papers.
The tone of scientific papers is usually supposed to focus on the science, not the scientist, so you have “reagent A was mixed with reagent B”, not “I mixed reagent A and reagent B”.
An added bonus is that it prevents having to assign credit to each and every step of a procedure, which would be distracting. E.G., “Alice added 200 ml water to the flask while Bob weighed out 5 g of sodium hydroxide and added it to the flask”.
Yeah, this article is real soft on them. You can point out things you admire without ignoring the child abuse/puppy mills/etc.
I think there’s also a big difference between “a community garden” and “a community that gardens”. Lots of (most?) “community gardens” are simply a collection of rental plots where everyone just grows what they want to grow in their plot. When I’ve had gardens like that, yeah people will give each other some handfuls of whatever they have too much of, but there’s not that much sharing.
In an ideal world, i think you’d actually have a bit of a plan as a group and distribute tasks^From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs^. E.g., maybe Alice has a yard that’s perfect for growing tomatoes, Bob has a lot of shade, so he can grow leafy greens, Charlie hates gardening but likes foraging, Dave has a good spot for composting, etc.
You’re getting downvoted for saying something sorta close to true, but not exactly. I agree strongly with everything you said here, though.
Generally, with any complex human-machine interface, you want to cast as wide of a net for accommodation as possible because there are so many variables that come into play.
Like if you are putting together a basketball team, you probably want a bunch of tall dudes, but you never know how many Muggsy Bogues’s are out there unless you let everyone play.
For a fighter pilot, would you rather have a female with greater ability to distinguish color, or a male that can pull higher g’s? It’s impossible to say what specific traits would lead to the best outcome in all possible engagements.
Even things like colorblindness can be a positive in situations because camouflage can stick out to colorblind people. Some types of deafness comes with immunity to motion sickness.
That’s not true. With no controls, there is no significant difference in tolerance by sex. When controlled for height, females have lower tolerance than males. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3753357/
This sort of thing happens all the time, and it’s usually subject to some level of debate. Just look at the ponderosa pine (pinus ponderosa. Some say there is one species with multiple subspecies, some say they are just different varieties, some say that they are different species, or some are and some arent, etc.
I haven’t read this article yet, but I did recently read about electric planes. There are a shockingly large percentage of flights in the US (and probably the world) that are that short. Not a percentage of passengers, but percentage of flights. Lots of islands that don’t have a routine ferry service, or small rural communities in places like Alaska that may be separated from the road system by a mountain range.
Those small communities couldn’t support constant rail (or ferry) service, so small planes are actually the most economical way to serve them. Even places like Hawaii could use electric planes to good effect.
The first I read about them was for flights to Nantucket Island, which absolutely gets ferry service, but it’s also where a lot of rich people have homes, and they are going to fly. https://nantucketcurrent.com/news/cape-air-to-buy-electric-planes
Most people in America have health insurance through their employer. This was originally designed to be a perk of jobs back in the day, but now it unfortunately links healthcare to employment. If you are retirement age, you can get Medicare, which is government sponsored healthcare that still works through the private system, so there are no “government doctors” or anything like that for that population. Similarly, for disabled folks, or those poor enough (which can be hard to prove), they can get Medicaid.
If you lose your job, there’s a system to pay to extend your employer’s insurance policy until your next job’s plan kicks in, but it’s expensive cause your old job is no longer paying a big percentage of it, so a lot of people gamble on not needing insurance if for example, they end one job in May and know they have a new job starting in September.
With insurance, there are some government mandated policies. For example (and don’t quote me on this cause I don’t know the exact policies), things determined to be “preventative” have no out of pocket cost, so you won’t generally pay for a regular yearly checkup, vaccines, etc. There are often options for insurance types to pick from depending on if you anticipate needing lots of care (e.g., a healthy young person probably won’t, but if you are trying to have a baby, you know there are a lot of costs associated).
My employer pays for my insurance. If I were to get cancer, I would probably end up paying for a couple thousand dollars of appointments, scans, etc (called the deductible). Then I’d reach a point where my insurance covers most of the cost, and I kick in 20% (called the coinsurance level). Eventually, if my costs hit a certain limit (the out of pocket limit), insurance covers everything. I think it’s like $8k or something like that for me. That’s the most I could ever have to pay in a year.
People get screwed over by a few things. First is that while I could put together $8k if I had to, many people still have trouble with that. The second is people falling through the cracks of the labyrinthine system, and they end up without insurance while in between jobs or whatever. The third thing is that insurance decides what is necessary, so if you live in the middle of nowhere, and your child gets a specific type of cancer, you might not want to settle for whatever the “standard of care” is at your local hospital, you might want to fly across the country to go to the best hospital for that cancer, and your insurance isn’t going to cover that cost.
And it is incredibly important to note that the insurance companies don’t play fair. When your doctor tells the insurance company that you need a certain procedure, they have an automated system send out a “no”. Your doctor then has to spend time to appeal the decision. Eventually, you might get the care you need paid for, but by engaging in these practices, they are hoping you will either 1: pay yourself, or 2: die.
Also, a final note that I think is important is that cancer, and many chronic illnesses, makes people desperate, and willing to try anything. There is a huge ecosystem (and it probably exists in your country, too), of people selling alternative (i.e., fake) medicine to cure them. Yeah, it’s possible to wind up with a $50k bill for real medicine, but you also have people paying large sums to feed bleach to their autistic kids and then trying to pay for it with go fund me.
Hard water can build up in the soil. There’s some plants I’ve had in the same pot for a long time where the top of the soil starts to look a little “crusty”, even though i don’t have particularly hard water. If you have a lot of lime scale, your water pH is likely high, which can make it hard for plants to pickup nutrients.
Yeah, as someone with some all-clad, it’s really nothing special. I heard that the handles are geared towards maintaining the ability to prevent twisting of the pan in your hand while using pot holders/towels, and i think they work well for that.
I strongly agree with this. You aren’t necessarily going to get fancy brand names, but you can get a stainless frying pan with a big billet of aluminum on the bottom for heat distribution for $20. Spending 5 times that amount basically just gets you a mirror finish, a brand name, and the ability to put it in a dishwasher (and who does that with pans?).
Carbon steel pans are another one. You shouldn’t need to spend more than $10 on a carbon steel pan. The materials are cheap and they can be easily mass produced. There’s nothing that should make it expensive.
The nuts at this stage smell very citrusy, almost. Apparently that doesnt last for nocino, but it might for the “molasses”. Also, be forewarned that the nuts are light green-whitish on the inside when you first cut them open, but they rapidly start to oxidize and the liquid inside starts to darken, and I bet it could stain your hands/clothes/cutting board if you don’t rinse quickly.
I did a very similar project. I was designing cabinet doors that all needed to look the same, but needed to be different widths. I did it before the update to 1.0 so the process is a little different now. I will say it wasn’t that hard, and I definitely parameterized way more stuff than I needed just cause I was playing around with it.
Generally, when you want to heat the beer is after fermentation has peaked. Higher temps means faster fermentation (obviously to a point), and fermentation generates heat (positive feedback loop), which is why you need to cool beer through the initial stages of fermentation). After peak though, the temperature drops and causes a positive feedback loop downwards. This means that your beer really crawls to the finish line. Your beer might be 90% done after 3 days, but then take a couple weeks for that last 10%.
Another benefit is if you are bottling the beer, you need to know how much sugar to add. Calculators ask for the beer temperature post fermentation to determine residual CO2. With a dropping temperature, it’s hard to say what that point is, and if fermentation is just stalled, not complete, you could have residual fermentation sugar. Bumping the temperature up at the end solves both problems.
I also second adding a fan. No need for anything crazy, just something little to move the air. I used a old computer case fan wired to a random DC charger from the “miscellaneous chargers” bin at the thrift store: just make sure the voltage works with the fan.
Moisture can be an issue when you are keeping a fridge above the designed set temperature, but below ambient. I just keep a long sock filled with silica beads in mine. To recharge, I can just pop it in a low oven. They sell devices to do this (evadry is the brand name), but you might get literally 20x less silica for the convenience of a case and built in heating element.
Honesty is usually the right move for most interviews. People usually try to put their best foot forward, which is good, but it can end up coming across as inauthentic.
If, for example, you are a fresh graduate, and you get an interview, they expect you to be inexperienced. If you claim to know how to use every program and do every technical process, they will know you are bluffing. It’s much better to say “I’ve taken a bunch of classes on X programming language, so I know it pretty well, but ive done some tutorials and little projects with Y and Z, and I’m eager to learn more” or “I’ve done some labs where we used A and B machines, but I had a summer internship where 90% of my days were spent working with C”.
Also, questions like “why do you want to work here?” can be answered with “my significant other got a job in this town, so now I need to as well” (obviously not in those exact words). To you, it might seem like you aren’t acting “excited” by the company enough, but the people interviewing you likely aren’t drinkers of corporate kool-aid any more than you are, so they will appreciate the honesty. Also, the fact that you have a reason to move to that town shows that you are likely to be willing to work there for the long haul.
Tl;dr, don’t pretend to be a unicorn cause you probably aren’t, and people don’t expect you to be. Just make sure you show that you are serious about wanting the job.
So many of the shitty laws that get passed like this have blatant loopholes, though I dont think that’s really the appropriate term. It’s because in order for these shitbags to not say the quiet part out loud, they have to write it in such a general way that it can be easily defeated.
Just look at any of the states with “chemtrail” laws. The laws ban the intentional release of substances that modify the climate via changes to solar radiation absorption or the weather. They are intended to prevent anyone from undertaking any efforts to combat climate change, though it’s clear to anyone with a brain that the law clearly applies to the burning of fossil fuels.
Unfortunately, too many of our elected officials (and appointees, civil servants, etc.) are gutless, and will not follow the letter of these laws.
A good politician would do exactly what you said: build bike lanes, and say they secondary benefits are x, y, z. If anyone has trouble with that, let them argue it in court.