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That's really interesting. For me, I very much do NOT enjoy the taste of truffles in restaurant dishes because it's often so overbearing. I just don't find the flavor interesting, and it's very singular.

Perhaps I would enjoy the "real" experience more...

This is a great resource for why Starship is groundbreaking. So much so, it’s not even really comprehensive to the existing space-industrial complex.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/starship-is-st...

Check out this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_9YcehCZo

The source code isn't hiding in a repo somewhere for security reasons — it's spread around on various pieces of paper and computers over the last 50 years. There isn't a single source of truth. Adds a whole other level of wizardry to keeping the thing running.

It's not quite that simple: https://carnegiemuseums.org/magazine-archive/1997/mayjun/dep...

However, one misnomer remains true — a Strawberry isn't actually a 'berry'.

Awesome!

That is a vastly more complex machine and action than I was expecting. Seems like there is more to the process than just flipping it over.

Unfortunately since it’s an active feature it requires power, meaning any wired headset will require a battery or other power source.

A wired headset plus my mixer gives me an opportunity to tinker and upgrade my setup as I wish, and is all USB powered to boot.

I have some rough plans to make a simple audio interface with built in sidetone for use as a portable setup, but haven’t had the time to turn it into a real product. Someday!

It really does surprise me too.

Myself and my team are all technical sales folks with engineering backgrounds, and we naturally optimize for this sort of thing — all of us have some form of “advanced” setup that’s been informed by each other’s investment.

On the other side, NONE of our account reps have anything remotely close. I can think of one or two times in the past few years when someone asked me about what tech I use. My company even has a home office budget benefit meant for exactly this sort of thing!

I optimized for this style setup about a year into the pandemic, but using a Beyerdynamic MX300 wired gaming headset. The headset is closed-back, so to get voice feedback ("sidetone") I use an inexpensive Behringer XENYX USB302 mixer. It allows for adjusting the mic/audio mix going to my headphones, and also is a USB audio interface.

This setup is as minimal as I was able to get it: no big booms on my desk to move around, microphones blocking my video, etc. Yeah, I look like a pilot on calls, but the audio quality is amazing. Also, the mic being close to me blocks background noise, and isolates it from my desk. Sometimes my colleagues with podcaster-style mics have issues with mechanical transmission from their desk setups, while I have none.

People often comment — even to this day — about my audio quality. I talk to people all day, being in sales, and it makes a huge difference in my presence and professionalism. Absolutely worth every penny I spent.

As a side note, I also use my iPhone as my webcam (continuity cam I think it's called) along with a couple Logitech lights on my monitor, and the overall quality of my digital presence often blows people away.

I highly recommend trying a restaurant supply store, like Chef's Toys. Most of them don't require a business license to go to (the ones that do typically sell food items). They sell primarily to commercial kitchens and restaurants, and often have a wide selection of "bare bones" cookware at various levels of quality to meet your budget. A lot of my kitchen items are from there — stainless bowls, a big stock pot, metal + wood cooking utensils, some knives, heavy-duty whisk, some glassware, my one non-stick pan, dry food bins, etc. The stuff lasts forever, and you can almost always get an exact replacement if you need it.

Another suggestion is to try is IKEA. They tend to have minimalistic kitchen stuff at very reasonable prices. My basic cooking utensil set (spoon, ladle, spatula, etc) is from there and if I remember right, cost around $10. Had it for years. Great for glassware too.

Love the retro design, but from the looks of it, it's a heavy and fairly bulky item to drag around.

I know there is no Pi 5 variant of the compute module yet, but it seems like a safe assumption one is on the way — if your goal is to design something portable, I'm not sure why you would design around the full Pi form factor and not the compute module?

They specifically called out "We get to see how businesses operate under the US government policies when they act on the web" — it's not a specific dig on Android.

I helped my mom transplant a large agave plant and got in contact with a considerable amount of sap in the process — it's extremely uncomfortable and it took probably 3 months for the resulting rash to go away on my inner arms.

The irritation comes from raphides [0], which are sharp calcium oxalate crystals that get into your skin. Definitely something to avoid if you can! I have no idea how folks work with bare skin around those plants...

Interestingly, pineapples and kiwis have raphides in them as well, so if your mouth feels cut up after eating some, that is why.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphide

You can use a USB C connector with standard USB, no interface chip required. It's simply a connector form-factor change.

Looks like those mini keyboards are available on AliExpress quite cheap!

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804879544433.html

Do you have a service or an individual you’d recommend? My fiancé’s mom has some old film from their childhood that is meaningful to them, and we’re considering gifting them some digitization services if we can find someone to help.

I respect your space to air your opinions, but you are not doing so in a respectful or persuasive way. I'm sorry for whatever experiences have made you feel like dogs have no place in modern society. I wholeheartedly disagree.

At no point did I admit anything about my dog being aggressive towards humans. I speak from my experience spending my life around animals, having gone through the adoption process at a "difficult" shelter, and having to manage my dog's incompatibility and aggression towards other dogs.

In addition to interpreting my comment in the worst way possible, you are quick to dismiss the fact that dogs are conscious beings with their own emotions, past history, skills, and evolutionary training. As their handlers, I agree with you that we are absolutely responsible for their actions — that is the implicit choice in having a pet. However that does not mean we can predict their actions at all times.

Any dog can be provoked with the right stimulus, as can any human. I do not agree that applying absolutes in response to risk in the complex interactions between various animal groups, including humans, is a sensible or reasonable approach.

Also, your comment below "Shelter dogs do not have this training and are aggressive!" is extremely uninformed and incorrect. This is your opinion, not a fact. Espousing this attitude hurts the work that shelters are doing, reinforces dangerous stereotypes for specific dog breeds, and does a disservice to those who choose to adopt a pet.

As the owner of a shelter dog, sounds like a terrible idea. A dog can be provoked — a company much less so.

If people are willing to pay it, is it really so bad?

Charging what the market will bear is a core capitalist principle and seems like good business to me.

100% correct and I appreciate the additional details! I couldn't come up with a good analogy to explain you want the emitter as a separate and unique element from everything else involved in a tube — oversimplified in the process.

Current into a low-resistance "heater" element is used to produce the heat required for Thermionic Emission [0] in a vacuum tube. You only need the heater/emitter to be hot, and insulating the tubes would just spread the heat around to everything inside of it — at some extreme, making everything into an emitter, instead of elements that control the emission.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermionic_emission

Ahh good memories. Over the summer in college, I made a pretty advanced propane-powered one with an integral mixing fan for the chamber and an cheap taser for electronic ignition. Fired every time. Had great fun with my roommates shooting them out into the ocean off our balcony (UCSB — how lucky we were!).

Sadly it was confiscated by the police shortly after. They drove by me loading it into my car at night. The 8ft barrel was fairly obvious...

I understand what you’re trying to say here and I agree we should be careful prescribing lifestyle changes for serious cases of depression (or any disease for that matter). However, there are a significant number of people out there who _don’t_ have treatment resistant depression and would benefit from lifestyle interventions. I think it’s a good thing for research to be done in that area, and being dismissive of something helpful for many because it doesn’t help those with serious cases isn’t a particularly healthy place to start a conversation from.

You should check out a company called Loyal — they’re making lifespan increasing drugs for dogs of all sizes!

I’m not a rocket scientist but I do know the two rockets use different propellants. The Atlas V uses solid propellant, and the Starship uses liquid. I know liquid engines have the ability to throttle them, and I would guess solid does not (or a more limited capacity) so that could be at play here. Starship could ignite and then throttle up, which would leave it on the pad longer. I’m sure someone more knowledgeable than I can clarify!

So say they mark them down to some reasonable level — they are still supply constrained and now the line just gets longer. It doesn’t really fix anything.

Pricing allows them to prioritize their customers, which seems reasonable.

Myself as well. I recently listened to an episode on Egyptian history from this podcast and really enjoyed it — consider checking it out!

https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/

Funny to see this here — as part of a project in my “writing for engineers” class my freshman year of college, I created this page!

They are definitely visible! Got to see them this afternoon — very cool.

While all of this is true, there is a monopoly on distribution. Doesn’t matter where it comes from if one entity owns the pipes.

Thank you for sharing this! I read this a long time ago and promptly lost the link, despite me coming back to the principles often.