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If you split your own firewood by hand, a Fiskars splitting axe is insanely better than any standard splitting maul you'd find in a typical hardware store: https://www.fiskars.com/en-us/gardening-and-yard-care/produc... For mechanical pencils, the Rotring 600 is the best thing I've ever written with: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZWYUA4/
https://www.mcmaster.com/ Fast, snappy, responsive. No banners or cookie prompts, doesn't ask my to sign up for a newsletter or an account to continue and see more selection, it doesn't load in megabytes of JavaScript to show me products. Plus, responsive as all heck, and there isn't any bullshit prompts like "click here to see our selected offerings" or "check out our value products here" Like, from. The short url,…
BitTorrent is amazing. It just works. Anyone anywhere can create a torrent of their files, dump the magnet link somewhere, and everyone else can reliably retrieve it. It is self-reinforcing; the more people using a torrent, the better the robustness, redundancy and download speeds. You can often get better speeds from downloading something via torrent than from a web server. It's an open protocol that is relatively e…
He's currently creating a cryptocurrency.
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Also getting to like 98% and not completing the download. Very aggravating
Does the BitTorrent protocol have an announcement / stored metadata of "recently highest percentage of file seen"? This seems like one of the biggest problems with more decentralized torrents (i.e. ones not backed by a community / core seeder), but also most a UX issue and seemingly trivially solvable.
Concept 2 rowing machine.
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I've been searching for a PB that didn't literally add trans fat. After a few years of searching, Pic's was the only good one.
There are peanut butter brands where the product is just blended peanuts. Though they can be more expensive and the texture is different.
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I ran into a door today that had a handle on the push side. Not even a crossbar - an aluminum folded-over handle, one on each of the double doors. It is, unmistakably, a pull handle , and it had "PUSH" written above it and even underlined, and still it gave me pause.
When I worked for squarespace, their beautiful new offices had glass conference room doors that swung one way, the other way, or slid on a track, depending on the room configuration. However every one of those doors had the same handle on both sides, giving you no clue as to which scenario this door was providing. You saw people pull/push the wrong way all the time, and then look up/to the side to see the hinges and…
Oxo's old style ice cream spade (apparently discontinued?) https://www.surlatable.com/oxo-ice-cream-spade/PRO-208926.ht... Solves all the problems with an ice cream scoop. Critically, this version had a rounded front. They seem to have moved to a straight front, which I can't imagine being as effective? 40s/50s Gillette Super Speed https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/wiki/Gillette_40s_Style... Shaving was a cheaply…
In my late 20's, I tried to spend a couple of years with those old-school Gillettes. Was not a fan. It did teach me a lot about why contemporary razors work better and are safer, and it felt worth learning that before going back to my Gillette Sensor. Also, nod to the Venus (primarily marketed to women). That razor makes even the Sensor look savage, and gives such great shaves on rounded surfaces.
I imagine a ton of success or failure is beard consistency too.
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Does the BitTorrent protocol have an announcement / stored metadata of "recently highest percentage of file seen"? This seems like one of the biggest problems with more decentralized torrents (i.e. ones not backed by a community / core seeder), but also most a UX issue and seemingly trivially solvable.
No, but clients do advertise how much of the torrent they have, so you can glance at your peer list and if you have 2 peers stuck at 10%... there's a good chance that you won't get more than 10%.
Which seems a pretty reasonable question for a user to have, if we're talking about fully decentralized torrents without a tracker.