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Post by datahack »

e40 wrote: post #174
datahack wrote: post #89

I’m learning about the “era of the nations” thinking from Hungary’s Balázs Orbán, via an episode of a podcast called the Winston Marshall show. YouTube just randomly suggested it to me. I just rebuild a speed queen dryer that broke with spare parts from Amazon, which revealed a remarkably simplistic engineering. Very surprised by how simplistic the mechanism was. It’s incredible how over engineered most laundry syste…

Still using my Speed Queen washer and dryer. Bought 30 years ago. You’ve given me confidence to try to fix it when it stops working. Thanks!

Absolutely.

Ours are 10 years old, and the bearings wore out (well they were squeaking!) on the drum.

It took 20 minutes and a ratchet set to repair — couldn’t be easier.

It’s the best appliance we have ever owned. Can’t speak more highly of the company. Definitely the best on the market.

30 years is impressive!

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Post by dysoco »

ilinx wrote: post #16

I’m reading Domain Driven Development and learning why so many of my projects have been tough to maintain. I also recently learned that you can get ancient coins for very little money if you don’t care about resale value or need them to be in pristine condition. I bought some coins from kingdoms that I’d never heard of. Many are thousands of years old! It’s fun holding a piece of history like that.

> I’m reading Domain Driven Development and learning why so many of my projects have been tough to maintain.

Because they didn't take advice from that book or because they DID take advice from that book?

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cal_dent wrote: post #369
sowbug wrote: post #245

On a recent trip to Costa Rica, I discovered "Rice and Beans," which is not Gallo Pinto, but a Caribbean-influenced dish made principally of white rice, red kidney beans, coconut milk, and thyme. The dish name is in quotes because it's really the English words "Rice and Beans." It's marvelous, and I couldn't wait to try making it myself at home. Unfortunately, so far, it's been a mushy flavorless mess. I'll try a thi…

This is really interesting as it more or less sounds like the recipe for Jamaican "rice and peas" which is delicious and very easy to make. This recipe (minus the bacon, which has no place in rice and peas imo) is a solid easy entry recipe so might be useful: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oct/05/how-to-make-ric... happy cooking and eating!

Thanks! I'm following that recipe right now. Already had the beans soaking overnight, so it's perfect timing.

Update: this recipe has the desired consistency (though I switched to basmati rice, so that's another factor). I had some emergency lard in the refrigerator as a bacon substitute, and that helps a lot. I'm still struggling with capturing a strong coconut taste; I used canned milk, because the fresh coconut I got is a white coconut, so the meat wasn't very flavorful, and I didn't end up using it. The journey continues.

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Post by conductr »

Balgair wrote: post #219

Finished "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Hemmingway Wow, so powerful. So real. I can see why it won the accolades at the time and why it stays. The ending. You could see it a mile away, but it was so hurtful still. Would love to see another adaptation made of it, especially nowadays. Maybe a really long movie, 2 parts?

Was a Hemmingway fan as a middle-schooler but never read this one. Your comment sold me on it! Thanks!!

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Post by e40 »

Aditya_kachhawa wrote: post #388
e40 wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was monitoring the linux kernel mailing list when this happened. Wild times. It seemed then that something special was happening.

Oh wow, you were following the mailing list when it happened? That must've been entertaining. Did it feel significant at the time or just like another "Linus is pissed and building something" moment?

I definitely felt like I was watching something unusual and special. Watching it go from "I have this idea" to "I'm hosting the kernel on it" was insanely cool.

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Post by saltcured »

satvikpendem wrote: post #362
saltcured wrote: post #358

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Well, not exactly in that there are cultivars and farm differences. In that way it is a little bit like grape wine, where different processing can produce very different wines from the same grapes, but there are also differences in grapes that can come through within a style.

In a way, yes; Wuyi rock oolong will be different than a high mountain Taiwanese oolong. But what most people think of as green vs black tea, they don't realize that it's the same exact plant. Camellia sinensis has only 2 cultivars, var. sinensis (the main one) and var. assamica .

Right. A lot of people also don't realize red and white wines often come from the same red grapes.

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ainiriand wrote: post #85

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Post by eightys3v3n »

tomni wrote: post #385
Aachen wrote: post #293

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Checking it out locally, they go for 30€ here. That's cheap! I remember just a few years ago such products costing 80~100€ if you wanted it in a polished product (not a sensor from China, needing to write code to read it out). Is this a direct CO2 measurement, not one of these that uses VOC as a proxy measurement?

I was able to find this blog post of a deep-dive into the ALPSTUGA: https://danieldk.eu/Hardware/Smart-Home/IKEA-ALPSTUGA . The part from the post that answers your question is this: The sensing platform used is a Sensirion SEN63C, which uses a STCC4 for CO₂ measurements. Unfortunately, this is not an NDIR sensor. Instead it uses less accurate thermal conductivity sensing. This allows building smaller/cheaper sensors…

Oh, that's a shame :( Similar to when I bought a TVOC sensor that claimed to have CO2 as well. Until I realized it was eCO2 which is pretty much useless because it just guestimated based on TVOC counts.
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