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I went the opposite of number 5. Instead of having multiple monitors, I just have 1 big 4k 32" monitor. I found that I am more distracted when having more than one monitor. Lots of people are guilty with no. 49, especially when it comes to romance. Social media and dating sites has made cultivating a personal brand a top priority.
These are really great! I imagine one could write a paragraph (or more) on each, and one could setup a whole process of following through with all of them. In fact, this is inspiring: I'm going to put these in a list and review them regularly and try to take a (small) action on each. Anyone wanna try it with me? BTW - only two that I disagree with: > 13. When googling a recipe, precede it with ‘best’. You’ll find bet…
My hot recipe tip: Get a cookbook or three, and don't bother with the SEO cesspool. - I'm Just Here for the Food (and the sequel) - Six Seasons - Cook's Country - Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat And others, but those are the ones I use most. Especially Six Seasons -- if you are interested in reducing the amount of meat in your diet but find the vege/vegan web sphere too annoying, that's your ticket.
> “Where is the good knife?” If you’re looking for your good X, you have bad Xs. Throw those out. Keeping around a couple beater knives is how I have a good knife. I think there's value to the general point, but a lot of the cases where I have variable quality items, it's not for sloppiness.
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I totally agree that having enough storage space for your full collection was an important differentiator. But the thing is that the iPod wasn't the first to market for that either. I remember having the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Jukebox and loving it before the iPod came along. I don't think it was just the storage size that was the difference. It was the combination of a well designed simple UI togethe…
Two other factors that are often overlooked in the early success of the ipod: 400mb/s Firewire let you actually put a lot of files on it in a reasonable amount of time. The theoretical 11mb/s of USB 1.1 was painfully slow in comparison. The ipod was _tiny_ compared to the other hard drive based mp3 players of the time.
Also, on the iPod you could browse your music in an organized fashion (e.g. by artist), whereas with other mp3 players it was just a long list of tracks.
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Maybe this is true, but without any sort of evidence or detail it reads far more like you status signalling how above-it-all you are than a meaningful comment.
I don't use reddit much, so maybe I've got this completely wrong. (But the post doesn't say "use reddit", it says "search reddit".) Look at frying pans. Reddit will tell you that cast iron is the only option. Carbon steel is wrong ("home burners don't get hot enough", stainless steel is wrong ("too hard for you to use"), aluminium non stick is wrong ("only good for beginners who don't know what they're doing"), alumi…
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/4lnezr/best_option...
You have a point, but this "Reddit will tell you that cast iron is the only option." is not accurate.
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Some people have spent thousands of hours perfecting their craft. To think you can produce the same output with a few hours of YouTube tutorials is laughable. I’m happy to pay these experts because I know I will get my moneys worth. It’ll also free up my time to explore things I have a higher interest and affinity for
If very high-skilled work is needed and/or specialized tools (replacing a front-door, plumbing a gas-line), I agree, it's hard to match a skilled professional. In my experience, the vast majority of household diy/repair does not require that level of skill. It can also be hard to find a really skilled person that cares about your home as much as you. For me, I tend towards fixing/making everything myself unless it re…
This is something I've found to be true.
We bought a house that we later found had some significant water damage issues. I hired a professional the first time we noticed it and he did little more than paper over the problem.
I ended up spending the next two years basically tearing the wall apart and redoing all the sheathing and insulation and house wrap.
Sure I could have hired someone and they would have eventually done all that for me, but I'm pretty confident it would have been in the tens of thousands of dollars by that point.
Caring about the end result will get you a long way.
But part of it is probably also that I come from a working class family and was immersed in the basics of that sort of work for my entire growing up time.
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I don't use reddit much, so maybe I've got this completely wrong. (But the post doesn't say "use reddit", it says "search reddit".) Look at frying pans. Reddit will tell you that cast iron is the only option. Carbon steel is wrong ("home burners don't get hot enough", stainless steel is wrong ("too hard for you to use"), aluminium non stick is wrong ("only good for beginners who don't know what they're doing"), alumi…
I just googled "frying pan reddit" and this was the first result: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/4lnezr/best_option... You have a point, but this "Reddit will tell you that cast iron is the only option." is not accurate.
I disagree with this one. Even though sophistication means that one cannot enjoy bad wine/music/art/food as much, it also is the condition for having a full appreciation of the work of art you are enjoying.
Beware that some of these are US-centric (or I simply don’t get them) like “don’t talk to cops”. Why not? Mine would be “talk to cops whenever you have a chance. They’re nice”.
Cooking is also western specific. Because eating out in a western country costs arm and legs. Back, in my developing country, I ate out every meal every day because it costs like 1 USD a dish.
> If your work is done on a computer, get a second monitor. Less time navigating between windows means more time for thinking. I don't agree. Use a virtual desktop instead and switch workspaces with a keyboard shortcut. I'm currently using 9 workspaces, and monitors couldn't ever beat that UX.
It's much easier to comprehend the data from multiple windows if I can see both at the same time. Instead of switching back and forth just have them both open. Virtual desktop work very well too, but they're still improved with multiple monitors.
Desktop 1: Browser & chat apps (alt+tab switching)
Desktop 2: Code editor
Desktop 3: Terminal (tiled and tabbed)
Desktop 4: Rarely used
There are certainly use cases where multiple screens have their advantage and I've also every now and then drooled over a 4k monitor, but then I'd lose the portability a laptop gives me (and/or suffer when constrained to it).