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by bcbrown 3y ago
Have you tried barkeeper's friend with a nylon scrubbie or steel wool? I've found that to be excellent, if labor-intensive, at returning stainless steel to like-new condition, even when dealing with oily residue that's been b
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by bcbrown 3y ago
Absolutely, many trees have evolutionary countermeasures to fires. Some trees are very well-suited to colonized disturbed ground - they will opportunistically surge into an area after a wildfire, as either more of their seeds will germinate
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by bcbrown 3y ago
I'd question that definition of "pristine". The old-growth temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, have only existed for about 10-12,000 years; that's about how long it's been since the entire
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by bcbrown 3y ago
> But how much chance is there that the user actually typed Revlon with a capital R? I think practically nil. Uh....... You might want to spend a second researching what "Revlon" is before speculating like this. I'm 100% p
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by bcbrown 3y ago
A quick search for e.g. "Revlon legal standard" will clear that up.
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by bcbrown 3y ago
You can read for enjoyment and you can read for self-improvement; either is fine by me as long as you aren't deceiving yourself. Imbuing a recreational activity with moral heft can devalue both recreation and morality, and I think that
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by bcbrown 3y ago
I was curious how one gamifies the printed page, and it turns out this article isn't so much about books as it is social media. Turns out, if you interview people who are obsessive about social media, you end up interviewing some prett
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by bcbrown 3y ago
Trading insults back and forth isn't going to be very conducive to a productive discussion. Why don't you tell me a little about your theory of moral values in cultural expression and consumption and I'll tell you a little ab
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by bcbrown 3y ago
That's some pretentious bullshit. Sneering at others because their cultural tastes don't match yours does nothing but help you feel superior to others for a few moments. And I say this as someone who reads a lot of fiction, subscr
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by bcbrown 3y ago
This is something I didn't fully understand until I was hired into a position of a formal role model - principal engineer on a new team of fairly junior engineers. My manager had several conversations with me to drill into me that I no
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by bcbrown 3y ago
When you're using shaped charges to turn a large metal sphere into a small metal sphere, just about everything needs a high degree of precision.
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by bcbrown 3y ago
HST once gave his press badge on the Muskie campaign train in Florida to a random miscreant he met while out drinking[0], who then the next day went on to terrorize everyone on the train, ordering things at the press bar like a "triple
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by bcbrown 3y ago
I love QED! That was recommended to me by the professor who caused me to change majors from EE to physics. I just looked for it on my bookshelves but I must have misplaced it somewhere in the intervening two decades. I understand what you&#
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by bcbrown 3y ago
I'm looking at Griffiths right now, and 9.3 Electromagnetic Waves in Matter states (emphasis in the original): "Since [the dielectric constant] is almost always greater than 1, light travels more slowly through matter - a fact t
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by bcbrown 3y ago
> For another example, see speed of light in glass is slower than vacuum. I'd love for you to explain what you mean by this. Either you're mistaken or I'm about to learn something really interesting. Here's a link a q
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by bcbrown 3y ago
Life doesn't have a purpose, it just lives.
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by bcbrown 3y ago
I'm not from Philly, but my mom is, and every time I went back east I ate plenty of cheese steaks. To me, the essense of the bread is a chewyness, a toothiness. The crumb is substantial, the crust is minimal. If you bake bread in Vietn
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by bcbrown 3y ago
Webster's first dictionary was a one-man project and took 26 years. He learned 28 languages in order to research the etymologies. This New International is my favorite of the handful I own. I learned about it from https://js
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You’re probably using the wrong dictionary (2014)(jsomers.net)
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by bcbrown 3y ago
I'm not certain that this is exactly what you're talking about, but one of my dictionaries (Webster's New International, 1916) includes this under the entry for Authentic, which brings me great joy: Authentic, Genuine. The pr
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by bcbrown 4y ago
This post is talking about the prevalance of the emotions of anger, bitterness, anxiety, and resentfulness online, and I think it's interesting and noteworthy how many of the comments here express similar emotions. Over the past year o
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by bcbrown 4y ago
The paywall is implemented in Javascript; the article loads fine with Javascript disabled.
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by bcbrown 4y ago
The ratio of commercial:recreational quoatas depend on the numeric value for the season, but at lower quotas the ratio skews heavily recreational. So when the run is substantial, commercial fisheries can fish, but when the run is marginal,
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by bcbrown 4y ago
> you don't need multiple monitors to do code development if you have listing printed out Whenever I run into an especially intractable bug, one of the first techniques I attempt to use to solve it is to print out all the relevant s
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by bcbrown 4y ago
The Master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.
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by bcbrown 4y ago
And yet we cannot tame it. I understand the objection - clearly the Mississippi is not sentient, does not consciously choose what to do. It's a collection of matter that obeys the statistical laws of physics. Clearly the intuitive sens
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by bcbrown 4y ago
That's beautiful. It makes me want to re-read the Scarlet Letter.
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by bcbrown 4y ago
I guess I thought that since salt water solution was ionic, all solutions in water were ionic. Thanks for teaching me something new.
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by bcbrown 4y ago
How does too dry wood result in higher particulate emissions?
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by bcbrown 4y ago
Yes, it can be. By carefully designing the size of the various chambers in a stove, full combustion can be achieved such that the only byproducts are CO2 and H20. This does not happen in a conventional fireplace. Part of the motivating desi

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