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bwbmr commented on Julia Child's Culinary Notes jillianhess.substack.com/... · Posted by u/pepys

It's interesting to see her with Jacques Pepin. Jacques is a master chef and an absolute beast in the kitchen, but his recipes often skip steps or "cheat" in order to get something about as good with less time and work. Julia insists on doing it the "right" way and is more opinionated. Both are master chefs, but they each have a different approach to cooking, and both are great. I don't take this as a cooking lesson but as a life lesson.

bwbmr · 2 years ago

Ehhhh- Mastering the Art of French Cooking though opens up with "This is a book for the servantless American cook who can be unconcerned on occasion with budgets, waistlines, time schedules, children’s meals, the parent-chauffeur-den-mother syndrome, or anything else which might interfere with the enjoyment of producing something wonderful to eat."

Today we tent to view Mastering the Art of the French Cooking as fussy (and her forward does acknowledge that ones schedule must be free), in no small part due to works like Julie & Julia, but the opening lines in the forward are counter to that (Key phrase being "servantless American.")- on the contrary _not_ fussy but demonstrative of good foundational technique. Pepin's La Methode and La Technique are comparable, if not more formal, though of course very much aimed at a different audience. Both chefs published more casual, everyday recipes later in their career.

bwbmr commented on ThinMachine – A $25 thin client macOS Time Machine appliance tomverbeure.github.io/202... · Posted by u/picture

alwillis · 3 years ago

> TimeMachine is free and "good enough" for local / local network backups for most people

If you backup to an APFS-formatted network share, Time Machine is quite good and much more reliable than it was when backing up to HFS+ volumes. There was a lot of hackery going on to make HFS+ act like a modern file system emulating snapshots, which it didn't have. You could end up with millions of hard links; turns out that was kinda fragile…

APFS supports snapshots and a bunch of other features that makes Time Machine faster and more reliable.

bwbmr · 3 years ago

Is it possible to have a Linux server provide an APFS-formatted network share? Or does it require a Mac Mini + external drive in a closet?

bwbmr commented on Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON github.com/HamburgChimps/... · Posted by u/kello

mkmk · 3 years ago

I consistently struggle with Notes and iMessage sync issues, and I suspect it’s due to being a customer for so many years and making my way through many devices over those years.

The UX of the Apple ecosystem is so nice but when it goes sideways you’re kind of out of luck, even if you have applecare.

I wish they had some sort of premium “fix my esoteric appleID account issues” service you could pay them for once a decade or so.

bwbmr · 3 years ago

I agree- long standing issues that have popped up and are never fixed over the years:

1) My iPhone has never properly synced screen time with my other devices (presently my other devices: 2x iPads, MBP) sync fine together. This has persisted across multiple iPhones and major releases of iOS.

2) Apple News has a permanently saved “story” of a specific magazine issue’s table of contents. No idea how it got saved, but since it isn’t actually a story (it’s a ToC instead) the UI option to “unsave” it is greyed out / unavailable. I reported it to a CSR about four years ago, he took down bug reports, I even sent a screen capture demonstrating the bug… it still persists and Apple provides no mechanism to manually clear all saved story data. I can remove it locally from the device from disabling iCloud sync for Apple News -> selecting yes when prompted to remove local data, but it will still persist in iCloud and there is no way to wipe it there… it’s back as soon as I reenable sync.

bwbmr commented on UBS Acquires Wealthfront for $1.4B reuters.com/business/fina... · Posted by u/blobbers

dartdartdart · 4 years ago

Anyone know of any other product offer that will take excess after direct deposit and invest it for you?

I've called Fidelity and Betterment and both do not offer an automated way like wealthfront does. Really sad to see wealthfront being the only player in that space.

Edit: by automated I mean something like "everything over $10k after bills, invest". It takes a couple of clicks per month manually, but it's been pretty relieving not having to do that every month.

bwbmr · 4 years ago

Betterment had that until a month ago: "Two-Way Cash Sweep", though that swept into their cash reserve account, not the investment accounts. They said that less than 1% of users had it enabled, and so discontinued it.

bwbmr commented on Great AA Alkaline Battery Test (2016) goughlui.com/2016/12/19/g... · Posted by u/ValentineC

zh3 · 4 years ago

Let me leap in here to ding Duracell. They used to be my goto battery, but over the past few years (there was a hedge fund takeover, which IME rarely results in improvements to long-standing quality products) they've turned into liabilities - specifically, they are extremely prone to leaking once even a little bit discharged. To this day I open old kit and there can be duracells in there with "use by 2010" or even earlier dates which are fine, yet far newer batteries (e.g. bought in 2016 with expiries in 2022) leak like there's no tomorrow for the buyout team.

Interested to hear of others experiences, or I've just been amazingly unlucky.

bwbmr · 4 years ago

Same here, lots of leaks-- some family even has had a drawer full of unexpired Duracells leak. Myself, I've switched over completely to NiMh except when unsupported by the device to remove the change of leaks (Nest x Yale door lock in particular, which detected NiMh as low battery even when 90% of the cell capacity is remaining). AmazonBasics has been bad with leaks too.

Edit: I have a Powerex MH-C980 and that has significantly made using NiMh easier. Before with a bundled Panasonic charger I had to charge everything in pairs, 4 max. The Powerex I can charge 8 cells individually, turbo charge if I'm in a rush, and see how much energy actually was used if something seems to be eating through a lot of batteries.

bwbmr commented on Computer-1 mini-ITX Chassis teenage.engineering/produ... · Posted by u/bkmn

bwbmr · 4 years ago

I just built a Ryzen 5800x / B550i / RTX 3080 (well, 3080 is arriving tomorrow) to replace an aging i7-2600k + 980ti build mid tower, used an 18L CoolerMaster NR200p case [1], and pretty happy with that case overall-- lots of flexibility, though a bit bigger than most of the SFF PCs.

The Teenage Engineering case looks great as a non-gaming, everyday-use build, if a larger GPU isn't needed.

[1]: https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/cases/mini-itx/masterbo...

bwbmr commented on The Playdate store is now open shop.play.date/... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect

NikolaNovak · 4 years ago

Silly question - what does "Super reflective" mean in this context?

I always assumed "reflective" is "bad" when it comes to screens, and contrast in variable lighting conditions - it would reflect too much of background, other lights, etc. Best screens for variety of lighting conditions (as opposed to dark room) seem to be matte.

Any thoughts / anything I'm missing?

bwbmr · 4 years ago

You're thinking of backlit displays where a reflective front (between the user and the display) hurts screen visibility in bright light conditions. In this context, "super reflective" is referring to _behind_ the pixels of the display. There is no backlight, so the screen is lit up by ambient light. Increasing that reflectivity aids in contrast of the screen, since "white" pixels will be "whiter" (in this case they are actually grey but lighter grey if the screen is more reflective).

bwbmr commented on Simple Bank Is Closing oregonlive.com/silicon-fo... · Posted by u/roberto8647

iends · 5 years ago

Not parent, but my wife and I have been using YNAB for over 5 years, even before they moved to a web app. It’s changed our lives:

- We never fight about money because we have already planned for the next month together.

- We each get equal amount of no questions asked personal money that the other person cannot criticize how it’s spent.

- When we first started using YNAB we realized we were living off credit card float, and spending money we didn’t have until we got the months paycheck. We thought we were doing great just because we would pay our credit card off each month. But we were actually 100% relying on our future paychecks to survive.

- My wife lost her job 2 years ago and was out of work for a month due to COVID. The budget gave us an objective view rather than an emotional one. In both cases, we didn’t need to even rely on our emergency fund because of flexible budgeting.

- We are able to maximize credit card rewards without being concerned with spending too much.

- We are able to easily track our cash equivalent net worth.

Most of these things are not YNAB specific, but the software makes things so much easier.

bwbmr · 5 years ago

Do you each have a YNAB account, or share one?

bwbmr commented on Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text doc.norang.ca/org-mode.ht... · Posted by u/gjvc

nmarriott · 6 years ago

tmux can be configured not to limit the window size since tmux 2.9, and it is the default since tmux 3.1.

bwbmr · 6 years ago

Thanks- was using through byobu wrappers, need to check what version is on our company machines. Edit: 2.7, so that explains it.

bwbmr commented on Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text doc.norang.ca/org-mode.ht... · Posted by u/gjvc

mark_l_watson · 6 years ago

I surprised myself when I stopped using org-mode when I "retired" (ha!) March 2019. At my last on-site job, I had to juggle managing a small deep learning team, work on 100+ US patents, and all of my own technical work and research. Org-mode was perfect to keep everything organized.

Now, I rely heavily on Apple Notes (this required discovering a little app that exports the notes for backup, and also realizing that I can use the web apps in iCloud.com on my Linux laptop).

This reliance on Notes may change however as just recently I have developed the habit of keeping a Mosh (like SSH) session always open between my iPhone and iPad to my remote server, with appropriate tmux setups for each device. I was just thinking yesterday about how I could now always keep a tmux pane open to emacs+org-mode.

bwbmr · 6 years ago

Big mosh user here myself. How do you deal with tmux limiting window size to the lowest common denominator device? I usually run a little bash script manually to disconnect other tmux sessions whenever I switch devices, which gets annoying.

Also which app for Apple Notes exports do you use?