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setBoolean commented on Lab-made dairy products are now a reality newscientist.com/article/... · Posted by u/hiddencache

Animats · 4 years ago

The dairy industry was already in trouble. Milk consumption is declining. Frantic efforts to add cheese to everything seem to have reached some limit. New studies indicate that adults should not have more than two servings of dairy products per day. Lactose intolerance is rising in the US population.

Now this.

setBoolean · 4 years ago

New studies indicate that adults should not have more than two servings of dairy products per day.

Citation needed.

setBoolean commented on 25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/secure

j1elo · 4 years ago

I'm always amazed by people who don't bat an eye on the perspective of having a home server, sucking up electricity 24/7. In this case replacing a typical router (which consumes like a lightbulb), with a full-fledged PC (probably consuming like x100 the power).

I guess some people around the world have quite cheap utility bills! For me, it's either a Raspberry Pi type of power consumption, or else a server that only powers on when needed. But I haven't learned yet how to do the latter, if possible at all.

In fact this is a nice place to ask: how would you build a "something" that monitors the network for packets sent to powered-off machines, then somehow caches the request, powers the destination machine On, and finally lets the request continue to its target? Has this been tackled anywhere? There must be tons of people wanting a homeserver but living in places where electricity has a considerable cost...

setBoolean · 4 years ago

I have a HomeKit power plug that is able to measure the power usage. It sits before most of my living room devices including:

2x OG HomePods (Standby) - 55" Philips OLED (Standby) - Hue Bridge 2. Gen (Running) - ATV 4K 1.Gen (Standby) - Netatmo Weather Station (Running) - Linksys MR8300 OpenWrt 21.02 (Running) - Home Server (i5-6600, 16GB DDR3, 2x 256GB 850 EVO, 1Gb USB3 Ethernet Adapter as second NIC, Running)

Reading with all devices combined is 35-40W.

setBoolean commented on A man recreating air travel’s most glorious meals atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/CaptainZapp

Mordisquitos · 4 years ago

> Sennhauser says that bewildered Americans often ask if he constantly flew first-class. “I wish I was flying first-class,” Sennhauser says. “I’m recreating mostly economy class meals.” Some European and Asian airlines see offering their customers something nice to eat as a matter of hospitality, he says. “Whereas in the U.S., I feel like they’ve just thrown up their hands and said, ‘We’re done.’”

This resonates with my own experience. I've always been aware of the cliché that airline food is terrible and the "What's the deal with airline food...?" trope, but when I was young and my mum and I would to fly every summer to visit her side of our family in the UK I really looked forward to the in-flight meals (this was the good old days when short haul flights would serve food). On the very rare occasions when I take a long haul flight which still serves meals I still do look forward to them. The meals are of course different to what you'd normally eat on land, but they almost feel like a style of cuisine in itself.

So really, what is the deal with airline food? It's not actually bad!

setBoolean · 4 years ago

On my last flight with JAL from Japan to Europe they served a MOS Burger themed building set. It was quiet funny to watch the whole plane trying to assemble their burgers.

setBoolean commented on Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram through the lens of Pokemon Go stripes.com/theaters/midd... · Posted by u/lalaland1125

MomoXenosaga · 4 years ago

Reminds me of Apocalypse Now where colonel Kurtz explains the US will lose because in their minds they aren't fighting a war in Vietnam they're still in America.

I realize nobody actually watches that movie anymore but I have and everything still fits.

setBoolean · 4 years ago

I was too young to see the original release in a movie theater and was all the more exited to catch up on this when the Final Cut was released. Truly a remarkable and timeless piece of cinema. The 4K Dolby Atmos/Vision version is also highly recommendable if you've never seen this gem.

setBoolean commented on “Great resignation” wave coming for companies axios.com/resignations-co... · Posted by u/samizdis

paulcole · 5 years ago

I took 3 years off, didn’t do anything other than read, watch tv, go to the movies, and walk/ride my bicycle. Never traveled once. Loved every minute of it.

Doing nothing doesn’t get boring for everyone. And it’s my time not yours so who’s to say what a waste is?

My biggest advice is to do what you want and don’t feel like you have to live up to some HN-gap-year fantasy. You might regret sitting in your apartment surfing the internet (I didnt) but you might also regret traveling. It’s your time. Do what you want.

setBoolean · 5 years ago

I just want to thank you for sharing your story and for me it's really a wholesome one. Best of luck to you on your further ways.

setBoolean commented on After a week at my mom’s house I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand twitter.com/RobertGReeve/... · Posted by u/deadcoder0904

dotancohen · 5 years ago

My wife's family is from Romania. A few months ago while eating with our children we were discussing flags, and I mentioned that Chad's flag is identical to the Romanian flag. The wife's phone, with Facebook and Whatsapp and a million junk apps installed was nearby.

The very next day I open Youtube and one of the suggested videos is an explanation of the Chad and Romanian flags. I had not searched for anything relevant, and upon asking the children and wife (only people present) if they had mentioned the conversation to anybody or looked for something online, they say that they hadn't. And I believe them, I'm always presenting to them small bits of information about the world even though I know that 99% of it gets forgotten immediately.

That was a few months ago.

Lately I have been unable to fall asleep. I refuse to use the phone or any electronic devices after 12 (and wear Gunnars after the sun goes down) but in any case I lie in bed sometimes until the sun rises. I mentioned this to one of my kids (5 years old) a few days ago, I don't know whose phones were where. But the very next day I get an advertisement for "Medicines for those sleepless nights". Now maybe, just maybe, one of the older children or the wife used a phone late at night that specific night. But it seems far too far fetched to imagine that this happened exactly the day after I mentioned that I sometimes don't sleep.

I am 100% convinced that our phones are listening for keywords and assigning us to categories based on that.

setBoolean · 5 years ago

Wouldn't it be possible that the wife looked up the flag topic on Google after the discussion and that it got mixed up as both devices shared the same (external) IP during that time? And because of that you got this suggestion? Just playing devils advocate here.

setBoolean commented on Twitter confirms Twitter Blue twitter.com/wongmjane/sta... · Posted by u/0xedb

jpindar · 5 years ago

All you have to do for that is to use Tweetdeck.

setBoolean · 5 years ago

I use Tweetdeck extensively on macOS but on mobile even as a web app it just isn‘t nearly as polished as a native app like Tweetbot.

setBoolean commented on Apple has a decade-long lead in wearables aboveavalon.com/notes/202... · Posted by u/kulpreet

defaultname · 5 years ago

I work in the AR space and it is incredible how much Apple is preparing their entire platform for a massive push into AR. For years they have been laying a very robust groundwork with their APIs (ARKit, RealityKit, SceneKit), the inclusion of LIDAR on their iPhone 12 Pro / iPad Pro, and likely the entire iPhone 13 line. These are all things that are effectively gimmicky and seem like failures with little uptake, but all of it is just prepping for the inevitable headset in the very near future.

They are going to absolutely dominate the market so completely.

setBoolean · 5 years ago

That baffles me sometimes. A lot of people see some features that they think of as gimmicky on their own. But then all of the sudden Apple releases something new that utilizes all those little features and combines them to something groundbreaking.

setBoolean commented on Twitter confirms Twitter Blue twitter.com/wongmjane/sta... · Posted by u/0xedb

fernandotakai · 5 years ago

honestly, if they take out the ads and stopped selling my data, i would pay 3 USD without any issues.

setBoolean · 5 years ago

That and an option to permanently opt out of their curation of my timeline. I just want to see the content of people I actually follow in a chronological fashion.

At the moment I‘am quiet happy using Tweetbot but most 3rd party clients are hampered due to API restrictions on Twitters side.

setBoolean commented on Stuffed Dormouse and Fish Gut Sauce: The Flavors of Pompeii (2019) nytimes.com/2019/08/07/ar... · Posted by u/diodorus

jayd16 · 5 years ago

People see fish sauce and are shocked but Worcestershire sauce is a fish sauce.

setBoolean · 5 years ago

Worcestershire sauce is delicious too but to be fair there are a lot of variants that omit the fish part.