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(A lot of the talk in pizza making circles is about using very fresh mozzarella, based mainly on 'tradition'. Nathan Mhyrvold just published a book on pizza that seems to show a counter-argument. I'm not paying £300 for a cookbook without really knowing it's worth it though, so I'll wait for the British Library to get it.)
I think other fresh cheeses could be worthwhile. A similar process to mozzarella makes queso oaxahaca, which isn't easily found here. The big difference is oaxaca is stretched into an extremely long thread, then knotted, then dried.
I wouldn't want to make hard cheeses at home, the food poisoning risk is way too high for me.
I also agree, paneer is a great start.
Logging each exception vs logging nothing is a false dichotomy. I'm not sure anyone whose suggested fudging a 'Result' type in a language without sum types has ever done so, or at least stuck around afterwards. I'd like to be equally condescending in my answer to 'is my team ready for logging side effects?'. The fact that a distributed log aggregation, storage, and visualisation framework has a docker-compose file no more complex than a well configured SQL database does not terrify me.
It was the ‘(>>=) = Parser<‘a> -> (‘a -> Parser<‘b>) -> Parser<‘b>’ that flicked the lightswitch in my head.
Be purposeful with sleep. Work out how many hours you need, have a schedule, stick to it. I do 2200-0600, if I’m out late I still get up at 0600, a few ‘short’ nights a week won’t ruin my energy. Also, if I’m stuck at home, nothing interesting happens after 10pm. Distractions like my phone are kept in another room.
Push mindless binging out for more intensive activities. As OP says, rest does not have to be relaxed. It doesn’t have to be solitary, although it can be. The things I do (and what they bring me) are: board gaming (social), tennis (social, competition, exercise), running (solitary, calming, exercise), woodworking (solitary, satisfaction), Age of Empires II (competition), and piano (solitary, creative). It seems a lot when I write it down, but I still have a fair amount of downtime.
That said, I’ve been roped into diplomacy games with RPG groups, which tend to go south long before any real double-crossing occurs. After about two turns, someone is already dead, people are realising there’s another 7 hours of doing the same thing over and over, and the game gets abandoned.
If you want to strengthen friendships with games it’s important to pick the right games. Playing diplomacy at work would… not be a great idea. It would be like suggesting murder-and-incest-sim CK3 over a family zoom call.
London has one of the highest percentages of green space of any large city (33%), excellent public transport, some of the best music and theatre in the world, options in all British sports supplemented by regular visits from American leagues, excellent (though not leading) restaurants and speciality food markets, and more. You can't discount the English language either.
Regarding Brexit, at the moment it's kind of hard to say because COVID (and the ongoing collapse of the government) has muddled its economic impact so much.
Most employees in well-funded organisations in the UK will have private healthcare too. My plan costs me ~£14pm, which is actually tax rather than a premium, with no deductible/copay/excesses.
Is a wonderful sentence.
That was really fun! I'd like to see all the combinations rendered out as a matrix though.
I remember /r/crypto having predictable problems, given its a fairly small community going back long before cryptocurrency gained mainstream attention.
Per my shallow understanding (I only read the introduction to the paper), the marker hFwe-Lose is expressed by cells that are struggling, thus close to death. It's the precursor for apoptsis.
It makes sense to me that COVID affecting lung tissue would cause more apoptsis, thus more hFwe-Lose pushed out either through breath or mucus.
Is the 'news' here the discovery of the marker hFwe-Lose?
Fortunately the card they have expired last December.
LENR is not a particularly active field of research. The most recent noteworthy paper is a well funded, failed, replication. It is a pipedream. There are almost no LENR scientists.
I can't see any noteworthy papers for PdNi as a hydrogen storage mechanism. It's capability to absorb (hold within its structure; not adsorb, to hold on surface) hydrogen has been known for a century, if it had utility we would know by now.
Firstly, there is a fundamental issue - H² doesn't really give you anything to work with. The vast majority of compounds have two protons, two neutrons (rare isotopes have more protons). [They're distributed in the most boring orbitals, just spheres with no real edge to gain leverage.](https://winter.group.shef.ac.uk/orbitron/atomic_orbitals/1s/...)
This lack of leverage makes surface adsorption tricky. The molecule gives us nothing to grab. You won't carefully craft a surface that can hold H².
I think right now there's a focus on activated carbon. That's become a bit of a synonym for 'graphene', with it's well known limitations.
When I studied the subject, metal-organic complexes were the focus. These would be extremely customisable, but if they worked we'd probably have seen by now. They tended to use heavy metals. I wasn't optimistic at the time, I thought anything using materials past the 4th row of the periodic table was unrealistic. As the metals get heavier they get expensive and sometimes rare. If we want to solve a common problem, we need common components. If your solution has lanthanoid, it won't scale.
I was right btw. The research group closed when funding was reallocated. Each experiment ran the research budget of another group. MoC's don't really get much love any more.
Anyway, we should probably think about what makes a good hydrogen adsorption material. I think it's pretty simple, you want a material that: stores a high density of hydrogen, is reusable, quickly picks up hydrogen, and quickly releases hydrogen.
The latter 2 categories is the 'kinetics'. Of the materials we know, all (literally all) that have 'good' kinetics are either single use or low density. Conversely, all that are both multi use and relatively high density have poor kinetics. Additionally, most of those with good kinetics have unrealistic conditions, like requiring 400˚C temperature to release the hydrogen.
I'm rarely as concerned about northern forests though. Fir trees count for half, or less, IMO. Without beech, silver birch, oak and yew the forest is fake.