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The texture, weight, and resistance of ground meat is really key to understanding how "done" it is. If it is no longer "springy" at all, it's overdone. But what cut of meat you have, and how it was ground, is also essential to the result.

The best teacher in the kitchen is repetition. Take a ball of whatever meat you have, try to cook it. However it comes out, make a tiny adjustment, try it again. Do that a dozen times. You won't have spent very much money, but you will have learned a lot about how it reacts in a pan. Do that for all kinds of foods and you will very quickly become experienced.

Yeah, what they're asking for needs to be an app / integration / plugin that ties different solutions together. A kitchen sink approach will forever be mired in gigantic codebases that a single group or company can't coherently maintain [at a reasonable time or cost], and a marketplace of solutions is better able to evolve. We need more simple and specific tools that don't do much, but can be combined with other simple specific tools.

Take branching models for example. Why do we have different "branching models" that work certain ways? Firstly because somebody built a tool that works a certain way (Git) and people need to figure out how to use it. Secondly because how you use it has a direct effect on other things, so you need some coherent model for how your group will use it. And thirdly because there's a few specific ways of using the tool, so we write those down and give it a name. Nobody set out to design these branching models, they just evolved as people started using the tool in different ways.

The same should (and kinda does) happen with project management, time tracking, issue/bug/work tracking, documentation, incident response, budgeting, etc. But mostly it's within one ecosystem (Atlassian's) or another. It should really be more general, and it should be easier to integrate different solutions and build on top, and from there new standard patterns can emerge such that we don't have to be stuck into one ecosystem.

One might then ask: why not just let the user click a button in the browser to see the page, without jumping through all those hoops? How does increased human toil make it better? (Spoiler: it doesn't)

If HTTP/1.1 is deprecated from all browsers, and HTTP/3 eventually becomes the only way to view a web page, then it will be impossible to host a localnet web page (ex. a wifi router). The people pushing this standard through don't make routers, so they don't give a shit, and everyone on the planet will just be screwed. This is what happens when we let 1 or 2 companies run the internet for us

The Stanford Prison Experiment was a fraud, please don't listen to rationale based on one unreproduced "study".

"The context of one’s life defines not just what but how one thinks, and a job tends to dominate the context of one’s life — particularly when that job is considered to be part of a career. Your job will change you."

Absolute and complete pseudoscientific bullshit. Everything in life changes you. Every. Thing. Your job, the old man that works at the fruit stand around the corner from your flat, the air you breathe. No one thing in your life is going to determine who you are, because your rational, conscious, decision-making brain is what chooses your path in life. Not some amorphous organization or position that supposedly has control over your cognitive pathways. You change you.

Go ahead and chase a career. Will your life be any better or worse than if you didn't? There is absolutely no way to know that in advance.

You know how you discover yourself? By living your life. By self-reflection, by seeking knowledge, and also by flipping a coin and walking wherever the coin leads.

"Learn three chords, start a band, and go on tour. Ride a bicycle as far as you can. Go WWOOFing or start a community garden in your neighborhood. Put together a traveling puppet show. Build a drone to engage the emerging drones controlled by domestic police. Do whatever — but make it uncomfortable (like leaving prison!) and make it count."

Or don't. It doesn't matter. You are going to become who you are going to be, no matter what you do or don't do. You don't have to be uncomfortable. Nothing you do has to "count". It can, if you want. But you don't need to live some noble life. Your life doesn't have to have meaning. You don't have to seek new experiences and become some dynamic, interesting renaissance man. It's your life.

Here's my career advice:

If you want a career, keep in mind that a career is basically a marathon, whereupon the end goal of the race is to have a high position, good pay, the respect and reference of your peers, interesting work, personal fulfillment, and a fat retirement account. If that's what you want, then most of your actions should be centered around becoming likeable, knowledgeable, useful, and constantly preparing for the next step on the path. If you do it really well, you can climb very fast, but that might work against you. If you do it poorly, you can end up not very far, without much money, or references, or prospects, when you need them the most. Careers are largely a political consideration.

That said, even with this weird political focus around work, you can still have a personal life that revolves around whatever you want outside of work. You also have a very wide latitude of what kind of work you do, where you do it, who you do it for, what its results are, how long and how hard you do it, etc. There is a very, very wide spectrum of both career, and life, and you don't have to fit into anyone's mold. You can even give birth to your own career niche.

The point of this comment, just like the point of Moxie's post, is to tell you that you have options. You can expand your horizons and do all kinds of things that you aren't aware of yet. But also know that, no matter where you go or what you do, you are still just who you are. Life doesn't get better or worse based on what you do. It's your state of mind that makes life worth living. You are not your job. You are yourself.

The CCTV recording would be direct conclusive evidence. In the absence of such evidence, testimony that can't be disproven in cross and casts reasonable doubt will work just fine.

Even with a CCTV recording, you can use testimony to cast the CCTV recording in a light favorable to either the prosecution or defense. The circumstances surrounding evidence are weighed in order to come to a verdict or judgement.

Court cases are not about "who has the most incontrovertible proof", they are about convincing a judge or jury of an idea in order to get a specific outcome. Do not underestimate testimony (or really, any evidence that you think is inferior)

If the testimony is easily dismissable, then submitting it would be bad for their case. They wouldn't submit it as evidence unless it could be backed up or was reasonable. It's a serious mistake to underestimate testimony as somehow less useful in a case.

> It's an opinion from someone who hates you/benefits from convicting you.

Hence why the opposing side gets the opportunity to cross-examine the witness, and why it would be a really bad idea to put forward a witness who clearly has a grudge against the accused. In cross you just show they have a grudge and now their testimony is suspect.

> Now, if they had actual evidence it'd be different

It is actual evidence. I don't think you know what evidence is...

Courts quite frequently convict people based on circumstantial evidence. Conviction is based on the determination of either a jury or a judge, and neither are required to have or use direct evidence.

Before Launcher is great if you want to silence notifications selectively and make the home screen less attractive. Noisy apps no more; only one or two apps get to interrupt me. I happily pay for the premium version.

Is the problem "net carbon", or is it "hey there is 100nm carbon particles entering my brain from my lungs" ? I feel like it's the latter ? And I'm not sure how natural rubber is gonna stop that ?

Fun fact: sns.amazonaws.com still has no DMARC record. This is where AWS SNS messages originate from unless you use a custom domain, and it's where all CloudWatch alerts come from (no-reply@sns.amazonaws.com)

I pay $850/month for a tiny house in the woods where I work remote. I get that a lot of people want to live a city lifestyle, but if you're only in SF for the work, you don't have to be

12 mile range?? i bought a scooter that is smaller (only long, not long+tall) with greater range for less than half the price, 4 years ago.

"Open Source" doesn't win, period, because it doesn't compete with anything. Open Source is not a business model or a product. It's an engineering widget. You can use it to build a product, or you can use it to make a jig to shore up an uneven table leg. Nobody cares about the license or whether they can read your code. They care if you build a product that solves their problem.

You know why companies use Open Source, for the most part? It's free. Not because it's better than the non-Open Source alternative, because very often, it is not. And not because they can read the source code, because companies need a working product much more than they need the ability to write their own patch for a bug. And not because of some feel-good notion of sharing with a community. It's just cheap and plentiful. Which is great, for the consumer. But it's not easy to build a company on a free product.

For the most part, Open Source products win by either being A) cheaper, B) Freemium, C) "Source-Available", D) being the incumbent, or E) a better product.

Sometimes "a better product" really does win out, if a product is able to provide features competitors don't. But incumbents have had the time and resources to establish lots of features, a solid track record, and lots of support and integrations, so not going with the incumbent tends to be a bad idea. People prefer Source-Available when it's completely free, and Freemium if it's not completely free. All things being equal, cheaper wins.

geared hub motors are a start, but it's hard to find ones with large enough gearing for the torque of a load going up a steep incline (not to mention roots, mud, etc). a few companies sell powered wheelbarrow geared hubs with much higher internal gear ratios. but i need to figure out what the maximum force required is for a given load at a given grade and then figure out how to determine if a motor can provide that; and whether a custom drivetrain will be needed or if i can cannibalize a bike or other drivetrain (and how to tell if it's capable of handling the load). like someone else mentioned, i didn't think about adding the weight of the vehicle into the calculations

minimum specs: working load 300lbs, size about 4ftx4ftx4ft. that would carry 1 large adult person, and is the minimum weight for a wheelbarrow full of soil. (a load of soil can be up to 500lbs; for contractors, a wheelbarrow can carry up to 660lbs or 60 cubic feet of concrete. aware of powered wheelbarrows, want this to be remote controlled)

Dumb question, kind of unrelated: In the process of building a remote controlled cart to haul small heavy loads offroad. Have no experience in engineering or robotics. Where could one go to learn what's needed, say, starting at the motor/drivetrain? (ex: what kind of motor to use, exterior or interior gearing, how to calculate motor size/voltage/gearing needed to haul X weight up Y gradient, steering geometry, actuators for remote steering, etc)

I don't know why you're getting downvoted, this is a very good question that makes no sense at first.

USB-C is a complex standard, but basically, just because your connector is USB-C, doesn't guarantee what can actually go over those wires. First you have to have the connector; then your device needs to have a chipset that is capable of specific processing and protocols; and then it needs to actually implement those protocols with other things on the device. So your USB-C connector might only support USB 2.0, or 3.0, or 3.1, or 3.2, or 3.2 Gen1x2, or 3.2 Gen2x1, or 3.2 Gen2x2, and possibly PowerDelivery, and possibly video, and possibly audio, and possibly mass storage, and possibly ethernet, and possibly basically whatever feature you want.

So you have to actually look up the specs of the device you have to find out what it will actually allow you to do over that USB-C cable. I bought a USB-C phone years ago only to find out it supported virtually nothing besides USB 3.0 file transfers, and a dumb charging standard proprietary to that one vendor.

Samsung Galaxy phones do a ton of stuff over USB-C, including video out, and even DeX, where you can use the phone as a laptop.

They've been busy shoving useless software into the device to bloat it enough that we all have to keep buying faster devices every 2 years. Unplanned bloatselescence

Based on my experience in (mostly) software companies, hardware just seems more likely to work. The people building it are formally trained, the government forces a minimum amount of safety testing, and a design mistake could cost millions to fix, besides the reputational damage. Software is more like getting retail workers to build a remote controlled forklift out of junkyard parts.

There are millions of mineral and rock formations around the world with 90 degree angles. A tree/flower stem/etc and the ground form a 90 degree angle. A branch coming straight out of a tree trunk (common in pines, or some other evergreen) makes a right angle. A vine or spanish moss dangling from a branch makes a right angle. Two logs or branches that fall on each other in the forest serendipitously form a right angle. An arm, leg, etc sticking out of an animal with arms forms a right angle when extended. Water running down from two different points on a hill toward a central point could easily join as a right angle.

I'm pretty sure right angles existed before this log.

Why would this concern you more than anything else? If you cook the fish, it's not going to "go bad" as quickly as if it were raw. If you cook anything to a particular temperature and time, it should kill most bacteria in it. Then the acidity of the tomato should help resist bacterial growth a wee bit longer than something pH-neutral. On top of all this, "obvious death" from bacteria in food is some serious hyperbole; it's quite rare to die of food poisoning.

Go ahead and build out all the solar possible. Then not have any way to distribute it, balance the load, recoup the cost from customers, supplant new energy demand outside of a narrow band of peak sunlight hours. Then not be able to pay back all the loans you took on building it out. Then cause the state to pay for the defaulted loans. Then have the unmaintained infrastructure break down and become a writeoff. Then have the economy slowly go downhill due to wasted govt investments, lack of jobs, lack of new investment, and literally lack of power (a shuttered coal plant isn't a flip of a switch to turn back on).

It is not enough to merely fill bids for new generation contracts. There's this assumption that just because you build it, everything else will come. This is a dangerously shortsighted view of the world that only people hoping to win a quick buck on a stock price increase will sell you on. Anybody pushing this idea is vested in a green energy company.

A nation isn't a start-up. There are real-world consequences to running before you can walk. People need to come to grips with this or we're all gonna suffer the consequences.

Lots of people on HN only talking about solar recently. Solar will not solve all our energy needs.

- Batteries are not cheap, nor renewable. Just because there may be advances in the future does not mean batteries are going to always be cheap and freely available. They are also currently quite dangerous to deal with.

- A society based on only solar would have to reduce its power needs in winter, or increase its solar generation capacity to account for winter losses. (Winter losses is largely the shorter daylight hours, but also snow in northern climates)

- Solar only works under ideal conditions, which is to say, in daylight, without clouds, smoke, ash, snow, etc. Even if you have batteries to account for occasional environmental losses, those batteries probably won't last for weeks on end in the event of the more bizarre weather that climate change is bringing.

- At some point, people run out of land to put panels on. Geography and legal/political boundaries around the world vary. Sometimes there just won't be enough land.

- A lot of the cheap manufacturing is centered in one or two countries, which creates a political and economic disadvantage to the rest, if they become over-dependent on this energy generation method. Look at what's happened recently from a loss of access to cheap natural gas.

- Transmission/distribution/management is still a significant challenge which is not solved; you can have all the solar generation you'll ever need and still have power shortages.

Having four different transit systems come into the city is what causes this problem. I think it should work like an airport: your major transit sits outside the airport, and the airport has a dedicated people mover to bring people into the airport. Keep Amtrak, LIRR, etc outside the city and make them transfer. It will be less efficient but more manageable.

Are people still thinking social media is a good thing? Hasn't every study showed that it's terrible for everybody?

Actually I think the principles are bullshit. They're full of holes you could drive a truck through.

Every team I have ever been on has had zero idea how to run an effective Agile team. They don't know Agile, Scrum, Kanban, they've never had project management experience, they don't understand why they need estimations, work limits, reports, continuous improvement, stakeholder management, or really any concept out of "Me write code good!" Left to their own devices, teams are shit at communication, shit at process, avoid anything difficult, and end up needing some clueless outside manager or contractor to force them into a process so they'll get something meaningful done on time and actually report it to someone outside their group.

If everyone on the team has had real Agile training, and actually practiced it before, then they can manage their own team effectively according to the principles. But that team does not exist. Managers don't understand these principles either, and won't ask for the things that ensure the principles are followed. Really everyone is just fucking clueless and doesn't care.

If what you're complaining about is decades old, somebody already identified it, many times over. And almost without fail, whoever is complaining, is complaining because they want someone else to fix it. Lazy, annoying, and useless. Either move on to solutions or admit you're just whining to whine.

Software development methodologies are political in nature (see: definition of politics). There is no best implementation of a political system, but there are working examples, some have more success than others, and some are implemented better than others.

I find it really funny when people complain about politics, when those people have never and will never do anything to fix the problem they're complaining about. Like complaining that it's too hot outside, but still sitting there in the heat.

And what's really funny is the only people who comment on it are the people who have no clue how it works.