For whatever it's worth I have a personal counter-story to airtag usefulness. Not to get into the debate of indoor vs outdoor cats, we had a cat a few years ago that liked to roam around outside and one time it got spooked and disappeared for two weeks. It came back all skinny and hurt and after that we bought an air tag collar for peace of mind. The airtag worked just fine for a few months until the cat disappeared again. That very day the airtag stopped working so when we actually need it, the signal was permanently lost. We never found out why. I could imagine perhaps a car hit it or a coyote ate it, but there's certainly edge cases where an airtag would fail immediately. Battery life is highly unlikely to be the culprit in my opinion as it was fairly new, working recently before that day and the timing was too perfect.
My thoughts exactly! At least half of these are chart types that I've never seen before or at least would never think of using so having this reference is awesome.
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To me nutrition feels so complicated these days in that pretty much everything that you could think to eat has a bunch of detractors claiming there's reasons why it's unhealthy. I found a video recently listing something like 6 reasons why oatmeal is unhealthy.
With that said, for the last few years I've found a few things that work for me that I've incorporated into my routine. In the morning I'll eat a naval orange and drink green/black tea with a bit of honey and cream. Later I'll have some store bought guac and Costco Mary's crackers. Sometimes I'll have add some Kimchi, feta cheese, fresh vegetables, hummus. Costco frozen fruits are nice too for smoothies or just plain snacks.
Exactly. Is cheese good or bad? What about eggs? Are beans bad? How much fish can I eat before I get mercury poisoning? Is pork better than beef?
I'm attracted to the idea of the mediterranean diet, but getting enough produce for the week and using it before it goes bad, while also cooking for small children, is challenging.
I always use self-checkout and prefer it. Recently though it's gotten really annoying in the Walmart near my house in that there are like 30 checkouts out of which only 4 are working and there's again a line up. Probably again some stupid shoplifting prevention strategy, but it's highly nonsensical.
On a similar note, I'm blown away by the checkout system in Decathlon stores. You literally just throw the item into a checkout bin and it somehow detects what the item is (maybe NFC tags?) And just adds the price on the screen. No weighing or scanning barcodes. Really futuristic!
Uniqlo has a similar system for some stores where you just throw the items in and it automatically senses them. It’s probably more feasible for them because they do much more of the supply chain for their products and basically have an item all the way from manufacture to retail sale, so they probably cut a lot of the middlemen costs.
Very esoteric app, however I think Ymusic needs to be mentioned whenever YT alternatives are brought up. It streams only the MP3 of the video and the UI is cleaner imo - so it's easier to use if you intend to only listen to "podcasts" or music as an alternative to Spotify.
This is just begging the question: surely you don't watch videos while driving? And if you just want the audio, there are music-focused YT apps (ViMusic, or like sibling said, YMusic)
Newpipe has a built-in "Play in Background" feature that would be awesome while driving. There are tons of podcast-like content videos on YT that would be fine for a commute.
Not sure how relevant the energy consumption piece is if you just hook it up to the hot water instead of cold? That's what you're supposed to do anyway to get it to actually clean something, right?
AFAIK dishwashers all internally heat the water. The machines tell you to hook up to the hot line in the US (I've heard they say to use the cold line in Europe but I don't live there), but the chance of actually getting hot water from your line is pretty minimal because they only fill for a few seconds at a time.
Maybe because our how water systems are more various, so you can't just assume that's always hot on demand when you want it? If you need a heating element in the dishwasher anyway it's not much of a feature.
I think it's: 1) might not be on-demand, so then your hot fill might not be hot at the right time; 2) if it is hot, it will almost certainly be <70C, which is typically the max cycle temp.. so you either can't have that or still need a local element to get it there; 3) even if it's hot enough, you also need cold fill, so you can mix and get the temperature(s) you need.
Frankly I think even with some assumptions about your market to ignore 1 & 2, 3 alone makes it more complex than just taking a cold fill and heating to temp within the dishwasher. I believe the very few models that do have a hot fill do it on an eco basis (you already have hot water use it here too) but the validity of that is disputed, and really the only obvious benefit is to the EPC sticker (characterising energy performance) which will appear best in class (the class of all dishwashers) just by not having a multiple kW heater, not accounting for that having been offloaded to the boiler.
Just run the tap at the kitchen sink until the water gets as hot as possible, then start the dishwasher. It'll get nice hot water straight from the pipe that way!
This works well unless you have a tankless water heater. Those are very bad for any appliances that fill water in short bursts, because they only heat while the water is flowing and the water only flows for a short time.
Yeah I am a big fan of giant tank water heaters. You can even set them up to run at the time of day when energy costs are lowest, if you have variable pricing, and the hot water will stay hot for a day or two unless you use a lot. Often energy prices will be lowest on the weekend which works great if you time your laundry cycles on those days!
You can also get small tanked or tankless water heaters that fit under your kitchen cabinet, and can help provide that hot water to your dishwasher. Which is especially important if your hot water heater is located far away from the kitchen and it would take a long time for actual hot water to arrive at your sink.
I would recommend that you look at them closely and get the one that fits your use case the best.
CR can also help here, because they will test them independently of the dishwasher.
Doesn't it fill several times, with long periods of time in between? If so, this trick (which I do use, personally, in spite of this criticism) only benefits the first of several fills. Better than none, though.
According to the Technology Connections video (linked several times in this discussion, including by me), dishwashers usually use their internal heating element to heat the water during the main cycle. The reason for running the tap is just to make sure the water is hot during the prewash cycle, since the dishwasher does not use its heater for that one (since the time is so short)
That's exactly what I was wondering as well. I didn't really understand how tapping into the power source could possibly cause an additional loss that wouldn't otherwise happen.
For reasons that I can't quite explain fully, I like angular much better. For me it's a shame that react won the battle and is used at every company now.
Angular seems like a step back to me. The MVC thing, while fine, introduces extra hiccups. Creating generic UI components is pretty tiring and using Angular material is pretty much your best option.
Upgrading to newer versions is a pain and also finding well supported third party libraries. React is much easier to work with since you don't always need to reinvent the wheel for time consuming things.
Hooks and simple state management with Jotai are also much nicer to work with than RxJs. RxJs requires a strange mental model and a lot of verbose code and functions.
Angular is kinda like Java, more code for less features. Great if you don't wanna think, meh if you want something exciting and new.
For me, Angular enforces a rigidity that seems oppressive at first, but once the codebase grows in size and complexity it all makes sense. In React I might find API calls nested in component effects, setting context that gets consumed or overriden god knows where down the tree; in Angular all of the API calls and state is isolated in high level services and it's very easy to follow the logic and track where those get injected and consumed. I also find it much easier to mock a service rather than mocking contexts for testing.
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