I highly recommend trying a restaurant supply store, like Chef's Toys. Most of them don't require a business license to go to (the ones that do typically sell food items). They sell primarily to commercial kitchens and restaurants, and often have a wide selection of "bare bones" cookware at various levels of quality to meet your budget. A lot of my kitchen items are from there — stainless bowls, a big stock pot, metal + wood cooking utensils, some knives, heavy-duty whisk, some glassware, my one non-stick pan, dry food bins, etc. The stuff lasts forever, and you can almost always get an exact replacement if you need it.
Another suggestion is to try is IKEA. They tend to have minimalistic kitchen stuff at very reasonable prices. My basic cooking utensil set (spoon, ladle, spatula, etc) is from there and if I remember right, cost around $10. Had it for years. Great for glassware too.
Love the retro design, but from the looks of it, it's a heavy and fairly bulky item to drag around.
I know there is no Pi 5 variant of the compute module yet, but it seems like a safe assumption one is on the way — if your goal is to design something portable, I'm not sure why you would design around the full Pi form factor and not the compute module?
They specifically called out "We get to see how businesses operate under the US government policies when they act on the web" — it's not a specific dig on Android.
I helped my mom transplant a large agave plant and got in contact with a considerable amount of sap in the process — it's extremely uncomfortable and it took probably 3 months for the resulting rash to go away on my inner arms.
The irritation comes from raphides [0], which are sharp calcium oxalate crystals that get into your skin. Definitely something to avoid if you can! I have no idea how folks work with bare skin around those plants...
Interestingly, pineapples and kiwis have raphides in them as well, so if your mouth feels cut up after eating some, that is why.
The “cut up” feeling that can occur after eating kiwi or pineapple is more likely to be caused by the natural proteases present in the raw fruit (actinidain and bromelain, respectively) as the “cut up” feeling generally does not occur in cooked or canned fruit due to denaturing of the protein proteases. Raphides, which are sharp, insoluble calcium oxalate crystals, are generally not destroyed by boiling (as stated in your link) as so would still be present in the cooked fruit, suggesting that they are unlikely to be responsible for the “cut up” sensation.
Do you have a service or an individual you’d recommend? My fiancé’s mom has some old film from their childhood that is meaningful to them, and we’re considering gifting them some digitization services if we can find someone to help.
It was costly (but the price per roll went down if you have a number of rolls) but the mailer they sent was high quality. I never had any worries about my film being damaged in transit.
I would argue it depends on the provocation. If a little kid is hitting an animal with a stick and the animal attacks, that is self defense against assault with a deadly weapon. If the animal is a human anyway. If the animal is my dog I have to put it down.
I respect your space to air your opinions, but you are not doing so in a respectful or persuasive way. I'm sorry for whatever experiences have made you feel like dogs have no place in modern society. I wholeheartedly disagree.
At no point did I admit anything about my dog being aggressive towards humans. I speak from my experience spending my life around animals, having gone through the adoption process at a "difficult" shelter, and having to manage my dog's incompatibility and aggression towards other dogs.
In addition to interpreting my comment in the worst way possible, you are quick to dismiss the fact that dogs are conscious beings with their own emotions, past history, skills, and evolutionary training. As their handlers, I agree with you that we are absolutely responsible for their actions — that is the implicit choice in having a pet. However that does not mean we can predict their actions at all times.
Any dog can be provoked with the right stimulus, as can any human. I do not agree that applying absolutes in response to risk in the complex interactions between various animal groups, including humans, is a sensible or reasonable approach.
Also, your comment below "Shelter dogs do not have this training and are aggressive!" is extremely uninformed and incorrect. This is your opinion, not a fact. Espousing this attitude hurts the work that shelters are doing, reinforces dangerous stereotypes for specific dog breeds, and does a disservice to those who choose to adopt a pet.
So is that okay at your grocery store, with your public utility, with employment, with buying a car, etc? I would prefer a system with equal charges for everyone, that is inherently not discriminatory
Adding reply since I’m rate limited:
I understand the “reality” with things like cars, but I’m asking if that’s what you want. A society where everything requires constant negotiation is not just exhausting but leaves lots of room for discrimination. Also regarding public utilities - I believe California recently proposed discriminatory pricing for utilities.
Grocery stores have coupons and customer discounts, employees can make different wages doing the same job, and car dealers absolutely give deals to some clients that they won't give to others. Public utilities are an exception, and that's specifically because they're government regulated.
But we're discussing commerce here and in commerce, prices are rarely the same for everyone.
Current into a low-resistance "heater" element is used to produce the heat required for Thermionic Emission [0] in a vacuum tube. You only need the heater/emitter to be hot, and insulating the tubes would just spread the heat around to everything inside of it — at some extreme, making everything into an emitter, instead of elements that control the emission.
This is not really accurate. To get meaningful emissions from normal electrodes, you need to heat them up to about 2000 °C. Vacuum tubes operate at 700 °C or something like that. The trick is that one electrode is doped with special rare-earth additives that greatly increase electron emissions. The same treatment isn't applied to the rest of the device. So, even if all internal components have the same temperature, a vacuum tube can still work (to some extent).
100% correct and I appreciate the additional details! I couldn't come up with a good analogy to explain you want the emitter as a separate and unique element from everything else involved in a tube — oversimplified in the process.
Another suggestion is to try is IKEA. They tend to have minimalistic kitchen stuff at very reasonable prices. My basic cooking utensil set (spoon, ladle, spatula, etc) is from there and if I remember right, cost around $10. Had it for years. Great for glassware too.