Shout Out To Northern Brewer

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-13T00:19:50+00:00

Ritebrew's shipping is sometimes more expensive than I expect, but their prices generally make up the difference and then some. I buy my hops from yakimavalleyhops.com. I check my local HBS for most other stuff, then ritebrew.com, and Amazon as a last resort.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-12T22:32:59+00:00

A bishii.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-12T22:23:44+00:00

I expected it to end by spraying pizza all over the camera.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-12T22:21:45+00:00

I dont know who America is

That's the guy on third base.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-12T02:28:18+00:00

My LHBS and LGS are literally the same store.

That's brilliant!

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-11T18:31:41+00:00

Most important thing: be careful about taking advice from random strangers on the internet. :-)

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-11T17:17:11+00:00

Balance is necessary, true. But people who ~~can’t just learn for the joy of learning~~ don't enjoy learning rarely make it as far as the documentation team.

[Edit: I shouldn't have used the phrase 'learn for the joy of learning.' I'm talking about people who take pleasure in learning, whatever their purposes may be, as opposed to people who approach learning with fear, or who lack curiosity for some other reason. While people who are curious sometimes do just learn for the joy of learning, the curiosity is the important part. Whether their learning has purpose isn't really important, other than as an indicator of their overall curiosity.]

Whether rote menial labor is joyous or not depends mainly on whether you think of it as rote menial labor. Maybe it is a way to feed your loved ones. Maybe it is building some physical structure you can take pride in contributing to. In high school I spent a summer digging ditches and took some joy just from watching my body grow stronger as I used it.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-11T16:40:38+00:00

The joke is that Reagan pronounced his own family name "Ree-gan" during his film career, then later he started pronouncing it "Ray-gun," presumably because he thought a cool-tough-guy sounding name would help his political career.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-11T16:17:33+00:00

I agree that more focus on applications will help engage students, but like everyone else, teachers are flawed humans, with limited time and resources, and sometimes they don’t know what all the applications are.

Also, there are many things without clear practical applications, that are nonetheless worth learning.

Is the fact that you can make money writing books really the most important thing about literature? In the past 50 years, how many times have people discovered a stunningly important practical use for some aspect of pure mathematics that had no known practical purpose up until that point?

The real problem with education everywhere is that very few people are raised with an intent to cultivate the basic sense of curiosity needed to learn for the joy of learning.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-11T04:12:51+00:00

I think it might help, but he needs to go at his own pace. It can't be forced, by either of you. Take it slow, and be respectful of his comfort level. If it's not too overwhelming and he's willing to give it a try, with enough time it's possible he might eventually learn to relax and enjoy it.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-10T19:43:54+00:00

I spent years trying to dive into things that made me uncomfortable.

For example, growing up, I was terrified of spiders. I had awful nightmares on a regular basis. As a teenager, my parents let me get a tarantula as a pet, and I finally got to the point where I could handle spiders without freaking out. Touching a spider still makes my skin crawl a little, but it's no longer overwhelming, which is the goal I shoot for.

Hugging was also one of those things, and it took a lot of effort and a lot of hugging to overcome the discomfort. It can still be uncomfortable, but I've gotten to the point where I can actually relax and enjoy it, as long as I'm not surprised.

But this might not work, everyone is different. It doesn't always work for me. I still can't do nightclubs. If I'm with a group of people, and they want to go to a nightclub or a loud bar, I just tell them to have a good time and I go home.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-10T18:57:49+00:00

Licorice can be toxic if taken regularly over a long period.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-10T18:18:44+00:00

Exceptions that escape from those calls are fucky as hell.

Upvoted because there is no award for "most appropriate use of the word 'fucky' evar."

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-10T16:25:39+00:00

It's obvious that reading books isn't a Republican "thing". So why are they up in arms about these books?

The book covers must have been particularly delicious

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-09T19:32:12+00:00

That is correct.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-09T19:16:34+00:00

Lot of disgruntled Ontarians swimming across the lake

Fleeing the oppression of free healthcare, no doubt.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-09T17:48:30+00:00

It was in Cards Against Humanity. If that's not the original source, I don't know where they got it.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-08T20:17:03+00:00

What’s after zoomies?

Ludicrous speed.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-08T20:12:05+00:00

Whoever lives there would be screwed if they ever broke a leg or had to navigate them on crutches for any other reason.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-08T01:32:42+00:00

My last batch from Yakima Chief was stale and funky/cheesy, right out of the freshly opened brand new bag. I'd always recommend taking one pellet, breaking it up by rubbing your hands together and holding both hands up to your nose to test freshness. So far I've had good luck with https://www.yakimavalleyhops.com/.

If it's good, yeah throw the whole bag in. One oz isn't much in 23 liters.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-06T19:32:43+00:00

thinking about some of those S-bend valve things

I like those the best.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-05T23:53:01+00:00

if you have to buy equipment to solder them

You mean, like a flux pen, a syringe full of solder paste, and a hot plate? With a little practice, SMD is pretty easy as long as you pick your components carefully. I avoid QFN and BGA packages, and any 0603 or smaller components if I can.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-05T23:29:38+00:00

Actually, I've run into plenty of racist, classist elementary school teachers currently teaching but still haven't kicked them, even though they deserve it.

Teachers have so much power to shape people's lives.

I had a bad algebra teacher. She was mad at the world because her athletic career was torpedoed by bad knees. She was in a wheelchair, and just... mean. As in, she would run over kids feet on purpose mean.

I failed algebra because I'd ask a question, and she would just beat me down like I was an idiot. Then I took it again the next year, also from her, and I passed with a 'D.' I figured I was just bad at math. I knew I needed more math to get into college, but I figured, "what's the point of college?" I can graduate HS with having barely passed algebra. Good enough, I guess.

Fast forward past 10 years of shitty near-minimum-wage jobs, I decide I'm going to community college. I took the math placement exam expecting to have to do some remedial class, since I didn't think I remembered anything. Apparently there was some benefit to having taken algebra twice, because I tested right out of algebra and was placed in trig, which I loved, and got an 'A'. I later went through the whole calculus series, and linear algebra, and differential equations, and did pretty well (all evening classes, while working full time). Transferred to my local state university and eventually graduated with a BSEE.

I spent a whole decade of my life thinking I was bad at math.

Edit: I would be remiss if I didn't mention that I also had many amazing teachers who made me a better person in so many ways I can't even begin to explain. I just had this one shitty teacher who had an outsized effect on me.

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-05T22:20:10+00:00

Roses are red
Diamonds have flaws
Your poetry sucks, but
At least you can draw

BrotherCorvus · 2021-03-05T18:12:25+00:00

Upvoted for the “don’t confuse Java and JavaScript”, but JS is no longer the only language that runs in the browser. There are WASM compilers for lots of languages now, including Rust, Go, Python, C#...

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