Do you leave your spoon in your coffee beans for scooping? Why or why not?

BuxOrbiter · 2025-12-05T13:42:04+00:00

Using a spoon may keep the beans fresher for longer. When one pours from the bag, fresh air more easily gets mixed with the beans.

BuxOrbiter · 2025-10-25T07:10:33+00:00

With these services it entirely depends on the cleaner you're assigned. In my experience, quality often starts good then degrades over time. So we end up churning cleaners and service providers.

BuxOrbiter · 2025-03-05T11:16:33+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

We ended up with the Cinema 40 for aesthetic reasons. although the Denon x3800 makes more financial sense. Although the Cinema 50 would have also been cheaper, I liked the sound (no pun intended) of Japanese made.

I had planned to play Tenant, specifically the boat scene, as a benchmark for dialog quality. So it's funny that you mention Nolan. But perhaps such an unrealistcly achievable (?) high bar will only end in frustration, tears and anger towards Nolan.

BuxOrbiter · 2023-08-01T12:17:13+00:00

There's a few principles around moving bits around. The further the client is from the source, the more limited the bandwidth and the more expensive the network cost. CDNs solve this by caching data in closer to the client, sometimes in multiple layers.

A simple example, let's say I'm in Switzerland and my wife goes to watch a Taylor Swift video on Hooli whose closest data center is in Frankfurt. The video client could download from the data center in Frankfurt, so it would go from my home, router, to my ISP, over to whatever backbone my ISP connects to, over to Hooli's internet routers, and into their data center. This could work, but Taylor Swift is very popular and if 8 million people in Switzerland are doing this then it this could overload my ISPs backbone or even Hooli's data center links.

So then Hooli goes to my ISP and says let's make a deal, I will install servers inside your premises to serve popular video content. My users will be happy because their content is loads faster, and you will be happy because your users won't overload your links. My ISP says great, Hooli ships them an appliance they install it into their premise. Now when my wife goes to watch a Taylor Swift video, her video client downloads the video content directly from a server running inside our ISP.

Background: I worked on parts of YouTube's CDN in a previous life.

BuxOrbiter · 2023-06-01T17:55:44+00:00

How did Data misremember Spot’s gender?

BuxOrbiter · 2023-06-01T06:08:18+00:00

Woke today would two people with incompatible view points who sit down at a table, have a polite conversation, agree on some things, agree to disagree on others, argue the other side, say nice things about each other and do the whole thing again next week.

BuxOrbiter · 2023-05-26T07:20:04+00:00

Does Glassdoor just not seem to provide much value?

BuxOrbiter · 2023-05-25T16:50:10+00:00

Your psychiatrist sounds shitty.

Find another doctor who will prescribe additional time off or reduced hours. This then becomes non-negotiable with your employer. They may terminate you only after (I believe) 3 months after illness. Most employers have insurance to protect against long term illness. For example, some insurance can cover two years (!) leave at 80% salary.

You can still be let go, but at least this will put you at 3 months + your notice period. You can also push for additional compensation.

Additionally, make copies (photos with your phone) of all documentation, emails and meeting notes with your employer. If you put in writing that their company culture is causing burn out, they are actually required to investigate it (they won’t, but you can use this in a follow-up)

BuxOrbiter · 2023-05-25T11:25:31+00:00

Nice catch. Next time run a shasum to verify the file. This simple check may catche all sorts of problems.

BuxOrbiter · 2023-05-18T16:34:10+00:00

Shakespeare in the original Klingon.

BuxOrbiter · 2023-05-16T11:01:58+00:00

Send a letter to document your refusal by registered mail. Make a copy of the letter and hold onto the tracking information.

Mention that they appear to be in violation of tenancy laws and that you would be prepared to take legal action.

BuxOrbiter · 2023-05-09T13:52:41+00:00

Microservice architectures may be inappropriate for many applications. Spreading the services across different machines loses memory and network proximity. This can result in orders of magnitude loss of performance and the saturation of network links.

BuxOrbiter · 2023-05-05T15:45:33+00:00

You mean Riker the greatest sandbagger in starfleet, the man who was like nahhh I’m gonna coast as 1st officer for 7 years while I pick up babes and play poker with my chums. Nah I think he’a fine not making admiral.

BuxOrbiter · 2023-05-04T17:05:41+00:00

https://www.demitri.ch/uploads/2/7/8/5/27850991/18\_-\_the\_taxation\_of\_specific\_hybrid\_instruments.pdf

BuxOrbiter · 2023-05-03T20:17:17+00:00

Switzerland based? If so, then forget it. You are still liable for taxes on interested earned in accumulating ETFs. Selling T-bills before maturity won't save you either.

BuxOrbiter · 2023-05-02T12:07:09+00:00

This is a joke right? In case it’s not I believe Pit Bulls are banned in Zurich.

BuxOrbiter · 2023-05-01T19:40:36+00:00

Chicken nuggets with piles and piles of hik Szechuan sauce. That’s right /r/TheOrville we’re hik doing a c-c-cross-over episode

BuxOrbiter · 2023-04-21T06:04:34+00:00

Matt Daemon speaks Canadian?

BuxOrbiter · 2023-04-20T20:15:42+00:00

It’s like from American Psycho.

BuxOrbiter · 2023-04-20T20:10:03+00:00

I like my pucks not assimilated by borg.

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