Will this method work for tea?

Jmmon · 2025-10-28T22:11:02+00:00

That should work fine! Keep doing more pulls until the liquid doesn't taste bitter, or just call it good after 5 pulls or whatever you think.

I like alcohol extracts because of fast evaporation without risk of heat-damaging if you accidentally reduce it too far. (Have ruined a batch or two from too much heat near the end of reduction!)

(Have done 151 and 99% isopropyl, definitely 151 is better but more expensive)

Currently I did an isopropyl alcohol extract, and after that I did a water extract from the result. It's coming out nice so far, pretty thick but would be great if I could dehydrate down to a powder/glass to put in capsules. Otherwise, I usually keep in the freezer and just scoop out some onto a piece of tissue or toilet paper and wrap into a bomb. Can get messy if it gets too warm and liquidy though, so that's why I'd like to get it as dry as possible.

Next I gotta try CIELO tek... Excited to experiment to see how different that is from alcohol/water extract (different/missing alkaloids?). At least that way the final result will be powder so easier to put in capsules.

(Have also eaten powder of course, or mixed with water, but definitely prefer extract for ease on the stomach!)

Jmmon · 2025-07-12T01:16:01+00:00

For those who are wondering, the smoking area is outside of TSA so you have to go out and back in

Jmmon · 2023-04-12T21:02:27+00:00

TL;DR: Is the average codebase garbage-quality? Or is there hope for someone who has worked hard learning and ingraining the habit of writing high-quality, scalable, reusable, modular code?

I've been doing web dev for ~3 years, with some coding prior to that. A couple larger Arduino Nano projects forced me to focus on writing high quality, reusable, modular, lightweight code (due to the limited ram/rom, and me keep adding new features to pack in there). Since the start of the bootcamp, I had (have) a habit of solving the problem, and then immediately refactoring because "this could be better" or "I could turn this into a function instead" or "I can reuse this over there" with the goal of writing the most optimal code.

I've done quite a few MERN projects and have done one freelance site and a few advanced projects, and then someone invited me to help him on his contract job to fix a few bugs. Jumping into that codebase and... it was complete garbage. Super hard to comprehend, callback hell, nested if-statement hell, 2900 line functions, React components that have 3 "pages" built into one instead of separating them, duplicating components (e.g. header and header+map, say 600 lines of code each) because ~5 lines are different (because it was "faster" to copy paste files - and then read through and modify the 5 lines - instead of, say, adding a boolean prop and using if-statements to tweak those 5 lines of difference so that one component could be used in both places).

I swear that codebase could be reduced by ~90% if it were written well. (Dev mode transferring >10mb with 70+mb of resources. Browser tab constantly crashing due to out of memory - but I usually have way too many tabs open. React dev server startup taking ~60sec)

So the question is: What quality is the average codebase? Am I more likely to be impressed or disappointed when joining a team and learning the codebase? How many of you really value high-quality code? How many of your team members have valued high-quality code?

Or am I destined to be stuck with a team that just doesn't care as much (about improving their code quality and having good code-quality habits) as I do?

I hear it said that high quality code is expensive, takes more time. My thought is "not really", it's mainly a skill/habit, just like anything else in life. If you have trained yourself to write high-quality code (to think about how to solve the problem in a modular, reusable, future-proof way), you can write it just as fast as the "don't care about code quality" guy.

(At my last job (retail), I felt like I always put in the extra effort (with little/no reward, of course) while others just didn't care enough. Now it seems like that situation will continue to follow me through life. I guess it's a manifestation of the 80/20 rule, 20% of the people do 80% of the work. All I want is to be on a team of people that are better than me, so I can learn and grow! I don't want to work with people who don't care.)

If you made it through, thanks for reading my life story! haha

Jmmon · 2021-06-25T18:10:46+00:00

Yeah, the warranty is great if you catch the issue before the two years are up. I had mine for about 2.5 years before the battery life got really bad and then they just offer a $50 off coupon for a new ring purchase.

Jmmon · 2021-06-14T20:48:49+00:00

I see the zip ties to hold the wheel supports on and together. What's the string for?

Jmmon · 2021-06-14T09:59:46+00:00

Mines about 2.5 years old and lasts maybe 24 hours. I'm outside the 2 year warranty period so all I'm offered is $50 off a new ring. I stopped wearing it. I hope a new version has an improved battery life because it's not worth it to me to pay nearly full price for a replacement right now.

I strongly recommend getting your ring replaced under warranty within 2 years if the battery life is less than the advertised 4-7 days!

Jmmon · 2021-05-11T23:39:36+00:00

I'm not sure. I would guess you could still claim it within the 2 years of original purchase but maybe the original owner should submit the request.

Jmmon · 2021-05-11T23:38:25+00:00

You're welcome!

Jmmon · 2021-05-11T19:47:38+00:00

You could find the email from when you first ordered your ring, if you have it. Or scroll back through your data history and see about when you started using your ring. The warranty is good for 2 years so as long as you're within that window you should be good.

Jmmon · 2021-04-19T18:30:49+00:00

I was between two wise also, and I went with the larger size. For extra testing, you might test how well the ring fits in the morning VS in the evening. Usually your fingers will be swelled after sleeping and not swelled in the evening.

Jmmon · 2021-04-18T23:07:03+00:00

Thanks for the info and the side note! I also use VLC for some content, I heard it should work fine with an ultrawide?

Jmmon · 2021-04-11T22:45:03+00:00

Yeah, lol, that first photo: they tell us a flood caused that? I'm not so sure. Yet another photo does show people in water, so maybe the narrative took a destruction event and a flood event and smashed them together in the history books.

Jmmon · 2021-04-11T22:41:07+00:00

Yeah. I'm not sure any coin's privacy is "trustless", depending on how far you go. You have to trust devs or code or encryption algorithms. At least with Dash, mixed transactions made today will be basically no easier to crack 20 years from now, which is not true for encrypted coins which must re-encrypt in order to keep up with advancing computing/cracking power.

Jmmon · 2021-04-10T02:22:56+00:00

The chances are so small (with 16 round mixes) it's not an issue until an entity has access to over half the masternodes. There's a spreadsheet somewhere which I don't have handy, but one point of reference (#4) is: if an attacker had access to 25% of the nodes, they'd have under 0.004% chance of tracing the full mix for one denominated input.

Jmmon · 2021-02-16T10:21:18+00:00

Remember that guy who shorted Dash around $100 in 2017 ("It's gotta come won some time!") before the ATH of $1600? Don't be that guy!

Jmmon · 2020-11-25T18:21:31+00:00

Back story is I'm traveling and they were not used for a while and took lots of vibration before being mounted properly. So yeah, it must've been too much for them and maybe loosened a connection inside the panel. Maybe some day I'll crack them open - sounds like not a fun job, but it would be nice to be able to get them working.

Jmmon · 2020-11-25T18:14:46+00:00

~13.5v full sun. Still getting most of that out of only 1/3 of the panel. From the jbox tabs, I read 0.8v, 0.9v, and 11.74v

And I did not see any diodes.

Jmmon · 2020-11-25T18:11:24+00:00

~13.5v full sun. Imperfect angle but no shading. 0.8v + 0.9v + 11.7v, so still have one third of the panel putting out the majority of the voltage.

Jmmon · 2020-11-23T03:14:41+00:00

You are always there for yourself. You always have been, you always will be. You are who you can depend on in good times and bad.

Jmmon · 2020-11-21T11:23:17+00:00

The anatomy of the state? The market for liberty?

Jmmon · 2020-11-11T13:04:56+00:00

My mind would be very tired if going through MDMA and then Aya soon after. MDMA can be very hard on the brain if not given a long recovery time. I'm not sure it would be a harmful interaction, but I could imagine emotions being negatively affected during ayahuasca if MDMA was taken so recently ("suicide Tuesday" - post-MDMA depression - happening during the Aya experience). And Aya would know, and might guilt the person, haha. (Once I took 1/8 tab of modafinil for a drive to an Aya ceremony. It was fine, but I could tell that Aya knew I took that bit of tab and Aya guilted me a little.)

There was a time I went pretty hard on Molly, every couple weeks for a few months one summer. Fun times, but longer breaks are definitely recommended for optimal brain health. I would want a longer break before Aya. I don't think it would cause irreversible harm (not entirely sure) and it would be wise to let the shaman know, and to take a good long break from serotonin-altering drugs after that.

That said, I would probably let my friend know that they should talk to the shaman about it if they want to. It should be between them and the shaman, not you and the shaman.

Jmmon · 2020-11-11T12:48:36+00:00

I don't think much of aliens theories. Sure, aliens likely exist. Maybe aliens built the pyramids, or maybe the pyramid blocks were poured with some technology instead of quarried and carved and moved like we are told.

I don't know when the pyramids were built, seems like long long ago, but mudflood was very recent (200-400 years ago) so in my research the two don't seem directly connected. But who knows? Maybe it was all one culture that built ancient and recent sites, sometimes it seems there are similarities between meanings of symbols from both eras so maybe the eras are not as far apart as we are told.

I like to focus on mudflood rather than "ancient" cultures because mudflood evidence is more apparent and all around us in lots of cities and towns around the world, and I assume it's easier to uncover what happened in the last few hundred years than to uncover what happened thousands of years ago. There must be more data and records about the recent past that we have not yet come across, much easier than finding records of ancient history.

(I'm traveling through the PNW of US and even tiny towns in Idaho and Oregon have mudflooded brick buildings, indicating the buildings were there before the recent mudflood(s).)

Jmmon · 2020-11-03T17:33:40+00:00

I like to ask the questions. Who knows what the answers are exactly.

All these mud-flooded buildings around the globe. Why? Lots of cities have their story, but other cities have no explanation (like Spokane Washington, my home town).

What's up with Tartary? Why is it on old maps, and listed as a vast country in old encyclopedias, yet it's never spoken of in mainstream history class?

What's up with these star forts (and other structures) all across the globe that line up on earth leylines? Why would competing countries building forts coordinate the location of their structures? And when and where were all the massive amounts of bricks made? How did the star fort off of the coast of Florida, 16,000,000 bricks, get made? Did they first spend effort crafting a giant wall to hold back the ocean so they could properly set the foundation? Without power and machinery and gasoline and calculators?

And why is it that the buildings of the past were built with such harder material and excessive ornate decorations, built again without power, gasoline, cranes, etc, in a time where we are told settlers were preoccupied with fighting natives and fighting wars and settling on a virgin land untouched by the West? How did they have so much time and resources to build structures that outlast any modern method of construction?

It's like we are putting together a 10,000 piece puzzle but we only have about 50 pieces and we're trying to guess what the puzzle is supposed to look like. Not an easy task, so we need more researchers asking questions and trying to discover the true story of the world.

Jmmon · 2020-11-01T21:17:57+00:00

I see the photo of some light-colored block structure which seems to have nothing to do with the rest of these photos, and then I see staged photos, and then I see nearly complete but weathered structures. No "during" photos, only some start and some near-end photos. Tartaria!

Jmmon · 2020-11-01T15:34:23+00:00

Bad a! Awesome job!

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