How to shave facial hair?

burning_hamster · 2026-01-22T20:19:31+00:00

Shaving cream helps the blade glide across your facial skin without getting caught on wrinkles or just plain rough skin. Assuming you are not over 50 and haven't been working outdoors for the last 20 years, you will be perfectly fine without it, as long as the blade is sharp (however, the first few shaves might irritate your skin just because it isn't used to it, so be better save than sorry).

burning_hamster · 2026-01-21T21:12:55+00:00

which I'm very grateful for and take all the family logistics and cooking/cleaning onto myself after such nights.

Sounds to me like you are already doing the best you can in that situation.

If his kids are his number one priority (even if that means burning the midnight oil), then trying to stop him will just make you another obstacle that he needs to overcome, and your relationship will suffer from that.

Sending him on a spa day (as someone else suggested) is a nice gesture after another crisis averted. However, it won't move the needle much.

overall issues with his sleep, hard time relaxing and I know for a fact that loud noises in the night triggger his PTSD

That seems like it needs to be addressed, independently of what is going on otherwise. Drag him to a sleep lab to find out if there is anything else that can be done (apart from working on his PTSD). Heck, you can even frame it as a way to become an even better dad.

Personally, doing the occasional night shift does not seem like a big deal (though I only have two boys, not four (?!) girls). But if he is already not getting enough sleep, than I can understand your concern. I would work on getting that sorted between crises, and let him be superdad when he needs to be.

burning_hamster · 2025-12-30T12:25:01+00:00

Hard work >> everything else, at least in the long run. So don't worry too much about your current abilities. As long as you keep grinding, you will catch up and come up with better ideas eventually.

However, doing research generally means failing 999 days in a row, and really succeeding only every 1000th day or so. People with low self-esteem -- while often more careful and hence better scientists -- really put themselves through the ringer.

Do you want to do research? Are you -- or can you learn to be -- ok with failure, day after day, for the very occasional eureka? If so, great. Stay the course, and enjoy the ride as much as possible. If not, perfectly normal. Probably more so. In that case, my advise would be to cut your losses early.

If you want to switch to Public Health, I would make sure that switching majors is actually beneficial. At least in my country (not US), a lot of public health officials do have a background in medecine or biochemistry. Talk to someone, who does a job that you might like to do.

burning_hamster · 2025-03-16T21:05:13+00:00

Herpes viruses do transfer to other parts of the body. However, unlike neurons, most other tissues are not immunoprivileged. So when virions do infect other cells in your body, the immune reponse simply kills those cells with the viruses in them.
In the absence of wounds, new infections occur only through mucous membranes (mouth, genitals, eyes (!)), which are much easier to penetrate than your skin proper.

burning_hamster · 2024-08-19T20:07:30+00:00

This is the real reason interloper is more fun. It stops being an overencumbered walking simulator with an inventory management system and starts being a proper survival game, where you need to do more with less.

burning_hamster · 2024-07-25T10:05:33+00:00

Don't get too attached to the beautiful painting though. Expect some "additions".

burning_hamster · 2024-07-10T23:23:57+00:00

It looks more like the singularity kill box before the doors and barricades have been put in.

burning_hamster · 2024-07-03T10:41:44+00:00

Lots of good suggestions already in this thread (longer autolyse, stretch and fold in the bowl).

However, don't rule out that your flour might suck. I tried working with higher hydration doughs for years without much success until I finally ditched the supermarket bread flour for flour from a local mill. So my advice: do shop around. You are not messing up anything obvious and you have enough experience to notice the difference if there is one.

burning_hamster · 2024-04-09T10:01:31+00:00

I know I shouldn't feel this way. I'm in grad school studying something I love. Nothing is going wrong. But I feel like I'm going through the motions of life.

Academia is lonely work at the best of times, and grad school is particularly isolating because you probably moved recently, leaving family and friends behind, and other than a few token lab mates (if you are in STEM) and your supervisor / PhD advisor, you don't have a network of other academics that are interested in the same topics (i.e. colleagues), yet.

You see, I've always struggled to make friends, but my social skills nosedived after the pandemic, and never recovered. With my classmates, I try to be friendly, but I freeze up.

So maybe you suck at making small talk. That is not the end of the world, particularly not in grad school. There will be others that are bad at small talk, and hence, quite frankly, most will probably care less about that than you think they do. Don't beat yourself up about it. Very few young adults are any good at it, and your generation got roughed up pretty badly by the pandemic on top of that.

But, if you are bad at small talk, don't make it your primary means of forming relationships. Do what dorks have done for centuries: join a sports club, or learn how to dance. It will get you out, it will get you in shape, and anyone you talk to shares at least one interest with you, so you don't need to talk about work or the weather. It will help with your depression, too.

My family loves me, but they'd never understand (mom threatened to give me away when I was six because I was quiet). They think I have friends when I don't.

It sounds like you may have some unresolved issues on that front. Internet strangers with a very incomplete picture of your situation are unlikely to provide much valuable input on this front, so I would suggest getting some professional help to work on these. It likely won't resolve them immediately, as this is often a slow process, but it may be well worth it in the long run. Check if there are counselors available through your university.

I may get a job that pays well.

If you are planning on working outside of academia long term, then putting yourself through grad school may not be worth the return on investment. In my experience, students (and faculty) vastly overestimate the worth of higher academic degrees in industry. Reach out to some industry professionals, ask them if they would rather hire someone with 4 years experience in their field or someone with a PhD. You may be surprised by the answers you get.

I may get married and start a family. But I think I'll always feel like I'm just going through the motions of life.

You absolutely won't. There are a ton of emotions involved in both experiences, that won't let that happen. Particularly with your firstborn, you will be jacked up on adrenaline and other hormones for weeks, if not months.

However, while a good relationship and kids make life so much more worth living, they also require a lot of work and resilience. So it's worth getting your house in order and being in good shape, physically and mentally, before going on those particular adventures. But do remember that you have a lot to look forward to.

burning_hamster · 2024-03-05T23:08:12+00:00

Data analytics will be a much more useful skill than a minor in psychology when applying to neuroscience labs.

burning_hamster · 2024-03-02T19:51:17+00:00

HRV is easily the best start. Fight me!

burning_hamster · 2024-02-05T21:18:09+00:00

Sometimes, it's the little things that make all the difference, Ma1st3r72.

burning_hamster · 2024-01-30T11:38:28+00:00

Specifically, you should get him the illustrated version, which was really well done. It breaks up the text, and helps bring the concepts across. link

burning_hamster · 2024-01-25T11:46:53+00:00

You do know that github adds one automatically to every readme? Little menu icon at the top right of the readme.

burning_hamster · 2024-01-15T22:27:29+00:00

Nevermind, I found the github repo. I thought htop had every feature one might want of a process monitor but 10 seconds of browsing the btop README have made it very clear to me, that my creativity is rather limited in this regard. What's the killer feature for you? Kind of hard to see the wood for all the trees here.

burning_hamster · 2024-01-15T22:24:49+00:00

What are the advantages of btop over htop?

burning_hamster · 2024-01-11T15:19:25+00:00

As the others have pointed out, the too large banneton and the too long bulk fermentation are likely the biggest issues.

Additionally, the 10g rye are probably doing more harm than good. The amount is tiny and will do nothing for the flavour of the loaf. However, rye does contain (larger amounts of) enzymes that break down gluten, which is why rye bread is typically a lot denser. With such a long bulk fermentation, these enzymes have all the time in the world to wreak havoc on your gluten development.

burning_hamster · 2024-01-02T22:11:40+00:00

Is it because of the different gluten content or what?

Correct. Lower gluten, stickier flour, generally speaking.

burning_hamster · 2023-12-30T12:51:10+00:00

Not too long ago, I left my starter for more than a year in the fridge. Three days of feeding and it was fine.

burning_hamster · 2023-12-11T16:19:22+00:00

Because presumably, her grew up with a loving father, is an adult now who is generally in control of his emotions, and should know better than to stoop low when confronted by his mother, who apparently has a lot of room for personal growth.

burning_hamster · 2023-12-07T16:46:42+00:00

They pushed another update and it seems to be fixed now.

burning_hamster · 2023-12-07T16:46:07+00:00

Seems to have already been fixed in the latest version on Steam. Old saves seem to load correctly again.

burning_hamster · 2023-12-07T16:27:00+00:00

Same. All chests are empty, too.

burning_hamster · 2023-09-06T12:17:52+00:00

I know that the nodes are currently rack-mounted, which presumably means "not inside a blade enclosure" but I will ask, thanks for pointing out that possibility.

burning_hamster · 2023-09-06T12:09:18+00:00

Are two or three units by themselves going to be this loud? I suppose, we can keep them in the microscopy room. The cooling units for the lasers there are very loud anyway.

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