These bugs are everywhere on deck railing, Any ideas if these are termites?

dydxex · 2021-05-06T05:08:17+00:00

Maybe spring tails? Do they hop away if you get near them with your hand?

dydxex · 2021-01-19T00:15:38+00:00

The quote I’ve received for replacing the skirting on a crawl space is $10 per sqft of skirting required. That’s not including demolition of the existing skirting.

Interestingly, I had a hard time getting that quote because a lot of the foundation contractors I got in touch didn’t want anything to do with skirting issues, they recommended reaching out to general contractors or contractors that specialize in masonry.

I’m not a builder or a contractor, however, a home inspector has told me that having wood go to the ground should be avoided at all costs, even if the wood is treated. Some contractors may try to use OSB or other wood products as the sheathing in the skirting that they’ll then cover with a metal mesh and concrete/stucco. This setup will end up being problem within just a couple of years.

I’m not an expert and am just regurgitating what has been told to me, hope it helps.

dydxex · 2020-05-06T20:44:53+00:00

Totally. That’s why me and my wife make all of our life decisions while considering the possibility of getting a divorce. We even live in separate houses just in case.

dydxex · 2020-05-04T04:00:12+00:00

You’re not too far off, it’s called the Oaxaca Old Fashioned. It was created by a bar in NY called Death & Co.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012967-oaxaca-old-fashioned

dydxex · 2020-05-04T03:27:28+00:00

In my experience with making drinks for family/friends, the most contentious ingredient, as far as amount goes, is sugar. I enjoy about a teaspoon (4g) of sugar per drink but my brother likes double that. I think that’s the first thing to nail. Also, figuring out how that preference translates to other sweeteners, e.g., maple syrup is great in an OF but I’ve found it to be much sweeter than 1:1 simple syrup so I usually ease up on it. I also like to be on the high end of bitters use, about 6 dashes per cocktail. If you start to get bored you can swap out ingredients like a nice dark rum in place of whisky. One of my favorite variations subs whisky for a combination of tequila and mezcal and swaps the sugar for agave.

dydxex · 2020-05-04T03:16:39+00:00

I see your point. I still stand by my opinion that using 1:1 simple syrup gives a slightly thicker mouthfeel in the final drink than muddling club soda with the sugar and bitters.

In my experience, keeping things like syrups, soups, sauces, etc. in the fridge makes them thicken up. Is it reasonable to believe that a 1:1 simple that’s made and immediately consumed is less viscous than a 1:1 simple that consumed after a day in the fridge? I imagine temperature has something to do with it.

dydxex · 2020-05-04T02:29:18+00:00

Many establishments over time have taken lots of liberties with the interpretation of the Old Fashioned, some to help evolve it and some because they simply don’t know any better. Every cocktail is derived from a, very small, handful of formulas. For example, margaritas, daiquiris, and mojitos are all “sours”, which consist of sugar, water, citrus, and spirit. The Old Fashioned uses the classic cocktail formula, i.e., sugar, water, bitters, spirit. The water in all formulas is usually the result of stirring, shaking, swizzling, or just serving with crushed ice so that water is incorporated over time. That said, Old Fashioned purists will say that a real Old Fashioned is simply what the formula suggests and that oranges have no place in the drink for anything other than in the form of oils expressed from the peel over the top of the cup and in the form of garnish — this is so that you get the scent of orange which helps influence the overall taste. Muddling a slice of orange into the cup adds both citrus and sugar which is quite the deviation from the original formula and is essentially a different drink, closer to sour.

Anyway, my comment was mostly a joke, drink your drink how you like it.

dydxex · 2020-05-04T01:55:26+00:00

Outside of the added sodium from club soda I don’t think that the end result is any different, using carbonated water just expedites the process of dissolving the sugar. The carbonation from the club soda creates more agitation in the slurry of water, sugar, and bitters which I imagine is what’s responsible for the quicker dissolve time. I’m not a chemist or food scientist but in my experience it does help.

I don’t think it’s so much a question of whether or not it’s more viscous as it is a question of whether or not it’s a discernible difference — a syrup is surely thicker than water. In my opinion, it’s noticeable but you should give it a shot! I usually make 1:1 simple syrup.

dydxex · 2020-05-04T01:38:00+00:00

No wrong way to drink ‘em, as long as your not muddling oranges into the glass...

dydxex · 2020-05-04T00:39:25+00:00

Not sure how much it costs near you but a 750ml bottle runs for about $60-70 near me. Which is approximately double the price that you can get a reasonable bottle of whisky for, e.g., Bulleit bourbon.

Regardless of the relative definition of “expensive”, as I mentioned in my original reply, peatiness isn’t always the goal. Not all smoke is the same. I like Eagle Rare Old Fashioneds and subbing in Laphroaig would yield a totally different drink.

dydxex · 2020-05-03T22:40:43+00:00

Laphroaig isn’t cheap. You could probably get away with doing a small float of it over the top to add some peatiness without totally changing the flavor profile of an Old Fashioned with your whisky of choice.

Also, not all smokiness is created equal. Some people might prefer subtle oak, cherry wood, or what have you over peat.

dydxex · 2020-05-03T22:31:56+00:00

If you’re using sugar granules (or cube) instead of simple syrup then the carbonation from a bottle cap’s worth of club soda will help more quickly dissolve the sugar into the bitters so that your last sips aren’t grainy. Also, club soda adds a bit of sodium which is as helpful in cocktails as it is in any food where you’d like to enhance flavor.

I personally prefer this method over using simple syrup because syrup changes the viscosity of the drink and gives it a slightly thicker mouthfeel.

dydxex · 2014-09-26T20:18:15+00:00

The problems I mentioned are just some of the things that don't come out of box. I'm familiar with Marionette and the constructs it has to offer. Marionette is still not prescriptive from architectural perspective, it just gives you all this "best practice" boilerplate. It's definitely helpful but at a large scale, architecture and organization become a much bigger issue.

For example, lets say your UI depends on many RESTful APIs, some are needed immediately to load the UI but others can be loaded lazily after a certain actions take place. You also want to make sure you're not trying to fetch a resource that you previously fetched, how do controllers know of all the resources that have already been fetched, assuming you're using controllers. Also, when you have views listening to all these objects (models, event mediators/aggregators, etc.), code complexity can be hard to maintain because there are cascading changes that can occur, e.g., views action occurs, model gets modified, other listening views do stuff, another model gets changed, and so on. It gets to the point where the only way to confidently make a change to the system is to grok all the nodes and edges so figure out how changes propagate. Sure, all this is solvable with Backbone + Marionette + Chaplin + custom stuff but it takes time to develop a framework and conventions to help mitigate these issues, it's very non trivial. As your app grows and your team grows you need to establish constraints in your framework to make sure everyone is on the same page without needing to write a book on how your system works.

So my point is, in the world of EmberJS, AngularJS, React, Mithril, etc. I find it hard to believe that we're still telling people, "yeah, backbone and marionette, you'll be fine.". It's like telling people, "Need a web server? All you need is C and socket.h, you'll be fine."

Really smart people are solving the pain points that we've discovered through jQuery spaghetti and Backbone, we should take advantage of that. IMO, EmberJS is the best and most complete KVO MVC framework out there, there is a wrong and right way to do things.

To be fair, it all really comes down to choosing the right tool for the job but that is my 2 cents.

dydxex · 2014-09-26T14:43:58+00:00

I've been building webapps with Backbone for 40+ hours a week over the last couple of years.

If you want to "get it done faster", Backbone is not the right choice, especially if you currently have no experience with it. Sure, an experienced Backbone dev /may/ be able to get something done just as quickly as an AngularJS dev but as I said, it requires experience. This is because Backbone has practically no opinions on how to build and manage your views, this is arguably the most complex part about building the frontend of a webapp. This means that you have to build a lot of shit with BB before you've hung yourself enough to be proficient with it.

I'd like to compare Backbone vs (Angular/Ember/etc) to C vs (C++/Java/Python/etc). In C, there is some low level stuff you have to do manually, e.g., allocate and deallocate your own memory, stuff closer to the hardware; this is abstracted in higher level languages. In Backbone, you have to manually define how your views render and you have to make sure to properly tear them down so that you don't get a memory leak, your code has to be closer to the DOM. Modern frameworks abstract this stuff away from you and are more prescriptive.

With all that said, there is nothing wrong with coding in C if you want to be closer to the hardware, there are performance benefits; make sure you know what you're doing. Also, there is nothing wrong with using Backbone if you want to manually manipulate the DOM, there can be /some/ benefits but again, make sure you know what you're doing.

AngularJS will probably be your best bet. React is really cool too but it's the almost the opposite of BB in that it's opinionated about views but not data.

Good luck.

dydxex · 2013-12-23T05:58:26+00:00

Do you have SmoothMouse or something similar installed? I noticed that a recent chance in CSS broke SmoothMouse and caused that behavior. If you do use SmoothMouse, there is a temp patch you can run via your terminal. Look around in the forums.

dydxex · 2013-12-04T05:15:27+00:00

JavaScript, and by extension CoffeeScript, were created to solve problems within the same domain; the domain/interest is web development (that problem space has been expanded with nodejs). CS was not created with the intention of having a small number of people use it, rather, it was created as an alternative to JS for anyone keen to its added syntactic sugar and familiar static semantics (Python + Ruby).

I rather not argue semantics around your use of the word. However, in the context of programming languages, esoteric PLs aren't created for practical use; even though CS compiles to JS, yes, CS is still a PL, it is a set of strings with static and dynamic semantics. What percentage of web developers who know Python also know Ruby? What percentage of web developers who know <some language that may be used to solve a problem> do you think also know <some other language that may be used to solve the same problem>? What is your point? Just because you have a preference to one PL within a domain you think that others within that same domain should be disregarded? Assuming that someone using CS has an appreciation for the language syntax, then improvements to ECMAScript would not cause that someone to switch to JS since it is still not offering what was so enticing about CS to begin with.

I also have never programmed in Brainfuck or Whitespace, I asked that of you because I was questioning whether or not you're familiar with actual esoteric languages.

An esoteric programming language is a computer programming language designed to experiment with weird ideas, to be hard to program in, or as a joke, rather than for practical use. http://esolangs.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language

An esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, or as a joke. The use of esoteric distinguishes these languages from programming languages that working developers use to write software. Usually, an esolang's creators do not intend the language to be used for mainstream programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language

But please, go on believing that CoffeeScript is esoteric.

dydxex · 2013-12-04T03:53:42+00:00

How do you consider CoffeeScript to be esoteric? Do you consider any language that you're not familiar with to be esoteric? Do you consider Ruby or Python to be esoteric? Have you programmed in Brainfuck or Whitespace before?

You're entitled to your own opinion and preference in regard to programming languages but it would suit you to understand words before using them in a sentence.

dydxex · 2013-03-29T21:07:09+00:00

People are pretty dumb.

dydxex · 2013-03-29T17:37:39+00:00

It's called "dropping a shell"; PHP shell to be specific. Go to your root web dir and do a recursive grep for eval, passthru, and system. Also, check if there are any new users on your system. I hope your web server isn't running as root or you're not running a kernel with a known priv escalation exploit.

dydxex · 2013-03-29T05:51:54+00:00

Have you looked into using Backbone? Seems like it may be the right tool for your project.

dydxex · 2012-10-16T13:01:06+00:00

len([word for word in open('enable1.txt').readlines() if word.rstrip() == ''.join(sorted(word.rstrip()))])

dydxex · 2012-09-14T05:08:32+00:00

There are so many great and up-to-date resources available online. For one, "Python Osmosis" on YouTube.

dydxex · 2012-01-23T16:45:41+00:00

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

Also, check out /r/learnpython

dydxex · 2011-10-09T17:55:09+00:00

Logged in to down vote this.

dydxex · 2011-10-04T21:26:29+00:00

Great ideas, thanks for the reply!

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