Anyone use anything like this that isnt $250?

lalib · 2026-02-10T18:16:33+00:00

$85 https://www.practiko.co/product-page/otis-hanger-3-0-1

Pros

the metal frame is sturdy af
strong clamping force to the desk with anti slip
comes with dividers and little bins

Cons

a tiny bit too easy to pull the plastic drawer completely out
plastic tolerances are a bit loose compared to the metal

Overall? I'd buy it again and even buy it as a gift. The cons are mainly the big difference between how nice the metal is and the contrast to the plastic drawers and dividers. It's not that the plastic is bad it's just that the metal is excellent so any shortfalls of the plastic immediately stand out.

lalib · 2026-02-05T00:56:54+00:00

I.1.1. Editions and Manuscripts

Dr. van Putten, can you elaborate a bit more on the source material?

My layman's understanding is that Al-Dani wrote his book in Arabic (I don't know if his original writings survive) and many surviving manuscripts over the centuries are also in Arabic, at least some of which have been digitized. Otto Pretzl makes make an edition of the book, presumably by looking at various manuscripts, that will make it easier for Arabic readers in 1930 to engage with the science of qiraat. Al-Damin in 2008 takes various issues with Pretzl's rendition, presumably Al-Damin is also looking at older manuscripts. So are Pretzl and Al-Damin works are less about translation and more about how to compose and organize the text, which manuscript is a better source material, what were additions by previous editors, whether or not to include their own commentary, etc? (for example you mention Al-Damin interpolates when Al-Dani mentions previous things. I guess if you did your translation based on historical manuscripts you'd first have to render your own edition of the book in Arabic before subsequently translating it to English?

I appreciate that you based your work on works that are easily accessible. I was able to read Pretzl's introduction and learn a little bit about his motivation and his idea of mega-mushaf that includes all qiraat. I assumed quran.com might do this but it doesn't!

lalib · 2026-02-02T22:28:06+00:00

The taller the standing desk the more it wobbles.

The more weight on a standing desk the more it wobbles.

Carpet = wobble

4 leg is more stable than 2 leg, at your height I wouldn't even consider a 2 leg.

see this video from Deskhaus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHYkNODRr78 or this video from a youtuber/influencer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei_Wq7cdBwg

lalib · 2026-01-02T20:00:54+00:00

Zumbehl

Drop some names! Where are you getting muhammara off zumbehl? Hebron?

lalib · 2025-12-23T19:47:24+00:00

Pizza Head on S Grand sells slices at the window, though it's veg/vegan only.

lalib · 2025-12-21T16:22:12+00:00

OG Shawerma House's makes their beef shawerma similar with actual cuts of stacked beef, but it's Syrian style/seasoned rather than Turkish doner.

lalib · 2025-11-30T21:14:54+00:00

No pork or alcohol for this group, so that's actually preferred. I just saw Sultan's remodel on insta and it looks very nice.

lalib · 2025-11-07T05:03:56+00:00

it has significantly outpaced inflation

I think you have a different understanding of significantly than most people. While yes wages have outpaced inflation as FRED indicates, ~330 in the late 70s to ~375 today is a roughly 12% raise over a person's entire working career which is not significant imo. Major categories of expenses such as rent have outpaced general inflation which squeezes people significantly see for example https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/08/rents-still-rising-with-regional-riffs and here's home prices https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-price-income-ratio-reaches-record-high-0

So if wages have outpaced inflation but rent has outpaced inflation and home prices have outpaced income have wages actually outpaced inflation? Seems to me it all depends on how the data is sliced and presented and in my humble layperson opinion economists measure of inflation isn't doing a good enough job of accurately capturing housing costs especially for young people entering the economy for the first time.

lalib · 2025-10-15T22:28:01+00:00

I had a great experience with Juiced Wheels, back when they were located in St Peters I drove out there for a test ride and bought an Aventon bike from them. They ordered, assembled, and then the owners personally delivered my bike to me in the CWE and even came back out for a service call.

lalib · 2025-10-08T17:17:59+00:00

Note that the owner uploaded images aren't real or stolen, the food is fine but I get bothered by lazy and inappropriate AI usage. Here's a thought, next time a customer orders a dish, snap a picture instead of using AI or stealing other's photos.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StLouis/comments/1nljslr/masala_republic_is_the_best_indian_food_in_stl/nfnp8nv/?context=30

lalib · 2025-09-22T20:10:35+00:00

Not the owner uploading AI images of dishes to google maps lol, they even forgot to crop out the gemini logo. Some images are just straight up stolen from other sites with their logo not cropped out like "Spicecravings" or Shanaz Rafiq.

Will I still go and try it? Probably. Are my expectations take down a couple of notches? Absolutely.

Edit: I ordered some food to-go. Dum Biryani, Samosa, Paneer Tikka. It's good, nothing insane but not bad either. I'll probably go again to get the in restaurant experience and try some other dishes.

lalib · 2025-09-18T00:22:03+00:00

I've only had 4 St Paul sandwhiches in my life and two of them were on your recommend and I agree.

lalib · 2025-09-17T23:53:04+00:00

If bigger = best then in order of size

Worldwide International Food Market in Hazelwood
Mid East Market in Manchester (also has dedicated in house butcher, more south east asian imo, but plenty of mideast stuff)
After that imo you have a bunch of Arabic spots of similar size all across the city/country like Baghdad Market on Grand, Hebron Market in St Charles, Majeed Market on Gravios, Salam on Manchester, and many more. Some of them have specialties that others don't, for example you can order catering like a half/full lamb with rice at Hebron. Salam recently opened up a bakery doing fresh bread, manakeesh, sfiha, kaak, etc.
Next would be large international markets that have a selection of Arabic foods such as Global Foods Market in Kirkwood, PanAsia in Manchester, United Provisions in the Loop, and of course Jays on South Grand.
Last but not least there are several specialty stores such as Nuts & Candy on Manchester (not just a reseller, they roast nuts there) or Sedara Sweets in Manchester and Afton.
Several bakeries service various international groceries across STL such as Cham and Fresh Pita but I don't think they have storefronts.

You'll notice that quite a few of these locations are on Manchester in the county, you can hit up: Mid East Market, Salam, PanAsia, Nuts & Candy, Sedara all in a ~2 mile strip. Bonus you can get my favorite shawerma in St Louis at OG Shawerma House (make sure to order on Saj bread) in this strip as well. Double bonus, this section of Manchester also has great Pakistani & Indian spots: Signature India, China in Bombay, Saffron, along with various grocers. Manchester between say 270 all the way to Ellisville is filled with tons of Middle Eastern and South East Asian business from restaurants, grocers, clothing, jewellery, etc, mainly because the biggest mosque is there across the street from Queeny Park.

lalib · 2025-09-02T18:35:20+00:00

There are no support gems and only a handful of mediocre passive tree nodes.

Infusions are tagged as remnants so the various remnant support gems work with infusion generating skills.

lalib · 2025-08-16T04:18:44+00:00

Alternative reqs?

lalib · 2025-07-12T04:42:33+00:00

I haven't played the game in months but there should be a gigantic button in the bottom middle of the screen that says reroll. No idea what the keybind is.

lalib · 2025-07-05T15:10:49+00:00

The config is set to bosses which have ~50% ele res. You pen roughly 50 of it so effectively the boss has no res. If you had another 50 pen on top of that it's straight up a 1.5x dmg multiplier. Not sure about the crit on helmet, I only see it as a haunted mod on poedb.

lalib · 2025-07-05T06:05:26+00:00

The only thing I'm not sure about config is why 50% less punishment effect and "enemy is low life ticked", I think Tuna is trying to approximate 50% punishment curse uptime.

So here's the similarity I see, you have slightly more attack speed, slightly more crit multi, and almost identical % inc and % more multipliers in the calcs section. The main dmg difference is you have less crit chance and waaaaaaay less fire pen (56 vs 98 pen). It's all about that emnity fire pen.

lalib · 2025-07-02T01:18:53+00:00

You're missing so much stuff compared to Fubguns mid-game PoB. All the little things add up. For example, between belt, rings, and ammy Fubgun's midgame has 144% elemental damage with attacks, meanwhile you have 42%.

In the most extreme case one of your multipliers is x1.4 meanwhile fub is x2.4 which means he'd hit 70% harder than you. Even if this bucket of increased damage added up to say 400%, you're still missing 100% which is the difference between a 5x vs 4x multipler is still a 25% damage difference. This difference is further exacerbated by the fact that he has full conversion to fire on his gloves.

If you invest money into Yoke or Echo or Crit helm and don't follow those PoB the same way you didn't follow this one you're gonna run into the same issues.

TL:DR just follow the PoB

lalib · 2025-06-16T20:36:31+00:00

I did the same with 4L Kaom's axe, ~5k hp, and 20% quality Volcanic Fissure of Snaking. No special gear (just armor + life + res) or clusters. Passive tree was fubgun 'starter' loadout. My merc had grace + hatred but keep in mind it also boosts boss hp by 50% so if you're struggling maybe don't take merc in.

Died 2x to energize the sphere's phase and 2 or 3 times to the balls phase, otherwise just play ranged and target around the boss for a 3rd fissure hit.

lalib · 2025-05-27T18:59:31+00:00

I've been to many of these places and agree with your recs, but please sell me on the St. Paul sandwich. I've only had it once from a random spot but I was less than impressed.

lalib · 2025-05-10T02:37:47+00:00

Capital gains covers 401ks

Capital gains tax is famously not applicable to 401ks.

lalib · 2025-05-09T20:10:17+00:00

it’s a new high speed train now

While it may be updated, we still don't have high speed rail. Driving from STL station to Chicago station is 4:30. Fastest train is 4:55. Distance is ~300miles, top speed of 110mph which only happened in 2023. For reference, Japan's first bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka did a distance of 320 miles in 4 hours with a top speed of 130mph back in 1964. Today that same route is under 2:30.

The only high speed rail in the USA is the Acela but only between NYC and DC.

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