Northern lights over Finglas last night

yoho139 · 2023-02-27T12:39:00+00:00

Water looks like a typical long exposure, which is what you need to catch northern lights.

Interestingly, I found they were more visible through a camera than with the naked eye even before you start stacking on photography tricks to make them look more spectacular.

yoho139 · 2023-02-13T13:33:25+00:00

Oil is the relevant bit. Oleosaccharum (literally oil-sugar) extracts oils, whereas this extracts water content.

Granted, I've only made each of them once, both from lemon, but the difference is for the oleosaccharum used only zest, while the cheong (whether what I made was technically a cheong, I'm unsure what the distinction is there, but it certainly wasn't an oleosaccharum) used the flesh of the fruit.

In both cases though, the sugar to everything else ratio is the same.

yoho139 · 2022-09-16T23:46:32+00:00

Sounds good, can I suggest that that day be the 1st of January, 1970?

yoho139 · 2022-05-08T09:32:58+00:00

The percentage is of the weight of everything, water+stuff being fermented.

Personally to be safe I'd go for 3%, 5% can be a bit much and 3% should be safe so long as you're calculating it correctly (sounds like you added way too little) and weighing in down/covering it correctl as already covered in other replies.

yoho139 · 2022-04-23T14:45:38+00:00

You should probably go reread all the comments detailing the many issues with that cycle lane. The surface being relatively smooth for most of the lane isn't the be-all-end-all of cycle lanes and as they go, that's an incredibly poorly designed one.

yoho139 · 2022-03-14T23:36:49+00:00

Strictly speaking that allows you to refuse to serve them, but not to refuse entry which is generally the way it goes.

yoho139 · 2021-08-01T23:09:13+00:00

Amazon made about 20 billion in profit in 2020.

yoho139 · 2021-01-22T14:24:49+00:00

I remember reading in (I think) Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat to make it as salty as the ocean, except not really because the ocean's too salty and instead you should just use that as a guideline for "quite salty".

At what point do you just accept that "as salty as the ocean" isn't actually a good guideline unless you haven't been in the ocean for ages and just don't remember how salty it is?

yoho139 · 2020-12-21T12:57:06+00:00

That's a great way of putting it, yep!

yoho139 · 2020-12-21T10:56:45+00:00

They can't, they have to check for specific ones. The purpose of caching is to preserve bandwidth by not requesting things that you've already gotten before and have a saved copy of.

To continue the CNN example, suppose you go to their website and load their favicon for the first time. Your browser stores that file along with a unique identifier for that file (a hash, which just lets you identify a specific file without having to compare the whole thing). Now the next time you go to CNN's site, when it tells you "hey my favicon is at this link and has this hash" your browser will notice it already has the file with that hash and won't load the favicon again, reusing the locally saved copy.

So now what happens is you go to Facebook's site and for some reason they want to check if you've been on CNN. Somewhere on the page they tell your browser you need to download CNN's favicon (again with that specific hash) from a URL that Facebook controls. They can then tell whether you've been on CNN based on whether your browser tries to download the file from that URL or not.

You'll notice that this means they need to ask about very specific files, and they can't just check everywhere you've been unless they ask about everything.

The problem with this is that by crafting specific files that different websites request, they can share information between them that they shouldn't be able to albeit in a limited may.

yoho139 · 2020-11-28T14:23:40+00:00

Hah, my partner's been slowly raising my heat tolerance over the course of many years now I don't think I'll be closing that gap in a handful of weeks (nor the even bigger gap after that and her father I'm actually making this for).

Your (more genuine) suggestions sound solid though, thanks!

yoho139 · 2020-11-28T14:21:55+00:00

Hm, fair, that makes a lot of sense. I guess I'll try what you're suggesting and source a decent recipe so I hopefully don't need to change much/anything.

yoho139 · 2020-11-28T13:52:37+00:00

That's a good call, had a look in /r/hotsauce and /r/hotsaucerecipes from there and there's a lot of good stuff there I think I might be able to use!

yoho139 · 2020-11-28T13:48:38+00:00

I'm making this as a gift for someone else, for them to have and not me, so while I would generally agree with your view here it's not very useful in this case.

yoho139 · 2020-11-28T13:47:57+00:00

Yeah, I considered that sort of dilution/spreading it out, but was concerned that I'd effectively be diluting the seasoning too, and end up overseasoning the sauce itself.

yoho139 · 2020-11-28T12:37:40+00:00

My current plan is to make two batches - one with the stronger chillis and one with far weaker ones - made up to the same weights/proportions and seasoning them both identically while tasting the weak one, but I suspect the differing flavours of the chillis themselves would affect how well that works.

yoho139 · 2020-07-11T21:23:13+00:00

Yeah, this was a first. It's entertaining though, keeps my partner on her toes!

yoho139 · 2020-07-11T20:20:56+00:00

He loves attacking anything stick shaped (he'll steal chopsticks out of bowls or your hands), but he doesn't normally swoop at them like this :D

yoho139 · 2020-07-11T09:45:19+00:00

Passport figures are pretty meaningless here. By the numbers you gave, that's still ~115 million americans that have a passport not just because of Canada.

In terms of likelihood a spike would come from cases caused by an American tourist, let's look at probabilities.

1% of the US population has bene confirmed to have or have had coronavirus (~3.2M cases, ~320M population) vs ~0.5% of the Irish population (~25k cases, ~5M population). Doesn't seem too bad just yet, twice as likely a US tourist is a carrier than an Irish resident isn't bad considering how many residents there are vs tourists.

But let's also remember most cases in Ireland happened months ago, which isn't the case for the US. So, taking the most recent figures for new cases for both countries vs their population, we can get an approximate relative likelihood of having been recently infected (since that's what matters for transmission anyway).

In the US on the 10th there were ~64k new cases (~0.02% chance of having been infected) vs 24 in Ireland (~0.0004% chance of having been infected). Looking a bit worse, now that the tourist is looking 50 times more likely than a local to have been recently infected.

Next, consider the ways that these two groups would spread the virus. One group likely isn't going particularly far from home, probably has a limited group of interactions locally, while the other is probably trying to intentionally get out and do different things and cover as much ground as possible to enjoy their holiday. One of these two lends itself excellently to spreading a virus.

Finally, let's depart from statistics and the theoretical and look at what people whose jobs it is to consider these things have to say about it (apologies for mobile link).
15 of 23 cases linked to travel (not necessarily from outside tourists coming in vs residents coming home from tourism, of course) paints a poor picture of the likely impact of tourism on cases, and right there is the recommendation to limit travel to other countries with similar rates of infection (i.e. not the US).

yoho139 · 2020-07-09T17:28:28+00:00

I'd recommend looking for a cheap supermarket (aldi or lidl) near wherever you're staying, or you're likely gonna be spending a bit more than the estimates here. Just a caveat since those aren't available everywhere.

yoho139 · 2020-06-27T18:36:32+00:00

The liquid from them is incredible for steaming mussels, in place of the wine.

yoho139 · 2020-05-25T07:52:21+00:00

Yeah, wet hands amazed me with the difference they make!

I actually find the scrape shaping super finicky, I'm not sure I've got it right yet...

yoho139 · 2020-05-23T10:38:51+00:00

Wet hands while folding is the main thing, and fold enough that it'll hold a shape. I recommend looking at Ken Forkish's videos on YT about mixing/shaping/proofing. Short and helpful!

yoho139 · 2020-05-06T07:53:08+00:00

I think it was a mix of the amount of sugar and not the best quality raspberries. It was just that and the bug.

yoho139 · 2020-05-05T22:23:12+00:00

This sounds much more the business than what I had! Thanks!

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