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7 votes
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Communications and internet have been blacked out in Kashmir since August 4 - five people explain what it's like to live through
8 votes -
The process of arming teachers in one Ohio school district: ‘You understand that you might have to shoot a student?’
8 votes -
Polyamory in the Pacific Northwest
10 votes -
The myth of the free speech crisis: How overblown fears of censorship have normalised hate speech and silenced minorities
21 votes -
Conservative MP Phillip Lee has defected to the Liberal Democrats ahead of a crucial no-deal vote, leaving the PM with no working majority
22 votes -
Reducing your own carbon footprint is great, but it won’t save the planet unless governments and corporations step up
19 votes -
Robots that can kill: Tomorrow’s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare
6 votes -
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair | Release date trailer (October 8, 2019)
4 votes -
Firefox 69.0 released
22 votes -
What's it like to have conversion therapy?
9 votes -
Usage share of desktop internet browsers 1996–2019
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Local coffee/tea cultures?
@cadadr's Turkey AMA coffee commentary got me curious about what coffee consumption and cultures look like among Tilders. If your principal national beverage is tea instead of coffee, feel free to...
@cadadr's Turkey AMA coffee commentary got me curious about what coffee consumption and cultures look like among Tilders.
If your principal national beverage is tea instead of coffee, feel free to comment on why you think that might have arisen.
I spent a bit of time chasing one of @cadadr's mentions about tasseomancy, and it's fascinating, so please describe if your coffee culture has any comparable rituals.
I grew up with my mother's Montreal Canadian coffee-drinking standards: starting around age 8 or so, a half-cup of stovetop percolated coffee with a half-cup of milk added, eventually graduating to full cups of strong black coffee by my teenage years. For most of my life, the commonest means of consuming coffee was via the Bunn restaurant coffee maker - a drip coffee maker with an electric burner that held the brew scalding hot, near-burnt.
The commonest U.S. home coffee preparation still uses a drip coffee maker. "Pod" coffee makers that use prefilled cartridges and a pressure boiler (lower pressure than espresso, but similar) are increasingly popular.
Practically all coffee in the U.S. is made from imported beans, with robust global supply chains. There's minimal boutique coffee production in the states of Hawaii and California, but the territory of Puerto Rico grows coffee for local use and premium export. Coffee is taxed at the same rates as other food products, and no import duties are levied, so it's incredibly cheap - usually $5 - 10 per 450g.
In the U.S., at least, there are now widespread corporate coffee shop chains - Starbucks, Peet's, Caribou, and others, which produce very standardized, uniform coffee, in pressure-expressed, brewed, and cold-process variations. They're often prepared with flavored syrups, and typically have dairy added, either as plain or steam-heated and frothed milk. Average cost for the fancier variations is around 5 USD, though a cup of plain brewed coffee is usually $1.50 - $2.00.
Even tiny villages have neighborhood coffee shops that serve plain brewed coffee and espresso drinks, teas, baked goods, and simple sandwiches. Local coffee roasters are relatively common, too. The coffee shops may feature their products, or the roaster may have its own cafe'. Most of the larger bookstores also serve coffee, teas, and espresso drinks in their own cafe's.
We usually drink our coffee relatively strong, around 10 - 15g of ground coffee per 200 ml of water for brewing, and dark roasts are preferred over mild ones.
Most U.S. cities support thriving international food and beverage cultures, so we get to try coffee variations from around the world. My personal favorites (aside from the obvious Italian espresso culture) are Turkish-style with cardamom, Ethiopian, and Cuban colada.
There isn't much of a national tea tradition here, though there's a common practice of herbal tisane use for health purposes.
I've visited around 43 of the 50 U.S. states and haven't noticed really distinctive regional variations, except for New Orleans chicory-flavored and New Mexico piñon-flavored coffee. My spouse adds chicory to coffee at home, and piñon coffee is delicious. We'll treat ourselves to shipments a couple of times a year. Hawaiian Kona variety beans are boutique-premium and there's some fakes, so we don't go out of our way to get it when fair-trade Ethiopian or Guatemalan varieties are better and cheaper. I try very hard not to think of the carbon footprint of any of this...
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Go 1.13 Is Released
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Hong Kong protestors using Mesh messaging app China can't block: Usage up 3685%
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Brains on Film - Documentary about an 80s public access show that praised cult movies
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Hurricane Dorian: Storm inches north west, leaving devastation in Bahamas
5 votes -
Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ
5 votes -
Anamanaguchi - Lorem Ipsum (Arctic Anthem) (2019)
7 votes -
Pat Metheny Group - Have You Heard (1989)
8 votes -
Jojo Rabbit | Official trailer
6 votes -
Lezer (the parser used in CodeMirror 6)
3 votes -
Finland under pressure to criminalise lack of consent in rape laws
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Swedish cashless app Swish is teaming up with six other companies to form a European network of mobile payment solutions
5 votes -
The Kindle is fine. It could’ve been much more than that.
27 votes -
The country disappearing under rising tides
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Norway Sámi community fights for survival as temperatures rise
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Denmark's central bank roundly rejected finance industry entreaties to ease the burden of the world's longest negative interest-rate experiment
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Advice for first home server?
Hello, I have a few questions. I didn't want to wast money so I wanna use what I have in terms of hardware, only the PSU and storage if needed. PC: CPU AMD 5 1600 RAM 16G SSD 125 GB for OS...
Hello,
I have a few questions. I didn't want to wast money so I wanna use what I have in terms of hardware, only the PSU and storage if needed.
PC:
- CPU AMD 5 1600
- RAM 16G
- SSD 125 GB for OS
Services I think of running:
- Node Tor middle relay
- Node Bitcoin
- Node XMR
- Gitea or Gitlab
- Maybe some service to host files or make a share for lan or a could service
- Maybe a TS Server or Minecraft
Questions:
- Do I have enough power to run all of this or I am being to greedy? I have raspberry(not pi 4) stopped at home doing nothing I could run some of this services on them if the computer can't handle everything.
- Should I virtualize? Can you explain me your response on this?
- I thinking of buying a good PSU since I am running this 24/7, should I invest in gold platinum or something like that?
- Should I have multiple disks if yes can you explain how much and for what.
This is will be my first server at home so I would like to hear tips if you think I am forgetting something.
Thanks in advance.
Edit: visualize > virtualize17 votes -
Mikhail Shufutinsky - Trietje Sientiabria (The Third Of September)
4 votes -
The Searl Effect Zero Point Generator
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Greta Thunberg has spoken about her Asperger's syndrome diagnosis after she was criticised over the condition
11 votes -
To Fix the Climate, Tell Better Stories: The missing climate change narrative
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Where did all the nerds go?
I was a nerd. Back in the 80's, nerds were easily identifiable. If you spent your time playing computer games instead of real games, were pale and lanky, you were a nerd. Bonus points if you...
I was a nerd.
Back in the 80's, nerds were easily identifiable.
If you spent your time playing computer games instead of real games, were pale and lanky, you were a nerd. Bonus points if you played D&D or read books for fun.
Now everyone seems to qualify.
Everyone in high school looks pale and lanky. They all have their noses buried in their digital devices.
Does the concept not even exist anymore?
Or do I just no longer "get it"?
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Digitizing objects from Smithsonian's enormous collection
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The hot mess of Hawai‘i’s renewable power push
12 votes -
The knuckleball isn’t dead yet
7 votes -
Good Hair Day – How black Finns are taking on racism
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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Worst weather experience?
Since it's the peak of tropical storm season again, this thread is open for all to share stories and thoughts about weather experiences. Not necessarily concerns about climate change, but the...
Since it's the peak of tropical storm season again, this thread is open for all to share stories and thoughts about weather experiences. Not necessarily concerns about climate change, but the incidents you've had personally, and whatever you've learned about preparation, resilience, and recovery.
I'm no longer a Florida resident, but my contacts are blowing up with concern over Hurricane Dorian.
I've been watching the storm on this nifty site, which has great tools and visualisations to satisfy the most avid weather geeks.
Dorian is likely to be another devastating, small-region, high-intensity buzzsaw, like last year's Hurricane Michael, which practically erased towns in the Florida panhandle, or the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. [I'm not really a good person - I'm having more than a little schadenfreude that Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort is near the center of the storm's predicted path. But I'm not the only person who thought of that.]
According to the Insurance Information Institute, Florida has nearly $600 billion dollars of single family housing at risk from a Category 5 hurricane, leaving aside loss of life and injury.
My stories, compressed for those who've read this before
Some of my friends and colleagues have families still recovering from the impacts of 2017's Hurricanes Irma, Harvey, and Maria.
While I had to deal with these storms' impacts to infrastructure professionally, the hurricanes didn't have enormous personal impact. I was mainly supporting friends or covering for colleagues struggling to help family in Texas, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean Islands. Our house was eight miles from the coast, so we only dealt with a downed tree and other cleanup, a few hours without power, and some blocked roads.
Because I have dumb hobbies, the most extreme weather dangers I ever encountered were while kayaking and canoeing. Five years ago, I was on a guided ocean kayaking trip that ran into an unpredicted storm squall. Perfect blue skies and calm one minute; near darkness, huge waves, practically solid rain, and 40-knot winds the next. The party got scattered all over half a dozen of the 10,000 Islands. I struggled to get off the windward side of a long isle, so the wind banged my kayak into mangroves for an hour, then I was paddling furiously to avoid being swept into the Gulf of Mexico. But we all survived without major harm, the guide managed to reconnect us without calling for rescue, and we arrived at our destination with good stories. I can only imagine what it's like to be exposed to worse conditions in a hurricane.
Up to that time, the most dangerous weather I'd run into was snow and ice storms. When I was a kid, the Blizzard of 1978 left my family stranded, without phones, power or heat, for five days. We had a fireplace, plenty of hardwood, and an ample store of dried and canned provisions, so it felt more like a rustic adventure than the dire situation it could have been. My brother and I thought 10-foot snowdrifts were the greatest fun ever - we spent more time outside than in, "helping" to dig out by making snow forts and tunnels with the neighbors' kids. Of course, it was followed with a spring of chores like putting up half a kilometer of snow fences, learning to drive a 40-hp farm tractor, and setting up a ham radio antenna and generator, as my city-raised parents had come to grasp what rural life really entailed.
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Joker | Final trailer
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Typesetting Markdown Blog: What Next?
Some of you have read the Typesetting Markdown blog series (https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/). The plan was to finish the last two parts with Annotated Text (basically markup for Markdown) and...
Some of you have read the Typesetting Markdown blog series (https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/). The plan was to finish the last two parts with Annotated Text (basically markup for Markdown) and Figure Drawing (MetaPost); however, people have asked for a post on Markdown to EPUB, others have asked for high-quality PDF theme templates using ConTeXt, and some have requested rendering Markdown into HTML.
Within the realm of Markdown, digital documentation, typesetting with ConTeXt, R, externalized interpolated strings, and bash scripting, what would interest you for the next post in the series?
(Please flip through the blog series to see the topics that have been covered.)
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Biohackers are pirating a cheap version of a million-dollar gene therapy
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Ganesh Chaturthi 2019: Ten lesser-known short stories of Bal Ganesha you need to know
6 votes -
Hanoi's street boys and runaways are easy prey for exploitation
6 votes -
Hong Kong protests: Defiant university students, school pupils and residents go on strike, piling pressure on government to meet demands
6 votes -
Harry Potter books removed from St. Edward Catholic School due to 'curses and spells'
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Pet dogs in Ancient Rome | How They Did It
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Amateurs identify classified US spy satellite based on Tweet
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Less than ideal router strength, curious what my Tech Tilderinos would recommend
I just moved, and my new apartment is set up a little weird - gotta love old construction. As a result, the router has to be in the other end of the home from my PS4 which is my primary internet...
I just moved, and my new apartment is set up a little weird - gotta love old construction. As a result, the router has to be in the other end of the home from my PS4 which is my primary internet consumption device. The way I see it I have four options:
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Hot spot from my cell phone - not ideal because I pay per gig of data and it's not fast enough for gaming
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Run a really long Ethernet cord - possible but would be a little bit of a project. I looked into it a little and I'm curious if there is any appreciable difference between Cat 5, 6, 7, or 8 from a home user perspective. Also, what's a good resource for buying one, since Amazon is not really trustworthy anymore?
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Use a WiFi booster - I don't really have any experience with these. Would it be as fast as using the router, and if I used an Ethernet cable to connect my PS4 to it would it still be limited to wifi speeds?
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Get a stronger router - considering I technically rent my router from Verizon this is probably the most cost effective way to go in the long term, any suggestions for brands?
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