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  • Maybe for someone with a specific baking recipe in mind? One of the egg noodle recipes I like calls for about as many extra yolks as whole eggs. So I could probably just use these without waste or having to make a separate recipe to use up the whites. I’ve never seen this at stores near me either in the US.









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    8 months ago

    Maybe it puts me at risk of forming an echo chamber but I make liberal use of the block user, block community, block instance features.(in connect for lemmy. I don’t know which are app specific.)

    Lemmy seems to be small enough that blocking a few dozen particularly argumentative users noticeably improves the experience. Although I do try to avoid the politics communities and posts as those frequently end up with arguments and eventually name calling.

    Are you consuming the all feed unfiltered?





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    9 months ago

    The trouble with that is that sometimes you don’t know how much time you’re wasting with a poor quality tool even when it’s not broken. A couple examples come to mind. I got a cheap detailing sander. The sheets that came with it disintegrate quickly, and the unit overall just doesn’t work well. I regret that purchase. At work I had to drill a few dozen holes through 2 in thick aluminum. I spent forever on the first machine and broke multiple bits. When I had to do it again, I ordered new drill bits. The job took me half the time and was way easier on my arms. Using the used and abused worn out bits cost the company more in my labor than purchasing new bits. Some things, like taps, can cause damage that takes more than they cost to fix. A broken off tap can’t be just drilled out. They’re too hard and will shatter a drill bit. I’ve also had poor quality screw drivers and sockets round over fasteners that led to horrible times drilling out fasteners on vehicle/machine parts that are expensive to replace.

    If you can work on projects with others and occasionally use their tools, you can get a better sense of which tools are worth being more discriminatory on. Unfortunately, that’s not always an option.


  • Mathloger, numberphile, computerphile, Sixty symbols: more good math/computer science theory channels

    applied science, breaking taps: truly amazing “garage” engineering. They take on projects that you would normally expect to take a specialized lab.

    alpha phoenix: his expertise is in materials science but he does delve a bit into electromagnetic questions

    Mr P Solver: solving interesting problems computationally in pthyon

    Eevblog: good electrical engineering insights with a nice Australian accent

    Practical engineering: all the civil engineering questions you never knew you had

    Stuff made here: what happens if a robotics expert has a generous fun projects budget and never sleeps

    Tropical tidbits: discussion of the meteorology of tropical storms and hurricanes as they happen with none of the weather reporting sensationalism

    I’m sure I’m missing some, but that should be a big enough list to add many hours to your watch list.

    I have a physics degree, and 3 blue 1 brown’s latest videos on light are amazingly presented in comparison to the vast majority of lectures I’ve sat through. It makes me hopeful that online video sharing can help improve pedagogy and not just be clickbait nonsense.