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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • This is such an odd post. So many details that are highly debatable, not many important details.

    For example, is the egg refrigerated or room temperature? That changes the timing a lot. Talking about accurate timing is pointless without at least some idea of the initial temperature.

    I don’t use a ice bath, or any kind of cooling down for hardboiled eggs. I don’t really have a problem peeling them, unless they are very fresh.



  • Lithium-* batteries don’t actually have any specific useful numbers. It’s something like this (the actual numbers are pulled out of my ass and depends on battery time and test parameters and even then I’m simplifying):

    • At 0 volts, the battery is dead.

    • At 1 volts, the battery is practically dead.

    • Discharging to 2 volts kills it after around 100 times.

    • Discharging to 3 volts kills it after around 10 000 times

    • Discharging to 3.5 volts kills it after 100 000 times

    • Charging to 4 volts kills it after 100 000 times

    • Charging to 4.2 volts kills it after 10 000 times

    • Charging to 4.3 volt kills it after 1000 times

    • Charging to 4.4 volts kills it after 100 times

    • Charging to 4.5 has s significant chance of it catching fire

    Now choose how many charge cycles you want it to survive, and you know which voltage to consider 0% and which to consider 100%. The bigger difference, the bigger capacity with the same battery.

    This is why a phone with 0% battery can tell you that it’s out of battery.

    You can also adjust what “killed” means. Is it when battery capacity is reduced to 80%? 50%?

    I have to repeat - the numbers are not accurate, and this is strongly simplified.

    It’s just an illustration of what 0% and 100% means it’s just where you are on the useful range, according to the manufacturers definition of useful.







  • This might interest you: In Danish grammar we have two genders. Not male and female, but common and neutral. Male, female and anything between is common gender. Everything else is neutral gender.

    The problem is the exceptions. There’s just too many exceptions.

    Man, woman, boy, girl, they are all common gender. Child is neutral gender. Baby us common gender.

    Dog, cat and pig are common gender, wild boar is neutral gender.

    A door is common gender, a door handle is neutral.

    Whyyy…


  • Then represent the person like that, but not worse.

    Plenty of people in history is presented as pure bad, but reality is more complex.

    For example, we know Adolf Hitler as one of the worst people in history (at least here where I live). But he did a lot of good for Germany. At the time, this is what he was known for, and that is why he was popular enough to be democratically elected.

    But if we only know him as a purely bad person, we will not recognize the next Hitler before it’s too late. We will see a person doing good stuff, but with signs that too many people will ignore.

    There’s also the idea that when you do good, you deserve to be recognized for that, no matter what else you’ve done. Not just because it’s the right thing to do, but also to encourage more of that.







  • A little tip for when you try out different methods: Check the weight of the silica gel, to check your progress.

    For example: Take a container from the AMS, weigh it. Give it an hour in a food dehydrator. Weigh it. Repeat until weight no longer drops. Give it a couple hours or more in an oven that’s at least 100 °C. Then weight it again.

    Now you know how long it takes in the dehydrator, and how well it works.

    Later you can weigh it again, and compare to the weight out of the oven. Now you know how much water is in there.