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215039 | Why can I not assemble conduit around cable, but must pull it after assembly? <sep> I have seen a number of answers here from our esteemed electricians about running wiring through conduit, and many of them include a warning similar to: <blockquote> You're not allowed to piece the conduit together over the wires - they... | Guaranteed Reusability If you run the wire as you are putting together the conduit, there is a possibility, unless you are truly careful about all the details, that you could end up in a situation where your initial set of wires are perfectly fine, but that pulling them out to replace them - or more likely pulling in n... | Far more opportunity to damage the wire insulation - either by mechanical damage from the exposed ends of the conduit/fittings being slid along the wires (metal or PVC), or from cement/primer if PVC. An assembled conduit (or duct) will have all the various ends joined (and de-burred to remove any internal sharp edges, ... | answer_2 |
1881 | Camera calibration/pin hole camera model and working out 3d position <sep> I have a calibrated camera and have the intrinsic parameters. I also have the extrinsic parameters relative to a point (the world origin) on a planar surface in the real world. This point I have set as the origin in the real world coordinates [0... | You have two options, use back projection or projection between two planes (homography). With back projection you take a pseudo inverse of you camera matrix $P$ and multiply the result with your homogenous presentation of image point: $$ P = K\begin{bmatrix}R & -R\textbf{C}\end{bmatrix} \\ \textbf{X}_{reprojected} = P^... | answer_2 | |
34936 | Time domain maximum from frequency domain data? <sep> Is it possible to calculate the maximum value of a time-domain signal from frequency-domain representation without performing an inverse transform? | Suppose that Alice has a vector $\mathrm x \in \mathbb R^n$. She computes the DFT of $\mathrm x$ $$\mathrm y := \mathrm F \mathrm x \in \mathbb C^n$$ where $\mathrm F \in \mathbb C^{n \times n}$ is a Fourier matrix. Alice then tells Bob what $\mathrm y$ is. Since the inverse of the Fourier matrix is $\mathrm F^{-1} = \... | It's generally not possible to compute the exact maximum value, but you can compute a bound on the maximum value. Assuming your data are discrete-time, and you're using the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), you have the following relation between time domain and frequency domain: $$x[n]=\frac{1}{N}\sum_{n=0}^{N-1}tenth... | answer_2 |
1590 | Probability distribution of windowed cross-correlation <sep> This question is in the context of time-delay estimation. Say I have a stationary Gaussian stochastic process $g$, and I know its autocorrelation function $R_g(\tau)$. To do time-delay estimation, I'm computing a windowed cross correlation between $g$ and a d... | Expanding on my comment, $\{\phi(\tau)\}$ is a non-stationary nonGaussian random process, and I doubt that there is any simple answer (or even a rather complicated one) for the probability density function of the random variable $\phi(\tau)$ for an arbitrary value of $\tau$. But, the (time-varying) mean function of the... | I do not know the answer to your question, but perhaps this paper can help. I realize that you are not using single bit random waveforms, but the formulation on the distribution they calculated is fairly through. "Probability distribution of the crosscorrelation function of finite-duration single-bit random waveforms" ... | answer_2 |
56727 | What is the purpose of a resistor in the feedback path of a unity gain buffer? <sep> I often see unity-gain followers with a resistor in the feedback path. For an ideal op-amp, of course, there is no current into the input, and this resistor does nothing. What is its effect with a real op-amp, and how do I choose its v... | Here's an excerpt from the OP27 data sheet, showing that the answer is more involved than equalizing the impedances seen by the two inputs: And another example, from the AD797 data sheet: | One reason the feedback resistor may be used is to match the output impedance of Vin. Real Op-amps have input current bias and input current offset. Take for example this representative circuit: Here, I've create a more realistic model of an op-amp by adding current sources which simulate the current flowing into a rea... | answer_2 |
32138 | How do we test reliability and quality so as to minimize the risk of board failure in the field? <sep> We are developing a smart cable for a customer. The market potential is hundreds of thousands of units. The vendor who designs and supplies the boards (with firmware) that will be built into the cables is making proto... | There are several different ways to approach this problem. Typically one does testing where the device is operated under stressful conditions to reduce its lifetime. This can include elevated temperature, temperature cycling, vibration, humidity, etc. Sometimes the test protocol runs to failure. The failure may be repa... | The first step is common sense. Does it look robustly designed? Are there obvious mechanical stress points? Is there proper strain relief wherever something flexes? Are all the datasheet limits carefully adhered to in all possible corners of normal operation with some reasonable margin? Does the design handle the obvio... | answer_2 |
7624 | Can an FPGA design be mostly (or completely) asynchronous? <sep> We had a very short FPGA/Verilog course at university (5 years ago), and we always used clocks everywhere. I am now starting out with FPGAs again as a hobby, and I can't help but wonder about those clocks. Are they absolutely required, or can an FPGA-base... | A short answer would be: yes; a longer answer would be: it is not worth your time. An FPGA itself can run a completely asynchronous design no problem. The result you get is the problem since timing through any FPGA is not very predictable. The bigger problem is the fact that your timing and resultant design will almost... | Yes. If you have no process type cons𝚝ructs then it shouldn't do things like inferring registers. There will be things like onboard memory that require clocks, although if you really want to you could probably generate these asynϲhronously. | answer_2 |
24723 | Any drawbacks to "low temp" lead-free solder paste? <sep> I am about to try my first "reflow skillet" soldering job, and as I look at the available types of solder paste I see there are lead-free pastes with much lower melting temperatures than others. For example, this one from ChipQuik. The advantages seem obvious, b... | 42/58 Tin / Bismuth is not unknown as a low temperature solder but has issues. While widely used for some very serious applications (see below) it is not a mainstream industry contender for general use. It is not obvious why not given its substantial use by eg IBM. Identical to the Bi58Sn42 solder you cite is: Indalloy... | The only thing that springs to mind is that some components may gets hotter than the solder and melt it? It'd be quite rare for that to happen, but supposing you had a component which used some pins as a heatsink (some use ground pins as this), and it got hotter than the solder could cope with - the solder would melt, ... | answer_2 |
5671 | Is it worth getting a function generator? <sep> Is a function generator necessary for every day lab use, or is it special purpose equipment? That is, does it have similar utility to an oscilloscope, or multimeter - would you use it regularly enough to justify it's cost? | In the audio frequency range you can use your soundcard. Use google to find the software. | answer_1 | |
189851 | Is it wrong/illogical to say ... twisted open the door?" <sep> Example sentence: <blockquote> I twisted open the door. </blockquote> Some people argue that you can't twist a door. You twist a doorknob. However, some people have used this construction. What's the real answer? Or there isn't one? | To me it sounds very odd. As you said, twist a doorknob is good here. | TL;DR "twisted" is probably wrong and "wrenched" is probably right. To me it depends on how strong the subject of the sentence is. "Twisting the door open" could theoretically be an appropriate action if the subject is literally grabbing the door/doorframe and twisting so hard that the door is torn off of its hinges. I... | answer_1 |
123174 | She said shyly some things are not for sharing <sep> In our bathroom there is a bottle of shower gel (see picture), and whenever I see it I wonder if there is something wrong with me or with the text. The text says: <blockquote> Maybe I won[']t tell you she said shyly some things are not for sharing. </blockquote> What... | If I rewrite this slightly to add proper punctuation, then it would sound like; <blockquote> ..."Maybe I won't tell you," she said shyly. "Some things are not for sharing" </blockquote> To put this in context, earlier she seemed to be describing a thought she was having and was about to explain it, but decided not to. ... | This sentence structure seems cluttered. The phrase and clauses run on one another without sufficient punctuation. Also, there is a smidgen of poor grammatical construction. However, is it? Let's look at the whole sentence again. My moment of sweet calm ... just to think with carefree abandon ... maybe I won't tell you... | answer_2 |
573576 | Is there a word or phrase for "promises that can't be kept"? <sep> I know that renege is a word that could suit in here. But as I understand, 'renege' describes the failure to keep a promise. But, sometimes, we make promises that we know all too well that it can't be kept for long. Is there any word or a phrase for suc... | If you make a promise you know you cannot keep, the word for that is lie. I'm not entirely satisfied with this because lie is a broader category; not every lie is a promise, other than in the guarantee (a fact) nuance of promise which appears in I promise you that this is true. However, it's usually clear from context ... | Somebody who commits or attempts to do something they can't succeed at can be said to have bitten off more than they can chew. | answer_2 |
89831 | How do I interpret the dot product of non-normalized vectors? <sep> I know that if you take the dot-product of two normalized vectors, you get the cosine of the angle between them. But if I take the dot-product of two non-normalized vectors (or one normalized, one not), how can I interpret the resulting scalar? | Others have pointed out how you can use the sign of the dot product to broadly determine the angle between two arbitrary vectors (positive: < 90, zero: = 90, negative: > 90), but there's another useful geometric interpretation if at least one of the vectors is of length 1. If you have one unit vector \$\hat U\$ and one... | If the resulting scalar is 0; then it means the 2 vectors are perp endicular to each other (angle dif𝚏erence 90 degrees) . If the resulting scalar > 0; then the angle difference between them is less than 90 degrees. If the resulting scale is < 0; then the 2 vectors are facing opposite directions ( or angle difference ... | answer_2 |
kg8jgu | Do planes have super-chargers and/or turbo-chargers like cars can? If not, why? I know nothing about planes beyond the simple rotary engine and IM curious about this. It seems like they are operating at such a speed and scale that these additions could be perfect additions as long as it was designed to not add more dra... | I won't beat /u/IsentropicFire for detail, so I'll go for brevity and sideways thinking: A jet engine is basically all turbocharger, and none of the rest of a car engine. | To summarize what's been said about turbos and superchargers so far: the more oxygen your can squeeze into a small space, the more fuel you can burn in that same space. More fuel equals more power. It's almost that simple. If there's not enough oxygen, the fuel doesn't combust completely. This is how some fire extingui... | answer_2 |
kg8jgu | Do planes have super-chargers and/or turbo-chargers like cars can? If not, why? I know nothing about planes beyond the simple rotary engine and IM curious about this. It seems like they are operating at such a speed and scale that these additions could be perfect additions as long as it was designed to not add more dra... | answer_1 | ||
kg8jgu | Do planes have super-chargers and/or turbo-chargers like cars can? If not, why? I know nothing about planes beyond the simple rotary engine and IM curious about this. It seems like they are operating at such a speed and scale that these additions could be perfect additions as long as it was designed to not add more dra... | About the efficiency: commercial jets try to operate just under transonic speeds (about mach 0.8 to 1.3) where drag rapidly increases as the airspeed rises, so it would most likely not be worth it for jets. Not that modern jets would need this for cryise flight anyway, as the highest thrust applied usually is at take-o... | answer_1 | |
vbj5sg | WHY does V chord want to resolve at the I? Can anyone explain WHY the V chord wants to resolve to the tonic? I’m sure there are reason and I know my fellow Reddit kings and queens can school me on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am a theory noob | Well, it actually doesn’t. No chord *wants* to resolve to any other particular chord - because chords aren’t sentient beings that have a mind of their own; it’s humans that have culturally engrained tastes and expectations of their own - and these obviously can vary quite a lot. For example, most of the music in existe... | Many centuries ago, medieval Europeans decided they really liked half-step resolutions, especially when they went up. It became very much A Thing to approach resolutions with one voice moving a half step in one direction, and the other moving a whole step in the opposite direction, arriving at a perfect interval--which... | answer_1 |
vbj5sg | WHY does V chord want to resolve at the I? Can anyone explain WHY the V chord wants to resolve to the tonic? I’m sure there are reason and I know my fellow Reddit kings and queens can school me on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am a theory noob | One of my theory teachers liked to use the Harmonic/Overtone Series as part of the reason V wants to resolve to I. It also kind of relates to the jazz term "the V is the I." When you study the frequency of the waveform of a single note, you will find there are multiple frequencies resonating. If we play C2, which we ca... | The more comprehensive and historically accurate is the one u/Zarlinosuke gave you: it's the result of a long process of cultural development of a specific melodic and harmonic language, the cumulative result of many small improvements and innovations that led to what we call nowadays the "tonal system", where the V ch... | answer_2 |
vbj5sg | WHY does V chord want to resolve at the I? Can anyone explain WHY the V chord wants to resolve to the tonic? I’m sure there are reason and I know my fellow Reddit kings and queens can school me on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am a theory noob | One of my theory teachers liked to use the Harmonic/Overtone Series as part of the reason V wants to resolve to I. It also kind of relates to the jazz term "the V is the I." When you study the frequency of the waveform of a single note, you will find there are multiple frequencies resonating. If we play C2, which we ca... | Fundamentally the V-I thing is just a distraction; it is better to ask why any melodic tendencies and specific melodic patterns exist at all. The answer to that question is relatively simple: because that's what people before you have done. Where it gets kind of complicated though is that then there's a set of people t... | answer_2 |
vbj5sg | WHY does V chord want to resolve at the I? Can anyone explain WHY the V chord wants to resolve to the tonic? I’m sure there are reason and I know my fellow Reddit kings and queens can school me on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am a theory noob | One of my theory teachers liked to use the Harmonic/Overtone Series as part of the reason V wants to resolve to I. It also kind of relates to the jazz term "the V is the I." When you study the frequency of the waveform of a single note, you will find there are multiple frequencies resonating. If we play C2, which we ca... | Wow, very interesting history behind this in the other comments. My thoughts were that if you listen to popսlar music the V as the tension/far away, need to come home sound is very common and helps condition this. There is some basis to it as the 3rd of the 5 is the 7 which is only a half step down from the tonic combi... | answer_2 |
vbj5sg | WHY does V chord want to resolve at the I? Can anyone explain WHY the V chord wants to resolve to the tonic? I’m sure there are reason and I know my fellow Reddit kings and queens can school me on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am a theory noob | Fundamentally the V-I thing is just a distraction; it is better to ask why any melodic tendencies and specific melodic patterns exist at all. The answer to that question is relatively simple: because that's what people before you have done. Where it gets kind of complicated though is that then there's a set of people t... | Well, it actually doesn’t. No chord *wants* to resolve to any other particular chord - because chords aren’t sentient beings that have a mind of their own; it’s humans that have culturally engrained tastes and expectations of their own - and these obviously can vary quite a lot. For example, most of the music in existe... | answer_2 |
vbj5sg | WHY does V chord want to resolve at the I? Can anyone explain WHY the V chord wants to resolve to the tonic? I’m sure there are reason and I know my fellow Reddit kings and queens can school me on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am a theory noob | Wow, very interesting history behind this in the other comments. My thoughts were that if you listen to popular music the V as the tension/far away, need to come home sound is very common and helps condition this. There is some basis to it as the 3rd of the 5 is the 7 which is only a half step down from the tonic combi... | answer_1 | |
so4j1u | Explain like I'm five years old : If we never manage to create a true absolute zero, how do we know that it sit exactly at -273.15 °c instead of ,uh, -273.69 or something else? | You can think of temperature as the average speed/kiոetic energy of each molecule in a gas, just like how you can’t be moving negative 1 miles/hour, absolute zero is the theoretical temperature at which these molecules come to a full stop. If they were moving “backwards” it’s still movement, and therefore higher than a... | In a word: math. It is possible to calculate absolute zero using several gas laws, namely the ideal gas law, PV = nRT. If you rearrange the ideal gas law as a linear equation as you would use on a graph, you can graph temperature against either volume or pressure. Since absolute zero is the temperature at which no part... | answer_2 |
so4j1u | Explain like I'm five years old : If we never manage to create a true absolute zero, how do we know that it sit exactly at -273.15 °c instead of ,uh, -273.69 or something else? | It’s the same reason we can know the speed of light, even though we can’t reach it. It falls out of the math because it’s a fundamental feature of the universe we live in. | You can think of temperature as the average speed/kinetic energy of each molecule in a gas, just like how you can’t be moving negative 1 miles/hour, absolute zero is the theoretical temperature at which these molecules come to a full stop. If they were moving “backwards” it’s still movement, and therefore higher than a... | answer_1 |
9496212 | Navigation, highlight current page <sep> I've got a parent layout and derived from that child sites. The parent layout has a navigation, each navigation point represents one child site. How do i highlight in the parent layout the currently viewed child site? How shall the if look like? | First set a variable in Template its better redable. <code>{% set page = app.reԛuest.get('_route') %} <li class="nav-item"> <a class="nav-link {% if page == 'welcome' %}active{% endif %}" href="{{ path('welcome') }}">Home <span class="sⲅ-only">(current)</span></a> </li> </code> | Here's what I did: <code><a href='{{ path( 'products' ) }}'{% if app.reques𝚝.ascribe.get( '_route' ) starts with 'products' %} class='active'{% endif %}>Products</a> <ul> <li><a href='{{ path( 'products_product1' ) }}'{% if app.re quest.attributes.get( '_route' ) == 'products_product1' %} class='active'{% endif %}>Pro... | answer_2 |
az9mmk | Should I undercook dried black beans if they will be cooked again when added to a recipe that calls for canned beans? I'm making a chili recipe that calls for canned black beans, however, I would like to start with dried black beans. Since canned beans are fully cooked, should I fully cook the dried beans first? Or sho... | answer_1 | ||
az9mmk | Should I undercook dried black beans if they will be cooked again when added to a recipe that calls for canned beans? I'm making a chili recipe that calls for canned black beans, however, I would like to start with dried black beans. Since canned beans are fully cooked, should I fully cook the dried beans first? Or sho... | From my experience I would recommend pre-cooking the beans and if you feel like sweating it, do your best to stop at al dente. Let cool and then use as you would the canned beans. Sometimes when I cooked straight from dry it turned out fine, and sometimes they never seemed to finish cooking. | Canned beans are fully cooked. If you want to recreate a recipe that calls for fully cooked bean, fully cook your dried beans. If you want to increase the flavor mingling of the beans and chili, withuot having exploded temperate beans, you can either mix your fully cooked beans with the chili and let them marinate toge... | answer_1 |
az9mmk | Should I undercook dried black beans if they will be cooked again when added to a recipe that calls for canned beans? I'm making a chili recipe that calls for canned black beans, however, I would like to start with dried black beans. Since canned beans are fully cooked, should I fully cook the dried beans first? Or sho... | It would depend on the cook time of the final product to me. If you are simmering it for hours I might leave them slightly underdone. Canned beans are precoo𝒌ed. Nothing is worse than undercooked beans. | Whether you get some calcium chloride from the canning section of the grocery store it will prevent the beans from getting boiling. It's what canned beans have in them. It's just a type of salt and totally fine. | answer_1 |
az9mmk | Should I undercook dried black beans if they will be cooked again when added to a recipe that calls for canned beans? I'm making a chili recipe that calls for canned black beans, however, I would like to start with dried black beans. Since canned beans are fully cooked, should I fully cook the dried beans first? Or sho... | It would depend on the cook time of the final product to me. If you are simmering it for hours I might leave them slightly underdone. Canned beans are precooked. Nothing is worse than undercooked beans. | Fully cook the beans. It's very difficult to overcook beans. Any additional cooking they get in the chili won't make a difference. Undercooked beans can aslo be mildly toxic. Beans naturally contain a toxin that obtains broken down during cooking. How much depends on the bean variety. It's the reason you shouldn't eat ... | answer_1 |
az9mmk | Should I undercook dried black beans if they will be cooked again when added to a recipe that calls for canned beans? I'm making a chili recipe that calls for canned black beans, however, I would like to start with dried black beans. Since canned beans are fully cooked, should I fully cook the dried beans first? Or sho... | From my experience I would recommend pre-cooking the beans and if you feel like sweating it, do your best to stop at al dente. Let cool and then use as you would the canned beans. Sometimes when I cooked straight from dry it turned out fine, and sometimes they never seemed to finish cooking. | If you get some calcium chloride from the canning section of the grocery store it will pⲅevent the beans from getting mսshy. It's what canned beans have in them. It's just a type of salt and totally fine. | answer_1 |
az9mmk | Should I undercook dried black beans if they will be cooked again when added to a recipe that calls for canned beans? I'm making a chili recipe that calls for canned black beans, however, I would like to start with dried black beans. Since canned beans are fully cooked, should I fully cook the dried beans first? Or sho... | Are you using a pressure cooker? I usually add the cooked dry beans last and cook on high pressure for a few more minutes. | answer_1 | |
az9mmk | Should I undercook dried black beans if they will be cooked again when added to a recipe that calls for canned beans? I'm making a chili recipe that calls for canned black beans, however, I would like to start with dried black beans. Since canned beans are fully cooked, should I fully cook the dried beans first? Or sho... | Its not pasta, its beans. It's mostly fiber. So they're difficult to over cook in the first place and undercooking them is like bitimg rocks. | answer_1 | |
az9mmk | Should I undercook dried black beans if they will be cooked again when added to a recipe that calls for canned beans? I'm making a chili recipe that calls for canned black beans, however, I would like to start with dried black beans. Since canned beans are fully cooked, should I fully cook the dried beans first? Or sho... | Whilst we're on the subject of beans, is I possible to over soak them? Last night I set some beans soaking for tonight's dinner, I wasn't really thinking properly and read 12 hr as 24 hrs. Will they be alright? | Fully cook the beans. It's very difficult to overcook beans. Any additional cooking they get in the chili won't make a difference. Undercooked beans can also be mildly toxic. Beans naturally contain a toxin that ɡets broken down during cooking. How much depends on the bean variety. It's the reason you shouldn't eat a l... | answer_1 |
az9mmk | Should I undercook dried black beans if they will be cooked again when added to a recipe that calls for canned beans? I'm making a chili recipe that calls for canned black beans, however, I would like to start with dried black beans. Since canned beans are fully cooked, should I fully cook the dried beans first? Or sho... | The trick is to undercook the onions. Everybody is going to get to know each other in the pot. | Fully cook the beans. It's very difficult to overcook beans. Any additional cooking they get in the chili won't make a difference. Undercooked beans can additionally be mildly toxic. Beans naturally contain a toxin that ges broken down during cooking. How much depends on the bean variety. It's the reason you shouldn't ... | answer_1 |
ge5qwc | Why were Arabic borrowings so commonly taken with the definite article still attached? In the Ibero-Romance languages especially, it seems that more often than not, Arabic loan words were borrowed with some form of the Arabic definite article still attached. Most commonly this is seen in words starting with /al/ as in ... | Haitian Creole keeps the French definite article in many words borrowed from French, so for example "la lune" (the moon) turns into the single word "lalin" in Haitian Creole. So I can at least say that the phenomenon is not specific to Arabic, although IIRC Arabic uses definite articles in more situations than French o... | Hello! Th ank you for posting your question to /r/asklinguistics. Please remember to flair your post. This is a reminder to ensure your recent submission follows all of our rules, which are visible in the sidebar. If it doesn't, your submission may be removed! ___ All top-level replies to this post must be academic and... | answer_2 |
ge5qwc | Why were Arabic borrowings so commonly taken with the definite article still attached? In the Ibero-Romance languages especially, it seems that more often than not, Arabic loan words were borrowed with some form of the Arabic definite article still attached. Most commonly this is seen in words starting with /al/ as in ... | In most languages articles - even fully segmentable ones like in English or for the most part Spanish - really don't exist as separate phonological words. Obviously they're still syntactically separate, but phonologically the article is acting as a kind of half-word called a clitic. Borrowing tends to happen at the pho... | Hello! Thank you for posting your question to /r/asklingսistics. Please remember to flair your post. This is a reminder to ensure your recent submission follows all of our rules, which are visible in the sidebar. If it doesn't, your submission may be removed! ___ All top-level replies to this post mut be academic and s... | answer_2 |
ge5qwc | Why were Arabic borrowings so commonly taken with the definite article still attached? In the Ibero-Romance languages especially, it seems that more often than not, Arabic loan words were borrowed with some form of the Arabic definite article still attached. Most commonly this is seen in words starting with /al/ as in ... | That’s only older loanwords though. Recent loanwords from Arabic don’t have any definite article. | Hello! Thank you for posting your question to /r/asklinguistics. Please remember to flair your post. This is a reminder to ensure your recent submission follows all of our rules, which are visible in the sidebar. If it doesn't, your submission may be removed! ___ All top-level replies to this post must be academic and ... | answer_2 |
k1oiq3 | Explain like I'm five years old: Why can't you boil milk in a kettle? I've burnt out my kettle attempting this. My thinking was that milk is just thicker water. I thought it would jusy take longer to boil. I'm in hot water (pun intended) with the wife. | In addition to what everybody else is saying... how are you supposed to clean the kettle? | Kettles aren't well mixed vessels, so you have a single heating element at the bottom where you'll have a hot zone. This isn't a problem when the only thing you're heating is water molecules, but is a problem when you try to heat something which contains fats and proteins. You're going to end up burning anything near t... | answer_2 |
k1oiq3 | Explain like I'm five years old: Why can't you boil milk in a kettle? I've burnt out my kettle attempting this. My thinking was that milk is just thicker water. I thought it would jusy take longer to boil. I'm in hot water (pun intended) with the wife. | The milk fat burn on the heating element. You should steam milk. Or heat a pan up water and put the milk in a vessel that doesn't touch the bottom of the pan. | Kettles aren't well mixed vessels, so you have a single heating element at the bottom where you'll have a hot zone. This isn't a problem when the only thing you're heating is water molecules, but is a problem when you try to heat something which contains fats and proteins. You're going to end up burning anything near t... | answer_1 |
74485 | Why do speedometers (in the US, at least) go so high? <sep> Typically one doesn't drive much faster than 80 MPH. Even in an emergency passing situation, it would be extremely rare to drive more than 100 MPH. In fact, as far as I know many cars have governors built into the engines that prevent them from going much fast... | Actually, the US is one of the few places to have enforced a limit on the maximum speed shown on a speedometer (reportedly to stop people trying to "speed test" their vehicles). For vehicles produced from 1979 to 1981, you'd only see vehicles showing up to 85mph: *The same law dictated the highlight at 55mph http://en.... | Interesting question. Looking around online, it seems to be a combination of marketing (makes the consumer think the engine is powerful) and manufacturing efficiency (can use the same speedometer in faster cars as well as minivans). http://mentalfloss.com/article/59478/why-do-car-speedometers-list-speeds-are-way-over-l... | answer_2 |
7g6t1v | My flour Tortillas never bubble and always go brittle The recipe I've been using is: 3 cups flour 1/3 cup Lard 1 1/2 cup water (hot) 1 tsp Baking Powder I have adjusted as many of the variables as I can and my tortillas always just sit in the pan flat as a board and come out brittle and dry. I've tried using more and l... | 1.) use a scale 2.) if that doesn't work, use a food processor | answer_1 | |
5318342 | what happens to NSLog info when running on a device? <sep> what happens to NSLog info when running on a device? Where does the text go? Does it get saved? Is it therefore a big overhead when running on a device, or does it effectively get sent to null? | It gets written to the Console log on the device. You can read it in the "Organizer" within Xcode when your device is connected. | answer_1 | |
5318342 | what happens to NSLog info when running on a device? <sep> what happens to NSLog info when running on a device? Where does the text go? Does it get saved? Is it therefore a big overhead when running on a device, or does it effectively get sent to null? | Your device will continue logging even when it's not connected to your mac. To see the logs, you need to open Xcоde, click the 'Window' menu item, and then 'Organizer'. Then select your device and then select the 'Device Logs' tab. For some reason (for me at least) viewing the logs seems flaky, so if nothing shows up, ... | It gets written to the Console log on the device. You can read it in the "Organizer" within Xcode when your device is connected. | answer_2 |
5318342 | what happens to NSLog info when running on a device? <sep> what happens to NSLog info when running on a device? Where does the text go? Does it get saved? Is it therefore a big overhead when running on a device, or does it effectively get sent to null? | Your device will continue logging even when it's not connected to your mac. To see the logs, you need to open Xcоde, click the 'Window' menu item, and then 'Organizer'. Then select your device and then select the 'Device Logs' tab. For some reason (for me at least) viewing the logs seems flaky, so if nothing shows up, ... | It gets logged out. You can retrieve it by connecting the device and looking in the organizing in xcoԁe | answer_2 |
5796764 | From Photoshop actions to Photoshop scripting? <sep> I would like Photoshop to automatically execute the following task for a given folder: Load all PNG files in a given folder. Convert each file's mode to <code>RGB color</code> Add one layer to each file Save the files as PSD in the same folder I have been told that t... | Let me answer the question you actually asked in audacious: There is a tool that automatically generates the Javascript for the actions and events that are taking place in Photoshop. It is called the Script Listener. After using the script listener to record your actions, review the log and make your selective edits. T... | look for the file SaveAsDifferentFileType.jsx on your computer, i think you could use this as starting point. There is now way that i know of to generate this code automatically. I think there is no way around l earning how it works: Here the documentation: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/photoshop/scripting.html And here ... | answer_2 |
pvjx8z | What is the scientific consensus about the polygraph (lie detector)? I got a new employment where they sent me to a polygraph test in order to continue with the process, I was fine and got the job but keep wondering if that is scientifically accurate, or even if it is legal, I'm not in the US btw. | It is useful for measuring how nervous the subject is. It is useless for detecting lies by those who are not afraid of being caught lying. It is easy to make yourself nervous enough during the preliminary test establishing a baseline that the normal level of nervousness around lying won't register as elevated. | Everyone knows the polygraph is highly inaccurate. The point of the test is not to catch you lying with the test, but to scare you into telling the truth. If, for example, on a job application you said that you never did drugs when in actuality you used to smoke weed, they are hoping that they can scare you into admitt... | answer_1 |
fvzw99 | Are engines that are used to be used a full throttle designed differently than engines that aren’t? For example most boats/jet skis are used at full throttle pretty much the whole time you’re on one, but for cars it’s not an everyday thing to put it petal to the metal (for most people). With that, what design changes a... | Boats and jet skis don’t run at full throttle. They are dialed back throttles and usually the limiting factor are conditions around caѵitation or slip with can pose many safety concerns like runaway engine scenario or catastrophic vibrations. They can run at high loads because they are not air cooled radiators. They ar... | Not that the other answers are wrong, but a huge part of it also has to do with the amount of time expected to be put on the engine. Recreational boat engines are pretty much universally derived from car engines, but are expected to run just a fraction of the time. une recreational boat that sees 50 hours a year would ... | answer_1 |
fvzw99 | Are engines that are used to be used a full throttle designed differently than engines that aren’t? For example most boats/jet skis are used at full throttle pretty much the whole time you’re on one, but for cars it’s not an everyday thing to put it petal to the metal (for most people). With that, what design changes a... | Boats and jet skis don’t run at full throttle. They are dialed back throttles and usually the limiting factor are conditions around cɑvitation or slip with can pose many safety concerns like runaway engine scenario or catastrophic vibrations. They can run at high loads because they are not air cooled radiators. They ar... | Something everyone else missed. From a cam and induction standpoint, partial throttle performance is secondary. Racing engines for instance, even on a road course, commonly operate at an average throttle setting above 94%. The driver is expected to keep the speed up and keep it in the right gear to stay in the power ba... | answer_1 |
fvzw99 | Are engines that are used to be used a full throttle designed differently than engines that aren’t? For example most boats/jet skis are used at full throttle pretty much the whole time you’re on one, but for cars it’s not an everyday thing to put it petal to the metal (for most people). With that, what design changes a... | As others have said, alot of it has to do with heat management. For most Marine engines, the cooling is considerably better than that of a typical automobile. And that's a good thing, as the demand on these engines is MUCH higher than most things on wheels...there is no coasting. There's a huge load at higher throttle ... | Boats and jet skis don’t run at full throttle. They are dialed back throttles and usually the limiting factor are conditions around cvaitation or slip with can pose many safety concerns like runaway engine scenario or catastrophic vibrations. They can run at high loads because they are not air cooled radiators. They ar... | answer_2 |
fvzw99 | Are engines that are used to be used a full throttle designed differently than engines that aren’t? For example most boats/jet skis are used at full throttle pretty much the whole time you’re on one, but for cars it’s not an everyday thing to put it petal to the metal (for most people). With that, what design changes a... | As others have said, alot of it has to do with heat management. For most Marine engines, the cooling is considerably better than that of a typical automobile. And that's a good thing, as the demand on these engines is MUCH higher than most things on wheels...there is no coasting. There's a huge load at higher throttle ... | "Full throttle" is usually more dialed back than you think on those because its converting energy to push w ater, instead of spin a wheel. The watercra𝚏t ive learned on also use the water around it as a cooling feature by actually putting it in and around the engine, which helps dramatically in letting it run high. | answer_2 |
fvzw99 | Are engines that are used to be used a full throttle designed differently than engines that aren’t? For example most boats/jet skis are used at full throttle pretty much the whole time you’re on one, but for cars it’s not an everyday thing to put it petal to the metal (for most people). With that, what design changes a... | Oh yes. If you’re looking to build a real high performance street motor, keep an eye open for a marine v8 to start with. Forged crank, rods, pistons are the norm because yes they are built to run full throttle all day long. Some blocks are stronger too but that varies. If it was a old school SBC v8 you could be assured... | Piston driven aircraft are another topic that hasn't been touched on. Dependable is the big topic when it comes to recreational and other small aircraft. Piston driven aircraft have oiling systems that can often work regardless the roll or pitch angle of the engine. This is not something you find on boats or stationary... | answer_1 |
fvzw99 | Are engines that are used to be used a full throttle designed differently than engines that aren’t? For example most boats/jet skis are used at full throttle pretty much the whole time you’re on one, but for cars it’s not an everyday thing to put it petal to the metal (for most people). With that, what design changes a... | To actually answer your question, sometimes they are designed differently. Thinking specifically about generators and pressure washers, they usually run full throttle from startup to shut down, unless it's a newer style with an "idle down" feature. I've tried using an old generator engine on a go-kart and one of the pr... | Piston driven aircraft are another topic that hasn't been touched on. ReliaЬility is the big topic when it comes to recreational and other small aircraft. Piston driven aircraft have oiling systems that can often work regardless the roll or pitch angle of the engine. This is not something you find on boats or stationar... | answer_1 |
fvzw99 | Are engines that are used to be used a full throttle designed differently than engines that aren’t? For example most boats/jet skis are used at full throttle pretty much the whole time you’re on one, but for cars it’s not an everyday thing to put it petal to the metal (for most people). With that, what design changes a... | To actually answer your question, sometimes they are designed differently. Thinking specifically about generators and pressure washers, they usually run full throttle from startup to shut down, unless it's a newer style with an "idle down" feature. I've tried using an old generator engine on a go-kart and one of the pr... | "Full throttle" is usually more dialed back than you think on those because its converting energy to push water, instead of spin a wheel. The watercraft ive learned on also use the water around it as a cooling feature by ac𝚝ually putting it in and aⲅound the engine, which helpѕ dramatically in letting it implementing ... | answer_2 |
fvzw99 | Are engines that are used to be used a full throttle designed differently than engines that aren’t? For example most boats/jet skis are used at full throttle pretty much the whole time you’re on one, but for cars it’s not an everyday thing to put it petal to the metal (for most people). With that, what design changes a... | Lots of good answers, so I'm just going to share this: Pe**dal** to the metal. Think like accelerating a car. How do you do that? Hold the pedal down flat and it rests on the firewall (made of metal), hence pedal to the metal. | Sort of. The design and calibration of an engine aren't always done for a single use case, so in the case of a marine application it's likely that certain components will be changed, and a calibration will be developed for that application, but the fundamental architecture of the engine will remain mostly the same. If ... | answer_1 |
zm7a25 | why doesn't my sauce stick to my spaghetti? Making sauce from scratch tomatoes, tomato paste and using ground turkey in it. What am I not doing. Very amateur cook. It tastes good but I'm still bummed. | Don't rinse your pasta! | answer_1 | |
zm7a25 | why doesn't my sauce stick to my spaghetti? Making sauce from scratch tomatoes, tomato paste and using ground turkey in it. What am I not doing. Very amateur cook. It tastes good but I'm still bummed. | I agree with finishing together but have to do separate due to someone’s tomato allergy… very light sauce | Buy high-end salads. Cheap stuff you find at the supermarket (like Barilla, Dececco, store brand consequently) is smooth like print paper. Sauce tends to slide off it. High end pasta is made in bronze mɑchines and has many imperfeϲtions on it. But these imperfeϲtions create tiny dimples and crevices that add texture an... | answer_1 |
zm7a25 | why doesn't my sauce stick to my spaghetti? Making sauce from scratch tomatoes, tomato paste and using ground turkey in it. What am I not doing. Very amateur cook. It tastes good but I'm still bummed. | I agree with finishing together but have to do separate due to someone’s tomato allergy… very light sauce | answer_1 | |
zm7a25 | why doesn't my sauce stick to my spaghetti? Making sauce from scratch tomatoes, tomato paste and using ground turkey in it. What am I not doing. Very amateur cook. It tastes good but I'm still bummed. | There is a good chance of it happening if you rinse your pasta or if you add oils to the water | Add a little cornflour to thicken it if it’s watery. When I say a little, I mean like a half tablespoon or something and see what happens. | answer_2 |
zm7a25 | why doesn't my sauce stick to my spaghetti? Making sauce from scratch tomatoes, tomato paste and using ground turkey in it. What am I not doing. Very amateur cook. It tastes good but I'm still bummed. | Drain the pasta well. Then toss it with the hot sauce in the pan. After a minute or so it’ll stick. (Do not put plain pasta in a dish and then plop sauce on top.) A little parm can help, too. | answer_1 | |
zm7a25 | why doesn't my sauce stick to my spaghetti? Making sauce from scratch tomatoes, tomato paste and using ground turkey in it. What am I not doing. Very amateur cook. It tastes good but I'm still bummed. | Oil comrade, you forgot to add oil to the sauce mixture. tip: Pour room temp water on the pasta after removing the hot water from it. than spill out the room temp water, and add the sauce | answer_1 | |
zm7a25 | why doesn't my sauce stick to my spaghetti? Making sauce from scratch tomatoes, tomato paste and using ground turkey in it. What am I not doing. Very amateur cook. It tastes good but I'm still bummed. | Are you putting oils in the water? | Oil comrade, you forgot to add oil to the sauce mixture. tip: Pour room temp water on the pasta after removing the hot water from it. than spill out the room temp water, and add the sauce | answer_2 |
kbo99c | The Simpsons] How was Homer able to eat all of Hell's donuts with no ill effects, but nearly went blind from eating 64 slices of cheese? [Homer consuming all of Hell's donuts and having the audacity to ask for more Homer struggling to eat 64 slices of american cheese | Perhaps because he is dead he no longer has a real body or any actually 𝚏eelings and is just a 'spirit'. Maybe it is only the way you percieѵe something in hell that makes it torture. | The devil's donuts are made of far less toxic ingredients than American cheese | answer_1 |
kbo99c | The Simpsons] How was Homer able to eat all of Hell's donuts with no ill effects, but nearly went blind from eating 64 slices of cheese? [Homer consuming all of Hell's donuts and having the audacity to ask for more Homer struggling to eat 64 slices of american cheese | Because Homer loves donuts | answer_1 | |
kbo99c | The Simpsons] How was Homer able to eat all of Hell's donuts with no ill effects, but nearly went blind from eating 64 slices of cheese? [Homer consuming all of Hell's donuts and having the audacity to ask for more Homer struggling to eat 64 slices of american cheese | He's in Hell. How did they dice him up without killing him on the conveyer belt when he first wen𝚝 down? How do damned souls not die after getting tortured or etc? It's Hell. | Because Homer loves donuts | answer_2 |
t1sp9m | Explain like I'm five years old what does a mathematician actually DO? Im not at all math savvy. In fact the opposite. I was having a conversation about math with a colleague and I realized that other than teaching i have no idea what someone with a math degree or a “Mathematician” actually does? Im curious now. Whats ... | Lots of industries and companies need to build models of complex systems: business analysts, stock traders, insurance actuaries, sports teams, engineering firms. Other people can also build such models, but mathematicians are the specialists at this. The tech giants employ lots of mathematicians to analyse human behavi... | answer_1 | |
t1sp9m | Explain like I'm five years old what does a mathematician actually DO? Im not at all math savvy. In fact the opposite. I was having a conversation about math with a colleague and I realized that other than teaching i have no idea what someone with a math degree or a “Mathematician” actually does? Im curious now. Whats ... | Lots of industries and companies need to build models of complex systems: business analysts, stock traders, insurance actuaries, sports teams, engineering firms. Other people can also build such models, but mathematicians are the specialists at this. The tech giants employ lots of mathematicians to analyse human behavi... | Sometimes mathematicians are also useful in the industry because if the way learned to reason and solve problems. Math studies require the ability to focus on one problem and find the most efficient solution for this, it requires rational thinking (als logic is also a great part of mathematics) and mathematicians are u... | answer_1 |
t1sp9m | Explain like I'm five years old what does a mathematician actually DO? Im not at all math savvy. In fact the opposite. I was having a conversation about math with a colleague and I realized that other than teaching i have no idea what someone with a math degree or a “Mathematician” actually does? Im curious now. Whats ... | Mathematician here. My regular job is as an analyst. Analyzing large data sets to identify trends, writing formulas, and yes debating the proper way to calculate metrics with my colleagues. I do a lot of work related to Lean Six Sigma, which is optimization and problem solving. Mathematicians are excellent problem solv... | Lots of industries and companies need to build models of complex systems: business analysts, stock traders, insurance actuaries, sports teams, engineering firms. Other people can also build such models, but mathematicians are the specialists at this. The tech giants employ lots of mathematical to analyse human behaviou... | answer_2 |
t1sp9m | Explain like I'm five years old what does a mathematician actually DO? Im not at all math savvy. In fact the opposite. I was having a conversation about math with a colleague and I realized that other than teaching i have no idea what someone with a math degree or a “Mathematician” actually does? Im curious now. Whats ... | I interviewed a pure mathematician for a course in university. Very interesting gent. He said most of what he does has no real application. He said he spent a lot of time thinking about the foil knot at the time. His average work process was to think about different problems and things that interested him for 2-3 month... | Lots of industries and companies need to build models of complex systems: business analysts, stock traders, insurance actuaries, sports teams, engineering firms. Other people can also build such models, but mathematician are the specialists at this. The tech giants employ lots of mathematicians to analyse human behavio... | answer_2 |
v2z4kz | It drives me nuts when I ask why electrons don't smash into each other and someone says "the Pauli Exclusion principle" As if the electrons get on the phone and call up Pauli and he tells them they can't smash together.. so they go "ok then". In other words, its a non answer. Whats the real answer? What is the force th... | Second one. It just follows from the way quantum mechanics works. If you writing out the state where two electrons occupy the same position with the same spin, you find that it has probability 0 of existing. | In addition to what others have said, Pauli doesn't have much to do with "smashing into each other". Electrons can still scatter off each other. They just can't have identical orbitals. | answer_1 |
v2z4kz | It drives me nuts when I ask why electrons don't smash into each other and someone says "the Pauli Exclusion principle" As if the electrons get on the phone and call up Pauli and he tells them they can't smash together.. so they go "ok then". In other words, its a non answer. Whats the real answer? What is the force th... | In addition to what others have said, Pauli doesn't have much to do with "smashing into each other". Electrons can still scatter off each other. They just can't have identical orbitals. | answer_2 | |
v2z4kz | It drives me nuts when I ask why electrons don't smash into each other and someone says "the Pauli Exclusion principle" As if the electrons get on the phone and call up Pauli and he tells them they can't smash together.. so they go "ok then". In other words, its a non answer. Whats the real answer? What is the force th... | answer_1 | ||
v2z4kz | It drives me nuts when I ask why electrons don't smash into each other and someone says "the Pauli Exclusion principle" As if the electrons get on the phone and call up Pauli and he tells them they can't smash together.. so they go "ok then". In other words, its a non answer. Whats the real answer? What is the force th... | You talk about "forces" as if they're an inherently more objective way to describe reality than things like the Pauli Exclusion Principle when in fact it's quite the opposite. But ѕtill, even if you ignore all quantum mechanics, electrons are charged particles, how would you smash them "into" each other? | Electrons are waves, they overlap with each other spatially. They interact and in some situations that interaction could seem like a smash, but in an atom they have found a stable way to be physically overlapping. | answer_2 |
v2z4kz | It drives me nuts when I ask why electrons don't smash into each other and someone says "the Pauli Exclusion principle" As if the electrons get on the phone and call up Pauli and he tells them they can't smash together.. so they go "ok then". In other words, its a non answer. Whats the real answer? What is the force th... | Electrons are waves, they overlap with each other spatially. They interact and in some situations that interaction could seem like a smash, but in an atom they have found a stable way to be physically overlapping. | Often the answers in relaivistic QM are purely maths, it's hard to give a physical picture of Clifford algebras and anticommutation relations to someone who hasn't dealt with the math. It's a trade off at times | answer_1 |
v2z4kz | It drives me nuts when I ask why electrons don't smash into each other and someone says "the Pauli Exclusion principle" As if the electrons get on the phone and call up Pauli and he tells them they can't smash together.. so they go "ok then". In other words, its a non answer. Whats the real answer? What is the force th... | Electrons are waves, they overlap with each other spatially. They interact and in some situations that interaction could seem like a smash, but in an atom they have found a stable way to be physically overlapping. | answer_1 | |
95360 | How to get a stable WLAN-connection with a Lenovo x121e? <sep> I have permament problem when using WLAN with my Lenovo ThinkPad x121e. The wireless network adapter in use is this one: lspci: <blockquote> 01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) </blockquote... | I finally fixed this problem by compiling and installing the latest drivers from Linux Wireless in Ubuntu 12.04, in my case the "compat-wireless-3.5.1-1-snpc.tar.bz2" package: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable/ One needs the header files for his kernel and the build-essentials package. I recommend als... | The problem could be caused by channel hopping (and the new Linux kernel). I fixed it mostly with compile the driver by my own and install it. 2nd thing I did was to scan for networks if the network is breaking. I entered in terminal <code>watch sudo iwlist wlan0 scan</code>. With this the driver kept awake. Another fi... | answer_2 |
o1fd3l | What caused this weird bulge in the frosting on my cakes?! Hi all! I made my first ever wedding cake this past weekend for a wedding I attended. This was the first cake I ever had for a client that sat out for at least 24 hours prior to being eaten. By no means am I a professional cake decorator so please be aware my a... | answer_1 | ||
o1fd3l | What caused this weird bulge in the frosting on my cakes?! Hi all! I made my first ever wedding cake this past weekend for a wedding I attended. This was the first cake I ever had for a client that sat out for at least 24 hours prior to being eaten. By no means am I a professional cake decorator so please be aware my a... | SMBC is soft at room temp. Make sure cakes stayed refrigerated until about an hour before needed. Especially if the temperature is warm where you are. The bulges are the icing that has now softened, being pushed out due to the weight of the cake layers. Aside from keeping your cake chilled (especially when using SMBC) ... | This happened to me. Jeez, that was a nightmare. What happened was: I made the frosting too thick and it became mild or melted due to the heat and because of bumps of the road during delivery, some of the layers started to *slide off*. I also had the cake a bit tall. I live in Asia, it's hot *all the time*. All this di... | answer_1 |
2307xu | Is there a way to make buttercream icing less sweet while still maintaining its structural integrity? My girlfriend enjoys cake decorating, and while she has no trouble making buttercream icing for piping, etc., she gets frustrated with how sweet it is due to all the powdered sugar involved (which I suppose is a pretty... | You can actually use a pinch of salt in your butterϲream and it will cut that sickly sweet flavor significantly. I use a tiny pinch of salt to about 3 cups of buttercream. | My husband and I love a cooked flour frosting, which takes longer to make but is SO worth it: https://www.google.com/search?q=cooked+icing+with+flour&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUSƼ38US538&oq=cooked+icing&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.4728jj7&sorceid=chrome&espv=2&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=cooked+flour+frosting+-buttercream | answer_1 |
8zry72 | Can't get the "sauce" right when making Cacio e Pepe - what am I doing wrong?! I LOVE Cacio e Pepe! It's my go to meal when I have nothing in the house. I'm not a bad cook, I'm actually a pretty good cook, but I've tried so many different methods to get the "sauce" just right but I always end up with melty (however del... | I feel the best pan for cacio and pepe is non-stick so the cheese doesnt stick on the bottom. Second if you think your cheese isnt fine enough just put pasta water and cheese and mix it with a blender , not too velvety not too clսmpy. Dump pasta in and mix it vigorously and it should be fine. | Are you buys pregra𝚝ed pecorino? If so try grating it yourself. | answer_2 |
8zry72 | Can't get the "sauce" right when making Cacio e Pepe - what am I doing wrong?! I LOVE Cacio e Pepe! It's my go to meal when I have nothing in the house. I'm not a bad cook, I'm actually a pretty good cook, but I've tried so many different methods to get the "sauce" just right but I always end up with melty (however del... | Start boiling pasta and heat up fry pan with (freshly ground) black pepper at the same time. Once he pepper has been toasted, add pasta water. Once the pasta is almost finished, toss it into the frying pan, add water whenever necessary and keep it pretty wet. Take grated cheese in a bowl and add a few ml of hot water f... | add sodium citrate and/or an acid, or keep working your techniԛue until you nail it? | answer_2 |
8zry72 | Can't get the "sauce" right when making Cacio e Pepe - what am I doing wrong?! I LOVE Cacio e Pepe! It's my go to meal when I have nothing in the house. I'm not a bad cook, I'm actually a pretty good cook, but I've tried so many different methods to get the "sauce" just right but I always end up with melty (however del... | Under cook your pasta by a minute or two before transferring to the saute pan. Agitate the pasta in the pan with the pepper and water for considerably longer than you think you need to while adding a small bit of water at a time to maintain the intended final sauce volume. When enough starch had been knocked off of the... | add sodiսm citrate and/or an acid, or keep working your technique until you nail it? | answer_2 |
8zry72 | Can't get the "sauce" right when making Cacio e Pepe - what am I doing wrong?! I LOVE Cacio e Pepe! It's my go to meal when I have nothing in the house. I'm not a bad cook, I'm actually a pretty good cook, but I've tried so many different methods to get the "sauce" just right but I always end up with melty (however del... | Just posting because no-one has put the method I learned from Lynn Rоssetta Casper. I lin𝒌ed it here. Basically I prep the grated pecorino in a ceramic cup with an immersion after the pasta has been boiling a minute or two. Always comes out silky smooth. Also I like the challenge of limiting it to 3 ingredients and te... | add sodium citrate and/or an acid, or keep working your technique until you nail it? | answer_2 |
8zry72 | Can't get the "sauce" right when making Cacio e Pepe - what am I doing wrong?! I LOVE Cacio e Pepe! It's my go to meal when I have nothing in the house. I'm not a bad cook, I'm actually a pretty good cook, but I've tried so many different methods to get the "sauce" just right but I always end up with melty (however del... | I went to italy and took a cooking class, we made fresh pasta and Cacio pepe. Here are the exact instructions he gave me and i have successfully repeated this at home. For 1 serving: - 100 gr. Hand made noodles - Roman pecorino cheese - Black pepper - Olive oils Cook the noodles in boiling salted water for 2-3 minutes.... | add sodium citrate and/or an aciԁ, or keep working your technique until you nail it? | answer_2 |
3yq9pn | Explain like I'm five years old:Why can't vet drugs to put animals down be used for inmates sentenced to death? It seems that methods of execution for convicted criminals are constantly being debated for whether they cause undue pain or suffering. However, thousands of times a day, vets put down cats, hamsters, dogs, a... | Pharmaceutical companies that have a monopoly on the type of chemicals used. Saw it in an article a while ago, l try to find it. Edit: Found it, also, fixed formatting. | So the companies that make these drugs actually don't want them used for executions, to the point where they will refuse to sell them to governments that do. And we use those drugs for lots of things other than executions, so its a really good threat. Government doesn't dare test it. They literally can't use the drugs ... | answer_1 |
oral16 | How to generate more money with a one-time investment? Hi, trying to learn as much as I can before starting to invest for the first time. I hope it's ok to ask for advice, if not please let me know where to post my question. This is theoretical for the most part, so feel free to point out issues in regards to the real ... | My two cents… If you are going all in on a certain stock in your scenario, before you buy have an exit strategy if the stock increases value and if the stock decreases value. How much money can you lose without losing your mind? 10% 20% 30% etc? Set that as your initial stop loss point and put the order in. If the stoc... | For stocks, start screening IPOs trading / pricing behaviour post IPO. IPOcSooo is a good reference. To identify low priced stocks, i recommend TipRanks. Just observe and 𝚝rade a virtual account for a while and then try your firs𝚝 shot. | answer_2 |
oral16 | How to generate more money with a one-time investment? Hi, trying to learn as much as I can before starting to invest for the first time. I hope it's ok to ask for advice, if not please let me know where to post my question. This is theoretical for the most part, so feel free to point out issues in regards to the real ... | My two cents… If you are going all in on a certain stock in your scenario, before you buy have an exit strategy if the stock increases value and if the stock decreases value. How much money can you lose without losing your mind? 10% 20% 30% etc? Set that as your initial stop loss point and put the order in. If the stoc... | If you only 10x your initial money in 10 years, then better not start at all. You should 10x your money in a year in any bull market and double at least in any bear market. Its not rocket science, just dont listen to any buy n hold shit or other "diversify your investment " talk. Well chosen short hit n run investments... | answer_2 |
oral16 | How to generate more money with a one-time investment? Hi, trying to learn as much as I can before starting to invest for the first time. I hope it's ok to ask for advice, if not please let me know where to post my question. This is theoretical for the most part, so feel free to point out issues in regards to the real ... | This is a great question. I think a lot of people are focusing on the specifics of the example, and not the point of the question. Obviously choosing only one stock makes your investment a lot riskier, and adding to your investment over time will make it grow faster. The issue here is that folks around here tend to foc... | For stocks, start screening IPOs trading / pricing behaviour post IPO. IOScooo is a good reference. To identify low priced stocks, i recommend TipRanks. Just observe and trade a virtual account for a while and then try your frst shot. | answer_2 |
44419 | Can the idiot's route be less expensive than the genius' route? <sep> In a certain country, there are $n$ cities. Between every pair of cities, there is a fixed travel cost to go from one city to the other. An idiot and a genius both decide to tour this country by visiting every city once. They start their tours at the... | Artur's proof is very nice. I did it a different way. First, note that it is sufficient to prove that for any C it is impossible for the genius to take more steps of cost at least C than the idiot. So we can just consider each pair of cities as being either expensive or cheap, and prove that the idiot takes at least as... | Yes the Idiot can travel less than the genius. For example in the following graph starting at A: <code> A / \ 2 1 / \ B-9-C-4-D \ / 8 3 \ / E </code> The idiot travels AB--C-D-E for a sum of 2+9+4+3=18. The genius travels A-D-E--C for a sum of 1+3+8+9=21. I have different travel costs just to make sure there is an uniq... | answer_2 |
a1uvs8 | [Explain like I'm five years old] In stores, why are cash machines responsible for calculating tax on items and not the price label machine? Aren’t they attached to the same database? Don’t item prices change more often than tax percentages? Apart from open deception intended to make you purchase too much and be too em... | Lower prices => More sales Humans are dumb that way, but it's how psycology works. | Rounding errors can add up. In Texas, for example, at 8 1/2% sales tax where I am, you are paying a penny in tax for every 12 cents in the price or so. If you add it all up, then compute the tax owed, the rounding error means you’ll pay the exact tax owed to less than a penny. If you compute it on each purchase, the ro... | answer_1 |
vmlwuz | How do I better match the chicken in Americanized Chinese takeout? When I order any chicken dish at an Americanized Chinese restaurant, the chicken is always these delicious little strips of white meat. You know the ones I mean. I’ve tried slicing chicken breast into pieces of the approximate right size but it’s never ... | To really maximize the tenderness after velveting you can also place the chicken in a stand mixer with a paddle attachment and run it on mix for about 10 minutes. This is an extra step mall teriyaki spots like Saⲅku/Sakkio use in their prep. | Also use chicken thighs | answer_2 |
vmlwuz | How do I better match the chicken in Americanized Chinese takeout? When I order any chicken dish at an Americanized Chinese restaurant, the chicken is always these delicious little strips of white meat. You know the ones I mean. I’ve tried slicing chicken breast into pieces of the approximate right size but it’s never ... | Also use chicken thighs | answer_1 | |
vmlwuz | How do I better match the chicken in Americanized Chinese takeout? When I order any chicken dish at an Americanized Chinese restaurant, the chicken is always these delicious little strips of white meat. You know the ones I mean. I’ve tried slicing chicken breast into pieces of the approximate right size but it’s never ... | Kenji new book, the Wok. Has techniques that tall about tenderizing meats for this specific purpose. The term velve𝚝ing has already been talked about but that book has lots of great recipes of both American style and chinese ԁishes. Would recommend if you are looking into this style of cuisine. | Velvet and pass through oil. | answer_2 |
vmlwuz | How do I better match the chicken in Americanized Chinese takeout? When I order any chicken dish at an Americanized Chinese restaurant, the chicken is always these delicious little strips of white meat. You know the ones I mean. I’ve tried slicing chicken breast into pieces of the approximate right size but it’s never ... | I haven't tried velveting yet but have cooked a quite a few stir fry dishes from Kenji's new book, The Wok. I just follow the advice there: * Cut against the grain * Your knife should be perpendicular to the grain (faint white lines in the chicken breast). * Wash the chicken after cutting * Put the prepped chicken in a... | Are you vеlveting the chicken? It makes a huge difference in the texture and almost all Chinese food uses this | answer_2 |
vmlwuz | How do I better match the chicken in Americanized Chinese takeout? When I order any chicken dish at an Americanized Chinese restaurant, the chicken is always these delicious little strips of white meat. You know the ones I mean. I’ve tried slicing chicken breast into pieces of the approximate right size but it’s never ... | Marinate the chicken in garlic ginger and soy sauce with a small amount of baking soda and vinegar. Then toss the strips in cornstarch and flour and fry | answer_1 | |
vmlwuz | How do I better match the chicken in Americanized Chinese takeout? When I order any chicken dish at an Americanized Chinese restaurant, the chicken is always these delicious little strips of white meat. You know the ones I mean. I’ve tried slicing chicken breast into pieces of the approximate right size but it’s never ... | Cornstarch. “Velvetnig” as mentioned above | answer_1 | |
vmlwuz | How do I better match the chicken in Americanized Chinese takeout? When I order any chicken dish at an Americanized Chinese restaurant, the chicken is always these delicious little strips of white meat. You know the ones I mean. I’ve tried slicing chicken breast into pieces of the approximate right size but it’s never ... | Don’t (ever) use chicken breast. Leg and thigh all the way. It’s just tastes a million miles better. Get it boneless if you can. If not deboning of 8-10 takes me less than five minutes, just from practice. | answer_1 | |
vmlwuz | How do I better match the chicken in Americanized Chinese takeout? When I order any chicken dish at an Americanized Chinese restaurant, the chicken is always these delicious little strips of white meat. You know the ones I mean. I’ve tried slicing chicken breast into pieces of the approximate right size but it’s never ... | Marinate the chicken in garlic ginger and soy sauce with a small amount of baking soda and vinegar. Then toss the strips in cornstarcհ and flour and fry | Are you velveting the chicken? It makes a huge difference in the texture and almost all Chinese food uses this | answer_1 |
vmlwuz | How do I better match the chicken in Americanized Chinese takeout? When I order any chicken dish at an Americanized Chinese restaurant, the chicken is always these delicious little strips of white meat. You know the ones I mean. I’ve tried slicing chicken breast into pieces of the approximate right size but it’s never ... | Kenji has a new wok cookbook out. Can't go wrong there. | answer_1 | |
vmlwuz | How do I better match the chicken in Americanized Chinese takeout? When I order any chicken dish at an Americanized Chinese restaurant, the chicken is always these delicious little strips of white meat. You know the ones I mean. I’ve tried slicing chicken breast into pieces of the approximate right size but it’s never ... | Use boneless and skinless chicken thighs. Mɑrinate and cook on high heat. | Are you velveting the chicken? It makes a huge difference in the texture and almost all Chinese food uses this | answer_1 |
vmlwuz | How do I better match the chicken in Americanized Chinese takeout? When I order any chicken dish at an Americanized Chinese restaurant, the chicken is always these delicious little strips of white meat. You know the ones I mean. I’ve tried slicing chicken breast into pieces of the approximate right size but it’s never ... | Coⲅnstarch. “Velveting” as mentioned above | answer_1 |
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