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Nthing buckwheat hull pillows. FWIW I've never refilled my buckwheat hull pillows and I've been sleeping on them for >10 years. I don't find that they compress over time. Every few years, if I'm free on a nice summer day, I pour the buckweat hulls out into big plastic tubs (it's shocking how much space they take up outside of the pillow) and let them sit in the hot sun, stirring them every few hours. This is supposed to help them somehow. Getting them back in the pillow is not fun. Discovery… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:58 PM on January 30, 2022

An NFT is an entry in a registry that cryptographically declares that whoever has a certain password (cryptographic key) is the owner (whatever that means) of a digital asset identified by a URL (https://monkey/monkey.png). It's countersigned in a sense by who ever made the NFT, presumably the previous "owner" of the asset. It's a deed, with cryptographic signatures instead of real ones, in a public register that anyone can read and verify
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:18 AM on January 29, 2022 marked best answer

Note that there is no real uniqueness to an NFT, in the sense that anyone could mint a new set of NFTs on another Blockchain (or indeed even the same one) that claimed to represent the same digital assets. There could be an ape schism with competing claims to ape ownership. What's non fungible about NFTs is the that the token that represents the entry in the registry cannot be exchanged for another one. 5 Ethereum is 5 eth even if you bought and sold things over and over to end up with 5 eth.… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:30 AM on January 29, 2022 marked best answer

The examples in the Early American Proverbs imply to me that it's going from something objectively good to something that seems pleasant but is actually, in comparison with the first thing, deletrious, like leaving a faithful spouse for a mate 20 years younger who is in fact fickle or unfaithful or grasping.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:19 AM on January 27, 2022

Do you live in a state with a "right to cure" law? Under these laws you often have to give the contractors who messed up the first chance to fix it.

In any case, if the amount here is threatening to reach into the thousands I'd contact an attorney
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:08 AM on January 26, 2022

Do you *already* know the times that the clients are available? If so you could probably script it.

But if you need the clients to pick their own time, you could choose a piece of scheduling software that supports multiple bookings per slot. Then for this kind of booking, you could set it to two per slot and then let your clients just pick the times they want from the times available. The pairings would be 'random' in that clients wouldn't know what other times the other… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:21 PM on January 18, 2022

Babbel's language courses have a "Refresher" course if you want to get back up to speed quickly, and you can go from there to the intermediate courses.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:16 PM on January 17, 2022

The first doesn't matter to the baby, but it matters to others, especially grandparents in my experience. I think nothing stupider than having a huge to-do for the blob that can't even form concepts but it turns out a lot of people expect it. They want pictures to show the kid later and say look at you, still not old enough to chew and swallow cake. They want to initiate the kid in the mysteries of the American birthday party. Normally I'd say think it over, since the birthday isn't about the… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:55 AM on January 17, 2022

C'est quebecois mais j'aime bien lire Nuit Blanche.

Il y a aussi Esprit
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:40 AM on January 14, 2022

Latin is definitely helpful for Italian, or at least it's not harmful. I was not strictly a classicist, but had to learn latin to read late medieval/early modern. Also had to learn to read Tuscan/Italian for this purpose as well. The thing is, unless you've had a dramatically different classical education than most Westerners do today, you won't have learned to *speak* Latin. And speaking, and listening, are a much different thing than reading. Nothing about knowing Latin will help you ask a… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:00 AM on January 12, 2022

Practice! Set a timer and focus on something for a small amount of time. Increase the time the next day.

The most important thing to focus attention however is to have something to focus on, something that keeps your attention. Motivation is in the thing, not just in our minds. That makes sense: work is often dumb and useless, the only motivation is shame or money. The world is falling to pieces all around us. Millions of people have died! Countless more debilitated… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:46 PM on January 11, 2022

Promises by Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders (although less beat driven).

How dyou feel about Afro Beat? Fela Kuti definitely fits the propulsive, rhythmic, repetitive but changing definition

Lou Harrison, Chamber and Gamelan Works

état, daniel wohl (the songs are not long on their own but the whole album works together as a long ambient/rhythmic gestalt)

Melodium, Low Gravity
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:59 AM on January 7, 2022

Emphasizing the fact that we are embodied is seen as important because it pushes against the "enlightenment" picture of people as just a bunch of rational minds all equally endowed with freedom etc. The "person" with rights is often implicitly a white man with access to leisure, almost eerily outside of space and time. But we're not just legal persons, or minds granted rights, but specifically emodied people in specific places and circumstances, and those bodies often make a… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:19 PM on January 2, 2022

The concept2 ski-erg is a full body cardio workout that is always standing up and so only occupies a few feet of floor space. https://www.concept2.com/skierg/concept2-skierg
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 4:40 PM on December 27, 2021

I had the same (nasty) reaction to my booster as to my second shot. I believe the Moderna booster is lower dose than the original vaccine, which was a much bigger dose than the Pfizer, maybe a source of the worse side effects reported with Moderna. So some reason to think the booster won't hit everyone as hard
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:06 AM on December 8, 2021

If price is no limit, then a 14" or 16" macbook pro + a thunderbolt supporting audio interface (I would go for the Universal Audio Apollo Twin MKII Duo if I had $1500 lying around) is the way to go. You won't find a better screen+compute combination for audio production in a laptop on the market today than the brand new M1 Pro/Max laptops from Apple.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:37 AM on December 7, 2021

The french love jeu de mots (wordplay), and there are really countless examples since there are so many homophones in French. My favorite goes like, monsieur Delors? What's your first name? omer! My name is Omer Delors. (Oh merde alors, oh shit then)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 12:30 PM on December 6, 2021

Even with peacock plus you can't get access to very old law and order anymore, anywhere online. Your options are to buy the DVDs, see if your local library has them, or head to the less savory corners of the internet and get them for free
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:53 PM on December 3, 2021

Upper class and rich people may be only 10% or less of the population but that's still a few million people or so, and they like to buy clothing
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:58 PM on November 13, 2021

illuminati is fun and only involves world conquest in the most ironic sense.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:03 AM on August 30, 2021

My card is all handwritten info. I too feel like it makes it look a bit fake! But it's real and all I've got! (that plus the record in the Wisconsin immunization database)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:32 AM on August 27, 2021

Nthing Native, which I find quite effective despite being aluminum free. They claim to be cruelty free and vegan. They also have a plastic free version which comes in a cardboard push tube which is what I currently get from them. And the deodorant really does work, even on a sweaty guy like me in as hot a summer as this has been.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:30 PM on August 25, 2021

Pittsburgh has more overcast days of the year than Seattle, gets pretty cold, and has a strong queer community (although it’s a smaller sized city so it’s also a place where you’ll eventually get to know just about everybody who you could possibly connect with). Pittsburgh remains affordable relative to the rest of the country and really it’s a great city. The summers can be hot though.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:11 PM on August 9, 2021

In my star-crossed turn at being a college prof, students who came to my office hours definitely got more attention and did better (the link is not necessarily causal). When you have 3 sections of 40 students every semester you can't get to know them all, and unless you're a big weirdo it helps to get to know the profs.

Everything else depends on what they want out of college. If they're going somewhere prestigious and don't care about grad/law school, there's no need to… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:21 PM on August 9, 2021

I spatchcock and roast on a sheetpan mostly these days. But in the past I always went with Dorie Greenspan's Chicken for the lazy. It doesn't create the absolute best brown skin, but the result is always tasty and I've never had a problem with overcooked or dry chicken with it (/and/ the roast veggies / bread at the bottom are absolutely delicious).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 10:37 AM on July 19, 2021

A lot of canned tomatoes in the US are "San Marzano Style", and even the tomatoes labelled as DOP may be fraudulent. And if it doesn't have the DOP? Then it's almost certainly not a San Marzano tomato! Does that matter? Not much, I don't think (unless you want to exactly recreate neapolitan pizza). They're just plum tomatoes and most people probably can't tell the difference.

Here I would expect to pay about $4.50-$5 for a 28oz can of DOP which isn't far off… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:16 AM on July 15, 2021

There's little evidence that raw diets are better for dogs and some reason to be wary (food poisoning!). Dogs are not opportunistic carnivores, they're omnivores who have been living alongside grain eating humans for thousands of years and whose diets have primarily been composed of "human" food. That's not to say they should have a bowl of Cheetos but that they're not any more Paleo than modern humans are. Kibble is fine! We use Fromm's, but science diet is highly recommended.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:02 AM on July 14, 2021

I can highly recommend Apica notebooks: Here's an A5 hardcover grid.

But also your range of options really opens up if hardcover isn't a ... hard requirement. The Maruman notebook brand for example is my absolute favorite but I believe is primarily spiral bound.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:28 AM on July 13, 2021

As someone who has both filed for bankruptcy to eliminate medical debt, and also long researched leaving the US to escape the student loan debt I’ll likely still be paying in my 50s, I’d suggest taking advantage of bankruptcy if at all possible. After 7-10 years (usually), the bankruptcy won’t be part of your credit report anymore and you can just move on. That time goes faster than you think. As time went on my credit score has recovered from the 500s to the high 700s and I was able to buy a… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:12 PM on July 9, 2021

Come to Milwaukee for a day, we've got:

- A Calatrava/Kahler designed art museum with some really nice pieces on display
- Geodesic domes! Get your buckminster fuller going while visiting the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, especially since they keep talking about demolishing them.
- Parks you can drink in! Come up on the Hiawatha line out of Union Station, and then grab lunch at the South Shore Terrace. It's in a park, on the lake, and… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:36 AM on July 9, 2021

(Also, Miller Brewery Tour. Leave your Old Style at home and see one of America's biggest breweries)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:47 AM on July 9, 2021

Support/Cust-ops engineering is a role that exists in a lot of companies, doing technical analysis of customer problems to find bugs and also workarounds (including scripted solutions). It's often a role that is enterprise facing, since enterprise customers often need ad-hoc solutions that don't necessarily make sense for the mainline product. Support engineering was my first serious role as a self-taught programmer and was very helpful in my path towards Senior Engineer at a publicly traded… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:27 AM on July 8, 2021

Want to n+1 Prime Suspect. From long before people spoke about "Prestige TV", Prime Suspect was written and shot like a movie and is as high of a quality as anything coming out from the big streaming services these days.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:42 AM on July 7, 2021

A lot of great suggestions above.

When this question comes up I always get in a plug for Susan Wolf's "Meaning in Life and Why It Matters". An excellent and very readable approach to a big philosophical problem (why do we do anything at all?).

I'd also suggest Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth" and "Black Skin, White Masks". Few remain so pressingly relevant on the trenchant problem of racism as Fanon.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:19 PM on July 4, 2021

Although he is Jamaican and most of the book takes place in Jamaica, the american portions of Marlon James' "A Brief History of Seven Killings" are interesting in this respect. But also Jamaican patois has had a lot of influence on AAVE in general, given shared roots.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:13 PM on June 25, 2021

Addressing someone as "Mr." or "Mrs." or "Ms" is, I think, falling out of favor in the United States in general. In my Big Tech Corporate Culture world we never use titles of any kind. The CEO is addressed on a first name basis just the same as the custops advisor. They also both wear jeans and a t-shirt.

Whether this is good or bad is not something I have well formed thoughts on, but I can't imagine any way of using… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:26 PM on June 10, 2021

I've never been unhappy with Everlane's tshirts
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 10:17 AM on June 9, 2021

Mid-sized city but largest in my state. I'm still at 20%, same as before the pandemic. The math is easier to do in my head! I get the sense that this is unusually high compared to what most people tip (although I'm surprised to see so many people here saying they tip above 20%). That may not be a good reasoning, but tipping 30% or more would just make it infeasible to order out.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:52 AM on June 4, 2021

SMART is pretty straightforward (almost too simple), the hardest part, as you've noted, is the measurability. Sometimes software projects are just "it works or it doesn't" and that's not (at first glance), a measurable thing.

One strategy: if you use a project management system where you build out tickets and these tickets/issues/tasks are used to break down the project into chunks of work, you can use these chunks of work as the metric.… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:53 PM on June 3, 2021

My CarMax experience was similar to others. It was very simple and easy and I got more money than I think the car deserved in the condition it was in. I'd argue how easy they make it to sell them your car is the reason why these companies have become so dominant in the used car markets.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:50 PM on April 8, 2021

previously plugged in the car information and got an online offer of $2,800. Since I was not ready to make the appointment, I let the offer expire. When I was ready to sell, I plugged in the same information and the offer was $3,100

Used car market is crazy right now. An old mechanic called me asking to buy my Honda out of the blue
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 10:49 AM on May 16, 2021

I sure somebody has written about this. Some book or other resource recommendations would be great!

One my favorite books on this topic is Henry Adams' 1904 masterwork: Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres which explores the religious, psycho and social phenomona surrounding two wonderful examples of medieval/late-medieval architecture the Abbey at Mont Saint-Michel and Chartes Cathedral.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:34 AM on May 12, 2021 marked best answer

You will likely run into HR troubles if you establish residency overseas. It complicates the tax situation, and sometimes you have to become a contractor and lose benefits (but then, can you use your health insurance abroad anyway?)

If you can keep residency in the states but just live abroad, then you just have everything connected to your US address and pay US taxes etc. (Just make sure you're getting direct deposit!). So long as HR looks the other way, you can be… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:35 PM on May 10, 2021

I've never done this, but I would try a wonton wrapper around the "chicken" for a skin like effect. Should crisp up well when fried.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:43 AM on April 24, 2021

It's maybe not exactly what you're thinking of but I can highly recommend Paul Beatty's brilliant, sardonic, picaresque The Sellout, which involves a ... certain form of protest and had something to say about social justice in general
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:37 PM on April 22, 2021

Not sure about the clock issue. It could be that Linux is setting the system clock to a different time zone than Windows.

For the other problems, the key is to format the shared drive as a filesystem that both Linux and Windows have read write support for. Afaik your best bet is vfat. It sounds like you have it formatted as NTFS, which I think only has read support in Linux.

Not sure if steam can share the files between Linux and Windows.… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:41 PM on April 14, 2021

Installing NTFS-3G module will allow Linux to read/write NTFS correct?

Yep! You will have to do some fstab magic to get the ntfs volume to mount on boot.

Arch wiki has a good guide (the instructions after the installatino of the kmod will be good for most distros): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:41 PM on April 15, 2021

The fitbit charge 4 is attractive (i think) and both much more affordable and much more minimalist than an apple watch. It does email/text notifications well, and can control spotify at least (so probably other music apps?). I have never tried it with whatsapp. It's great as a fitness tracker.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:14 PM on April 9, 2021

Because they could. I once failed to buy a train pass in Chicago with a fake 10 dollar bill that i didn't know was fake until the lady at the currency exchange told me. Then i realized it was obviously the wrong kind of paper and just looked off. I had gotten it in change somewhere else, who knows where, because someone else managed to pass it off as a good one. I refuse to believe what i did was a crime, and it could just as easily explain why George Floyd had a bogus $20. I'm alive and… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:33 PM on April 7, 2021

Also, I'd highly recommend working at a product company over consulting. Consulting was chaos, I hated it. Your boss overpromises to the client and then blames you when you can't deliver. Requirements constantly change. Working on a product means slowly but surely building features, fixing bugs, making improvements, learning and growing. The time pressure is a lot different as well, since the software is out there live, making money, we can take our time to improve it and try to increase market… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 3:43 PM on April 6, 2021