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I justed moved to Milwaukee after living in a number of cities (Chicago -> Pittsburgh -> Atlanta -> New Orleans -> Albany) and I reallllllly reallllly like MKE. I mean I love Chicago, and PGH, but Milwaukee is really nice. It's much better than I expected it to be. Although, two downsides; the job market here is not that solid (I work remote for a company on the west coast so that doesn't matter to me right now), and it's got all the segregation and racism of Chicago only maybe… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:57 PM on October 10, 2017 marked best answer

I'd go to the The Publican. Great food, casual atmosphere, and not at all the pinkies-up caviar option that I'd actually recommend
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:44 PM on October 8, 2017

Although you do need a Nexus/Pixel phone to activate your Fi account, once it's activated, you can stick the voice SIM in any other unlocked phone and it will work so long as that phone can access T-Mobile (and maybe Sprint?). You won't get the cool network switching features, but, hey, you can use an iPhone with Fi this way. I did this and ordered a free data-only sim for my Nexus 6, since usually I only need the network switching so I can keep mobile data on the highway for turn-by-turns.… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:27 PM on October 5, 2017

Although I hate their insane packaging and bad labor policies, maybe try something like Blue Apron? It's definitely cheaper than going out, and makes the cooking a little bit easier since it cuts out the parts I find most stressful: recipe selection and shopping.

Also, when we're tired but don't want to order takeout, beans and rice is a pretty reliable and super easy meal if you have a rice cooker. Nthing all the instant-pot, slow-cooker advice above, as well.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:17 PM on September 29, 2017

Another recommend for Chicago style pizza is Damenzo's in Little Italy, although it's not a nice sitdown kind of joint.

The West Loop is the superhot dining destination right now, and very accessible from Mag Mile (Little Goat is there). Another place there for lighter fare: Bad Hunter (actually it's right next door to Au Cheval), which is one of my favorite places to eat in Chicago right now.

A number of other great places to eat come to mind… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 3:14 PM on September 28, 2017

Teaching experience is still relatively unimportant in the tenure track. If your advisor is a top researcher in their field, then continuing to work with them on a post-doc could be a boost if it means getting your name on some publications in significant journals. If you don't have any other options, it looks better on your CV, generally, to go on to a postdoc than to take an Instructor/Adjunct position. Adjunct positions have basically zero prestige, whereas a postdoc is hard to come by. If… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:31 AM on September 27, 2017

Is this what you're thinking of:


On Translating Eugene Onegin

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What is translation? On a platter

A poet’s pale and glaring head,

A parrot’s screech, a monkey’s chatter,

And profanation of the dead.

The parasites you were so hard on

Are pardoned if I have your pardon,

O, Pushkin, for my stratagem:

I traveled down your… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 12:15 PM on September 21, 2017

You'll probably want a 4k screen for sure, so you don't feel like you're staring at two different universes between the iMac display and the second display.

The Dell screens are great. I also love this screen: Viewsonic VP2780 4K.

When you get a USB-C to HDMI cable or adapter, make very sure it supports 4K @ 60hz. A lot of adapters out there (including apple's own usb-c to hdmi multiport av adapter!) only support 4K output at 30hz. I've had a… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:26 AM on September 17, 2017

So the Dell 34inch has a resolution of 3440 x 1440 Resolution and the Mac has 5120‑by‑2880 how is that going to work together?

You've got the 5K iMac? So the 4K display won't look quite as magically sharp, although it will still be very sharp. You can alternatively splurge and get the 5K LG Ultrafine that apple sells on their own store (over your budget by about $300). macOS uses display scaling to seamlessly scale your apps (fonts, images and all) to… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:43 PM on September 17, 2017

-Light: plants are in full sun and I've read that 12 dark/12 light hours per day triggers flowering, but I'm not sure if that's true. They are, in fact, flowering. Is there some magical requirement about light?

The requirement isn't magical, it's related to the seasons and called photoperiodism. Longer days (less than 12 hours of darkness) mean summer. Shorter days mean fall. Cannabis is a short-day flowering plant, and won't produce flowers until it thinks it's fall.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:35 AM on September 14, 2017

If they're bright enough, yeah, they will mess up the darkness period. Indoor growers that don't want to use continuous light (expensive! hot!) use short bursts (several minutes at a time) of brightness to keep their plants in a vegetative state after the 12 hours of light. Basically you want nothing brighter than the full moon on the plants at night for more than a minute or so. Or at least that's the conventional pot-wisdom.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:56 AM on September 14, 2017

Tampa on the whole is one of the least walkable places in the United States, but you can get a little taste of a pleasant urban existence in some (pricey) neighborhoods like Hyde Park. Clearwater has nowhere walkable since the downtown is dominated by scientology fronts. Dunedin has a nice little downtown although you'll run out of new places to try in about a week. I like Safety Harbor a lot, it has a more walkable vibe, and it's very close to causeway access so you could get to Tampa easily… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:00 AM on September 4, 2017

There's one in Forest Park, IL on Circle Ave right near the Harlem blue line stop. Although it's more dirt than grass since it's pretty heavily used.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:58 PM on August 30, 2017 marked best answer

Naturally, it has a yelp page. If you squint you can see the grass.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 3:01 PM on August 30, 2017

Berlin has great Turkish food, both the doener kebab variety at u-bahn stations and stuff a little higher end.

It's the perfect time of year to head to Prater Garten in Prenzl. Berg for the real Biergarten experience.

Berlin has a huge international food scene. It's not Barcelona but it's pretty good. By far my favorite city in Europe.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:24 AM on August 29, 2017

October is also a great time for Biergärten, just arm yourself with a cozy sweater: edit, actually it looks like Pratergarten closes at the end of Sept, but they have an indoor restaurant, though it won't be the same without the Chestnut trees.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:51 AM on August 29, 2017

Yeah this made me feel pretty weird and uncomfortable and you're not wrong to get a bad vibe from it. It's not subverting anything, the whole joke is that she's a big woman. But yeah, arguing about it on facebook is probably a dead end. Instead I'd just watch Melissa McCarthy's Spy which is a genuinely funny movie involving a plus size woman doing incongruous physical feats (not that it doesn't have some problems otherwise).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:59 AM on August 25, 2017

Use whatever leave you have. I'd have no compunction about calling in "sick" when I feel fine if doing so would help me secure a better job. I've never been through an interview process that only required one interview (maybe this is different in Britain and of course depends on the industry), so you might also have to plan on taking off another day (at least) if your first interview goes well. Don't, of course, tell your prospective employer what excuse you used to make time to do the… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:24 AM on August 16, 2017

I'm in a similarly eclipse-glasses free state. It sounds like you might be able to buy glasses at Lowes/Home Depot and maybe Toys 'R' Us, but those might also be out of stock. Instead of running around, this weekend I'm going to go the old fashioned way, and build a pinhole projector to view the eclipse safely.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 3:07 PM on August 15, 2017

So you just want to fly into an airport and view it from the airport?

Charleston International looks like it will be smack dab in the middle of the path of totality, but I've never been to the airport so don't know if you can get a good view from the parking lot or whatever.

The Columbia Regional Airport in MO is also in the path. Or you could fly to St Louis, rent a car, and drive ~30 miles south and be right in it. Then drive back, fly home.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:07 AM on August 12, 2017

Charleston will be the furthest east in the US that you can see it, and so the latest in the day, so it's a good bet if you're worried about timing.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:08 AM on August 12, 2017

No longer in NOLA but spent a year there and have made that drive (ATL to NOLA) about a dozen times. Bywater probably won't flood but you'll have to get there first, and that might be tricky, especially since it sounds like a snafu has shut down the city's pumping system. If you can get someone to confirm that US10 is still clear, Bywater is far east enough that you will probably be able to get there. But the rest of the city might be shutdown from the flooding. I dunno. I'd stay home out of an… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 3:47 PM on August 10, 2017 marked best answer

Nthing everyone else. It's really hard to know in advance if a department is a good fit. Often what it means to be successful in a Humanities PhD is interpersonal and has little to do with research area. You need to have a dissertation director you get along with well and you need to be able to weather the immense amount of stress and imposter-syndrome and uncertainty that comes with grad school. The research will be easy part, and what you're going to end up writing on is likely going to be a… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:09 AM on August 9, 2017

I haven't listened to it for a long time, but perhaps The Canon would meet (most) of your requirements (although the episodes are longer than an hour).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 12:48 PM on August 4, 2017

I would be jealous but I would deal with it. I think there's always some level of erotic affection between close friends of *any* gender, so intimate journeys across the ocean between two old friends who probably have mutual attraction is definitely a tricky situation, but also one that grownups can deal with and avoid the pitfalls of if they want to. Our relationships are built on faith (people call it trust but I think faith is better), so if you think he's worth of that, then nothing should… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 12:34 PM on August 3, 2017

Definitely try cold brewed coffee to see if it helps with the reflux. You don't need a special carafe, just throw grounds and water in an unpressed frenchpress in the fridge at night, pour through a paper filter in the morning. (I brew it in a press in the fridge then pour it through a chemex to serve, but you could just pour it straight through a filter in a regular coffee maker)

Mate might not meet the good tasting requriement, but what about plain old tea? A nice… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:20 AM on July 27, 2017

As others have said, pens are very personal and choosing one for someone is hard. If you can get some intel from them about what kind fountain pen they like (do they like it with a heavy balance, for example?) and use, that would be key to picking the right pen. I'm a big fountain pen user when writing by hand and I would much rather use an inexpensive Lamy or Kaweco pen than an $800 Mont Blanc. Like I'd be pleased that someone got it for me but I'd put it in a drawer and then pick up my $70… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 12:22 PM on July 21, 2017

I'd seriously doubt that any company would add extra expensive hormones that they don't list in the ingredients (also putting testosterone in a pill makes it effectively an illegal steroid), but in any case, I'd stick to the classics, like Nodoz or Jetalert, for your pill-form caffeination needs.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:19 PM on July 15, 2017

If you're at all interested in vegan cheesesteaks (my favorite), I like the one at Royal Tavern on Passyunk, in what is I guess South Philly.

By far the coolest thing in Philly is the Mütter Museum, well, at any rate, the coolest if that's your speed (it's a museum full of dead stuff).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:48 PM on July 12, 2017

We often cook together, watch a TV show that we're both following, play cards and, armed with wine and food, go over our days, complain about our working lives and advise each other about how to deal with the problems that working life entails. That kind of thing. But some nights we just keep to ourselves, read books, and go to bed.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:55 PM on July 10, 2017

I don't think there's anything vindictive or petty about wanting to expose a sleazeball who wants to accrue more power to himself.

But, weigh carefully the possible consequences for yourself. If this is a national office and he's a major candidate, your anonymity is not safe and they're likely to drag you through the mud to defend him. It's not going to be fun, and I think your own selfcare is at least on an equal level with any obligation to expose and prevent future harm.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:20 AM on July 7, 2017

Oh, okay, using System Information I see: Memory 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3. Is this the RAM of which you speak?

Yow. There's your problem. 2gb of ram just doesn't cut it anymore (no macbook comes with less than 8gb by default anymore).

Upgrade the RAM (it probably supports up to 8gb) and then Upgrade the drive to an SSD, and it will run a lot faster.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 12:44 PM on June 22, 2017

It might be fun to run these MadShaders on your Air and then on your iMac and compare the difference.

Personally I'd boot up the new Doom, but you'd have to set up Bootcamp/Windows for that.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:52 AM on June 12, 2017

We also just dealt with a landlord that wanted this (ended up not signing the lease because of this and various reasons). Our rental insurance company (Travelers), when contacted, outright refused to add the landlord as an additional insured, which gave us a good bargaining position, and was also a sure sign that adding your landlord as an additional insured is kinda shady.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 10:49 AM on June 11, 2017 marked best answer

A 800+ pages it pushes the bounds of a single volume, but Andrew Roberts' Napoleon: A Life is pretty good, although Roberts sometimes borders on hagiography, he's also excellent at mythbusting, something needed far more with Napoleon than most other historical figures.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:00 PM on June 4, 2017

If you just want a nice simple wedding band, I'd go to Bario Neal. They have a tiny shop in Chinatown, excellent prices, and ethical sourcing.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:16 AM on June 3, 2017

It sounds like you're concerned with metaethical questions, questions like: from where do we derive our values?, more than applied questions like: should we euthanize to prevent suffering or is it moral to kill in self-defense, etc.

The problem of the foundations and sources of value is a huge, massive, unwieldy topic, one that has expanded a lot lately as the busy-beavers of academic philosophy have taken it up again and again from different angles. It's almost… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:36 AM on May 22, 2017

The new Twin Peaks will not be available on Amazon Prime without the $8.99 showtime addon.

lovecrafty is right on this one, the most cost effective way to watch a show like this is to wait until it has all aired, then binge it in a month. On AMZ prime, like on Hulu, you can get a month (of Showtime) for free when you first sign up.

The other option is always 🏴‍☠️internet piracy🏴‍☠️, but whether that's something you're comfortable with both… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:08 PM on May 18, 2017

They're separate operations.

Adding to your library just puts the song/album in the listings for "Library" so that they're more immediately accessible than searching each time.

Downloading an album will store a local copy of it on your device so you can play it offline, or while walking around without using up mobile data.

If I recall, you can't download something unless it's been added to your library. You… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:09 AM on May 10, 2017 marked best answer

Wine will never work on ARM, well maybe it would work for an ARM build of windows but that's not going to run many apps.

Your pricepoint makes this pretty tricky. Most intel chromebooks are pretty close, although at that price they usually have only 2gb of ram. You'll also have to find one with a replaceable SSD, since they have very small drives, typically. (Or maybe 16gb is enough).

If you could spend twice that, I'd say go for the HP… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:15 PM on May 8, 2017

I guess there is some support for an arm build of wine, but you'll probably want more juice to use the qemu version to run x86 apps, and it sounds like more trouble than it's worth.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:17 PM on May 8, 2017

You might like the Rhodia pads. They have a pretty large line. My favorite notebooks by far are made in Japan, especially the Maruman "Mnemosyne" line. The best details on those are at JetPens unless you read Japanese. But Japan probably makes the best paper in the world.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:21 AM on May 6, 2017

Mayonnaise is one of the things I never get the store brand of. Hellman's, or, if I'm in the south, Blue Plate (which is the absolute best) are just better than store branded versions.

Everything at Trader Joe's (almost) is store-branded, but they're a special store. They also sell the very very very best vegan chorizo if that's your thing.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:13 AM on May 4, 2017

Apparently there are 1,000,000 grains of salt in 1/2 a cup (according to lazy googling). So 500 cups of salt, or 336lbs of salt (salt is heavy, apparently), would be 1 billion grains of salt. You can get 25lbs of salt for about $20, so this would come to  about $270 + shipping.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:10 PM on May 2, 2017

I majored in "Humanities" writ large, not even a specific field, just Humanities. Then I got two MAs in Philosophy and almost finished a PhD. Now I'm a software developer. No advice on how to get from A to B there, can't even really understand how I did it.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 12:23 PM on May 1, 2017

I always made them with P.A.N. harina blanca (pre-cooked masarepa). But that seriouseats link furnace.heart posted has me wanting to try all the varieties. I think if you make a meat-pie stuffed with latin-american flavors and deep-fry it, you can call it an empanada of some sort.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:41 AM on April 28, 2017

I would rate them as safer than public ATMs, but not that safe. So-called "juice jacking" is a definite possibility, although I don't know if any actual compromised charging stations have been discovered in the wild.

For something like a stadium seat with an integrated port, they'd have to remove the port and install a replacement port, which might be difficult to pull off while a game of footy is ongoing. Or might be easy, depending on how the port is designed.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 10:45 AM on April 27, 2017

Incidentally, the iPhone 7's security measures should protect you in an instance like this, so long as you keep your phone locked. Android phones are another story.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 10:48 AM on April 27, 2017

Toasted walnuts are great in a simple olive oil + garlic sauce to toss with pasta. Just sautee a few tablespoons of good olive oil with some sliced garlic and toss in the walnuts, then toss with with your favorite pasta, parmesan, and some salt/pepper. yum.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:52 PM on April 23, 2017

Go to Paris, obvs. You could easily go to Paris every weekend and still have things to do.

Flying inside Europe is really easy and often pretty inexpensive. It looks like Ryanair and maybe Easyjet services Poitiers. So where do you want to spend a weekend? Berlin is an awesome city. Prague? Rome? London? Barcelona? Go to them all!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:48 AM on April 16, 2017