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coffeegeek, to coffee
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More on the myths today. A popular Instagram account, called Cafeholic101 posted an infographic claiming a shot of espresso has only 27mg of caffeine.

I guess if it's in an infographic, it's gotta be true, right? :eyeroll: Sadly, this post has thousands of likes; another example of influencers providing false info.

Because it's utterly untrue. Well maybe the 5g coffee amounts in a nespresso pod, if brewed at very low temperatures, might be under 30mg in the cup.

Real espresso? A full double from 18.5g coffee will give 100-135mg caffeine, in the cup.

cc @espresso @coffee

Read more:

https://coffeegeek.com/blog/techniques/a-bit-about-caffeine/

Cvwarren,
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@jonjennings @MexicanYenta @espresso @coffee @coffeegeek my half brother talked about a gene that goes with rapid metabolization of caffeine, and, welp, experimentally my family all has it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

ai6yr, to random
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Watched this van life video, and now I want to install a wood stove in the back of my vehicle, LOL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBR3S393WwA

Someone sauteeing food in the back of their van, close up shot on the food

Cvwarren,
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@ai6yr Hahaha…I’ve got a VW Westfalia of a certain vintage, and every time I check with my old-school mechanics about something relating to the stove, the LP tank, or the LP fridge, their response is pretty much FIRE BAD NO NEVER IN VEHICLE…

ai6yr, (edited ) to cycling
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Random question of the day: I think I need a new helmet (the pads are all falling apart, and I have not been a huge fan of the chin strap), what are people's favorites? I'm not racing anywhere, just need a good reliable helmet for going around town. I'm pretty sure the ones we have are Target specials, LOL. I should have asked for . (Update: after determining I was using an unsafe, 2013-era helmet which was falling apart, ended up with a Bontrager WaveCel, which was the best rating in a mid-price at my local bike shop. They did have the Specialized Align II, which is very highly rated and only $50)

Cvwarren,
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@ai6yr Should also note (besides checking for tested safety of the design) that fit is extremely important, and individual. All the companies are working on different head-forms, and like shoes, they’ll often not-quite-fit your head shape, and require padding, or worse, won’t pass the front/back or side push up tests. Also, I think the Giro brand is still owned by an AR-15 and ammunition manufacturer, if such things matter to you…

lauren, to Youtube
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Saw a well-known fitness tech guy demonstrating wearing an Vision Pro headset while riding a bike on a trail, and (just as I discussed some days ago was a strong possibility when riding or driving, etc.) it suddenly went completely black for at least several seconds. Nobody hurt, but he was afterwards appropriately concerned.

Cvwarren,
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@lauren also, he speculated it was an unanticipated consequence of a programming choice, not a hardware fault—and to be fair, the documentation was clear that it shouldn’t be used that way

ai6yr, to adsb
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Ah, forgot about that bot. Now to see if I can revive it... possible flights circling in Los Angeles. Logic works, but screen shots do not seem to be.

Cvwarren,
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@ai6yr any sign of Lemonodor on Mastodon that you’ve seen?

tubetime, to random
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An historic hangar burns down 😥
I've been inside an identical one--they're made mostly of wood.

https://mastodon.nz/@labradorgirl/111372862948585013

(photo from Wikipedia)

Cvwarren,
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@tubetime I can see the two hangers from my neighborhood, regularly shop near them (as in, drive by about 100 meters away from the still-standing end) —and they are magnificent. I don’t believe either of them had been in use for a long time, and I’m not surprised it reached the stage of dereliction and incongruity where this was nearly inevitable. I’m sure it’s not just Southern California, but large historic structures that stand in the way of some other land use have a habit of burning…

mattblaze, (edited ) to photography
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More nerditry.

I shoot mostly for black&white. I have two sensors for my camera, a regular color sensor and an "achromatic" black&white only version. I use them both, even though I am almost always shooting to produce a B&W result.

The advantage of the color sensor is convenience. You can essentially add any color contrast control filters you want after the fact in post processing as part of the conversion to B&W. But there are limitations...

Cvwarren,
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@mattblaze I really appreciate the detail you’ve shared about all your methods—thank you!

ai6yr, to random
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Article on microgrids and resilience against disaster in the latest IEEE Spectrum. https://spectrum.ieee.org/microgrid

Cvwarren,
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@ai6yr This is exactly why I’m so worried about the tendency for public utilities all across the American west to make it much harder to install and maintain the hardware to enable this—so much about short term gain, and long term need-blindness, looking in from the outside of the regulatory planning

Cvwarren,
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@ai6yr yeah, but…gestures vaguely at lawsuit $ values that represent existential-level-threats for failed PSPSs

Cvwarren,
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@glightly @ai6yr certainly vital equipment and important, but thinking about vital medium-term public-health considerations like refrigeration, those residential scale panels are in a different class

Cvwarren,
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@glightly @ai6yr we’ve got friends in NM that are lucky enough to have the resources (natural and $) for large solar and geothermal on a rancho, and I wish that sort of solution was more practical and widely available—and that some sort of mutual aid was baked-in in principle so that we won’t all be on our own when the disruption eventually reaches us all

mattblaze, to random
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Sorry, I don't take seriously anything labeled as a "manifesto" unless it credibly proposes an influential new art movement.

Cvwarren,
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@mattblaze me, seeing this without context (yet), “okay, yes I’m with you in principle…”; me seeing the presumed manifesto in question “OH OH well, yes, hard agree”

ai6yr, to Weather
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It's really not the cow's fault. Red Flag Warning conditions (low humidity and wind) in Chicago, Sunday, October 8, 1871. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-or-who-caused-the-great-chicago-fire-61481977/

Cvwarren,
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@tiamat271 @ai6yr Also notable that the site of the barn became the Chicago Fire Department’s Academy location…https://www.wbez.org/stories/whats-that-building-the-chicago-fire-academy/5e2c9ed8-3cf5-4f2f-a890-c1b4bbdd115e

ai6yr, to Dog
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What does the know that we do not? 🤔 Commander Biden bites another Secret Service agent, the 11th known incident | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/politics/commander-biden-biting-incident/index.html

Cvwarren,
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@ai6yr @EALS_Director I had a similar thought—our Shepherd has a pretty finely tuned sense of people (and, is nearly universally enthusiastic about them), and the stories around Mike Pence on Jan 6th came to mind…

drahardja, (edited ) to photography
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So I went to a couple of car meets today and did an A/B/C #shootout on an #iPhone14Pro and #GooglePixel7. All images appear in this sequence:

  1. #Halide app on #iPhone 14 Pro, RAW with as many post-processing options turned off as possible
    2 iPhone 14 Pro camera app, #ProRAW
  2. #Google #Pixel 7, RAW

The photos are mostly images of cars, not people.

All images are shot with the default 1x lens.

All images are imported as .dng into Lightroom and left as-is except for Halide shots which are all inexplicably overexposed by around 1.5 stops. For those shots, I manually lowered exposure, but left all other sliders where they were.

Halide produces 12 MP images even when I choose 48 MP. iPhone camera produces 48 MP images. Pixel 7 produces 12 MP images. It’s pretty obvious that the “48 MP” and “50 MP” images are synthesized out of binned-pixel 12 MP sensors. The images uploaded here are downscaled to 1080p jpgs using the same Lightroom settings (sRGB, 95% quality).

OK, on with the show!

#photography

Cvwarren,
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@drahardja I have nearly the exact same dilemma when I go somewhere to shoot—essentially the same body but the similar Nikon glass. I’m at about a 40% rate of taking the big rig, but am generally pleased I did (minus the hours of transferring/processing/sharing that ensue)

ai6yr, to cycling
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I blame all the folks around here, just running some calculators on the difficulty of going back and forth from my nearest local grocery store (for the heck of it). For some odd reason, the map says the "longer, flatter route" has an identical 17.8% section compared to the shorter, steeper route.

Shorter route, 1.30 miles, 216 feet ascent, 89 ft descent

Cvwarren,
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@ai6yr this is actually what has made me (lifelong competitive cyclist) feel musch better about e-bikes—particularly cargo-style bikes—with the terrain here. I don’t think the Dutch model of cycling everywhere all the time is unreachable here, but the hills are real, and the motors help with those 10-15% hills!

Sheril, to PetBirds
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I glanced at my screen & momentarily got excited mistaking Hurricane Lee for an Andean Cock-of-the-rock in the news. https://abcbirds.org/bird/andean-cock-of-the-rock/

Personally, I’d enjoy more antics as top stories.

The head of an Andean Cock-of-the-rock, a South American bird with “brilliant red-orange plumage, black & white wings & a large fan-like crest that almost completely obscures its bill.” Credit unknown.

Cvwarren,
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@Sheril Ha! That is exactly what I see—and I was incredibly lucky to see a number of them in the cloud forest in Ecuador. This was my favorite shot

ai6yr, to random
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol "especially instructed officials to take special care against any incident, such as food poisoning, his chief press secretary, Kim Eun-hye, quoted him as saying in a written message to media." https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230806002400320?section=national/politics

Cvwarren,
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@ai6yr “But you seem to be putting things on my disaster bingo card that I did not think were going to be on my already full disaster bingo card…”

Cvwarren,
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@ai6yr that said, the scouts are at least getting an early start on the “Maintaining Human Civilization during Climate Emergency” merit badge we’re all going to need to earn…

ai6yr, to random
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On all day, LOL. (Removing a beehive from a sprinkler box at a local fire chief's ranch).

Cvwarren,
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@ai6yr ah, so that’s what they look like in the boxes—I’ve walked past at least one (usually more like 3) every day this year, but I’ve been reluctant to peek!

Cvwarren, to random
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I love XKCD https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/how_to_coil_a_cable_2x.png

Cvwarren,
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@ai6yr the alt-text is perfect as well…my climber friends disagree with my video production friends who disagree with the sailing teachers my daughter knows…and I definitely don’t understand the topologists!

ai6yr, to TeslaMotors
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This conversion is great. Funny, though, that removing the noise of the combustion engine means " It shows you just how badly cars were built back in the 60s (and 70s and...)... Every time you blitz around a bend, you can hear bits of the car rubbing together, components creaking, and the aches of old age making themselves known" https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/07/a-great-idea-or-sacrilege-we-test-a-jaguar-e-type-converted-to-ev/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Cvwarren,
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@ai6yr My favorite detail is the re-engineered wiper motor for the Leaf (it is indeed quite quiet on mine)…and quite a contrast to my ‘89 Vanagon Westphalia (which has all the creaks and groans imaginiable!)…

ai6yr, to random
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Random thoughts: I used to have discussions with my mom about climate change, and she'd say: "I'm glad this is only a problem for my great grandchildren" and I'd say: "No, lots of the impacts are starting to happen now, and are going to get worse, fast, in our lifetime" and she'd say: "why are you such a radical". Yet, here we are. 🤷

Cvwarren,
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@ai6yr I still remember talking to the climatologists at the University of Delaware when I was an undergrad in the early ‘90s, and hearing about the North Atlantic convection currents already slowing, and how sensitive they were to glacial melt affecting salinity, and how the entire northern hemisphere would be…well, here we are

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