Is it a ‘thank you for prepping my room’ or ‘please clean my room today’? If you tip post cleaning, it’s likely going to someone else the next day. Many hotels now only do housekeeping on demand. How do employees feel about this - do they miss the tips or are they happy for a less stressful workday?...
I personally don’t want anyone going in my room while I’m there. I thought covid finally changed this when hotels started only doing housekeeping between customers, or if requested, but unfortunately it seems like they are changing this back. It just seems like a waste of labor to have someone else make my bed.
I’ve never tipped people going into my room. I’d do it if I made a mess or something, though.
I was thinking about how I missed having an indoor thermometer that measures humidity. It’s such a small specific thing, one I’d never think of getting unless pushed to it (which I was by one particularly dry winter). But I like having one now....
Can confirm, I have the same set, and I do probably use them every day. It’s one of those tools that you don’t realize how often you need it until you start using it.
Belgian fries (and any good fries in America) are fried once in low heat for a little while to cook the potato through. Then they are allowed to cool, and they can be frozen to use later, or you can fry them again at higher temp to crisp them up.
I bought a variety pack of scouring pads and brushes that I can attach to my cordless drill. Super handy for cleaning stuff that would otherwise take some major elbow grease. Probably bad for my drill, but it’s worth it to me.
It doesn’t take long for mold to grow on empty beer bottles. Considering beer bottles get returned for a refund, you have to assume that the brewery will make an effort to reuse as many as possible....
As far as I know, in the US, recycled glass is recycled, not reused, so they basically waste a lot of energy to melt the glass back down and make new bottles.
Reusing can definitely be done effectively, though. Homebrewers do it all the time with pretty safe chemicals. If you have industrial machines and chemicals, you can probably get the glass sterile, and if not sterile, then definitely close enough.
As far as I know, in the US, recycled glass is recycled, not reused, so they basically waste a lot of energy to melt the glass back down and make new bottles.
Reusing can definitely be done effectively, though. Homebrewers do it all the time with pretty safe chemicals. If you have industrial machines and chemicals, you can probably get the glass sterile, and if not sterile, then definitely close enough.
Yeah some states have deposits on bottles/cans that you get back through the vending machine thing, but the only bottles that actually get reused are some fancy milk brands.
I once accidentally worked myself into trying to solve the traveling salesman problem. I was doing some work on a very specific problem, and I got to a point where I couldn’t figure out a way to efficiently link up a bunch of points. The funny thing is that I knew about the TSP, but I just didn’t realize that the problem I was trying to solve was a case of the TSP. After a couple of days trying to figure it out, I realized what it was, and that it was futile.
It was a good lesson to always try to find the most abstracted version of the problem you are trying to solve cause someone smarter has either tried and failed or tried and succeeded.
There’s not enough focus on direct energy usage or storage in general. If you want thermal energy, collect and store thermal energy. If you want mechanical energy, use that directly (and I guess compressed air and hydraulic head count as mechanical energy storage).
What I think would be cool for an exercise bike is to just have a power takeoff of some sort. Lots of bikes use a flywheel already, but even if they didn’t, but you could hook up a PTO to a flywheel or a charger so that in a pinch, you could charge your phone or whatever. Probably wouldn’t want to use it if you had a better option, but nice to have in an emergency. Like those wind up flashlights.
If you look at the “about us” section on their site, I don’t see anyone with human performance expertise (though who knows if any of them are hobby cyclists with a huge depth of knowledge). The seat and pedal design is definitely geared more towards aesthetics than performance, too. I probably wouldn’t want to do more than a hundred watts on there.
I definitely appreciate that the portability and aesthetic quality is a major design consideration for them, though. I see this more as a battery pack that you can pedal, than a bike that stores power.
if I have a newish gas powered car, that took a lot of resources to build, am I really saving the environment by buying a new EV, which will cost even more resources?
There have been a bunch of studies on this over the years, with different conclusions depending on the bounds of the question. For example, does the car you get rid of actually leave the market, are you replacing a beater or a decent car, what sort of car is replacing it (hybrid, plug-in hybrid, standard range EV, long range EV). I think (without double checking the actual studies) that the answer is that if you replace an ICE car with a standard range EV, and keep it for like 10 years, you are better off.
The shame is that the studies always force a particular perspective onto the question: should you replace one car with another? I would bet that the best solution is to keep the ICE car, but get an electric motorcycle or moped, and use that for every situation possible, and save the ICE car for rare situations that actually need the range or size.
EV manufacturers love to promote their vehicles as “better for the environment”, but they are really only “better” than ICE cars.
The unfortunate thing in your case is that apparently motorcycles are worse than cars in terms of emissions. Yes, the fuel efficiency is higher, but cars have better combustion and catalytic converters, so they produce less of the really potent greenhouse gases than motorcycles. I only learned that recently.
This seems like it’s flipped around backwards. The picture says you have to pump more than 4 gallons if you are getting E15, but the explanation seems to explain why someone pumping E10 would want to pump more than 4 gallons.
I bet the real reason is that someone could pump a couple of gallons of cheaper E15, knowing they’d actually receive E10, leaving the next person to actually get that gas.
Read “a mathematicians lament”, by Paul Lockhart. It was originally a short essay (25 pages you can find free online), but expanded into a book that I haven’t read yet.
Part of it is inherent to the style. My morning cup of pourover coffee is 23 g of beans to 350 g of water. A cup of Turkish coffee is like 4 grams of beans.
I could be wrong, but half of the people who work in Luxembourg don’t live there, so every cup of coffee they drink at work ( or buy at shops before and after work) wouldn’t be counted right.
A pro-Palestinian app created to help consumers boycott Israeli products has gained traction on TikTok amid calls in Hebrew-language media for Google to ban it....
There was an app called Buycott that lets you join “campaigns” of things you are either for or against, and when you scan something, it tells you which positive and which negative campaigns apply to that product and the company as a whole. Koch was on there. Seems like it may have been abandoned years ago, though.
The swarm of Bradford pear trees, wisterias, English ivies, porcelain berry, barberry, and autumn olive trees (and many others) choking my surroundings don’t give me happy feelings about this.
Typically with climate change (like ice ages, etc, not anthropogenic), plants migrate to stay in their ecological niche. With temperature/precipitation being the major factors, plants tend to migrate up in latitude and altitude as climates warm. That’s why you end up with “sky islands” where a mountain might have a species not seen for a large distance further north at lower latitudes. Anthropogenic climate is probably too fast for most trees to migrate, but I think we should do our best to source trees that are along the migration path for a given area. The author’s manzanita is actually a great example.
Italians, look away now, because guanciale is hard to get round these parts. Besides, I bet your nonna used pancetta at least once in her lifetime and you didnt’t even notice....
I’m a big buccatini fan for carbonara. Your process sounds great. The only thing I do a little differently is that I will actually temper the egg mixture with pasta water to make it less likely to cook when i actually add it to the pasta. I know it’s traditional to make the sauce in the pot, but I don’t care.
I also add a whole bunch of parsley to it, and sometimes a splash of white wine.
I like to make it in a wok. I find that the thinner steel is actually better because it cools down quicker, which avoids cooking the egg. Plus you can toss it really well in a wok.
This post has some discussion on it. The tl;dr is that for a BIFL item, you need to ask yourself if you need a hiking jacket that is water resistant and can breathe, or if you need an actually waterproof jacket that doesn’t breathe.
If you want a hiking jacket, they are mainly a consumable item, but you can get some that hold up better than others; look for a 3 layer construction. I’d really advise not using a hiking jacket as a “walking around town” jacket.
For a “walking around town” jacket, you can go with an oiled or waxed fabric if you want to stick with non-synthetics. If you are okay with synthetics, you can go for a polyurethane jacket that is 100% waterproof. Polyurethane rain jackets seem to have fallen out of favor over the past 25 years as people have preferred lightweight goretex jackets with PFAS coatings. I googled around to see who even makes good PU jackets, and it looks like despite being a otherwise pricy brand, Helly Hansen makes cheap PU jackets.
You linked right to the actual text of the law, awesome! Another fun thing in here is that it also prevents landlords from requiring tenants to keep a lawn.
Do you leave a tip for housekeeping if you're only staying one night in a hotel?
Is it a ‘thank you for prepping my room’ or ‘please clean my room today’? If you tip post cleaning, it’s likely going to someone else the next day. Many hotels now only do housekeeping on demand. How do employees feel about this - do they miss the tips or are they happy for a less stressful workday?...
Are there any household gadgets you found unexpectedly useful after you'd gotten them?
I was thinking about how I missed having an indoor thermometer that measures humidity. It’s such a small specific thing, one I’d never think of getting unless pushed to it (which I was by one particularly dry winter). But I like having one now....
Beer bottles can get quite nasty before people return them -- how good are industrial beer bottle dishwashers?
It doesn’t take long for mold to grow on empty beer bottles. Considering beer bottles get returned for a refund, you have to assume that the brewery will make an effort to reuse as many as possible....
Professional Scientists of Lemmy: What is your field of study's, most complex unanswered question?
Exercise bike that can store 2KWh of electricity (mastodon.social)
This is an industrial designed exercise bike from Lithuania that can store 2KWh of electricity generated by your own exercise.
Why gas bikes just can't compete with electric motorcycles in the summer (electrek.co)
Summer is coming in hot, and the impending heat is set to once again break the prior year’s record-breaking temperatures....
Just saw this while getting gas. Why is it illegal to get less than 4 gallons? (lemmy.world)
Remember my birdhouse gourd I grew last fall? After drying all winter it’s ready now! (lemmy.ca)
I’m going to move it lower to the ground in an effort to attract house finches. Otherwise the sparrows will take it and they are invasive....
Calculus made easy (lemmy.world)
“All the little bits”
Is complaining to open source project maintainers getting normalized ? (lemmy.ml)
And how can this be improved ? Should “normies” be pushed into RTFM or ELI5 ?
Coffee consumption in Europe (files.catbox.moe)
Source: landgeist.com/…/coffee-consumption-in-europe/
Promoted on TikTok, ‘No Thanks’ boycott app targets products tied to Israel (www.timesofisrael.com)
A pro-Palestinian app created to help consumers boycott Israeli products has gained traction on TikTok amid calls in Hebrew-language media for Google to ban it....
As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive: “Everybody is looking for the magic tree.” (grist.org)
Young Canadians think retiring at 65 is an outdated concept (financialpost.com)
Canadians’ views on retirement are shifting dramatically, with the idea of retiring at age 65 being one of the early casualties. Read more.
Carbonara
Italians, look away now, because guanciale is hard to get round these parts. Besides, I bet your nonna used pancetta at least once in her lifetime and you didnt’t even notice....
What is the next "big thing"?
Right now it seems like its "A.I.". Still big now are the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Recently we had COVID 19....
My new-ish rain jacket just started disentegrating in my hair. BIFL rain jackets?
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/7868819...
Low-Impact Landscaping Law (Maryland) (legiscan.com)
Just found out about this law that went into effect in 2021 in MD. HOAs or communities cannot require turf-only landscapes.