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And if you have an instant pot or equivalent electric pressure cooker, you don't even need to be patient. The whole thing takes less than an hour start to finish and the results are excellent, Kenji has a guide https://www.seriouseats.com/pressure-cooker-mushroom-risotto-recipe

I have the same issue. Nearest I've found is CalenGoo, its month view is a serviceable touch calendar replacement. It's not quite the same, its defaults are pretty ugly and in some ways it's kinda janky - but it is extremely customisable, and with some work I've gotten something I'm pretty happy with

Bizarre. What was your professor thinking? Maybe she meant to write "continuous and monotonic", but forgot the latter constraint, marked it accordingly, and decided to just.. pretend she hadn't when called out on it?

"if this question was impacting my grade at the end of the semester then we could revisit it" sounds to me like she knew she'd made a mistake but wanted to save face and not admit it in front of her students, which is a terrible attitude for a teacher.

"Elizabeth line" is still bad, but only because they made "line" part of its name -- it's not the "Elizabeth" line, it's the "Elizabeth line" line. Which looks bizarre in lists of tube lines, where you have this one at the end with "line" and all the rest don't.

doing some archeology today? :D

his negative test results from last month on June 15

You misread it. He said the guy's negative test results were dated June 15th, the encounter was a few hours ago ("now a few hours later I’m starting to feel...")

this was normal and necessary a decade ago, when there was no let/const and no arrow functions, so if you wanted to maintain the this context inside a further closure you needed to rebind it, and self was a common choice.

these days it's old-fashioned, sure, but very common in old codebases, hardly programminghorror

Thinking of the summer solstice as "the start of summer" is an Americanism, which is starting to infect the UK too. As you say, it doesn't make much sense. (Sure being next to a large body of water does mean a bit of thermal drag, so starting summer midway between equinox and solstice would definitely feel too early, but trying to claim that the start should be aligned with the solstice as if there's some astronomical reason that the thermal drag should be exactly an eighth of a year just feels misleading)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_London third para claims london is 22% of the UK's gdp

I'd have still have guessed more than that tbh

Interested. Zero-travel meetups for worldwide-distributed communities (with a much nicer user experience than a giant zoom meeting) are a super underutilized usecase for VR.

(caveat: I'd only be able to attend if it was a usable timeslot for UTC+0)

1. the CTO codes our MVP (this would take about 9 months)
2. launch MVP in 3 months after raising and hiring the first collaborators?

If the timeline for option 1 is accurate, that this is a nine month project for one person, then option 2 is probably a fantasy.

Collaboration adds a lot of overhead. That overhead is not useless - multiple people are learning what each other are doing and how everything works, you are preparing yourself for future further scaling, etc. But the idea that if it takes one person nine months to make a thing from scratch, then three people could do it in three months, is nearly as false in software as in pregnancy.

The classic book on this is Fred Brooks' The Mythical Man Month.

The exception to this is if the mvp cleanly separates into multiple separate projects within a comparatively small surface area of interaction between them, such that they can be done in parallel relatively independently.

That site seems to be specifically for evidence of long-term health benefits of supplements. Which isn't really relevant to the OP's question -- eg it includes coffee, but only for its effect on heart disease risk. A nootropic chart would have caffeine for its effect as a nootropic, is mostly as a stimulant (which in the case of caffeine is not in question, though there are doubts about how much it just returns you to baseline once you acclimitise to it).

I don't know any exact equivalent in evidence-base terms for nootropics, but I find https://troof.blog/posts/nootropics/ratings_effective_full.jpeg (from https://troof.blog/posts/nootropics/ ) quite useful (it's just effectiveness ratings from survey data but still useful).

Not clear from your phrasing if you're aware that you can connect your quest 2 to your PC with a USB cable to run PCVR games? The quest 2 makes a perfectly decent PCVR headset.

In any case -- a good argument for going from quest 2 to index might begin something like "I've spent a huge amount of time playing PCVR games in my quest 2, and I'm been really chafing to change to a headset with [wider FOV / better builtin speakers / finger tracking / etc]". Something indicating that you're running against a quest 2 issue that the index would solve.

But you're not that; you "haven't used [the quest 2] very much since I got it". That's not a good sign that you should go spend a thousand bucks on a different headset. Whatever your reasons for not playing any VR in the last year, it seems unlikely that the index would change anything for you.

Parliament is sovereign in the very specific sense that there are no fetters on the power of an Act of Parliament properly passed through the legislative process. (Which right now includes royal assent, though of course Parliament can change its process through Acts of Parliament properly passed according to the legislative process in force at the time they were passed). That doesn't mean it can do anything it likes at any time by majority vote, unless empowered to do so by primary legislation.

This is especially murky when the power being wielded is the power to dissolve parliament, which would presumably be one of the powers of an LP. This sets up an interesting conflict if the LP wants to do so and the Prime Minister doesn't want them to. It isn't at all obvious that "parliamentary supremacy" is a relevant principle to resolving that; LP and PM would both wield power due to carrying the support of a majority of the House of Commons, which assumed to be a continuing state unless and until a vote of no confidence (or the LP equivalent).

A possible danger of a sortof-semi-democratic process is it gives them a veneer of legitimacy, which they might feel would let them actually use their de jure powers.

Like -- if a monarch doesn't give royal assent to a bill that passes parliament, it's blatantly obvious to everyone that they've overstepped their de facto role, they'll be deposed. But if an appointed Lord Protector doesn't give assent, that's a lot murkier. They would argue that it's democratic because they were appointed by an elected body, and to many people that would seem plausible.

Maybe talking about the fact that it's not sound? Not exactly a dark secret though -- it's an explicit design choice, MS is open that when they have to choose between soundness or being flexible enough to be able to add types to existing javascript without changing it too much (so you get some benefit), they choose the latter.

Proof is x/200, meant for measuring the alcohol content of a drink.

Minor caveat: unlike percent, "proof" does not mean 'per-two-hundred' (for alcohol by volume) traditionally or etymologically, only by (relatively) modern legislation.

The original (16th century) definition was that 100 proof was the concentration at which the spirit would burn if ignited at room temperature. For example, if you could dilute two parts of spirit with one part of water and still have it ignite, but any more diluted and it wouldn't, that would define it to be 150 proof.

But this isn't easy to measure precisely, so the actual test was replaced with one based on density, and eventually with the modern definition of 'the %ABV times 2', which is a very convenient and close-enough approximation of the original definition.

"orbiter dictum" (sometimes just "dicta")

Minor correction: "obiter", not "orbiter".

did you remember to import random?

if input == ("roll"):

you assigned the return value of the input function to a variable named key, so you want key in that line rather than input

You make a good point. Fwiw I don't remember seeing that pattern any other time I've used the moka pot, but I realise that's not great evidence.

There is no nuclear power station design you can just use. Every station in the UK was a custom experiment primarily for the breeding of weapon's grade Plutonium - Not electricity. There is limited R&D and once again, you're looking at at least a decade before we could even contemplate designing let alone building such a thing.

Taking mild issue with this paragraph -- there are plenty of off-the-shelf nuclear power station designs we can just use. They're not UK-designed, but who cares - the laws of physics are the same in the UK as France. The current French model is the EPR ('European Pressurised Reactor') - which in fact is what the Hinkley Point C stations are. (And there's apparently a new EPR2 model coming out in the next year or two). Or we could buy a few Westinghouse AP1000s from America.