In my adventures, I've found that using tools to help can be useful, but you need to make positive life changes to keep with it. After a few months of counting calories religiously, I stopped. The goal of using a calorie counter was to teach myself what appropriate portions looked like and how much was sufficient…

There are endless internet arguments about the merits of adding milk to your eggs when you scramble. Milk or Cream will result in a creamier egg. You can also add a tbsp of water per egg and that will result in a fluffier egg. I usually abstain, but for certain meals I'll add an appropriate mixer to achieve the…

Another great protip is that you can drown anything in ranch dressing.

As an IT consultant, I do a lot of faking it til I make it. If you go into someone's office with a real headscratcher of a problem and fumble around like you don't know which end of a USB cord is up, they're gonna worry and a problem that might not be a big deal will suddenly become the worst disaster the company has…

Wen we bought our house and started renovation, I picked up a dewalt cordless circular saw. My dad brought his corded model. I was really impressed with the Dewalt and the only time we broke out the corded model was when we had to cut through 1.5 inch thick oak countertop.

So, basically, I need to live to be 110...

Yah, I didn't include tax. We have 7% where I'm at, so it would be $69 even. I agree 2 1/2" deck screws would be a better choice.

2 sheets of 4x8 7/16 OSB, 16 8' 2x4s, and a box of deck screws.

No, god no. I did not say that. Right now, we default to "normal" characters because it's "normal". In this scenario, normal isn't a good thing, and abnormal isn't bad. They do things because that's the way things are done and keep doing it because that's what they did last time. For a lot of storytellers, they just…

I've got a family sized George Foreman Grill... My father in law gave it to us for Christmas the year we got married and became expecting. (get it, family size). We've never taken it out of the box. I have a cast iron grill pan. I don't need a george foreman grill...

My dad taught me everything he knew about computers but didn't teach me very much about life...

It is lazy storytelling and doesn't actually help in the goal of being more inclusive. It is just pandering for the sake of meeting a quota. These sorts of characters are more decoration than anything else, their race/gender/species/etc is not relevant to the story. Good storytelling makes characters relevant.

I am bothered when a game includes a "diverse" character for the sake of adding diversity. There is a difference between crafting a story that is inclusive and involves a varied cast of characters and shoehorning in a character to meet some silly diversity quota.

That is for the compute module. You'll still need a breakout board of some sort and that would push the cost above the rPi. Also, it doesn't have ethernet, so I'd need to add that.

The goal is that a hobbyist will develop a product beyond a generic breakout board and design an application specific board which has all of their related circuitry. Then, it is just a matter of plugging in the Edison to your custom board and you're running. It reduces the complexity of manufacturing and (as I eluded…

I like the Intel Edison, but I'm kinda turned off on the cost.

I'm currently paying back the first two years worth of taxes as an independent consultant. I was woefully unprepared from an accounting standpoint and didn't plan accordingly. The process is pretty painless and they let you dictate the repayment amount. As long as the amount is high enough that you will pay it off in…

I agree that much of the food industry is more worried about "tastes good" than "is good for you". I think that the best approach is to look at all the "good for you" food and find the ones that you think "taste good". It's hard to maintain a healthy diet if you hate your dinner.

I think this is the single point we must agree to disagree. I assert that "paying your dues" is inherently unproductive, you assert that "paying your dues" can be productive. Experience and learning isn't "paying your dues", in my opinion it is the farthest removed from "paying your dues" you can get. If your…

"Paying your dues" has no requirement on the quality of work, just the quantity. You shouldn't have to pay your dues. There shouldn't be a "quantity of work" necessary to advance in a career. The source article rejected the notion of "paying your dues" entirely and your article seems like it's just a PR spin on the…