As a counterpoint, my cardiologist suggested I get an Apple watch so I could keep a better eye on things and send him any questionable ECGs. At least some doctors seem to think there are positives.
The very important point is that you probably have a known heart condition, if your doctor recommended this. The problem with many of these devices is false positives.
For folks having issues with food sticking to cast iron or carbon steel, try learning to cook on stainless. It's much more prone to sticking, but if you can get the technique down well enough to not have eggs stick on stainless then switch to cast it's a walk in the park.
There's also blue steel, which I think is just a fancy carbon steel. We have a crepe pan made out of it, and the crepes never came out oily. Truth be told, it doesn't get much use anymore. But it was definitely the easiest for crepes.
Gotta be careful with the wire wheel, it's possible to get the surface too smooth and the seasoning won't stick as well. Source: I've stripped and re-seasoned 20+ pans and the one I wire wheeled has never been quite right. People on /r/castiron also advise against it. Even for pans where the sand cast finish was milled smooth from the factory.
I recommend never using any kind of wire wheel, brush or scraper around any kind of food utensils whatsoever. The wire will break and you could ingest a fragment or it could embed in your eye/skin with serious consequences:
The article suggests alternatives such as coil brushes or crumpled aluminum foil instead. Also there are chemical methods.
Wire tools deserve considerable respect and should be used only with protective gloves and eyeware and even skin protection, since spun-off pieces of wire can embed in eyes or bare skin (and you may not notice). Good news: any embedded wire or steel fragment shows up like a lighthouse in an x-ray, making them extremely easy to locate.
So the wire wheel causes this, but not a sanding disc? I trust your experience, but that's very counterintuitive. I've never used either on my cast iron, so I appreciate your feedback.
Oh man, yeah also adding to the list of people that abused their highschool computer labs with this. We had so much fun, but we eventually drew the ire of the school IT admin. After class one day the teacher took us aside with the admin and asked if we had installed BO on the computers, which we of course denied... they "believed" us, heh, but gave us a stern warning that whoever was doing it should stop. We would have all probably ended up with felony charges these days.
The next year, so 1999, we actually got approval to attempt to change our grades as an exercise. We actually managed to do it by sneakily copying a floppy one of the teachers used to store their grades with a program called Integrade. We took it home, reverse engineered the password protection to disable it, changed our grades on the copy, re-enable the password protection with the original password, and turned that in as our proof. Our teacher was impressed and super sketched out/nervous at the same time. I guess they never considered we'd succeed and get access to the whole class's grades...
Tangentially related but, back in the late 90s in my first year at BSc Software Eng. I got in trouble because I cracked the password of a Win98 program called Protect-Z which put some user controls I my Uni's labs machines.
The funny thing is that when the person in charge of all the labs found out I had the password, he asked me how did I get it. When I explained to him about how I attached to the protect-z process and debugged it to get the password , he didn't believe it was possible.
Great times... as someone said, these days you'll surely get suspended or worse.
At Oxford in 1989 or 90, some kid in the Math+CS program got caught running some password cracking software (reversing the hash on /etc/password) and I think he was expelled for that.
Oh wow, yep, that's exactly what we figured out. Their save file format stored the password hash, but didn't actually encrypt or obfuscate the grade data beyond just whatever serialization they were doing. We were starting on figuring that format out when we noticed that creating a new save file with or without a password changed a byte right before the password off and on... flip it off and the app no longer prompted for the password... edit/save in the app, flip it back on, and that was that. edit: I should add, rather than get expelled we got a ton of extra credit for it since it was at least sort of sanctioned.
Yeah, I've cooked eggs in cast iron for several years and I think a lot of the advice I see is wrong. You really have to get the pan fairly hot IMO, if they don't bubble as soon as you pour them in then I get a lot more sticking. But like you said, definitely not sear!
On my electric stove I let the pan warm up on medium heat for 5 minutes or so until the edges of the pan are good and hot, then add butter, let it almost brown for 30 seconds or so (if it burns the butter, too hot), then toss in the scrambled eggs which should immediately bubble and start cooking. Some quick stirring and you're done cooking in about 1-2 minutes for 2-6 eggs.
You can find other people in this thread swearing that the problem is using too much heat, and they cook their over-easy eggs on cast iron perfectly every time using low heat for longer, etc. Cast iron care and use opinions are a special class of amazing. You can find almost everything argued almost every which way.
Yeah, this is crazy to me. There is no difference between carbon steel, stainless steel clad, or cast iron in this respect. You preheat the pan until it reaches Leidenfrost and add fat or oil. Every single one, it’s the same.
This has been known scientifically for almost 50 years at this point. More people should get off the Internet and read Harold McGee
NBA Top Shot is major sports' entry into NFTs and is already dominating by market cap while it's still in beta. I've only been following it for a few weeks, but collectors are going nuts, but not quite to the point of some other NFTs yet. It still seems to be a fairly small crowd doing most of the buying and selling compared to the NBA's broad reach.
I follow NFTs closely and it seems like of the present crop of projects, Top Shot has the most obvious path to a sustainable future. Sports collectibles are already a thing, and official league-sanctioned digital collectibles are a natural growth. MLB dipped a toe in with virtual bobbleheads, but collecting video clips of plays makes more sense.
I don't know that the 5 figure prices will last forever, but the market probably will.
Cryptopunks is the only "native" NFT I feel will likely keep a market. Again, maybe not at present levels, but it's got enough of a cool factor to last.
And Beeple as the artist with the brightest future, obviously.
That was posted 4 days ago, long before the ladder attacks and disinformation campaigns desperately trying to shift attention away from GME. People need to understand the risks involved and not sink their life savings, but there is definitely more going on here than what you'd see in a crypto pump and dump. When a hedge fund shorts 120% of available stock, then retail investors don't sell, and aren't swayed by every trick in the book... something is going to give.
Yeah I think if your going to make a cynical post calling everyone idiots you should address some of what happened like the low volume trading, curve ball from brokers preventing trades etc.. There was a lot of chaos in the last few days idk if you can just write it all off as suckers getting played
10'ish years ago I remember people being mad at the cable companies for bundling all the channels together into all-or-nothing options. Why did I have to pay for ESPN when I just want the SciFi channel? Here we are today with lots of options where you only pay for what you want and now people want them all bundled back together again!
People are still complaining about the same thing. Instead of "why do I have to pay for ESPN when I just want the SciFi channel?", it's now "why do I have to pay for the whole catalogue of yet another streaming service, and deal with its idiosyncraticly broken UI, when I just want to watch that one show that one time?".
People still want the same thing: to have all they want to watch available in a single place, through a single interface, and for a flat price. Without ads, market segmentation, or other exploitative trickery.
That's why I don't really believe people who claim that having to pick a streaming service is a burden too great to bear and can only be resolved through piracy. I don't think the issue is too little choice, too much choice, too much cost, or two much mental overhead—I think they just want to pirate and find a reason to use for the moment.
Because you think exposing yourself to higher risk of malware, financial punishment and possibly jail time is something thrilling that people like to do for fun?
Truth is, because of greed of the IP holders, the existing legal avenues of getting media are garbage and, on top of that, subscribing to several services costs more money than reasonable - all that starts to outweigh the aforementioned risk. And the risk is going down now that pirates run streaming sites too, which shield viewers from liability.
See also Steam, and how game piracy dwindled down thanks to cutting out the bullshit. And wrt. mental overhead, just look at how unhappy gamers are now that more companies are trying to compete with Steam by launching exclusives, making it necessary to install additional game launchers (which are almost universally garbage).
Why is that hard to believe? If you only have a few shows that you want to watch, and each is on a different streaming service, is it unreasonable to balk at having to pay for several different services (each at over $10 a month) just for a few shows?
Technology has advanced, but the product has changed little. I don't want to pay a monthly subscription and pay for all of the content on 300 channels, 280+ I will never ever watch. Despite paying $200 a month, I still don't even have the option to watch Spaceballs (substitute any particular movie here) on demand any time I want even if I am willing to pay for that privilege.
We have the technology to make the content of those 300+ channels available to me in a piecemeal a la carte fashion, but cable companies say if I want to watch ESPN I have to pay for 100 other channels. If I only want to watch Game of Thrones, I have to pay a bit under $20 a month to get a whole bunch of other stuff from HBO I will never watch.
I want to pay for only what I watch, but the cable and streaming services want me to pay for whats available to me. That is the big disconnect IMHO. There is no technical reason we can't have one service (like netflix) that has the world's digital content on it, and I can search and pick what I want to watch on it and pay for it and have the content owners get a cut of it. Netflix was kinda close for awhile, but then due to their licensing deals started pushing and pulling titles at random, and then different studios are now trying to put up Chinese walls to ensure that they have exclusive rights to content. I feel everyone loses here, and I myself can't imagine ever paying for a separate service just to watch star wars or Disney movies. There seems to be a real network effect here of just making everything available.
Interested to hear about what your issues with Ansible were. It's been a game changer for us over the past couple years. Manual processes that used to take an engineer a week to do manually are done in 20 minutes and correctly every time.
