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- You make baking powder by mixing a base (baking soda) with an acid (monocalcium phosphate) and a buffer (cornstarch). This retains the ability of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) to increase the ph of the meat’s surface and make it crispier/browner, while neutralizing the weird taste imparted by the alkalinity of the baking soda.
- IR saunas and EMF.
- Did a little research since I use the mihigh every day (temp 9 time 60).
- https://www.hightechhealth.com/dangers-of-emf-and-importance-of-a-low-emf-infrared-sauna/
- EMF is basically an electric field, magnetic field, and RF. Produced by electronics.
- EMF causes calcium ions to move around more (esp to heart and brain). This produces oxidative damage. And can mess with hormones and other neurotransmitters in the brain. Can cause acute things: headache, fogginess, depression/anxiety, fatigue. Can cause longterm things: aging, cancer, reproductive problems.
- Reached out to mihigh, going to pause use until they reply with the requested EMF report.
- Obviously, this can occur with all the devices in your home. Cell phone, tv, microwave, everything. But being surrounded by high-powered heaters in a sauna is a high-exposure scenario. And then moving them even closer to your body in an IR blanket is moreso.
- Moved some money around again to prep for a few things. TD is better than Schwab – you can sell a position and withdraw it immediately without triggering margin. Doesn’t have to settle. If you withdraw it via ACH, it still takes a couple days to land in your other account of course – but you don’t use brokerage margin on the withdrawal.
- AWS.
- Added the new widgets (security hub, patch, ops, managed instances) to my home screen and moved stuff around.
- Resources. Mem has been great, sitting around 50 alltime. Cpu low nominally, spike during deploys. Disk increased from 50 to 90 over the past 2 months. Went in and cleaned (docker system prune, which doesn’t affect running containers). This recovered 16GB. Don’t need a permanent fix for this, I’m moving to k8s and proper img caching and all the above. Won’t be managing the EC2 instance directly for much longer.
- Did some billing analysis. EC2 was as expected. The only slightly surprise was cloudwatch. About the same price as EC2 just to send my custom metrics for resource util. Will remove that later, I imagine.
- Remember too that Route53 is 50cents a month just to have the hosted zone. I can throw a lot more into this single hosted zone, but right now it’s a bit overkill for one aws app.
- Hey, someone else caught up with my warriors foul observations! https://twitter.com/DrGuru_/status/1607785037742866433. Last in FT attempts. First in opponent FT attempts. First in technical fouls.
- Many studies have statistically proven the home court advantage in foul calls. More against visitor, fewer against home.
- This is correlated with the other fact this season: First in home record. Last in away record.
- This is true across many variables. About 5% more calls against visiting team. More fouls called against the team who’s currently ahead as well. Statistically evident across most sports. Human nature of referees.
- Lots of private work.
- Bone broth is easy to make and excellent for collagen / amino acids.
- The “Federal Truth in Lending” act requires APR be disclosed to borrowers, avoiding the confusion of nominal interest rates (calculated from simple interest) vs effective interest rates (calculated from compound interest).
- Remember in excel
$ before a row and/or col in a cell reference will lock that to an absolute value. Use this when you have constants (based on another cell) in a formula, but also have some variables you want to move relative references for as you drag the formula.
