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Re: Have you ever seen wheels with two valve stems? - 3 months ago

Reddit knows.

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Re: It's been a while since we discussed bidets. - 4 months ago

I've got two BioBidet BB-1700. My house had one when we bought it. Liked it so much I bought another for other bathroom. My mom loved it so much she got one for her home. Heated seat, heated water, fan dry. If you get mud on your shoe, what's better to clean it up: a hose or a paper towel?

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Re: 32-Bit Float Audio Recording! - 5 months ago

Quotejonny QuoteBixby I use it when I don't have time to check levels. It does eat up more storage space, obviously. What are you using it on? And how is the performance at very low levels? Sounddevices MixPre-10 II. Mostly classical music and similar. Honestly I still follow good engineering practices and know my recorder and mics well enough that this just covers my butt for the occasional

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Re: 32-Bit Float Audio Recording! - 5 months ago

I use it when I don't have time to check levels. It does eat up more storage space, obviously.

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Re: Is it possible to accurately pour rinse aid? - 6 months ago

My rinse aid is more of a squirt and not a pour, so yes, easy to be accurate.

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Re: Need advice on car battery - 6 months ago

I'm a fan of the supercapacitor jumpers.

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Re: Attempting to rez my 2012 Mac Mini - loads 99% of the way then hangs - 7 months ago

Do a hardware test.

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Re: HiFi earbuds? - 7 months ago

Wired is hifi. And IEMs are the way to go.

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Re: Help me season a new carbon steel pan - 8 months ago

My opinion, you've done way too much. You needed to take off the protective coating, not ALL the coating. Start seasoning already. (I use a bunch of cast iron as well as two carbon steel pans. No teflon in my house.)

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Re: A company that stands behind their product - Deuter - 9 months ago

We've had our Wustoff kitchen knives for more than 15 years. The last couple of years some of the handles have shown little cracks. We've not exactly babied them, but mostly hand washed etc. Then one crack got bad enough that a section of the handle came off. I contacted them, sent photos, and they had me send in all the knives that had any issue, then gave me more than enough credit to purchase

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Re: Future car thought: 1 million mile drive train? Possible with EVs - 11 months ago

Some (all?) manufacturers have known for a long time how to make cars last longer. It's just that it gets very expensive. Even with more reliable tech/design, there will need to be an incentive to implement it vs. use something cheaper but keep prices and profits higher.

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Re: I just tried to scan the AM radio band - 11 months ago

Telescopic antennas are typically only used for FM. If it's helping reception at all it's likely due to induction. Most portables use a small ferrite rod for AM, which are usually only decent for local reception during the day.

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Re: I just tried to scan the AM radio band - 11 months ago

If you have a car, how is AM reception on that? Almost all handheld tuners are poor quality, and I can't imagine a $10 radio has quality design and components. Use Radio Locator to see what stations should be in your area. But I will agree there's not much good to be found on the AM dial. I work in radio, on the FM side. Sangean, Tivoli and CCrane are about the only companies I'd recomme

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Re: Raspberry jam - with or without - 1 year ago

Wouldn't it be jelly if it didn't have seeds?

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Re: falafel Manhattan - 1 year ago

Taim is the best falafel I've ever had. Used to work at the Village Vanguard once a month and ALWAYS got dinner there.

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Re: An electric van that I would love to own: Morris JE - 1 year ago

These should be the new USPS mail trucks.

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Re: good over-the-ear headphones - 1 year ago

The 7506s have a smiley-EQ sound to them - bumped up lows and highs, which makes them good for hearing stuff you need to fix in the studio but not the best for long-term listening as a consumer (especially with today's music). They're also closed, which will keep noise from annoying neighbors and keep out outside sounds, but also make long-term listening a bit less comfortable in that it will hea

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Re: ProTools and Mojave to Monterey . . . - 1 year ago

Probably wouldn't hurt. But you're saying processing issues - PT is throwing errors while mixing in real time, or something else? You have enough RAM and a fast hard drive?

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Re: ProTools and Mojave to Monterey . . . - 1 year ago

What is ProTools lite? You mean ProTools Intro? Or a different version? ALWAYS check the PT compatibility chart before doing any upgrades...

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Re: Do you have a bathroom with an additional heat source? Do you use the additional heat? - 1 year ago

My wife likes our master bath very toasty when she's showering etc. Our bathroom has radiant floor heat, but we tend not to use that - it's a little too gentle. We also have a vent with heater (that I'm in the middle of replacing/updating from an old Broan which heater blew up to a new Panasonic) that she prefers to use, as it's a more direct/immediate heat that she likes. So all depends on

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Re: subwoofer question - 2 years ago

It's quite possible, depending on your receiver and how you've set it, that if you use the LFE it will only be used with movies or source material that has a LFE channel. In other words, the sub may not get any signal for music. This could be good or bad depending on a number of circumstances.

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Re: Driving a Prius . . .? - 2 years ago

Press the gas to go, brakes to stop? Not sure what you think there is to learn about it, other than getting used to the speedometer being over in the center. And if you've not driven a hybrid before, getting used to it being silent when you first 'start' it. It's pretty much a regular car these days.

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Re: Who's been to Bar Harbor, ME? - 2 years ago

In addition to lobster, eat some blueberry pie. We also did this with our kids - Dive-In Theater. It was pricey but worth it for us. Also some Pirate's Cove mini-putt at night.

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Re: Boiling eggs: put eggs in first, or boil water and then put the eggs in? - 2 years ago

Cold water start can have the affect of making the insides stick to the shell more, making it harder to peel cleanly. Other than that, personal preference I'd say.

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Re: 1Password 6 no longer working with Chrome - time to upgrade to 7? - 2 years ago

I had to as well. They'll give you 50% off for 3 years.

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Re: cobalt & car batts - 2 years ago

QuoteRolando The new Mada MX30 with a 100mile range, comes with a free loaner from your Mazda Dealer, up to 10 days a year for three years. I think I read they're selling very poorly. Which is too bad, because the concept is good (make something that fits most people's needs most of the time). BUT - the execution is pretty poor IMO - it's WAY too expensive, and the suicide doors and space ut

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Re: cobalt & car batts - 2 years ago

I just wish we could get over the need-more-mileage mindset. Most of us, for most of our use, don't need even 100 miles per charge. But no, we need all the miles! Just like why so many people buy huge pickups but rarely use them to haul or tow. I'd love to see more energy-dense batteries - mostly so it will get EVs lighter and help steal back some of the storage space that batteries take up.

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Re: How do you get your buns toasty - 2 years ago

I just butter and then toss them on the grill side of my cast iron grill/griddle.

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Re: Wok cleaning - 2 years ago

Quotemrbigstuff QuoteBixby Typically black coating on carbon steal is good - it's the seasoning. If you want to take that off, I'd suggest Brillow/SOS pads and a good scrub. sort of. sometimes a piece of that breaks off into what I am cooking. not good. and, it does seem to now require more oil to have food not stick. Seasoning should definitely not break off, so something's going on there

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Re: Wok cleaning - 2 years ago

Typically black coating on carbon steal is good - it's the seasoning. If you want to take that off, I'd suggest Brillow/SOS pads and a good scrub.

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