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I recently did this so the kids and their friends could all play together. I ended up running the paper minecraft server on one of our home linux computers. It runs the java version but this is ok as there is a mod for bedrock to connect to java. I set it up so that the service starts every time the computer boots up so they dont have to run anything to start it. Then once you have it running and open the appropriate ports on your router, technically anyone with a valid java version can connect. But now its time to install 3 mods. geyser, floodgate and via version so its easier for everyone to connect from bedrock on tablets and on versions that are too high while your server is a version behind. As of writing this paper server is still stable on 26.1 not yet to 26.2.

[0] https://modrinth.com has a bunch of mods the kids have enjoyed as well.

Watch the videos of alphastar as it challenged the top starcraft 2 players to win. This was back in 2019 and was amazing to watch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStar_(software)

I agree. It is crazy how much sharing units is a major part of bar. T2 cons, transports, even units to micro by the front line. Simply typing im low on energy will often result in teammates sending a few windmills or tidals. Its a great change in rts games. Plus when i play vs bots with my kids i can send them more metal production so the can be the one marching in titans or dropping nukes and destroying all the bots without realizing the extra componding econ i sent them. They have a blast.

Its a reverse osmosis machine. You can get them for as low as $100 on amazon or anywhere. I have one at the house attached to my sink that makes about 20 gallons a day on demand and a small commercial one at work that cost 220 and makes 500 gallons a day (its about 2sqft in size) filling a large tank. Neither are large nor high in electric usage, the home one has no power, the small commercial has a small booster pump. Its the water usage that is high, to get a gallon of pure ro water is about 1.5 to 2.5 gallons of "waste". You can use that waste for watering the lawn or rinsing things but its extremely mineral heavy. You dont clean them just replace the filters every so often (not nearly needed as often as recommended)

"Let sparkling water stand uncapped overnight to degas before mixing."

This doesnt work. The water will taste nothing like the original desired base water profile. When water is carbonated the ph will drop (from say 7 to 4) and even when decarbed carbonic acid is still present from the process. In order to get the desired flavors just a ro water filter and build it back up to the desired profile.

Insurance is not a fixed cost. Property and auto insurance are, but liability is a percentage of sales, its fixed for a year then adjusted for next years planned sales.

I personally i am in the other camp and think they got the language change absolutley wrong. I already have php installed on my server why do i need to install TypeScript? The easiest website to run is in php. All other languages add a barrier.

I am no longer in software as a day job so i am not sure of my input applys. I traded that world for opening a small brewery back in 2013. So I am a bit outdated on many modern trends but I still enjoy programming. In the last fee months using both gemeni and now movong over to claude, I have created at least 5 (and growing) small apps that have radically transformed what i am able to do at the business. I totally improved automation of my bookkeeping (~16hrs a month categorizing everything down to 3ish), created an immense amount of better reports on production, sales and predictions from a system i had already been slowly writing all these years, I created a run club rewards tracking app instead of relying on our paper method, improved upon a previously written full tv menu display system that syncs with our website and on premis tvs and now i am working on a full productive maintenance trigger system and a personal phone app to trigger each of these more easily. Its been a game changer for me. I have so many more ideas planned and each one frees up more of my waste time to create more.

A lot of those pros apply to c# as well. Which claude and gemeni both do very well with.

"Right now if you have a full screen app on your main screen you can't even see what time it is."

This drives me crazy. I'm in a flow, distraction free via the full screen and break it to see what date or time it is. Even on a multi monitor setup. Which usually ends up meaning I get pulled out of that flow because I see a new notification on some other app or because I grabbed my phone to check that info.

*for now

"iPhone Air will be available in four gorgeous finishes"

Didn't the hype train around the word "gorgeous" for software run its course? To me its an immediate turn.

There is always an outlier, but Quickbooks is currently on minor version 75.

I'm sitting here in Texas paying apg&e an average rate last month of .141. And I thought that was high because a while back it was .11. And its probably mostly all renewable energy since we have windmills as far as the eye can see all around us and wind that never seems to stop.

You can run .net without azure very easily. I personally have 4x web apps written in .net 8, razor. They used to be on a aws windows instance years ago but it was overly expensive for what I needed. Then I switched them to a small digital ocean server running ubuntu. When I started these apps I wrote them on windows 7 for windows server. I switched the server probably 2 years ago. I recently made the switch off of windows to ubuntu as my daily driver, instead of going to 11. Everything still works great. I do miss visual studio, but I am getting used to linux and its tools now. Point is, server is running and there is zero azure involved.

I just made the switch to ubuntu as my main os from windows. Firefox on windows never seemed to have any problems. Now I keep getting the same problem as your computer a. It doesnt happen every time, and i havent figured out the pattern. But clicking the x to close a tab does nothing, middle clicking the tab still closes it. Any time this problem starts I also have issues using the mouse middle button to scroll (on all apps, not just ff) Very, very annoying. Since these issues seem linked it seems bigger than just ff.

Use the ones with ht stamped on them. They are very common now. They are heat treated instead of extra chems.

If the network comes back up within 24hrs.

You don't have to ferment it to get a rich flavor. You just have to use fresh ginger instead of dried or powdered. We make it with Fresh Ginger, Lemon juice, orange juice, cane sugar and molasses. Then force carb.

100% this. Sometimes it's audio books, sometimes it's long form podcasts. But usually I "find" about 20hrs a week for this and its been a great way to learn.

Seems odd to be one of the most blocked with zero posts

I also thought this was an odd statement to see. Electric cars really haven't been around long enough to give that kind of respect to time. A few brands have but the newer models are totally different beasts.

Vs ice which easily last long, long past 200k. I'm at 240k right now and it still performs perfectly.

As a side note on the newer ice vehicles I don't see how those terrible tablets that control everything will last long enough for the other mechanical problems in the cars to show up.

"where I live the actual plumbers get licensed, not the plumbing company."

Which then leads to plumbing shops were the licensed plumber doesn't even work there and just rents out the license to the business so it can operate. Plumbing certs are a complete pyramid scheme.

Looking at TTB's mandatory items on labeling [1] there is nothing about any dates. Some states have different requirements, and I don't know California's, but many states do not require any kind of date coding.

[1] https://www.ttb.gov/regulated-commodities/beverage-alcohol/b...

undesirable yes, but it wont be life threatening.

Also as you probably already know brett, lacto and pedio are desirable sometimes.

The amount of hops in the beers from that story were about as bitter as a common blonde ale.

The modern IPA is nothing like that anymore. Also its the aroma compounds of hops that breaks down so fast, not the bittering aspects.This is why you can store a Russian imperial stout (high hop bitterness, low hop aroma, very high abv) but not normally a double/triple IPA (high hop bitterness, high hop aroma, high abv) and defiantly not age a normal IPA or session IPA (high hop aroma, low abv).

*Some overly malty double and triple IPAs will age into a nice barley wine if given enough time.

"Craft beer in a can will not age gracefully. Even in a bottle, while it will probably be fine, how much light exposure are the bottle getting, have they been left out in the sun at any point etc."

A modern beer can, on a newer canning line, is superior to a bottle in every single way. This debate about bottles being better than cans is from years ago. Cans and especially the canning machines have come a very long way in the last 15 years. That is one of the many reasons why almost every brewery is slowly switching to cans.

In regard to aging beers, there are a many important factors. The biggest enemy in aging a beer is oxygen. Oxygen gives beer a cardboard, paper flavor or a very raisin-y flavor, eventually it makes the entire beer taste like soy sauce.

As you mentioned zero light in a can so no skunking, although brown bottles stored in a dark cool place don't experience much of this. But clear, green and other bottles do. Bottle caps slowly leak oxygen in over a very long time and is why you might see a oxygen absorbing material in the under side of some bottle caps.

On the flip side one majorly common way a can will go bad in aging is from a seal alignment issue. This is especially common in smaller breweries as automated seam inspectors are quite expensive. The seal will visually look great. But if you tear it apart and measure the folds its quite common for them to be a little bit off, which can slowly leak out carbonation and in oxygen.

I'm a huge fan of packaged on dates for beer.

All the grocery stores in my area will full refund the purchase if it goes bad before the best by date. By returning it to the store you purchased it from, it gets marked as a defective return. When that rate hits a certain percentage they will stop carrying the product.

I don't have experience with a gas station so mine could be very different. I'm at 1-3 daily employees.

For me it's:

- counting the till pre and post : It takes about 3-5 minutes a till. (money counters are awesome, and I setup all pricing increments to avoid anything below a quarter, which wouldn't be practical for an average gas station. But it could be done down to the nickle or dime) I don't count before and after, just after. The before till should already be done from counting the after and using for a shift the next day.

- validating voids and receipts : it's mostly fully automated via the POS. Maybe 10 mins when something odd happens but it's not common.

- checks and cashier's checks : we get almost zero of these.

- bagging and dropping cash : labeled bags and a drop safe, I don't count until at least the next day, all in one quick go. All the time is in the counting part.

- cash slippage - ours has usually been fairly close. Some times a bit over sometimes a bit under. If its a few dollars off every now and then I don't worry about it. If its consistently off, either way, it signals a problem, usually in training. But every now and then its nefarious and corrected.

So weekly time breakdown is probably:

- counting daily tills : 30-45 mins

- making the change request, deposit and going to the bank, Ill just say 1 hr as the bank is about 10 mins away. I also usually do this when already out for another reason and I usually go only once per week as cash is so low post covid. I used to go 2-3 times a week pre covid. But if we have a large cash day I will make an extra trip so we are not sitting on as much.

- misc accounting etc. : our QuickBooks auto syncs to the POS, with each day's sales recorded and the corresponding expected credit card and and undeposited cash account records created. So when the physical cash deposit is made it with auto match the record already created by the POS and I just click the match button. But other things always can happen in the chain so let's give another 10 min buffer here.

So I'm out 1.75-2ish hrs/week, which actually feels like more than I spend on it. So for quick math for each 10k sold per week at a 2.5% cc rate (ours is higher around 2.8ish). That's $250 in credit card fees. That's About $125/hr to handle the cash vs take the card. Looking up the average gas station sales of about 109k/month that is around $2,725 in fees. So even quadrupling the time I spend that would yield a savings rate of $340/hr spent handling the cash. Seems worth it.

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