The fins in the heat exchanger will get covered in dust and dandruff over time. This provides a reasonable media for the mold to grow on.

I'm currently dealing with multiple customers moving to Ariba. What a pain -- it doesn't work in Safari reliably, finding out where anything is takes several minutes.

I think the future of social actually looks more like Signal and Whatsapp groups (maybe Discord too?) than it does Twitter and Facebook. People seem to appreciate and value private discussion more than they used to.

I certainly spend more time interacting with people in small group chats than I do on Facebook now.

I think the problem is you’re trading one set of untrustworthy actors for another set of lesser known untrustworthy actors.

Yea, but that's not _my_ problem. My problem is "fuck comcast".

As for the public wifi, i get that i can't trust my random Dropbox VM for example, but i can surely trust it more than an actively hostile public wifi, no? If i can't trust any remote computing VM, how can i host anything on infra i don't own?

Of course, I fully expect someone commenting on HN to understand the issues and to have made the trade off.

It took a lot of explaining to my parents why a VPN didn’t add any meaningful security for them.

Very good point. They also sell it as if _just_ using a VPN equals security. I can't count the number of ads i've seen that over sell that :/

I find that you generally get a better shave with a safety razor as well. The multi-blade razors which are commonly sold today get clogged up with beard hair and scratch my face.

I purchased my razor about 15yr ago now, and am still working through the first $25 worth of razor blades.

I've repaired multiple gas stoves for people. The SiC element which heats up to ignite the gas fails over time. My neighbors were just replacing their stove every time this happened until I showed them how to do it.

I do about an appliance repair per year for me, one of our parents, or a close friend. It’s shocking to me how ready someone is to buy a $900 washer instead of replacing < $50 of wear parts. (Many times it seems they never even ask themselves “could this be fixed?” In the most recent case, the lint trap and duct needed a good cleaning, no parts.)

Could I ask for some more info, I think I might be having the same issue?

In my case, it manifested as an over which would take forever to come to temperature. The gas valve won’t turn on until the hot surface igniter allows a certain amount of current through.

It’s about a one hour repair on most ovens if you haven’t done it before. A ten minute job if you have.

Thank you

Google your oven model and “hot surface igniter”. (I haven’t seen any on stove/cooktops, but usually on ovens. Stovetops seem to mostly use spark ignition.)

Thank you

One nit to pick. In my experience (NYC and Boston areas), libraries almost only buy their books new and specifically request for people to not donate their used books to them.

Other libraries I've been in have used book sales with donated books to raise funds for the library.

The Monica /Chandler thing is a reference to the 90s television show “Friends”.

Correct.

Why do you think this is relevant to the topic of whether it's okay to use the name "Chandler" after having already been used for another personal information management tool?

That chapter always gets me, whether I read it or listen to it in an audiobook.

The rash of poisonings makes it sound like avoiding toxic species isn’t that trivial.

It is trivial though. Nearly every mushroom death in the US has come from one of two species, and they can be accurately described in minutes.

Nearly all of the deaths come from people who don't know this tiny baseline of information.

I would caution anyone who doesn't know what a death cap or a destroying angel is to avoid wild foraging.

It is trivial, but people who don't even have a trivial level of knowledge of things get themselves in trouble in many domains all the time.