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From your link, a specific PAH called benzopyrene _may_ cause cancer in low amounts. It's a pretty extraordinary claim to say that we should be concerned about carcinogens from cooking with cast iron, which has been used long before our current high rates of cancer. I could see that being an argument against certain oils, but contrast that with the corresponding increase in cancer rates after the proliferation of teflon and PFAS in cookware/durable goods/clothing/lubcrication.

Did you skip over "In almost all applications of superconductors, they don't use high-temperature ones for one simple reason: Material properties."

They're saying that LHC does not use a ceramic, and therefore high-temperature, superconductor; instead they use metallic (cooled) superconductors because they can be molded.

Four hours of knowledge work a day is a lot?

Maybe I'm uniquely on a path to burnout, but I put in at least 6 hours of what I would call hard knowledge work per day as a SWE. Throw on 1-3 hours of collaboration and an hour of truly useless meetings and I'm at a 45+ hr week.

Factor in commute time, via bike so counts towards exercise minutes, and I'm working 50 hr weeks + 24/7 15 minute SLA on-call once every other month.

It's unfathomable to me that this isn't the average experience, and that anyone would get paid more than $120k doing any less.

I've got a side project still on Svelte 3, I feel this. I got the implementation into a good state a few months ago and haven't needed to touch it, soon it will be two major versions behind. No regrets, no other framework was as easy to work with for a primarily SSR app.

I was feeling this with Quarkus too, but they finally set one of their recent versions as LTS. Setting an LTS and migration guides between LTSs is a practice I'd like to see more in front-end tech.

This reminds me in a way of Java Cards / JCOP. It would be cool to see more people hack around on embedded systems, I'm all for stuff like this lowering the bar for entry. Cool!

> never clean it with soap.

This is a myth. I was struggling with getting a good non-stick-ability on my Lodge, until someone pointed out the 'patina' is really just burnt carbon and does nothing for non-stick. The non-stick seasoning comes from polymerized oils, which aren't affected by lye-free soaps. I haven't had any sticking issues since I've started washing my pan with soap after a messy meal and leaving a microscopic film of Crisco on after drying.

Or stainless steel, or BPA-free plastic, or plant-fiber cellulose plastic, or silicone, or...

How is it crazy? Jetbrains' IDEs provide more than enough value as it is. I don't want to pay for features like their collaborative coding or AI assistant that I won't use.

Would you rather them roll out cost-plus pricing or roll up the cost of new features into higher base prices?

I've only ever had this issue when using third-party syntax or bracket highlighters. Maven indexing, code analysis is blazingly fast.

Avoid resellers / 'cheap' registrars like NameCheap, GoDaddy. DNS propagation, domain 'locking', etc. is so much easier to manage and faster using registrars who care about their business. Hover comes to mind, recently I've transferred everything to CloudFlare.

Sure - the *Client would be a class or library intended for import/use by consumers of a resource exposed by a service. The exposed API should be viewed as usable independently, but it can sometimes be useful to add a layer of abstraction via a Client to would hold any logic required for interacting with a specific API.

Say you have an API that lets you bulk fetch an Item (`getItems(Collection<UUID> itemIds, int pageNumber, int pageSize)`), but the API enforces pagination and also requires authentication. A Client could require instantiation with whatever is required for authentication (`ic = new ItemClient(authToken)`), and provide a method to retrieve a huge list of Items without worrying about pagination (`ic.getItems(itemIds)`).

I assume titanium is better than stainless as far as leaching goes? With a quick search I could find titanium pots (actual titanium, not coated) up to 5L. I have a few on hand for backpacking, but I've never thought of using them for routine cooking... but this thread has got me thinking. I use cast iron for most purposes, but not for sauces or soups.

I can't imagine a stock pot size would be cheap.

Not OP, but I'd imagine the extra handling is the concern here, as far as water bottles go. You do want to refresh water in water jugs routinely as 'preservatives' like chlorine dissipate.

The better wording of 'stop reusing bottled water bottles' to avoid plastics would be 'use glass or metal water bottles'.

Soaps that don't include detergents are safe for cast iron, too. Many people confuse carbon and crud buildup for 'seasoning'. The seasoning you want is a micrometer-scale carbonized oil on the surface of the steel, and possible some excess carbon buildup to fill in any surface pores. A mild soap won't affect this, at all.

You can definitely damage a pan leaving it wet, so of course make sure to heat it up on the stove after washing and drying to cook off any remnants of water. I'll usually put on a very thin layer of Crisco if I've used soap.