Actually, that makes a lot of sense…
Given that Trump is the best president ever (I’m sure I have heard people say so), then anyone who opposes him is, ipso facto, an enemy of the state and should be treated as such.
The more I think about it, the more obvious it is. I mean, why even have another election?
Pulsing the power every 3 to 5 seconds would be fantastic! One pulse every 30 seconds is not good. But I haven’t yet found a manual or sales person that can tell me the period of the pulse width modulation for any brand/model. Not that I have tried very hard.
Maybe I should try KitchenAid. What you describe sounds wonderful.
That was exactly the problem with simmering anything.
Also, only 9 power levels wasn’t enough. It was very powerful (nice when I wanted full power) but the steps in power were too big. For many things the only options were too hot or too cold.
But the fault that made me replace it was an intermittent one: occasionally (about five times in 18 months) it went to full power. This could happen at any power setting. No change in the indicated setting, but the power would come on continuously. Anything other than a pot of water would, in just a few seconds, be burning. Very dangerous! Fortunately, it never happened when I wasn’t standing right there to turn the power off at the wall switch. Being intermittent, technicians couldn’t find/fix the fault. It also occasionally stopped heating for a minute or so at a time, as if there was some thermal lockout even when nothing was unusually hot, but at least that wasn’t dangerous.
It was Haier. And I see they are no longer the biggest by revenue, but still #3
The problem with simmering is that the cooktop was very powerful (nice when you want to heat something quickly) but it only had two modes: one or off. The power was regulated by turning it on briefly, once every 30 seconds. Even at the lowest possible setting (there were 9 power levels), a pot of water would boil each time the power came on for about 3 seconds. Then it would cool for 27 seconds. Even a pot with a thick base, designed for induction cooktops, and heavy cast-iron pans had this problem.
It would be easy to turn the power on and off more frequently than once every 30 seconds. It wouldn’t be much more difficult to have a mode that delivered less than full power.
A thick iron plate under the pot smoothed the power delivery to the pot, but then it’s not really induction heating of the pot: just a hot plate.
Pancakes, steaks and simmering anything were my biggest frustrations.
It’s good to know there are some decent productions. That’s what I was expecting. I understand the technology. I know what is possible. It was very frustrating and disappointing. The largest appliance manufacturer in the world is selling poorly designed rubbish. The documentation doesn’t describe essential parameters. If only there were a practical way to distinguish the good from the bad before buying… try before you buy is my advice.
I had a terrible experience with one just last year. Had to replace it. Went back to an electric cooktop with simmerstats just last month. We’re much happier now. Can cook again without all the burning and boiling over.
I know an induction cooktop could be much better but the one we had couldn’t simmer anything: it could only intermittently overheat it. And occasionally it would switch to either full power (very dangerous - it was very powerful) or no power (absolutely ruins a steak when you’re trying to sear it). Technicians came multiple times and concluded ‘there’s nothing wrong’. Fortunately, after almost two years, they agreed to an ‘upgrade’.
I expect commercial induction cooktops are much better than consumer grade but they’re too expensive.
I wouldn’t buy another that I hadn’t tried first. I know one place that has a showroom with everything powered. Not that they would let me actually try cooking anything, but at least one can put a pot of water on and try out the controls.
I haven’t used 13/trixie but with 12/bookworm I use jmtpfs but it’s also available for trixie.
Thanks. I see that is in the linked article. My mistake was to read the article linked in the first paragraph: with the link text ‘restricted the approval’, thinking that was the details of the restriction.
According to the linked in the article, the restriction is a requirement to revise the warnings
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has expanded existing warnings on the two leading COVID-19 vaccines about a rare heart side effect mainly seen in young men.
In April, the FDA sent letters to both drugmakers asking them to update and expand the warnings to add more detail about the problem and to cover a larger group of patients.
I don’t see any indication that the vaccines are not approved other than that the accompanying documentation must be changed. The companies have now had several months to make the required changes.
The linked article suggests that the conduct of the FDA and resulting requirement to change the documentation was inappropriate. But there is no restriction other than the requirement to update the documentation. Or am I missing something in the article?
The headline says she won but the article says:
The bombshell allegation raises a serious question: Did Kamala Harris actually win the 2024 election?
Could Kamala Harris have actually won the election?
Compared with the body of the article, the headline is overstated. There are allegations of suspicious results and a court case going ahead to investigate, but that case is not yet decided.
“Kamala Harris may have won.”
Portions of this article were drafted and/or revised in collaboration with ChatGPT (GPT-4o, Sept. 2024), Anthropic’s LLM Claude (Sonnet, Sept. 2024).
LLM’s are tools one can use, not sentient entities with agency and responsibility that one can collaborate with. One might collaborate with the companies that develop and operate them, but not with the tools yourself. No more than carpenters can ‘collaborate’ with their hammers and nails.
Tragedy of the commons all over again.
Examples is probably the most practical way to clarify. A few to start and add them as issues arise.
All seems reasonable to me.
The only point I might quibble with is “Support for regimes or ideologies that suppress basic human rights.”, as pretty much all regimes and many ideologies suppress basic human rights to some extent. It is good that the suppression of basic human rights itself is called out and condemned and not supported but it would be reasonable to support the good things that regimes do in countries like China, USA, Russia and many, maybe all others, support the good aspects of capitalism, socialism, religions, etc. Perhaps you had in mind more extreme regimes and ideologies. Drawing lines is always challenging. No clearer alternative comes to mind immediately. I would be most supportive of prohibiting support for regimes and ideologies where the suppression of basic human rights is a predominant or at least very significant aspect of what they do or promote. But I can’t think how to express that clearly in a few words. It wouldn’t put my off as-is as, ultimately, moderation is at the discretion of the admins anyway.
Really? You haven’t read about the tarrifs yet?
Proper procedure is to send anyone with a tattoo to El Salvador, if I understand correctly. “In a heartbeat”, I think was the essence of due process. It was looked into by Trump and his team and they went ahead with it, so it must be legal. Anyone who doesn’t want to be oppressed in the US can just get a tattoo. It seems to work.
Maybe other countries should have “reciprocal” detention and deportation of U.S. citizens, until Trump comes begging for a mutual travel agreement.
Long term? Education: a broadly based, liberal education that makes the shared values understood and appreciated by most people, on the basis of good evidence, morality and reason. Without this, if everyone is taught and believes different, conflicting ideas, then there are no shared values to defend. Many organizations are involved but most significant are families, schools, colleges, universities, religious organizations and the media.
Short term? Justice, law and order that balances personal and collective interests. Without this, people will live in fear and desperation with immediate survival concerns being a priority over getting or giving a good education or making any personal sacrifice for the benefit of society. Also, sufficient resources for everyone so that no one is living in desperation and insecurity. This requires, among other things, preventing extremes of inequality of wealth and power. Not the elimination of inequality, but limiting and moderating it so that tyranny and jealous desperation are avoided. Again there are many organizations involved but most significant are the legislatures, courts, police and military.
Transparency and oversight are required for all these organizations, to ensure they are doing what they should, and freedom of thought and communication so that their behaviour, virtues and faults can be discovered, communicated, discussed and controlled. Whistleblowers and protections for them, and the media.
On Debian 12 and 13 with xfce, I am using ibus and Intelligent Pinyin (ibus-libpinyin) for Chinese and English. In the past I have used fcitx5 and various other IMEs. Once they’re configured there isn’t much difference between ibus and fcitx5, for my simple use. My Chinese is rudimentary but my Chinese wife is happy with the configuration. I switch input methods with a configurable keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Space is my preference) or menu on the ibus item in the Status Tray Plugin of the xfce panel. Changing is easy.
I have task-chinese-s-desktop and task-chinese-t-desktop installed. These bring in fcitx5 and various fonts, which suggests that whoever created these tasks think fcitx5 is better than ibus. And I installed ibus-libpinyin, which brings in ibus. I don’t recall why now - it was long ago. So I have ibus and fcitx5 installed but have been using only ibus for the past few years. It works well enough that I haven’t revisited it. If I were installing again now, I might choose fcitx5 instead of ibus.
I see there are also task-japanese-desktop and task-korean-desktop, which you might find helpful.