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Currently undergoing a kitchen refurb, and the cost of the fit out is making me think of economy.

I currently use a Challenger bread pan (lucky me!).

The whole sealed Dutch oven thing was a bit of an eye opener when I returned to baking last year. Many years ago I managed decent results with a baking stone, spray bottles, and a lot of faff. Faff no longer, thank you Challenger.

But the preheat time is an hour, which given the global energy sitch seems like something to reduce, and the couple of occasions when I've tried to cut this down results appear to have suffered.

So thinking about returning to ceramic with a thin Brod & Taylor lid. I reckon this would cut the preheat time by half?

So my daughter arrived home with a question to answer:

Tom thinks of an even number that is in the 9 times table and is less than 100. His number is 2 more than a number in the 7 times table. What number is tom thinking of?

While the question is elementary it made me think of finding the intersection between two linear equations; though a quick noodle around with Desmos failed to produced anything meaningful.

Am I barking up the wrong tree?

Cheers,

Hi,

I'm extremely close to having this down. I can manipulate the algebra until the cows come home, add equations and find intersections, but there is a key visual insight that still isn't clear to me.

It's best described by the following Math Exchange post:

Does adding two linear equations will result in a line which will pass through an intersection of the linear equations?

Hi,

I was recently shown a free online book, the gist of which I think was a mathematician explaining how their time is spent.

The intro was broadly along the lines of: "I often try to explain what I do to dinner guests in forty minutes, here is an attempt to explain in forty hours".

That's quite vague, sorry. The only other possible lead that I can recall is that the design of the site featured a yellow-ish colour.

Does it ring any bells?

I've had a fair dig around now and the search has produced no lead at all. I'm starting to wonder how valid is my memory of the reading material.

Thanks in advance,

Hi,

I'm struggling slightly with the simplification of surds that boil down to an absolute value.

One example that I've encountered is as follows:

^(4)√(x^(12)) = |x^(3)|

I understand that the multiplication of two negatives will be positive, and therefore the that repeateded multiplication of initially negative values will continually flip the sign of those values, but I'm unable to go from this simple understanding to stepping through the above expression in order to arrive at the correct result.

I've watched numerous videos in order to try and better visualise exactly what's going on, but none so far have walked through journey in sufficiently simple a manner.

I'm an old dog, trying

Hello /learnmath!

So non-monic quadratics. The method I'm working with involves first multiplying the quadratic coefficient by the constant term. I can apply the method and obtain the correct result, but why the multiplication? What exactly am I leaning on?

Thanks so much in advance. It's a simple question, but it's one that's not yet straight to me.

Edit...

u/simmonator's working through ax2 + bx + c = (dx + e)(fx + g) was hugely clarifying, as was this video. Onto the next!

Hi folks,

The problem for me has thankfully been resolved (...albeit with a swap to an AIO :/), but while figuring things out I found information a little patchy. So for the sake of documenting something that I've a hunch others have encountered...

I thought I'd try the monster BeQuiet! cooler in a recent box, but I wasn't able to fit the 135mm fan that fits through the middle of the heatsink. The supplied clips (four in total, all the same length) were too long.

After a few rounds of "It's gotta be me", I got in contact with BeQuiet support who suggested that the wrong bits were in the box.

"Typically, you would need 2 pairs of short clamps and 1 pair of long clamps included." was the o

Okeydoke,

I work for the small video production arm of a larger organisation.

We are a mix of Macs and PCs, we're growing, we're messy, and we're about to upgrade our network infrastructure (only my team, not the wider organisation).

I've been discussing some typical workload scenarios with our IT contractors, and based on this we've created a solution based around a Synology RS3617xs. The proposed solution looks as though it will perform all the tasks required of it, and give us the performance we need (including two workstations editing 4K directly from the NAS over 10GbE). Great.

However, I'm aware of video specific networking products from companies like Quantum, companies with "entr

Hullo San Fransiscans,

I work for a small UK VFX shop, and I've just started a new project that features a couple of stock footage clips.

It would be extremely helpful to know where these clips were shot. One shot, based in NYC, some luffly fellow Redditors helped me pin point on Google maps, here is the second:

https://www.filmsupply.com/clips/woman-commuting-to-work-in-san-francisco/100966

Could anyone offer a Google Maps pin?

Cheers!

Greetings from across the pond!

I work for a small VFX shop in the UK, and we may soon be about to embark upon a project that includes a couple of stock shots of NYC.

It would help me tremendously to know exactly where these scenes were shot. To me, the location is somewhat obscure, but I'm hopeful that folk with local knowledge would hit the spot pretty quickly.

Here is one of the shots: https://www.filmsupply.com/clips/new-york-city/45592

As a starter for ten, the clips come tagged with "Williamsburg", which might help narrow the search.

More clips can be found on the above page, which should help, but to be clear it's the specific rooftop that I'm after.

A link to Google Maps would

Hi,

I've just inherited the hosting of a WP project, the core of which are some 10,000 users.

Now, I'm not much of a sysadmin. I just run a bunch of modest cloud-based Linux boxes for a number of projects as the resident "You know about computers!" at my place of employment. Most projects are straightforward, so I leverage a bit of caching (typically Varnish) and I have enough of a grasp of the fundamentals of hosting content-driven WP sites to avoid a few common pitfalls.

But this project? It's got me somewhat stumped. Caching doesn't appear practical, and in general most strategies appear to centre around serving rarely-changing content that is common to all visitors.

I'm aware of the

I discovered climbing around nine years ago.

I found it incredibly addictive, to the point where I climbed myself into a wrist injury after about 10 months.

Most of the symptoms I had were inline with carpal tunnel; though a few particular snags were never clearly explained.

So I plugged away with my GP, obtained a referral, and had a CTR... that didn't appear to do anything. The symptoms disappeared over time (just as they had done during periods of rest from before the operation), but any attempt to climb again brought back the symptoms. One final chat with my GP, a "probably permanent nerve damage", and that was that. The whole experience was put in a box and stuck on a shelf.

Then a