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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good cast iron is the true BIFL... It'll last your life, then your kid's, then their kid's, then theirs and so on... It needs to be seriously mistreated and neglected for a very long time until it becomes unusable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree, I have a Whirlpool version and it's still a tank. I think some of the criticism comes from the fact that the newer mixers use a plastic sacrificial gear, which is designed to fail before the motor. Other than that, they are virtually identical to the Hobart version (you can buy parts from KitchenAid/Whirlpool to repair/restore a Hobart mixer)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If not? Trebuchet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Where do you live? Anywhere that has winter you will be certainly replacing a radiator long before that. I have not owned a vehicle that has made it past 250,000km without needing a new radiator and at least some exhaust work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Or when the overhead of the debugger causes the issue to never happen

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

He did say he wanted to sleep with his daughter......

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, women tend to enjoy their time with a dildo

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Your average Microsoft error “error 37253” is worthless to me

This is a security thing. A descriptive error message is useful for troubleshooting, but an error message that is useful enough can also give away information about architecture (especially if the application uses remote resources). Instead, provide an error code and have the user contact support to look up what the error means, and support can walk the user through troubleshooting without revealing architecture info.

Another reason can be i18n/l10n: Instead of keeping translations for thousands of error messages, you just need to translate "An Error Has Occurred: {errnum}"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

between $30-50 USD for 5 gallons of beer

See if there's a homebrew club in your area that runs bulk buys, you can drop your per-batch price by a fair amount with buying ingredients in bulk. Un-milled grains last a long time if stored properly, hops can be stored in the freezer and I've used them up to a year after opening without a significant drop in quality. Same goes for yeast if you get dry. I have a 500g bag of US-04 that is over a year old and still ferments just fine, I transferred it to a mason jar and keep it in the coldest part of my fridge. I was able to drop my per-batch cost to around $20 CAD or less for most beers that I brew, and having the ingredients on-hand means I can brew whenever I feel like it.