Are there nonabrasive dishwasher detergents?

Some types of antidepressants have a very common side effect where they massively reduce (sometimes to the point of completely eliminating) your sex drive. It’s a really shitty tradeoff.

Generally the reason not to put knives in the dishwasher is because the mild abrasives used in some detergents, and more importantly the agitation which bonks them around, can dull the edge (and damage the coating on the racks that prevents your dishwasher from rusting, if you have one that isn’t full plastic) (also not promptly drying the knife will lead to rusting if you have carbon steel instead of cres knives).

I still see that pretty frequently, but I think part of the reduction in frequency is that the community of transcribers has dwindled.

I mean… Zero?

But fuck that would be pretty sweet.

Yeah, no idea why Active is still the default.

I hate to point this out, but it’s 2026.

Everything else is great though.

That would make sense, yeah

Same

Huh, ublock is working great for me on seriouseats. I wonder what the difference is

familiar with the concepts here, I just I don’t understand how refractive patterns can be formed in this material with the mechanism they’re describing - its easy to etch them in, but it seems like it would lack the definition needed if it’s fluid swelling forming them via the etched patterns. I haven’t had a chance to give the paper a proper read though.

To create dynamic textures in a flexible material, the researchers combined a patterning technique called electron-beam lithography, which is typically used in advanced semiconductor manufacturing, with a polymer film that swells as it absorbs water. By firing a beam of electrons at the film, they were able to adjust how much certain areas of the material would swell, creating detailed patterns that only revealed themselves when the film was wet.

To my reading it sounds like the color change is brought about by introducing raised microstructures on the material? Which… I’m not quire sure I understand how that can work, but that’s fascinating if I’m understanding it correctly. I would have expected the shapes to be too indistinct to be useful in producing that effect.

This was at CES, it’s basically one massive advertisement for trendy bs. Most of the american firms represented were there for AI and wearable tech, since the push for consumer robotics is mostly a dying fad in the US and AI is the hot new thing.

Oh, yeah. “American Cheese” (and other processed cheese) does technically have to be made from primarily cheese, which is a concerningly low bar for “cheese based consumable products” to fail to meet.

Not sure I understand, I’m sorry.

It super does though the specific characteristics vary depending on where it was extracted (iirc crude from the canadian oil sands is borderline explosive)

Yeah, there’s tons of plans out there for DIY helicopters you can get from the hobby aviation community. Usually the sticking point is making the rotor blades themselves, but I’ve seen some people get off the ground with carbon-fibre laminate blades. Not sure I’d trust them personally but it does work.

Oh, I love how rabbit-holey metallurgy can get. One of my favorite topics is the processes used to cool hardened gears that have to be ground. Keeping the temperatures below a certain point so that they don’t lose the temper is surprisingly difficult even with external flood cooling (or working fully submerged), so you wind up with insane looking profile cutters that have cooling lines built into them directly.

Also the techiques to monitor the diameter of abrasive grinding tools get wild, like monitoring the capillary pressure of the coolant spray and similarly insane feats of precision.

Industrial high precision lost-wax usually has a mold made from many layers, often either done in traditional monlith casting frames (big slabs of cement or plaster or casting sand or etc) or formed by dipping the parts into various cement slurries (a bit like a candle. The first few layers are generally a low-additive “print coat” made from ceramics akin to porcelain (that won’t react with the material being cast), and then for strength they’re bulked up with thick layers of stuff that usually has been bulked up with sand and recycled shells of precious castings that have been crushed down.)

It’s a fascinating process.

Oh lol, mixed up you and bizarroland.