We R/Frugal Week 1: Frugal Food

Haven · 2 days

I'm 6'4" and fairly active, and I can attest that I also wouldn't be able to get by on two slices of meat + a slice of cheese. I usually end up putting at least a 1/4 to 1/3 a pound on my sandwiches, which (if I didn't buy leftover meat) would not be frugal.

Unfortunately, the local grocery store has stopped selling their leftover pre-sliced meat at the end of the day (the just dump all their leftover deli stuff now, probably because of people like me), so once my frozen lunchmeat runs out in a month or two I'll have to come up with a new plan :(

dhotson · 2 days

Really with the advent of box2d, physics in two dimensional games has gone from being one of the most challenging aspects of game development to one of the easiest. Assuming that it is available on your platform of choice, there is no reason not to use a polygon-based physics world and just let box2d do all the heavy lifting.

YdoYOUfeelCONTEMPT · 17 days

Nope. Now I hear you say that you had no trouble running a home business recycling computers, but still claim that you're so sick you can't work. Which isn't true?

YdoYOUfeelCONTEMPT · 18 days

Too much in this guy's story doesn't add up if you go through his comments. He can't have books because they get stolen, but he has a laptop? He lives in Asia, but collects American social security? He's very well spoken and has the wherewithal to connect an IAMA, but has so severe a mental condition that he can't work? Everything he's written sounds like someone who is probably middle class, but has an ax to grind about poverty. I call liar.

rastabean · 19 days

My second brag: I had open heart surgery for a valve replacement last June, and by September I was on roller coasters. I'm now back to being able to do 1-2 hours of cardio even though I'm on a beta blocker.

rastabean · 19 days

I just graduated with my master's in electrical engineering. In addition to designing avionics during my day job, I'm working on an Android game, and it's coming along nicely (it's a more involved/improved version of Super Fill-Up).

geekchic · 23 days

Somehow I feel that in the coming years "China overtakes USA as the largest XYZ market" will be an increasingly common headline.

chilipeppers314 · 23 days

Actually, some things are just very very good at killing, and there aren't really things that are resistant (iodine and rubbing alcohol, for instance). Killing is easy ... it's killing just the bacteria, and not the host that is difficult (which is the unique function of antibiotics). In general, using cleansers that create an inhospitable environment for life and just kill everything in their path will not lead to resistant bacteria.

TL;DR: Lysol is not an antibiotic that can ever be used to kill bacteria in a person, and will not lead to antibiotic resistant bacteria.

EDIT: Spelling

SubCircus · 23 days

Capital One Venture has 2% cash back towards everything, but it can only be used for travel expenses (which sounds like it's not a problem for you). Other than that, Chase Freedom has decent cashback (1% + 5% on rotating categories) and no annual fee, or alternatively Chase Sapphire Preferred has a $4-500 signup bonus and also decent cash back (but has an annual fee).

cromosapien · 23 days

Before everybody gets too excited, just note that the total purchase price (including the live service) is more than the xbox/kinect bundle with two years of live upfront.

CampConcentration · 23 days

The Wikipedia article currently isn't particularly clear on that. Perhaps somebody should update it?

beerok · 23 days

I would recommend Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. Fallout 3 and Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3 are also excellent.

Chancelier · 23 days

This made me think of the onion video on how domestic abuse is no longer a problem (but clumsiness among women is way up).

HectortheRican · 23 days

So I did the obvious thing and poked about on le goog to see if I could find the source of this, and I could not. Do you know where this came from?

tacotrucker · 23 days

Be prepared to dump a ton of time and money into it. Houses are great, and owning one is something to be proud of, but the level of dedication required to maintain them can be a shock if you're coming from an apartment. I'm not just talking about yardwork (and there's a lot of that, even for a basic grass with no flowers yard), but stuff that breaks ... or needs improvement ... or oh no, there's water in the basement. All kinds of stuff can (and will) need fixing. Be prepared (have all the basic tools) and set some cash aside to handle it.

datahappy · 23 days

I hope he studies fast.

cartenui · 23 days

Anyone else assume she was a dude until you saw the attached body?

Pipboy3001 · 23 days

Buy a goat. You'll have well trimmed grass and they'll love the smell.

Isatis_tinctoria · 23 days

I honestly that your best bet is to use multiple sources. I don't know about the rest of you, but whenever I see something in the news about a field that I'm familiar with, I cringe a little because of how much they get wrong. If it's news in a specific industry, profession, or organization try to find new from a source that's specific to what's being reported on. They'll do a much better job. For instance, during the gulf oil spill, a huge volume of what was reported in the mainstream media was misinformed crap, but if you went to oil industry publications (written by people who knew what they were talking about), they had actual solid, correct technical details.

arrowsama · 23 days

Yes. Personally I think it's a brilliant idea.

midnight10 · 23 days

You mean... the insurance company has to pay for all of these broken windows, raises rates on the insured businesses, resulting in job losses due to money that could have been put to more effective uses (say, hiring people to expand the business) being spent on insurance premiums to replace goods (the windows) that already existed before some jackhole smashed them?

NoodleNinja13 · 24 days

My wife. She's fantastic!

SmellsLikeUpfoo · 24 days

That challenge isn't exactly fair - it specifically states that the challenger may not disassemble the drive. To have any hope of recovering a drive that had been overwritten, one would need very specialized equipment (I am not an expert in hard drives, but I am an engineer, so consider this mildly informed speculation):

Presumably, if one were to disassemble the drives and use equipment that could measure not just a 1 or 0, but the actual magnetic field strengths from the platter, it may be possible to recover data from the drive (since the whole drive should be uniform, any variations are probably from past data). Note that were the drive overwritten with random data instead of 0's, I would expect that this approach would not work.

Also, no data recovery company would do this for you at anything approaching a reasonable cost.

louiebaur · 28 days

I found out last year thay (29yo) that my mitral valve was stenosed down to a tiny 0.9 cm^2, and needed immediate replacement. Was a close call in the hospital because I had pneumonia going into the surgery and it went crazy while I was on heart/lung bypass (didn't know it - was a result of fluid backing up into my lungs due to the bad valve). Now I'm on anticoagulants for life and have a mechanical valve that loudly ticks and reminds me how tenuous life is (mech. heart valves are something like a 1% annual mortality risk). It doesn't really bother me, though, I'm just grateful for the extra years I've been given - they're more than what I would have had otherwise. I think it's worse for my wife than it is for me, but she's been one heck of a trooper about it.

preruntumbler · 28 days

Just one more example of an fine, economically priced american-made product (the factory is right down the road from my wife's folks' house). Really, if an American factory can make delicious Jiffy mix so cheaply, why do other thing seem to be out of reach?

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