Okay, my buddy is gonna take foil tomorrow and run it over the profilometer (?) tomorrow and see. I’ll report back with more numbers and less hand waving when I have it

It was a fair few years ago, but yeah, the oxidation on it will be so much smoother than the delta in surface roughness that I doubt it’d make much difference. Lemme reach out to a metallurgist from there and see what he thinks!

Correct. Just a manufacturing decision. It looks a lot more different than it actually is.

uses common expression

“Whatever that means!”

Yup, the lab could tell a difference! Shiney side (so mill roller facing, as opposed to the dull side which faces the other layer of aluminum) was marginally more reflective, but I believe (and a former coworker also remembered it as) it was less than a tenth of a percent (<0.1% for the visual folks)

Anyone who says it affects cooking time or something is mistaken, I’d wager.

Former process engineer in an aluminum factory. Aluminum foil is only shiny on one side and duller on the other for process reasons, not for any “turn this part towards baking, etc” reasons.

It’s just easier to double it on itself and machine it to double thickness than it is to hit single thickness precision, especially given how much more tensile strength it gives it.

Also, our QA lab did all kinds of tests on it to settle arguments. The amount of heat reflected/absorbed between the two sides is trivially small. But if you like one side better you should wrap it that way, for sure!

I don’t think it’s in the app yet. I wish it was!

The sequel to the GBA game on DS was met with mixed reviews, but I enjoyed it enough. I’d give it a whirl sometime!

The weekly is great this week. It’s a unique one

Just played it. It’s indeed short but fun. I enjoyed it enough to wishlist it

Show me the grim dark future of the 41st millennium on the timeline!

I really enjoyed this one. It’s always fun having ING, and W is surprisingly useful

He’s just in cosplay for his favorite restaurant

That was a fun hot ones. Struggled, but sent it anyway. Nothing to promote or sell. Some fun anecdotes. I liked it! Hope more F1 drivers get to go on the show.

I just wanna say that as someone who designs user interfaces for a living, I always do whatever I can to play with UI/UX in my normal life.

At a gas station, playing ads, I always start tapping and holding the little buttons near the screen. Almost always holding 2 across from each other goes into a mode where it shuts up, and continues pumping. Plus it’s like a fun little arms race of a game for me.

Okay, I like physical games and don’t like the whole gamestop meme thing, so I went to Best Buy a few times for games. They didn’t have Pikmin 4 when it came out, and no one there heard of it. I went to Target next door and they had some promo stuff they gave out and the person working the games section was dressed up like Oatchi.

Guess I’ll go to Target for physical releases, not BB.

That is an amazingly bad worst format, I absolutely love it.

I like the idea of running a full tire rainbow (at least the 3, maybe C2-C5 instead) in a race. Lots of pits, lots of out and in laps. You can decide how hard you want to push cold and new tires, with some steady laps between

Russell missed out by a millisecond, wild. Great qualifying session, dang

Yup! That’s what I was thinking of. I’m almost certainly wrong but I was under the impression that they couldn’t prove it because they didn’t have a like for like DRS actuator mount, but that could’ve been the potential way out of the DQ if they had

Like I said, probably wrong and misremembering

Wow, Charles has only converted 4 poles? That’s surprisingly low to me. The car has been faster in quali than race for years and he’s a great qualifier, but still