Don't think I'd want to take that risk regularly, although I did try raw milk a few years back and definitely preferred the taste to my standard supermarket brand milk at the time.
After a bit of experimentation I noticed that I dislike some kind of flavor that is present in the homogenized milks I tasted but not the unhomogenized milk from my local farmers's market. Luckily, pasteurization does not worsen the taste profile for me, so now I get the best of both worlds at a slightly higher cost.
A todo app for recurring personal projects. I found that breaking projects down into simple tasks really helps with my procrastination, but existing apps don't make that process too easy and quickly get cluttered.
My prototype lets me create project templates (that can contain other projects) and I can instantiate an arbitrary amount of them. Triggers can be a time ("every quarter") or some logical threshold (e.g. failing three workouts puts a "review fitness plan" action on my schedule).
It's my first real coding project and almost certainly too big, but it's been very fun to use so far and I already have ~50% of my ADHD social circle interested in the alpha.
This sounds like it would be useful to me at work. The types of projects I have to manage are often dependent on other tasks and shifting timelines, so a lot of the existing project management software I have tried feels "close but not quite."
Will you be releasing this for public consumption?
I hope to and I'll probably ask on HN for volunteers once I have a stable-ish alpha ready. Might take a while, though; grad school owns my life for now.
I'm a bit doubtful that it'll handle professional-scale project mgmt from the go - the early vision is to help other ADHD folks like me build tiered todo lists - but it'd certainly be a nice target to aim for.
If you'd like to field a few questions or get an early invite, feel free to ping me at gnfxf@rap0.pbz (rot13).
The UI feels unpolished (why can't I select multiple patterns in one movement? Why is the bomb/free selection so small?) but the game loop itself is quite satisfying. I remember playing Minesweeper as a child, explaining the deductions I made to imaginary friends, and having to think through why a certain rule works the way it does scratches the same itch.
The only thing that worked for me (also ADHD) is to have fixed study sessions, typically in the morning ("Kanji before breakfast") or during my train commute.
Beyond that, I wouldn't worry about backlog too much. I use a custom deck that gives me my maximally doable number of cards per day and completely ignore the rest. It's not like the actual repetition frequency is critical - many people change those settings quite drastically and still manage to memorize their cards fine.
It's a nice story but imo would be better without the forced lesson at the end. As most here have pointed out, it's just survivorship bias with some poetic phrasing.
As for taking risks: I don't think I'd lose single utilon if I never hear another affluent ex-entrepreneur talk about the importance of taking risks. I've been broke before, I've nearly missed rent on several occasions, and none of those times had me working at my baseline competence, let alone at my peak. If those people do better at those circumstances, they must have some quirk that I'm missing.
In practice I perform at my best when I'm emotionally invested but don't really care about the outcome. My two successful businesses were both side gigs I started for fun that scaled well when I noticed that I had greatly underestimated demand. I didn't risk anything for either of those beyond maybe a hundred hours of initial setting up time.
Yeah, that's probably what they were going for. These kinds of puzzles are pretty bogus though. You could choose any number of ways to interpret each cell as some logical expression, and then choose from any number of functions that make the truth table valid with any result you want in the blank cell. At that point, you just have to guess which of those functions the test writers thought was the most "natural" or "elegant" or "clever," but there's really no objective sense in which one is more correct than the other (unless you literally define the purpose of the test as measuring the ability of the test taker to predict the intent of the test writer).
To use a simpler example with integer sequences, if the question asked for the next integer in this sequence:
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ?
Most of us probably immediately think "ooh, the test writer is very clever because they know about the Fibonacci sequence, and I'm clever too, so the correct answer is obviously 13. But wait! What if the intended sequence is the number of strict odd-length integer partitions of 2n, and thus the correct answer is 11 [0]? What if the intended sequence is the number of balanced ordered trees with n nodes, and the correct answer is 14 [1]? Heck, what if the intended sequence is Fibonacci(n) mod 10, and the correct answer is 3? There is an infinite set of functions from the integers to the integers which give you the 7 provided results for n=0 through n=6, and you can get any result you want for n=7 by just choosing among those functions. There is absolutely no mathematical or logical way to prefer any one of those functions to any other.
It is like Super Symmetry, you can concoct any number of basis functions to match the desired output, I feel like I have to be extra smart to figure out the one they want.
Yes, I had exactly that thought as I was going through it. I could see many times a pattern, but was it the pattern that they wanted? Pretty small samples to triangulate on.
I'm German and switched to induction from (old) electric after moving to a nicer apartment.
Despite ostensibly knowing about its responsiveness before I still ended up with slightly underdone food for the first week - if you turn off the stove, it will get cold almost immediately, no/little residual heat to make use of.
It also comes with the vaguely flashy feature of letting you run one stove plate with twice the energy by temporarily disabling its neighbor. Since the dial goes up to 9.5 regularly, I call the power boost setting "19" and relish in the knowledge that I'm 8 steps ahead of Spinal Tap.
Now I want a cook top with a burner that goes to 11. My last gas stove had a 'hot' burner. Problem was the scaling doesn't match the other burners.
I have a glass top range now and it sucks. Problem is most of the good induction units in the US are built in cooktops. Good ranges (combined cooktop+oven) are $$$$.
> Problem is most of the good induction units in the US are built in cooktops. Good ranges (combined cooktop+oven) are $$$$.
Build one yourself, that's what I did when I bought my house in the Netherlands somewhere in the 90's. I wanted induction and a hot-air oven but did not want to pay for the privilege. I built a heavy wooden frame sized to fit the oven and the induction cooker, made a drawer for oven utensils in the bottom and a hard-wood ring around the hole for the induction cooker. Wooded sides make of glued floor boards. Once the hardware arrived I could simply drop and slide it in place, wire it up to the connection box I made on the back and plug it in - voila, an induction range with hot-air oven on the somewhat-less-expensive. I sold the house 5 years later and moved to Sweden where I now cook on a wood-burning stove, from the future to the past. I like the past better, it also fits my rather dynamic cooking style - sliding and banging heavy cast-iron pans around is far less precarious on a cast-iron stove.
We are thinking about doing something similar for our kitchen. We currently have a gas range with a over range microwave, but want to replace all that with an induction cook top and a dedicated range hood vented outside (under cabinet or built-in, 700 CFM or so). We lose our microwave and our oven, so we have ti replace those somewhere. I’m liking the microwave oven combos (not the combined microwave convection oven, though that is cool also), which we would have to build a new cabinet for elsewhere, not beneath the cooktop (or maybe a drawer microwave beneath the cook top and the oven…somewhere else?).
I think that's because most homes do not have sufficient electrical power to run everything at once.
For example: 50A for the heat pump, 50A to charge your car, 50A for the range, 30A for the dryer, 30A for the water heater = 210A (all my examples are for 240V) + various lights and other things. Homes in the US are most commonly wired for 100, 150, or 200A.
So they'll run the range at 30A instead, but that means you can't use all the burners at the same time at full power.
If we are actually going to fully electrify the home 200A or more service is going to have to become the starting point. Residential panels > 200A in the US are rare (from what I read most power companies won't even supply such service), and that might need to change.
I know this is the kind of flattering in-group humor aimed at people like me, but I still found it hilarious.
Also, considering that I'm listening to a talk about the computational complexity of economic planning on the side, the "we should recreate the entire financial system from first principles" part felt like a rude yet completely deserved callout.
Fwiw, I don't think economic planning is or was the main problem of socialism, more the information gathering that precedes it or the mechanism design that comes after, but I have a soft spot in my heart for anyone engaging productively with alternatives to capitalism, even if they aren't particularly fleshed out.
I'm pleasantly surprised to see this kind of sentiment at the top. I also like the posts you linked a lot. I used to like these kinds of bitter sysadmin revenge fantasies, but I no longer really get the appeal; they seem to exemplify a kind of "punching down or sideways because you can't punch up" behavior that I see IRL (outside IT) too often to find it funny.
After a bit of experimentation I noticed that I dislike some kind of flavor that is present in the homogenized milks I tasted but not the unhomogenized milk from my local farmers's market. Luckily, pasteurization does not worsen the taste profile for me, so now I get the best of both worlds at a slightly higher cost.