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For example - my wife likes "shorts" to be in one drawer and "t-shirts" in another. I like for one drawer to be "workout clothes" and have the mix of gym shorts and t-shirts. To me this feels "obviously" right because the use-case requires both items so why pay for two costly "open drawer" IOs?
Similarly, she is very organized with her paper files, I just throw mine into a box. In the rare event I need something (eg when doing taxes) I don't mind scanning through the whole mess. Seems like a better strategy than making each "write" costly (neatly organizing) since writes are frequent and reads are rare.
Anyone else like that?
However, sorting according to use case is more involved. For each piece of clothing in the clothes pile, the clothes organizer must think of how this particular piece of cloth is used. Is this just an old t-shirt? Or is this particular old t-shirt out of favor with my husband and so he uses it for his workout? Or should it go in the pyjama t-shirts pile?
So writes seem to be much more costly (cognitively) when organizing clothes according to usage rather than type (if these clothes are not your own in which case determining their usage does seem trivial), and your wife may be optimizing for it (again, see initial assumption)
Think about the cognitive load of your spouse when you decide how a system should work.
Clothes I can use in multiple situations (like a pair of jeans or normal t-shirts) are grouped together but I also use "use-case-drawers" (like sports or outside work clothes).
My girlfriend (no tech background) uses a more seperated system (work t-shirts are not sorted to work pants) but still seperated by use-case (normal pants /= work pants).
I guess it's up to everyones own preferences then..
This is why I have given up trying to organise my downloaded papers and books by subject. It's faster to search through them when I have a term in mind.
Other t-shirts hung in wardrobe and a separate drawer for other shorts.
Paper files: chucked into a tray haphazardly after being attended to. Sorted into filling cabinet once tray is full (which it is now and arguably has been for a month or two).
Same with your clothes, designed for laundry. (defined by laundry?) easier to have bins for socks, and underwear and pants and shirts. they wash in one batch. Easier to load the socks drawer all at once.
But not as easy to find everything when you're getting dressed.
That said, I have two kinds of toolsets.
generic - all the tools in one chest - drawer for pliers, anothers for screwdrivers, ratchets, sockets, etc
project-specific - near my computer I have phillips 2,1,0,00,000 and a keypuller and a paperclip.
row order vs column order I guess. array of structures, structure of arrays.
Different people have different minds. I group by function and efficiency of use - she by colour or shape, as she doesn’t know what half the tools are. My organisation looks chaotic but I know exactly where everything is, and I know that the tools I’ll need for a given task will all be in the same box.
Now, I have to haul everything out, rummage, have an argument, get called an idiot. So much better.
A crap bowl would be illegal here. Everything must go back in its place, no matter how inconvenient that place is.
Here's how I manage it. One important thing is to label anything that's messy and needs to remain that way "a work in progress.". It indicates to the wife that (a) you care about neatness and (b) there's an end in sight.
The other thing is to claim areas. Sounds like tools are your domain - have you discussed that maybe you should just be in charge of that one small part of your life? :)
At least you can find the nut drivers. ;)
That way is not mine however. I've been known to have something much like Shitbowl as a system, except I called it my "sedimentary filing system." It has layers, like a parfait, and very much an LRU cache.
She likes things to be away, which to me, is not always having them usable. Sometimes, things that are stashed out of sight are less than accessible when I decide I want them.
Different strokes I guess. After nigh on thirty years, I'm somewhat tidier, while she has become more tolerant of a bit of disorder.
Workout clothes make sense, these are things that get sweaty and I don't want to sort through all my t-shirts and underwear to find a wicking ones. And fancy clothes (wedding/funeral) go together so I can just open the closet bag and have my suit, shirt, tie, and dress socks all there - one "go bag" for each suit color (black, blue, grey) with shoes below.
However, everything else is interchangeable throughout the year.
For paper, there is some basic sorting I'll do. Pets, cars, home, and tax related items. I just put the new piece at the end of the folder which is hardly any 'write cost' and makes for a much easier read later if the need arises. Besides taxes where I just need all of the papers, most of the time the thing I need to reference is near the end
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Aside from energy consumption and stability, bitcoin seems like a resounding success to outsiders like me.
That’s the sound of a joke flying overhead.
Decentralization is a feature. As with most features, it has technical and behavioral costs. In the case of Bitcoin, this cost is an enormous computational and environmental burden. However, I’m pretty sure that this commenter was joking.
What we need is Peerbowl: a network of millions of bowls interconnected via an interdimensional wormhole.
We're in the last stages of ironing out all the kinks. Race conditions have resulted in a few lost fingers but also some extra tentacles which users report are surprisingly handy! Stay tuned for our IPO*.
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I simply purchase whatever I need, have it delivered to an Amazon locker nearby, and then when I’m done with it I throw it out and order a new one.
The most frequently used ones are always at the locker and the least frequently used one is automatically returned for a refund. The cache miss is approximately two days.
It’s expensive, but you can’t beat the fact that it scales to a practically unlimited degree.
I call it “bowl-less” caching.
I heard this is extremely expensive for anything non-trivial. People are always like, scale, scale, scale. But 99% of people are not Walmart. KISS, YAGNI, premature optimisation something something.
Completely agree
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NB: Cached items will be need to be reindexed once sharding has been enabled.
Still, maybe this kind of staggered onboarding into forums isn't that bad of an idea. Its not like a site couldn't enforce it. Sign up to join. Get email indicating when participation begins.
All the potential for good that made users so enthusiastic (as we now know: over-enthusiastic) about it until the early 00s (maybe 10s) still exist, it's just big tech and other businesses have hijacked the community-driven governance and narrative for private gains.
All the cool ((internet) cultural, but not necessarily technical) stuff that existed and exists... you'd never find out about it today if you weren't there and already know what to look for (and even then search result quality has gone down the drain due to massive spam. Not that you can reasonably filter search results to not include businesses or other SEO spam for instance...). Of course things that don't make money/grab attention eventually are "rationalised away" or forgotten about in this ungodly screaming contest.
Not all is bad; it's just the drop in average quality of substance and intransparency of its gatekeepers that worries me. I always keep my hope that a diverse array of communities continue to exist in which cool things happen on a regular basis. Mainstream social media is not this place though.
In seriousness, the radicalism of the early internet was great for autodidacts, and I loved it. It shaped me as a person and I still don't have or need a university degree.
The thing that was nice in the past was that it seemed so easy to find other people finding their own path. It was a bit less commercial and a bit more communal. It was a great thing, but communities have a finite capacity for on boarding people. It is easy to squash that, and it was definitely squashed pretty hard as the internet popularised.
If the last thing used was a half drank rocks glass of tequila the integrity of the entire cache will be threatened.
* they all sound like "stupid problems" till your boss is calling at 3AM because the system is down.
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Please consider the consequences of your startups. It's "just a landing page" one day but the next, you're ruining lives.
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/20/business/sothebys-china-bowl/...
We have already seeded the market with test prototypes shaped like laundry baskets that are limited to small pieces of cloth footwear. But we hope to scale up to Level 5 Flinging of Massive Objects (FOMO) before the end of the year.
(age in bowl x proximity to bottom x urgency of real-time need)
Some items such as padlock keys, unused postage stamps, and nearly expired gift cards will override and invoke a quantum certainty of 1.0 when they are trying to be located.
(Unless your artifact volume exceeds the recommended capacity in the readme, also helps to make sure the pipeline has sufficient capacity for large deploys to efficiently release to the municipal cloud)
Skip the bowl entirely.
When you finish with something just set it down. It really DOES NOT MATTER WHERE! Honestly.
Set it on a flat surface, under a chair or a pillow, in a depression in your yard. Set it on your neighbor's side of the fence. It is totally irrelevant where you leave it.
Since it is universally true that you always find something in the last place that you look this method that I have employed works perfectly EVERY SINGLE TIME and for objects of any physical description.
It is impossible to lose something if you are willing to spend sufficient time and effort remembering where you put it and revisiting that location.
Put things back in the first place you looked, or the first place you would look for it.
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(I guess I'm 'that guy' now :)
I think I got confused because a cache is a fixed length queue where 'take one' means evict, but 'take one' in OP means cache hit (if we're calling it a cache). I'd still prefer to call it an MRU queue (not a cache at all) I suppose.
(With some weird overflow property where it starts evicting MRU after a certain point too...)
Up until now I relied on attempting to organize my own shit which lets be honest, was super shitty. Then comes Shitbowl. My wife and in-laws didn’t understand the technology at first but once I really got them to try it they were immediately onboard.
Thanks Shitbowl for making our lives better!
I recently got a Shitbowl and threw some coins in, planning to use them soon. However, the coins ended up at the bottom of the Shitbowl instead of the top. This is definitely a big since it violates LRU. Shitbowl has not responded so far to my complaint.
As “shit” is not, even in the broadest Christian interpretation, a name of the Christian God, that doesn't seem to be the basis of any filtering of that word.
Literally Puritanical Christians don't exist anymore, it's a defunct sect. Metaphorical puritanism in any sense relevant here isn't restricted to Christians.
And, yes, plenty of groups are at least as opposed to profanity, and define it at least broadly, as any Christian groups (certainly, I've noted Islamic groups that that applies to.) Sure, in, say, the US if you run into this its mostly likely to be from Christians, but that's true of most things because the US is a majority-Christian country.
It is a slow process but it is very low energy.
Not the submitter through so this is all speculation and conjecture and not particularly relevant to the joke anyway.
By profiling an individual using their online behaviour, and using only a small cluster, we could produce a prediction of what objects should be sorted to the top of the bowl. Simple IOT connectivity could then tell if the right objects are near the top and send push notifications to your phone. These would warn you that what you thought you wanted next was not what your social network would have wanted.
Altogether a much simpler solution
Shitbowl v3.0: Adds a multi-tiered dumbwaiter, that makes retrieval and storage to center of the earth a snap;
Shitbowl v4.0: Adds a reciprocal well that extends to the antipode of the earth, and allows users, so-situated, to borrow from their counterpart, least-used items of the counterpart, Uber-style.
Shitbowl v5.0: Implements a heat-hardened round-house router to universally exchange least-used items, near the earth's core
Tragically, I have to strongly doubt this is secure against the almighty warrant-backdoor for physical security. And once they have their hands on the bowl, the content is freely accessible.
A parody that plays itself a little too well, sadly.
There is an interesting parallel idea where you get a large set of nesting tupperware containers, and enclose items in between the ( <-- bottom and lid ---> ) I heard about it from uncle John McCarthy.
Really this bowl needs 2Q instead of LRU.
LRU is a decent algorithm but it would be much effective if Shitbowl could learn my routines and re-organize as needed.
But I don't think the latter is satire...
This is a welcome laugh during tedious times.