I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen
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Within a month of us moving into that building we'd all put on about 20lbs. Every coffee break was also candy bar time. We demanded they remove them all, for our own safety.
If you want decent coffee out of one of those fancy grind-and-brew-in-place automatic espresso machines, they need to be deep-cleaned on a regular basis, and someone needs to be actively stocking good, fresh coffee beans...
IT more than anything else (maybe apart from true art) is not about hours put in but efficiency of time spent. Breaks often help overcome blocks. Decent workouts and healthy lifestyle helps with better focusing mind since all is connected in each of us. Also helps with sleep which then goes back to mind and all.
Even more "gnarly" stuff like figs, eating them just generates such a positive reaction. And something like mango if you're lucky enough to live in places with it... If you don't have to deal with cutting it up, that's something amazing.
Getting fruit from some farm way far off in the distance to me is a feat of logistics. I always feel a bit stupid about how I reach for convenient stuff because I don't want to take a 5 minute break to do a bit of prep and cleanup.
I've been thinking about how modern fruit optimize for (among numerous other things) sweetness, and whether modern fruit are actually healthy in terms of glycemic index / glycemic load / etc.
The only real thing that feels kind of easy to say is that any sweet drink is probably worse for you than just drinking water. Easiest diet in the world is to just never buy soft drinks, and the extra trick is to also not replace it with orange or apple juice.
Fiber doesn’t slow sugar absorption by very much. It is better than, say, HFCS, but mostly because you can’t ever eat as many calories as you can drink.
Only dried fruits, like raisins, dried figs, dried dates, dried prunes and so on, have high sugar content, well over 50%, so they are comparable with chocolate or candy bars.
Most fresh fruits contain only around 10% sugar, with a only a few, like grapes or fresh figs exceeding 15% of sugar (but less than 20%).
This means that for most fresh fruits you can eat a half kilogram (or a pound) per day, while still avoiding an excessive sugar intake.
They're tiny and acidic, but the flavors are so complex compared to a supermarket apple that's giant and sweet.
Either way, the worst office snack IMHO is the apple, the person sitting next to me, taking a big bite, munching with their mouth open.
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But yes, most Apple trees seem to stop bearing fruit around 50 years of age max and rarely live beyond 90-100 years as far as I can tell.
You may be interested in Apple Rankings:
In any case, apples are often too sweet. I don't eat candy either.
Then at the side there are big bags (~3kg) of these not so appealing small apples with various flaws. These are the ones we buy, either bio or not, and they are much less sweet. They last less, presumably less chemistry within to keep rot away for longer, which is a good (even if annoying) sign.
What's the problem? I just peel it one half at a time and cut off huge chunks or strips around the pit. Flip it and keep going.
The flip is messy but also satisfying.
I love apples, but this is silly.
In France you get your apple whole and you bite into it. If someone prepare fruit for say a picnic, it will either be a fruit salad or a while fruit.
Children from kindergarten eat while fruit, or cut in two of they really cannot bite in. Adults never eat pre-cut fruit.
"But the distribution is bimodal here because the massive upside is countered by a massive downside: You need to evade detection. Will you hide in the bathroom? Pretend you ordered the same thing? Eat it at your desk? Either way, you need to be prepared."
Pro health tip: Don't eat where you perform waste removal functions.
If you eat your co-worker's sandwich twice, however... may satan take you
How did you not know to not eat someone else's food before your first job?
... no, it's clearly a joke.
Until.
Until the "cool intern" noticed food outside a conference room shortly after noon and posted it on the free food channel. Hordes of people came by to avail themselves of the food, leaving a horrified meeting organizer to fight them off while trying to post a rebuttal on slack saying that the food was NOT, in fact, available for the taking, the attendees hadn't had a lunch break yet, pleading with people to stop taking their food, etc.
Perhaps they should have used Discord instead
False.
I've heard that some med students use grapes to practice stitches, and that is how I feel about grapes.
Grapes are obviously not meant to be eaten by humans, and must serve some other, probably squeamishness-inducing, purpose.
FROZEN grapes? Ambrosia from the gods.
As someone who cannot stand the smell or taste of bananas, I'll certainly judge you for trying to eat one near me.
All rooms must be banana-free before the minister enters, according to new revelations."Except for that which naturally occurs in sea salt and celery powder"
Now you may ask, why celery powder ?
It turns out that in order to avoid adding "synthetic" (?) nitrates and to add "natural" ones, manufacturers add/boil products in celery extracts which contains a lot of nitrates.
Ironically, the "natural" route can result in equal or even higher nitrate levels compared to traditionally cured products. From a chemical standpoint, your body doesn’t distinguish between synthetic and natural nitrates. Both can convert into nitrosamines under certain conditions (like high heat), which are compounds of potential health concern.
Stopped doing that some time ago as per info I saw here and then in few articles, buying now just one with less salt (although considering cooking our own, its supposedly not that difficult and have a friend who does it).
Sometimes road to hell is really paved with good intentions, or at least appearance of such. Having 0 doubt manufacturers know exactly what's going on, but they just find their profit within rules and expectations of society, consequences are for others to pick up.
Summary: a test of no-nitrate ham confirmed the claim. The test is done by one of the best known consumers magazine.
I eventually landed here: https://getlago.com/docs/guide/self-hosted/
It would be nice if there was a feature matrix for self hosted premium vs open features, since that's the first thing self-hosted people are going to be looking for.
Also, I'm looking at your Lever page, but no SWE roles are listed. Maybe if this post really does numbers, that'll be changing soon!
But HN has always been a great source so if you're interested in finding out more, feel free to email talent@getlago.com
Also, there is a special place in hell for people who steal other people's lunches. That's one thing I could never understand. What's the thought process?!
1. Swiss Miss Hot chocolate mix
2. Starlight Peppermint Mints
3. Lemonade
4. Peanut butter
For variety, I tried many combinations. Some: 1+3: bad, 1+2, 2+3: good, 1+4: awesome
You shovel it down and go about your day.
Tastes and feels like you're eating mud, but who cares, only lasts a minute.
I assume you hire a catering service to stock the snacks and fridges, and that they work out deals with some vendor?
Their bet is that you will like them and get used to them and buy them once you get used to them (And I sadly must say that worked on me).
totally shocked how grapes managed to get a 5/5 on logistics though, theyre a nightmare
Was expecting something like an ELO rating.
I also learned the Pilates (exercise) isn't a reference to Pontius Pilate or something, it's the last name of Joseph Pilates. That's right, you have Joey Pilates to thank for those funky machines.
Disappointed that microwaved yesterdays fish is not reviewed.
Social score: "No don't so it just go ahead and steal my lunch please!"
"There’s a plastic bag to discard and one of those weird silica gel packets you can’t eat. I rate this 4 out of 5 because it creates plastic trash, but par for the course."
olives:
"Their wetness makes you unable to use your keyboard without washing your hands. Plus they produce pits, which need to be stored in an additional bowl. I love olives, but their logistics score would be zero."
the two are in my eyes almost equivalent, you need to wash your hands after eating jerky, and it has (worse) waste, yet one scores much higher than the other.
Decided. I'm going into my next appraisal meeting and staring my manager down while eating a lemon like an apple.