NathanielBaking

Might I suggest you familiarize yourself with myriad open source options. Let me guess, you have an iPhone too.

I understand your approach and applaud it. I have been doing two things that keep me doing the parts I love. Instead of pseudo code I write in a simple managed language like JavaScript or Python. My instructions to the agent is simple. Code gets no comments. It is intentionally brief and for me at least understandable. Second. I have a document for each code file that holds the an enumerated list of rules used to develop the file - The comments if you will but in a format I can deal with line by line, just like the code. This is substantially more rewarding for me as I change both the code and the document and limit terminal interactions to must-see/do stuff.

I am vegetarian, not vegan. I am so because it is something I can do about the state of animal welfare. I don't engage in discussions about my eating with people outside my immediate family. My immediate family are all omnivores. I sometimes, but rarely, choose to eat meat because it is served to me by someone who doesn't know my preference. Animal welfare remains my top priority and concern.

I seriously thought this article would be about induction top stoves and roses. Little did I know...

Madison, Canada. Now I just need to sell this to the Canadians.

Anyone notice that the plain burger is only 190 Yen ($1.20) vs $3.99 in the US. https://www.mac-menus.com/

Why does this keep popping up?

"Evidence does not support the use of vitamin D supplementation for the prevention of cancer, respiratory infections or rheumatoid arthritis. Similarly, evidence does not support vitamin D supplementation for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis or for improving depression/mental well-being."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4907952/#:~:text=Bo...

Fascinating! I would buy this in a "coffee table" style book.

The thing that resonated the most with me was the idea that slow processors need to focus on strategic thinking. I am a 60 year old and now retired software developer. I keep myself busy by actively continuing to code every day. I definitely have experienced a slowing of thinking in the last ten years. I have read that this could be because I have more information to sift and sort but being honest with myself, the machinery is not as well tuned as it once was.

I am fine with all this. I love coding and I doubt I will ever stop doing it for pleasure. I have had to become more methodical and intentional with my time on the laptop but reflecting on this piece, being more strategic would be a wise thing for me to contemplate on.

It is better to give to homeless shelters and food banks.

It was the books in my Dad's library that first got me to read for pleasure. I remember him suggesting The Lord of the Rings but it would be several years before I read it. 50 years later I can't actually remember what I read first but over the course of my late childhood, the one that sticks out the most is:

The Magus by John Fowles

I was maybe 14 at the time. You just never know because kids are weird.

+1 for Mad Scientist Club

Yes, that is it. Seemed fishy so I posted... post haste :)

You left your credentials in the open on your github site. Please change them post haste!

If you look at sports, it used to be that people looked at basic stats for hiring. Then came the age of money-ball where people started looking at group success. Turns out that those people are often quite valuable even though their metrics might not be as sexy.

That is a fair point. I forgot about kids. That could be a nightmare trying to find your tween at a big festival.

Like other posters, I read the whole thing and couldn't think of a reason for this device. I have experienced the many people cell issue but I am old enough to remember a time before cell phones at concerts.

This seems very much like a solution in search of a problem.

Safety guys always ruin the fun. I was in the Marine Corps and every time we got to test some new piece of gear the safety officer was like "No, you can't live fire it off the flight deck of the ship" or "No, not here, that village is down wind of the dust you will kick up when it goes off." No, that has a kill distance of 6 miles, you have to fire it into a hill." Blah, blah, blah.

So after I got out I joined the National Guard.

Everything is free now That's what they say Everything I ever done Gonna give it away Someone hit the big score They figured it out That we're gonna do it anyway Even if it doesn't pay

Everything Is Free Song by Gillian Welch

I did the same thing and it was also a great learning aid. Now I run my own my own set of plugins but this got me past that initial learning curve. I think it says something that it finally happened to me after 4 decades of software development.

Microsoft has a long history of fracturing programming language markets. It's not so much that it is a bad idea, more that it divides an already healthy market. There is MicroPython, Arduino, and Node-RED not to mention all of the C/C++ based systems out there: mBed, Zephyr, and RIOT OS. Another addition is not helpful.

I am on same on Ubunutu 23.01 and seems fine. ff 113.01 fwiw

I don't want to get grabbed on a side street and beaten but... Rust is language designed to solve a process problem (bad buggy code) with a straitjacket language approach. It is pedantic to the point of being unreadable and in it's own problem domain (system, embedded and up) has been ticking the wrong boxes. Zig is substantially better yet I think a better language is still around the corner. Having said that, you absolutely can't go wrong mastering C. Zig wraps C in a way that doesn't choke you on configuration issues. Zig's out-of-the-box support for many target's is a savvy decision too.

However, both Zig and Rust make some of the same errors so I will put my plea here for future language developers. How you work with Threads, Async, Interrupts are all implementation details. Please don't make them part of the language. A good Function type is sufficient to make elegant solutions that do not require language support.

Try writing something on this without knowing cursive! I rest my case.

The Milk Carton Kids do a funny bit about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idpZRb8VP50 If you haven't heard of them and like singer-song writer with harmonies check em out.

Reminds me of the Faces of Mars theory. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/remem...

I have had two heat pumps in the last 20(ish) years. The first one worked ok for heating. Warm air I can only describe as tepid blew out of the registers. The second heat pump is amazing. We live in Madison, WI, so very cold. This heat pump blows out air that feels just like the gas furnace air and is able to heat our house down to around 5 degrees Fahrenheit. It consumes quite a bit more energy at that temp and cost wise gas is better.

I would second @quirkot in all of his points. I consider myself a good home re modeler. I have done plumbing, electrical including replacing all the wiring up to the pigtail at the top of the roof. I will not touch HVAC or gas.

Transparent solar cells. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-15352-x I think this is far more interesting than Fast Company speculation.

I suspect like Wordle, or crosswords for that matter, it will take a certain amount of practice to get the hang of it. But! 43 guesses and I feel good about it.

Yes. I suggest the book "The Chinese Greenhouse". A very straightforward look at constructing a partially sunken greenhouse.

Chiras, D. D., Chiras, F., & Rao, A. (2020). The chinese greenhouse: Design and build a low-cost, passive solar greenhouse. New Society Publishers.