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Not OP but when I make burgers at home I bake my own potato buns (not necessarily on the same day). No bakery around me makes soft savory buns and the prepacked store-bought ones have this weird synthetic and stale flavor.

Can you share more details about it? Like who did you contact in those companies (owner? HR? your past manager?), what did you say, was it in-person or over an email, etc.

> If your product is good, word will spread via word-of-mouth.

Not necessarily. First, you somehow need to reach the initial batch of customers - whether by free samples or talking to power users, you're already engaging in marketing. Then, even when they like your product, they have no obligation to do the advertising for you, for free.

And it's possible the company folds before the product reaches the critical mass to rely just on word-of-mouth.

> And yet, the rationalist community has hosted perhaps half a dozen small groups with very strange beliefs (including two separate groups that wound up interacting with demons). Some — which I won’t name in this article for privacy reasons — seem to have caused no harm but bad takes.

So there's six questionable (but harmless) groups and then later the article names three of them as more serious. Doesn't seem like "many" to me.

I wonder what percentage of all cults are the rationalist ones.

What works for me is having different Activities/Workspaces in KDE - they have different wallpapers, pinned programs in the taskbar, the programs themselves launch only in a specific Activity. I hear others also use completely different user accounts.

> I have also realized that there is a lot out there in the world besides video games, and getting all in a huff about it isn’t worth my time or energy.

I'd really love to try AMD as a daily driver. For me CUDA is the showstopper. There's really nothing comparable in the AMD camp.

> the LVMH tiktok scandal

Can you tell us more about it?

There are indie games without those in-app purchases that capture the spirit of the old games.

I don't know, an estimate spanning three orders of magnitude doesn't seem useful.

To continue your example of 5-7 days, it would turn into an estimate of 5-700 days. So somewhere between a week or two years. And fair enough, whatever you're estimating will land somewhere in between. But how do I proceed from there with actual planning or budget?

I ran into this problem when I wanted to use quadlets on Raspberry Pi running Debian.

The proposed workarounds were compiling Podman yourself or using debian/testing.

I organize them by the color, either rainbow-style or from darker to brighter.

> it wouldn’t be organised properly, I would struggle to find anything.

Libraries solve this with the Dewey Decimal Classification. Most people don't have enough books for it make sense though.

For me, I don't have that many paper books and the ones I own I know by the side and the color. I keep the books that I reference often in a separate place. I noticed I don't need to find all of the books, all of the time. So organize most of your books to look pretty.

You can also group similar books together on a single shelf and then order them by color. For example I have a dozen of cookbooks and those go on a separate shelf, arranged in a rainbow. I also have a book series that goes neatly together, so I keep them it grouped too.

I also organize my clothes like that too. By general category first (t-shirts, pants, socks, jackets), and then by color.

I used to be extremely messy too (piles of clothes and documents, cardboard boxes, you know the deal). I turned it around after I read the Marie Kondo book "The life-changing Magic of Tidying up". Then after I got the mess under control I look at the pictures for inspiration how to make it aesthetically pleasing. I got a lot of ideas from Pinterest (I know, I know), but you can do an image search or check the organization subreddits too.

The linked page shows a sign-in screen.

That is such an awesome story! Immediate favorite for me. Can relate to typing in the code published in the gaming magazines. Mine was with memory-editing the game values, albeit not on Christmas.

My upbringing was pretty secular but we still did plenty of snow angels.

I also cook and bake and I am using a mixer. And other tools too, like a food processor, a thermometer, scales, a dishwasher. Could I make do without them? Sure, as I have in the past. I understand my tools and how to apply them; I chop small amounts of ingredients and I don't wash my knives in a dishwasher. But I recognize the value of the tools. With them, my results are consistent and higher quality.

Plus, I have more time and energy for writing code later. Or other activities.

I admire consummate professionals who can immerse themselves in the craft. I can't do it. I still put out great work - definitely not the best ever - and the tools lessen my mental and physical burden. I have more energy that I can spend elsewhere.

We replaced the punchcards and terminals and line editors with different tools because the trade-offs were worth it. Maybe we can keep adapt new tooling in a similar matter when it makes sense.

My favorite bit:

> More importantly, Tony recognized the voice of “Daniel from Google” when it was featured in an interview by Junseth, a podcaster who covers cryptocurrency scams. The same voice that had coaxed Tony out of his considerable cryptocurrency holdings just days earlier also had tried to phish Junseth, who played along for several minutes before revealing he knew it was a scam.

> [...]

> Daniel told Junseth he and his co-conspirators had just scored a $1.2 million theft that was still pending on the bitcoin investment platform SwanBitcoin. In response, Junseth tagged SwanBitcoin in a post about his podcast on Twitter/X, and the CEO of Swan quickly replied that they caught the $1.2 million transaction that morning.

> Apparently, Daniel didn’t appreciate having his voice broadcast to the world (or his $1.2 million bitcoin heist disrupted) because according to Junseth someone submitted a baseless copyright infringement claim about it to Soundcloud, which was hosting the recording.

> The complaint alleged the recording included a copyrighted song, but that wasn’t true: Junseth later posted a raw version of the recording to Telegram, and it clearly had no music in the background. Nevertheless, Soundcloud removed the audio file.

DMCA enabling bad actors to cover their tracks was not on my bingo list.

> It also frustrates me to no end that people are so deeply incurious. This seems to only happen in tech

This doesn't match my observations. In many fields, training is limited and hides the details. We train workers to repeat specific tasks and they excel at them. But they don't have conceptual understanding. Any explanation of why things are done the way they are is surface-level. You can see it when a procedure fails for some reason. They way to deal with is to 1) do basic checks 2) try again and if it still fails 3) delegate to someone else. Nobody is going to troubleshoot or optimize tasks unless that's their main job.

It happens in construction, in the kitchens, on the assembly lines, and in the offices. It happens because it gets the job done.

I struggle to find a stylistic goal here:

> Yossi's post about how an unusually unreasonable person can have outsized impact in a dimension they value at their firm also applies to impact outside of a firm. Kyle Kingsbury, mentioned above, is an example of this. At the rates that I've heard Jepsen is charging now, Kyle can bring in what a senior developer at BigCo does (actually senior, not someone with the title "senior"), but that was after years of working long hours at below market rates on an uncertain endeavour, refuting FUD from his critics (if you read the replies to the linked posts or, worse yet, the actual tickets where he's involved in discussions with developers, the replies to Kyle were a constant stream of nonsense for many years, including people working for vendors feeling like he has it out for them in particular, casting aspersions on his character, and generally trashing him). I have a deep respect for people who are willing to push on issues like this despite the system being aligned against them but, my respect notwithstanding, basically no one is going to do that. A system that requires someone like Kyle to take a stand before successful firms will put effort into correctness instead of correctness marketing is going to produce a lot of products that are good at marketing correctness without really having decent correctness properties (such as the data sync product mentioned in this post, whose website repeatedly mentions how reliable and safe the syncing product is despite having a design that is fundamentally broken).

I'm sorry, this is too much for me. I don't understand what this paragraph is about. Too many abstract nouns; "correctness" lost its meaning for me. If this is a parody or a joke, then it flew way over my head. Was it supposed to recreate "a constant stream of nonsense"? If so, it missed the mark.

It's like Infinite Jest set in Silicon Valley.

You, as an individual, can still play the adverts to your children. The regulation is targeting the advertisers.

Do these other fields also study humans in controlled experiments?

I think it has to do with the sample to staff ratio. It's not enough to observe human subjects. You have to actively prevent them from going off the rails. It doesn't scale well when you increase the sample size. I guess we could replicate a similar experiment n-times and then do a meta study, but it's not ideal either.

How would you tackle the logistics of scaling up the above experiment?

Clunky desktop computers connected to the internet in the 90s were already an easy mode. It's a weird point in time to pull the ladder up. I wonder if the people in the 70s shared the same sentiment.

I, for one, am glad the networks became easier and more accessible. I wouldn't be here otherwise.

> But the wood chips bring another problem which is pH levels that may go too low.

Is this something you've measured? I add a lot of wood chips and conifer needles and it's not a problem; the compost ends up between 6 and 7.5 pH (neutral is 7). I also liberally spread woodchips on the paths between the beds and things are fine.

The effects of wood mulch on plants and composts are well understood:

https://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pub/ec-1629-mulchi...

If want to change the pH of your soil you need something stronger, like sulphur or lime.

Shade shouldn't be a problem. In fact, a cover is good because it helps you control the sunlight and rain.

If the pile isn't heating up it's usually either bone dry or there's not enough volume. Aim for at least one cubic meter (or 3x3x3 feet).

If you have fresh grass clippings, add them - they will help a lot. A heap of grass clippings with nothing else will heat up on its own (but don't do it because it will smell).

Your cold compost is going to be fine, it will just take longer and won't cook the weed seeds. If you have more questions there's a composting subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/composting/

Important to note, this book is from early 2023 and supports Podman version 4.1. It's missing newer features like quadlets.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/quadlet-podman

Interestingly, not only the UI is dark, but the map tiles themselves are dimmed too.

Automated secrets scanning is one of them. You can do it as a pre-commit hook. GitHub and Gitlab can scan it too.

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-scanning/int...

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/application_security/secret_...

Here's one that looked at caries in children who brushed compared to those who didn't brush: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20116887/

> but the toothbrush definitely sheds microplastics into your body

You can use miswak, which is a type of twig.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miswak

What's your model?

Could you explain your comment more? The way I understand it is:

- I have two servers with the exact same hardware - one runs a Ruby on Rails web app - the other runs a Vert.X web app - both apps have similar features to the end users - if I run both of them for a month, the server running the Ruby on Rails app will consume hundred times more energy in kWh compared to the server with the Vert.X app - another way to look at it, to serve the same number of visitors, I would need hundred servers running a Ruby on Rails apps and one server running a Vert.X app

Is that correct?

It hasn't been my experience when I measured the long-term consumptions with energy meters in real-life scenarios. How did you arrive at your number?

By comparison, going from resistive heating to a heat pump is a 2.5x-4x jump in efficiency. 100x gains would be nothing short of spectacular.

I noticed the best energy savings when switching to Arm CPUs, but that's a separate topic.

I'm curious about printable hinges. Has anyone tried them? How sturdy and reliable are they?