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New comment by insonable in "Bending Spacetime in the Basement"

insonable — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 03:09:21 +0000

sounds like Robert California

New comment by insonable in "Best Buy and Target CEOs say prices are about to go up because of tariffs"

insonable — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:11:56 +0000

sure, and a good baseline assumption for most consumer goods is that price elasticity of demand is pretty low in the short term, so consumers pay most of the tariff. then in the long run perhaps things change and more non-tariffed substitutes become available resulting in maybe a 50/50 split of "who pays" (after all, the substitutes didn't have comparative advantage before, so are probably a bit more costly to produce). in any case, total quantity sold will be less, consumers benefit less, and suppliers benefit less... but the government does get revenue.

New comment by insonable in "ADHD Didn't Break Me–My Parents Did"

insonable — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 20:09:48 +0000

I think you mean it's called ASD or has been rolled into ASD now? ADHD is more of a set of regulation issues than a set of social-cues issues, but I'm oversimplifying.

New comment by insonable in "ADHD Didn't Break Me–My Parents Did"

insonable — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 20:01:35 +0000

It's a different sort of focus than mainstream, where there's not what a "normal" person would call regulation. So lots of hyperfocus on topics that interest, and little on what others might think is required or needed (which would look like distraction if the person were forced/compelled to focus on things they're not interested in).

New comment by insonable in "Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS"

insonable — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:11:50 +0000

it's also just way faster to not mess with the spoons/cups! an exception might be little fussy quantities like a bunch of 1/4 tsps of different spices etc.

New comment by insonable in "Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS"

insonable — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:08:33 +0000

simple like:

title

subtitle

.. [two blank lines make a section break]

ingredients with 4 columns, last one is an optional comment for the row

method steps with 2 columns, last one is optional comment

then optional sections that just have to have:

section title (this is the collapsed title string too)

any rows included until the next .. etc. etc.

plus just a few tricks like if an ingredient comment has [] then it uses that as a URL for the ingredient, if a row in ingredients has just one column then it's a header etc.

New comment by insonable in "Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS"

insonable — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:03:28 +0000

thanks, good point!

New comment by insonable in "Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS"

insonable — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:03:17 +0000

thanks! i first just made a sample html the way i thought it would be nice, then made that into a templeate, and wrote a python script generate the site. it first scans for all the files to build the menu and homepage, then goes file-by-file to make each one, filling in the blanks in the template as you can imagine. it was pretty natural since my spreadsheets were all following the same format already anyway. i'd be surprised if there was a lot of interest, but if so i'd consider sharing the script/template etc.

New comment by insonable in "Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS"

insonable — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:00:34 +0000

There's a lot you can do with just plain html these days if you just need a clean site. Here's an example from my recipe site (https://xilic.com/recipia/sauces/pesto_traditional.html), mostly for my personal use or sharing with friends, with only html/css. It has expandable boxes, a menu system, etc. A simple script converts a directory structure of .csv files to these recipe cards with a template, and this way you can edit the sources in a spreadsheet and then the publish script just takes whatever is new and re-does the whole lot of html as necessary. Just like we used to do with Apache Forest!

New comment by insonable in "Intuitive introverts lead the most successful teams: study"

insonable — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:03:13 +0000

It's based on analytical psychology from the 1920s as Jung laid out in "Psychological Types." The funny thing is MBTI was developed for carbon copy paper and as an instrument to quickly type people. So they created the 4th column because in their scoring and layout, they couldn't indicate whether the person was more perceptive (N or S) or reasoning (T or F) focused by putting one in front of the other as Jung did, and also, in their test I guess they found it easier to figure out which function type you extraverted rather than what the attitude (introversion or extroversion) of your primary function was directly.

This leads to a lot of confusion. Jung for example might call a type "Introverted Intuitive with Feeling", and in MBTI that is INFJ, where the J means they extrovert the Feeling, but are primarily actually perceivers! Then there's Introverted Feeling with Intuition, which in MBTI is INFP, the P here meaning they extrovert intuition, but since they're primarily introverted they are "introverted feelers" foremost. I think this MBTI formulation has really made Jung's ideas unnecessarily confusing.

Also, Jung himself was not fond of people typing others, and thought people ought to learn the ideas and type themselves and of course allowed and discussed that some are not differentiated strongly in some dimensions, although he did view that as being a sort of lack of development.

So is it science? I guess I'd call it an interesting analytical model and leave it at that.

New comment by insonable in "Gear Acquisition Syndrome"

insonable — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 16:51:43 +0000

I wonder if you are getting more internal reward and stimulation from the challenge and novelty of something that is a struggle than from the steady success something you have natural talent for is offering. If so and that is troubling to you or puzzling, it may just be the way your brain is setup, but there are psychologists good at unraveling this sort of thing.

New comment by insonable in "The efficacy of duct tape vs. cryotherapy in the treatment of the common wart (2002)"

insonable — Mon, 20 May 2024 17:11:17 +0000

poison oak was supposedly a chumash treatment for warts. i tried it and it worked! grind up some leaves into a paste, sand the wart down a bit, apply the paste, and cover with tape. it may be that the poison oak is enough to trigger an immune response which actually rids you of the wart.

New comment by insonable in "Why time seems to pass faster as we age"

insonable — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 21:33:50 +0000

I do something similar, but with photos. I have a 4k display on the wall with a rpi/python script that picks photos from today +/- 15 days for all years, then makes collages to display, 1 per minute. So the photos are from the same time of year, but for years past, and every day new photos cycle in and out. Another neat way to stir up memories of old, if you have a pile of photos around.

New comment by insonable in "FAA says 737 MAX operator discovered loose bolts in rudder system in December"

insonable — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:01:17 +0000

Maybe, but instead of redesigning and building a new jet suitable for the larger and more efficient engines allowing their competitor's A320 to be more efficient, they appear to have kludged them onto the old (and low-sitting) 737. To do this, they had to change their location on the wing, which made the aircraft more unstable, which lead to the MCAS system to mitigate this, and problems with MCAS and sensor redundancy led to the two fatal crashes. I have a hunch many of us have seen this sort of thing and consequences before.

New comment by insonable in "FAA closes SpaceX Starship mishap investigation"

insonable — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 17:34:15 +0000

A friend in grad. school would put obvious glaring errors in his preliminary drafts of write-ups so the prof's would then be happy to correct these, feel they'd done their work, and move on, avoiding any actual substantive criticisms requiring actual work on his part to fix.

New comment by insonable in "uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox"

insonable — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 02:56:53 +0000

i think eipi10_hn's point is that from the very beginning of designing/imagining the web, those involved wanted to make it a user-controlled experience. so the disconnect here is between two views: a) there is an obligation to support sites by watching ads or b) content providers should know defining principles of this medium dictate that users can block/change/etc so they support content with blockable ads at their own risk. Under b) users blocking ads is ethical whereas sites trying to circumvent ad-blocking are acting unethically. Both stances have merits it seems to me.

New comment by insonable in "USGS estimates at least 45% of U.S. tap water contain forever chemicals"

insonable — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 18:09:57 +0000

A common household reverse osmosis filter would greatly reduce PFAS concentrations in drinking water in general. However, some PFAS may be small enough to slip through some RO filters, so it kind of depends.

New comment by insonable in "Prop. 12, on humane sale of pork in California, upheld by Supreme Court"

insonable — Fri, 12 May 2023 00:52:23 +0000

gorsuch is complaining that if california restricts its in-state sales based on xyz, then firms everywhere will optimize in ways influenced by requirements xyz. with california being quite a lucrative market, its requirements will thus have influence over producers everywhere if they intend to sell to california. presumably if it were a more inconsequential state setting some requirements, then gorsuch wouldn't have so much of a problem and might go along. roberts points out that this is against the spirit of states having equal sovereignty. in other words, you can't let wyoming set requirements abc because who cares about that market, and then turn around and tell california "you're too big to set requirements xyz" and have that seen as fair.

New comment by insonable in "California Insists on Wasting Its Scarce Water Supply"

insonable — Sat, 06 May 2023 23:26:30 +0000

I don't really get the purpose of this article other than to maybe rile some people up. It offers no analysis and only one idea, which is capturing more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin watershed. It claims lawmakers would have to "stand up to" environmental lobbyists, which seems to imply that the will of the voters themselves would be to vote for large-scale dam projects if it weren't for those pesky lobbyists. I don't think that's the case at all. The article doesn't mention that households use only 9% of California's water supply. Or that industry and govt. use another 15% or so combined. Or that 3/4 of California's water goes to agriculture, which contributes little to California's GDP (<2%). No, the fact is, we have plenty of water for people. A great deal of California's rice and grain crops are exported out of the country for very little money. If we wish to conserve water, the most sensible course, in my opinion, is to cut exports of rice and grain crops.

New comment by insonable in "Banking in uncertain times"

insonable — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:49:53 +0000

Domestic-focused banks with over $250B in assets need to comply with the Basel III inspired (I think?) LCR of enough high-quality liquid assets to cover 30 bad days of withdrawals. What is the requirement for banks under $250B? Another Q would be, did they sell their extension-risk suffering bond portfolio because those bonds didn't qualify as HQLA? I mean they'd seem to me to be liquid and high-quality just as they were, but any sales would harm their balance sheet right?