Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@CleoQc TBH I may be pushing the limits of blender technology, but I do not want some watery fruit juice, I want a thick iced fruit slurry and I don't think that is too much to ask. Somehow the açai bowl places always manage to pull it off.

@CleoQc I put milk in there, but I've made them the same way with all my other blenders and my Blendtech blender lasted 10 years (... before it set itself on fire when I was making a smoothie).

@kevin @CleoQc Possibly? I don't know that I would particularly like it even if it worked properly, though.

@CleoQc Glad that yours works for you, though. 😀

@CleoQc Just first-hand experience. I got a Vitamix last month and it has not once successfully made a (frozen fruit) smoothie without stalling out, in addition to the normal problem most blenders have where the contents get all bunched up and the blades spin freely.

This is the one time the "just use UTC everywhere" people are right (for my time zone).

@hugovk Despite the fact that the thing preventing a 3+-only release at this point is just me writing documentation (and thus this makes me feel very guilty), I'm kind of OK with this as a general principle.

I usually tell people not to use the parser at all. Relativedelta has a bit great UI but is a pretty good basic component. Would love the time to make everything faster, but, uh, I haven't even had time to write down how to use the things I already did so.. yeah..

@glyph @nedbat @brianokken I am not sure but they feel slightly different to me. I think of a benchmark as a fixed task that you do to track progress. Evals could be stuff like having humans rate 1000 examples of output, or using a specially trained evaluator model to rate a bunch of outputs. Probably a wide enough definition of either term allows one to encompass the other, but they probably have different centers of mass.

Ok yeah that is actually pretty loud. This is the power spectrum with the tip held about an inch away from the microphone. Going "aah" at the same microphone from the same distance at a normal or slightly elevated speaking level is giving me peaks around -40 and this thing is doing -20.

I think it is this one, in case anyone wants to... uh... light candles 😉 https://www.amazon.com/VEHHE-Electric-Rechargeable-Flexible-Barbecue/dp/B0852VJ6RD

@brainwane I will also note I see a huge correlation between kindness and happiness. Could easily be that happy and secure people feel they have a lot of slack to be kind as well, but when my instinct is to not be kind or forgiving or accepting and I am able to overcome it or actually genuinely feels really good.

@brainwane I think it is true though that people overestimate some of these things, so on average this advice is moving people in the right direction.

My 7 year old is a great kid but he hates getting in any kind of trouble so he often tries to avoid blame. I had to explain to him that yeah it sucks taking the blame for stuff but counter intuitively people really appreciate when you are quick to accept blame and own up to your mistakes.

@kittylyst @epilepticrabbit My job in the US as a teenager was pretty much exclusively gathering up the carts at a Wal Mart. I think I would have liked it a LOT less if I were spending my shifts inside doing something else.

I still will go out of my way to return my cart to the right place, though (except in rare circumstances where I am alone with my kids and it would be a huge pain to leave them alone to drop it off but also a huge pain to get them out to take them with me).

In any case as long as the carts aren't blocking parking spots or sidewalks and they aren't in particular danger of blowing around dangerously in the wind I don't really judge other people for their cart behavior.