Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@hynek @jugmac00 I was under the Impression that Germans love to capitalize Nouns.

That said, I remember liking *Murder at the Margin* and the other Henry Spearman "economics professor solves murders with economics" books, so who knows...

> **Critical Chain** is a novel by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt using the critical chain theory of project management as the major theme.

Sounds like a real banger...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Chain_(novel)

@goatsarah Maybe he's just... invisible?

@sethmlarson Also, you never realize how much you've internalized not being in other peoples' way until you have kids, who have no notion of inconveniencing other people and are dubious about transitions like doorways, stairs and elevators.

My youngest son loves walking up and down ramps, so he'll gleefully just walk back and forth on the slight incline at the entrance to a store or restaurant and scream if I make him stop. 😅

@sethmlarson I think the rule for escalators is basically always "stand on the right, walk on the left", but they exhibit phase change behavior at high densities.

At some point, someone stops on the left for some reason or just goes slower than the walking traffic behind them, and then walking traffic is forced to stop behind them, and eventually both sides are full of standing people. There's no easy way to get that line moving again once it spans the whole escalator, so you have a "stand on both sides" escalator until it clears out again.

@jacob Though if it's really just that you are short on protein in your life, you may just want to deal with whatever annoying thing you have for a few weeks and you'll pretty quickly learn how to get enough protein in your meals. If you are not a vegan, egg whites, non-fat greek yogurt and whey protein are pretty easy ways to just inject protein into whatever you are eating without adding many calories. Grilled chicken breast is also basically 100% protein.

@jacob I tried out MacroFactor for a bit. I didn''t *love* some aspects of the interface, but IIRC that was because when I'm dieting I often eat slight variations on the same thing every day, and I didn't see good options for stuff like, "Copy what I had for dinner yesterday to dinner today".

They had some sort of thing where you could use natural language like, "A handful of almonds" and it would try and estimate what you ate. Not sure about the recipe thing, though.

@JakubKuczys @willmcgugan Yeah, I'm pretty sure that is why the repr includes the id information. It is *infuriating* to spend a bunch of time debugging what you think is two of the same object only to find out later they don't even compare equal or something.

"Whenever there's a SuperKitties ad it makes me want to watch SuperKitties."

YouTube uses *Targeted Advertising*... It's super effective!

Amazon seems to be suggesting that I should order a "spare prince harry".

I don't even have *one* prince harry, I can't imagine that I'd need two of them.

@adamchainz I don't mind short videos (though in practice any TikTok style videos I see are all terrible because they are optimized to be trendy meme type things), I mean the actual form factor is horrible.

They're in portrait mode and at least the interface on YT seems to be set up for you to start scrolling and see one after the other, as opposed to a normal YouTube video.

Wow, this is the first time I've encountered Youtube "shorts". This is *horrible*.

I want to say that this marks my transition into a "kids these days are incomprehensible" old man, but I'm pretty sure that this isn't even my final form in that respect.

@brianokken I think something like `set_error_logger` or `set_failure_logger` or something.

Importantly, you probably shouldn't call it anything with `_function`, since that doesn't really explain what kind of function or the purpose of the function in any way.

@alex https with a valid cert, unfortunately (for this hypothesis, at least)

@brianokken I mean, I *literally* just wrote this article less than a week ago: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2023/01/attractive-nuisances.html