Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@kfogel @kevin Ok I was slightly wrong: https://www.nyc.gov/site/buildings/property-or-business-owner/energy-grades.page

Interesting grading scheme, where "D" is the worst score you can get if you submit any information and F means "no information", with an extra grade, N, which also means "no information" but this time it is OK because they were exempt from providing information.

A few more steps and those quiet and signaling NaNs can evolve like IEEE floats and there will be more "no information" grades than stars in the universe 😛

@kfogel @kevin Using one data point and not looking it up, I will extrapolate that this is a linear scale that starts at 0/A and goes to 100/Z. In such a scale anything between 11.5 and 15 would be a D, in which case maybe this building is extremely efficient.

@kevin Hearty American fish don't need to be coddled by living "under water".

@treyhunner @mitsuhiko I got 25/26. The only one that threw me was one that throws a `ValueError` and I thought it would throw `SyntaxError` if it were an error so I just guessed as to what it could mean.

@nitinkhanna I would say @brainwane is a great person to follow. She posts on an interesting variety of things and is a measured, patient thinker.

@sethmlarson Like the vast majority of podcasts, I made this with a couple of episodes and then forgot about it 😛

I have a vague idea to add an episode with a transcript at some point, and when I start get around to some projects I have where I want to work with podcast feeds it will probably drive me to add more features.

I have done nothing to make the contributor workflow good at all, but if you want to make a PR the repo is here:

https://github.com/pganssle/test-podcast

Also feel free to fork it and create what would undoubtedly be a better and more popular version 😉

@webology Especially if you like sine waves!

@webology @sethmlarson I thought it was like an actual secret menu with a simple name like "animal style" or "double double" or something, so not anything where you are being weird and where it is hard to explain.

Still, I think in this case it is that people probably like the act of ordering off a secret menu that you have to know about more than they like the actual food you get when you do that.

@webology @sethmlarson I wouldn't really order a burger these days anyway, but when I tried it 15-18 years ago I remember thinking it was nothing special.

I got the impression that maybe I ordered the right thing and you were supposed to order off the secret menu to get the thing everyone likes, but I don't think anything I saw on that menu would turn a mediocre burger into an amazing experience.