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I am actually working on a project where I have scraped ~400k recipes, and now am in the process of wrapping them in a little search engine.

The idea is to have a little python/node script + sqlite file that you can use to search locally for recipes offline. Then all you'd need to do is write a plugin for the notes app of your choice.

The worse the web becomes, and the worse the stability of internet access becomes due to climate change, I will probably be doing more archival projects like this for offline access.

Prior to covid, yes. I haven't eaten McDonald's since covid, but in college I would use the app + whatever promotional "buy one get one" coupons they had going on to hit some devious combos. Usually I could get 3 burgers for like $2.50 with free fries. Each purchase usually gives you another bogo coupon, or a survey that you can fill out for free fries, so you end up in infinite loops of coupons.

The implication in what you just said is that Israel having total control over Palestinian territory is taken for granted. They can wiretap with ease due to their illegal occupation. I think if the example was Canada wiretapping the US, the wrongness of it would be more apparent.

I think in western discourse it's common to treat Israel like a hurricane or some other natural disaster and not a state with agency. It is framed as Israel "just being there" and not as them choosing to occupy an area and subjugate people, so much so that they designate a huge chunk of their GDP to the endeavor and require continuous funding from the US.

Sorry if what I am saying is confusing, I am struggling to articulate the point I want to make. My point is mostly that sure, while wiretapping is several magnitudes less bad than murdering civilians and foreign aid workers, they are only capable of doing it so trivially because of their position of occupation, which is by design.

This is pretty common, Israel has previously spied on the ICC and intimidated a prosecutor:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-28/ty-article/.p...

Not to mention the wiretapping of phones of members of the Palestinian authority, probably lots more that we just are not aware of.

Maybe "no reason" was a bad word choice. I would say that regardless of the reason, it doesn't matter to workers. What matters to workers is to have as much power as possible over their own situation. The simple calculus is that if you see another studio closing, for any reason, you recognize that this will be used as a cudgel by management and executives to work you and your colleagues even harder. When the true nature of the relationship between employee and worker is revealed, unionization is the obvious response.

If one studio closes you can imagine the screws are tightening at the others. Unionization arguably wouldn't help for studios closing, but it would help push back against crunch and other labor abuses.

With how expensive AAA development has gotten maybe that’s the stakes now, and a reason so many are taking the modern Hollywood playbook of churning out sequels and remasters.

The studio was owned by M$ though. There's no reason they couldn't have kept all those people in-house and just moved them on to some game with a tried and true IP attached to it.

I imagine that the closing of Arkane studios Austin was a big motivator for worker's to unionize. They created successful games and Microsoft shut them down for pretty much no reason. I am kinda on the periphery of the gaming scene in Austin and that was a huge deal when it happened.

I will. I hope it continues to happen. The real policymakers of the country should not be continued to operate without scrutiny. Hacks like this are done illegally only because there is no legal alternative.

The Roads Must Roll

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

It's the only thing that would keep me functional and able to drive on with a project though.

Don't you think that part of this could be stress? Also potentially dehydration. I have had eye twitches a couple times during long road trips where I drank Red Bull or Monster to keep focused, and was not drinking enough water. But I have never had twitching from caffeine under normal circumstances, since I usually drink 2 parts water for every part caffeinated drink (lots of bathroom breaks).

The parent comment's experience does not reflect my relationship with coffee at all.

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, never medicated for it. Just regulated with diet and exercise, also probably self-medicated with caffeine and nicotine in college. Quit nicotine because of the very obvious health problems that come with it, I found it very easy to quit interestingly enough (thank God I quit before the Zyndemic).

But I have never felt that coffee comes with any negative side effects for me other than anxiety. It doesn't affect my sleep unless I drink it past 5 PM, and I've never felt like it "wakes me up", it just lets me enter a hyperfocus state a lot more easily. Other people describe their relationship with coffee that they wake up and feel groggy, so they take coffee to have a baseline. For me it has never been about waking up, it's just something that helps with focus.

I do get the jitters when drinking coffee especially since I eat my first meal very late in the day (12pm), so I switched to mate cocido, which is just mate in tea bags. The effect of even very strongly-brewed mate is far less pronounced than the effect of coffee, and I would even go so far as to say that whatever benefits I think I am getting from mate is probably just placebo.

For reference during college I probably consumed 3-4 cups of coffee a day, then as I started working I would consume 5-6 cups a day, black. Now I stop drinking coffee after I eat at noon, so I am down to 2-3 cups a day.

Also I think that brewing methods matter. Hot-brewed coffee causes less jitters and more focus. Cold-brewed coffee tastes better but it is easy to overshoot what feels like a "therapeutic dose" and actually end up making it harder to focus, as well as more jitters. It might be that I usually have hot coffee black, and I have cold brew with a bit of milk and simple syrup. The sugar or coldness might also make me colder or do something with my blood sugar, not sure.

Is there a regional aspect to it? I have been listening to a lot of Yiddish/Russian music lately and people say that there are a lot of Russian loan words and it is hard to understand for non-Russian Yiddish speakers.

Because Okies would sweep them:

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

Weird coincidence, just yesterday I cracked open my Appalachian Trail guide to a random page just to scan through it. I opened it to the page with this guy's memorial. I thought "hey I didn't know this guy had a memorial on the AT".

That's a similar but different anecdote. The one I am thinking of he specifically is talking to someone's wife while she is crocheting. It may not have been Feynman though, I CTRL+F'ed "Surely You're Joking" and wasn't able to find it or I would have cited my sources in the parent comment.

That's a good point.

That's a pretty short list given the length of the roman empire. Shorter than I expected honestly.

Semi-related, I was doing some reading about different cottage industries from antiquity and the feudal era and was wondering if a feudal-era simulator existed that included cottage industries as part of its core mechanics. I ended up finding that Manor Lords game later on which features this exact mechanic!

It's pretty amazing how much labor was done by women that was crucial to society. Beer, medicine, weaving, braiding, bowstringing, raising livestock, etc.

Last thing, there is a anecdote by Richard Feynman I think where he is in a room with his friend's wife who is crocheting. He explains to her that topologically, the knot she is making can be made six other ways. She goes "yes, the such-and-such and such-and-such knot. Do you crochet?". It's interesting how much knowledge humans were about to collect about the world before the scientific method.

There is a book "1000 Years of Women's work" that is on my reading list now but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

Oh yes, I forgot about Lucretia, that was actually the only other one I know about. That makes two I guess.

Back when that meme of "how often do men think about the roman empire" was going around, I was talking to my girlfriend about it and I noticed how I couldn't name any Roman women other than [Agrippina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippina_the_Younger).

I mostly just watch [toldinstone](https://toldinstone.com/) and [Historia Civilis](https://www.historiacivilis.com/) on Youtube. I'm not really that interested in roman history, it's just nice infotainment to put on in the background, so it's not like I am going out of my way to learn about roman history, so it may also be that the presenters are glossing over the role of women in roman society. But I also watch a lot of ancient roman cooking videos, and again, the role of women is often absent in the historical texts that these videos quote from.

I find it odd that I can only name a single roman woman, when I can name at least a few dozen women in other historical time periods that were very patriarchal. medeival, renaissance, and colonial era European history has many famous women, and Chinese and Japanese history has many named women, many in the courts of nobles, but they were still written about. I also don't read into these eras of history deeply, I just consume infotainment about them.

It makes me wonder how much worse roman civilization must have been for women that they apparently didn't even bother to write down anything about them. Or is it that pop-history about ancient rome tends to be more male-oriented than history about other historical eras, and so women are just not talked about?

Yep! It's not a bad thing at all, it just ought to be acknowledged.

He continued reaching into the pockets of wealthy people

I'd argue he used subsidies from the government, both direct and indirect.

Buyers get a tax credit for electric cars. SolarCity received hundreds of millions of dollars in direct grants from different state governments, I believe this all went to Tesla.

Tesla's high curb weight causes more damage to roads. Tesla's lack of unionization means that it relies on mistreatment of workers to get its cars made.

There are a lot of examples of Musk taking money both directly and indirectly from those who are not in his customer base. I won't argue whether or not Tesla has been a net benefit or not for the USA, but the result of this is that Musk can point to his company's success and marketing to pump the share price-- and he is now attempting to dump it.

The sneaky thing about inequality is that a lot of the direct costs are externalized. Musk can still appear "self-made" when he has externalized so many of his costs to the taxpayer and his workers.

There's plenty of footage you can see of how the FPV drones are used.

to evade detection and interception.

I was under the impression that the Reaper was typically used where US has air superiority. There is an international combat guy on Youtube who fought with the YPG in Rojava and has been hunted by that type of loitering drone, he said they are easy enough to hide from, but the main thing is that they are almost always around-- and eventually lead to complacency. To quote the IRA: "we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always."

I just watched that video. I feel bad for the kid. Even in the absolute best case scenario, Ukraine wins and he has to live the rest of his life with nightmares of all the people he killed. I know this isn't exactly productive discourse but God, war is incredibly bleak.

I really recommend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Age-Wood-Material-Construction-Civili...

It is about how wood is arguably the most important material in human history. Covers a lot of its useful material properties, and makes very compelling arguments for how wood was instrumental in each era of human development.

PA's pathfinding inspired me to write my own flow field pathfinding library in Unity. That was my first "big boy" programming project.

I also really liked your writeup on the Chrono Cam system that PA used. Just know if you ever decide to do another writeup on the tech of PA there will be one person that will eagerly read it :)

Which part are you wondering about?

If it's about the studio takeover here is a good summary (it is confusing):

https://gameworldobserver.com/2022/11/23/disco-elysium-za-um...