laomai's comments

From a consumer perspective, ideally it’d be clothing retailer adjacent: find outfit online, you become the model.

However, not sure if desirable for the industry as many people might buy and not return items online with the aspiration they’ll eventually look good in them — compared to clothes the physically try on?

Just my gut reaction.

Related story, In the US, so YMMV:

I tend to try to pay in advance when I order so I don’t have to wait 5-10 minutes to get a bill, then have them run off as I grab my payment method of choice, to wait another 5-10 minutes to actually pay.

I was a little confused how my requests to pay early seemed to slightly irritate waitstaff. So I asked some restraint owner friends of mine and they mentioned how, depending on the POS configuration, the act of requesting or paying the check (forgot which one) automatically queues up your table availability to the next guest.

So I guess, convenience workflow feature for the restaurant host impacts creates an annoyingly rigid behavioral pattern that unexpectedly passes “waiting frustration” on to diners.

Clever idea. I like it.

Maybe visualization of the brackets could be improved a bit.

The overriding problem for me was the nonstandard keyboard. Would love to be able to use my device keyboard

Reminds of the old Gbbs days :-)

Laws should have built-in expiration dates so they would be forced to be renewed/refactored every period to expand robustness or trim cruft.

Is there any kind of usb device that you can put between your usb port and a usb stick that would limit the device to charging or just reading the usb device (but not writing to the computer)?

Or was the digital condom idea just for sh*ts and giggles?

(For charging only I guess being struck about using a usb charger and not a device would be safer? In multi-port chargers can devices use the multiport as a hub to connect to other devices that are charging?)

Based on my own genealogical research, you can’t expect exact fidelity over time once you go back 120 years or so.

From my Irish side we haves back and forth over recorded name, baptism records, common names, nicknames and what all.

Not to mention just poor handwriting. Forebears that maybe couldn’t write, local variations of names, etc.

Walsh/Walch/Welch/Welsh

Mary Ann could be:

Maria Mariah Anne Marianne Annie Anna depending on the time, relation and who said it to the census guy

My go to. +1

Maybe I’m reading this wrong: - ask people to get creative and give ideas for worst possible outcomes from use of AI and ways to prevent it.

..then give them a ton of credits for using said AI?

.. well the first thing on my mind would be try the thing I just told you and see if it was really a risk or not?

Is that what they expect people to do with the reward, or is this some unintended consequence?

Why do I feel like we put more effort into vetting/interviewing employees than political candidates in the US?

Say we had to choose candidates like we choose employees, we should have: - individual tests for the employee (actual aptitude in things like strategy, diplomacy, math & statistics, science) - behavioral tests (how likely to lie/take risks) - etc.

Instead it all seems to boil down to statistics-backed popularity contests half-a-step up from elementary school class elections.

I think the proper first place to look is Hernando De Alto’s class Mystery of Capital… most entrepreneurs are small gray market businesses. They can’t grow because they lack access to capital because of the extra-legal nature of the business or people. Building easy access bridges to turn your gray market business into a white market business would unlock these entrepreneurs.

I don’t understand why anyone is going to Threads at all. I mean, post Drop Facebook and all, why would you go back into the Zucks social arms?

Not a plug, but I subscribe to the newspaper.co.

It’s kind cool in that it: - removes/neutralizes words that tends to flavor articles toward any particular position and focuses mainly on factual non-emotional type language. - sends blurbs out in a daily email (arguably editorial) - but generally tends to be well rounded important stories to keep you in the know about what’s going on

It’s pretty cool, because unlike most new sources you don’t get a feeling anyone’s trying to railroad you down a particular way of thinking, but you feel like you’re just being presented with (more or less) statements about what is going on in the world.

The ultimate beneficiary is the owner since his business model makes an assumption on tipping to employ waitstaff and run a "viable" business.

Business models that rely on tipping to cover basic business model costs should be reconsidered.

For the business owner, they have to consider the tradeoffs if they want to maintain the current waitstaff: quantity of staff, hours, variety of menu options, decor, desired profitability, amount of automation, quality of food, etc.

The immediate beneficiary is the waitstaff, which will no have to reconsider their employment or their demands of the business owner.

For the waitstaff, they will move on to other companies that either figure out a business model to pay a livable wage or consider alternative types of positions. Eventually the surviving restaurants will adjust pricing and hourly rates/salaries like every other normal business. There will be positions available for entry level waitstaff and more experienced waitstaff.

TLDR: The beneficiaries of tipping overreached — don't be surprised by a backlash.

Brief history of tipping in America: https://www.7shifts.com/blog/history-of-tipping-restaurants/

Yet keeps legal eagles in business :-/

Looks awesome! Very easy to read!

Can't wait for an Obsidian plugin! :D

Become a substitute teacher first. I've heard good STEM substitutes are hard to find. (and frequently rebooked)

It'll also a low bar way to test out whether you enjoy teaching, and which age range you prefer to teach.

I’ve heard it said on some podcast that race cropped up as an intentional structure to obfuscate class distinctions:

- post slavery, many formerly enslaved people had better skills than poor white people

- to prevent poor white people from joining forces with these formerly enslaved people as a large class of “the poor” vs. small class of “the wealthy” racial distinctions began to be used more frequently

- this had the effect of basically allowing the “poor white man” to side with “wealthy whites” (regardless of if something was in their best interests or not) because he could console himself with “I may be poor but at least I’m white” — even though the rich whites often advanced laws and regulations that were generally detrimental to the poor as a “class group”.

Is there any hard data on this or is it just heresay/opinion?

Based on his experience, we should require all newly elected politicians to go into space. ;-)

Regarding some of the conversations about programming something to obey the law or obey human convention:

- it’s tricky because the people on the roads expect human convention and drive for that

- as long as there is a mix of humans that drive by convention, it’s probably best to err on the side of following human convention to some degree

Case in point: center lane

When I first started using autopilot on two lane roads the car would stay dead center in the lane. If a car was coming towards my in the opposite lane, it began to notice humans would veer away from center to provide more buffer between themselves and the oncoming car.

Because I didn’t want to piss other drivers off, I would often disengage and drift to the right of my lane while the oncoming car approached me. If I didn’t do that, there was always a last minute extra drift away from me by the other car.. the conventionally expected buffer distance wasn’t enough to make them feel comfortable due to unexpected (lack of) behavior.

It’s not a law / no law issue above. But I have similar experiences navigation into roundabouts with crosswalks in front of them (autopilot stops at empty crosswalk where normal driver would cruise through until the stop line to check for cars in the roundabout — and if none were there might pass through with a rolling stop/check.