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2/3/2023, 8:16:18 AM

A coffee apologist in 1792.
As a practicing physician, Moseley's interest in coffee was mostly medical and, although these debates still continue, he had little time for the uncaffeinated. In a terribly-aged analogy, he compares coffee alarmists to those who raise “declamations against mercury” and “nonsense against tobacco” — equally bunk.
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2/3/2023, 7:44:44 AM

Why Amazon Smile was created. Hint: Not for charity.
Here’s the most messed up part. I used to work at Amazon corporate, let me tell you how the entire program Amazon Smile got created.

So basically, when a customer wants to buy a product, they usually go straight to Amazon.com and enter what they’re looking for. But there’s also a large segment of customers who begin their search on google, and ends up at Amazon. Well guess what. When that type of search to purchase experience happens, Amazon has to pay google. Internally, Amazon thought that if they could force users to go straight to Amazon, offer a small but obviously less amount of money to charity from each customer than would have been paid to google, it would help kill customers going to google, save Amazon more money than paying google, and be good overall for the brand value of Amazon.
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2/2/2023, 7:34:27 PM

I was weirdly disturbed that my oil that I reuse for deep frying went missing the other day. I probably absent-mindedly chucked it, though I did look through the garbage for it. (I did not go as far as checking the trash barrel outside.)

So, today, I reestablished an oil container.
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2/2/2023, 11:58:14 AM

I like this dual-purpose wanted ad/demo.
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2/1/2023, 8:22:38 PM

We got the guy into another swimming session! Miraculous! But we're going to have to leave the house at 9 AM on Saturdays, which is gonna be rough.
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2/1/2023, 10:30:25 AM

Yesterday, I grabbed some books from the library that I thought might be about finding information on schools because I’ve been stuck on the high school research problem. This gambit is not turning out great. This book opens with a quote from Thomas Friedman, possibly the dumbest man to ever be published.
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2/1/2023, 10:22:08 AM

I do a lot of grown-up things these days, but one thing I haven't done is discuss the increase in the price of eggs. Maybe I should attend an egg cost meeting.
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2/1/2023, 6:56:49 AM

Another recounting of a terrible web experience, much like the ones I post about all the time, except this was on a mental health web site, with possible terrible ramifications beyond not being able to pay a bill.
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1/31/2023, 9:12:05 PM

I don't care that this test is incomprehensible to everyone. I got it working, so I'm pushing it! I, however, don't have the energy to use this solution in the side project I had originally encountered it in. Maybe this weekend!

I also fixed a doorknob. I can't tell why it came off, other than a lot of our doors seem crappy, so it'll probably come off again. We had door problems in our last place, too. Now I kind of want the nice commercial doors that you see in offices. But there are literally twenty other home improvements in a spreadsheet ahead of that, so I'm just going to pretend they're fine.
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1/31/2023, 3:50:36 PM

Five deadlifts, 20 light kettlebell snatches. Tempting fate here!
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1/31/2023, 10:44:04 AM

Just look at this amazing planning I’m doing!
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1/31/2023, 8:57:16 AM

I thought of two more large things I have to do right after I posted that last list.
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1/31/2023, 8:34:14 AM

I want to do five large things and seven small things today, which may be too much.
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1/31/2023, 7:43:10 AM

In 2009, a watershed report commissioned by the National Academy of Sciences cast doubt on the discipline, finding that “the uncertainties associated with bloodstain-pattern analysis are enormous,” and that experts’ opinions were generally “more subjective than scientific.” More than a decade later, few peer-reviewed studies exist, and research that might determine the accuracy of analysts’ findings is close to nonexistent.
I remember someone going to school for forensics and telling me about studying this. I never questioned whether it really worked.
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1/30/2023, 11:49:15 PM

This is, like, a side side side project, and it is absorbing so much time. I have it mostly rendering inside of its hit bounds (rendered in green), but I think I’m still doing something slightly wrong with rotation that’s making it go outside the bounds.
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1/30/2023, 8:57:57 PM

A stained glass panel…filled by a generative grammar!
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1/30/2023, 8:03:00 PM

Music programming group should happen tonight, but the only other guy that shows up regularly is out, and I am wiped. Yesterday’s run? Worse than average sleep yesterday? It is a mystery. I’ll try to do at least one thing, and then allow collapse.
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1/29/2023, 11:24:36 PM

Well, I am once again stymied by SVG transform operations. I just want things to translate and rotate without going somewhere weird!
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1/29/2023, 6:22:29 PM

Trying the Kenji Alt-Lopez wok deep frying method. Things really do get up to temp way more quickly.
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1/29/2023, 6:07:59 PM

One nice thing about having a glass pot is that you could see the journey of the Brussels sprout under the water here.
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1/29/2023, 4:00:56 PM

30-minute run, 14 pull-ups. I eagerly await back results.

I ended up going through this secret village where everything is brick.

I also ran by the Rich Guys’ houses. (Though, maybe the brick guys are also rich? Their houses aren’t as big, though.) I thought about how they likely do not think of themselves as rich, according to studies that I do not have a citation for. I wonder what problems are expanding to fill their brains.
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1/29/2023, 1:05:26 PM

Here is some Sunday comfysynth for you. It is called Rabbit's Shop.

I had to give up on some things to keep it comfy! The NES-style RPG dialogue wouldn't fit in, nor would the harp glissando. I also had tempo changes that sounded good but would probably prevent people from moving this to the background part of their listening.
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1/29/2023, 12:48:24 PM

This ending was Too Much.
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1/29/2023, 12:04:14 PM

I figured out how to make something like NES dialogue sounds, and I spent a while trying to fit it into a song, but it just wouldn’t go. So, to assuage the part of my brain that was really into it, I’m posting it here.
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1/29/2023, 10:14:49 AM

The guy is playing SMB3 and he calls mushrooms “Toad Power-Ups.”
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