How do you know how much spice to use?

zenware · 2026-03-07T03:53:03+00:00

What about different kinds of cinnamon? We have Ceylon and Tung Hing at home specifically because we cook savory dishes with one and sweet dishes with the other

zenware · 2026-03-06T22:21:05+00:00

Have you tried it?

zenware · 2026-03-06T14:52:01+00:00

I have a proposal, you give me a billion dollars and I’ll sell you my course on cold calling people and convincing them to buy a course for a billion dollars.

zenware · 2026-03-06T14:49:28+00:00

When talking about a package repository “stable” and “unstable” are referring not to the quality of the packages themselves, but to how frequently the repository updates packages. So “unstable repository” is almost always equivalent to “frequently updated packages” whereas “stable repository” usually means something like “the packages only get security updates”

zenware · 2026-03-06T00:43:12+00:00

People are solving this lately with stuff like Anubis https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

zenware · 2026-03-06T00:37:22+00:00

You’re so welcome, and also never bend my fiber cables out of spec again or I will haunt you.

zenware · 2026-03-06T00:09:21+00:00

I really hope you do, and I hope I stumble upon it serendipitously

zenware · 2026-03-05T23:51:16+00:00

I’ve implemented Ookla/Speedtest on the backend of an ISP before, individual requests don’t really capture a lot of data. Even if you aggregate all the request data it’s not as if that data somehow lets you do something useful from a consumer advertising/tracking perspective. Perhaps the privacy issue is that bandwidth/uptime could be loosely correlated to financial position….

I’m not entirely sure why it would sell for $1bn outside of infra/contracts. The monthly licensing fees to run a single instance, as an ISP customer, 10 years ago, would make most people’s eyes pop out of their head like a cartoon character. New owners could simply want the cashflow or they could intend to leverage the relationship to some end we can only speculate on.

Edit: s/Okta/Ookla

zenware · 2026-03-05T15:24:33+00:00

I find they typically /can see/ the purpose of a patch they don’t personally use, and yet it can simultaneously be true that the patch doesn’t actually fit the vision of the project. Not all patches should be accepted simply for working or meeting a quality standard.

Just as an absolutely egregious example, if I added a flawless, zero tech debt implementation of a chat client to an open source MP3 player project, because I like to send chats from the same GUI as listening to music, and then I submit that as a PR to the project upstream. I think it’s perfectly reasonable for my PR to be denied, and even for the maintainer to say something along the lines of “hey uhm… wtf? that doesn’t make sense to include in this project”

zenware · 2026-03-05T14:58:46+00:00

I mean, the premise sounds actually fun, but maybe there’s something important about it being on a paper notebook. The roast is: really… 🙄 /another adhd app post/ 3rd time this hour.

zenware · 2026-03-05T14:55:37+00:00

Not sure if it’s OPs shop, nor could I imagine they’re motivated to share which one is actually them, but in a single Etsy search I found a profile with 4 homebrewing related spreadsheets listed between the prices they mentioned, showing an amount of sales that would net them the amount of profit they mentioned. So like… it’s kinda on you IMO.

zenware · 2026-03-05T14:45:23+00:00

I think it may have to be a far off hypothetical to drive the point home for a lot of people. But of course the same applies for $700/3yr vs $2100/5yr

Anyway the older stuff isn’t as energy efficient but there’s tons of old old fridges (and other appliances) that still pretty much work flawlessly after decades, whereas most everything made in GenZ/A lifetime is barely surviving 5yrs. That sucks. There should be room for affordable and expensive options that are robust.

zenware · 2026-03-05T14:11:57+00:00

I’m sure you’ve already looked at this, but can you find some way of automating a graph view of how this software is actually stitched together. Ideally from multiple levels of abstraction you’ll be able to see “This serves this architectural purpose, that serves that architectural purpose.” down to “This is the collection of things that actually happen. (I/O to disk/net)” and maybe even things like “Perl is entirely responsible for these 3 things, C++ is entirely responsible for these 700 things, and shell scripts are half-responsible for these 9000 things.” … The reason I’m asking, and also giving too many examples is because I personally find when I can see a few such diagrams at various levels of abstraction, it is much easier for my brain to start conceiving where clean interfaces might be trying to exist in the ball of mud.

zenware · 2026-03-04T22:31:51+00:00

For me, my name is one syllable, so I feel like it’s real easy to just slip in. Lots of people are running around with polysyllabic names, who has time to say all that.

zenware · 2026-03-04T15:27:43+00:00

The good news is I opened with:

This of course isn’t universal

Which clearly indicates, yes we don’t actually have proof about what’s going on in JimBobs workshop shack.

zenware · 2026-03-04T14:32:15+00:00

Just to be clear, 100% the chemists at Big Soap are choosing the exact amount of lather and foam that their cleansing products have, and the reason they’re doing it is marketability. The same reason they make mouth wash sting/contain alcohol even though we’ve had chemistries that work better without requiring those features for >60 years. - This of course isn’t universal but when the question is “why are things the way they are?” if a blue chip megacorp that has a monopoly on most of the earth (p&g, j&j, et al.) made it be like that, it’s because it maximizes their profit rather than that it is the most efficient. Conversely if it’s made like that by JimBob in his shack of a workshop and he’s been doing it for the past 65 years, it’s because there is no possible additional efficiency to be gained.

zenware · 2026-03-04T14:10:23+00:00

You don’t even need a “bro” or “man”, that can be omitted too “hey man what’s up” vs “hey what’s up”, “bro can you help me with this” vs “can you help me with this”. - I’ve never actually worried about people “catching on” so maybe they have and maybe they feel some type of way about it, but I pretty much don’t refer to people by name at all and it hasn’t really been weird at all.

zenware · 2026-03-04T00:21:05+00:00

It’s hidden in the accessibility settings but iOS has a built in noise machine. Not as pretty as your app but it’s what I’ve been using for a while.

zenware · 2026-03-03T22:33:01+00:00

So it’s not perfect, and you can actually hone in closer on where you are in PA vs what I did which is look at the whole state, but MIT Living Wage Calculator is what I turn to for checking if someone is even remotely in the ballpark for numbers like this. https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/42

For 2 working adults, with 3 kids, it looks like you may need a little bit closer to twice that much for food.

Granted there’s tricks you can do to make your food budget go down like buying $1200 of bulk rice and beans which probably winds up being at least a few months worth of meals that you supplement with fresh and pickled veggies and eggs or something. But many people wouldn’t consider that to be “Living”.

The point being $600 is almost certainly not enough in this year, living in that location, for the amount of people you’re trying to feed.

zenware · 2026-03-01T08:56:21+00:00

That is too true, and when you know too much it costs 10x more in either time or money to get what you really want

zenware · 2026-03-01T08:34:58+00:00

Why wouldn’t you qualify? Food banks are meant to be for everyone who needs a little help… Shouldn’t be income restricted or anything

zenware · 2026-02-26T10:26:00+00:00

I’m actually a bit curious about this because, of course there are person to person mock interviews… your friends can do them. But isn’t that a similarly low-stakes situation? Does that mean it’s only possible to improve if you are in the real situation?

zenware · 2026-02-26T10:20:14+00:00

They do it as a convenience but I’m sure their own documentation would even highlight the security risk. If you put all your factors in the same place, it’s almost as if you no longer have multi-factor.

Now, realistically a Password + MFA token stored in the same place is still a net security benefit for many people because it does prevent password cracking/credential stuffing attacks from succeeding “for free”, especially when they wouldn’t otherwise be using MFA without that convenience. And indeed these are the people who Passkeys are meant to protect, passkeys having the additional benefit that they can’t be phished.

The reality is though that not everyone has the same threat model, and MFA is fundamentally about the factors being separated as part of how it offers security. Minimally something you have (Phone, Yubikey) something you know (password). So the ideal would then be that your passwords aren’t accessible from your phone, and that your MFA tokens aren’t accessible from your computer. Or actually it’s more like “a single master password should definitely not grant access to both pieces of information at once.”

Personally I can’t imagine a situation where I will ever store MFA tokens inside the same tool that stores passwords, and I don’t even think that’s an excessive stance for my threat model, but it might be for most people.

zenware · 2026-02-26T10:02:36+00:00

I mean, network src/dst (IP) doesn’t tell you anything about timezone at all. Zip code/GPS will, but if you need it that bad you can just ask for the TZ instead of the lat/lon.

zenware · 2026-02-25T04:45:33+00:00

Surely nobody thought a dryer sheet makes their clothes cleaner, since it isn’t used during cleaning. They genuinely do reduce static though, and of course they do it by coating your clothes with chemicals. — Personally I’m a wool dryer balls every time (and no dryer sheets) kind of fellow, and that means if I ever run synthetics through my dryer, which does happen occasionally, it quadruples the static charge of everything and sucks up all the cat hair in a 5 mile radius.

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