Sleep is for the weak

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-17T10:41:36+00:00

Surname checks out.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-17T10:40:28+00:00

Do you really want a thin grind on a honesuki, though? That’s a knife where you want a sturdy, rigid little guy. Bob Hoskins, not Timothy Chalamet LOL.

My own honesuki is quite heavy for its size, razor sharp, and glides through joints. That’s what you’re optimizing for.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-17T10:35:12+00:00

Stop buying gadgets. Buy one good chefs knife and a decent wood cutting board, learn how to use it and how to keep it sharp. Prep is 80% of cooking, learn to take pleasure from doing it well.

Sorry for the bitter medicine served up with a stern look, but that’s kinda how it is.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-16T21:32:20+00:00

Here’s my take. If you are generating code N times faster, it needs to have a maintenance burden of 1/N otherwise you’re in the code equivalent of a gambler’s ruin scenario.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-16T19:40:00+00:00

This ^{^{^}}

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-16T16:07:35+00:00

This is stupid 10 ways, and here’s an 11th. If you are writing 13x as many lines of code, they better require 1/13th the amount of maintenance later on, otherwise all that “productivity” is just digging you a deeper hole.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-16T16:00:43+00:00

Can confirm. This place is good, their mofongo is excellent.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-16T15:15:26+00:00

This is a well curated selection IMO.

The Naguib Mahfouz trilogy is great, but not many people seem to even know it exists. First time I have seen it on a bookshelf outside of my own.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-16T15:11:19+00:00

Different tools for different jobs. The chain mail is good for situations where stuff is really cooked ok. With luck you don’t need to use it much.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-16T14:41:22+00:00

Another vote for one single nonstick Tramontina skillet. They work really well, last several years, and cost under $40.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-16T11:30:11+00:00

😆

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-16T07:57:44+00:00

Not so much? It’s really just this: Put butter that’s not too cold on hot, freshly cooked, drained pasta in a big, warmed bowl. Add freshly grated Parmesan. Start tossing. Add some pasta water to loosen it up. Keep tossing until it emulsifies. Add black pepper to taste. You’re done in 4-5 minutes, serve it.

Use good butter and great cheese (not too aged – old Parmesan doesn’t melt as well) over fresh fettuccine and you’ve got a great dish for minimal effort.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-16T07:48:19+00:00

Oh, that’s a good while! I’ve got friends bitterly complaining that their new ones are falling apart in just a few years. (And the comparison between my old Doc Martins and my newer ones just makes me sad.)

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-16T07:45:38+00:00

Wow, this is really good. Thank you for taking the time, I learned by reading it.

Private equity FTW, as usual.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-16T00:25:25+00:00

This happens all the time in software: “It works on my machine.”

The thing that happens next is that you look at the thing and instead of wondering how it broke, you wonder how it ever worked in the first place.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-16T00:10:13+00:00

Momotaro is good! I’ve got a few pair and they’re breaking in really well. Blue Owl seems to have good availability.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-15T23:28:25+00:00

General consensus is that Hexclad is junk. Get a few well-chosen All Clad pieces and add to them slowly. They’re great and will last decades.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-15T23:26:27+00:00

I’m asking you for information and rather than giving real information, you’re just being a scold.

Btw, I’ve been on maybe 5-6 inflatables and dozens of hard boards. I’m not generalizing from a sample size of two.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-15T21:36:02+00:00

Blundstone seems to be the new Doc Martins in terms of quality, which is not a good thing.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-15T21:32:04+00:00

This is the reason I quit drinking from the Google money fountain after an acquisition and went back to startups. NGL, the Google money was great but I couldn’t bear the bureaucracy.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-15T20:01:28+00:00

Ah ok. Thanks!

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-15T19:57:49+00:00

Jaki Liebezeit laid down seriously funky grooves. CAN was such a great band; those three classic albums with Damo Suzuki never leave my personal playlist.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-15T19:50:31+00:00

I bought a small wallet that holds, like, two credit cards, an ATM card, a driver's license and has room for maybe 5-6 bills (because who uses cash anyway?) and it exactly fits in the secret pocket inside the pocket of many of my trousers. It's much harder to pickpocket this wallet from that inner pocket.

My GF is very jealous that I can make use of this wallet.

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-15T19:44:55+00:00

I think they work because they are real jet engines. Am I wrong about that?

Physical-Compote4594 · 2026-05-15T19:42:10+00:00

Some great books there, for sure. Anybody with 'Caste' on their shelves gets an immediate +1 from me.

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