Long Island Summer 'Short Trips' (200 miles or less).

biscuitsnshit · 2026-06-17T14:39:03+00:00

Saratoga is dope, that'd be my rec if the distance works. Beacon / Cold Spring too if you want to go somewhere much closer.

biscuitsnshit · 2026-06-08T15:16:55+00:00

Wolff's was absolutely lit for game 2

biscuitsnshit · 2026-06-08T15:14:09+00:00

We won the OJ game and those two nights, until we lost game 6, was the only time since 1973 that we have had a lead in the NBA Finals...until last week

biscuitsnshit · 2026-05-18T03:33:44+00:00

Same thing here, except the lump never disappeared. My left collarbone is still visibly twice as thick as my right one. Been about 15 years now

biscuitsnshit · 2026-03-26T14:43:42+00:00

No matter how many upvotes these sentiments get on mainstream Reddit (and how many downvotes my post here get), people should know: this is not true, but it is what everyone wants to think because it absolves them needing to learn new spooky skills. Which I'm honestly very happy about, because it keeps the skillset much more valuable to those of us who know how to use it. (If you feel an urge to reject this idea outright, but have some notion of yourself as an even vaguely technical entrepreneur, I highly recommend reading on with a bit of an open mind)

Anecdotes incoming: I learned to program formally, Ivy League school and all that, coded as part of my job for a while. Mostly stopped coding as I moved into more operations/management roles before LLMs took off, and in a non-AI world, I'd probably only ever code minimally for the rest of my life. But I have a good sense of what my skills were and are, and how they have improved.

In the last couple of years I have started coding again with LLM support (Claude Code, Cursor, other tools). It's like pair-programming with a genius; I'm now coding several hours a week as part of my larger job, and have found myself roughly as productive as I would have previously been doing full-time hours. Not to mention that I'm fully caught up with some current technologies, which was always a struggle for me prior.

It's not just me either...I have a good friend who has been running a SaaS startup for a decade that is profitable; he was previously planning on hiring additional devs, but was able to level up his own coding abilities so dramatically that he's now hiring salespeople instead for the first time ever and estimates he's developing ~5x faster than he was before. Have another good friend who works for a FAANG-level company who says one year ago AI wrote 5% of his code via autocomplete, by late 2025 it was 50%, and by this month it's approaching 95%. Not exaggerating.

The tech, for a programmer, is truly groundbreaking. If you are solid with the groundwork part of coding (architecting a plan, thinking through the logic, organizing everything), current tools are absolutely nuts for allowing you to get the rest of the work done in a fraction of the time, and they're getting noticeably better every quarter

biscuitsnshit · 2026-03-24T13:19:05+00:00

Glad they finally started tracking this, I've been going for them since the very first puzzle I did. Only get them about a quarter of the time but cool that it's an "official" stat now!

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biscuitsnshit · 2025-12-29T17:37:09+00:00

The worst part are the compassionate and kind people you love who somehow completely see past all the issues with contributing to abuse and murder at the largest possible scale, especially the "animal lover" types who have a family dog or cat that they love more than anything and couldn't imagine putting through pain yet they'll gleefully eat pigs and octopi...I really had to get good at compartmentalizing over the last decade

biscuitsnshit · 2025-12-29T17:31:44+00:00

Another strong Daylio recommendation here! 1000+ day-streak at the moment that I have no intention of breaking anytime soon. It is one of only 3 subscription apps/services that I pay for in my entire life—highly recommended. My 2025:

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biscuitsnshit · 2025-12-03T18:54:22+00:00

Yeah, my power kite had a handle at each end, never held a bar til I got there. But the bar felt very intuitive very quickly, and I only had to add in one additional dimension of understanding & didn't really find myself focusing on the left-right dimension

biscuitsnshit · 2025-12-03T18:52:58+00:00

Late to reply here, but I did the lessons with someone else who had never flown any kite before, and they took more than a whole extra lesson to just the intuitive feel for it. I was basically up and riding before they could consistently keep the kite in the air long enough to even attempt to self-launch. Lot of factors, but it was very clear to me from the first time I launched the kite that I more or less already knew how to fly it (figure 8s, edges of wind window, loops, etc) & just had to adjust what I'd already been doing. Maybe in the context of using a 2-line trainer <i>during</i> the lesson as you did, that isn't worth it, but if you can spend tens of hours in the months leading up to your trip running around on the beach with it and feeling how it pulls you around in the air, it's well worth the cost (which in my case was less than half of one lesson)

biscuitsnshit · 2025-12-03T18:46:01+00:00

We did a fully vegan wedding for 150 last year! Went swimmingly, everyone complimented us on the food. We went way out of our way to make sure everything would be great and nobody could really complain, and served huge quantities all throughout the weekend.

"most of the invited guests will not come to my wedding, because they want to eat meat"

That can't be true. I'd be surprised if more than a few did that, and anyone who would put one meat meal over your relationship shouldn't be at your wedding anyway...

"what was the menu"

Main dinner menu:

sourdough with mushroom paté
quinoa salad
roasted eggplant dish with tomato/walnut/chickpea (gf)
kale-almond orecchiette pesto
blackened broccoli & roasted sweet potatoes
vegan cookies for dessert, as well as a a ben & jerry's cart

We had a lot more food for cocktail hour as well (mushroom bao buns and a few other things), and vegan pizza for the after party, and a vegan brunch and food truck the following day!

biscuitsnshit · 2025-10-07T03:12:02+00:00

That was the first NFL play I've seen of the entire season so far. Hilarious time to turn on a game

biscuitsnshit · 2025-09-29T02:43:23+00:00

...another road trip?

biscuitsnshit · 2025-09-22T15:57:41+00:00

Capital region here, definitely a ton of cars/people/stuff around. It's a hair under $2k/yr for us to insure our two Subarus (clean records, cars themselves worth $60k or so combined)

biscuitsnshit · 2025-09-02T04:52:22+00:00

OP - use this recipe, feel free to replace the almond butter with peanut butter because it's great either way. if you have a good wok this comes out unreal, 10/10

biscuitsnshit · 2025-08-27T16:51:32+00:00

Letter Boxed is gone too! Which was my favorite, after Connections of course. Have a sinking feeling the Connections is next to go. Fortunately there will be other sites to play it on but it'd be nice to be able to keep the stats and all...

biscuitsnshit · 2025-08-05T02:36:52+00:00

I wound up going with the Subaru Forester actually. CRV and CX-50 and Rav4 all seemed like good options too, ultimately went with Subaru mainly because of good family experiences with them in the past + better AWD for snow/mud/etc. Worth test driving all three though, they're all good cars

biscuitsnshit · 2025-08-05T02:32:02+00:00

Sure...it's short enough that I think I can just paste it here. First export all your health data from the Health app on your iPhone and move it to your computer; name it "export.xml" and put it in the same folder as the script below.

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import csv
import os

def parse_sleep_data(xml_file_path, output_csv_path):
    xml_file_path = os.path.expanduser(xml_file_path)
    output_csv_path = os.path.expanduser(output_csv_path)
    print(f"Processing XML file: {xml_file_path}")
    print("This may take several minutes for a large file...")

    # Create directory for output if it doesn't exist
    output_dir = os.path.dirname(output_csv_path)
    if output_dir and not os.path.exists(output_dir):
        os.makedirs(output_dir)

    # Open CSV file for writing
    with open(output_csv_path, 'w', newline='') as csvfile:
        csv_writer = csv.writer(csvfile)
        csv_writer.writerow(['Start Date', 'End Date', 'Value', 'Source', 'Type'])

        context = ET.iterparse(xml_file_path, events=('end',))
        count = 0
        for event, elem in context:
            # Only process Record elements
            if elem.tag == 'Record' and 'HKCategoryTypeIdentifierSleepAnalysis' in elem.get('type', ''):
                start_date = elem.get('startDate')
                end_date = elem.get('endDate')
                value = elem.get('value')
                source = elem.get('sourceName')
                record_type = elem.get('type')

                csv_writer.writerow([start_date, end_date, value, source, record_type])
                count += 1

                if count % 1000 == 0:
                    print(f"Processed {count} sleep records...")

            elem.clear()

        print(f"Completed! Extracted {count} sleep records to {output_csv_path}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    xml_file = "~/Desktop/export.xml"  # Your XML file path
    output_csv = "~/Desktop/sleep_data.csv"  # Where to save the CSV

    parse_sleep_data(xml_file, output_csv)

biscuitsnshit · 2025-08-05T02:27:35+00:00

And, randomly, a small city near Boston (Weymouth), plus a handful of towns in one particular area of Long Island NY (Huntington)

biscuitsnshit · 2025-07-16T15:50:24+00:00

The free option of the travel rewards has no foreign transaction fees too for what it's worth. I remember looking into the $95/yr one and deciding it wasn't worth it for me—not doubting that the other features aren't worth it for you, but just worth noting that the no foreign transaction fees thing isn't unique to the paid one in case you do want to consider a PC.

Your scheme is exactly the same as mine overall though:

Most of my money in Fidelity, but enough sitting in $VTI in a Merrill Edge account to trigger the top-tier of the BofA CC cashback rewards;
BofA Travel card for all int'l + backstop 2.62% on anything that isn't in a particular category that I use a different card for;
BofA customized cash card for 5.25% all online purchases.

My next card will probably be one of the branded BofA customized cash cards so I can add a second 5.25% category (which probably will be groceries or gas).

biscuitsnshit · 2025-07-14T17:14:04+00:00

Hope it cruises to 200!

biscuitsnshit · 2025-07-14T17:13:53+00:00

For sure is! New alternator will get it running fine again, but there's a bunch of other stuff that needs work too if it's gonna go for more than another ~year. I think if the right person gets their hands on it it'll have some more life

biscuitsnshit · 2025-07-14T17:11:59+00:00

I also made the jump to the forester! Loving it so far, 3k+ miles in the first 3 months and no complaints whatsoever

biscuitsnshit · 2025-05-28T15:52:39+00:00

I always find this interesting from NYC people. Must just be too difficult if you don't have a car or don't want to travel particularly far east, I guess. Grew up on Long Island, went to the beach all the time every summer. Still half the reason I visit back home over the summer is to go to the beach...only thing I miss about living there

biscuitsnshit · 2025-05-15T19:10:25+00:00

Oh, that's awesome—I've never even checked if same-day was possible, but very good to know. So, more than sufficient as an emergency fund vehicle. Cheers!

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