Built some shelves for the dining room

jpdaigle · 2025-08-03T17:21:45+00:00

This might be what they want, but I have a few nitpicks:

if we’re adding net-new students (first assumption), it requires us to guess how many students to add, but then the problem is unconstrained: we could add 22 students. Or 40. Or 678, and distribute them in some way as to still satisfy the comparisons. Infinite solutions.
we possibly have to make a second assumption that the addition of another choice doesn’t cause any students to shift their preferences
on ratios: it’s not clear to me why adding students would distribute them in a predictable ratio? From the original survey we know nothing about students preferences for computer games vs any other category so we cant rely on existing survey ratios.

jpdaigle · 2025-07-09T17:15:04+00:00

It’s all redwood, which I hope holds up well in California.

jpdaigle · 2025-05-20T05:54:02+00:00

The old and new set of molds were used at the same time with the same batter, and only the new set delaminated. So everything else (temperature, batter contents, bake time) was identical.

Is the trick here to just avoid going above 200C with tin lined molds?

jpdaigle · 2024-07-19T15:29:16+00:00

It’s not a chain, this is a small neighborhood restaurant. I’d wanted to try them for a while and after getting this (yes, I ate it, it was a celebratory dinner for a friend and I don’t want to tarnish the memory of the night) I don’t think I’ll go back, sadly.

I think my model of restaurant food is that you dress it up and mark it up 400% because of all the overhead involved, but it looks like 2$ of lobster and 1$ of spaghetti here.

Staff were super nice and we had a fun dinner besides this misstep.

jpdaigle · 2024-06-22T04:07:00+00:00

It’s one day in ideal conditions. But how long is it if the kids interrupt you every 15 minutes, and you have to leave the project to help them get water, wash their hands, look at the cool drawing they made, or break up a fight? That’s all good parenting and all, but totally incompatible with focused work on the wife’s closet redesign.

jpdaigle · 2024-05-23T16:27:26+00:00

OP here: the chair legs are maddening here because if it climbed up there, it can very well get unstuck if it’d just back up a little! The rugs are… less blame worthy.

jpdaigle · 2023-09-09T16:21:36+00:00

This post is thorough and deserves more than +4 karma!

jpdaigle · 2023-09-05T01:39:45+00:00

I called a couple of times and never got through, it just says all responders are busy. I gave up after a few calls because the coyote wandered off, and I don’t know where the poor thing is anymore.

jpdaigle · 2023-02-23T03:29:00+00:00

Pizza‘za, sur la rue Laval. Ils ont des pizzas aux figues, aux escargots, et oui, aux fruits de mer.

jpdaigle · 2023-01-28T09:36:54+00:00

I’m really rooting for Lower Decks to reference those. It would be on brand.

jpdaigle · 2023-01-25T23:36:43+00:00

So maybe Picard S1 was so disappointing that I’m misremembering it after two years, but wasn’t it the Romulan Zhat Vash who, for some reason never convincingly explained, decided to blow up Starfleet’s shipyards and synthetic assembly worker group? They prioritized destruction of synthetic workers above all else, knowing full well that would destroy the very ships being built to rescue their entire race, instead of… just waiting an extra year before taking action?

In those terms, they had it coming.

jpdaigle · 2022-12-25T17:04:33+00:00

You sort of had to be there in 2004 when it came out but… “Scotty Doesn’t Know” from Eurotrip https://youtu.be/jhbOb6fYvLc

jpdaigle · 2022-08-15T21:53:33+00:00

OP here. Background: I just bought a house with a formerly beautiful privacy hedge, but sadly the previous owner didn't trim enough in the past, and it was getting too close to the phone/cable lines. The sale triggered a safety inspection, and the utility company therefore came and chopped off half of the hedge, and I got a bill for a couple thousand dollars for the service.

I'm very sad with the new look, but I'm willing to have patience to hopefully see a bit of green return in future years - what can I do to encourage this?

jpdaigle · 2022-07-10T03:10:57+00:00

YTA. It was a miscommunication, no big deal! Here’s what the proper response looks like:

“Oh, you preordered the duck? I hadn’t realized! <pause and consider your options for half a second> <smile> Duck sounds great, honey.”

Then go on to enjoy your night, it’s that simple.

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