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As a EE nerd, I love this project. As a parent, it's the sort of toy I want to smash as the repetition drives me insane.

What should I make that captures the awesomeness of this project without the insanity? Hmm...

As someone who has done this to many games over a few decades, I can definitively say: 100% of the time, it ruins the fun of the game.

I can't say exactly why. Maybe you feel like you haven't earned it. Maybe it's the idle nature of farming that we really enjoy...

I run tech at a venture studio (gateway.xyz) and I _rely_ on part time developers.

None of our businesses sell software and none have any full time engineering support. That said, there are lots of little tools that have been custom built to enable the businesses to scale. It's not enough to support full time roles, so I go to part time contractors when I need it.

Weirdly, I struggle to find part-timers with availability! Where have you been looking? I'll make sure I start posting in those places.

We use MUX now. They have excellent support (They've helped us fix a number of things that we screwed up ourselves) & a very reliable service.

I've never used imgix but I find Cloudinary (and specifically the Media Optimizer product) to be extremely reliable, reasonably priced, and as close to zero-maintenance as a thing can be.

We actually switched FROM cloudflare TO cloudinary. CF seemed cheaper, but we found the service, the dashboard, and the service to be wildly erratic. Price went all over the place, we'd get double billed, the dashboard would stop working for a week.

Maybe Cloudinary is more expensive (though not by a lot for our use case) but I can say that nobody has had to log in or think about it for months. The thing just works.

Most of the CF add-on services seem to be hobby-quality. We used to use their video stream/encoding service too but have since switched to another more robust platform.

We have a slack channel, #aws-budget-alerts, where AWS sends a notification any time our forecasted spend reaches certain milestones or the actual spend reaches certain milestones.

It's a really easy to set up app!

Fun! It's very pretty. I'd love to see you keep developing around this (same game or similar games). You've got an eye for it for sure.

Good question. Most turmeric roots I've bought aren't nearly as bright orange as the powered stuff. I _assume_ that means they're not applying the same chromate brightening agent but it's not impossible.

I guess I'll have to start growing it myself...

If you're consuming it as a supplement it's a lot cheaper (and safer) to just make it yourself. The process is basically: cut it up into thin slices, dry it out in the oven, grind it up.

If you're not taking it in supplement quantities, then I'm not sure I'd be tremendously worried about any other contamination...

I find the pattern of "How are you feeling about X, 0-10?" followed up by "What would get you to a 10?" very useful. Almost nobody ever says 10 and when they do, when you pressure test it, "So, everything is 100% perfect and you want it to stay the same forever?" it gets revised down appropriately.

"What would get you to a 10" is as very constructive way to think about it as well. It's not just complaining, it's articulating what you'd like to change.

Once teams get used to this, it comes part of the vernacular, "I'm only 6/10 on this idea". The follow up is always, "What would get you to a 10"

The best way to learn is to build something for someone else. When someone else sets the requirements you have to engage in real problem solving and research the best tech to solve the problem. This keeps you from following just the easiest path as well as exposes you too new ideas.

You can do this at work, for a local non profit, for your friend's weird startup idea, ...

Can you explain more? It seems like you're arguing with yourself.

You say if we ban one substance, they'll just come out with a less tested, less understood, and likely worse new one. I probably agree with this!

Then you say we have to just take it away, like a kid who is being irresponsible with a ball. I understand this means you think we should ban the materials.

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If we ban these substances, won't research just pour all the more heavily into the new ones, causing the 1st scenario you mentioned? Are you suggesting we ban research into _any_ new materials whatsoever?

This could be true, but isn't the whole story. Cars tend to be sold more and more as they age, for lower and lower prices. In fact, where I live (Honduras), many of the vehicles were "totaled" in the US, sold as salvage in the US, then imported to Honduras and fixed. My daily driver is an SUV that was a salvage title from Wisconsin. It has a little over 150,000 miles on it and I'm pretty sure my mechanic can keep it running over 200,000.