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I’m piecing together through their website, online articles, etc. that the photographer shoots a lot of film. So perhaps other than a deliberate stylistic choice, the magazine used whatever photo made sense for that block of text.

In any case, they’re all quite nice photos so I don’t mind too much!

There is at least one semiconductor test platform which uses Excel workbooks as the programming interface. Automotive chips going in to new vehicles today are being tested for functionality using Office 2003 and VBA

The article doesn’t mention lyrics, which has to be one of the biggest contributions a singer provides to a song. Being able to emote through language in addition to music may as well double the effect a song may have on people.

I bought a newer K&E probably 10 years ago. I brought it to college and even took it as a calculator backup to a few exams. It’s still on my desk in the office.

But I find it mostly stays on my desk. Operating a slide rule requires intentionality, and most of the time I really only want a quick answer. An RPN calculator is probably a permanent fixture on my desk.

I should get more use of my slide rule, though, just to practice that intentionality: sharpening the estimation skills needed to get the order of magnitude right, and the planning skills of what scales to use, what order, etc. so that the calculation is quick and the result is accurate. These skills are still quite useful in the present day, and few times do they come up as well as when using a slide rule.

This paragraph summarized the piece fairly well. It describes the ideology that the author thinks central bankers have:

> The answer may be down to the grip of an economic ideology espoused by tenured Harvard Professors like Larry Summers and Ken Rogoff. Both appear to believe that inflation exceeds in its power all other threats. And that inflation is largely caused by rising wages (even as real wages are falling) - or even the expectation that wages might rise. That to suppress wages and therefore inflation, central bankers are required to continue hiking aggressively even if this does depress demand, raise unemployment and slash wages further.

I don’t think that’s true though. The most mainline Keynesian would say that inflation has many more causes that just wage growth. And since one of the charter goals of the Fed is to reach maximum employment, I would imagine that rate hikes are trying to minimize impact on workers while still keeping inflation down (their real wages intact).

The author, in my mind, has tunnel vision for workers’ rights and wages, and won’t see the impacts of 6% inflation on the lives of that same working class. The rhetoric makes me think that they’re boiling the frog for a more commanded economy.

I used ledger for 2019–2020 and by the end of it I had scripts to pull just about everything automatically, whether via OFX, Plaid, CSV, or PDF. It became a drag when I realized that I’m starting a new job, I’m opening new accounts, &c., and all my tooling would have to be constantly changing.

Now two years later I’m porting my details into Beancount (the tool whose documentation is linked), and I’ve changed my approach to one that seems much more sustainable: once a month, download statements and enter them in with some templates to assist. Maybe I use a CSV parser for credit cards and other high-frequency accounts, but for what I want out of plaintext accounting, I don’t need hours of weekly time to keep decent finances, but perhaps an evening a month.

If you don’t mind me asking, what’s your use case or motivation for having sub-weekly updates to your financial picture?

Because of that article I bought a hot water bottle on Amazon. I’ve had it for about a month now. It’s very pleasing to use to heat a bed in a way that an electric blanket isn’t: it is much faster at warming, gives you heat in exactly the place you want it, and you don’t fear your house burning down using it.

There is not unfortunately.

From my previous research on whole-house fans, they are a wonderful device to have so long as you live in a place where the nights are cool, and most importantly, low-humidity. Unfortunately where I live and it’s 80+% RH at night, a whole-house fan would just give me mold.

Both made by Renée French, wife of Rob Pike!

This news surprises me, as I was just preparing a route in the (iPhone) app. Seems like it hasn’t been updated for me yet.

I haven’t used maps.me much, but generally it’s been a good experience. Other than being told multiple times to make a right turn to keep going straight on a highway, it’s been nice having directions and search that is entirely client-side and blazing fast.

Using it has made me want to contribute to OSM to improve the quality. To hear that it’s changing owners and becoming more of a product is unfortunate.

I’ve used the similar Fluke 80K-40 a number of times up to 20 kVrms. The arcing is always concerning, but it’s surprising how safe it feels to hold.