lorenzowood
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
I recall from my childhood in the 70s and 80s in the UK that there was a brief arms race in chocolate bar sizes. Mars Bars peaked at 68g IIRC.
Comment · 3 months ago
+1 I use Oracle Cloud rather than AWS as their "always free" tier is plenty to run a reverse proxy. As you say, could be anywhere.
Comment · 6 months ago
I had a go. Nice work. Two minor irritations I thought it would help with, but it didn't:
- Lots of iTerm shells open: easy to access, but iTerm’s window titles don't make it easy to find the one I want, and neither does this
- (the big one) Lots of browser windows each with multiple tabs make it hard to find the tab you want if it's not at the front of the window it's in. Would be more compelling if there were a way for it to look inside (eg,) Brave and represent each tab as a window
Otherwise: some lag in updating thumbnails occasionally confusing; it doesn't seem to do anything clever to cope when things spill off the right-hand end (eg, good time to group by app if you weren't already); quitting did not bring the dock back, as claimed.
Comment · 1 year ago
See also Guesstimate https://getguesstimate.com. Strengths include treating label and data as a unit, a space for examining the reasoning for a result, and the ability to replace an estimated distribution with sample data => you can build a model and then refine it over time. I'm amazed Excel and Google Sheets still haven't incorporated these things, years later.
Comment · 1 year ago
"The Water Knife" by Paolo Bacigalupi
Comment · 1 year ago
+1 for @garyseconomics
Comment · 1 year ago
Thought I would try this with a browser plug-in — “This item is not available” says the Chrome store ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Features:
- All cells are named (auto named if you don't set them)
- Cells can have single values, many types of probability distribution, or sample data
- Formulas also produce distributions as first class outputs, because calculation is a Monte Carlo sim
- Each cell also has a pop-up box that invites you to explain your reasoning -- built in documentation
It got so much right. Sample data particularly useful because you can build a probabilistic bottom-up forecast and then update it with real-world data.