insonable (u/insonable)

insonable commented on Bending Spacetime in the Basement (1997) fourmilab.ch/gravitation/... · Posted by u/wizardforhire

out-of-ideas · 6 months ago

> This is the consequence of all the forces of physics being gauge invariant: absolute values don't exist—only differences matter

there's something about this quote that i really like, going to have to use it out of context on people

insonable · 6 months ago

sounds like Robert California

insonable commented on Best Buy and Target CEOs say prices are about to go up because of tariffs theverge.com/news/624254/... · Posted by u/aaronbrethorst

throwaway48476 · 6 months ago

Who pays the tariff depends on the relative elasticity of supply and demand.

insonable · 6 months ago

sure, and a good baseline assumption for most consumer goods is that price elasticity of demand is pretty low in the short term, so consumers pay most of the tariff. then in the long run perhaps things change and more non-tariffed substitutes become available resulting in maybe a 50/50 split of "who pays" (after all, the substitutes didn't have comparative advantage before, so are probably a bit more costly to produce). in any case, total quantity sold will be less, consumers benefit less, and suppliers benefit less... but the government does get revenue.

insonable commented on ADHD Didn't Break Me–My Parents Did claimingattention.substac... · Posted by u/asoli

swayvil · 7 months ago

I know. But I'm told they're calling "Aspergers" ADHD now. And the brittleness that comes with habitual focus looks like massive distraction. I mean you've got these guys who can focus to the point of magic, but one push and they crack.

And we're borrowing somebody else's terminology anyway. So don't expect precision.

insonable · 7 months ago

I think you mean it's called ASD or has been rolled into ASD now? ADHD is more of a set of regulation issues than a set of social-cues issues, but I'm oversimplifying.

insonable commented on ADHD Didn't Break Me–My Parents Did claimingattention.substac... · Posted by u/asoli

patcon · 7 months ago

Wouldn't "habitually one-pointed" people be very focussed, rather than distracted?

Or is the idea that a very distracted person being honed into a focussed and aware person is a duality that's valued -- able to live in both worlds? (Rather than a very focussed person being taught to be distracted and highly integrative?)

insonable · 7 months ago

It's a different sort of focus than mainstream, where there's not what a "normal" person would call regulation. So lots of hyperfocus on topics that interest, and little on what others might think is required or needed (which would look like distraction if the person were forced/compelled to focus on things they're not interested in).

insonable commented on Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS vijayp.dev/blog/rewrite-p... · Posted by u/arnath

nayuki · 8 months ago

Really appreciate that you're doing mass-based recipes, and in metric too. I'm tired of all the American recipes with quantities like "2 1/3 cups"; the proliferation of units and fractions makes work needlessly hard compared to just grams and millilitres.

insonable · 8 months ago

it's also just way faster to not mess with the spoons/cups! an exception might be little fussy quantities like a bunch of 1/4 tsps of different spices etc.

insonable commented on Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS vijayp.dev/blog/rewrite-p... · Posted by u/arnath

HumblyTossed · 8 months ago

what's the csv look like?

insonable · 8 months ago

simple like:

title

subtitle

.. [two blank lines make a section break]

ingredients with 4 columns, last one is an optional comment for the row

..

method steps with 2 columns, last one is optional comment

..

then optional sections that just have to have:

section title (this is the collapsed title string too)

any rows included until the next .. etc. etc.

plus just a few tricks like if an ingredient comment has [] then it uses that as a URL for the ingredient, if a row in ingredients has just one column then it's a header etc.

insonable commented on Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS vijayp.dev/blog/rewrite-p... · Posted by u/arnath

johnreagan · 8 months ago

Love the site! Usually desert = dry place and dessert = delicious food.

insonable · 8 months ago

thanks, good point!

insonable commented on Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS vijayp.dev/blog/rewrite-p... · Posted by u/arnath

makizar · 8 months ago

What a beautiful website ! Feels carefully crafted, full of nice moments like the > turning the a - when sections are open in the TOC. Would love to hear more detail on how you went about making it. Did you ever consider sharing parts of the source code ?

insonable · 8 months ago

thanks! i first just made a sample html the way i thought it would be nice, then made that into a templeate, and wrote a python script generate the site. it first scans for all the files to build the menu and homepage, then goes file-by-file to make each one, filling in the blanks in the template as you can imagine. it was pretty natural since my spreadsheets were all following the same format already anyway. i'd be surprised if there was a lot of interest, but if so i'd consider sharing the script/template etc.

insonable commented on Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS vijayp.dev/blog/rewrite-p... · Posted by u/arnath

insonable · 8 months ago

There's a lot you can do with just plain html these days if you just need a clean site. Here's an example from my recipe site (https://xilic.com/recipia/sauces/pesto_traditional.html), mostly for my personal use or sharing with friends, with only html/css. It has expandable boxes, a menu system, etc. A simple script converts a directory structure of .csv files to these recipe cards with a template, and this way you can edit the sources in a spreadsheet and then the publish script just takes whatever is new and re-does the whole lot of html as necessary. Just like we used to do with Apache Forest!

insonable commented on Intuitive introverts lead the most successful teams: study expertfile.com/spotlight/... · Posted by u/thm

pitaj · 9 months ago

Isn't MBTI largely pseudo-science?

insonable · 9 months ago

It's based on analytical psychology from the 1920s as Jung laid out in "Psychological Types." The funny thing is MBTI was developed for carbon copy paper and as an instrument to quickly type people. So they created the 4th column because in their scoring and layout, they couldn't indicate whether the person was more perceptive (N or S) or reasoning (T or F) focused by putting one in front of the other as Jung did, and also, in their test I guess they found it easier to figure out which function type you extraverted rather than what the attitude (introversion or extroversion) of your primary function was directly.

This leads to a lot of confusion. Jung for example might call a type "Introverted Intuitive with Feeling", and in MBTI that is INFJ, where the J means they extrovert the Feeling, but are primarily actually perceivers! Then there's Introverted Feeling with Intuition, which in MBTI is INFP, the P here meaning they extrovert intuition, but since they're primarily introverted they are "introverted feelers" foremost. I think this MBTI formulation has really made Jung's ideas unnecessarily confusing.

Also, Jung himself was not fond of people typing others, and thought people ought to learn the ideas and type themselves and of course allowed and discussed that some are not differentiated strongly in some dimensions, although he did view that as being a sort of lack of development.

So is it science? I guess I'd call it an interesting analytical model and leave it at that.