How did the farmer get his donkey out of the deep ditch? He filled it in with dirt. This is just Aesop's fable. But it falls into the same abstract thinking as where does fat go, C55H104O6+78O2 --> 55CO2+52H2O+energy[0], or what happens to a tree when it burns, CH4+4O2→CO2+H2O (plus heat!)[0]. We have a hard time seeing air (sic) as something tangible. Also, this inability to visualize abstract concepts leads to political points of view such as whether or not aerosol of breath contains disease or invisible gases causes global warming.
Likewise, where does that tree in your backyard come from? It is the product of carbon dioxide and water.
edit: The significance of this thought is when a child is asked where a tree or plant comes from, at least in the US, they inevitably answer the ground when the answer should be rain that falls from the sky and air. With the naive notion a tree comes from the ground we miss the obvious which is the ground doesn't sink when a tree grows from it.
Off topic. When something is on the tip of my tongue, I don't search for it because I have a strange belief that what my mind is trying to do to remember it is fire off neurons associated with the thought or idea, near it, to create the action potential. It is strange that I will eventually remember it within hours or the next day. When the action potential fires the neuron, dendrites are formed between neurons strengthening the memory.
I wonder if there is any truth to that notion? That to solidify a memory, there can't be outside help, that electric chemical signal has to trigger firing the neurons associated with the memory to strengthen their connections.
I wonder if the Cheesecake Factory and Applebees use A/B testing with their menus the same way Netflix uses A/B testing? There is probably a huge demand for data driven decision making for restaurants rather than these spares studies mentioned in the article which most likely are anecdotal. Simply have four different menus with the same items and look at the analytics provided by point of sale system. That is a fun start - up idea.
Most of your favorite restaurants in places like San Francisco, Portland, and New York City engineer their menu by removing least popular menu items once a month or once a season and replace them with what they think their customers currently demand at a price to insure that the restaurant is running at the point of highest efficiency. There are other considerations such a cost of product but most restaurants increase overall demand by using analytics from the point of sale system and the most profitable dishes are not always the most popular. Engineering a kitchen -- and dining room for that matter -- to be efficient without cooks tripping over each other is another whole discussion nonetheless even this ties into what can be added to the menu.
The two biggest mistakes an independent restaurant can make is hard coding a menu and putting the word in Bistro or Basserie in the restaurant name -- the restaurant can't evolve after that. Have any of you been to La Folie on Polk and Green in Russian Hill? That restaurant first opened as a casual French Bistro but the demand was for their caviar by the ounce and Tournedos Rossini which oddly enough was not only their most popular menu item but also not on the menu. So in the mid nineties the average customer was spending $150 - $300 instead of $40 per person.
It is interesting that recipes are not art but rather fact. The same with fashion. I think that SpaceX has trade secrets rather than patents because there is nothing stopping China using the information in a patent whereas a trade secret is obfuscated.
> I admittedly struggle with is knowing when to create a new Nest Module versus a new service in an already existing module
I use the same logic as where to put a font end component. If I'm creating a component for the first time, it sits in the same folder as the parent component. If I need to use it with another component, I refactor it into a common folder. If I create a string transformation function, it exists in the same file that is using it. If I need to use it somewhere else, it gets refactored into utils/strings.js which is a starting place for creating a library.
It solves the problem of 'where does this go?' and 'where did I put it?' 95% of code that I need to find will be physically next to the code that uses it in a file system. If not it will be neatly organized into a common use directory.
For the few times I need to refactor functionality, at that point, I will invest time to make a clear and adaptable API input and output contract.
This is like saying building an abstraction of assembly language like C will put all the software developers out of a job. Rather it creates more opportunities.
It's been years since I've asked a question on Stack Exchange. There comes a point when any place I get caught up nobody can help me. So there are several questions I've answered myself. Of course, working in the same space six months later, I'll have a problem, search for it, and land on the question on Stack Exchange that I've answered months earlier. It's happened a few times.
We are culturally obsessed with "Luke, trust your feelings." There is something extremely wrong and dangerous with Star Wars and that idea to put away reason and just trust our feelings. Joseph Campbell what did you do?
I hate to be the one to have to explain this to you. A private entity is deciding what content is and is not allowed to be hosted on their private servers using their private services. This is very different from government officials that you vote for censoring free speech.
Anyone who doesn't like YouTube's policies are welcome to post their content on Facebook to share with their friends, on Twitter, stream it live on Twitch, or, host it themselves on their own servers.
Makes you shrug when the US military is dependent on India and China for a huge portion of the medicine it uses including antibiotics and other supplies like this.
There are lots of recommendations for protection against coronavirus which are the same as the recommendations for protection against normal flu. If people are implementing them which is very likely, there should be a decrease in normal flu cases. We should be able to quantify how effective they, washing hands frequently, are.
[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/egypt-l...