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Somewhat related. I've also been generating lots of markdown files, which I've occasionally wanted to print out (so I can rest my eyes, or just read them somewhere other than my desk.) First class (free) printing support for rendered markdown seems like a lacuna in the overall ecosystem. I'm currently using the "print" plugin for VS Code, which opens rendered markdown in a browser window, which I print from there. Curious if anyone knows of better options?

msluyter

5 ay öncediscuss

Really cool deck! Anyone out there play Mu? It's an _excellent_ trick taking card game. One of the few (complex, trick-taking... I'm not counting stuff like Uno in this genre) card games that I know of that works really well with 5 or 6 players. This deck _almost_ would work for Mu, but it'd need different point values. (I keep having to rebuy new Mu games when the deck wears out so I've been contemplating other possibilities.)

msluyter

9 ay öncediscuss

A third problem is that, depending on the project, one's recollection might be pretty fuzzy. A fourth is that, while you might be a great programmer, perhaps you've never had the opportunity to do the work of the design or greenfield development, meaning, you may not have a ton of insight into the design work that went into the project. E.g., perhaps you mostly do maintenance work on a large number of projects, so your overall knowledge of each is fairly shallow.

msluyter

9 ay öncediscuss

Perhaps the joke is that the valence of going backward or forward isn't equivalent. IIRC, some studies show that people will generally accept smaller gains to avoid the possibility of loss. Eg, loss has a greater (negative) emotional impact than equivalent (positive) gains.

msluyter

10 ay öncediscuss

Random family seating anecdote. A couple of years ago, we were on vacation and my wife had to go home early to tend for a sick pet. My daughter and I also re-arranged our flight to get home early, and ended up in like the D boarding group (on Southwest). So we're getting on the plane and we're almost dead last, and there are very few seats left together anywhere. My 6 yr old daughter was not really emotionally equipped to sit alone at that point.

We get about 2/3 of the down and there's now nothing, so I say -- with some desperation -- "If someone would be willing to switch seats so my daughter and I can sit together I'll give you $20." A guy says "I don't want the money but I'll switch."

Which sort of shows that if you're not a jerk, and you ask nicely, often people will go out of their way to help you.

Families who seem to expect other passengers to move, especially when there's assigned seating, are another story, and deserve the condemnation they get, IMHO.

msluyter

3 yıl öncediscuss

Random story.

I used to have a pretty intense phobia about returning things, and 90% of the time I'd opt to just eat the cost rather than doing so.

When we had our first child, we bought this automatic rocker/chair thing. I got it out of the box and put it together -- it had these locking joints where like a spring pin would pop into internal slot, such that once put together it was impossible to disassemble.

Once I'd finished, I put our daughter in it, and when turned on, one part rubbed against part of the structure, making an annoying clicking sound. My wife, half mad from lack of sleep, took one look/listen and told me to get it out of the house. (In much more colorful language).

Just then, our daughter, who was still in the chair, who was wearing diapers a size too small because we'd run out of her normal size, pooped. We quickly got her out but there was a quarter size stain on the fabric. We cleaned that as best we could, but it was still visible.

I collected the pieces, which no longer fit in the box because you couldn't fully take it apart, put as much in the box as I could, and took it back to the store. As I stood in line for the return with this overstuffed box with various rods & parts sticking out all askew, I kept replaying horror scenarios in my mind. Like the clerk taking it out of the box and shouting in front of everyone "YOU CAN'T RETURN THIS, YOU MONSTER, IT HAS POOP ON IT!"

The clerk barely glanced at the box. I'm no longer afraid of returning things.

msluyter

3 yıl öncediscuss

A compelling narrative on the topic that went around a number of years ago:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2005/12/my-coffeehouse-nigh...

msluyter

4 yıl öncediscuss

"- Accelerate game play by automating score keeping and timekeeping"

Yes indeed, this is huge. I'm thinking of you, Through the Ages, with your incredibly fiddly and easy to make mistakes in upkeep rules. Our first few run throughs were pretty much ruined because someone made an early mistake in their favor that snowballed over time. Imagine if everyone had an iPad in place of their game board that would largely eliminate mistakes.

Similarly, back when Dominion came out, there were some online servers where you could play (I believe they were mostly shut down), and it was such a nicer experience because you didn't have to spend all of your time reshuffling your deck.

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