trek.bsky.social
Helped start Ann Arbor's OG Coworking community, couponed at Groupon, usually working to get some startup acquired. Ember.js core emeritus. Paul Irish once called me a hero. ❤️ Ruby and JavaScript. 🏳️🌈. 📍Chicago.
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Did Grindr replace its product managers with AI? This has all the trappings of a “pay now to use this feature” interstitial without the underlying rationale and “follows the pattern but in the wrong context” seems very AI-coded.
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bsky.app/profile/bwd....
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Time man, how does it even work?
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Oh! I just assumed autocarrot screwed you over.
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That really does seem to bear out.
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Right! And the answer for substitutions depends on what the ingredient is for! Butter and oil you can often swap for function but certainly not for taste.
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What’s shakes out from noodling over that problem, I’m still unsure.
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My central thesis is that, with the loss of HomeEc most people don’t know how to operate their kitchen. We have recipes and technique tutorials aplent; those are necessary but not sufficient
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Girl, me too.
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“Chicken soup is a <word>. Here are five recipes to make it”
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That’s what i was leaning towards too, but people also use it to mean the prepared item one is about to eat.
But that’s English for ya!
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Recipes, which have within them either indivisible items (“food”) or other recipes.
But there’s no such thing as “a” recipe for chicken soup. What do you name the thing that is the concept of chicken soup, not each way it could be prepared
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Conceptual name for the group
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But these aren’t food specific! Perhaps there is no such word. The first three are also programming terms so can’t be overloaded to mean something else in a system sadly.
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Or imagine the phrase “versions on a theme”. What’s the synonym for theme in the domain of food?
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You tell me! bsky.app/profile/trek...
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What is the term for the OG “Stout”
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One of three hardest problems in computer science!
So take Chill. There are 20 recipes we have for Chili. They are all variants of Chili. A recipe for tomato soup is also a recipe but not a variant of Chili.
What’s the name for things like Chili?
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Variants is the name of items the group though. What’s the group?
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I thinking more that there are many different preparations of a Ceasar Salad. What's the noun for that collection?
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Hm, but that already has a specific culinary meaning of the little bits and bobs served on the side that accompany some main prepared item.
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Join in the conversation since it's apparently public anyway!
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The way I got angry stares with every "and how will we keep the client from requesting related data in a way we didn't index and bringing down the entire DB?"
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"clients should be able to execute arbitrary graph queries" was like the core pitch in the early days though.