Sunday, June 30, 2019

  • Always organize elements of information in categories no larger than 9, but preferably ~5 chunks.
  • These are great! https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950. Terrible volume control designs.
  • Beets have nitrates which are good for athletics. Lower heart rate, longer workouts, etc.
  • Remember, diversity is a proven benefit. It applies to decisionmaking, nutrition, genetics, workplace creativity, health, relationships, and much more. But remember, diversity's variable is not race. It's not gender, it's not sex. It's not sexuality. It's not age, weight, or height. Diversity's variables are deeper than that. Diversity's variables are born from our choices as we navigate these lives, born from things we as individuals have control of. Diversity's variables are not born from characteristics that we are born with. If you want multiple flavors of soda for a party, buy multiple flavors of soda - don't pick sodas bottles with differently colored wrappers.
  • Julio Jones' actual first name is Quintorris lol.
  • Organized a lot of my personal stances. I had them written in various documents over the years but I combined them all into one. Each topic (politics, religion, etc) has a few bullets of rationale.
  • USA beat Curacao to advance to semis in the gold cup.
  • KD and Kyrie Irving are going to the nets lol.
  • Changed the Robert/Arlen wedding RSVP.

Saturday, June 29, 2019

  • I had been confusing beef ribs. Notes are below. Bought and smoked them for the first time today! Each rib is almost $4 and 1lb, wow.
    • "short ribs" without any other specifier refer to beef plate short ribs. They're the biggest beef ribs.
    • Chuck short ribs are like plate short ribs (both are from the underbelly and have more meat, like pork spare ribs), but a little smaller.
    • Beef back ribs are the third type. Like baby back ribs for pork. They're the smaller beef rib, but they're still bigger than pork ribs.
    • Just like pork ribs, beef ribs are right next to other expensive cuts (ribeye), so you might see shiners (bones sticking out) from where the butcher tried to cut as close as possible.
    • You cook beef ribs with the membrane ON, unlike pork ribs. This helps keep them together.
    • You don't wrap beef ribs. Because of this, clean smoke is important. Cook a little hotter 275 and go a little lighter on the wood.
    • Bark is everything for beef ribs. Don't spritz until the last couple hours.
    • Total time about 8 hours.
  • Paid rent.
  • Refilled on charcoal (70lbs).
  • Tried the new breakfast burrito from Mickey's. Was good! Bfast burritos are easy, but one thing I liked about theirs is that they crisped the potatoes, almost like tots, so that it added some crunch to the burrito.
  • I had been keeping the intake on the blower mostly closed, but it's easier on the motor to open the inlet when in use.
  • Matchlight charcoal has lighter fluid soaked in, don't use it.
  • Moist snuff is just more finely cut.
  • Engines.
    • V vs Inline. Doesn't change performance a ton, if it's the same combustion volume, but it does give more torque on the lower end. In a V, they share the same crankshaft, so you can push on both sides.. V geometries are usually more compact, because inline cylinders can get long. However, V patterns cause more vibration, if not balanced or dampened.
    • 2 vs 4. For the same displacement volume, the 2 will have a better low end and the 4 will have a better upper end (and wider overall powerband). 4 has higher top speed and higher redline, as well as harder maintenance. The 4 will also be smoother, with less vibration.
  • Design.
    • Don't use grey on colored background. Whiten it up.
    • Offset shadows for text.
    • Use background colors for separation, rather than borders/whitespace.
  • Lerna and Bit are great tools for monorepos with javascript (projects with multiple npm packages).
  • Came across an awesome concept during my mindfulness practice today. "Beginner's Mind". The goal is to become better at everything you do, of course, but that's not the carrot in front of you as you progress. Have the perspective of a beginner, of a child. Ask questions. Be amazed. Be curious. Be humble.
  • Hung the donut poster.

Friday, June 28, 2019

  • Full cycle at netflix. Individual(s) own the full design-dev-test-deploy-operate-support. https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/full-cycle-developers-at-netflix-a08c31f83249. I agree with this model.
  • For democrats, Amazon is the most trusted institution. For republicans, it's the military. https://bakercenter.georgetown.edu/aicpoll/.
  • Market cap is just share price * number of shares. It's the total value of a company.
    • In 2019: MS #1, Apple #2, Amazon #3, Alphabet (Google) #4.
  • Berkshire Hathaway is an american company. I always assumed it was British. They own GEICO, fruit of the loom, and a bunch of other big companies.
  • Good reminder of web form hygiene. https://uxdesign.cc/design-better-forms-96fadca0f49c. Most important: show all options side by side instead of a dropdown, if there are 5 or fewer.
  • I changed my mind. I enjoyed the new Aladdin.
  • USA beat France to advance to the semis.

Thursday, June 27, 2019

  • Using nonstick spray on an already nonstick cooking surface (like teflon) reduces its efficiency. It covers the nonstick coat. It doesn't damage it, per say, but it creates a bunch of unnecessary buildup.
    • Nonstick spray on cast iron is fine. Those pans should be seasoned anyway.
  • Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) does the voice of Chucky in the most recent Child's Play.
  • White holes are the opposite of black holes; nothing can enter, even light. They are just a mathematical construct. Nothing physical can create them.
  • pysnooper is a library that gives you a decorator which helps with debugging, like printing the various in the local scope and such. I still like pdb and breakpoint().
  • You can do some pretty cool customization with jupyter: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-effortlessly-optimize-jupyter-notebooks-e864162a06ee. Notebooks are a useful tool for sharing/collab. I don't use them for my own dev.
  • An IPv4 address is 32 bits, and therefore there are 4.3 billion of them (2^32, also there are 4 octets and each is a number 0-255, or 2^8). There are hundreds of millions reserved (already in use) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses. Eventually, they'll be exhausted. They can be reclaimed for other purposes, resold on markets, etc, but they are finite. IPv4 is 128 bits, with muuuuuuuch more room.
    • But, remember this takes you to a machine. It's an address. You could have multiple domains and multiple sites being served from the same IP address, like my nginx reverse proxy is doing.
  • The conjuring series, the annabelle series, and the nun all take place in the same universe.
  • Both the conjuring and child's play series are ok. Nothing amazing, but still enjoyable.
  • TS and TC are telesync and telecine, bootleg movie formats that are between CAM and DVD.
  • Read Aaron Franklin's BBQ book!
    • I like meathead's a bit more overall, because it goes into the scientific rationale for all bbq decisions and variables.
    • Learned mostly about building your own smoker. Using pure wood fire in an offset, adding baffles to mix the airflow and create more homogeneous temperature, and smokestack height for how hard it pulls.
    • The process is very manual at Franklin. All offsets, oak wood, thermometers, and natural airflow (controlled by doors). Nothing closed-loop. This process could be made simple, more repeatable/dependable, and easier to manage (much less work!) with some simple automation. Just because you're programming something doesn't mean it's doing it differently, it's just more efficient.
    • Start the fire with a piece of juice-soaked butcher paper from yesterday's brisket wrapping :)
    • Wagyu means "Japanese Cow" in Japanese.
    • Try to buy never-frozen. If you see more blood in the package, it was likely frozen.
  • Homemade BBQ sauce with espresso beans - a delicious idea I first saw at Franklin's.
  • Bought a large serrated slicer for brisket, and a boning knife for easier trimming.
  • Watch the new live-action Aladdin. Meh. Loved the idea, did not love the adaptation.
  • The steam room at 24 closes a couple hours nightly for cleaning, usually around 1-2am.

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

  • Finished the donut puzzle.
  • Neck is feeling a little better, as if it were a muscle strain and were fading. I'm never cracking my neck or back or fingers again! The stiffness is kinda annoying while I go cold turkey, but I'm sure it will fade.
  • PassportJS is a good lib for user auth.
  • M&A = mergers and acquisitions.
  • Glass breaks at like mach 4.
  • Max heart rate is about 220 minus your age.

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

  • Pumpkin spice = cinnamon nutmeg ginger clove.
  • Fb's crypto is Libra. The programming language behind it is called Move. It is written in Rust.
  • Popular JS libs: https://blog.bitsrc.io/11-javascript-utility-libraries-you-should-know-in-2018-3646fb31ade. Lodash (underscore) tops the list, obv. Utility functions.  Rambda is #2, a functional library.
  • shift-escape in chrome opens up the browser's own task manager. How am I just now finding this. You can view processes, memory, cpu, and terminate them. It even shows resource usage by tab and by extension, which is an extremely useful thing for determining how your browser is slowing your computer.
  • All round-of-16 games in the women's world cup are now over. Our path to the championship will likely be france-england-germany, which is no easy sequence.
  • Smoked chicken and made tacos again. This time, made the corn tortillas by hand for the first time! They're way better.
  • Cloudfare is the company that offers the standard ddos protection you see (an annoying 1s delay).
  • I'm never cracking my neck again! Twisted a little too far and might have tweaked the muscle a little bit. Wasn't really painful, but it's just a scary area to mess with. Beyond muscle issues, you can tear the arteries and cause a blot clot that goes up into your brain, causing a stroke. Nottttt worth it.
  • A little React work. Remember, it's just the "V" in MVC, it's not a full framework.

Monday, June 24, 2019

  • The tipping system in the US is broken. Patrons paying employees instead of the employers. Incentivization is good, but it should be inherent to the accountability of the position, like, you know, every other job on the planet.
  • Idea: a restaurant that doesn't allow tips.
  • Decided to subscribe to Medium. I get about 5 articles in my digest that look interesting but I can't read. Since this is something I do daily, and enjoy, I'm going to try the premium content. It's $50/yr.
  • USA Spain. Won 2-1. On to quarterfinal against France (which is basically the final).
    • Over large numbers, only about 3% of corner kicks result in goals.
    • A set piece is one that returns the ball to free play, like a corner or a free kick.
  • Medium.
    • In JS (just like python), you can access properties with dot notation (obj.prop) or bracket notation (obj['prop']). The latter should be used when the property name might have invalid syntax (leading digit instead of letter, etc).
    • Angular is a much larger framework that uses the regular dom and integrates components in. It has two way binding. React is a smaller library that uses a virtual dom. It only has one way binding.
    • Read the top articles on misophonia. None helpful. They all explain and characterize the condition. None provide solutions, because there are none. You just have to cope. Exposure makes it worse. There's no medication. You just have to avoid the triggers with earplugs, leaving the room, etc.
  • Updated my search engines in google chrome (i, a, t, w, y).
  • My "a" key is still a little bit sticky since I busted the retaining clips.
  • Priapism: an erection that won't go away.
  • Idea: a machine learning app that follows all of your activity (google searches, songs listened to, words said, apps opened, etc) and allows you to observe various outputs (energy, happiness, stress, whatever), then performs analysis to map the inputs to outputs and suggest patterns.
  • The flavor in root beer comes from sarsaparilla bark and sassafras bark.
  • Made the rub for the chicken tomorrow. Used a TON of anchos and guajillos, and included the seed pods this time. I'm excited for some strong flavor. Also used more garlic and onion powder, since Allie is in Sweden for 2 weeks.
    • Just like ancho is the name for the dried poblano, guajillo is the name for the dried mirasol.
  • Matt Stonie has done challenges of 20,000cal in 1hr. Holyyyyyyy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOop2bLiSFw.
  • Booked all my one-way hawaii flights. LAX-HNL-LIH-LAX. United, Hawaiian, and American. Basically had to reset passwords on all argghghhh. Total cost ~$550. Next step is getting a kauai hotel room with wes/jcriss, then I should be good on accommodations.

Sunday, June 23, 2019

  • The concacaf (north/central american and caribbean) men's soccer tournament (gold cup) is going on right now as well. USA beat Trinidad and Tobago today.
  • Light speed is almost 700 million miles per hour. The Earth is almost 100 million miles from the Sun.
  • Ground cacao nibs are so much better in my morning shakes than whole.
  • Checked the ninja out. Battery is dead. Put it up on the rear lift so the tires would survive longer.
  • A mcguffin is a plot device (in a movie or show) that exists solely to move the plot forward but doesn't get any explanation.
  • Some new couples are combining last names in marriage!

Friday, June 21, 2019

  • Went to ear appointment with Allie. Was very interesting.
  • Did surgery on a couple keys on my laptop. The S key was sticking, so I removed and cleaned underneath it. I also checked the A key next to it, to make sure I had put S back correctly, but it didn't come off as well. The retaining clip system is ridiculous, there are like 3 layers with 4 corner attach points each. It's back in place and working ok, but definitely not perfect. You have to press the A extra hard to register (which is annoying since it's a pinky key).
  • HN
  • Pineapple has the enzyme bromelain which breaks down protein chains. If you marinate meat with any pineapple in it for too long (hours), it will tenderize it into mush.
  • Updated al pastor:
    • Trim pork butt into slices. Brine as usual.
    • Mix marinade separately and apply right before smoking. Don't want pineapple bromelain.
    • Put slices on grill like chicken thighs, not skewered. More surface area for bark/smoke.
    • Get the internal to 170-200 and you're fine. Chop up. Don't need to reverse sear.
  • NBA contracts are insane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_salary_cap. It's just as ridiculous as tax law, where there was a decent set of 10 original rules and then 3,000 people came in and exploited loopholes which resulted in new provisions. The worst way to scale.
  • Some questions for the interviewer. https://medium.com/free-code-camp/how-to-interview-your-interviewers-when-youre-looking-for-a-job-d848bc3a910.
    • Describe your CI/CD/CodeReview process.
    • How free are individual contributors to pursue new ideas? Even across departments?
  • I turn 1 billion seconds old in two months! The night of Wednesday, August 22, at midnight.
  • Domains are case insensitive, but you can totally make an endpoint case-sensitive. It just gets sent to the server. You shouldn't. Users should always consider it to be case sensitive, to be safe, but it shouldn't be.
  • Watched the smarter every day videos on tattoos and removal.
    • The guns are rotary (just a motor and a needle(s), like a crankshaft and piston) or coil (magnetically pulling a needle, then letting go while a sprint pulls it back).
    • Laser removal just sends a very tuned flash at the tattoo. This heats up one side of the microscopic ink particles quickly enough that the other side can't deform, so it cracks. Once broken up, white blood cells can engulf the smaller ink particles and bring them to the liver for waste processing (this is the same reason tattoos fade over a long time, the white blood cells are eating away at them).
  • Smoked the tacos al pastor.
    • At first I thought the temp probe was bad because it just kept flashing "lid off" but it settled after a while. The forums say that sometimes you can get bad readings at low temps. Also, power cycling the unit seems to help.
    • I'll have to screw the fan back on later as well.
    • Dicing the onion the right way is awesome.
  • USWNT beat Sweden to get 1st in their group. We play Spain in the round of 16, and then likely France in the round of 8. It could very likely be a USA-Germany final.
  • NBA draft.
  • The heaviest person of all time was 1400lbs.
  • If you just change the "r" in the reddit url to "c" then you can see posts that dumb mods have removed.

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

  • Hung out with Eric and the whole family all day. Woke up at 6, gymmed, then beached and piered.
  • Created the splitwise group to settle all the Austin finances.
  • (Certain) Corporate action(s) can be taken without a shareholder meeting, even if the company is private, like SpaceX. It must win by majority shareholder vote nonetheless. They must notify the shareholders, by law.
    • These are usually equity dilutions, like increasing the total number of shares by ~0.01%.
    • This directly decreases the percentage of the company you own, and therefore your voting right, but that was never substantial anyway. It does affect value though, because external valuations are usually done on the total worth of the company, and then simply divided by the number of shares. It's a sneaky, indirect way to dilute your equity, since these events (dilution and valuation) are usually months apart.
  • Did Hawaii planning.
    • The friends leg is just pettys/gmereks/remilins (6) so far.
    • Harner/Eddie/Jonny already have flights home and other plans.
    • Allie is out for the friends leg, and is waffling the wedding leg.
    • Wes/Jcriss/I are the other 3 who are considering the friends leg, which would make 9. If so, Wes and I would be the only ones with the same flights for the whole trip.
    • I would like to go both legs. I will definitely need the LAX-HNL flight for the wedding. If Wes and Jcriss go on the other leg, I'll definitely go, and would need HNL-LIH + LIH-LAX. I would like to encourage Allie to come to both.
  • I can make al pastor for the bay whenever they come down.
    • Trim a pork butt into strips (easier to buy boneless for this, obv).
    • Make my usual dry rub (salt, pepper, paprika, garlic, onion), but then add Achiote paste and Guajillo chili powder and mix it all with pineapple juice to make a marinade (or just buy a premade pastor marinade). Let it sit overnight, then smoke as usual.
    • Spritz with pineapple juice instead of water.
  • Using openssl you can create a root certificate (used to generate other certificates) and then specify localhost as the domain to trust. Fairly simply article here: https://medium.com/free-code-camp/how-to-get-https-working-on-your-local-development-environment-in-5-minutes-7af615770eec.
  • Guajillo chiles are the second most popular chile in Mexico. Poblanos are #1. Ancho is the name for dried Poblano.
    • The carolina reaper is the hottest pepper in the world. Before that it was scorpion, then naga, then ghost. There are claims for 2x the carolina (Pepper X) but they have not been confirmed yet.
    • New peppers are created by literally breeding other insanely hot peppers.

Monday, June 17, 2019

  • Remember superchargers and turbochargers are a little different. Both compress the air going into the engine to add about 50% more power, but the turbo takes it from the exhaust gases (turbine->compressor) and the super takes it from the crankshaft (belt->compressor). The turbine has a slight amount of lag and then will lurch forward (because the air must move through the whole engine before you get the boost). The super delivers extra power all the way through. The Kawasaki Ninja H2 is the first bike with a super, I believe. There are custom Hayabusas with turbos.
  • Oh, forgot to write my Franklin's BBQ review.
    • Rankings:
      1. Brisket. The best I've ever had.
      2. Ribs. Good, but too much pepper.
      3. Pulled Pork. The usual.
      4. Turkey. Tasty, but too much butter, and they only had breast.
      5. Sausage. Surprisingly bad.
    • Overall, the brisket was incredible. Everything else was about par with what I cook at home.
    • The wait in line / drinking / relaxing was fun. We went on a Thursday and waited from about 830-1230. Worth it to do once - is probably not worth a repeat when there are so many other comparable BBQ places around.

Sunday, June 16, 2019

  • Back home from the Austin trip with Richard and Derek! Was a blast. We even go to talk to James.
  • Medieval Times for Eddie/Ray/Haley yesterday. Awesome place.
  • USWNT beat Chile 3-0.
  • Finished Leadership and Self Deception and The Untethered Soul. Added notes to drive.
  • Periodicals:
  • Did some research for the Hawaii trip, both the first wedding leg and the second friends leg. Tentatively:
    • Fly from LAX to Oahu on Thursday August 8. Wedding Saturday 10th.
    • Leave Oahu Tuesday August 13 for Kauai. Stay at the Sheraton Kauai resort.
    • Leave Kauai on Saturday the 17th.

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

  • Really tough yesterday with Kevin Durant.
    • Reinjured the same leg, likely from playing before being ready/healed. You can see the leg snap here: https://youtu.be/lYrA30qcvK4?t=49.
    • Bob Myers gave an emotional statement about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3esK_em420.
  • Awesome reunion of 88 year old dad with 53 year old son with down's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXDvD-jLn74.
  • Cancelled classpass.
  • Received and set up the wireless mouse. Works great. The usb a-c adapters work well too.
  • Woah. You can send documents to your kindle via email. This is very convenient right now since my ubuntu laptop can't talk to it. You simply make sure your email is whitelisted (your default amazon address is), then email your kindle address (check in device management, like brian.mahlstedt_<number>@kindle.com). You can type "Convert" in the subject to automatically convert. Amazing. Did this for two documents.
  • React/redux work. Took notes on my google doc.
  • Played with youtube live again. You have access to the same settings beforehand: private, public, chat enabled, etc. You can then edit the video after you end the stream, but it's only stuff like captions and other standard settings. You can't snip, filter, add sound, all the advanced editing functionality. Do that offline and upload, don't use livestream.
  • The women's world cup started. United states beat Thailand 13-0!

Monday, June 10, 2019

  • Android emulation.
    • Genymotion is probably the most popular android emulator for linux. Downloaded the personal-use edition.
    • Needed to apt install virtualbox first. Then chmod +x the genymotion bin and simply run it.
    • Created a desktop icon for it so I wouldn't have to execute the binary from the command line every time (and leave the pesky terminal around). Just create a APPNAME.desktop file with a hashbang that farms out to xdg-open, including the paths to the binary and the icon.
    • Added StartupWMClass to the .desktop so the icon wouldn't duplicate.
    • When emulating a device, my laptop craaawled. The galaxy s9 was unusable. An old Google Pixel (around galaxy s6 days) was even slow. My laptop only has 3.6GB of ram and 8GB of swap, but all ram was railed and swap was at 50%. Not sustainable, and I hadn't even run any heavy android apps yet.
    • Ended up unistalling genymotion and virtualbox. Was too slow.
    • Looked around and found Anbox, which runs Android in a container instead of a vm, and farms many android tasks back to your native linux host.
    • Added the ppa and installed linux-headers-generic anbox-modules-dkms. Then installed the anbox snap.
    • Google play store doesn't come automatically with android (licensing and such). You'd normally have to install apks manually, OR the better option of something like houdini. This script provisions all of that for you: https://github.com/geeks-r-us/anbox-playstore-installer/blob/master/install-playstore.sh.
    • Anbox also didn't work. Games wouldn't open because of Anbox' unique configuration.
    • Lastly, looked at the Android SDK itself. It requires minimum 4GB ram and recommends 8GM. Mine is below both.
    • In summary, my laptop does not have enough memory to use a VM-based android emulator.
  • Bought an adapter to connect my phone/laptop to older hard drives and kindle and such. Usb-c (android size) male to usb-a female.
    • Remember, usb-b is the boxier one (usually printers and such).
    • Micro and mini are the other obvious ones.
    • Also, remember, usb-c comes in two sizes: android and iphone. My linux laptop is the android size, because that's the standard. If you see usb-c with no other qualifiers, it's the android size.
  • Bought a wireless mouse as well.
  • Reinstalled the gnome system monitor. It doesn't open sometimes, and this seems to fix it.
  • MD. In javascript, the variable declarations are hoisted but not their values.
  • I feel like an absolute idiot for never taking advantage of this, but you can actually do curly brace expansion in bash. `echo {hello,world}` or `echo {0..10}`. You can even combine two curly brace arguments for combinations. My goodness.
  • DKMS = dynamic kernel module support. Used with virtualbox.
  • Shopped for a RAM upgrade to my XPS13.
    • DDR4 is newer and faster than DDR3L, which was a midterm upgrade for DDR3.
    • Need a T5 to open the back.
    • Unfortunately, I can't upgrade the RAM on the 13 easily because it's solder to the motherboard lol. On the 15" and above models, they have additional slots but the 13" does not. In order to have more RAM, I would have needed to upgrade at factory purchase, or replace the whole motherboard myself.
    • Don't need the torx screwdriver anymore.
  • Brainstormed some ideas for internet companies. Nothing huge jumped out, but the immersion helps. I want to be more mindful as I go through my day-to-day about anything that is annoying, even in the slightest. These inconveniences are just opportunities for improvement.
  • YouTube.
    • Went through my channel and removed liked videos. Added a few subscribers.
    • YouTube Studio is in beta. It's a cool dashboard for everything on your channel.
    • You can see your total subscriber count, but not the individual subscribers (unless they've chosen to allow that to be public).
    • You can change 3 privacy settings: your liked videos, your subscriptions, and your playlists. All of mine are not public.
    • You can livestream, but YouTube is much more geared toward recording and editing a video offline, then uploading it.
  • Motorcycles
    • Cool drag race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnTL4wDAbK0.
    • Quarter mile ranks:
      1. H2R
      2. F1 Redbull
      3. F16
      4. Tesla P100D
      5. Aston Martin Vantage
      6. Plane
      7. Lotus Evora
    • Observations:
      • Off the line, the bike and F1 and Tesla were all about the same, dusting everything else.
      • The bike took the lead through the midrange.
      • At a quarter mile, the bike and F1 were about the same, ahead of everything.
      • After that the F1 would have overtaken the bike.
      • After that, the aircraft pull way ahead.
    • H2R facts:
      • Same combustion volume as my ducati, but over 4 cylinders instead of 2. About 2x the horsepower and 1.5x the torque. About 35lbs heavier also.
      • It's currently the fastest motorcycle. It's not street legal.
      • It can go from 0-250mph in 26s (lol): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_n7ru1e-rg. My ducati top speed is probably around 170mph, and would get there in around 15s.
  • Gave Ken about 5lbs pulled pork for home, and gave Allie about 5 more pounds to bring to work. I'm leaving for Texas so I won't be able to finish all the leftovers before Wed.
  • Finals game 5 in toronto. Warriors won! Back to Oracle.

Sunday, June 9, 2019

  • Got over 3500 pages of printed documentation from healthnet in the mail, unsolicited. It's basically a printout of a registry of all provider. This is unacceptable in 2019. It's a gigantic waste of paper, shipping infrastructure, delivery jobs, and more. Sure, there might be a percent of members who do not have access to a computer, but this paper delivery should be opt-in during member registration.
  • Paid a $48 parking ticket on Allie's car because we're in the summer 1hr months.
  • Great day of volleyball. Tweaked my back a little bit.
  • Bruins push to game 7.

Saturday, June 8, 2019

  • Parents left. Was a great couple days. Cooked leftover smoked chicken stir fry on thursday, sweet potato homefries and bacon and poached eggs and bananas/blueberries on friday morning, then smoked pork shoulder on friday night.
  • Warriors lost last night, didn't look good.
  • Interesting video on some pitfalls of streaming services like netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDF-S68kx5o. It's not healthy competition. Every show is IP which means it has an exclusive license. Like a ... monopoly.
  • saidit.net looks like it was closed.
  • Finished Harper's Island. Was pretty decent.
  • UFC 238. Shevchenko had the best female KO I've ever seen. Cejudo was a monster as well.

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

  • Bought the flight to Austin, Wed-Sat (have to be back before Eddie's). It's a little early on Sat morning (7am), which will suck after Friday night, but it was the best option. Used 25k miles, leaving the price at $6. I have ~150k miles left still. Probably do Franklin on Thursday, get in line at 8am and drink chair beers for 3 hours until they open.
  • Meta = most effective tactics available. Used in gaming, refers to the best strategy/combo.
  • Talked to pops. They're gonna come to hermosa tomorrow and we'll have a couple days to hang. Shopped to make sure I had enough for them.
  • Warriors game 3.
    • Klay, Durant, and Looney all out due to injury.
    • Iggy, Boogie not 100%.
    • Steph and Draymond the only starters who are normal. Wow.

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

  • Idiosyncrasy = odd habit, peculiarity. If someone is idiosyncratic, they're peculiar.
  • Netflix Tech Blog: container cpu isolation.
    • CFS = Completely Fair Scheduler. Mainstream solution to timeslice the cpus properly.
    • They wrote another better one call titus-isolate, optimized for their container usage.
  • Kawhi filed a lawsuit yesterday against Nike for using the logo he designed: Image result for kawhi klaw logo
  • Bought a yoga mat finally so I don't have to keep borrowing from friends (or paying $2 rental) for each classpass.
  • Aprilia's mainstay, the RSV4, comes in a few models.
    • RR and RF are basically the same but the RF has a little better suspension and tires.
    • LE means limited edition. Usually just graphics / aesthetics.
    • FW means factory works. This is their GP bike, the best race bike.
  • Derek reached out about visiting Dick in Austin. Looked at flights next wed-sat (would have to be back for eddie's renn faire lol) and they were $190.
  • 20 year prediction: 10% of all jobs will become remote. Offices and commutes will become inefficiencies of the past.
  • Dcraig hit me up about the signed goodbye poster they forgot lol. Told him that Allie or Spencer could take it home, but otherwise I'd be happy to catch up as well!
  • Smoked chicken. Added to journal.
  • Fed mouse.
  • Grandma passed away tonight. So thankful for the complementary model she and grandpa left for us, and maybe even moreso for the model they raised their own children with - my mom/dad + aunts/uncles sure paid it forward. As I was hanging up with my mom, trying to plan a time to meet, the words "we'll stay in touch, and we'll find a way" came out of my mouth. I don't think that was an accident.

Monday, June 3, 2019

  • How many movies/shows would even remain if you removed the "pinned girl hits mounted attacker with unnoticed sharp/heavy object" scene ... ?
  • Costco, reupped on chicken and almonds.
  • Average salary for a pharmacist is ~125k in our area.
  • Education.
    • You can't declare bankruptcy on student loans.
    • College is 2.5x more expensive than it was a few decades ago. Most of the bloat is due to administration.
    • Now, in 2019, more information can be found online than in universities. In many cases, the quality is better as well. Individuals can give themselves the capabilities which merit a degree, but there's no accreditation mechanism yet. A business that found a way to do this (likely a well-designed sequence of tests) would uproot all of academia (for the better!). Loans, inflation, tribalism, administration, federal funding - so many improvements.
  • If you have a memory that's a couple years old, and you still have an emotional reaction to it, you need to address it! What was the cause? What could you have done better? How can you improve yourself to improve that outcome next time? This introspection is huge. If you're plagued by your past, your body produces the stress hormone cortisol, because it's an alarm to a vulnerability. Cortisol makes you age! Once you isolate the cause and understand how to better act next time, your body literally becomes healthier.
  • Notes from pharmarket meeting yesterday:
    • Info:
      • We'll have an account soon to compare.
      • Certain drugs have way better ROI. Go after those vendors first.
      • Hold the money for a month until vendor billing cycle, then collect X percentage from vendor. Show original prices on our site.
      • Offer service to feed prices, for the vendors without a frontend. They can update a google sheet or something and we can fetch it. This is a huge benefit for smaller vendors who want their stuff in the marketplace.
      • Universal app wasn't as complicated as we had thought, just basically need a license.
      • Meds have way more regulation, that's why amazon integration is hard.
      • Ezrirx and amazon are both in this market, but that doesn't mean we can't take a stab.
      • Medline is another company that sells (non-rx) supplies.
      • There is so much value in aggregating the search locations alone. Instead of buying 6 supplies from 4 separate sites, do it all in the same place.
    • https://www.mdm.com/2017-top-pharmaceuticals-distributors
      • 3 companies account for more than 90% of the drug distribution market: AmerisourceBergen (ABC), Cardinal Health (CAH), and McKesson (MCK). These are the "Big Three Wholesalers" and each has a revenue of well over 100B alone (together almost half a trillion).
      • Amazon's revenue in 2018 for comparison: 230b.
      • The next few large wholesalers: CuraScript, Morris & Dickson, Smith, FFF, Rochester, North Caroline Mutual, Anda.
    • Action items:
      • Finish the MVP website.
        • Get domain name and host.
        • Populate with fake data from multiple vendors. You might be able to get some public data for generics. Some sites even list their rx (like https://auromedics.com/products/ampicillin-and-sulbactam/, for example).
        • Write template API that we'll encourage vendors to use.
        • Add basic user login which protects the price comp tool endpoint.
        • Add basic landing page which shows the benefits for (a) pharmacies and (b) vendors (separate tabs?).
      • Go speak with vendors. Get them onboard and get their data. Then go speak with pharmacies. Get them to use it. Then repeat and grow.
  • Parlays. They're simply a compound bet. Instead of betting for a single team to win (or a single line, or whatever), you're betting for multiple. As long as none of them lose, you win. Because of the compound probability of failure, the payouts are usually very high
  • James lost on jeopardy! He was 60k from beating Ken's alltime record, and his average was 80k per night, so tonight should have been the night he became the GOAT. The opponent got both daily doubles, which was an inevitable misfortune eventually, but I still find it so strange that everything happened to fall into place tonight. After 32 victories, his streak ends on literally the night it should have become the record. Hm.

Sunday, June 2, 2019

  • Watched Ma yesterday. Loved it! Was a fresh premise for the horror genre so overloaded with repeats.
  • Stanley cup game 3 and UFC Gus vs Anthony Smith yesterday. Streams are now posted on https://saidit.net/s/MMAStreams/comments/ because r/mmastreams was shut down.
  • D3 = Data Driven Documents. It's a way to manipulate the DOM as data changes.
  • https://www.ibj.com/articles/72632-amazons-latest-target-is-pharmacy-disruption
    • Indiana has a ton of fulfillment centers that deliver meds.
    • They've been working on entering this market since ~2017.
    • This will help drive prices down, obviously, as it has done for all other open markets on amazon.
    • Amazon bought PillPack (online pharmacy) for $753m.
      • CVS, Walgreens, and RiteAid lost over 11b in market value that day.
      • Art said this won't affect independent pharmacies, just the big chains.
    • Amazon wouldn't need to create an infrastructure to compare prices, it's already baked into their stack. Filters, sorts, etc. Our kayak-like pharmacy wouldn't be of much value.
  • Met with Art again. Will post notes tomorrow.
  • Warriors game 2!