Construction is a factor, but outside of my relatively short commute, I always use GPS, even when I know how to get there, to minimize traffic.

Like sure, I can get there without it, but if I use it I can be pretty sure I’m on the route that’s fastest *right now".

From what I’ve replayed in recent years, yeah not great. But it certainly inspired me to question narratives, which has actually been quite beneficial.

If you really want to get your money’s worth it should always end in 8

It’s not even really 5° increments, it’s typically 25°. Ovens can’t really hold temp much more precisely than that, and even if they could you wouldn’t notice much of a difference. 342° is gonna behave basically the same as 359°.

For a lot of those sorts of products, the expiration date is for the container. The salt will be fine for thousands of years, but the plastic might start leeching into it much sooner. That’s why bottled water has a Use By date.

I want a job that pays my bills and gives me a bit of savings and spending money. Beyond that, I’m hesitant to take on more responsibility, difficulty, and headaches unless the pay bump is substantial. If my pay is below a comfortable level, I’d rather have a raise. If the pay is decent but the job is currently stressful, I’d rather have less difficulty for the same pay.

Granted, that assumes that the job doesn’t frequently experience scope creep. If the stress reduction is nominal before reverting back to pre-adjusted levels or higher, more money is better than temporary relief.

Sure, I can only go off what I’ve read. Would you like to recommend a textbook which goes into making predictions when playing a game with irrational players?

What? Players acting rationally is one of the core assumptions of game theory. Sure there are some models that attempt to account for irrationality, but the conclusions are obviously much less definitive.

It can’t really be any other way, perfectly rational actors are predictable in a mathematical way. Irrational actors are irrational in many different ways. One irrational actor might betray a fellow prisoner purely out of spite, another might refuse to speak purely out of a sense of loyalty. Another might make a decision compulsively without any strategy at all.

Irrational players cannot be analyzed mathematically. You cannot find a dominant strategy playing against irrational players, at least not a non-trivial one. Sure you can try to analyze them, but then you’ve left math behind and have wandered into psychology or sociology.

The problem with game theory is that it assumes everyone involved is perfectly rational.

Technically not exclusively condiments, we put drinks and fruit in there too, and the freezer has its own situation. But we have what I suppose would be a breakfast nook if we were into that sort of thing, and an extra fridge after moving in, and the aforementioned condiment addiction, so one thing led to another…

I keep mine in bins in the dedicated condiment fridge, but then my wife has a condiment addiction so my situation may be abnormal.

Songs get churned into the vector space. When there’s a song stuck in my head, I’m thinking about songs with similar timbre, similar time signature, similar chord progressions. I’m remixing hooks and adding parody lyrics. The stupider the song, the more intricate the fugues and variations.

And everything draws me to cusps, inflection points, local extrema, global extrema. There are “pure” or “right” configurations of thought that scratch an internal itch for elegance. Maybe that elegance is revelatory, bringing me closer to a more profound understanding of the universe around me. Maybe every line of It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me ends with the words “a bright orange pair of pants”. I trust the process.

Does anyone else hear classical music?

My base thoughts are non-verbal. Sometimes I describe it like shapes in a hyperdimensional vector space.

My internal monologue is basically just practicing translating these base thoughts into language, to explain concepts to others.

Like I said, my boy kills a lot of invasive lizards. And he proudly displays that fact. If he’d ever killed a bird, I’d sure as hell know.

I only really run one, but I’d be ecstatic if someone made a good recommendation for a related community.

Eh, my cat has the disability of a bell around his neck. He’s killed quite a few invasive lizards, but I can say with confidence he’s never killed a bird (he’s very proud of the aforementioned lizard kills, and would absolutely be showing off any birds he managed to catch). I’ve watched him fail hilariously at pouncing on a butterfly.

Bells are perfectly fine. I’d feel much worse cooping him up in a house all day every day.

She’s a pretty major character later in the Watch series, I think The Fifth Elephant in particular.

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This is me too. The best thing about being a generalist is that you start to figure out how skills translate from one trade to another. So the first time you try something, you’re generally surprisingly good at it.

Frequently people tell me “Wow you’d be a really good ____!” in regards to whatever the task at hand is. It’s amazing how capable you can be when you do things thoughtfully and deliberately. Honestly seems like a superpower sometimes.