On Mac there’s a tonne of animations for the various stages of the day and various types of weather. Even for phases of the moon, and wind map with indication of wind velocity. Took a screenshot for a bit of context:

Interestingly it takes up 400 mb ram whereas messages takes up 610, which I find confusing

Those are good points! Thanks for sharing.

Ah very interesting! I found cooklang to be overkill for my needs as well but the fact that there’s an obsidian plugin resulted in me using it now.

This seems like it wouldn’t scale well for more complex recipes, and for the given example I’d prefer a list of steps instead, e.g.

1. butter and flour an 8x8-in pan
2. preheat oven to 350 fahrenheit
3. melt unsalted butter (4 oz)
4. mix with sugar (1 cup), vanilla extract (1/4 tsp), and 1 shot fresh brewed espresso or very strong coffee
5. mix with eggs (2)
6. fold in ap flour (1/2 cup), cocoa powder (1/3 cup), baking soda (1/4 tsp) and table salt (1/4 tsp)
7. add to pan and bake for 30-40 min

Nice! I thought about doing the same and then discovered https://cooklang.org/ - looks like it’s a similar approach that you describe

From a person who has been divorced once, and seen other friends get divorced. it’s not so much about choosing carefully, it’s about communication when the relationship gets tough or boring (and ideally before you get there). Finding the right person is the easy part, staying in love and staying happy - that’s the difficult part

I wish for more genies

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

Good point!

Aha I misunderstood, thanks for clarifying.

Actually for this specific context, there’s an easy solution: I reckon for llms self-hosting would be the way to go, if your hardware supports it. I’ve heard a lot of the smaller models have gotten a lot more powerful over the last year.

This is any company, government, or other organisation with +80 employees. The two other alternatives are

1. Have all data in Excel with no data governance, robust procedures, or trust in data, as the organisation grows in size
2. Use only external tools (which in turn are owned by organisations that work like I described in my parent comment)

I’d love to hear of there’s other ways of doing this stuff that actually works, but so far I just haven’t experienced it in my career yet.

As a person working in a field close to data engineering this sounds like they’re actually honest about the process.

Tldr: it’s not possible to “just delete” everything at once, even though we’d love to be able to.

There’s so many layers of where information is stored, and such insane amounts of data in their data platform. so running a clean up job to delete a single persons data in oltp databases, data lakes, dwh’s, backups, etc, would both be expensive and inefficient. Instead what they then do is to do it in stages: flip a flag somewhere (is_deleted = true) which lets it be removed from view initially, and then running periodic clean-up jobs.