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I'm right there with you. I once tried managing ableton projects via git. Was a dream from a simplicity standpoint but was not effective in the long run. I don't remember why it didn't end up working well but I abandoned it shortly after trying it the first time. Something like this in modern DAWs would be incredible.


if files are getting managed by blobs, git doesn't really scale well with that since it stores diffs.

`bup` notionally does this a lot better, or git-lfs.

https://github.com/bup/bup

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bup/bup/main/DESIGN

https://git-lfs.com/

git really needs textual representation for any kind of meaningful commit, and binaries totally break that.


> git doesn't really scale well with that since it stores diffs.

This is precisely what git does NOT do.


Yes, but I’m cheating with my adderall prescription. I stop eating at 8PM and start at noon so I’m mostly just snacking through my eating window and when it wears off I’ll have a larger meal with a bunch of fiber so I’m not starving before bed.

Much easier to do when your appetite is suppressed. Also - don’t know if taking adderall breaks a fast, so I may be totally off.

Haven’t measured my weight change, but I’m certainly burning more calories than I’m eating so it could be a number of factors.


> Yes, but I’m cheating with my adderall prescription. I stop eating at 8PM and start at noon so I’m mostly just snacking through my eating window and when it wears off I’ll have a larger meal with a bunch of fiber so I’m not starving before bed.

Funny, I got downvoted yesterday for suggesting Adderall abuse is a problem, and here you are admitting that you use it as an appetite suppressant.


I don’t agree that taking the prescription I’ve been given for the purpose it was given to me and noting the side effects is abuse.

Taking additional doses, or utilizing it on weekends for non-professional pursuits, to me, would constitute abuse.

However, to each their own. It’s been a net benefit to me.


Are these folks hitting the sack at 6-7ish or not getting a full 7/8?

Couldn’t imagine doing this, purely considering the implications of going to bed with the sun up and offsetting my schedule to accommodate a commute that early.


I have a family member who has been going to sleep at 7:30 and waking up at 3:30 every day for a decade or more. And that's with three kids.

People do, in fact, do this. Absolutely fucking baffling to me, but they do.


I find it convenient mainly because I have kids. You can do quite a lot of heavy lifting in those first few quiet hours before they wake up.

Whether you can or should do it depends heavily on your particular circumstances, of course. But when I started doing it, I wondered why more people weren’t talking about it. Personally, I find it fantastic.


I can totally see this under the context of having kids, makes complete sense. Glad it works for you!


Wow, that’s pretty aggressive but if it works, I guess it works.

Reminds me of some friends that work third shift, and they’re working through nights and sleeping during the day and I don’t get how they pull it off.


If I'm getting up before 4:00, I try to be in bed no later than 9. Its rare I can force myself to get to sleep anytime before that.


I know that many of them are still awake, at 8PM, most weekdays. I guess they "catch up" on weekends (which I don't think works).


Thanks for sharing your perspective on the 5AM start of the day.

I’ve found the same for myself, if I want to feel solid about my day, I need to get up early and exercise and figure everything else out from there.

I absolutely hate it, but I can’t deny how much better I feel. I’m hoping that one day my brain will flip and I’ll genuinely enjoy it, but it is still very much a need and not a want.

Everything after is still gravy!


Hate to break it to you, but I've been doing this for seven or eight years, and I still have to force myself out the door at gunpoint, every morning.


You’re 100% correct, we’re the same in that regard.

It is a negotiation and fight every single morning, and I don’t see myself enjoying it at any point.


Really interesting concept, will follow your success on LI, very excited to see this grow.

I think innovative solutions like these for pre-existing industries are fantastic. Really stoked someone is focused on this topic, even though 5 minutes ago I was uninformed.


There have been, and continue to be many companies focused on harnessing wind power for reducing cargo ship emissions. OutSail's (proposed) innovation is putting the sail into a standard inter-modal container form-factor.


Had no clue, excited to explore OutSail’s approach! Thanks for mentioning them


but like what other form factors exist for container ships? nobody thought to put the sails into containers on a container ship before these guys?


I think one of our main innovations is how to make a very tall and rigid sail without a rigid mast. But you're right, once we figured out how we can roll up a 60m sail into a small package it was obvious to put it in a cargo container.


I'm not sure what other options have been considered (by would-be market entrants), but OutSail appears to be the first company that is attempting to package a sail into a 'box'. Some other companies have made devices like kites which were relatively vessel-type agnostic.


It really is that bad too, I’ve ripped into it going way too fast at least twice, to the point where I make sure I never use it. The worst part is by the time you realize what happened you then think about the people behind you that made the same mistake and hope they don’t slam into you. However, since the pandemic, the average driving speed in Seattle (in my observation) has gone way up. I can’t imagine most people would adhere to lower speed limits.


Really appreciate your willingness to be transparent and share your thoughts openly here.


What an awesome read. I’d like to do this when the time is right down the road with the time crisis series.

I think time crisis 2 or 3 had the pistol controller attached to a tube and there was a noise making mechanism (or the slide actually moved) that activated when you fired. I’d love to get each one of those cabinets for 1, 2, and 3.


I think all the Time Crisis games should have the moving slide. They might have been replaced as some turd wrecked it but they should have come with the moving slide.

Really want a Crisis Zone cabinet.

Talking of wacky peripherals see Ridge Race Full Scale

https://gamesyouloved.com/blog/2018/march/25/ridge-racer-ful...


The way I remember it, Time Crisis had a slide that moved. It emulated the kick of a real firearm - albeit poorly, but as a teenager I had no idea otherwise.


I swear the pistol did slide. Also the stepping plate was genius: by default the character would cover, and you hd to physically step down on the plate like a pedal to go out of cover and shoot.


These are wild pieces of hardware, thanks for linking. I wonder how loud they get.


Could be the low grade chalk. I remember a short video that talked about a Japanese chalk manufacturer shutting its doors, and professors from all over the globe were flocking to Japan to buy it or figure out ways to trade it because the remaining stock couldn’t be exported (a little fuzzy on the details here). Allegedly, the chalk was just that good.


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