Sure. I’ll share some stuff in the thread I recently created.
I had some written down in my to-do list to share. I’ve been trying to clear some stuff on it today. Here’s one thing:
This seems like kind of a bottleneck thing from work.
At Starbucks we brew cold brew coffee in these huge brewers. Cold brew is just coffee brewed with room temperature for an extended period of time. At Starbucks we grind up a big bag of cold brew blend coffee, put it in the brewer and have it steep 20 hours in a bunch of water. The steeping time is 20 hours and we have two brewers. So on any given day we can only brew two brewers worth or, alternatively, use two bags of cold brew at a time.
Cold brew can be ordered every other day. So lets say I order it on Tuesday it will arrive Wednesday. When we order it, it comes in boxes of four. It comes at night. Typically per manager decision we don’t brew it at night.
The point is this. I sometimes see my coworkers ordering more than one box at a time. Which makes no sense to me. Lets say we’re at 0 bags. You order 1 box Tuesday. It comes Wednesday night. So Thursday morning you use 2 bags lets say. That leaves you with 2 bags which you can use tomorrow on Friday. Knowing that it makes sense to order a box again on Thursday. That way it comes on Friday night. Leaving you with four for the next two days and repeat.
I bring this up because a big issue at the Starbucks I work at is space. We don’t have much to store this stuff and yet I see a lot of Cold Brew bags ordered some times that we literally cannot use in between orders.
I’ve explained this before but I think the issue was:
my explanation not being great and our inventory system telling us to order more because it decides based on sales. so no one wants to order less than what our tools tell us, so they can’t get in trouble, even though we literally cannot use the excess.
Some thought that came to mind was I listened to the audiobook of Law 101:
The book talks about evidentiary issues related to getting evidence illegally and issues related to using that evidence. I know theres a bunch of related issues with cops being held accountable and stuff, but off the top of my head I just thought that if cops had significant punishments for getting illegal evidence that should make the evidence fine.
If some incriminating evidence was obtained illegally by a cop their should be some kind of substantial punishment to the cop instead of not using the evidence. Just cause the evidence was obtained illegally doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be used. It should be used and the cop should be punished properly to deter such behavior.
There could be more to this but just a thought that came up.
That sounds problematic and rationalistic. Sometimes the cop might get off and the evidence get used. Or the two things might not always be tightly connected in the future.
It sounds like it could lead to more selective, biased law enforcement. It could also lead to cops trying to be heroes by sacrificing themselves by purposefully breaking the law to get evidence against important criminals.
I think in a world with way too many laws, including many bad laws, and imperfect courts, judges and juries, etc., protections on privacy and protections against searches and stuff are important. They’re also in the constitution (4th amendment). The system with warrants and privacy and stuff helps protect not just innocent people but people who are guilty of things that shouldn’t be illegal and people who are guilty of relatively minor things that many others are also guilty of which are not widely, consistently enforced.
Thats fair. Hmm I guess partially my mindset was on the fact that some/many(?) cops use illegal evidence anyway, try their best to hide that it was obtained illegally, and then don’t even get punished. In my head by having the punishment the illegal evidence would seem fine. But maybe we should just focus on preventing the illegal evidence.
I agree that those are important.
I agree. I think I was thinking more a long the lines of cops break these things anyway and theres no substantial punishment to the cops except (afaik) the evidence not getting used in many cases. So I thought it would be better for the evidence to get used if the cops had actual punishments instead of the only punishment being the evidence doesn’t get used.
Should cops have substantial punishments when they break the law? Though this veers into a deeper topic of qualified immunity. Do you have any opinion on that matter? I think cops should be punished just like us, but idk.
I’d like a world where cops would often get in trouble for obtaining illegal evidence and other law breaking.
Do cops need any special protections while on duty? Maybe. I don’t know. They probably do need something in a world with a bad court system, but with better courts idk. I haven’t thought about it.
Wrote 9 out of 30 days this month. I think this is due to all the stuff going on at home. Unless some new big event happens things should be good for the foreseeable future.
I did DuoLingo for 28 days(?). So not the full month.
Overall I liked DuoLingo. I did like all the practice I was able to do. It felt similar to doing a lot of math problems and getting good at them eventually.
I don’t know if I’m going to continue using it (well, I haven’t for the past two weeks or so, but that had nothing to do with dissatisfaction with the app). I remember being told to avoid production when I started Japanese. I think I’ll share some of the stuff I read on language learning in the Japanese topic. I think the production stuff has been helpful. I’m going to see if their are better apps out there. I know for writing I’ll stick to what I’m currently using.
Something else I thought of when it comes to the law and specifically punishments:
Law 101 talks about punishments being a deterrent for criminals. I guess that makes sense and something I still more or less agree with but when I was listening to that section I got reminded of how punishment doesn’t always work. I can’t really comment much on my upbringing in this instance because while my parents were abusive and angry at times I wouldn’t describe them as strict.
I’ve worked with numerous teens at work and it reminded of the saying, “Strict parents just create sneaky children” or something like that. Thinking about it when it comes to the law and stuff, I think the focus on dealing with punishment is wrong. A fair amount of people will put the focus on not getting caught instead of doing the right thing. The way I feel the system is right now is more “Try and not get caught” and less “do good things”.
So errors are different from bugs then? Errors are something like code that can’t even be run or messes up ruby itself, bugs are just unintended things your code does
There are different types of errors “TypeError”, “ZeroDivsionError”
You can use rescue to avoid your program crashing. Do:
begin
rescue
end
Put the code that may end up being problematic after begin, before rescue, if it ends up creating an error it will run the code after rescue instead
You can define the type of error rescue will work with. For example “rescue ZeroDivisonError”
Yeah punishments for crimes as a deterrent works some, for some kinds of people. But other things are really important too like most people have some moral values and don’t want to do bad things or hurt others.
Ruby works with all kinds of data: strings, integers, boolean values, float values
You can create your own data type in Ruby.
A class is a data type you can define (are the predefined “classes” in ruby, not classes then because they are predefined?)
class class_name
information/code defining the class
you are saying what class is
end
objects are instances of a class or, in other words, they are the class in action. hmm something like classes are like abstractions and objects are like concretes
I don’t necessarily have any negative feelings, I think, towards the card coding assignment but I think it will take me a second to get back into it. Is there a smaller coding based assignment I could do in the meantime?
Been busy with some work and traveling stuff the past two weeks or so. I should be good to go for a while (though i do say that often). We’ll see.
I noticed its been 1 year since I started. Do you have any thoughts of how I’ve done so far? I plan to share tomorrow/soon my thoughts on how I think I’m doing + what I think I’ve learned so far over the year.
the built-in classes like Integer are classes and you can modify them just like classes you create.
“don’t necessarily” sounds like maybe there is a problem? Do you think maybe you have negative feelings?
I’d suggest reviewing what you already did. You can redo some earlier parts if you want and think that’ll help refresh your memory. Also breaking problems into parts (as separate ruby functions) can help.
I think it’s going fine. You aren’t stuck when you do activities. It hasn’t been very hard to find ways you can make progress. It’s self-paced so it’s up to you how satisfied you are with the pacing and with how you’re sometimes busy. I appreciate that you’ve been willing to do learning activities (some people in the past on my email lists were stuck for years because they weren’t willing to).
Like when you offered up tailored activities, or something of the sort, to them? Thats odd to me. I would kind of get not doing tasks that are just out there because you may not find them or whatever, but if their are easily defined tasks to do I don’t get why someone wouldn’t do them. Well. Wouldn’t get it if they said they liked you, your stuff, and wanted to become better. idk just a thought.
Idk. I know a large reason of why I’m not doing stuff is definitely related to busyness. I just think that part of the reason may be a subconscious aversion to philosophy stuff as of recent because maybe I don’t like the coding stuff. Nothing concrete that I can mention right now though. I’ll see how it goes looking over the stuff.
An initialize method gets called whenever we create an object.
Hmm so initialize goes in the class code. Then when you create an object of a said class it runs that initialize code in the class definition.
Hmm.When I put a YouTube link it doesn’t automatically give the title anymore. I have to manually fix that. Have you been having this issue? I guess I’ll look into it later but its a little annoying.